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Special Issue on Adversarial AI to IoT Security and Privacy Protection: Attacks and Defenses (2022)
Journal Article
Gao, H., & Tan, Z. (2022). Special Issue on Adversarial AI to IoT Security and Privacy Protection: Attacks and Defenses. Computer Journal, 65(11), 2847-2848. https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxac128

The prosperity of social IoT data brings revolutionary changes to our daily lives and greatly increases the existing data volume. But IoT data are vulnerable due to security and privacy issues. Over the past few years, malicious adversaries exploited... Read More about Special Issue on Adversarial AI to IoT Security and Privacy Protection: Attacks and Defenses.

A Generative Neural Network for Enhancing Android Metamorphic Malware Detection based on Behaviour Profiling (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turnbull, L., Tan, Z., & Babaagba, K. (2022). A Generative Neural Network for Enhancing Android Metamorphic Malware Detection based on Behaviour Profiling. In 2022 IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC). https://doi.org/10.1109/DSC54232

Malicious software trends show a persistent yearly increase in volume and cost impact. More than 350,000 new malicious or unwanted programs that target various technologies were registered daily over the past year. Metamorphic malware is a specifical... Read More about A Generative Neural Network for Enhancing Android Metamorphic Malware Detection based on Behaviour Profiling.

Ensemble learning-based IDS for sensors telemetry data in IoT networks (2022)
Journal Article
Naz, N., Khan, M. A., Alsuhibany, S. A., Diyan, M., Tan, Z., Khan, M. A., & Ahmad, J. (2022). Ensemble learning-based IDS for sensors telemetry data in IoT networks. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 19(10), 10550-10580. https://doi.org/10.3934/mb

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm that connects a range of physical smart devices to provide ubiquitous services to individuals and automate their daily tasks. IoT devices collect data from the surrounding environment and communicate with ot... Read More about Ensemble learning-based IDS for sensors telemetry data in IoT networks.

Evaluation Mechanism for Decentralised Collaborative Pattern Learning in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks (2022)
Journal Article
Qiao, C., Qiu, J., Tan, Z., Min, G., Zomaya, A. Y., & Tian, Z. (2023). Evaluation Mechanism for Decentralised Collaborative Pattern Learning in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(11), 13123 - 1313

Collaborative machine learning, especially Feder-ated Learning (FL), is widely used to build high-quality Machine Learning (ML) models in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). In this paper, we study the performance evaluation problem in an inherently hete... Read More about Evaluation Mechanism for Decentralised Collaborative Pattern Learning in Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks.

Building Towards Automated Cyberbullying Detection: A Comparative Analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Al Harigy, L. M., Al Nuaim, H. A., Moradpoor, N., & Tan, Z. (2022). Building Towards Automated Cyberbullying Detection: A Comparative Analysis. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2022, Article 4794227. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/4794227

The increased use of social media between digitally anonymous users, sharing their thoughts and opinions, can facilitate participation and collaboration. However, it’s this anonymity feature which gives users freedom of speech and allows them to cond... Read More about Building Towards Automated Cyberbullying Detection: A Comparative Analysis.

A novel flow-vector generation approach for malicious traffic detection (2022)
Journal Article
Hou, J., Liu, F., Lu, H., Tan, Z., Zhuang, X., & Tian, Z. (2022). A novel flow-vector generation approach for malicious traffic detection. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 169, 72-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2022.06.004

Malicious traffic detection is one of the most important parts of cyber security. The approaches of using the flow as the detection object are recognized as effective. Benefiting from the development of deep learning techniques, raw traffic can be di... Read More about A novel flow-vector generation approach for malicious traffic detection.

Toward Machine Intelligence that Learns to Fingerprint Polymorphic Worms in IoT (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, F., Yang, S., Wang, C., Li, Q., Babaagba, K., & Tan, Z. (2022). Toward Machine Intelligence that Learns to Fingerprint Polymorphic Worms in IoT. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 37(10), 7058-7078. https://doi.org/10.1002/int.22871

Internet of Things (IoT) is fast growing. Non-PC devices under the umbrella of IoT have been increasingly applied in various fields and will soon account for a significant share of total Internet traffic. However, the security and privacy of IoT and... Read More about Toward Machine Intelligence that Learns to Fingerprint Polymorphic Worms in IoT.

A Novel Nomad Migration-Inspired Algorithm for Global Optimization (2022)
Journal Article
Lin, N., Fu, L., Zhao, L., Hawbani, A., Tan, Z., Al-Dubai, A., & Min, G. (2022). A Novel Nomad Migration-Inspired Algorithm for Global Optimization. Computers and Electrical Engineering, 100, Article 107862. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2022.1078

Nature-inspired computing (NIC) has been widely studied for many optimization scenarios. However, miscellaneous solution space of real-world problem causes it is challenging to guarantee the global optimum. Besides, cumbersome structure and complex p... Read More about A Novel Nomad Migration-Inspired Algorithm for Global Optimization.