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Refereed Papers

2022 - 2023

Foyzul Hassan, Na Meng, and Xiaoyin Wang. 2023. UniLoc: Unified Fault Localization of Continuous Integration Failures. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol, May 2023.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3593799
Sunzhou Huang and Xiaoyin Wang, PExReport: Automatic Creation of Pruned Executable Cross-Project Failure Reports, International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 184—195, May 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.06669
Randy Klepetko and Ram Krishnan. MiCAM: Visualizing Feature Extraction of Nonnatural Data. International Conference on Machine Learning and Soft Computing (MLSC 2023), Copenhagen, Denmark, January 28-29, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5121/csit.2023.130201
Gabriel A. Morales, Jingye Xu, Dakai Zhu, and Rocky Slavin. Lightweight Collaborative Inferencing for Real-Time Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks, 19th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC'22), Haikou, China, December 2022.
DOI: 10.1109/SmartWorld-UIC-ATC-ScalCom-DigitalTwin-PriComp-Metaverse56740.2022.00076
Zhiwei Wang, Kevin Liu, Jingye Xu, Jingjing Chen, Yufang Jin, and Rocky Slavin. A Vision-Based Low-Cost Power Wheelchair Assistive Driving System for Smartphones, 18th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software Systems (ICESS'22), Chengdu, China, December 2022.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCC-DSS-SmartCity-DependSys57074.2022.00295
Long J, Cvitić I, Zhang X, Peraković D and Choo K-K R. Badoo Android and iOS dating application analysis. Mobile Networks and Applications [In press], November 2022.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-022-02048-9
S. Ameer, J. Benson and R. Sandhu, Hybrid Approaches (ABAC and RBAC) Toward Secure Access Control in Smart Home IoT in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2022,
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2022.3216297
Xueling Zhang, John Heaps, Rocky Slavin, Jianwei Niu, Travis Breaux, and Xiaoyin Wang, DAISY: Dynamic-Analysis-Induced Source Discovery for Sensitive Data", ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 32 pages, October 2022. DOI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3569936
Aagaard P, Dinyarian B, Abduljabbar O and Choo K-K R, Family locating sharing app forensics: Life360 as a case study. Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation 44: Article no. 301478, 14 pages, October 2022.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsidi.2022.301478
Akello P, Vemprala N, Beebe N and Choo K-K R. Blockchain Use-Case in Ballistics and Crime Gun Tracing and Intelligence: Towards Overcoming Gun Violence. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems [In press], October 2022.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3571290
Tahmid Rafi, Xueling Zhang, and Xiaoyin Wang. PredART: Towards Automatic Oracle Prediction of Object Placements in Augmented Reality Testing. In 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE22). ACM, Article 77, 1- 13, October 2022.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3551349.3561160
Mohammad Nur Nobi, Ram Krishnan, Yufei Huang, Ravi Sandhu. Administration of Machine Learning Based Access Control. European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 26-30, 2022.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17146-8_10
Mohammad Nur Nobi, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu. Adversarial Attacks in Machine Learning Based Access Control. Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science (ITADATA2022), Milan, Italy, September 20-21, 2022.
