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Research/Survey Paper
You may work individually or form a team with a partner. (This means each
team has at most two students.) Each team must submit a final term paper to
get credit for this course. You may choose to write a survey paper on zero-
day attack defense or alert correlation, or write a research paper to develop
your own ideas.
The paper must have a title page, main content, and references. The paper
should be single-column, 1 inch margins, 11-point size, and single-
spaced. The paper should be at most 15 pages, excluding references and
well marked appendices.
For research papers, the main content of the proposal should at least
include the following:
Introduction
• Discuss the background and motivation of your work.
• Summarize the research problem
• Summarize the proposed approach to the problem and the results
Related work
• Discuss research related to yours and make comparison if there are
closely related work.
Your approach
• Describe your approach in detail. You may present your result in
any way you want as long as you believe it's convincing and clear.
Validation of your approach
• Prove or demonstrate the effectiveness and/or efficiency of your
approach. You may do this through theorems, experiments, etc.
Conclusions and possible future work
• Summarize the conclusions of your work and point out possible
future research directions.
References
• List all the citations referenced in your paper.
For survey papers, the main content should include the following:
Introduction
• Discuss the background
• Summarize the surveyed research area and explain why the
surveyed area has been studied.
• Summarize the classification scheme you used to do the survey.
• Summarize the surveyed techniques with the above classification
scheme.
Survey details
• Present the surveyed techniques using the classification scheme in
detail.
• Identify the trends in the surveyed area. Give evidences for your
decision.
Conclusions and possible future work
• Summarize the conclusions of your survey.
References
• List all the citations referenced in your paper.