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Sparse Gradient Training For Recommender Systems, Yunke Qu, Liang Qu, Tong Chen, Xiangyu Zhao, Jianxin Li, Hongzhi Yin Jan 2026

Sparse Gradient Training For Recommender Systems, Yunke Qu, Liang Qu, Tong Chen, Xiangyu Zhao, Jianxin Li, Hongzhi Yin

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Recommender systems are widely applied in numerous online platforms such as shopping and social media platforms. They typically utilize large embedding tables that map users and items to dense vectors of uniform sizes. As the number of users and items continues to grow, this design leads to significant memory consumption and computational inefficiencies. This challenge is particularly pronounced in scenarios such as federated learning, where model parameters are updated locally on edge devices with limited computational resources before being transmitted to a central server for aggregation. Numerous approaches have been proposed to address this issue, among which embedding pruning methods …


A Knowledge-Driven, Ai-Assisted Cyber Defence Framework For Iomt Remote Patient Monitoring, Kulsoom S. Bughio, David M. Cook, Abdul M. Unar Jan 2026

A Knowledge-Driven, Ai-Assisted Cyber Defence Framework For Iomt Remote Patient Monitoring, Kulsoom S. Bughio, David M. Cook, Abdul M. Unar

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The rapid adoption of Internet Medical Things (IoMT) technologies in remote patient monitoring has reshaped healthcare delivery by enabling continuous, real-time clinical observation outside traditional care settings. However, this shift has also expanded the cyber-attack surface across heterogeneous, resource-constrained medical devices, wireless networks, cloud services, and third-party platforms. In cyber warfare, healthcare has become an incorporated target of geopolitics, with hospitals, remote monitoring systems, and emergency health systems being used to broaden the attack surface for adversaries to exploit. Existing security approaches for IoMT environments remain largely manual, fragmented, and reactive, limiting their effectiveness in dynamically assessing vulnerabilities and supporting …


Zero Day Malware Detection With Alpha: Fast Dbi With Transformer Models For Real World Application, Matthew Gaber, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Helge Janicke Dec 2025

Zero Day Malware Detection With Alpha: Fast Dbi With Transformer Models For Real World Application, Matthew Gaber, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Helge Janicke

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The effectiveness of an AI model in accurately classifying novel malware hinges on the quality of the features it is trained on, which in turn depends on the effectiveness of the analysis tool used. Peekaboo, a Dynamic Binary Instrumentation (DBI) tool, defeats malware evasion techniques to capture authentic behavior at the Assembly (ASM) instruction level. This behavior exhibits patterns consistent with Zipf's law, a distribution commonly seen in natural languages, making Transformer models particularly effective for binary classification tasks. We introduce Alpha, a framework for zero-day malware detection that leverages Transformer models, Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and ASM language features. …


Defeating Evasive Malware With Peekaboo: Extracting Authentic Malware Behavior With Dynamic Binary Instrumentation, Matthew Gaber, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Helge Janicke Dec 2025

Defeating Evasive Malware With Peekaboo: Extracting Authentic Malware Behavior With Dynamic Binary Instrumentation, Matthew Gaber, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Helge Janicke

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The accuracy of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in malware detection is dependent on the features it is trained with, where the quality and authenticity of these features is dependent on the dataset and the analysis tool. Evasive malware, that alters its behavior in analysis environments, is challenging to extract authentic features from where widely used static and dynamic analysis tools have several limitations. However, Dynamic Binary Instrumentation (DBI) allows deep and precise control of the malware sample, thereby facilitating the extraction of authentic behavior from evasive malware. Considering the limitations of malware analysis for use with AI, this research had two …


A Bayesian Optimisation With Segmentation Approach To Optimising Liquid Handling Parameters, Estefania Yap, Viet Huynh, Calvin Vong, Peter Vogel, Viv Louzado, Thomas Barnes, Buser Say, Michael Burke, Dana Kulić, Aldeida Aleti Dec 2025

A Bayesian Optimisation With Segmentation Approach To Optimising Liquid Handling Parameters, Estefania Yap, Viet Huynh, Calvin Vong, Peter Vogel, Viv Louzado, Thomas Barnes, Buser Say, Michael Burke, Dana Kulić, Aldeida Aleti

