SEI 2015 Research Review Artifacts
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Software Engineering Institute
Abstract
The SEI 2015 Research Review, held in October 2015, afforded the opportunity to
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SEI Research Review 2015: CTO Opening Remarks
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By Kevin Fall
Overview of the intent of the Research Review and the talks included in its sessions
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Acquisition & Management Session Opening Remarks
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By Anita Carleton
Software acquisition & management R&D investigates ways to assure functionality, timely delivery, lowered risk, and affordability.
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Agile in Government: Validating Success Enablers and Inhibitors
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By Mary Ann Lapham, Suzanne Miller
Describes recent developments in a project to provide DoD and government agencies with actionable Agile guidance within the constraints of DoDI 5000.02
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Agile in Government Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By Mary Ann Lapham, Suzanne Miller
This poster illustrates challenges and SEI work in aligning Agile practices with government requirements.
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Machine Learning for Big Data Systems Acquisition
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By John Klein
This presentation tackles the question, "Can we automatically identify relevant document pages that contain the knowledge required for a curator to populate the knowledge base?"
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Machine Learning for Big Data System Acquisition Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By John Klein
This poster tackles the question, "Can we automatically identify relevant document pages that contain the knowledge required for a curator to populate the knowledge base?"
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Quantifying Uncertainty for Early Lifecycle Cost Estimation:FY15 Results
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By Robert W. Stoddard
The QUELCE method continues to be refined. This slide set describes recent developments.
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Quantifying Uncertainty in Early Lifecycle Cost Estimation Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By Robert W. Stoddard
The QUELCE method continues to be refined. This poster describes recent developments.
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Improving Software Sustainability Through Data-Driven Technical Debt Management
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By Ipek Ozkaya, Robert Nord
This work aims to improve sustainment decision making by identifying technical debt indicators and building correlations between them and project measures.
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Improving Software Sustainability through Data-Driven Technical Debt Management Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By Ipek Ozkaya, Robert Nord
This work aims to improve sustainment decision making by identifying technical debt indicators and building correlations between them and project measures.
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Assured Design Session Opening Remarks
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By John B. Goodenough
Explores a definition of assured design as having justified confidence that a (software-reliant) system design has particular properties
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Effective Reduction of Avoidable Complexity in Embedded Systems
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By Julien Delange
Examines the need for software complexity management, in particular ways to detect complexity in models and improve model design
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Effective Reduction of Avoidable Complexity in Embedded Systems Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By Julien Delange
Examines the need for software complexity management, in particular ways to detect complexity in models and improve model design.
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Open Source AADL Workbench for Virtual System Integration Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By Peter H. Feiler, Lutz Wrage
Explores a solution for the limitations of traditional system development development lifecycle methods.
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Open Source AADL Workbench for Virtual System Integration
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By Peter H. Feiler
The AADL Workbench includes tools for modeling, analysis, and usability capabilities. It also incorporates tools such as Resolute and Ocarina.
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Extending AADL for Security Design Assurance of the Internet of Things
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By Carol Woody, Rick Kazman
This project aims to extend AADL to address security in architecture better.
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Extending AADL for Security Design Assurance of the Internet of Things Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By Rick Kazman, Carol Woody
This poster describes a project that aims to extend AADL to better address security in the architecture
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Increase Adoption of Secure Coding Standards
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By Daniel Plakosh
Recent work to promote adoption of secure coding standards includes a web application to improve analyst productivity and 25 new rules for C++
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Increase Adoption of Secure Coding Standards Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By Daniel Plakosh
Recent work to promote adoption of secure coding standards includes a web application to improve analyst productivity and 25 new rules for C++
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Graph Algorithms on Future Architectures
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By Scott McMillan
Delves into whether primitives and operations can be defined to separate graph analytic application development and complexity of underlying hardware concern
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Graph Algorithms on Future Architectures Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By Scott McMillan
Delves into whether primitives and operations can be defined to separate graph analytic application development and complexity of underlying hardware concerns.
