Publications & Presentations
Tiny Language Model Guided Flow Q Learning for Optimal Task Scheduling in Fog Computing
Algorithms 19 (1), 60
Early detection of virtual machine failures in cloud computing using quantum-enhanced support vector machine
Mathematics 14 (7), 1229
Early Detection of Distributed Denial of Service in Cloud Computing Using Quantum-Enhanced Knowledge Distillation Framework
Electronics 15 (11), 2327
Unsupervised Learning: Techniques, Applications, and Testing Methodologies
Cureus Journals, 2025
Learning: A Brief Survey
Proceedings of International Conference on Communication and Computational Technologies: ICCCT 2024, Volume 2
Large language model-guided sarsa algorithm for dynamic task scheduling in cloud computing
Mathematics 13 (6), 926
Cloud Security Assessment: A Taxonomy-Based and Stakeholder-Driven Approach
Information 16 (4), 291
Scalable resource provisioning framework for fog computing using llm-guided q-learning approach
Algorithms 18 (4), 230
Small language model-guided quantile temporal difference learning for improved IoT application placement in fog computing
Mathematics 13 (17), 2768
An Overview of Enabling Technologies for the Internet of Things
Internet of Things A to Z: Technologies and Applications, 41-66
Investigating the terrain of class-incremental continual learning: A brief survey
International Conference on Communication and Computational Technologies
Investigating the terrain of class-incremental continual learning: A brief survey
International Conference on Communication and Computational Technologies
State of the art: Security Testing of Machine Learning Development Systems
2024 IEEE 14th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC)
Trusting classifiers with interpretable machine learning based feature selection backpropagation
2024 IEEE 14th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC)
Ensembling supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms for detecting distributed denial of service attacks
Algorithms 17 (3), 99
Integral-valued pythagorean fuzzy-set-based dyna q+ framework for task scheduling in cloud computing
Sensors 24 (16), 5272
Indetermsoft-set-based d* extra lite framework for resource provisioning in cloud computing
Algorithms 17 (11), 479
Type-2-Soft-Set Based Uncertainty Aware Task Offloading Framework for Fog Computing Using Apprenticeship Learning
Cybernetics and Information Technologies
Handling Node Discovery Problem in Fog Computing using Categorical51 Algorithm With Explainability
2023 IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT)
Requirements elicitation and stakeholder communications for explainable machine learning systems: State of the art
2023 International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT)
Explainability of artificial intelligence systems: A survey
2023 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)
Toward a holistic, efficient, stacking ensemble intrusion detection system using a real cloud-based dataset
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
Scalable Hindsight Experience Replay based Q-learning Framework with Explainability for Big Data Applications in Fog Computing
2022 IEEE 12th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC)
MVE-based reinforcement learning framework with explainability for improving quality of experience of application placement in fog computing
2022 IEEE world AI IoT congress (AIIoT)
Energy Efficient Double Critic Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Framework for Fog Computing
2022 IEEE world AI IoT congress (AIIoT)
Man-in-the-middle attack explainer for fog computing using soft actor critic Q-learning approach
2022 IEEE world AI IoT congress (AIIoT)
Uncertainty Aware T2SS Based Dyna-Q-Learning Framework for Task Scheduling in Grid Computing
Cybernetics and Information Technologies
Fuzzy Neutrosophic Soft Set Based Transfer-Q-Learning Scheme for Load Balancing in Uncertain Grid Computing Environments
Cybernetics and Information Technologies
Supervised Learning for Detecting Stealthy False Data Injection Attacks in the Smart Grid
Advances in Security, Networks, and Internet of Things, pp. 291-305. Springer, Cham, 2021.
Double-State-Temporal Difference Learning for Resource Provisioning in Uncertain Fog Computing Environment
12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON). IEEE, 2021.
DDoS Explainer using Interpretable Machine Learning
12th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON). IEEE, 2021.
Machine Learning Application Lifecycle Augmented With Explanation and Security
12th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON). IEEE, 2021.
Network Intrusion Detection and Comparative Analysis using Ensemble Machine Learning and Feature Selection
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. IEEE, 2021.
Towards an Effective Requirement Engineering Approach for Cloud Applications
Software Engineering in the Era of Cloud Computing, pp. 29-50. Springer, Cham, 2020.
Security Benchmarks for Wearable Medical Things: Stakeholders-Centric Approach
Fourth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, pp. 405-418. Springer, Singapore, 2020.
Comparative Analysis of ML Classifiers for Network Intrusion Detection
Fourth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, pp. 193-207. Springer, Singapore, 2020.
A Holistic Approach for Detecting DDoS Attacks by Using Ensemble Unsupervised Machine Learning
Future of Information and Communication Conference (pp. 721-738). Springer, Cham, 2020.
Supervised Ensemble Learning for Detecting Stealthy False Data Injection Attacks in the Smart Grid
Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Management (SAM). WorldComp, 2020.
Empirical Evaluation of the Ensemble Framework for Feature Selection in DDoS Attack
2020 7th IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing (CSCloud) / EdgeCom, pp. 56-61. IEEE, 2020.