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The automation of liquid handling has become integral in speeding up pharmaceutical development for faster drug development and more affordable treatments. However, the optimal parameters which define the aspirate and dispense procedures vary between liquids and liquid volumes, limiting transfer accuracy and precision. Even state-of-the-art liquid handling devices offer predefined parameters for only a handful of liquids and volumes, resulting in novel parameter sets being defined via a manual, time-consuming process. In this study, we propose an experimental framework for automating the optimisation of liquid class parameters for arbitrary liquids. Within our framework, we propose an optimisation and segmentation algorithm, …


Cnn Based Deep Learning Modeling With Explainability Analysis For Detecting Fraudulent Blockchain Transactions, Mohammad Hasan, Mohammad Shahriar Rahman, Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury, Iqbal H. Sarker Dec 2025

Cnn Based Deep Learning Modeling With Explainability Analysis For Detecting Fraudulent Blockchain Transactions, Mohammad Hasan, Mohammad Shahriar Rahman, Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury, Iqbal H. Sarker

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

In the era of growing cryptocurrency adoption, Blockchain has emerged as a leading player in the digital payment landscape. However, this widespread popularity also brings forth various security challenges, including the need to safeguard against fraudulent activities. One of the paramount challenges in this regard is the detection of fraudulent transactions within the realm of Bitcoin data. This task significantly influences the trust and security of digital payments. Yet, it's a formidable challenge given the relatively low occurrence of fraudulent Bitcoin transactions. While deep learning techniques have demonstrated their prowess in fraud detection, there remains a scarcity of studies exploring …


Efficient Multimodal Streaming Recommendation Via Expandable Side Mixture-Of-Experts, Yunke Qu, Liang Qu, Tong Chen, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Hongzhi Yin Nov 2025

Efficient Multimodal Streaming Recommendation Via Expandable Side Mixture-Of-Experts, Yunke Qu, Liang Qu, Tong Chen, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Hongzhi Yin

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Streaming recommender systems (SRSs) are widely deployed in real-world applications, where user interests shift and new items arrive over time. As a result, effectively capturing users' latest preferences is challenging, as interactions reflecting recent interests are limited and new items often lack sufficient feedback. A common solution is to enrich item representations using multimodal encoders (e.g., BERT or ViT) to extract visual and textual features. However, these encoders are pretrained on general-purpose tasks: they are not tailored to user preference modeling, and they overlook the fact that user tastes toward modality-specific features such as visual styles and textual tones can …


Cross-Model Watermarking Via Discriminative Samples For Secure Authentication, Juan Zhao, Yudao Sun, Zhihai Yang, Cai Xu, Hongji Chen, Fan Zhang, Jianxin Li Oct 2025

Cross-Model Watermarking Via Discriminative Samples For Secure Authentication, Juan Zhao, Yudao Sun, Zhihai Yang, Cai Xu, Hongji Chen, Fan Zhang, Jianxin Li

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Deep neural networks on cloud platforms face growing security threats, with AI services increasingly relying on heterogeneous models for the same task to meet diverse user needs. Existing methods fail to distinguish benign modifications from malicious attacks in cross-model scenarios. To address this challenge, we propose a non-intrusive cross-model watermarking method that generates discriminative samples as universal keys, enabling authentication without altering model parameters or architectures. Specifically, we introduce a margin enhancement loss to amplify confidence gaps between benign and malicious behaviors, ensuring high transferability across models. Both theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrate the high efficacy of our proposed …


Bifusenet: A Multimodal Network For Estimating Blood Alcohol Concentration Via Bidirectional Hierarchical Fusion, Abdullah Tariq, Arooba Maqsood, Martin Masek, Syed Zulqarnain Gilani Oct 2025

Bifusenet: A Multimodal Network For Estimating Blood Alcohol Concentration Via Bidirectional Hierarchical Fusion, Abdullah Tariq, Arooba Maqsood, Martin Masek, Syed Zulqarnain Gilani

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Drunk driving remains a significant public safety challenge, demanding innovative alternatives to conventional methods such as field sobriety tests and breathalysers. Estimating a driver's level of intoxication through facial cues is particularly challenging due to the subtle and person-specific nature of alcohol-induced behaviours. In this paper, we present BiFuseNet, a 3D spatio-temporal multi-modal network designed to classify alcohol impairment levels into three categories: sober, moderate, and severe. Unlike prior approaches that rely on either uni-modal RGB video or hand-crafted facial features, our method exploits complementary physiological cues from RGB and infrared (IR) facial videos. We introduce a Bi-directional Hierarchical Fusion …


