4/26/24: Readings

 The Human Race Into Space Requires Kidneys, and Other Important Topics 

          A research and discussion group             

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Agenda and Minutes

1. Updates/announcements/status reports

• Turn AM's master's report into a publication? RS suggests sending it to WMSCI. He will get back to us with more details soon.
• ???
  

2. Reading and discussion

• Short-Term Load Forecasting of Smart Grid Based on Load Spatial-Temporal Distribution, G. Yan et al., 2019 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), Chengdu, China, 2019, pp. 781-785, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8881259. We read up to "When the research is carried out with the aim of enhancing the forecast accuracy, the improvement of the algorithm may not improve the forecast accuracy." (Reading suggested by ECG)

• JS is pursuing research based on https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/8/244, so we can read from that article in future meetings.
• Https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240424-do-societies-civilisations-grow-old-frail-and-vulnerable-to-collapse. We read up to "Unlike the states we studied, the world is now hyperconnected and globalised – but this should not be a cause for comfort." and can start there next time we read this.

3.  Reminders

• Discussion of "How to find & do PhD research" is now stored in a separate page.
• Want to do a reading related to your specific interests? We can. Please send suggestions or requests.
  
• If we have an item for each person we can read from 2 or 3 each week and rotate among them from week to week. A student could suggest a research paper or a methodology paper related to their specific topic. Which readings to do on a particular day could depend in part on who is present.
• We could read and discuss our own papers. There are quite a few benefits to doing so. For example, we have a number of systematic reviews that have been published.
• We could also read articles or other materials like AI outputs on research methodology in general. We could also do other general interest readings, not necessarily about methodology, such as philosophy of science or something else. For example:
  
• Procedures for performing systematic reviews, B Kitchenham, Keele, UK, Keele University 33 (2004), 1-26
• http://www.prisma-statement.org/
• We could read from our existing list of evaluated (and unevaluated) potential readings.
• We could evaluate different readings and read the ones that bubble to the top. This could be applied to all the other categories of readings listed here. We could even hybridize and do parallel readings from multiple categories above.