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Android, being the most widespread mobile operating systems is increasingly becoming a target for malware. Malicious apps designed to turn mobile devices into bots that may form part of a larger botnet have become quite common, thus posing…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are becoming commonplace in critical applications, making their susceptibility to backdoor (trojan) attacks a significant problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel backdoor attack detection pipeline, detecting…

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Water is the lifeblood of river networks, and its quality plays a crucial role in sustaining both aquatic ecosystems and human societies. Real-time monitoring of water quality is increasingly reliant on in-situ sensor technology. Anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Katie Buchhorn , Edgar Santos-Fernandez , Kerrie Mengersen , Robert Salomone

Botnet is most widespread and occurs commonly in today's cyber attacks, resulting in serious threats to our network assets and organization's properties. Botnets are collections of compromised computers (Bots) which are remotely controlled…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-04-09 Hossein Rouhani Zeidanloo , Azizah Bt Abdul Manaf

Graph structural information such as topologies or connectivities provides valuable guidance for graph convolutional networks (GCNs) to learn nodes' representations. Existing GCN models that capture nodes' structural information weight in-…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Yunxiang Zhao , Jianzhong Qi , Qingwei Liu , Rui Zhang

Understanding dynamic systems like disease outbreaks, social influence, and information diffusion requires effective modeling of complex networks. Traditional evaluation methods for static networks often fall short when applied to temporal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Alireza Rashnu , Sadegh Aliakbary

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are currently the most promising paradigm for dealing with graph-structure data, while recent studies have also shown that GCNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Thus developing GCN models that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Jincheng Huang , Lun Du , Xu Chen , Qiang Fu , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Identifying influential nodes in complex networks is of great importance, and has many applications in practice. For example, finding influential nodes in e-commerce network can provide merchants with customers with strong purchase intent;…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yanmei Hu , Siyuan Yin , Yihang Wu , Xue Yue , Yue Liu

In this paper, we present a novel approach to identify linked fraudulent activities or actors sharing similar attributes, using Graph Convolution Network (GCN). These linked fraudulent activities can be visualized as graphs with abstract…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Sharmin Pathan , Vyom Shrivastava

The increasing incidence of IoT-based botnet attacks has driven interest in advanced learning models for detection. Recent efforts have focused on leveraging attention mechanisms to model long-range feature dependencies and Graph Neural…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hassan Wasswa , Hussein Abbass , Timothy Lynar

The presence of a large number of bots on social media leads to adverse effects. Although Random forest algorithm is widely used in bot detection and can significantly enhance the performance of weak classifiers, it cannot utilize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shuhao Shi , Kai Qiao , Jie Yang , Baojie Song , Jian Chen , Bin Yan

Graph Convolution Network (GCN) has attracted significant attention and become the most popular method for learning graph representations. In recent years, many efforts have been focused on integrating GCN into the recommender tasks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Kang Liu , Feng Xue , Richang Hong

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have shown promising results in processing graph data by extracting structure-aware features. This gave rise to extensive work in geometric deep learning, focusing on designing network architectures that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Yimeng Min , Frederik Wenkel , Guy Wolf

Link prediction is a classical problem in graph analysis with many practical applications. For directed graphs, recently developed deep learning approaches typically analyze node similarities through contrastive learning and aggregate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yuyang Zhang , Xu Shen , Yu Xie , Ka-Chun Wong , Weidun Xie , Chengbin Peng

Accurate and efficient rumor detection is critical for information governance, particularly in the context of the rapid spread of misinformation on social networks. Traditional rumor detection relied primarily on manual analysis. With the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yanqin Yan , Suiyu Zhang , Dingguo Yu , Yijie Zhou , Cheng-Jun Wang , Ke-ke Shang

Social bots are increasingly polluting online platforms by spreading misinformation and engaging in coordinated manipulation, posing severe threats to cybersecurity. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become mainstream for social bot…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zida Liu , Jun Gao , Zhang Ji , Li Zhao

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have achieved great success on graph-structured data. Many graph convolutional networks can be thought of as low-pass filters for graph signals. In this paper, we propose a more powerful graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Zhixian Chen , Tengfei Ma , Zhihua Jin , Yangqiu Song , Yang Wang

With the rise of IoT-based botnet attacks, researchers have explored various learning models for detection, including traditional machine learning, deep learning, and hybrid approaches. A key advancement involves deploying attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Hassan Wasswa , Hussein Abbass , Timothy Lynar

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are a powerful deep learning approach for graph-structured data. Recently, GCNs and subsequent variants have shown superior performance in various application areas on real-world datasets. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Ming Chen , Zhewei Wei , Zengfeng Huang , Bolin Ding , Yaliang Li

Botnets (networks of compromised computers) are often used for malicious activities such as spam, click fraud, identity theft, phishing, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Most of previous researches have introduced fully or…

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