DOI: TBA
Klepetko, R., Krishnan, R. Visualizing Convolutional Neural Network Models’ Sensitivity to Nonnatural Data Order. Inf Syst Front 25, 613–638, Sept 2022.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-022-10330-0

2021 - 2022

Rodriguez, D., Nayak, T., Chen, Y. Krishnan, R. and Yuang, Y. On the role of deep learning model complexity in adversarial robustness for medical images. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 22 (Suppl 2), 160 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-022-01891-w
Safwa Ameer, Maanak Gupta, Smriti Bhatt and Ravi Sandhu, BlueSky: Towards Convergence of Zero Trust Principles and Score-Based Authorization for IoT Enabled Smart Systems. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), Virtual Event, June 8-10, 2022, 10 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3532105.3535020
Tanjila Mawla, Maanak Gupta and Ravi Sandhu, BlueSky: Activity Control: A Vision for "Active" Security Models for Smart Collaborative Systems. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), Virtual Event, June 8-10, 2022, 10 pages. DOI:10.1145/3532105.3535017
Mehrnoosh Shakarami, James Benson and Ravi Sandhu, Blockchain-Based Administration of Access in Smart Home IoT. In Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems (SAT-CPS), April 27, 2022, Baltimore, MD, pages 57-66. DOI: 10.1145/3510547.3517921
Mohammad Nur Nobi, Ram Krishnan, Yufei Huang, Mehrnoosh Shakarami, and Ravi Sandhu. Toward Deep Learning Based Access Control. In Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 143–154. April 2022. DOI: 3508398.3511497
Lawal S., Krishnan R., Attribute-Based Access Control Policy Review in Permissioned Blockchain. In: Krishnan R., Rao H.R., Sahay S.K., Samtani S., Zhao Z. (eds) Secure Knowledge Management In The Artificial Intelligence Era. SKM 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1549. Springer, Cham. Feb 2022. DOI: 978-3-030-97532-6_6
Klepetko, R., Krishnan, R. (2022). Analyzing CNN Models’ Sensitivity to the Ordering of Non-natural Data. In: Krishnan R., Rao H.R., Sahay S.K., Samtani S., Zhao Z. (eds) Secure Knowledge Management In The Artificial Intelligence Era. SKM 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1549. Springer, Cham. Feb 2022. DOI: 978-3-030-97532-6_8
Aguilar D L, Perez M A M, Loyola-Gonzalez O, Choo K-K R and Bucheli-Susarrey. Towards an interpretable autoencoder: A decision tree-based autoencoder and its application in anomaly detection. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing [Early Access], Feb 2022. DOI: TDSC.2022.3148331
Maanak Gupta, Ravi Sandhu, Tanjila Mawla and James Benson, Reachability Analysis for Attributes in ABAC with Group Hierarchy. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Early Access, Jan 2022, pages 17. DOI:10.1109/TDSC.2022.3145358
S. He, E. Ficke, M. Pritom, H. Chen, Q. Tang, Q. Chen, M. Pendleton, L. Njilla, and S. Xu. Blockchain-Based Automated and Robust Cyber Security Management, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Jan 2022. DOI: j.jpdc.2022.01.002
Safwa Ameer, James Benson and Ravi Sandhu, An Attribute-Based Approach toward a Secured Smart-Home IoT Access Control and a Comparison with a Role-Based Approach. Information, Volume 13, Number 2, January 2022. DOI: 10.3390/info13020060
Zou J, He D, Zeadally S, Kumar N, Wang H Choo K-K R 2022. Integrated Blockchain and Cloud Computing Systems: A Systematic Survey, Solutions, and Challenges. ACM Computing Surveys 54(8): Article No.: 160 (36 pages). DOI: 10.1145/3456628
Glen Cathey, James Benson, Maanak Gupta and Ravi Sandhu, Edge Centric Secure Data Sharing with Digital Twins in Smart Ecosystems. In Proceedings Third IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS-ISA), Virtual Event, Dec. 13-15, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TPSISA52974.2021.00008
Carmona, G., Galarza-Tohen, B., Martinez-Medina, G. Exploring Interactions Between Computational and Critical Thinking in Model-Eliciting Activities Through Epistemic Network Analysis. In: Wasson, B., Zörgő, S. (eds) Advances in Quantitative Ethnography. ICQE 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1522., Nov 2021. Springer, Cham. DOI: 978-3-030-93859-8_23
Jaehong Park, Ravi Sandhu, Maanak Gupta and Smriti Bhatt, Activity Control Design Principles: Next Generation Access Control for Smart and Collaborative Systems. IEEE Access, Volume 9, November 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3126201
Grover H, Alladi T, Chamola V, Singh D and Choo K-K R. Edge Computing and Deep Learning Enabled Secure Multi-Tier Network for Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Volume 8, Issue: 19, Oct. 2021. DOI: JIOT.2021.3071362
Mitra Bokaei Hosseini, John Heaps, Rocky Slavin, Jianwei Niu, and Travis D. Breaux. Ambiguity and Generality in Natural Language Privacy Policies", Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, pages 70--81, Sept 2021. DOI: 10.1109/RE51729.2021.00014.