Ecu-Malnett, Matthew G. Gaber, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Michael N. Johnstone Oct 2025

Ecu-Malnett, Matthew G. Gaber, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Michael N. Johnstone

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ECU-MALNETT (ECU MALware NETwork Traffic) is a real world, reproducible dataset of labeled benign and malicious network flows built from the Peekaboo execution corpus. Peekaboo runs evasive malware with dynamic binary instrumentation and records raw host-level PCAPs while granting full Internet access, yielding noisy, real-world captures with background OS activity and concurrent processes. To derive trustworthy labels from these traces, we apply Construct, a baseline aware, zero-trust labeling framework. Construct first ingests a baseline capture to establish reference sets (DNS qnames, HTTP hosts, TLS SNIs, and socket endpoints) and grows a conservative benign IP pool only via whitelisted DNS resolutions. …


Explainabledetector: Exploring Transformer-Based Language Modeling Approach For Sms Spam Detection With Explainability Analysis, Mohammad Amaz Uddin, Muhammad Nazrul Islam, Leandros Maglaras, Helge Janicke, Iqbal H. Sarker Oct 2025

Explainabledetector: Exploring Transformer-Based Language Modeling Approach For Sms Spam Detection With Explainability Analysis, Mohammad Amaz Uddin, Muhammad Nazrul Islam, Leandros Maglaras, Helge Janicke, Iqbal H. Sarker

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Short Message Service (SMS) is a widely used and cost-effective communication medium that has unfortunately become a frequent target for unsolicited messages - commonly known as SMS spam. With the rapid adoption of smartphones and increased Internet connectivity, SMS spam has emerged as a prevalent threat. Spammers have recognized the critical role SMS plays in today's modern communication, making it a prime target for abuse. As cybersecurity threats continue to evolve, the volume of SMS spam has increased substantially in recent years. Moreover, the unstructured format of SMS data creates significant challenges for SMS spam detection, making it more difficult …


Deep Learning For Land Use Classification: A Systematic Review Of Hs-Lidar Imagery, Muhammad Zia Ur Rehman, Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam, David Blake, Anwaar Ulhaq, Naeem Janjua Sep 2025

Deep Learning For Land Use Classification: A Systematic Review Of Hs-Lidar Imagery, Muhammad Zia Ur Rehman, Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam, David Blake, Anwaar Ulhaq, Naeem Janjua

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Remote sensing (RS) technologies have significantly advanced Earth observation capabilities, enhancing the characterization and identification of surface materials through both spaceborne and airborne systems. These advancements are crucial for improving environmental monitoring and urban planning. As RS datasets have become more accessible, their increased complexity has necessitated a shift from traditional machine learning techniques to more robust deep learning approaches, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer-based models known for their superior feature extraction capabilities. This systematic review focuses on the application of these deep learning techniques in land use classification, emphasizing the fusion of hyperspectral (HS) and LiDAR data. …


Ed-Filter: Dynamic Feature Filtering For Eating Disorder Classification, Mehdi Naseriparsa, Suku Sukunesan, Zhen Cai, Osama Alfarraj, Amr Tolba, Saba Fathi Rabooki, Feng Xia Aug 2025

Ed-Filter: Dynamic Feature Filtering For Eating Disorder Classification, Mehdi Naseriparsa, Suku Sukunesan, Zhen Cai, Osama Alfarraj, Amr Tolba, Saba Fathi Rabooki, Feng Xia

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Eating disorders (ED) are critical psychiatric problems that have alarmed the mental health community. Mental health professionals are increasingly recognizing the utility of data derived from social media platforms such as Twitter. However, high dimensionality and extensive feature sets of Twitter data present remarkable challenges for ED classification. To overcome these hurdles, we introduce a novel method, an informed branch and bound search technique known as ED-Filter. This strategy significantly improves the drawbacks of conventional feature selection algorithms such as filters and wrappers. ED-Filter iteratively identifies an optimal set of promising features that maximize the eating disorder classification accuracy. In …


