Publications | The School of Natural and Computing Sciences

Personalised Multi-Task Federated Learning for Diabetic Retinopathy Medical Image Classification

2026 - E-pub ahead of print

Li, Y., Sharma, P., Leontidis, G., Yi, D.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-2680-2_20
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Human Employment

2026

Chuah, E., Winter, P., Jacobs, N., McAlaney, J., Lu, Y., Vigano, L., Reid, I., Dover, R.

SPRITE+. 8 pages.

Other Contributions: Other Contributions

Online: https://www.spritehub.org/ai-explainers
Open Access: https://pure.abdn.ac.uk/ws/files/314086617/SPRITE_Explainer_005_-_AI_Replacing_Humans.pdf

Beyond Principles: Adaptive Governance for AI’s Next Frontier

2026

Mostéfaou, S., Winter, P., Khanam, Z., Chuah, E., Shang, L.

SPRITE+. 5 pages.

Other Contributions: Other Contributions

Online: https://www.spritehub.org/ai-explainers
Open Access: https://pure.abdn.ac.uk/ws/files/314086739/SPRITE_Explainer_001_-_AI_Governance.pdf

Adaptive Quantum-Augmented Security Framework for Vehicle-to-Everything (AQAS-V2X) Communication

2025 - Accepted/In press

Alqahtani, T., Sharma, P. K., Leontidis, G.

Contributions to Conferences: Papers

Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection Using Learnable Spatial-Temporal Graph Ordinary Differential Equations Network

2025 - E-pub ahead of print

He, S., Guo, Q., Feng, K., Liang, D., Xie, K., Sharma, P. K.

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2025.3640165
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/d54c65e5-9d5d-476e-917e-37566e560a6c/download

SoK: Towards Privacy-Centric Collaborative Machine Learning—A Classification Framework for Privacy Solutions

2025

Boar, P. E., Sharma, P. K., Akram, R. N., Li, W.

SN Computer Science, vol. 6, no. 8, 972

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-025-04482-4
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/d73b8f85-aec8-4b0b-9d12-813ec6d41f57/download

Deep learning‑based prediction of major page faults in cluster systems

2025

Chuah, E., Jhumka, A., Narasimhamurthy, S., Ayesh, A.

CCF Transactions on High Performance Computing, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 413–430

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42514-025-00233-2
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/87676e03-9d18-4eff-8d31-dc51eeefe396/download

Deep learning-based prediction of reflection attacks using NetFlow data

2025

Chuah, E., Jhumka, A., Ayesh, A.

Computers & Security, vol. 156, 104527

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2025.104527
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/8168cf8e-fc2f-49a4-9bbe-c9e1bee33713/download; http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/129376c3-4a59-4a88-be7c-071c6b238c63/download

An Unsupervised Malicious Web Request Detection based on Transformer and Contrastive Learning

2025

He, S., Zhang, Y., Liang, D., Sharma, P.

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 3281-3294

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2025.3563089
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/fe514001-ae36-437b-8528-70e3b15f05af/download
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GpDB: A Graph Partition Based Storage Strategy for DAG-Blockchain in Edge-Cloud IIoT

2025

Liao, Z., Cheng, S., Zhang, J., Wu, W., Sharma, P. K.

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 5790-5798

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2022.3162201
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Can Image Quality Assessment Help Medical Image Segmentation?

2025 - Accepted/In press

Lawal, M., Sharma, P., Murchie, P., Yi, D.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

A systematic literature review of log-correlation tools for cyberattack detection and prediction in large networks

2025

Chuah, E., Kalutarage, H., Tasdemir, K., Abrham, A., Maple, C.

Journal of Information Security and Applications, vol. 92, 104096

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2025.104096

Minecrafter: A secure and decentralized consensus protocol for blockchain-enabled vaccine supply chain

2025

Maloth, S., Hada, N. S., Jatoth, C., Gupta, N., Fiore, U., Sharma, P. K.

Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, vol. 18, no. 4, 168

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-025-01980-3
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Label-free Medical Image Quality Evaluation by Semantics-aware Contrastive Learning in IoMT

2025

Yi, D., Hua, Y., Murchie, P., Sharma, P.

IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 2335-2344

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2023.3340201
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/44bef647-55d9-4576-9330-5f25b452ed91/download
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DECML: Distributed Edge Consensus Machine Learning Framework

2025

Verdeyen, C., Shepherd, C., Markantonakis, K., Akram, R. N., Milroy, R., Abu Ghazalah, S., Sauveron, D.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/GCAIoT63427.2024.10833588
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/dc5c755e-8d53-4ea8-98a3-c2be6d6e3df6/download

Uni-directional graph structure learning-based multivariate time series anomaly detection with dynamic prior knowledge

2025

He, S., Li, G., Wang, J., Xie, K., Sharma, P. K.

International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 267-283

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13042-024-02212-5
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Zero Trust Networks: Evolution and Application from Concept to Practice

2025

Ren, Y., Wang, Z., Sharma, P. K., Alqahtani, F., Tolba, A., Wang, J.

Computers, Materials and Continua, vol. 82, no. 2, pp. 1593-1613

Contributions to Journals: Review articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2025.059170
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A dual encoder crack segmentation network with Haar wavelet-based high–low frequency attention

2024

Zhang, J., Zeng, Z., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Wang, J.

Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 256, 124950

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Online: https://github.com/zZhiG/DECS-Net
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.124950
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Automated Dependency Mapping for Web API Security Testing Using Large Language Models

2024

Li, W., Guo, Y.

ACM CCS 2024, pp. 5024 - 5026

Contributions to Conferences: Posters

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1145/3658644

Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection Based on Multiple Spatiotemporal Graph Convolution

2024

He, S., Guo, Q., Li, G., Xie, K., Sharma, P. K.

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 74, 3500714

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2024.3493890

Enhancing diagnosis: ensemble deep-learning model for fracture detection using X-ray images

2024

Tahir, A., Saadia, A., Khan, K., Qahmash, A., Akram, R. N.

Clinical Radiology, vol. 79, no. 11, pp. e1394-e1402

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crad.2024.08.006
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/e4decd7d-7217-4aa0-a23d-6dab9fb603db/download
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Measuring Responsibility in Multi-Agent Systems

2024

Mu, C., Oren, N.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.00887
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Responsibility-aware Strategic Reasoning in Probabilistic Multi-Agent Systems

2024

Mu, C., Najib, M., Oren, N.

Working Papers and Discussion Papers

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.00146
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/d84c79e4-3025-4991-9662-ac4d9186d74e/download

CO-TSM: A Flexible Model for Secure Embedded Device Ownership and Management

2024

Markantonakis, K., Arfaoui, G., Ghazalah, S. A., Shepherd, C., Akram, R. N., Sauveron, D.

Smart Cities, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 2887-2909

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.3390/smartcities7050112
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/1dca37cc-7c97-485c-af51-e9935e4e95cb/download

The nonlinear multi-variable grey Bernoulli model and its applications

2024

He, Q., Ma, X., Zhang, L., Li, W., Li, T.

Applied Mathematical Modelling, vol. 134, pp. 635-655

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2024.06.015
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