CMU SEI 2018 Research Review
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Software Engineering Institute
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This collection of presentations and posters and other material from our Research Review demonstrates our DoD-funded research in the following areas: risk reduction for rapid, affordable software development; creating operational resilience; making the recently possible mission practical; and automating test and evaluation. Among the presentations in the event were brief discussions called "lightning talks"; those short talks are included in this collection.
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Automated Code Repair
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By Software Engineering Institute
Static analysis can help find bugs, but the number of alerts can be overwhelming. Many bugs have a typical repair pattern, laying the foundation for automated code repair techniques.
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Automated Code Generation for Future-Compatible High-Performance Graph Libraries
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By Software Engineering Institute
Watch researchers, Scott McMillan and Franz Franchetti, discuss "Continuous Iterative Development and Deployment Practices".
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Assuring Non-Deterministic Software-Based Systems
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By Dionisio de Niz
This Research Review 2018 presentation discusses explainable AI and runtime assurance enforcer research.
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Causal Learning & Discovery
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By Software Engineering Institute
Watch CMU Researchers David Danks and Robert Stoddard discuss the challenges of causal learning.
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Operational Cyber Risk Reduction
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By April Galyardt, Josh Hammerstein
Reducing risk so that the U.S. Government and DoD can field and operate systems to support missions, even in the face of a capable adversary.
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Modern Software Lifecycle Practices
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By Ipek Ozkaya, Sam Procter
Discussion of FY18 DoD Line-funded research into technical debt and security engineering.
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Panel Session: Applying Artificial Intelligence
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By Software Engineering Institute
Watch the Research Review 2018 Applying Artificial Intelligence Panel Session.
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Panel Session: Rapid Velocity Software Development for Mature Organizations
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By Software Engineering Institute
This panel session discusses the changes that speed makes and the decisions that need to be considered differently because of the ability to accomplish goals faster.
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Scaling Software Testing and Evaluation
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By Lori Flynn
Discussion of FY18 CMU SEI research in test and evaluation.
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Continuous Iterative Development and Deployment Practices
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By Eileen Wrubel, Hasan Yasar
Discussion of Agile and DevOps approaches at the SEI Research Review 2018.
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Software for Mission
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By Kevin A. Pitstick, Oren Wright
Discussion of DoD Line-funded research into video summarization and biometric algorithms
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Capitalizing on Cloud Technologies
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By Dale Alleshouse
Dale Alleshouse discusses how the DoD can capitalize on cloud technologies.
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You Can Prove It With Less: Data Science Tasks Using Challenge-Based Acquisition
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By Ritwik Gupta
Ritwik Gupta discusses the ARPA functional map of the world and XV challenges.
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Explainable AI and Human Computer Interaction
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By April Galyardt
Watch Dr. April Galyardt discuss implications for explainable AI at the 2018 Research Review.
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Mission-Capable Quantum Computing for Software Verification and Validation
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By Jason Larkin
Dr. Larkin discusses how Software VV is important and difficult for the DoD to implement.
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How Human-Centered Design can help create DoD Capability
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By Barbora Batokova
Two brief lighting talks about human-centered design in DoD technology.
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Project Summaries and Posters: 2018 Research Review
• Annual Report
By Software Engineering Institute
This booklet contains descriptions of CMU SEI research projects and images of related posters.
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Building Knowledge from Inference: Logical Language Models for Cybersecurity
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By Lena Pons
Two lightning talks about cybersecurity and cloud computing.
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Leveraging Emerging Changes in Computing
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By Grace Lewis
This presentation was delivered by Grace Lewis at the SEI Research Review 2018.
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A Novel Approach to Emotion Recognition from Voice
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By Oren Wright
This poster describes work toward a new emotional speech database and a set of techniques that can capture finer nuances than the current state of the art.
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Automatically Understanding Executables
• Poster
By Cory Cohen
This poster describes research aimed at reducing the cost of manual executable analysis for vulnerability discovery and malware analysis.
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Causal Models for Software Cost Control (SCOPE)
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By Michael D. Konrad
This poster describes work in applying causal learning to program datasets to better understand which factors can reduce costs.
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Automatic Code Generation for Graph Algorithms
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By Scott McMillan, Franz Franchetti (Carnegie Mellon University)
This poster describes automated code generation of high-performance libraries of graph algorithms, tuned for different hardware architectures.
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Automated Code Repair to Ensure Memory Safety (2018)
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By William Klieber
This poster describes a technique for automatically repairing potential violations of memory safety so that the program is provably memory-safe.
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Building a COTS Benchmark Baseline for Graph Analytics
• Poster
By Scott McMillan
This poster describes research aimed at building a benchmark baseline based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) field-programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware.
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Certifiable Distributed Runtime Assurance
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By Dionisio de Niz
This poster describes the use of enforcers to assure the safety of distributed cyber-physical systems.
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High Assurance Software-Defined IoT Security
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By Grace Lewis
This poster describes a solution for the secure use of IoT devices in the DoD by moving part of the security enforcement to the network.
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Infrastructure as Code
• Poster
By John Klein
This poster describes an approach and tools for recovering a deployed system's technical baseline.
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Integrated Safety and Security Engineering for Mission Critical Systems (2018)
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By Peter H. Feiler, Sam Procter
This poster describes progress in the first year of a three-year project aimed at understanding interactions between safety and security.
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Modeling and Explaining Sequential Behavior
• Poster
By Software Engineering Institute
This poster describes two research projects that offer novel solutions toward modeling and explaining sequential behavior.
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Modeling the Operations of the Vulnerability Ecosystem
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By Allen D. Householder
This poster describes models, metrics, datasets, and key performance indicators developed to improve vulnerability response.
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Predicting Security Flaws through Architectural Flaws
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By Robert Schiela, Rick Kazman
This poster describes efforts toward using automated architecture analysis to identify, prevent, and mitigate security flaws in code.
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Rapid Construction of Accurate Automatic Alert Handling
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By Lori Flynn
This poster describes the development of an extensible architecture for the classification and advanced prioritization of flaws in code.
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Rapid Software Composition by Assessing Untrusted Components
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By Rick Kazman
This poster describes efforts to increase the speed and confidence of the component selection process in software systems.
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Summarizing and Searching Video
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By Edwin J. Morris, Kevin A. Pitstick
This poster describes algorithms and a prototype developed to help analysts process information from video streams.
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Data-Driven Technical Debt Analysis
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By Ipek Ozkaya, Robert Nord
This poster describes research efforts in analyzing data to uncover technical debt.
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Timing Verification of Undocumented Multicore
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By Bjorn Andersson
This poster describes an abstraction and corresponding analysis that allow timing verification of undocumented hardware.
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Towards Security Defect Prediction with AI
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By Nathan M. VanHoudnos
This poster describes research comparing a state-of-the-art AI system to existing static analysis approaches for defect prediction.
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