2014 NCSU Summer Workshop
Date: May 22, 2014 – May 23, 2014
Location: 3001 Engineering Building 2, NC State University Centennial Campus
This is an abbreviated agenda. The detailed agenda, including links to workshop activities and resources, will be available on the Science of Security Lablet Collaboration Project space by May 21.
Preliminary activities (to be completed before the start of the workshop)
- Project Team Captains:
- Identify 2 seminal papers fundamental to the Hard Problem project area
- Highly and reputably cited
- Demonstrating a strong scientific approach and communication
- Team captains solicit nominations from team faculty
- Captains decide on 2 papers & circulate to faculty & students
- Due by 5/20
- Project Team Members
- Read papers before the workshop
- Think about them with respect to the research plan and publication guidelines
THURSDAY
Session 1 (9:00 - 10:30 am): Measuring Progress towards Lablet Goals (Presentation & Discussion) (Lindsey McGowen)
- Project Evaluation: What Lindsey does
- Measuring Progress: What do we need to do to:
- Measure progress towards solving Hard Problems?
- Measure the development of a Science of Security?
- Measure the development of a community of practice?
- Small group work on each question
Break (10:30 - 10:45 am)
Session 2 (10:45 am - 12:15 pm): SoS Foundations
- Group work by hard problem teams - 4 teams
- Identification of foundational knowledge & associated readings
- Key concepts, terminology, etc.
- Vetted research methods & experimental designs
- Vetted metrics, instruments, etc.
- Bibliographic data collected.
- Facilitated by members of Methods & Community Development teams
Lunch (12:15 - 1:15 pm)
Session 3 (1:15 - 2:30 pm): Research plan guidelines development
- Group work by Hard Problem project teams
- Refine research plan guidelines appropriate to the types of research addressing the different hard problems
- Consider different research methods & designs
- Facilitated by members of Methods team
Break (2:30 - 2:45 pm)
Session 4 (2:45 - 4:00 pm): Research plan guidelines unification
- Group work with (at least) 1 PI from each hard problem team in each group
- Identify & document commonalities and differences among research plan guidelines
- Facilitated by members of Methods team
Session 5 (4:00 - 5:00 pm): Reflection on the day's work
- Entire group together
- "What I learned today..." - each participant
- Action items - "What concrete action am I going to take as a result of what I have learned?" - each participant
- Statements are recorded for future evaluation
- Facilitated by Evaluation team
FRIDAY
Session 7 (8:30 - 9:00 am): Research Methods Tutorials (Alyson Wilson)
Session 8 (9:00 - 10:15 am): Publication guidelines development
- Group work by Hard Problem project teams
- Refine publication guidelines appropriate to the types of research addressing the different hard problems
- Consider different publication venues and their particular criteria
- Facilitated by members of Methods team
Break (10:15 - 10:30 am)
Session 9 (10:30 - 11:45 am): Publication guidelines unification
- Group work with (at least) 1 PI from each hard problem team in each group
- Identify & document commonalities and differences among publication guidelines
- Facilitated by members of Methods team
Session 10 (11:45 am - 12:15 pm): Research Methods Tutorial - GQM (Jeff Carver)
LUNCH (12:15 - 1:15 pm)
Session 11 (1:15 - 2:30 pm): Community building brainstorming
- Group work by hard problem teams
- Document a list of key publication venues by hard problem & task area
- List includes insights & experience on how submissions are reviewed, expectations for acceptance, etc.
- Identify important people in the field - potential collaborators?
- Facilitated by members of Methods/C-D team
Break (2:30 - 2:45 pm)
Session 12 (2:45- 3:45 pm): Reflection on the workshop
- Entire group together
- "What I am taking away from this workshop..."
- Action items - "What concrete action am I going to take as a result of what I have learned in this workshop?" - each participant
- Statements are recorded for future evaluation
- Facilitated by Evaluation team
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This is an abbreviated agenda. The detailed agenda, including links to workshop activities and resources, will be available on the Science of Security Lablet Collaboration Project space by May 21.
Preliminary activities (to be completed before the start of the workshop)
- Project Team Captains:
- Identify 2 seminal papers fundamental to the Hard Problem project area
- Highly and reputably cited
- Demonstrating a strong scientific approach and communication
- Team captains solicit nominations from team faculty
- Captains decide on 2 papers & circulate to faculty & students
- Due by 5/20
- Identify 2 seminal papers fundamental to the Hard Problem project area
- Project Team Members
- Read papers before the workshop
- Think about them with respect to the research plan and publication guidelines
THURSDAY
Session 1 (9:00 - 10:30 am): Measuring Progress towards Lablet Goals (Presentation & Discussion) (Lindsey McGowen)
- Project Evaluation: What Lindsey does
- Measuring Progress: What do we need to do to:
- Measure progress towards solving Hard Problems?
- Measure the development of a Science of Security?
- Measure the development of a community of practice?
- Small group work on each question
Break (10:30 - 10:45 am)
Session 2 (10:45 am - 12:15 pm): SoS Foundations
- Group work by hard problem teams - 4 teams
- Identification of foundational knowledge & associated readings
- Key concepts, terminology, etc.
- Vetted research methods & experimental designs
- Vetted metrics, instruments, etc.
- Bibliographic data collected.
- Facilitated by members of Methods & Community Development teams
Lunch (12:15 - 1:15 pm)
Session 3 (1:15 - 2:30 pm): Research plan guidelines development
- Group work by Hard Problem project teams
- Refine research plan guidelines appropriate to the types of research addressing the different hard problems
- Consider different research methods & designs
- Facilitated by members of Methods team
Break (2:30 - 2:45 pm)
Session 4 (2:45 - 4:00 pm): Research plan guidelines unification
- Group work with (at least) 1 PI from each hard problem team in each group
- Identify & document commonalities and differences among research plan guidelines
- Facilitated by members of Methods team
Session 5 (4:00 - 5:00 pm): Reflection on the day's work
- Entire group together
- "What I learned today..." - each participant
- Action items - "What concrete action am I going to take as a result of what I have learned?" - each participant
- Statements are recorded for future evaluation
- Facilitated by Evaluation team
FRIDAY
Session 7 (8:30 - 9:00 am): Research Methods Tutorials (Alyson Wilson)
Session 8 (9:00 - 10:15 am): Publication guidelines development
- Group work by Hard Problem project teams
- Refine publication guidelines appropriate to the types of research addressing the different hard problems
- Consider different publication venues and their particular criteria
- Facilitated by members of Methods team
Break (10:15 - 10:30 am)
Session 9 (10:30 - 11:45 am): Publication guidelines unification
- Group work with (at least) 1 PI from each hard problem team in each group
- Identify & document commonalities and differences among publication guidelines
- Facilitated by members of Methods team
Session 10 (11:45 am - 12:15 pm): Research Methods Tutorial - GQM (Jeff Carver)
LUNCH (12:15 - 1:15 pm)
Session 11 (1:15 - 2:30 pm): Community building brainstorming
- Group work by hard problem teams
- Document a list of key publication venues by hard problem & task area
- List includes insights & experience on how submissions are reviewed, expectations for acceptance, etc.
- Identify important people in the field - potential collaborators?
- Facilitated by members of Methods/C-D team
Break (2:30 - 2:45 pm)
Session 12 (2:45- 3:45 pm): Reflection on the workshop
- Entire group together
- "What I am taking away from this workshop..."
- Action items - "What concrete action am I going to take as a result of what I have learned in this workshop?" - each participant
- Statements are recorded for future evaluation
- Facilitated by Evaluation team