Research Project

As a part of the assigned work for this course, we are requiring you to complete a group research project of your own choosing that is based on the material of this course. The premise of the project must be closely related to some aspect of the material but may explore an avenue that was left unaddressed in class.

In the group project, each group (three to four students) will focus on a topic and comes with a research/technical paper by the end of the semester. The topic should be on any specific security topic, but the expectation is to define a specific problem for in-depth investigation, coming up with a new solution (conceptual or practical application) and compare with similar other approaches extensively. 

Your research project paper must include at least 15 articles from IEEE or ACM digital library and should follow IEEE format.

A good resource to search for journal and conference papers: https://scholar.google.com/

Note: this is a group assignment (a group of 4-5 students) and each group should write and submit their own individual and unique work. Plagiarism (the similarity score for your paper needs to be less than 25%) is a serious offense and could result in (at minimum) a zero for the assignment. Violators may also receive an F in the course and academic probation or suspension.

The requirement of the research project is to conduct machine learning techniques using a Weka package or other available programs. You can use any packages or any programming language.

Data can be collected from public domains or from your company.

There are some interesting datasets available on the UCI repository as well.

You can also check KDD cup data repository.

Project Proposal

In order to help guide your choice of a project, we are requiring you to submit a brief proposal (at most one-page, 12-point font, single spacing, 1 inch margins) that describes the idea for a project, the work you intend to perform, and all the people involved in the project. In particular, it should identify the project type, the problem you plan to address, the motivation for why you find the problem important or interesting, any previous work you already know about, and a rough tentative approach to solving the problem (if applicable)

 

Final Report

In the final report, you shouldn’t just say what you did but also why it was a reasonable thing to do given the course material. The final report should include about four (4) pages of text (not including figures) in the IEEE conference template (Conference-template-A4.doc).

Here is a couple of examples of published research projects 

1) Using Machine Learning Techniques to Predict RT-PCR Results for COVID-19 Patients