Date of Award

5-2015

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Computer Engineering and Sciences

First Advisor

Marco Carvalho

Second Advisor

Thomas Eskridge

Third Advisor

Richard Ford

Fourth Advisor

Benjamin Hutz

Abstract

Despite the variety of environments and tools available to computer scientists performing cyber experimentation, the community lacks a single cohesive platform that is capable of unifying these tools across environments and research domains. In pursuit of this unifying platform, we introduce a new framework that is agnostic to the underlying environment, tools, and domain. We show the effectiveness of this framework by (1) demonstrating how an example experiment can be described within the framework and what benefits this offers, (2) presenting a prototype implementation of the framework, and (3) offering a collection of approaches to automated experimentation that the framework accommodates.

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