Detecting Stealthy False Data Injection Attacks in the Smart Grid using Ensemble-based Machine Learning
Elsevier Journal of Computers & Security 97 (2020): 101994.
Network Intrusion Detection Model Using One-Class Support Vector Machine
Advances in Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence (pp. 79-86). Springer, Singapore, 2020.
Social-Guard: Detecting Scammers in Online Dating
2020 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT), pp. 416-422. IEEE, 2020.
Ensemble Classifiers for Network Intrusion Detection Using a Novel Network Attack Dataset
Future Internet 12, no. 11 (2020): 180.
Elliptic Envelope Based Detection of Stealthy False Data Injection Attacks in Smart Grid Control Systems
2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (pp. 1131-1137). IEEE, 2020.
Ads-Guard: Detecting Scammers in Online Classified Ads
2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. SSCI, 2020.
Interpretable Machine Learning Tools: A Survey
2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (pp. 1528-1534). IEEE, 2020.
Taxonomy and Survey of Interpretable Machine Learning Method
2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (pp. 670-677). IEEE, 2020.
Network Intrusion Detection using Natural Language Processing and Ensemble Machine Learning
2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) (pp. 829-835). IEEE, 2020.
Ontology-Based Security Recommendation for the Internet of Medical Things
IEEE Access, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 48948–48960, 2019.
DDoS intrusion detection through machine learning ensemble
2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security Companion (QRS-C) (pp. 471-477). IEEE, 2019.
A Stealth Migration Approach to Moving Target Defense in Cloud Computing
Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (pp. 394-410). Springer, Cham, 2019.
IoMT-SAF: Internet of Medical Things Security Assessment Framework
Internet of Things, Elsevier (2019): 100123.
Crowdsourcing Multi-Objective Recommendation System
The Web Conference 2018, Lyon, France, 23-27 April 2018.
A Framework for Ranking IoMT Solutions Based on Measuring Security and Privacy
Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018, Vol 880, Springer, pp. 205–224, 2019.
An Overview of Enabling Technologies for the Internet of Things
Internet of Things A to Z, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 77–112, 2018.
Quantifying Security and Privacy in Internet of Things Solutions
IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), pp. 1–6, 2018.
CoRuM: collaborative runtime monitor framework for application security
2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing Companion (UCC Companion) (pp. 201-206). IEEE, 2018.
Software Test Case Selection Optimization Using Generic Algorithm
10th International Research Workshop on Advances and Innovations in Software Testing, May 2017.
On a Generic Security Game Model
International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences 10(07):142-172, July 2017.
Secure Live Virtual Machine Migration through Runtime Monitors
IEEE Tenth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3). Noida, India, August 10-12, 2017.
Automated Live Migration in OpenStack : A Moving Target Defense Solution
Journal of Computer Science Applications and Information Technology, August, 2017.
Security and Privacy in the Internet of Medical Things: Taxonomy and Risk Assessment
2017 IEEE 42nd Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), pp. 112-120, 2017.
Identifying and Scoring Vulnerability in SCADA Environments
IEEE Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 29-30 November 2017.
Evaluating Security and Privacy in Cloud Services
IEEE NATA-COMPSAC Symposium on Novel Applications and Technology Advances in Computing, Atlanta, June 10-14, 2016.
CSSR: Cloud Services Security Recommender
IEEE 11th World Congress on Services (SERVICES) - Dependable and Secure Services, San Francisco, June 26 - July 3, 2016.
A Framework for Cloud Security Assessment: A Scenario-based, Stakeholder-Oriented Approach
1st Annual Research Workshop on Advances & Innovations in Cyber Security, Memphis, TN, USA, June 9, 2016.
Mitigating congestion based DoS attacks with an enhanced AQM technique
Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications, February 2015. Vol. 56, pp. 60-73.
A Network Security Game Model
ACM-CODASPY 2015, San Antonio Texas, March 2-4, 2015.
Towards an Effective Crowdsourcing Recommendation System: A Survey of the State-of-the-Art
ISSC 2015 : IEEE International Symposium on Software Crowdsourcing, Redwood City, USA, Mar 30 - Apr 3, 2015.
Building Trust in Cloud: Service Certification Challenges and Approaches
IEEE Ninth International Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems Conference (CISIS), Blumenau, Brazil, July 2015.
Leveraging Crowdsourcing In Cloud Application Development
Proceedings of the 2015 IASTED International Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2015), Marina del Rey, USA, Oct 26-27, 2015.
Runtime Monitoring Framework for SQL Injection Attacks
International Journal of Engineering and Technology, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 392-401, 2014.
ADAPT: A Qualitative Analysis of An Ontology Based Issue Resolution System for Cyber Attack Management
IEEE 4th Annual International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control and Intelligent Systems (CYBER), Hong Kong, China, June 2014.
Exploring Security and Privacy Risks of SoA Solutions Deployed on the Cloud
GCA 2014, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - July 2014.
A Multi-Layer Architecture for Spam Detection
International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology; 2014, Vol. 6 Issue 4, pp. 193-200.
Use of Attack Graphs in Security Systems
Journal of Computer Networks and Communications, 2014.
