1. CAP6135: Malware and Software Vulnerability Analysis Paper Presentation and Summary Cliff Zou Spring 2016

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

3. Paper Presentation – Face-to-Face Students
For face-to-face session (0001) students only
Each class will have three students present three papers
Each presentation lasts around 20 minutes
The teacher will give a summary at the end of lecture if we still have time

4. Paper Presentation – Face-to-Face Students
Each student only needs to do ONE paper presentation!
Please pick a paper from the paper list that has no student name in front of it, me your pick and which date you want to present it. Then I will update the webpage’s paper list with your name and date
First come, first serve: So act quickly before your desired paper and desired presentation date has been picked by others!

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 students only
For online session (0V61) students only
Submit paper summary twice
Submit summary through Webcourse
So there will be two paper summary assignments released on WebCourse
Summarize one paper in each paper summary assignment
You can pick any one paper in the paper list you want to summarize
Does not matter if a paper is picked or presented by a face-to-face session student
Each paper’s summary needs to be at least two pages
Single column, single spaced, 12 point fonts

7. Paper Summary Format Summary: Weaknesses of the paper:
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
Weaknesses of the paper:
Point out what the possible weaknesses exist in the paper
Use your own words, do not copy from the paper
Your OWN 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?

8. For paper summary assignment, each paper can be picked by many students, i.e., there is no conflict or preemption in paper picking
This is for online session students only!
For in-class paper presentation, each paper is exclusively allocated to one face-to-face student.
This is for face-to-face session students only!
So tell me your choice ASAP (otherwise you will have less choice in papers to present, and the presentation time)

9. 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