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The following are generally recognized as virtues in
research and scholarly work:
- correctness
- novelty, originality, and creativity;
the degree to which a given piece of work
opens up new possibilities for research; the
degree to which it surprises people
- relevance to real-life issues of interest, including
economic and social implications
- difficulty, and relevance to other known hard problems
- foundational value, i.e. usefulness as a basis for
further developments
- cumulative value, i.e., the degree to which
it builds on previous work
- impact, both on other research and
on practical computing
- timeliness
Because of the breadth and interdisciplinary nature of CS, it does
not have a single standard paradigm for research and scholarly
activity. At some risk of oversimplification, one might try to
evaluate most CS work according to one or more of the paradigms
described below.
Subsections
Ted Baker
2001-09-04