Ladies and Gentleman,

My class presentation today is based on the following paper:
Defense of Trust Management Vulnerabilities in Distributed Networks Yan (Lindsay) Sun , Zhu Han and K. J. Ray Liu

You can download it from the following link:

www.cspl.umd.edu/sig/publications/sun_CommMagazine_draft.pdf

If at all possible please familiarize yourself with the paper prior to our class today.

Sincere regards,

Oleg Aulov

summaries of recent class sessions

3/5 started 10 minute talks by students

3/3 handed back some homework, and went through slides about how to do presentations

2/27 returned the plagarism exercises, which everybody did well on, for the most part

2/25 If I remember correctly, I talked about resumes and what you should or should not include. That led to topics like discrimination based on gender, national origin, and so forth.

ADOBE AIR

this is a wrapper on basecamp (www.basecamphq.com) that i built when i worked at a software house about 2 months back.

DEMO VIDEO of the AIR APPLICATION:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itb3XpdhrYY

My new blog !

Hey ,
I've created my new/first blog.
If you are interested in blogging just about anything, do visit my blog.
cheers,
GP.

Literature Surveys

Sitting in a lab meeting the other day someone said "literature surveys are kind of a black art", and proceeded to discuss sort of how to go about doing one, from taking an interesting paper, following its references backwards to a seminal paper and then following citations forward from the seminal paper to current work.

I have yet to start a survey for class, but I do have one or two papers that I think are interesting, topic-wise. Does anyone have any tips or processes they use for doing literature searches/surveys?

Wes

outline of a thesis proposal

1. problem statement, why do you care?

2. what have others done? is there related work?
what are you going to do to go beyond the other work?

3. how would YOU attack the problem? what makes this approach promising?

4. evidence? how would you GET the evidence?

5. research plan - what needs to be done?

Isn't looking for an opening first is better than looking for an idea

how do we find out what people want ? , example what a company is looking for , which field are they willing to invest , which algorithm are they most interested in improving etc. ?

It would be much more rewarding to start from there and then try to solve a problem rather than look for a scattered idea in a field.....