Research Methods in Cybersecurity 2025/26 spring

Lectures

• Introductory Lecture 1 (12.February):
  • Slides
• Introductory Lecture 2 (19.February):
  • Slides
  • Submit presentation time
  • Procedures for performing systematic reviews
  • Example 1: Levasseur O., Iqbal M., Matulevičius R.: Survey of Model-Driven Engineering Techniques for Blockchain-Based Applications. Proceedings of the Forum at Practice of Enterprise Modeling 2021 (PoEM-Forum 2021
  • Example 2: Ganji D., Kalloniatis C., Mouratidis H., Gheytassi S. M. (2019): Approaches to Develop and Implement ISO/IEC 27001 Standard - Information Security Management Systems: A Systematic Literature Review, International Journal on Advances in Software, vol 12, No 3&4, 2019
  • Example 3: Mellado, D., Blanco, C., Sánchez, L.E., Fernández-Medina, E.: A systematic review of security requirements engineering. Comput. Stand. Interf. 32, 153–165 (2010)
• Introductory Lecture 3 (26.February):
  • Lecture 3 Slides
  • Lecture 3 Exercises
  • Further Reading:
    • Felderer, M., & Travassos, G. H. (2020). The evolution of empirical methods in software engineering. In Contemporary Empirical Methods in Software Engineering (pp. 1-24). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
    • Host, M., & Runeson, P. (2007). Checklists for software engineering case study research. In First international symposium on empirical software engineering and measurement (ESEM 2007) (pp. 479-481). IEEE.
    • Kitchenham, B. A., Madeyski, L., Budgen, D., Keung, J., Brereton, P., Charters, S., & Pohthong, A. (2017). Robust statistical methods for empirical software engineering. Empirical Software Engineering, 22, 579-630.
    • Runeson, P., Host, M., Rainer, A., & Regnell, B. (2012). Case study research in software engineering: Guidelines and examples. John Wiley & Sons.
    • Wohlin, C., & Aurum, A. (2015). Towards a decision-making structure for selecting a research design in empirical software engineering. Empirical Software Engineering, 20, 1427-1455.
    • Vom Brocke, J., Hevner, A., & Maedche, A. (2020). Introduction to design science research. In Design science research. Cases (pp. 1-13). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
    • Wohlin, C., Runeson, P., Höst, M., Ohlsson, M. C., Regnell, B., & Wesslén, A. (2012). Experimentation in software engineering. Springer Science & Business Media.

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• Presentation seminar 1 (30.April):
• Presentation seminar 2 (7.May):