You are to submit a one or two-page written proposal for the term paperwith an initial bibliography. The due date is in the course calendar. It is advisable to get going early; I will gladly accept proposals before the deadline. This assignment gives the teaching stuff a chance to review and approve your paper proposal, and to suggest references that you may have overlooked.

Attention: Submit your paper proposal only in PDF. Proposals in any other formats will be discarded. Only first two pages will be read. Spelling, grammar, and other language errors will result in fewer points credited to the proposal. Format your proposal and references in IEEE Transactions format (group titled "Templates for Transactions").

You are also encouraged to arrange a short meeting with the course staff to discuss what you want to do for the project.

The following are the questions that your term papeer proposal should address in brief:

For a design paper:

1. What is the problem we are going to address?
2. Why is this problem important?
3. How is this problem currently addressed by others?
4. What is the way we are proposing to address the problem?
5. Why and in what respect is our way to address this problem is going to be better than those developed by others?
6. How are you going to evaluate your proposal?
7. What is our plan for completing the term paper and submitting it by the deadline (see the course calendar)?

For an analysis paper:

1. What is the system that is going to be analyzed?
2. Why is security analysis of this systems important? (Explain it in terms of value of the assets, threats, and risks).
3. Who else did perform similar analysis or analyzed similar systems? (i.e., related work summary)
4. What is the metholodology of your analysis? Explain here exactly how you will be analyzing the system/solution.
5. Make sure to include in your submitted proposal the analysis authorization form signed by all the required parties. If the system owner or the course professor did not provide signatures, include corresponding e-mail messages from them.
6. Why will the world be a better place after your analysis? That is, how is your analysis going to be beneficial to the society?
7. What is our plan for completing the analysis and submitting the report by the deadline (see the course calendar)?

For a survey paper:

1. What is the problem/phenomena/technology/scheme(s) that is going to be surveyd?
2. Why is a survey of it important? Why will the world be a better place after your survey? That is, how is your survey going to be beneficial to the society?
3. Who else did perform similar surveys of this or similar problem/phenomena/technology/scheme(s)?
4. What have you found published in academic literature on this topic?
5. What is the metholodology of the data collection and analysis for your survey? Explain here exactly how you will proceed with identifying relaveant publications and analyzing them.
6. What is our plan for completing the survey and submitting the report by the deadline (see the course calendar)?

For a implementation paper:

1. What is the scope of your implementation (explain the main system and the part(s) that you will be implementing)?
2. What's the adversary model for the main system and for the part(s) that you will be implementing?
3. What is the problem we are going to address by doing the implementation?
4. Why is this problem important?
5. What interactions have you had with the main system developers so far?
6. What is the design of your proposed implementation?
7. What is the methodology that you will employ for evaluating your implementation?
8. What is the way we are proposing to address the problem?
9. Why and in what respect is our way to address this problem is going to be better than those developed by others?
10. What is our plan for completing the project and submitting the report by the deadline (see the course calendar)?

Useful links for those who are writing survey papers:

• "A Systems Approach to Conduct an Effective Literature Review in Support of Information Systems Research"
• Tips on conducting literature review.
• Organizing your literature review.

Implementation Paper

1. Please talk to Kosta about proposal requirements for implementation papers.

Hints and Tips for both design and analysis projects:

1. Use past tense, as if you have already completed your projects, since you will have to use past tense for your final report.