Understanding The Roots Of Swarm Intelligence In Defence To Find The Path Forward: A Scientometric Study Of Autonomous Systems, Anton Klarin, Pi-Shen Seet, Janice Jones, Michael N. Johnstone, Helen Cripps, Jalleh Sharafizad, Tony Marceddo Jul 2025

Understanding The Roots Of Swarm Intelligence In Defence To Find The Path Forward: A Scientometric Study Of Autonomous Systems, Anton Klarin, Pi-Shen Seet, Janice Jones, Michael N. Johnstone, Helen Cripps, Jalleh Sharafizad, Tony Marceddo

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Swarm intelligence, inspired by the decentralised, adaptive and self-synchronising behaviours of natural swarms, is a pivotal component of autonomous systems, enhancing efficiency, robustness and scalability. The research in this area is nascent and interdisciplinary. To drive this important research forward, it is necessary to adopt a systems perspective on what is available in the current literature. This chapter offers a comprehensive systems perspective of the integration of swarm intelligence within the broader domain of automation, emphasising its application in the defence sector. A systems perspective of an interdisciplinary field is afforded through scientometrics. Using VOSviewer algorithms, we analysed 1706 publications …


Detecting Misuse Of Security Apis: A Systematic Review, Zahra Mousavi, Chadni Islam, Muhammad Ali Babar, Alsharif Abuadbba, Kristen Moore Jul 2025

Detecting Misuse Of Security Apis: A Systematic Review, Zahra Mousavi, Chadni Islam, Muhammad Ali Babar, Alsharif Abuadbba, Kristen Moore

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Security Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are crucial for ensuring software security. However, their misuse introduces vulnerabilities, potentially leading to severe data breaches and substantial financial loss. Complex API design, inadequate documentation, and insufficient security training often lead to unintentional misuse by developers. The software security community has devised and evaluated several approaches to detecting security API misuse to help developers and organizations. This study rigorously reviews the literature on detecting misuse of security APIs to gain a comprehensive understanding of this critical domain. Our goal is to identify and analyze security API misuses, the detection approaches developed, and the evaluation …


Graph Traverse Reference Network For Sign Language Corpus Retrieval In The Wild, Kun Hu, Fengxiang He, Adam Schembri, Zhiyong Wang Jul 2025

Graph Traverse Reference Network For Sign Language Corpus Retrieval In The Wild, Kun Hu, Fengxiang He, Adam Schembri, Zhiyong Wang

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Sign languages are the primary languages of the deaf community as well as hearing individuals who are unable to speak, which engage the visual-manual modality to convey meanings. In recent years, there has been an explosive growth of sign language videos available from video streaming and social media service platforms. Given the size of these corpora, sign language users often face significant challenges in effectively acquiring the information they need. Therefore, we propose a novel deep learning architecture, namely Graph Traverse Reference Network (GTRN), allowing visual signing queries to retrieve relevant sign language videos (documents) from a large corpus. GTRN …


Real-World Continuous Smartwatch-Based User Authentication, N. Al-Naffakh, N. Clarke, F. Li, P. Haskell-Dowland Jul 2025

Real-World Continuous Smartwatch-Based User Authentication, N. Al-Naffakh, N. Clarke, F. Li, P. Haskell-Dowland

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

User authentication is often regarded as the "gatekeeper"of cyber security. It has, however, long suffered from significant usability issues that have resulted in research focussing upon frictionless and transparent biometric approaches. Activity-based user authentication - a technique that authenticates a user by what they are physically doing at a specific point in time has attracted significant attention, particularly due to the increasing popularity of smartwatches. This research aims to overcome limitations in prior work by exploring the viability of the approach in real-world conditions. The study presents two principal experiments, one focused upon a constrained environment to provide a control …


Aiding Depth Perception In Initial Drone Training: Evidence From Camera-Assisted Distance Estimation, John Murray, Steven Richardson, Keith Joiner, Graham Wild Jul 2025

Aiding Depth Perception In Initial Drone Training: Evidence From Camera-Assisted Distance Estimation, John Murray, Steven Richardson, Keith Joiner, Graham Wild

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) pilots frequently experience difficulties with depth perception, particularly when estimating distances between the drone and environmental obstacles. This study evaluates whether the use of onboard camera imagery can improve exocentric distance estimation accuracy among ab initio drone pilots operating under visual line-of-sight (VLOS) conditions. Two groups of undergraduate students performed distance estimation tasks at 20 and 50 m. One group used direct observation only to estimate the exocentric distance between the drone and an obstacle. The second group, as well as direct observation, had access to a live video feed from the drone’s onboard camera via …


