Shrikant's Notes: What is research?

Thursday, 11 April 2013

What is research?

Today while going through various web resources, I made following notes about what is research:

Research is different from intelligence gathering, which answers 'what' questions such as what percentage of SMEs in India are owned by women. Research aims to answer 'why' questions such as why Indian manufacturers are less competitive than their Chinese counterparts.
Good research is characterized by open system of thought, critical examination of data and specification of the limits on the generalization made.
Research can be classified as exploratory, testing-out and problem-solving.

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My Talks

“Where Do You Want to Go in SOA Adoption Journey?”, Interop 2009, Mumbai, India, October 7-9, 2009
"Enterprise Search for Academic Excellence", Tech@Edu, New Delhi, India, June 13-14, 2009
“Adopting Service-oriented Architecture using Open Source Software”, National Conference on Open Source Software (NCOSS-09), Mumbai, India, May 25-26 2009
“Where Do You Want to Go in SOA Adoption Journey?”, Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, Bangalore, India, February 25-27, 2008

My Publications

Shrikant Mulik, “Software Selection using Analytic Hierarchy Process and Decision Analysis Spreadsheet”, 3rd International Conference on Global Interdependence and Decision Sciences, December 28-30, 2009, Hyderabad, India, McMillan Publishers, ISBN 023-032-852-0, pp. 262-268
Shrikant Mulik, “Using Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for connecting Corporate Functions and Shared Services with Business Divisions in a large Enterprise”, 2009 IEEE Asia-Pacific Service Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2009), IEEE Proceedings, ISBN 978-1-4244-5336-8, December 7-11, 2009, Biopolis, Singapore, pp.1103-1108
Shrikant Mulik, “Searching for information within your organization”, BenefIT, December 2009, pp. 50-51
Shrikant Mulik, Manish Godse, “An Approach for Selecting Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Product”, IEEE 2009 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD-II 2009), September 21-25, 2009, Bangalore, India
Shrikant Mulik, Manish Godse, "Design-Time Selection of Web Services for Composite Applications", The Architecture Journal # 21, September 2009, pp 5
Shrikant Mulik, Manish Godse, Kavindra Sharma, “Service-enabling Enterprise Legacy Applications with Assurance”, 2009 IEEE Congress on Services (Services 2009), 6-10 July, Los Angeles, USA
Shrikant Mulik, Chaitali Kantank, Manish Godse, Mona Sudarshan, “Knowledge Management using Joomla”, National Conference on Open Source Software, (NCOSS-09), 25-26 May 2009, Mumbai, India
Shrikant Mulik, Sushil Ajgaonkar, Harsh Jetly, Neha Pandey, Sagar Yerunkar,Vinod Kakkanat, “Multi-Channel Asynchronous Request Dispatcher Framework (M-CARDiF)”, National Conference on Open Source Software, (NCOSS-09), May 25-26, 2009, Mumbai, India
Manish Godse, Vinod Pathari, Shrikant Mulik, Rajendra Sonar, "Comparing AHP-ANP Models for Web Service Selection in Global Enterprise Applications", In: Karuna Jain, Rahul Patil (eds.), 2nd International Conference on Decision Sciences in Global Enterprise Management (ISDSI 2009), January 3-5, 2009, Mumbai, India, Macmillan Publishers, ISBN 023-063-725-6, pp. 299-311
Manish Godse, Rajendra Sonar, Shrikant Mulik, "Web Service Selection based on Analytical Network Process Approach", The 3rd IEEE Asia-Pacific Service Computing Conference (APSCC 2008), IEEE Proceedings, December 9-12, 2008, Yilan, Taiwan, pp.1103-1108
Manish Godse, Rajendra Sonar, Shrikant Mulik, "The Analytical Hierarchy Process Approach for Prioritizing Features in Selection of Web Services", 6th IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS 2008), 12-14 November, 2008, Dublin, Ireland
Shrikant Mulik, Sushil Ajgaonkar, Kavindra Sharma, “Where do you want to go in SOA Adoption Journey”, IEEE IT Professional magazine, May/June 2008, pp. 36-39
Shrikant Mulik, “SOA Maturity Models”, Dataquest magazine, June 15, 2007, pp. 82,84