Survey Paper

Duration – about 5 weeks (about 5 hours per week effort - 25 hours average)

Goals:

1. Identify a narrow research topic (What is the problem?)
2. Conduct a thorough related work search (How have others tried to solve the problem?)
3. Write a survey paper that summarizes and synthesizes the area

Sample topics: (choose an area that interests you!)

• Annotated bibliography from class
• Class presentations

How to choose a topic?

• Select a topic that interests you
• Is there a security aspect in your current line of research?
• Talk to me about problems related to current research in ISRL.
• Look through recent conference proceedings for the latest research results