NCSU SoS Lablet Research Methods, Community Development and Support - April 2015

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

• Consulted with PhD students to help ensure research is being done scientifically
• Studying information sharing models from finanical institutions to adapt to the problem of repository sharing.
• Analyzing published security literature to characterize whether the reports contain sufficent information to indicate a rigorous scientific approach.