The following are the steps to initiate your research work:
1.Select a Research Topic by visiting all the top most conferences
(for example: Data mining area the top most conferences are ICDM, KDD..so on)
2.Select accepted papers on that topic based on your interest.
Note: Papers can not be understandable for a single reading,keep on reading.
3.Search for complete Literature on your research topic
4.Search for a latest survey paper on your research topic. It should be latest one like 2015 on wards, if you are registered in 2016.
5.Think the possibilities of future work, discussed in the survey paper.
6. By studying all the existing approaches in your research topic, you may found some disadvantages or performance issues or limitations.
7. Based on observations done in step 6, formulate problem definition.
8.Prepare a survey paper on your research topic with including all the latest approaches and their limitations. And also discuss your proposed work.
9.Send your survey paper to any one reputed conference to get good reviewer comments.
Note: Reviewer comments are very very important for your research work.
10. If the reviewers said that it is not a feasible approach, then it is better to leave that approach here it self and repeat step 1 to step 9.
11.Based on the Reviewer comments, proceed to your actual proposed work.
Note -1: Prefer good conferences in the initial stages, so that your work will be refined very well.
Note -2: Select conferences based on their proceedings like IEEE Explore, Springer, ACM..etc.
All The Best...
Concept Credits
Dr.MHM. krishna Prasad
Professor,
Department of CSE,
University College of Engineering Kakinada(A),
JNTUK, Kakinada , Andhra Pradesh,
India-533003