NCSU SoS Lablet Research Methods, Community Development and Support - April 2016

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, Lindsey McGowen, Laurie Williams, Jon Stallings, Rahul Pandita
Researchers: Morgan Burcham (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 repository 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.

• Carver, J., Burcham, M., Kocak, S., Bener, A., Felderer, M., Gander, M., King, J., Markkula, J., Oivo, M., Sauerwein, C. et al..  2016.  Establishing a Baseline for Measuring Advancement in the Science of Security - an Analysis of the 2015 IEEE Security & Privacy Proceedings. 2016 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSoS).

ACCOMPLISHMENT HIGHLIGHTS

• Worked with PhD students to analyze experimental data and prepare manuscript for submission conferences.
• Analyzing the ACM CCS conference proceedings to evaluate the completeness of the papers with regards to reporting scientific rigor. 
• Provided methodological feedback to lablet students based on presentations at lablet meetings.
• Gave invited talks based on the work at the January Quarterly PI Meeting.