CAP6135: Malware and Software Vulnerability Analysis Paper Presentation and Summary Cliff Zou Spring 2015

Candidate Paper List  Candidate Papers for the later half of the class is posted at:  2

3 Paper Presentation – Face-to-Face Students  For face-to-face session students only  Each class will have three students present three papers  Each presentation lasts around 20~25 minutes  The teacher will give a summary at the end of lecture if we still have time  I will try to make each class’ papers fall into one research topic  So paper presentation time is fixed. If you pick one paper, you need to present that paper at its specified time

Paper Presentation – Face-to-Face Students  Each student only needs to do ONE paper presentation!  Student in-class participation is counted  Ask questions, answer questions, give comments…  The teacher will count it!  If you cannot come to classroom, the teacher beforehand with reasons 4

5 Presentation Format  First page:  Show the paper title, authors, affiliations, published conference/journal name  Presenter name  Give acknowledgement if you reuse any content from other places besides the paper (even from the authors’ slides)  Three pages at the end of presentation:  Contribution: one page  The major contribution(s) of this paper  Weakness: one page  What weaknesses you can think of this paper?  Improvement: one page  How do you think to improve/extend the research in the paper?

6 Paper Summary  For online video streaming students only  Submit paper summary twice  Submit summary through Webcourse  I will put an announcement on webCourse one week before the due date  So pay attention to announcement!  Check WebCourse at least once per week!  Summarize one paper in each paper review assignment  You can pick any one paper you want to summarize that have been presented in class  Each paper’s summary needs to be at least two pages  Single column, single spaced, 12 point fonts

7 Summary Format  Summary:  Summarize what this paper is about?  Central ideas/contributions  Briefly describe how the authors show/verify their claims  Do not try to copy paper’s abstract or conclusion  Should be more technical and detailed than paper’s abstract  You can treat it as ‘extended abstract’  Use your own words  Weakness:  Point out what the possible weaknesses exist in the paper  Use your own words, do not copy from the paper  Your thoughts:  Good? Bad? Interested? Boring?  Why do you think the paper is good or bad?  How to improve? Do you have a new idea on better work?

 For paper summary, each paper can be picked by many students  For in-class presentation, each paper is exclusively allocated to one face-to-face student. 8

Solving Grading Bias Issue  Online session students and face-to-face session students may get different grade for this section, how to be fair?  I will make sure the average score for both sessions’ students in this portion is equal to each other  For example, if the average score of online students in this portion is 90, the average score of face-to-face students in this portion is 80, then:  All online students’ score in this portion will be multiplied with 8/9 9