Guidelines for
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 zeroday 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 singlespaced. The paper should be at most 15 pages, excluding references and
well marked appendices.
To facilitate the grading of your paper, please follow the suggested
organization listed below.
The title page should include
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the title of the paper or project
group member name(s) and email address(es)
course name, number, and instructor's name
a maximum 300-word abstract
three to five keywords.
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.