| Day | Topic | Papers | Assignment | Comments and Topics | August 22 | Scheduling | August 27 | Introduction, graduate school | Find and briefly skim a thesis or dissertation written by either a former student of your major professor, or by a CS student at the University of Idaho. Turn in a reference to the thesis or dissertation (title, author, major professor, and year completed). | Introduction to the course. An overview of graduate scool and beyond. The role of research. | August 29 | The literature | "Graph Structure in the Web", Andrei Brodera, Ravi Kumarb, Farzin Maghoula, Prabhakar Raghavanb, Sridhar Rajagopalanb, Raymie Statac, Andrew Tomkinsb and Janet Wienerc, Computer Networks Volume 33, Issues 1-6, June 2000, Pages 309-320 | Literature searches, survey and review papers, citations, citation indexes, bibliographies How to read a research paper. What are you trying to get out of the paper? | September 3 | No class: Labor Day | September 5 | Paper Discusson: "Graph Structure in the Web" | "Learning representations by back-propagating errors," Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams, Nature, Vol. 323, pgg. 533-536, 1996. | September 10 | General Writing | Audience, clarity, precision, concise, structure and flow. | September 12 | Paper Discusson: "Learning representations by back-propagating errors" | Soule, T., "Resilient Individuals Improve Evolutionary
Search" Journal of Artificial Life, Volume 12 , Issue 1,
Pg. 17 - 34, 2006. Review 1, Review 2, earlier (pre-review) version of the paper. |
Read Smith, A. J., "The Task of the Referee".
Look at the sample review forms I have put here. |
Audience, clarity, precision, concise, structure and flow. | September 17 | More general writing | Lists, what the reviewer is looking for. | September 19 | Paper discussion "Resilient Individuals Improve Evolutionary Search" | Riolo, R. L., Cohent, M. D., Axelrod, R.,
"The Evolution of Cooperation without
Reciprocity,"
Nature, V. 414, pp. 441-443, 2001. and after filling out the review form read Roberts, G. and Sherratt, "Does Similarity Breed Cooperation," Nature, V. 418, pp. 499-500, 2002. |
Before reading the second paper fill out the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines review form for the paper "The Evolution of Cooperation without Reciprocity". |
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| September 24 | Titles and abstracts | My generic outline Problem, methods, results, keywords, etc. | ||
| September 26 | Paper discussion "The Evolution of Cooperation without Reciprocity" |
Spector, L. and Klein, J., "Genetic Stability and Territorial Structure Facilitate the Evolution
of Tag-Mediated Altruism," Artificial Life, V. 12:4, pp. 553-560.
and Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Rodden, T., and Pycock, J. "Collaborative virtual environments", Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 , Issue 7 pp. 79 - 85, 2001 |
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| October 1 | Introduction and background | Check out Iowa State University's comprehensive list of writing resources (and other resources for grad students) at www.cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/grad-advice.html. The slides by S. P. Jones are particularly useful. | Emphasize the significance of the topic and results; lead to the problem. | |
| October 3 | Paper Discussion: "Genetic Stability and Territorial Structure Facilitate the Evolution of Tag-Mediated Altruism," and "Collaborative Virtual Environments" | Stuart Staniford, Vern Paxson, and Nicholas Weaver, "How to Own the Internet in Your Spare Time", Proceedings of Usenix 2002 Pp. 149-167, 2002. | Write a conclusion for this paper. Please email an electronic copy of your conclusion by Tuesday, October 10th, 5pm | |
| October 8 | Hypotheses and experiments | How to form hypotheses, how to design experiments. | ||
| October 10 | Paper Discussion: "How to Own the Internet in Your Spare Time" | Rachel Bonas Distributed Intrusion detection Systems: Issues and Challenges | Fill out the HICSS review form for Rachel's paper | Conclusions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and actual. |
| October 15 | Conclusions | |||
| October 17 | Paper discussion: Distributed Intrusion detection Systems: Issues and Challenges | |||
| October 22 | Results | What to present, how to present it. | ||
| October 24 | More results and gnuplot | Corey Thuen, Understanding Counter-Forensics to Ensure a Successful Investigation Also read Wicke and Smith, Decoupling Wide-Area Networks from Digital-to-Analog Converters in the World Wide Web, but don't spend too much time on it. | Fill out the HICSS review form for Corey's paper | |
| October 29 | Presentations | Type of presentation, audience, time limits, etc. | ||
| October 31 | Paper discussion: Understanding Counter-Forensics to Ensure a Successful Investigation and Decoupling Wide-Area Networks from Digital-to-Analog Converters in the World Wide | Ziad Al-Sharif and Clinton Jeffery, Adding High Level VoIP Facilities to the Unicon Language | Fill out the HICSS review form for Ziad's paper | |
| November 5th | More on presenting | Main points, making slides, how much detail, dealing with questions, etc. | ||
| November 7th | Paper discussion: Adding High Level VoIP Facilities to the Unicon Language | |||
| November 12th | Grant writing | Jafar Al-Gharaibeh, Zakariya Qawagneh, and Hiba Al-Zahawi, Genetic Algorithms with Heuristic Knights Tour Problem | Fill out the HICSS review form Jafar's paper | Who's your audience, similarity and differences from research papers, budget. |
| November 14th | Paper discussion: Genetic Algorithms with Heuristic Knight’s Tour Probem | Katie Smith Proposed Architecture for a Secure Multi-Level VoIP Conferencing System | Fill out the HICSS review form for Katie's paper. Also, because this paper can still be revised please print off a hard-copy and edit it. | Sample NSF call for proposals , general NSF grant proposal guide |
| November 19th and 21st | Fall Break, No classes | |||
| November 26th | Grants continued |
sample latex document for a bibliography and the
resulting pdf.
Different sample latex document for a bibliography and the resulting pdf. Notice that the only difference is the bibliographystyle command argument. This site has samples of many of the biolography styles. | ||
| November 28th | Paper discussion: Proposed Architecture for a Secure Multi-Level VoIP Conferencing System | Kristopher Watts Design and Implementation Challenges in a Cross Platform Distributed Password Cracker. There is also a forward to explain the context of this paper. | Please type up your comments (as if you were writing a review) and turn them in on next Wednesday. | |
| December 3rd | Wrap-up | |||
| December 5th | Paper discussion: Design and Implementation Challenges in a Cross Platform Distributed Password Cracker |