Dr. Leslie F. Sikos Computer Scientist | Cybersecurity Publications

Selected Publications

Sikos, L. F., Haskell-Dowland, P. (eds.) (2023) Cybersecurity Teaching in Higher Education. Cham: Springer. 10.1007/978-3-031-24216-8
Sikos, L. F. (2023) Learning Environments for Digital Forensics Teaching in Higher Education. In: Sikos, L. F. and Haskell-Dowland, P. (2023) Cybersecurity Teaching in Higher Education, pp. 127–139. Cham: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24216-8_6
Sikos, L. F. (2023) Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs. Knowledge and Information Systems. DOI: 10.1007/s10115-023-01860-3
Bughio, K. S., Sikos, L. F. (2023) Knowledge Organization Systems to Support Cyber-Resilience in Medical Smart Home Environments. In: Ahmed, M., Haskell-Dowland, P. (eds.) Cybersecurity for Smart Cities, pp. 61–69. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24946-4_5
Sikos, L. F., Valli, C., Grojek, A. E., Holmes, D. J., Wakeling, S. G., Cabral, W. Z., Karie, N. M. (2023) CamDec: Advancing Axis P1435-LE Video Camera Security Using Honeypot-Based Deception. Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques. DOI: 10.1007/s11416-023-00463-4
Grojek, A. E., Sikos, L. F. (2022) Ontology-Driven Artificial Intelligence in IoT Forensics. In: Daimi, K., Francia III, G., Encinas, L. H. (eds.) Breakthroughs in Digital Biometrics and Forensics, pp. 257–286. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10706-1_12
Cabral, W., Sikos L. F., Valli, C. (2022) Shodan Indicators Used to Detect Standard Conpot Implementations and Their Improvement Through Sophisticated Customization. 2022 IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing, Edinburgh, UK, 22–24 June 2022. DOI: 10.1109/DSC54232.2022.9888911
Barnsley, W. (2022) Never Open the Facebook Message from Your ‘Friend’ if it Leads with These Four Words. 7NEWS, 25 March 2022 (interviewed)
Karie, N. M., Sikos, L. F. (2022) Cybersecurity Incident Response in the Enterprise. In: Ahmed, M., Moustafa, N., Barkat, A., Haskell-Dowland, P. (eds.) Enterprise Security and Governance, pp. 83–119. CRC Press. DOI: 10.1201/9781003121541-4
Rashid, B., Ahmed, M., Sikos, L. F., Haskell-Dowland, P. (2021) Anomaly Detection in Cybersecurity Datasets via Cooperative Co-Evolution-Based Feature Selection. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems 13(3), Article 29. DOI: 10.1145/3495165
Ahmed, M., Byreddy, S., Nutakki, A., Sikos, L. F., Haskell-Dowland, P. (2021) ECU-IoHT: A Dataset for Analyzing Cyberattacks in Internet of Health Things. Ad Hoc Networks 122, 102621. DOI: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2021.102621
Kang, J. J., Sikos, L. F., Yang, W. (2021) Reducing the Attack Surface of Edge Computing IoT Networks via Hybrid Routing using Dedicated Nodes. In: Ahmed, M., Haskell-Dowland, P. (eds.) Secure Edge Computing: Applications, Techniques and Challenges, pp. 97–111. CRC Press (forthcoming)
Cabral, W. Z., Valli, C., Sikos, L. F., Wakeling, S. G. (2021) Advanced Cowrie Configuration to Increase Honeypot Deceptiveness. In: Jøsang, A., Futcher, L., Hagen, J. (eds.) ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection. SEC 2021. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 625, pp. 317–331. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78120-0_21
Sikos, L. F. (2021) Contextualized Knowledge Graphs in Communication Network and Cyber-Physical System Modeling. In: Sikos, L. F., Seneviratne, O. W., McGuinness, D. L. (eds.) (2021) Provenance in Data Science: From Data Models to Context-Aware Knowledge Graphs, pp. 47–58. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-67681-0_4
Sikos, L. F. (2021) The Evolution of Context-Aware RDF Knowledge Graphs. In: Sikos, L. F., Seneviratne, O. W., McGuinness, D. L. (eds.) (2021) Provenance in Data Science: From Data Models to Context-Aware Knowledge Graphs, pp. 1–10. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-67681-0_1
Sikos, L. F., Seneviratne, O. W., McGuinness, D. L. (eds.) (2021) Provenance in Data Science: From Data Models to Context-Aware Knowledge Graphs. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-67681-0
Bazlur Rashid, A. N. M., Ahmed, M., Sikos, L. F., Haskell-Dowland, P. (2020) Cooperative Co-Evolution for Feature Selection in Big Data with Random Feature Grouping. Journal of Big Data 7:107. DOI: 10.1186/s40537-020-00381-y
Sadik, S., Ahmed, M., Sikos, L. F., Najmul Islam, A. K. M. (2020) Toward a Sustainable Cybersecurity Ecosystem. Computers 9(3), 74. DOI: 10.3390/computers9030074
Bazlur Rashid, A. N. M., Ahmed, M., Sikos, L. F., Haskell-Dowland, P. (2020) A Novel Penalty-Based Wrapper Objective Function for Feature Selection in Big Data using Cooperative Co-Evolution. IEEE Access 8:150113–150129. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3016679
