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\title{Title:\\
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\author{Your Name}
\submitdate{December 6, 2006} \copyrightyear{2006}
\frontmatter
\begin{abstract}
    An abstract is required in all theses.
    Make sure that it fits on one page!
\end{abstract}
\begin{acknowledgements}
    This is the acknowledgements.
    It is optional.
\end{acknowledgements}
\mainmatter
\chapter{Introduction}
\section{Introduction}
        ... what the chapter is about ...
\section{Motivation}
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\section{Statement of the Problem}
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\section{Contributions}
        ... why are they worthwhile ...
\section{Overview of Results}
        ... summary of acheivements ...
\section{Organization of Thesis}
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\section{Summary}
        ... key points of what was presented and linkage to next chapter...
\chapter{Background}
\section{Introduction}
        ... what the chapter is about ...
\section{Background Material on Related Discipline 1}
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\section{Background Material on Related Discipline 2}
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\section{Background Material on Related Discipline n}
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\section{Summary}
        ... key points of what was presented and linkage to next chapter...
\chapter{Related Work: State of the Art}
\section{Introduction}
        ... what the chapter is about ...
\section{Key Area of Related Work 1}
%%\section{Artificial Immune System Search Algorithms}
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\section{Key Area of Related Work 2}
%%\section{Other Evolutionary Search Techniques}
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\section{Key Area of Related Work n}
%%\section{Techniques for Directed Search}
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\section{Summary}
        ... key points of what was presented and linkage to next chapter...
\chapter{Introduction to The Main Contribution}
%%\chapter{Antigenic Search as a Directed Search Technique}
\section{Introduction}
        ... what the chapter is about ...
\section{The Problem}
        ... a concise statement of the problem addressed ...
\section{The Proposed Solution}
        ... a concise statement of the problem addressed ...
\section{Justification of Claim to Originality}
        ... done in context of related work in last section ...
\section{Valuation of Contribution}
        ... why is my contribution worthwhile ...
\section{Alternatives}
        ... what are the alternatives to this solution...
\section{Summary}
        ... key points of what was presented and linkage to next chapter...
\chapter{Theoretical Treatment}
\section{Introduction}
        ... what the chapter is about ...
\section{Main Theoretical Component 1}
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\section{Main Theoretical Component 2}
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\section{Main Theoretical Component n}
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\section{Summary}
        ... key points of what was presented and linkage to next chapter...
\chapter{Description of Algorithmic Designs}
%%\chapter{A Class of Antigenic Search Algorithms for Multimodal Function Optimization}
\section{Introduction}
        ... what the chapter is about ...
\section{The Basic Algorithm}
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\section{Discussion of Design Issues}
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\section{Algorithm Enhancements}
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\section{Discussion of the Parameter Space}
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\section{Summary}
        ... key points of what was presented and linkage to next chapter...
\chapter{Description of Experimental Procedures and Testing}
\section{Introduction}
        ... what the chapter is about ...
\section{The Test Functions}
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\section{The Testing Methodology}
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\section{Discussion of Analytical and Statistical Procedures to be Used}
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\section{Summary}
        ... key points of what was presented and linkage to next chapter...
\chapter{Presentation of Experimental Results}
\section{Introduction}
        ... what the chapter is about ...
\section{Analysis of Results}
        ... include charts, tables, figures ...
        ... include proper statistical treatment ...
\section{Comparison of Performance Against Other Techniques}
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\section{Summary}
        ... key points of what was presented and linkage to next chapter...
\chapter{Summary of work, Conclusions and Future Work}
\section{Introduction}
        ... what the chapter is about ...
\section{Summary of Results}
        ...
\section{Conclusions}
        ... list of inferences made ...
\section{Contributions}
        ... list of contributions to new knowledge ...
\section{Future Work}
        ... best ideas of next steps ...
\appendix
\chapter{Stuff}
        ... material of length that would impede the flow of the
        main body: program listings, long data results, long mathematical
        proofs ...
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