Jahromi A N, Karimipour H, Dehghantanha A and Choo K-K R. Toward Detection and Attribution of Cyber-Attacks in IoT-Enabled Cyber–Physical Systems. IEEE Internet of Things Journal 8(17): 13712–13722, Sept 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3067667

2020 - 2021

S. Lawal and R. Krishnan, "Utilizing Policy Machine for Attribute-Based Access Control in Permissioned Blockchain," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS), Aug 2021, pp. 1-6, DOI: 10.1109/COINS51742.2021.9524248.
Smriti Bhatt, Thanh Kim Pham, Maanak Gupta, James Benson, Jaehong Park and Ravi Sandhu, Attribute-Based Access Control for AWS Internet of Things and Secure Industries of the Future. IEEE Access, Volume 9, July 2021, pages 24, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3101218
John Heaps, Ram Krishnan, Yufei Huang, Jianwei Niu and Ravi Sandhu. Access Control Policy Generation from User Stories Using Machine Learning. 33rd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec), Virtual Event, July 2021, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-81242-3_10
Shuvra Chakraborty and Ravi Sandhu. On Feasibility of Attribute-Aware Relationship-Based Access Control Policy Mining. 33rd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec), Virtual Event, July 2021, 12 pages, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-81242-3_23
Na Shi, Bo Tang, Ravi Sandhu and Qi Li. DUCE: Distributed Usage Control Enforcement for Private Data Sharing in Internet of Things. 33rd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec), Virtual Event, July 2021, 12 pages. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-81242-3_16
Xu X, Yao L, Bilal M, Wan S, Dai F and Choo K-K R. Service migration across edge devices in 6G-enabled Internet of Vehicles networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, June 2021 (Early Access). DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3089204
Maanak Gupta and Ravi Sandhu. Towards Activity-Centric Access Control for Smart Collaborative Ecosystems. 26th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), Virtual Event, June 2021, 10 pages, DOI: 10.1145/3450569.3463559
J. C. Kimmel, A. D. Mcdole, M. Abdelsalam, M. Gupta and R. Sandhu, "Recurrent Neural Networks Based Online Behavioural Malware Detection Techniques for Cloud Infrastructure," in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 68066-68080, May 2021 (Final), DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3077498.
Van Trieu-Do, Richard Garcia-Lebron, Maochao Xu, Shouhuai Xu, and Yusheng Feng. Characterizing and Leveraging Granger Causality in Cybersecurity: Framework and Case Study. SESA - EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety, May 2021. DOI: 10.4108/eai.11-5-2021.169912
Sherifdeen Lawal and Ram Krishnan. Enabling Flexible Administration in ABAC Through Policy Review: A Policy Machine Case Study. 7th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2021), May 2021. DOI: 10.1109/BigDataSecurityHPSCIDS52275.2021.00023
Jacinto Molina, Xue Qin and Xiaoyin Wang. Automatic Extraction of Code Dependency in Virtual Reality Software. IEEE/ACM 29th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), May 2021 pp. 381-385. DOI: 10.1109/ICPC52881.2021.00043
Rodney Rodriguez and Xiaoyin Wang. Understanding Execution Environment of File-Manipulation Scripts by Extracting Pre-Conditions. IEEE/ACM 29th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), May 2021 pp. 406-410. DOI: 10.1109/ICPC52881.2021.00048
Xueling Zhang, Xiaoyin Wang, Rocky Slavin, and Jianwei Niu. ConDySTA: Context-Aware Dynamic Supplement to Static Taint Analysis, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, pages 681-697, May 2021. DOI: 10.1109/SP40001.2021.00040
Sun D, Zhang X, Choo KK, Hu L, Wang F. NLP-based digital forensic investigation platform for online communications. Computers & Security, 104, p.102210. May 2021 (Final), DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2021.102210
