Publications | The School of Natural and Computing Sciences

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

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

2024 - Accepted/In press

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

Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles

Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/00ea8995-60d4-4777-810d-f805dd2cb002/download

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
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/cec2d5c1-3f4e-4ec3-ba9f-aa83a5b1e585/download

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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Fusion Graph Structure Learning-Based Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection With Structured Prior Knowledge

2024

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

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 19, pp. 8760-8772

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2024.3459631
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Joint Optimization of Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation Considering Task Prioritization in ISAC-Assisted Vehicular Network

2024

Cao, D., Wu, M., Gu, N., Sherratt, R. S., Ghosh, U., Sharma, P. K.

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 18, pp. 29523 - 29532

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2024.3360962
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Bunch theory: Axioms, logic, applications and model

2024

Stoddart, B., Dunne, S., Mu, C., Zeyda, F.

Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming, vol. 140, 100977

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlamp.2024.100977
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/e782ef4c-e7e3-42f4-a700-825866985028/download

An Incentive Approach for Sustainable Vehicle Resource Utilization in Delay-Energy Sensitive Vehicular Edge Computing

2024

Cao, D., Huang, S., Gu, N., Sharma, P. K., Ma, X., Ji, B.

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 70, no. 3

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCE.2024.3416318
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Image super-resolution method based on the interactive fusion of transformer and CNN features

2024

Wang, J., Zou, Y., Alfarraj, O., Sharma, P. K., Said, W., Wang, J.

Visual Computer, vol. 40, pp. 5827–5839

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-023-03138-9
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An Empirical Study of Reflection Attacks Using NetFlow Data

2024

Chuah, E., Suri, N.

Cybersecurity, vol. 7, 13

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Online: https://ssg.lancs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/EmpiricalStudyReflectionAttacks_preprint.pdf
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42400-023-00203-7
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/1c897769-7e39-4aa7-b0c4-e96a0f94ea84/download

A Two-Stage Differential Privacy Scheme for Federated Learning Based on Edge Intelligence

2024

Zhang, L., Xu, J., Sivaraman, A., Deborah, J., Sharma, P. K., Pandi, V.

IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 3349-3360

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2023.3306425
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CCTV Footage De-identification for Privacy Protection: A Comprehensive Survey

2024

Jeremiah, S. R., Castro, O. E. L., Sharma, P. K., Park, J. H.

Journal of Internet Technology, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 379-386

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.53106/160792642024052503004
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/e5a31b7a-4fac-4452-9528-906223a8a417/download
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Compound Scaling Encoder-Decoder (CoSED) Network for Diabetic Retinopathy Related Bio-marker Detection

2024

Yi, D., Baltov, P., Hua, Y., Philip, S., Sharma, P. K.

IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1959 - 1970

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2023.3313785
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/45d5f41d-0e93-461a-a449-35155182c2b1/download
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Next-Generation Consumer Electronics Data Auditing Scheme Toward Cloud-Edge Distributed and Resilient Machine Learning

2024

Li, Y., Shen, J., Vijayakumar, P., Lai, C. F., Sivaraman, A., Sharma, P. K.

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 2244-2256

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCE.2024.3368206
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A relay-assisted parallel offloading strategy for multi-source tasks in internet of vehicles

2024

Cao, D., Zhang, Y. B., Yang, Y. F., Ji, B. F., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Wang, J.

Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, vol. 62, 103619

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2024.103619
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A Reservation-Based Multi-Source Distributed Offloading Strategy in Dynamic Environments

2024

Cao, D., Yang, Y., Wang, Y., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Zhu, M.

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 1866 - 1876

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCE.2023.3338745
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Dual-path network combining CNN and transformer for pavement crack segmentation

2024

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

Automation in Construction, vol. 158, 105217

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2023.105217
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SHT-based public auditing protocol with error tolerance in FDL-empowered IoVs

2024

Zhu, K., Ren, Y., Shen, J., Vijayakumar, P., Sharma, P. K.

Digital Communications and Networks, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 142-149

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcan.2022.07.011
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/27d518fa-ce19-4fdc-b797-f24b0844e7ee/download
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Blockchain-Based Sensitive Document Storage to Mitigate Corruptions

2024

Mahlaba, J., Mishra, A. K., Puthal, D., Sharma, P. K.

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, vol. 71, pp. 12635 - 12647

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2022.3183867
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Privacy Enhanced Mobile User Authentication Method Using Motion Sensors

2024

Xiong, C., Weng, Z., Liu, J., Gu, L., Alqahtani, F., Gafar, A., Sharma, P. K.

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, vol. 138, no. 3, pp. 3013-3032

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.32604/cmes.2023.031088
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Using Ambient Sensors for Proximity and Relay Attack Detection in NFC Transactions: A Reproducibility Study

2024

Markantonakis, K., Meister, J. A., Gurulian, I., Shepherd, C., Akram, R. N., Ghazalah, S. A., Kasi, M., Sauveron, D., Hancke, G.

IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 150372 - 150386

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3479729
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/16d52861-ba1b-4a7c-9de8-fb972856f192/download

From Manifest V2 to V3: A Study on the Discoverability of Chrome Extensions

2023

Bucci, V., Li, W.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Athanasopoulos, E., Mennink, B. (eds.). Springer, pp. 183–202, 19 pages

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49187-0_10
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/5bce64e9-38fc-4ae3-a426-40c4c36bf80e/download

Parameter-Efficient Log Anomaly Detection based on Pre-training model and LORA

2023

He, S., Lei, Y., Zhang, Y., Xie, K., Sharma, P. K.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSRE59848.2023.00038
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A Broadband Subliminal Channel in Signatures Without Sharing the Signing Key

2023

Hu, Q., Xu, C., Li, W.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom60117.2023.00118
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/ad46f65e-f4ee-4d00-beca-77382690e634/download
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An Empirical Study of Major Page Faults for Failure Diagnosis in Cluster Systems

2023

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

Journal of Supercomputing, vol. 79, pp. 18445-18479

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-023-05366-1
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/20338783-dbcf-4ae5-8498-b506107cf051/download

An Intelligent Secure Adversarial Examples Detection Scheme in Heterogeneous Complex Environments

2023

Wang, W., Wang, X., Pan, X., Gong, X., Liang, J., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Said, W.

Computers, Materials and Continua, vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 3859-3876

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.041346
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Reliability Analysis of Correlated Competitive and Dependent Components Considering Random Isolation Times

2023

Cai, S., Luo, T., Yu, F., Sharma, P. K., Wang, W., Yin, L.

Computers, Materials and Continua, vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 2763-2777

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.037825
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/cc07eb98-5266-4f94-803a-31936a9a4882/download
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On Observability Analysis in Multiagent Systems

2023

Mu, C., Pang, J.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA230461
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/96e55dde-d95c-4e3f-9b75-8aa775836c2b/download
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A Distributed Deep Learning Approach with Mobile Edge Computing for Next Generation IoT Networks Security

2023

Rathore, S., Sharma, P. K., Rathore, H.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1109/WCONF58270.2023.10235095
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