This paper you have to send to me after 24 hours for synopsis on your project topic.

Write a one-page synopsis on your project topic, including references. In the synopsis, briefly describe what you will be working on as well as motivation for your project topic. Briefly tell me what has been done on that topic and what your contribution will be. What resources will you need to successfully complete the project.

My topic is How to Keep Your Child Safe from Phishing social engineering in malware analisys

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Final Project Description and Rubric

For the final group project, you are

required to prepare to a paper of 6 pages (including references) on any malware topic using the IEEE template which will be provided. The paper should have the following:

Abstract summarizing key aspects of your paper and key results and findings.

Introduction

Research question/hypothesis (but not both) which addresses the problem the project paper is investigating

Related work with at least 8 references briefly discussing what has been done in your topic area as well as what makes your work distinct. You are free to use some of the papers provided or reviewed if they fit your project topic

Dataset description which includes sources of the dataset, data collection method if the dataset is privately owned, sampling techniques used.

Methodology on describing how the data was analyzed

Explanation of results, analysis and ground truth

Summary of contributions, limitations and generalizability of results

References

Below is the rubric for the paper reviews and presentations.

# Grading Elements for Paper Review Points

1 Paper structure

2 Research Problem, Research question(s)/Hypotheses and methodology

3 Dataset Description and Sampling Techniques

4 Explanation of Results, Analysis and Ground Truth

5 Generalizability of results/models and research contributions

6 Research limitations

7 Related work – what existing work has been done on that topic and what are the gaps motivating or inspiring your work

8 Coherent and clear writing

9 Can the paper be extended? Provide suggestions on future work

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Guidelines on Writing a Scientific Paper

1-Agenda:

Introduction

Getting your hands wet

Some tools

Additional project guidelines & requirements

2-Introduction … Ideation :

Think about think about a topic you want to publish about

What research question or your hypothesis you want to address

Can the question be broken down into sub questions to scope your work?

Can sub questions be stated logically to connect findings for your work?

Formulating research questions or hypotheses

Is it a new and interesting area?

interest in scientific writing is determined by findings/facts

Is the research topic new or is there well published body of work?

What is the research gap that your paper will address?

3-Introduction … think as a reviewer :

As you start writing, as wear the hat of a reviewer

Think about the following:

Paper should sufficient new material

Content should concise and well organized

Methods and experiment design should be properly described. Compliment the design with a flow chart.

Results should be presented and explained

Use tables and figures to present the results

Think about the following:

Discussion of the results should address – the so what question

Do not forget ground truth to validate your data

Conclusions supported by the data presented as well as other published work

Figures and tables should be adequate and neatly presented

All references used should cited in the text included in a references list

4-Getting your hands wet … writing

Paper structure

Abstract

Why should anyone read your paper?

Summary of key findings

Keywords

Introduction

What did you or others do

What were the major findings

Relevance and application of your research – use cases

Key contributions

How is the rest of the paper organized

Paper structure

Related work

Recent published work vs highly cited work

What have others done in that research area?

What were their key findings?

What makes your work different from theirs?

Paper structure

Methodology and experiment design

How was the data collected and preprocessed?

Use a flow chart and describe the events on data collection

How much data was collected?

How much of that was used?

How are sources for public data acknowledged or cited?

How were the samples for the experiment selected?

Describe your dataset

Use descriptive and inferential statistics

How was the data analyzed to answer the research question(s) or test the hypotheses?

Ground truth – how is the evidence validated?

Paper structure

Results and Discussion

This constitutes the bulk of your paper

What were the results?

Results have to presented – figures, tables, graphs, charts etc

Look out for outliers and anomalies and discuss

What do the results mean?

Does interpretation of some results agree with existing related work?

Discuss your findings

Patterns

Correlations

Etc

Generalizability

Conclusions and future

Summarize key results

How can work be extended?

What are the research limitations of your work?

References

Every workshop, conference, symposium or journal has a preferred citation style

For the class project use IEEE template and citation style

5-Some tools to make life easy:

IEEE template for preparing your paper

The paper should be atmost 6 pages including references

Some tools

Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/)

managing your references and citations was you write

Desktop application

Stores bibliographic text (bibtex)

alone desktop vs server application

Chrome plug-in

automatically picks bibliographic data from a website and stores it in the desktop app

MS Word plug-in

For generating references

Managing your citations

pick writing style or install one from the Zotero site in the default installation lacks one

Data analysis

R (https://www.r-project.org/)

Great tool with libraries for statistical analysis, machine learning and data visuali…