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C4I Session Opening Remarks
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By Software Engineering Institute
Better decision making, enhanced productivity, and more innovation are needed to meet today's information handling and security challenges
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Edge-Enabled Tactical Systems
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By Grace Lewis, Jeff Boleng
EETS adapts cutting-edge technologies and builds prototypes of assured, efficient, and rapidly fieldable systems to enhance decision support for tactical users
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Edge-Enabled Tactical Systems Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By Jeff Boleng, Grace Lewis
EETS adapts cutting-edge technologies and builds prototypes of assured, efficient, and rapidly-fieldable systems to enhance decision support for tactical users
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Effecting Large-Scale Adaptive Swarms Through Intelligent Collaboration
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By James Edmondson
The goal of this project is to work toward making the controlling of autonomous systems scalable, effective, and predictable
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Effecting Large-Scale Adaptive Swarms through Intelligent Collaboration Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By James Edmondson
The goal of this project is to work toward making the controlling of autonomous systems scalable, effective, and predictable
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Human Factors Session Opening Remarks
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By Christopher May
Critical issues include mission readiness certification, limitations of capacity to analyze large data sets, leaks of sensitive and classified information
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Generalized Automated Cyber-Readiness Evaluator
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By Rotem D. Guttman
Describes work to enable this approach to cyber-readiness evaluation: train as you fight and evaluate as you fight.
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Generalized Automated Cyber-Readiness Evaluator Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By Rotem D. Guttman
Describes work to enable this approach to cyber-readiness evaluation: train as you fight and evaluate as you fight.
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Human-Computer Decision Systems
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By Brian Lindauer
Describes work to use learning theory advances to account for persistent human expert teams and experiments to improve the human-computer decision system
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Human-Computer Decision Systems Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By Brian Lindauer
Describes work to use learning theory advances to account for persistent human expert teams and experiments to improve the human-computer decision systems.
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Insider Threat Mitigation
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By William R. Claycomb, Andrew P. Moore
Explores hypothesis that over time, insider social networks exhibit weakening of internal connections and strengthening of external connections to adversaries.
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Insider Threat Mitigation Posters (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By William R. Claycomb, Andrew P. Moore
Two posters on insider threat research: Social network dynamics and holes in dynamic networks
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Verification and Validation Session Opening Remarks
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By Linda M. Northrop
This presentation was delivered as the opening remarks for the Verification and Validation session of the 2015 Research Review.
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Parallel Software Model Checking
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By Sagar Chaki
In this 2015 Research Review presentation, the author describes his research efforts into scaling up software model checking—a fundamental challenge in the field.
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Runtime Assurance for Big Data Systems
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By John Klein
This 2015 Research Review presentation describes research into the unique assurance requirements and conditions of Big Data systems.
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Runtime Assurance for Big Data Systems Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By John Klein
This 2015 Research Review presentation describes research into the unique assurance requirements and conditions of Big Data systems.
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Incremental Lifecycle Assurance of Critical Systems (2015)
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By Peter H. Feiler
This 2015 Research Review presentation explores the author's research into ways to improve critical system assurance.
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Incremental Lifecycle Assurance of Critical Systems Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By Peter H. Feiler
This poster explores ways to improve critical system assurance.
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Verifying Distributed Adaptive Real-Time (DART) Systems
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By Sagar Chaki, Dionisio de Niz
This 2015 Research Review presentation describes the authors' research efforts in verifying distributed adaptive real-time systems.
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Verifying Distributed Adaptive Real-Time (DART) Systems Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By Sagar Chaki, Dionisio de Niz
This poster describes the authors' research efforts in verifying distributed adaptive real-time systems.
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Cybersecurity Session Opening Remarks
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By Roman Danyliw
This 2015 Research Review presentation opened the program's cybersecurity session, providing an overview of the segment's featured presentations.
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Design Pattern Recovery from Malware Binaries
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By Cory Cohen
This 2015 Research Review presentation explores the challenges posed by automated binary analysis.
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Design Pattern Recovery from Malware Binaries Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By Sam Weber
This poster by Sam Weber illustrates three tools for static analysis.
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API Usability and Security
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By Sam Weber
This 2015 Research Review presentation describes an effort to develop and empirically test API design principles.
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API Usability and Security Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By Sam Weber
This poster describes an effort to develop and empirically test API design principles.
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Vulnerability Discovery (2015)
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By Edward J. Schwartz
A 2015 Research Review presentation on discovering vulnerabilities in software.
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Vulnerability Discovery Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By Edward J. Schwartz
A poster for the 2015 Research Review presentation on discovering vulnerabilities in software.
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Cybersecurity via Signaling Games
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By William Casey
This presentation, delivered at Research Review 2015, discusses using signaling games in cybersecurity.
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Cyber Security via Signaling Games Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)
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By William Casey
Looks at how we can establish trust, manage risk, and mitigate deceptive cyber-attacks when decision-making is constrained
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