Mitra Bokaei Hosseini, Travis D. Breaux, Rocky Slavin, Jianwei Niu, and Xiaoyin Wang. Analyzing Privacy Policies through Syntax-Driven Semantic Analysis of Information Types, Journal of Information and Software Technology, 18 pages, May 2021. DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2021.106608
Shuvra Chakraborty and Ravi Sandhu, Formal Analysis of ReBAC Policy Mining Feasibility. 11th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), April 2021, Virtual Event, 11 pages, DOI: 10.1145/3422337.3447828
Safwa Ameer and Ravi Sandhu, The HABAC Model for Smart Home IoT and Comparison to EGRBAC. ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems (SAT-CPS), April 2021, 10 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3445969.3450428
Mehrnoosh Shakarami and Ravi Sandhu. Role-Based Administration of Role-Based Smart Home IoT. ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems (SAT-CPS), April 2021, 10 pages, DOI: 10.1145/3445969.3450426
Deqing Zou, Yawei Zhu, Shouhuai Xu, Zhen Li, Hai Jin, and Hengkai Ye. "Interpreting Deep Learning-based Vulnerability Detector Predictions Based on Heuristic Searching," in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology Vol 30 No2 Article 23, March 2021 (Final), 31 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3429444
Chen Y, Wang H, Choo KK, He P, Salcic Z, Kaafar MA, Zhang X. DDCA: A Distortion Drift-Based Cost Assignment Method for Adaptive Video Steganography in the Transform Domain. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. Feb 2021 (Early Access), DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2021.3058134
Lin C, Luo M, Huang X, Choo KK, He D. An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Credit Score System Based on Noninteractive Zero-Knowledge Proof. IEEE Systems Journal. Jan 2021 (Early Access), DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2020.3045076
Z. Fang, M. Xu, S. Xu and T. Hu, A Framework for Predicting Data Breach Risk: Leveraging Dependence to Cope With Sparsity, in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 16, pp. 2186-2201, 2021, DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2021.3051804.
Z. Li, D. Zou, S. Xu, H. Jin, Y. Zhu and Z. Chen, SySeVR: A Framework for Using Deep Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities, in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. Jan 2021 DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2021.3051525.
Lu N, Chang Y, Shi W, Choo KK. CoinLayering: An Efficient Coin Mixing Scheme for Large Scale Bitcoin Transactions. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. Dec 2020 (Early Access), DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2020.3043366
Smriti Bhatt and Ravi Sandhu. Convergent Access Control to Enable Secure Smart Communities. 2020 2nd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (TPS-ISA), Dec 2020, 9 pages, DOI: 10.1109/TPS-ISA50397.2020.00029
Al-Alaj, Abdullah, Ram Krishnan, and Ravi Sandhu. ParaSDN: An Access Control Model for SDN Applications based on Parameterized Roles and Permissions. 2020 IEEE 6th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC). IEEE, Dec 2020, DOI: 10.1109/CIC50333.2020.00022
Sina Sontowski, Maanak Gupta, Sai Chukkapalli, Mahmoud Abdelsalam, Sudip Mittal, Anupam Joshi and Ravi Sandhu. Cyber Attacks on Smart Farming Infrastructure. 2020 IEEE 6th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC), Dec 2020, 10 pages, DOI: 10.1109/CIC50333.2020.00025
Haque, M.F., Krishnan, R. Toward Automated Cyber Defense with Secure Sharing of Structured Cyber Threat Intelligence. Information Systems Frontiers, Dec 2020 (Early Access): 1-14, DOI: 10.1007/s10796-020-10103-7
Ficke, Eric, and Shouhuai Xu. APIN: Automatic Attack Path Identification in Computer Networks. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), IEEE, Nov 2020, pp. 1-6, DOI:10.1109/ISI49825.2020.9280547
Al-Alaj, Abdullah, Ravi Sandhu, and Ram Krishnan. A Model for the Administration of Access Control in Software Defined Networking using Custom Permissions. 2020 Second IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS-ISA). IEEE, Oct 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TPS-ISA50397.2020.00032
