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IMAT5314 Dissertation - De Montfort University
Project - IMPORTANCE OF DIGITAL FORENSICS IN CYBERSECURITY
The aim of the project/dissertation (PD) is to provide students with the opportunity to carry out a self-managed in-depth study involving design, fact finding, analysis, synthesis and integration of complex ideas which are sometimes based on incomplete and contradictory data or requirements. The PD is likely to demonstrate the application of skills acquired from the taught course to the solution to a particular problem or research topic.
Normally the PD is a self-contained piece of work of considerably greater depth than can be accommodated within a taught module and may reflect and build on the entire breadth of material studied by the student.
While there are a range of types of PD, there are no rigid distinctions between them, as the scope and importance of literature analysis, primary reseach, and system development can be tailored to fit the needs and interests of individual students and topics. Development projects, research projects and literaturer study projects are the most common types:
1. Development Project: In a development project, the student is normally expected to produce a working piece of software that serves a particular purpose, meeting a defined set of requirements. In some cases, the product may include self-designed and purpose-built hardware as well as software, for instance an innovative robotic system. The running system itself is normally the major deliverable, and is normally the most important factor in the assessment. However, the requirements analysis, the system design work, and the testing and evaluation of the software - and how they are documented and presented - are also important to the assessment of development projects. The development work should be set in the context of the questions that it should help answer and how it contributes to answering them.
2. Research Project: Research projects normally involve the design and implementation of original empirical research. Students are normally expected to create a research proposal and plan, identify research questions, undertake a literature review, review, select and evaluate data collection and data analysis methods, design and implement empirical research, analyse data and report research outcomes. All research projects are required to be undertaken within, and contribute to, a theoretical framework.
3. Literature Study Project: A project may consist of a literature review alone when it is extensive, strategically significant, rigorously defined and implemented, and includes well-thought-out recommendations and implications. This requires the student to produce a novel and creative analysis that attempts to answer one or more unanswered (or perhaps wrongly answered) research questions. The student is expected to produce a report describing and critically evaluating existing documents and other sources of information, setting them in the context of a clear conceptual framework, and presenting a cogent analysis.
4. Consultancy Project: In a consultancy project, the student is normally expected to produce a consultancy-style report to meet a clearly defined need for a clearly defined client or audience, providing a detailed and sophisticated critical evaluation of existing techniques, approaches or systems, or how to solve a practical problem, with recommendations. The practical consultancy work should be set in the context of how the work can answer more general and scholarly questions.
5. Data Analysis Project: In a data analysis project, the student is expected to evaluate, select and apply computational techniques for data analysis and knowledge extraction, to solve a novel data analysis or knowledge extraction problem, or develop a novel technique for solving a particular data analysis problem, or develop a novel technique for presenting data or statistical information to support a particular human activity. The student is expected to demonstrate and illustrate the application of the technique and evaluate how well it solves the problem.
6. Conceptual Analysis Project: In a conceptual analysis project, the student is expected to develop an analysis on paper of a system or of how to solve a problem. Such projects might involve developing an analysis of a working software system by applying one or more analytical techniques, for example for producing a usability evaluation; or analysing or modelling a process; or producing a notation or technique for describing a particular sort of information that a software system might generate or use; or devising a procedure for tackling a particular class of problem in software development. The student is expected to demonstrate and illustrate the application of the technique and evaluate how well it solves the problem.
Learning outcome 1 Demonstrate abilities to analyse a given context, using appropriate methodological approaches, and to justify decisions taken.
Learning outcome 2 To develop and present in writen and oral forms a comprehensive solution, which addresses the defined context, in a rigorous and relevant manner.
Learning outcome 3 To critically evaluate the relative success of their work
Learning outcome 4 To design, implement and evaluate research and it's outcomes, paying due regard to research methods, procedures and theory.
Assessment
The following headings will normally be used as a framework for assessment:
• Problem framing - understanding of problem & requirements
• Quality of research fact-finding and analysis
• Primary research and development
• Critical evaluation of project deliverables and project process
• Report
• Documentation
• Oral Presentation/Demonstration & Viva
• Project management
• General Comments
Structure
Introduction
Project Background
Aim/Objectives
Aim
Research Objectives
Hypothesis or Research Questions
Resources
Constraints
Attachment:- Project-Roadmap.rar