Term Project Description CAP 6135 Spring 2016 Term

Term Project Description CAP 6135 Spring 2016

Term Project • Two students form a group to do term project together – A research oriented term project – Project report follows the same format as a published paper • At least 6 pages (double column, single spaced, 11 point font) – Learn how to conduct research and write paper – Learn how to communicate and collaborate with your colleague – Try to find partner using the web. Course discussion forum • You can do it alone if you want to 2

Timeline for Term Project • Try to find your partner NOW and discuss what topic to work on – Check top security conferences webpage, look for “advanced program” or “technical program” – Find the session titles--- they are research topics in computer security – Select a topic you are interested and comfortable and familiar • Example annual conferences: IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, Usenix Security Symposium, Eurocrypt, NDSS • List of good security conferences: http: //faculty. cs. tamu. edu/guofei/sec_conf_stat. htm 7 -3

Timeline for Term Project • Term project proposal: – First week in March • Second week in March is Spring Break (Mar. 9 -14) – Submit a 5 minutes’ presentation slides • Slides should have format of either ppt or PDF • Face-to-face students: present in class • Online students: submit presentation slides with speaking notes on each page – All slides will be published in web. Course • You can see what other students are working on 7 -4

Timeline for Term Project • Final submission: – April 26 th midnight for submitting presentation slides (15 minutes) and project paper (6+ pages) via Web. Course • Face-to-face students: Present term project in the final exam time (no more than 15 minutes) • Online students: submit slides with speaking notes on each page 7 -5

Example of Term Project • Simple: – Tutorial focused: Survey of the state-of-art research work in a specific topic • You can find many survey papers as your examples on IEEE or ACM journals – You can find these journals on IEEE Explorer or ACM Digital Library, which can be accessed through UCF library website – http: //guides. ucf. edu/computersciencedatabases – You can also access them through webcourse “UCF Library Tools” tab • You need to survey at least 6 to 8 papers that work on the same topics – This is not a single paper review assignment! 6

Example of Term Project • Middle: – Programming focused: Repeat and realize algorithm/experiments in a published paper chosen by you • You will need to program and compare your results with the paper’s • To see whether your results match with the paper’s result? Why they differ to some extend? – Minor improvement of ideas/algorithms in published papers • You will need to prove that your improvement works – Mathematical proof – Simulation proof • Simply using words to justify your idea is not enough! – Present a novel idea that is significant, but with no substantial proof (work-in-progress, not complete)

Example of Term Project • Advanced: – Present a novel and significant idea with support from simulation or real experiments • E. g. , success in using an idea from another area to a new topic in computer security • Simulations/experiments prove the effectiveness of the proposed approach – Has potential to be further developed as an academic publishable paper • Then you have the chance to really publish a paper from this term project work! Network Security 7 -8

Find Good Research Paper • Find papers in high-quality conferences – There are too many conferences/workshops!! – Security research conferences: • Top ranking conferences: – IEEE Security & Privacy, ACM CCS, Usenix Security • Other good conferences: – NDSS, RAID, ACSAC, Secure. Com, Asia. CCS, DSN, ESORICS…. – Just google “NDSS 2011”, etc. • Conference papers are grouped into sections according to topics – The section title will tell you the research topic – Help you quickly find papers you are interested 9

Find Good Research Paper • Good security research journals: – ACM Transactions on Information and System Security – IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing – IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security • Problem for journals: – They are slow in publishing, usually will be two years later than conference papers • Good resource to find security conferences: – http: //faculty. cs. tamu. edu/guofei/sec_conf_stat. htm 10

Multi-Step Layered Approach to Read Papers for Research Stage 1: find conference, session titles Stage 2: read paper titles Stage 3: read abstract of papers Stage 4: read “Introduction” (and “related work”) • Stage 5: read all • In each step you filter and keep 10%~20% of papers from the previous step • •