CSIT940/CSIT440: Research Methodology
Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to develop fundamental skills required to conduct re- search, including searching papers from database, analysing a paper and drafting systematic literature reviews and referencing with proper typesetting tools.
Please check the following topics according to your student number (last bit) and draft a literature review on a proper perspective with at least 20 references (check the last bit of your student number and ind out the corresponding category below).
1. Remote data auditing (1 and 6 as the last bit)
2. Security and privacy on blockchain (2 and 7 as the last bit)
3. Web Security (3 and 8 as the last bit)
4. Network Intrusion Detection (4 and 9 as the last bit)
5. Artiicial Intelligence Security (0 and 5 as the last bit)
Basic requirements
. Must contain at least 20 papers in the report
. Must contain seminal papers and necessary milestone papers
. Must contain both journal papers and conference papers
. Must use proper latex editor to complete the assignment
. Must use the Springer LNCS format.
. References must be listed in splncs04 style.
. Similarity rate: under 40% including the references
Tips
. Find a proper direction from the above topics to collect papers (Academic papers have free access with uni IP, or via library link).
. Provide sufficient descriptions of the analysed papers (e.g., motivation, contribution, main results, conclusion, techniques, etc.) and your comments (critical analysis) to form a line of research–don’t assume the paper is 100% correct, even if normally the papers will not mention any downside.
Provide a comparison table on the main similarities and diferences of the papers in the reference list (can be based on properties, assumption, cost etc.).
. A sample pdf is provided.
Criteria (This assignment accounts for 15% of inal marks in this subject)
. Content 60%
. Format 20%
. Grammar 20%