Talegaon, Samir, and Ram Krishnan. Role-Based Access Control Models for Android. 2020 Second IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS-ISA). IEEE, Oct 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TPS-ISA50397.2020.00033
Ali IM, Sallam KM, Moustafa N, Chakraborty R, Ryan MJ, Choo KK. An Automated Task Scheduling Model using Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II for Fog-Cloud Systems. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. Oct 2020 (Early Access), DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2020.3032386
Zijian Fang, Peng Zhao, Maochao Xu, Shouhuai Xu, Taizhong Hu & Xing Fang (2022) Statistical modeling of computer malware propagation dynamics in cyberspace, Journal of Applied Statistics, 49:4, 858-883, Oct 2020. DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2020.1845621
Liu, Y., He, D., Obaidat, M.S., Kumar, N.,Khan, M.K., Raymond Choo, K.-K. Blockchain-based identity management systems: A review, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Sept 2020 (Final), DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2020.102731
Haddadpajouh H, Mohtadi A, Dehghantanaha A, Karimipour H, Lin X, Choo KK. A Multi-Kernel and Meta-heuristic Feature Selection Approach for IoT Malware Threat Hunting in the Edge Layer. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. Sept 2020 (Early Access), DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3026660
Talegaon, S., Krishnan, R. A Formal Specification of Access Control in Android with URI Permissions. Inf Syst Front, Sept 2020 (Early Access), DOI: 10.1007/s10796-020-10066-9

2019 - 2020

Samir Talegaon and Ram Krishnan. Administrative Models for Role Based Access Control in Android. In Journal of Internet Services and Information Security, Vol. 10, Issue 3, pp 31-46, August 2020. doi: 10.22667/JISIS.2020.08.31.031
Naiwei Liu, Meng Yu, Wanyu Zang and Ravi Sandhu. On the Cost-Effectiveness of TrustZone Defense on ARM Platform. In Proceedings of 21st World Conference on Information Security Applications (WISA), Virtual Event, August 26-28, 2020, 12 pages, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-65299-9_16
Safwa Ameer, James Benson and Ravi Sandhu. The EGRBAC Model for Smart Home IoT. In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), Virtual Event, August 11-13, 2020, 8 pgs, doi: 10.1109/IRI49571.2020.00076.
Bao J, He D, Luo M and Choo K-K R. A Survey of Blockchain Applications in the Energy Sector. IEEE Systems Journal, July 2020, doi: 10.1109/JSYST.2020.2998791
Zhang, Xueling, Xiaoyin Wang, Rocky Slavin, Travis Breaux, and Jianwei Niu. How Does Misconfiguration of Analytic Services Compromise Mobile Privacy?. 42nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), July 2020, 12 pgs, doi: 10.1145/3377811.3380401
Smriti Bhatt and Ravi Sandhu. ABAC-CC: Attribute-Based Access Control and Communication Control for Internet of Things. In Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), Virtual Event, June 10-12, 2020, pages 203-212, doi: 10.1145/3381991.3395618
Chen B, He D, Kumar N, Wang H and Choo K-K R. A Blockchain-Based Proxy Re-Encryption with Equality Test for Vehicular Communication Systems. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, June 2020. doi: 10.1109/TNSE.2020.2999551
Chen H, Pendleton M, Njilla L, Xu S. A survey on ethereum systems security: Vulnerabilities, attacks and defenses. ACM Computing Surveys:1908.04507. June 2020, doi: 10.1145/3391195
Lin C, He D, Huang X, Kumar N and Choo K-K R. BCPPA: A Blockchain-based Conditional Privacy-preserving Authentication Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, June 2020, doi: 10.1109/TITS.2020.3002096
Q. Feng, D. He, Z. Liu, H. Wang and K. R. Choo. SecureNLP: A System for Multi-Party Privacy-Preserving Natural Language Processing, in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 15, pp. 3709-3721, May 2020, doi: 10.1109/TIFS.2020.2997134.
