TY - GEN
T1 - An analysis of research trends in computer security over the last decade
AU - Lee, Daehwa Rayer
AU - Kim, Hyoungshick
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/7
Y1 - 2018/7
N2 - Recently, text mining has popularly been used not only to identify important topics but also predict future tends in a research field. In this paper, we apply text mining to analyze the research trends in the field of computer security over the last decade. We collected 2,256 papers published in the four major security conferences (CCS, NDSS, USENIX Security and S&P) between 2008 and 2017. We extracted keywords from the title and abstract in each paper and used them to identify important topics based on word frequency counts for each keyword. We analyzed the rankings and the changes in the most frequent keywords every year. Our observations from the analysis would be useful for understanding the popularity of computer security research, and predict potentially important research topics (e.g., SGX, Fuzzing, Blockchain, IoT and SDN) in the near future.
AB - Recently, text mining has popularly been used not only to identify important topics but also predict future tends in a research field. In this paper, we apply text mining to analyze the research trends in the field of computer security over the last decade. We collected 2,256 papers published in the four major security conferences (CCS, NDSS, USENIX Security and S&P) between 2008 and 2017. We extracted keywords from the title and abstract in each paper and used them to identify important topics based on word frequency counts for each keyword. We analyzed the rankings and the changes in the most frequent keywords every year. Our observations from the analysis would be useful for understanding the popularity of computer security research, and predict potentially important research topics (e.g., SGX, Fuzzing, Blockchain, IoT and SDN) in the near future.
KW - Analysis
KW - Computer Security
KW - Research Trends
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85085619892
U2 - 10.1109/ICSSA45270.2018.00030
DO - 10.1109/ICSSA45270.2018.00030
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85085619892
T3 - Proceedings - 2018 4th International Conference on Software Security and Assurance, ICSSA 2018
SP - 86
EP - 89
BT - Proceedings - 2018 4th International Conference on Software Security and Assurance, ICSSA 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 4th International Conference on Software Security and Assurance, ICSSA 2018
Y2 - 26 July 2018 through 27 July 2018
ER -