Sikos, L. F. (2020) AI in Digital Forensics: Ontology Engineering for Cybercrime Investigations. WIREs Forensic Science. DOI: 10.1002/wfs2.1394
Cabral, W., Valli, C., Sikos, L. F., Wakeling, S. G. (2020) Analysis of Conpot and its BACnet Features for Cyber-Deception. 19th International Conference on Security & Management, 27–30 July 2020, USA
Sikos, L. F. (2020) AI-Powered Cybersecurity: From Automated Threat Detection to Adaptive Defense. CISO Magazine 4(5):74–87. https://cisomag.com/ai-in-cybersecurity/
Flotyński, J., Malamos, A. G., Brutzman, D., Hamza-Lup, F. G., Polys, N. F., Sikos, L. F., Walczak, K. (2020) Recent Advances in Web3D Semantic Modeling. In: Voulodimos, A., Doulamis, A. (eds.) Recent Advances in 3D Imaging, Modeling, and Reconstruction, pp. 23–49. IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5294-9.ch002
Yang, W., Johnstone, M. N., Sikos, L. F., Wang, S. (2020) Security and Forensics in the Internet of Things: Research Advances and Challenges. Proceedings of the 2020 Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Security in IoT, pp. 12–17. DOI: 10.1109/ETSecIoT50046.2020.00007
Sikos, L. F., Philp, D. (2020) Provenance-Aware Knowledge Representation: A Survey of Data Models and Contextualized Knowledge Graphs. Data Science and Engineering 5(3):293–316. DOI: 10.1007/s41019-020-00118-0
Sikos, L. F. (2020) Coronavirus Victims of a Different Nature: the Targets of COVID-19 Cyberthreats. Cyber Risk Leaders Magazine, 2020(2):42–44
Sikos, L. F. (2020) The Formal Representation of Cyberthreats for Automated Reasoning. In: Sikos, L. F., Choo, K.-K., R. (eds.) Data Science in Cybersecurity and Cyberthreat Intelligence. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 1–12. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-38788-4_1
Sikos, L. F., Choo, K.-K., R. (eds.) (2020) Data Science in Cybersecurity and Cyberthreat Intelligence. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-38788-4
Sikos, L. F. (2020) Packet Analysis for Network Forensics: A Comprehensive Survey. Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation 32C (2020) 200892. DOI: 10.1016/j.fsidi.2019.200892
Flotyński, J., Brutzman, D., Hamza-Lup, F. G., Malamos, A., Polys, N., Sikos, L. F., Walczak, K. (2019) The Semantic Web3D: Towards Comprehensive Representation of 3D Content on the Semantic Web. 2019 International Conference on 3D Immersion (IC3D), Brussels, Belgium, 11–12 Dec 2019. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/IC3D48390.2019.8975906
Cabral, W., Valli, C., Sikos, L. F., Wakeling, S. G. (2019) Review and Analysis of Cowrie Artefacts and Their Potential to be Used Deceptively. Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, pp. 166–171. IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/CSCI49370.2019.00035
Sikos, L. F., Haskell-Dowland, P. (2019) Apple iPhones Could Have Been Hacked for Years – Here’s What to Do About It. ABC News, 5 Sep 2019
Sikos, L. F. (2019) Knowledge Representation to Support Partially Automated Honeypot Analysis Based on Wireshark Packet Capture Files. In: Czarnowski, I., Howlett, R. J., Jain, L. C. (eds.) Intelligent Decision Technologies 2019, vol. 1, pp. 345–351. Springer, Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8311-3_30
Brutzman, D., Flotyński, J., Malamos, A., Polys, N., Sikos, L. F. (2019) Metadata and Semantics for Web3D. ACM, New York. DOI: 10.1145/3329714.3339912
Philp, D., Chan, N., Sikos, L. F. (2019) Decision Support for Network Path Estimation via Automated Reasoning. In: Czarnowski, I., Howlett, R. J., Jain, L. C. (eds.) Intelligent Decision Technologies 2019, vol. 1, pp. 335–344. Springer, Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8311-3_29
Sikos, L. F., Philp, D., Voigt, S., Howard, C., Stumptner, M., Mayer, W. (2018) Provenance-Aware LOD Datasets for Detecting Network Inconsistencies. In: Capadisli, S., Cotton, F., Giménez-Garcı́a, J. M., Haller, A., Kalampokis, E., Nguyen, V., Sheth, A., and Troncy, R. (eds.) (2018) Joint Proceedings of the International Workshops on Contextualized Knowledge Graphs, and Semantic Statistics co-located with the 17th International Semantic Web Conference, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2317, Article 3. RWTH Aachen University, Aachen
Sikos, L. F., Stumptner, M., Mayer, W., Howard, C., Voigt, S., Philp, D. (2018) Visualization of Conceptualized Dynamic Network Knowledge for Cyber-Situational Awareness. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Concept Mapping, Medellín, Colombia, 26–28 Sep 2018. Poster 15

