• that you understand what the problem is

• that you are aware of the current state-of-the-art

• that you can analyse and critique others' work

• that there is an unsolved problem to be investigated

The chapter structure follows roughly these goals

• describe the problem in detail, all issues/aspects

• develop an approach for determining a "good" solution

• describe and analyse previous work   (using this approach)

• conclude that some aspect of the problem is not yet solved