Research Methods and Current Topics Review

Course resources

• Lecture notes
• Course plan
• Spider-diagram software

Citation databases

• ISI
• Google scholar

Literature databases

• USENIX
• IEEE
• ACM
• Springer
• Elsevier
• Publication channels in Norway with ranking

Network and System Administration Research Surveys vol. 1

• Frode Eika Sandnes, Kyrre Begnum and Mark Burgess,
  "Foreword", pp.1-2.
• Bård M. Bergesen,
  "User satisfaction and influencing factors", pp.5-26.
• Trond Aspelund,
  "Peer-to-peer network sharing between peers", pp.27-35.
• Ismail A. Hassan,
  "Advances in information technology and its implication on privacy", pp.36-44.
• Håvard Wik Thorkilssen,
  "SPAM: different approaches to fighting unsolicited commercial e-mail", pp.45-55.
• Tam Weng Seng,
  "Visual data exploration techniques for system administration", pp.56-66.

Network and System Administration Research Surveys vol. 2

• Simen Hagen and Siri Fagernes,
  "Foreword", pp.i.
• Espen Braastad,
  "Visualization of log files from a computer security perspective", pp.1-14.
• Jon Henrik Bjørnstad,
  "Hacking Humans: Social Engineering in the Corporate World", pp.15-28.
• Maurice David Woernhard,
  "VoIP - next generation telephony", pp.29-43.
• Sven Ingebrigt Ulland,
  "Solving inherent security issues in common low-level LAN protocols", pp.44-56.
• Gard Undheim,
  "Integrating Ethics into the Computer Science Curriculum", pp.57-70.

Network and System Administration Research Surveys vol. 3