Sikos, L. F., Stumptner, M., Mayer, W., Howard, C., Voigt, S., Philp, D. (2018) Representing Network Knowledge Using Provenance-Aware Formalisms for Cyber-Situational Awareness. Procedia Computer Science 126:29–38. DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2018.07.206
Sikos, L. F., Stumptner, M., Mayer, W., Howard, C., Voigt, S., Philp, D. (2018) Automated Reasoning over Provenance-Aware Communication Network Knowledge in Support of Cyber-Situational Awareness. In: Liu, W., Giunchiglia, F., Yang, B. (eds.) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, pp. 132–143. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99247-1_12
Sikos, L. F., Philp, D., Howard, C., Voigt, S., Stumptner, M., Mayer, W. (2018) Knowledge Representation of Network Semantics for Reasoning-Powered Cyber-Situational Awareness. In: Sikos, L. F. (2018) AI in Cybersecurity, pp. 19–45. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98842-9_2
Sikos, L. F. (2018) OWL Ontologies in Cybersecurity: Conceptual Modeling of Cyber-Knowledge. In: Sikos, L. F. (2018) AI in Cybersecurity, pp. 1–17. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98842-9_1
Sikos, L. F. (ed.) (2018) AI in Cybersecurity. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98842-9
Sikos, L. F. (2018) Handling Uncertainty and Vagueness in Network Knowledge Representation for Cyberthreat Intelligence. In: Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) (part of the 2018 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence). Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2018.8491686