A Survey of Cloud Computing Taxonomies: Rationale and Overview
Internet Technology And Secured Transactions (ICITST 2014) - London, UK, 2014.
Runtime Monitors to Detect and Prevent Union Query based SQL Injection Attacks
ITNG 2013, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. April 2013.
Towards a Taxonomical Approach for Secure Cloud Computing
IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Santa Clara, CA, USA - July 2013.
Essential Cloud Security Features in Windows Azure
GCA 2013, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - July 2013.
Mitigating Congestion-Based Denial of Service Attacks with Active Queue Management
IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, Atlanta, GA, USA - Dec 2013.
ADAPT: A Game Inspired Attack-Defense and Performance Metric Taxonomy
Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems, pp. 344-365. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.
A Survey of Testing Methodologies for Cloud-based Applications
System Testing Excellence Program (STEP) Conference, Memphis, TN, USA, Oct 2013.
Security in the Cloud Based Systems: Structure and Breaches
Internet Technology And Secured Transactions (ICITST 2013), IEEE, London, UK, 2013.
Testing Web Applications for Tautology based SQL Injection Attacks using Runtime Monitors
International Research Workshop on Advances and Innovations in Software Testing, Memphis, TN, USA, October 2013.
Security Testing : Status Report
Sixth International Research Workshop on Advances and Innovations in Software Testing, July 2012, Memphis, TN.
Security in the Cloud: A stake holder's perspective
International Conference on Security and Management (SAM), Las Vegas. July 2012.
IRS: An Issue Resolution system for Cyber Attack Classification and Management
International Conference on Security and Management (SAM), Las Vegas, July 2012.
Securing Cloud Infrastructure Against Co-Resident DoS Attacks Using Game Theoretic Defense Mechanisms
Intl. Workshop on Service-Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing (SOAC), Chennai, India. August 2012.
Analysis of Monitoring Tools for Java Applications
International Conference on Software and Computer Applications, Singapore, June 2012.
A Framework for Development of Runtime Monitors
International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 2012.
Runtime Monitors for Tautology based SQL Injection Attacks
International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare and Digital Forensics, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 2012.
Runtime Monitoring - A Post-deployment Security Testing Technique
International Research Workshop on Advances and Innovations in Software Testing, Memphis, TN, USA, July 2012.
Evaluating security and privacy in cloud computing services: A Stakeholder's perspective
Internet Technology And Secured Transactions (ICITST 2012), IEEE, London, UK, 2012.
Runtime Monitoring Technique to handle Tautology based SQL Injection Attack
International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics, Vol. 1, No. 3, Nov 2012.
Holistic Game Inspired Defense Architecture
International Conference on Data Engineering and Internet Technology, March, 2011. Springer, 2012.
Game Theory-based Defense Mechanisms against DDoS Attacks on TCP/TCP-friendly Flows
IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS), part of SSCI, Paris, France, April 2011.
Runtime Monitors as Sensors of Security Systems
23rd IASTED conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Dallas, December 2011.
A Framework and Demo for Preventing Anti-Computer Forensics
51st Annual IACIS Conference, Mobile, AL, Oct. 2011.
Security Testing : Are We There Yet?
Fifth International Research Workshop on Advances and Innovations in Software Testing, May 2011, Memphis, TN.
Game Theoretic Approaches to protect Cyber Space
Final Technical Report, Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-09-1-0752, Tech Report CS-10-001, April 2010.
A survey of game theory as applied to network security
The 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2010.
A Stochastic Game with Imperfect Information for Cyber Security
5th International Conference on i-Warfare & Security (ICIW), 2010.
On Modeling & Simulation of Game Theory-based Defense Mechanisms against DoS & DDoS Attacks
Spring Simulation Multi-Conference (SpringSim), 2010. Best Paper Award / 1st Place Student Research Forum.
Game Theory for Cyber Security
Sixth Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop, Oak Ridge, April, 2010.
On Self Checking Software Components
Myrtle Beach Computer Security Conference, Myrtle Beach, S.C., April 2010.
AVOIDIT: A cyber attack taxonomy
Technical Report: CS-09-003, University of Memphis, August 2009.
Knowledge Engineering
Invited Talk at the Medical Sciences Institute of Adichunchanagiri University, India, January 2020.
Artificial Intelligence Today: Rewards and Risks
Invited Talk at the Siddaganga Institute of Technology, India, January 2020.
Building Intelligent Systems – Opportunities and Challenges
Keynote Address at the 107th Indian Science Congress (ISC), Bengaluru, India, January 3–7, 2020.
Testing Machine Learning Methods on Explanation Consistency
Presented at the 37th International Test and Evaluation Symposium, September 2020.
Cyber-Security Testing for Hybrid Energy Storage System Located in Smart Grid
Presented at the 37th International Test and Evaluation Symposium, September 2020.
Cyber Security: Challenges and Research Opportunities
Invited Lecture, Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, India, January 3, 2018.
Cloud Computing: Security and Privacy
Keynote Talk at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Systems and Information Technology for Sustainable Solutions, Bangalore, India, December 21-23, 2017.