Using Machine Learning To Detect Vault (Anti-Forensic) Apps, Michael N. Johnstone, Wencheng Yang, Mohiuddin Ahmed May 2025

Using Machine Learning To Detect Vault (Anti-Forensic) Apps, Michael N. Johnstone, Wencheng Yang, Mohiuddin Ahmed

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Content hiding, or vault applications (apps), are designed with a secondary, often concealed purpose, such as encrypting and storing files. While these apps may serve legitimate functions, they unequivocally present significant challenges for law enforcement. Conventional methods for tackling this issue, whether static or dynamic, prove inadequate when devices—typically smartphones—cannot be modified. Additionally, these methods frequently require prior knowledge of which apps are classified as vault apps. This research decisively demonstrates that a non-invasive method of app analysis, combined with machine learning, can effectively identify vault apps. Our findings reveal that it is entirely possible to detect an Android vault …


Using Natural Language Processing And Machine Learning To Detect Online Radicalisation In The Maldivian Language, Dhivehi, Hussain Ibrahim, Ahmed Ibrahim, Michael N. Johnstone May 2025

Using Natural Language Processing And Machine Learning To Detect Online Radicalisation In The Maldivian Language, Dhivehi, Hussain Ibrahim, Ahmed Ibrahim, Michael N. Johnstone

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Early detection of online radical content is important for intelligence services to combat radicalisation and terrorism. The motivation for this research was the lack of language tools in the detection of radicalisation in the Maldivian language, Dhivehi. This research applied Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to detect online radicalisation content in Dhivehi, with the incorporation of domain-specific knowledge. The research used Machine Learning to evaluate the most effective technique for detection of radicalisation text in Dhivehi and used interviews with Subject Matter Experts and self-deradicalised individuals to validate the results, add contextual information and improve recognition accuracy. The …


Infusing Aboriginal Perspectives In Cyber Education, John Shannahan, Mohiuddin Ahmed Apr 2025

Infusing Aboriginal Perspectives In Cyber Education, John Shannahan, Mohiuddin Ahmed

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

While human factors are important in cyber security, the discipline has largely not explored incorporating indigenous perspectives—or, more specifically, in an Australian context, Aboriginal perspectives—in its curricula. In this paper, we introduce a promising approach for aligning Aboriginal perspectives with the needs of cyber security graduates and incorporating diverse perspectives into cyber degrees. The approach advocates for the centrality of good curriculum design fundamentals: backward design, constructive alignment, and student outcomes. The paper ends by reflecting on challenges and lessons from the first implementation and review of the material. It provides recommendations for other cyber practitioners exploring ways of incorporating …


Systemization Of Knowledge (Sok): Goals, Coverage, And Evaluation In Cybersecurity And Privacy Games, Yue Huang, Marthie Grobler, Lauren S. Ferro, Georgia Psaroulis, Sanchari Das, Jing Wei, Helge Janicke Apr 2025

Systemization Of Knowledge (Sok): Goals, Coverage, And Evaluation In Cybersecurity And Privacy Games, Yue Huang, Marthie Grobler, Lauren S. Ferro, Georgia Psaroulis, Sanchari Das, Jing Wei, Helge Janicke

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This paper systematized existing knowledge on cybersecurity and privacy game-based approaches, exploring their goals, scope, and evaluation methods. Our review of 93 academic papers revealed that these approaches serve multiple purposes and target diverse player types. We identified 11 key aspects of cybersecurity and privacy that these approaches addressed, such as threats, defensive strategies, and data privacy. Additionally, we analyzed the effectiveness evaluation methods of these approaches, emphasizing the connections between evaluation techniques, types of data used, and their alignment with the approaches' goals. We also summarized the aspects of user experience evaluated in the literature and the types of …


Data-Driven Strategy For Contact Angle Prediction In Underground Hydrogen Storage Using Machine Learning, Mehdi Nassabeh, Zhenjiang You, Alireza Keshavarz, Stefan Iglauer Apr 2025

Data-Driven Strategy For Contact Angle Prediction In Underground Hydrogen Storage Using Machine Learning, Mehdi Nassabeh, Zhenjiang You, Alireza Keshavarz, Stefan Iglauer