Sikos, L. F., Stumptner, M., Mayer, W., Howard, C., Voigt, S., Philp, D. (2018) Summarizing Network Information for Cyber-Situational Awareness via Cyber-Knowledge Integration. AOC 2018 Convention, Adelaide, Australia, 30 May 2018

Sikos, L. F. (2018) VidOnt: a Core Reference Ontology for Reasoning over Video Scenes. Journal of Information and Telecommunication 2(2):192–204. DOI: 10.1080/24751839.2018.1437696
Sikos, L. F. (2018) MPEG-7-Aligned Spatiotemporal Video Annotation and Scene Interpretation via an Ontological Framework for Intelligent Applications in Medical Image Sequence and Video Analysis
Sikos, L. F. (2018) Ontology-Based Structured Video Annotation for Content-Based Video Retrieval via Spatiotemporal Reasoning. In Kwaśnicka, H., Jain, L. C. (eds.) Bridging the Semantic Gap in Image and Video Analysis, vol. 145, pp. 97–122. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-73891-8_6

Sikos, L. F. (2018) Spatiotemporal Reasoning for Complex Video Event Recognition in Content-Based Video Retrieval. In Hassanien, A., Shaalan, K., Gaber, T., Tolba, M. (eds.) Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 704–713. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-64861-3_66

Sikos, L. F. (2017) Utilizing Multimedia Ontologies in Video Scene Interpretation via Information Fusion and Automated Reasoning. In 2017 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, pp. 91–98. New York: IEEE. doi: 10.15439/2017F66
Sikos, L. F. (2017) A Novel Ontology for 3D Semantics: Ontology-Based 3D Model Indexing and Content-Based Video Retrieval Applied to the Medical Domain. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 12(1):59–70. doi: 10.1504/IJMSO.2017.10008658

Sikos, L. F. (2017) 3D Model Indexing in Videos for Content-Based Retrieval via X3D-Based Semantic Enrichment and Automated Reasoning. In 22nd International Conference on 3D Web Technology. Brisbane, Australia, 5–7 June 2017. New York: ACM, Article No. 19. doi: 10.1145/3055624.3075943
Sikos, L. F. (2017) Description Logics in Multimedia Reasoning. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54066-5

Sikos, L. F. (2016) Rich Semantics for Interactive 3D Models of Cultural Artifacts. In Garoufallou, E., Subirats, I., Stellato, A., and Greenberg, J. (eds.) Metadata and Semantics Research. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 169–180. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-49157-8_14

Sikos, L. F. (2016) RDF-Powered Semantic Video Annotation Tools with Concept Mapping to Linked Data for Next-Generation Video Indexing: A Comprehensive Review. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 76(12):14437–14460. doi: 10.1007/s11042-016-3705-7

Sikos, L. F. (2016) A Novel Approach to Multimedia Ontology Engineering for Automated Reasoning over Audiovisual LOD Datasets. In Nguyễn, N. T., Trawiński, B., Fujita, H., and Hong, T.-P. (eds.) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, pp. 3–12. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-49381-6_1

Sikos, L. F. and Powers, D. M. W. (2015) Knowledge-Driven Video Information Retrieval with LOD: from Semi-Structured to Structured Video Metadata. In Eighth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval. Melbourne, Australia, 23 October 2015. New York: ACM, pp. 35–37. doi: 10.1145/2810133.2810141
Sikos, L. F. (2015) Mastering Structured Data on the Semantic Web: from HTML5 Microdata to Linked Open Data. New York: Apress. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4842-1049-9
Sikos, L. F. (2014) Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML (2nd ed.). New York: Apress doi: 10.1007/978-1-4842-0883-0
Sikos, L. F. (2011) Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML (1st ed.). New York: Apress. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4302-4042-6

