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Thank you for reading the 2017 SEI Year in Review. The following resources provide more information about the topics addressed in individual articles in the Year in Review. The Table of Contents presents the 2017 SEI Year in Review article title followed by the related resources. A list of links at the bottom of the page provide author information and brief summaries for each item.

Using Ground-Truth Data Sets as Engines of Innovation

• Why Does Software Cost So Much? Toward a Causal Model
• CERT Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats
• Quantifying Uncertainty in Early Lifecycle Cost Estimation
• DoD Software Factbook

Ultra-Large-Scale Systems: More than a Decade of Influence

• Ultra-Large-Scale Systems: The Software Challenge of the Future

Bridging Science and Practice to Build Cybersecurity Knowledge and Skills

• Using Serious Games (Cyber Kinetic Effects Integration)
• STEPfwd (cyber workforce research and development platform)

Making Biometric Data Extraction Mission Practical

• Real-Time Extraction of Heart Rate from Video
• Micro-Expressions: More than Meets the Eye

Getting a Handle on Big Learning Platform Performance

• Measuring Performance of Big Learning Workloads

Building Trust Between Humans and Autonomous Systems

• Why Did the Robot Do That?
• What Will the Robot Do Next?

SEI Research Combats Mounting Acquisition Costs

• DoD Software Factbook
• Why Does Software Cost So Much? Toward a Causal Model

Reporting DoD Network Vulnerabilities: It Just Got Easier

• The CERT Guide to Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure

Assuring Autonomous Systems that Operate in Mission Environments

• Certifiable Runtime Assurance of Distributed Real-Time Systems

Pushing R&D to the Front Lines

• Cyber Affordance Visualization in Augmented Reality
• Cyber Foraging for Improving Survivability of Mobile Systems
• KD-Cloudlet

Enabling Elusive Systems: Adaptive Cyber Defense for Networks

• A Platform for Dynamic Defense Technologies

A Fighting Chance: Arming the Analyst in the Age of Big Data

• Events, Relationships, and Script Learning for Situational Awareness
• Prioritizing Alerts from Static Analysis with Classification Models

Automated Code Analysis and Transformation

• Design Pattern Recovery from Malware Binaries
• CERT BFF: From Start to PoC
• Automated Code Repair Based on Inferred Specifications

Building the Cyber Capacity of International Partners

• Resources for National CSIRTs
• SEI CERT Division and State Department Team Up on Sub-Saharan Cybersecurity Effort