Lawa, Sherifdeen, and Ram Krishnan. Policy Review in Attribute Based Access Control A Policy Machine Case Study Journal of Internet Services and Information Security (JISIS) 10.2 May 2020: 14 pgs, doi: 10.22667/JISIS.2020.05.31.067
Zhang X, Upton O, Beebe N and Choo K-K R. IoT Botnet Forensics: A Comprehensive Digital Forensic Case Study on Mirai Botnet Servers. Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, April 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.fsidi.2020.300926
Hosseini, Mitra Bokaei, Rocky Slavin, Travis Breaux, Xiaoyin Wang, and Jianwei Niu. Disambiguating Requirements Through Syntax-Driven Semantic Analysis of Information Types. In International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, pp. 97-115. Springer, Cham, March 2020, doi: 0.1007/978-3-030-44429-7_7
Mandal S, Bera B, Sutrala A K, Das A K, Choo K-K R and Park Y. Certificateless-Signcryption-Based Three-Factor User Access Control Scheme for IoT Environment. IEEE Internet of Things Journal 7(4): 3184-3197, Jan 2020, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.2966242
Guo C, Jia J, Jie Y, Liu C Z and Choo K-K R. Enabling Secure Cross-Modal Retrieval over Encrypted Heterogeneous IoT Databases with Collective Matrix Factorization. IEEE Internet of Things Journal 7(4): 3104-3113, Jan 2020, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.2964412
Lei Xu, Lin Chen, Zhimin Gao, Xinxin Fan, Kimberly Doan, Shouhuai Xu and Weidong Shi. KCRS: A Blockchain-Based Key Compromise Resilient Signature System. In International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems, Dec 2019, doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-2777-7_19
Mehrnoosh Shakarami and Ravi Sandhu. Safety and Consistency of Mutable Attributes Using Quotas: A Formal Analysis. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS-ISA), Los Angeles, California, December 12-14, 2019, 9 pages, doi: 10.1109/TPS-ISA48467.2019.00010
Chakraborty Shuvra, Sandhu Ravi, Krishnan Ram. On the Feasibility of RBAC to ABAC Policy Mining: A Formal Analysis. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Secure Knowledge Management in Artificial Intelligence Era (SKM), Goa, India, Dec. 21-22, 2019, doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-3817-9_9
Haque, Md Farhan, and Ram Krishnan. Toward Relationship Based Access Control for Secure Sharing of Structured Cyber Threat Intelligence. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Secure Knowledge Management in Artificial Intelligence Era (SKM), Goa, India, Dec. 21-22, 2019, doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-3817-9_2
Talegaon, Samir & Krishnan, Ram. A Formal Specification of Access Control in Android. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Secure Knowledge Management in Artificial Intelligence Era (SKM), Goa, India, Dec. 21-22, 2019, doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-3817-9_7.
Rodriguez, Rodney; Wang, Xiaoyin. Static Analysis of File Manipulation Scripts, IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), Dec 2019, doi: 10.1109/PRDC47002.2019.00039
Zhang, Xueling; Slavin, Rocky; Wang, Xiaoyin; Niu, Jianwei. Privacy Assurance for Android Augmented Reality Apps, IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), Dec 2019, doi: 10.1109/PRDC47002.2019.00037
Gabriel C. Fernandez and Shouhuai Xu. A Case Study on Using Deep Learning for Network Intrusion Detection. IEEE Milcom, Nov 2019, doi: 10.1109/MILCOM47813.2019.9020824
Eric Ficke, Kristin M. Schweitzer, Raymond M. Bateman, and Shouhuai Xu. Analyzing Root Causes of Intrusion Detection False-Negatives: Methodology and Case Study. IEEE Milcom, Nov 2019, doi: 10.1109/MILCOM47813.2019.9020860
Jonathan Shahen, Jianwei Niu, and Mahesh V. Tripunitara. Cree: a Performant Tool for Safety Analysis of Administrative Temporal Role-Based Access Control (ATRBAC) Policies. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Oct 2019, doi: 10.1109/TDSC.2019.2949410
Abdullah Al-Alaj, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu. SDN-RBAC: An Access Control Model for SDN Controller Applications, In Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Computing Communication and Security (ICCCS 2019), Rome, Italy, October 10-12, 2019, doi: 10.1109/CCCS.2019.8888031
Randy Klepetko and Ram Krishnan. Analyzing CNN Model Performance Sensitivity to the Ordering of Non-Natural Data, In Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Computing Communication and Security (ICCCS 2019), Rome, Italy, October 10-12, 2019, doi: 10.1109/CCCS.2019.8888041
D. Zou, S. Wang, S. Xu, Z. Li, and H. Jin. muVulDeePecker: A Deep Learning-Based System for Multiclass Vulnerability Detection. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC), Sept. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TDSC.2019.2942930.
