NCSU SoS Lablet Research Methods, Community Development and Support - October 2014

Public Audience
Purpose: To highlight project progress. Information is generally at a higher level which is accessible to the interested public. All information contained in the report (regions 1-3) is a Government Deliverable/CDRL.

PI(s):  Jeff Carver, Ehab Al-Shaer, Jon Doyle, Lindsey McGowen, Laurie Williams, Alyson Wilson, Rahul Pandita
Researchers: Christopher Corley (UA)

PROBLEM ADDRESSED

• Community Development - The goal is to build an extended and vibrant interdisciplinary community of science of security researchers, research methodologists, and practitioners (Carver, Williams).
• Community Resources - To create and maintain a respository of defensible scientific methods for security research (Carver, Williams).
• Oversight for the Application of Defensible Scientific Research Methodologies - To encourage the application of scientifically defensible research through various methods of consultation and feedback (Carver).
• Usable Data Sharing - To enable open, efficient, and secure sharing of data and experimental results for experimentation among SoS researchers (Al-Shaer).

PUBLICATIONS
Report papers written as a result of this research. If accepted by or submitted to a journal, which journal. If presented at a conference, which conference.

ACCOMPLISHMENT HIGHLIGHTS

• Worked with Lablet students to develop appropriate research methodology for project
• Begun analyzing literature from security conferences to characterize the scientific content of previous work
• Refined methodology feedback survey tools for use in student research paper and planning sessions.
• Held first student paper reading and research plan session to review methodology guidelines and feedback procedures. 
• Studied various techniques for creating meta data (keywords) based on textual description of a dataset in a repository.