Communication Network Topology and Forwarding Ontology (CNTFO): https://purl.org/ontology/network/
STIX2 Ontology: https://purl.org/ontology/stix2/
MPEG-7 Ontology: https://purl.org/ontology/mpeg7/
Packet Analysis Ontology (PAO): https://purl.org/ontology/pao/
Video Ontology (VidOnt): https://purl.org/ontology/video/
3D Modeling Ontology: https://purl.org/ontology/t3dmo/

Book Chapters

Sikos, L. F. (2023) Learning Environments for Digital Forensics Teaching in Higher Education. In: Sikos, L. F. and Haskell-Dowland, P. (2023) Cybersecurity Teaching in Higher Education, pp. 127–139. Cham: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-24216-8_6
Grojek, A. E., Sikos, L. F. (2022) Ontology-Driven Artificial Intelligence in IoT Forensics. In: Daimi, K., Francia III, G., Encinas, L. H. (eds.) Breakthroughs in Digital Biometrics and Forensics, pp. 257–286. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10706-1_12
Karie, N. M., Sikos, L. F. (2022) Cybersecurity Incident Response in the Enterprise. In: Ahmed, M., Moustafa, N., Barkat, A., Haskell-Dowland, P. (eds.) Enterprise Security and Governance, pp. 83–119. CRC Press. DOI: 10.1201/9781003121541-4
Kang, J. J., Sikos, L. F., Yang, W. (2021) Reducing the Attack Surface of Edge Computing IoT Networks via Hybrid Routing using Dedicated Nodes. In: Ahmed, M., Haskell-Dowland, P. (eds.) Secure Edge Computing: Applications, Techniques and Challenges, pp. 97–111. CRC Press (forthcoming)
Sikos, L. F. (2021) Contextualized Knowledge Graphs in Communication Network and Cyber-Physical System Modeling. In: Sikos, L. F., Seneviratne, O. W., McGuinness, D. L. (eds.) (2021) Provenance in Data Science: From Data Models to Context-Aware Knowledge Graphs, pp. 47–58. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-67681-0_4
Sikos, L. F. (2021) The Evolution of Context-Aware RDF Knowledge Graphs. In: Sikos, L. F., Seneviratne, O. W., McGuinness, D. L. (eds.) (2021) Provenance in Data Science: From Data Models to Context-Aware Knowledge Graphs, pp. 1–10. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-67681-0_1
Flotyński, J., Malamos, A. G., Brutzman, D., Hamza-Lup, F. G., Polys, N. F., Sikos, L. F., Walczak, K. (2020) Recent Advances in Web3D Semantic Modeling. In: Voulodimos, A., Doulamis, A. (eds.) Recent Advances in 3D Imaging, Modeling, and Reconstruction, pp. 23–49. IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5294-9.ch002
Sikos, L. F. (2020) The Formal Representation of Cyberthreats for Automated Reasoning. In: Sikos, L. F., Choo, K.-K., R. (eds.) Data Science in Cybersecurity and Cyberthreat Intelligence. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 1–12. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-38788-4_1
Sikos, L. F. (2019) Knowledge Representation to Support Partially Automated Honeypot Analysis Based on Wireshark Packet Capture Files. In: Czarnowski, I., Howlett, R. J., Jain, L. C. (eds.) Intelligent Decision Technologies 2019, vol. 1, pp. 345–351. Springer, Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8311-3_30
Philp, D., Chan, N., Sikos, L. F. (2019) Decision Support for Network Path Estimation via Automated Reasoning. In: Czarnowski, I., Howlett, R. J., Jain, L. C. (eds.) Intelligent Decision Technologies 2019, vol. 1, pp. 335–344. Springer, Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8311-3_29
Sikos, L. F., Stumptner, M., Mayer, W., Howard, C., Voigt, S., Philp, D. (2018) Automated Reasoning over Provenance-Aware Communication Network Knowledge in Support of Cyber-Situational Awareness. In: Liu, W., Giunchiglia, F., Yang, B. (eds.) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, pp. 132–143. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99247-1_12
Sikos, L. F., Philp, D., Howard, C., Voigt, S., Stumptner, M., Mayer, W. (2018) Knowledge Representation of Network Semantics for Reasoning-Powered Cyber-Situational Awareness. In: Sikos, L. F. (2018) AI in Cybersecurity, pp. 19–45. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98842-9_2
Sikos, L. F. (2018) OWL Ontologies in Cybersecurity: Conceptual Modeling of Cyber-Knowledge. In: Sikos, L. F. (2018) AI in Cybersecurity, pp. 1–17. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98842-9_1
Sikos, L. F. (2018) Ontology-Based Structured Video Annotation for Content-Based Video Retrieval via Spatiotemporal Reasoning. In Kwaśnicka, H., Jain, L. C. (eds.) Bridging the Semantic Gap in Image and Video Analysis, vol. 145, pp. 97–122. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-73891-8_6
Sikos, L. F. (2018) Spatiotemporal Reasoning for Complex Video Event Recognition in Content-Based Video Retrieval. In Hassanien, A., Shaalan, K., Gaber, T., Tolba, M. (eds.) Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 704–713. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-64861-3_66
Sikos, L. F. (2016) Rich Semantics for Interactive 3D Models of Cultural Artifacts. In Garoufallou, E., Subirats, I., Stellato, A., and Greenberg, J. (eds.) Metadata and Semantics Research. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 169–180. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-49157-8_14
Sikos, L. F. (2016) A Novel Approach to Multimedia Ontology Engineering for Automated Reasoning over Audiovisual LOD Datasets. In Nguyễn, N. T., Trawiński, B., Fujita, H., and Hong, T.-P. (eds.) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, pp. 3–12. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-49381-6_1