Shaikh Mostafa, Bridgette Findley, Na Meng, and Xiaoyin Wang. SAIS: Self-Adaptive Identification of Security Bug Reports, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC), Sept. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TDSC.2019.2939132.

2018 - 2019

Alkadi O S, Moustafa N, Turnbull B and Choo K-K R. An Ontological Graph Identification Method for Improving Localization of IP Prefix Hijacking in Network Systems. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 15: 1164-1174, Aug 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2019.2936975
Shuvra Chakraborty, Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan. On the Feasibility of Attribute-Based Access Control Policy Mining. In Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), Los Angeles, California, July 30-August 1, 2019, 8 pages, DOI: 10.1109/IRI.2019.00047.
Mahmoud Abdelsalam, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu. Online Malware Detection in Cloud Auto-Scaling Systems Using Shallow Convolutional Neural Networks. In Proceedings 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec), Charleston, SC, July 15-17, 2019, 17 pages, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0_20
Mehrnoosh Shakarami and Ravi Sandhu. Refresh Instead of Revoke Enhances Safety and Availability: A Formal Analysis. In Proceedings 31st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec), Charleston, SC, July 15-17, 2019, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0_16
Banerjee S, Odelu V, Das A K, Srinivas J, Kumar N, Chattopadhyay S and Choo K-K R. A Provably Secure and Lightweight Anonymous User Authenticated Session Key Exchange Scheme for Internet of Things Deployment. IEEE Internet of Things Journal 6(5): 8739-8752, June 17, 2019, 14 pages, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2019.2923373
John Heaps, Xiaoyin Wang, Travis Breaux, and Jianwei Niu. Toward Detection of Access Control Models from Source Code via Word Embedding. In SACMAT ’19: Proceedings of The 24th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models & Technologies (SACMAT), June 4-6, 2019, Toronto, Canada, 8 pages, DOI: 10.1145/3322431.3326329
Joy Rahman and Palden Lama. Predicting the End-to-End Tail Latency of Containerized Microservices in the Cloud. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), Prague, Czech Republic, June 24-27, 2019, 10 pages, DOI: 10.1109/IC2E.2019.00034
Mehrnoosh Shakarami and Ravi Sandhu. Safety and Consistency of Subject Attributes for Attribute-Based Pre-Authorization Systems. In Proceedings National Cyber Summit (NCS), Huntsville, Alabama, June 4-6, 2019, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-31239-8_19
CohenMiller, A., & Pate, P. E. A model for developing interdisciplinary research theoretical frameworks. The Qualitative Report, 24(6), June 3, 2019
Zongzong Lin, Wenlian Lu, Shouhuai Xu. Unified Preventive and Reactive Cyber Defense Dynamics Is Still Globally Convergent. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 27(3): 1098-1111, May 2019, DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2019.2912847
Marahattaa A, Pirbhulal S, Zhang F, Parizid R M, Choo K-K R and Liu Z. Classification-based and Energy-Efficient Dynamic Task Scheduling Scheme for Virtualized Cloud Data Center. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, May 2019. 10.1109/TCC.2019.2918226
Mengsu Chen, Felix Fischer, Na Meng, Xiaoyin Wang, Jens Grossklags. How Reliable is the Crowdsourced Knowledge of Security Implementation? Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Montreal, Canada, May 25-31, 2019, 12 pages, DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2019.00065
Zhang X, Choo K-K R and Beebe N. How do I share my IoT forensic experience with the broader community? An automated knowledge sharing IoT forensic platform. IEEE Internet of Things Journal 6(4): 6850-6861, April 22, 2019, 12 pages.
