NCSU SoS Lablet Research Methods, Community Development and Support - April 2017

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
Researchers: Mahran Al-Zyoud (UA), Lena Leonchuk

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.

• Burcham, M., Al-Zyoud, M., Carver, J., Alsaleh, M., Du, H., Gilani, F., Jiang, J., Rahman, A., Kafali, O., Al-Shaer, E., and Williams, L. "Characterizing Scientific Reporting in Security Literature: An analysis of ACM CCS and IEEE S&P Papers," HotSoS 2017.

ACCOMPLISHMENT HIGHLIGHTS

• We began to organize best practices and examples of writing papers in a scientifically defensible manner, as a follow-on to  our HotSoS 2017 paper.