TY - JOUR
T1 - The Dangers of Following Trends in Research
T2 - Sparsity and Other Examples of Hammers in Search of Nails
AU - Adali, Tülay
AU - Trussell, H. Joel
AU - Hansen, Lars Kai
AU - Calhoun, Vince D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/6
Y1 - 2018/6
N2 - Trends, they are not only for the fashion industry after all. Within the engineering and computer science research communities as well, we periodically observe the phenomenon, see how certain methods suddenly start receiving particular attention, and sometimes, even though they emerge as an attractive solution for a given set of problems, they tend to become a hammer looking for new nails. At first, using a new method on old problems is the natural and reasonable way to proceed. There have been remarkable successes achieved through the adoption of a tool from another field or a new way of looking at old problems that brings new insights and solutions.
AB - Trends, they are not only for the fashion industry after all. Within the engineering and computer science research communities as well, we periodically observe the phenomenon, see how certain methods suddenly start receiving particular attention, and sometimes, even though they emerge as an attractive solution for a given set of problems, they tend to become a hammer looking for new nails. At first, using a new method on old problems is the natural and reasonable way to proceed. There have been remarkable successes achieved through the adoption of a tool from another field or a new way of looking at old problems that brings new insights and solutions.
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U2 - 10.1109/JPROC.2018.2823428
DO - 10.1109/JPROC.2018.2823428
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85048276517
SN - 0018-9219
VL - 106
SP - 1014
EP - 1018
JO - Proceedings of the IEEE
JF - Proceedings of the IEEE
IS - 6
ER -