Abdullah Al-Alaj, Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan. A Formal Access Control Model for SE-Floodlight Controller. In Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Security in Software Defined Networks & Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFVSecurity), March 25-27, 2019, Richardson, TX, 6 pages, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2019.2912118
Maanak Gupta, James Benson, Farhan Patwa and Ravi Sandhu. Dynamic Groups and Attribute-Based Access Control for Next-Generation Smart Cars. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), March 25-27, 2019, Richardson, TX, pages 61-72, DOI: 10.1145/3292006.3300048
Hongyu Liu, Sam Silvestro Xiaoyin Wang, Lide Duan, Tongping Liu. CSOD: Context-Sensitive Overflow Detection, Proceedings of International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), Washington DC, Feb. 16-20, 2019, 11 pages, DOI: 10.1109/CGO.2019.8661198
R. Garcia-Lebron, D. Myers, S. Xu, and J. Sun. Node Diversification in Complex Networks by Decentralized Coloring. Journal of Complex Networks, Dec 2018 (Early Access), DOI: 10.1093/comnet/cny031
John Charlton, Pang Du, Jin-Hee Cho, Shouhuai Xu. Measuring Relative Accuracy of Malware Detectors in the Absence of Ground Truth. Proceedings of IEEE MILCOM Oct 2018: 450-455, DOI: 10.1109/MILCOM.2018.8599730
Foyzul Hassan, Rodney Rodriguez, Xiaoyin Wang. RUDSEA: recommending updates of Dockerfiles via software environment analysis, Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Montpelier, France, Sept. 3-7, 2018, 6 pages, DOI: 10.1145/3238147.3240470

2017 - 2018

Mahmoud Abdelsalam, Ram Krishnan, Yufei Huang and Ravi Sandhu. Malware Detection in Cloud Infrastructures using Convolutional Neural Networks. In Proceedings 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), San Francisco, CA, July 2-7, 2018, 8 pages. Presentation(pdf), doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2018.00028
Demir, Mevlut and Wagner, Weslyn and Dandona, Divyaansh and Prevost, John J A Comprehensive Solution for Research-Oriented Cloud Computing, International Conference on Cloud Computing, June 2018, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94295-7
Guo C, Zhuang R, Jie Y, Choo K-K R and Tang X. Secure Range Search over Encrypted Uncertain IoT Outsourced Data. IEEE Internet of Things Journal 6(2): 1520-1529, June 7, 2018, 10 pages, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2018.2845106
Heaps, John; Slavin, Rocky; Wang, Xiaoyin. Toward A Code Pattern Based Vulnerability Measurement Model, ACM Symposium on Access Control Models & Technologies (SACMAT), June 2018, doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3205977.3208948
Maanak Gupta and Ravi Sandhu. Authorization Framework for Secure Cloud Assisted Connected Cars and Vehicular Internet of Things. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), Indianapolis, Indiana, June 13-15, 2018, 12 pages. Presentation(pptx) (pdf), doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3205977.3205994
Herrera, Joshua and Demir, Mevlut and Prevost, John and Rad, Paul. Distributed Edge Cloud R-CNN for Real Time Object Detection, World Automation Congress proceedings, June 2018, doi: https://doi.org/10.23919/WAC.2018.8430385
Janet L. Losser, Paul Caldarella, Sharon J. Black & P. Elizabeth Pate. Factors affecting service learning implementation: a comparison of novice and veteran teachers, Teachers and Teaching, 24:6, 659-672, April 25 2018, doi: 10.1080/13540602.2018.1464906
Vargas, V., Cristóbal, C. & Carmona, G. Competencias matemáticas a través de la implementación de actividades provocadoras de modelos. (Mathematical Competencies through the implementation of Model-eliciting activities). Educación Matemática. Vol. 30(1), p. 213-36, April, 2018, doi: 10.24844/EM3001.08
Maanak Gupta, Farhan Patwa and Ravi Sandhu. An Attribute-Based Access Control Model for Secure Big Data Processing in Hadoop Ecosystem. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), March 19-21, 2018, Tempe, Arizona. Presentation(pptx) (pdf), doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3180457.3180463
Asma Alshehri, James Benson, Farhan Patwa and Ravi Sandhu. Access Control Model for Virtual Objects (Shadows) Communication for AWS Internet of Things, In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), Tempe, AZ, March 19-21, 2018. Presentation(pptx) (pdf), doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3176258.3176328
Smriti Bhatt, Farhan Patwa and Ravi Sandhu. An Access Control Framework for Cloud-Enabled Wearable Internet of Things, In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC), San Jose, CA, October 15-17, 2017, 11 pages. Presentation(pptx)(pdf), doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/CIC.2017.00050