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Machine learning algorithms are increasingly being applied to fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) in chemical processes. However, existing data-driven FDD platforms often lack interpretability for process operators and struggle to identify…

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LLM-powered tools like ChatGPT Data Analysis, have the potential to help users tackle the challenging task of data analysis programming, which requires expertise in data processing, programming, and statistics. However, our formative study…

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Rootkits are among the most elusive types of malware, capable of bypassing traditional static analysis methods due to their metamorphic behavior. Signature-based detection techniques struggle against these threats, necessitating a shift…

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Automated machine learning (AutoML) has emerged as a promising paradigm for automating machine learning (ML) pipeline design, broadening AI adoption. Yet its reliability in complex domains such as cybersecurity remains underexplored. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sherif Saad , Kevin Shi , Mohammed Mamun , Hythem Elmiligi

This paper presents a novel data-driven framework to aid in system state estimation when the power system is under unobservable false data injection attacks. The proposed framework dynamically detects and classifies false data injection…

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The improvement of language model robustness, including successful defense against adversarial attacks, remains an open problem. In computer vision settings, the stochastic noising and de-noising process provided by diffusion models has…

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Phishing is one of the most prolific cybercriminal activities, with attacks becoming increasingly sophisticated. It is, therefore, imperative to explore novel technologies to improve user protection across both technical and human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Giuseppe Desolda , Francesco Greco , Luca Viganò

The growing prevalence of speech deepfakes has raised serious concerns, particularly in real-world scenarios such as telephone fraud and identity theft. While many anti-spoofing systems have demonstrated promising performance on…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Tong Zhang , Yihuan Huang , Yanzhen Ren

Spear Phishing is a harmful cyber-attack facing business and individuals worldwide. Considerable research has been conducted recently into the use of Machine Learning (ML) techniques to detect spear-phishing emails. ML-based solutions may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Keelan Evans , Alsharif Abuadbba , Tingmin Wu , Kristen Moore , Mohiuddin Ahmed , Ganna Pogrebna , Surya Nepal , Mike Johnstone

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are increasingly used in a variety of applications, many of them with substantial safety and security concerns. This paper introduces DeepCheck, a new approach for validating DNNs based on core ideas from program…

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Deep hiding, embedding images into another using deep neural networks, has shown its great power in increasing the message capacity and robustness. In this paper, we conduct an in-depth study of state-of-the-art deep hiding schemes and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Tao Xiang , Hangcheng Liu , Shangwei Guo , Tianwei Zhang

Software vulnerabilities represent one of the most pressing threats to computing systems. Identifying vulnerabilities in source code is crucial for protecting user privacy and reducing economic losses. Traditional static analysis tools rely…

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Complex software systems often suffer from silent failures, i.e., violations of the intended semantics that do not cause explicit errors. A promising approach to detect such errors is to use system-specific runtime checkers that monitor the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Beatriz Souza , Chang Lou , Suman Nath , Michael Pradel

Memory corruption is a serious class of software vulnerabilities, which requires careful attention to be detected and removed from applications before getting exploited and harming the system users. Symbolic execution is a well-known method…

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OCaml is particularly well-fitted for formal verification. On one hand, it is a multi-paradigm language with a well-defined semantics, allowing one to write clean, concise, type-safe, and efficient code. On the other hand, it is a language…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Mário Pereira , António Ravara

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a widely used file format for data storage and transmission. Many XML processors support XPath, a query language that enables the extraction of elements from XML documents. These systems can be affected…

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Browser fingerprinting enables persistent cross-site user tracking via subtle techniques that often evade conventional defenses or cause website breakage when script-level blocking countermeasures are applied. Addressing these challenges…

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Software obfuscation plays a crucial role in protecting intellectual property in software from reverse engineering attempts. While some obfuscation techniques originate from the obfuscation-reverse engineering arms race, others stem from…

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We propose Scrambler, and e-graph-based MBA obfuscation tool using Equality Expansion to efficiently generate complex and diverse expressions with equivalence guaranteed by construction. Experiments show Scrambler improves existing tools in…

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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the possibility of implementing an attack on ALPC connection in the Windows operating system through the kernel without closing the connection covertly from programs and the operating system and to…

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