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

In response to the surging global demand for clean energy solutions and sustainability, hydrogen is increasingly recognized as a key player in the transition towards a low-carbon future, necessitating efficient storage and transportation methods. The utilization of natural geological formations for underground storage solutions is gaining prominence, ensuring continuous energy supply and enhancing safety measures. However, this approach presents challenges in understanding gas-rock interactions. To bridge the gap, this study proposes a data-driven strategy for contact angle prediction using machine learning techniques. The research leverages a comprehensive dataset compiled from diverse literature sources, comprising 1045 rows and over 5200 data …


Cutting-Edge Deep Learning Methods For Image-Based Object Detection In Autonomous Driving: In-Depth Survey, Narges Saeedizadeh, Seyed Mohammad Jafar Jalali, Burhan Khan, Shady Mohamed Apr 2025

Cutting-Edge Deep Learning Methods For Image-Based Object Detection In Autonomous Driving: In-Depth Survey, Narges Saeedizadeh, Seyed Mohammad Jafar Jalali, Burhan Khan, Shady Mohamed

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Object detection is a critical aspect of computer vision (CV) applications, especially within autonomous driving systems (AVs), where it is fundamental to ensuring safety and reducing traffic accidents. Recent advancements in computational resources have enabled the widespread adoption of Deep Learning (DL) techniques, significantly enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of object detection tasks. However, the technology for autonomous driving has yet to reach a level of maturity that guarantees consistent performance, reliability, and safety, with several challenges remaining unresolved. This study specifically focuses on 2D image-based object detection methods, which offer several advantages over other modalities, such as cost-effectiveness and …


A Survey On Unauthorized Uav Threats To Smart Farming, Peng Chen, Shihao Yan, Helge Janicke, Arash Mahboubi, Hang Thanh Bui, Hamed Aboutorab, Michael Bewong, Rafiqul Islam Apr 2025

A Survey On Unauthorized Uav Threats To Smart Farming, Peng Chen, Shihao Yan, Helge Janicke, Arash Mahboubi, Hang Thanh Bui, Hamed Aboutorab, Michael Bewong, Rafiqul Islam

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in smart farming has revolutionized agricultural practices by enhancing monitoring, automation, and decision-making to improve agricultural productivity and sustainability. However, the widespread use of these technologies has also introduced new security challenges, particularly the risk of interference from unauthorized UAVs. This survey provides an analysis of the threats posed by unauthorized UAVs to smart farms, highlighting potential vulnerabilities such as data interception, communication jamming, and physical damage. This paper first explores recent advancements in IoT and UAV technologies, which are integral to the functioning of smart farms. Then, …


An Efficient Conjunctive Keyword Searchable Encryption For Cloud-Based Iot Systems, Tianqi Peng, Bei Gong, Chong Guo, Akhtar Badshah, Muhammad Waqas, Hisham Alasmary, Sheng Chen Mar 2025

An Efficient Conjunctive Keyword Searchable Encryption For Cloud-Based Iot Systems, Tianqi Peng, Bei Gong, Chong Guo, Akhtar Badshah, Muhammad Waqas, Hisham Alasmary, Sheng Chen

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Data privacy leakage has always been a critical concern in cloud-based Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Dynamic Symmetric Searchable Encryption (DSSE) with forward and backward privacy aims to address this issue by enabling updates and retrievals of ciphertext on untrusted cloud server while ensuring data privacy. However, previous research on DSSE mostly focused on single keyword search, which limits its practical application in cloud-based IoT systems. Recently, Patranabis (NDSS 2021) [1] proposed a groundbreaking DSSE scheme for conjunctive keyword search. However, this scheme fails to effectively handle deletion operations in certain circumstances, resulting in inaccurate query results. Additionally, the scheme …


Advances In Natural Fiber Polymer And Pla Composites Through Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Integration, Md Helal Uddin, Mohammed Huzaifa Mulla, Tarek Abedin, Abreeza Manap, Boon Kar Yap, Reji Kumar Rajamony, Kiran Shahapurkar, T. M.Yunus Khan, Manzoore Elahi M. Soudagar, Mohammad Nur-E-Alam Mar 2025

