Visible to the public NCSU SoS Lablet Research Methods, Community Development and Support - January 2015

Submitted by drwright on Mon, 12/08/2014 - 11:14am

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

  • Nine NCSU SoSL students presented their research plans and manuscripts in preperation to the NCSU Lablet.  Lablet particpants, including members of the methodology team provided feedback on the project methodology and offered suggestions for improving the work.  All student presenters recieved a written summary of the comments provided during the feedback sessions.  Students can use this feedback to make improvemnts to their sutdy methodology as their research progresses. 
  • We are leading an international team of researchers in conducting a literature review of the major security conferences to provide an analysis of the research methods used in published work.
  • We are investigating various techniques to post and share experimental data sets. Issues of searching and understanding unstructured text as well as security issues are being addressed by this investigation.
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