SEI 2015 Research Review Artifacts

SEI Research Review 2015: CTO Opening Remarks

October 15, 2015 • Presentation

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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)

October 22, 2015 • Poster

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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)

October 22, 2015 • Poster

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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)

October 22, 2015 • Poster

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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)

October 22, 2015 • Poster

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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)

October 22, 2015 • Poster

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)

October 22, 2015 • Poster

By Peter H. Feiler, Lutz Wrage

Explores a solution for the limitations of traditional system development lifecycle methods.

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Open Source AADL Workbench for Virtual System Integration

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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)

October 22, 2015 • Poster

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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)

October 22, 2015 • Poster

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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)

October 22, 2015 • Poster

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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)

October 22, 2015 • Poster

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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)

October 22, 2015 • Poster

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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)

October 22, 2015 • Poster

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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)

October 22, 2015 • Poster

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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)

October 21, 2015 • Poster

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

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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