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Graphs are a widely used data structure for collecting and analyzing relational data. However, when the graph structure is distributed across several parties, its analysis is particularly challenging. In particular, due to the sensitivity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Sofiane Azogagh , Zelma Aubin Birba , Sébastien Gambs , Marc-Olivier Killijian

Cybersecurity is a big challenge as hackers are always trying to find new methods to attack and exploit system vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity threats and risks have increased in recent years, due to the increasing number of devices and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ihab Mohamed , Hesham A. Hefny , Nagy R. Darwish

This paper studies recommender systems with knowledge graphs, which can effectively address the problems of data sparsity and cold start. Recently, a variety of methods have been developed for this problem, which generally try to learn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Weiping Song , Zhijian Duan , Ziqing Yang , Hao Zhu , Ming Zhang , Jian Tang

Assessing the security posture of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is critical for protecting essential infrastructure. However, the complexity and scale of these environments make it challenging to identify and prioritize potential attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Lucas Miranda , Carlos Banjar , Daniel Menasche , Anton Kocheturov , Gaurav Srivastava , Tobias Limmer

Attack graphs provide compact representations of the attack paths that an attacker can follow to compromise network resources by analysing network vulnerabilities and topology. These representations are a powerful tool for security risk…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Luis Muñoz-González , Daniele Sgandurra , Andrea Paudice , Emil C. Lupu

Recently, malevolent user hacking has become a huge problem for real-world companies. In order to learn predictive models for recommender systems, factorization techniques have been developed to deal with user-item ratings. In this paper,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Li Wang , Qiang Zhao , Wei Wang

Cybersecurity risk is commonly expressed through impact and likelihood, yet likelihood remains difficult to estimate because cyber incidents are underreported, heterogeneous datasets are weakly comparable, and attacker behaviour changes…

The losses arising from a system being hit by cyber attacks can be staggeringly high, but defending against such attacks can also be costly. This work proposes an attack countermeasure selection approach based on cost impact analysis that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Jukka Soikkeli , Luis Muñoz-González , Emil C. Lupu

With rise in security breaches over the past few years, there has been an increasing need to mine insights from social media platforms to raise alerts of possible attacks in an attempt to defend conflict during competition. In this study,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Soumajyoti Sarkar , Mohammad Almukaynizi , Jana Shakarian , Paulo Shakarian

Cybersecurity of industrial control system is a very complex and challenging research topic, due to the integration of these systems in national critical infrastructures. The control systems are now interconnected in industrial networks and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Emil Pricop , Sanda Florentina Mihalache

Various attack methods against recommender systems have been proposed in the past years, and the security issues of recommender systems have drawn considerable attention. Traditional attacks attempt to make target items recommended to as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dazhong Rong , Qinming He , Jianhai Chen

Recent studies have demonstrated the vulnerability of recommender systems to data privacy attacks. However, research on the threat to model privacy in recommender systems, such as model stealing attacks, is still in its infancy. Some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zhihao Zhu , Rui Fan , Chenwang Wu , Yi Yang , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Link directions are essential to the functionality of networks and their prediction is helpful towards a better knowledge of directed networks from incomplete real-world data. We study the problem of predicting the directions of some links…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-07-16 Fangjian Guo , Zimo Yang , Tao Zhou

Explainability of recommender systems has become essential to ensure users' trust and satisfaction. Various types of explainable recommender systems have been proposed including explainable graph-based recommender systems. This review paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Thanet Markchom , Huizhi Liang , James Ferryman

To address the sparsity and cold start problem of collaborative filtering, researchers usually make use of side information, such as social networks or item attributes, to improve recommendation performance. This paper considers the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Hongwei Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Jialin Wang , Miao Zhao , Wenjie Li , Xing Xie , Minyi Guo

Security metrics serve as a powerful tool for organizations to understand the effectiveness of protecting computer networks. However majority of these measurement techniques don't adequately help corporations to make informed risk…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-02-14 Subil Abraham , Suku Nair

Link prediction in graph data uses various algorithms and Graph Nerual Network (GNN) models to predict potential relationships between graph nodes. These techniques have found widespread use in numerous real-world applications, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Mingchen Li , Di Zhuang , Keyu Chen , Dumindu Samaraweera , Morris Chang

As interconnected systems proliferate, safeguarding complex infrastructures against an escalating array of cyber threats has become an urgent challenge. The increasing number of vulnerabilities, combined with resource constraints, makes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yuning Jiang , Nay Oo , Qiaoran Meng , Hoon Wei Lim , Biplab Sikdar

Nowadays, collaborative filtering recommender systems have been widely deployed in many commercial companies to make profit. Neighbourhood-based collaborative filtering is common and effective. To date, despite its effectiveness, there has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Liang Chen , Yangjun Xu , Fenfang Xie , Min Huang , Zibin Zheng

This project develops an online, inductive recommendation system for newly listed products on e-commerce platforms, focusing on suggesting relevant new items to customers as they purchase other products. Using the Amazon Product…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Minghao Liu , Catherine Zhao , Nathan Zhou