Advances In Natural Fiber Polymer And Pla Composites Through Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Integration, Md Helal Uddin, Mohammed Huzaifa Mulla, Tarek Abedin, Abreeza Manap, Boon Kar Yap, Reji Kumar Rajamony, Kiran Shahapurkar, T. M.Yunus Khan, Manzoore Elahi M. Soudagar, Mohammad Nur-E-Alam

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Natural Fibre Polymer (NFP) and Polylactic Acid (PLA) composites have received a lot of interest in a variety of sectors because they are environmentally friendly, renewable, and sustainable. Over the last decade, researchers have investigated the aspects of NFP/PLA composite development and optimization for a wide range of applications, including packaging materials, automotive components, construction materials, textile and apparel, biomedical devices, agricultural and horticultural applications, electronics, and consumer electronics. Furthermore, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methodologies has increased these polymer materials and associated technologies in their search for new potential ways to further progress in NFP and …


Generative Ai And Llms For Critical Infrastructure Protection: Evaluation Benchmarks, Agentic Ai, Challenges, And Opportunities, Yagmur Yigit, Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Mohamed C. Ghanem, Iqbal H. Sarker, Leandros A. Maglaras, Christos Chrysoulas, Naghmeh Moradpoor, Norbert Tihanyi, Helge Janicke Mar 2025

Generative Ai And Llms For Critical Infrastructure Protection: Evaluation Benchmarks, Agentic Ai, Challenges, And Opportunities, Yagmur Yigit, Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Mohamed C. Ghanem, Iqbal H. Sarker, Leandros A. Maglaras, Christos Chrysoulas, Naghmeh Moradpoor, Norbert Tihanyi, Helge Janicke

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Critical National Infrastructures (CNIs)—including energy grids, water systems, transportation networks, and communication frameworks—are essential to modern society yet face escalating cybersecurity threats. This review paper comprehensively analyzes AI-driven approaches for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP). We begin by examining the reliability of CNIs and introduce established benchmarks for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) within cybersecurity contexts. Next, we explore core cybersecurity issues, focusing on trust, privacy, resilience, and securability in these vital systems. Building on this foundation, we assess the role of Generative AI and LLMs in enhancing CIP and present insights on applying Agentic AI for proactive defense mechanisms. Finally, …


Pathways To Chronic Disease Detection And Prediction: Mapping The Potential Of Machine Learning To The Pathophysiological Processes While Navigating Ethical Challenges, Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah, Eric Adua, Emmanuel Peprah-Yamoah, Enoch O. Anto, Victor Opoku-Yamoah, Emmanuel Acheampong, Michael J. Macartney, Rashid Hashmi Mar 2025

Pathways To Chronic Disease Detection And Prediction: Mapping The Potential Of Machine Learning To The Pathophysiological Processes While Navigating Ethical Challenges, Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah, Eric Adua, Emmanuel Peprah-Yamoah, Enoch O. Anto, Victor Opoku-Yamoah, Emmanuel Acheampong, Michael J. Macartney, Rashid Hashmi

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are leading drivers of mortality worldwide, underscoring the need for improved efforts around early detection and prediction. The pathophysiology and management of chronic diseases have benefitted from emerging fields in molecular biology like genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, glycomics, and lipidomics. The complex biomarker and mechanistic data from these “omics” studies present analytical and interpretive challenges, especially for traditional statistical methods. Machine learning (ML) techniques offer considerable promise in unlocking new pathways for data-driven chronic disease risk assessment and prognosis. This review provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art applications of ML algorithms for …


Identifying Human Factor Causes Of Remotely Piloted Aircraft System Safety Occurrences In Australia, John Murray, Steven Richardson, Keith Joiner, Graham Wild Mar 2025

Identifying Human Factor Causes Of Remotely Piloted Aircraft System Safety Occurrences In Australia, John Murray, Steven Richardson, Keith Joiner, Graham Wild

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Remotely piloted aircraft are a fast-emerging sector of the aviation industry. Although technical failures have been the largest cause of accident occurrences for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPASs), if they are to follow the path of conventionally crewed aviation, Human Factors (HFs) will increasingly contribute to accidents as the technology of RPASs improves. Examining an RPAS accident database from 2008–2019 for HF-caused accidents and coding to the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) taxonomy, an exploration of RPAS HFs is carried out and the predominant HF issues for RPAS pilots identified. The majority of HF accidents were coded to …