Conference Papers

Cabral, W., Sikos L. F., Valli, C. (2022) Shodan Indicators Used to Detect Standard Conpot Implementations and Their Improvement Through Sophisticated Customization. 2022 IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing, Edinburgh, UK, 22–24 June 2022. DOI: 10.1109/DSC54232.2022.9888911
Cabral, W. Z., Valli, C., Sikos, L. F., Wakeling, S. G. (2021) Advanced Cowrie Configuration to Increase Honeypot Deceptiveness. In: Jøsang, A., Futcher, L., Hagen, J. (eds.) ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection. Proceedings of the 36th IFIP TC 11 International Conference, SEC 2021, Oslo, Norway, June 22–24, 2021. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 625, pp. 317–331. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78120-0_21
Cabral, W., Valli, C., Sikos, L. F., Wakeling, S. G. (2020) Analysis of Conpot and its BACnet Features for Cyber-Deception. 19th International Conference on Security & Management, 27–30 July 2020, USA
Yang, W., Johnstone, M. N., Sikos, L. F., Wang, S. (2020) Security and Forensics in the Internet of Things: Research Advances and Challenges. Proceedings of the 2020 Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Security in IoT, pp. 12–17. DOI: 10.1109/ETSecIoT50046.2020.00007
Flotyński, J., Brutzman, D., Hamza-Lup, F. G., Malamos, A., Polys, N., Sikos, L. F., Walczak, K. (2019) The Semantic Web3D: Towards Comprehensive Representation of 3D Content on the Semantic Web. 2019 International Conference on 3D Immersion (IC3D), Brussels, Belgium, 11–12 Dec 2019. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/IC3D48390.2019.8975906
Cabral, W., Valli, C., Sikos, L. F., Wakeling, S. G. (2019) Review and Analysis of Cowrie Artefacts and Their Potential to be Used Deceptively. Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, pp. 166–171. IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/CSCI49370.2019.00035
Brutzman, D., Flotyński, J., Malamos, A., Polys, N., Sikos, L. F. (2019) Metadata and Semantics for Web3D. ACM, New York. DOI: 10.1145/3329714.3339912. Web3D 2019 Conference, 26–28 July 2019, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sikos, L. F. (2019) Knowledge Representation to Support Partially Automated Honeypot Analysis Based on Wireshark Packet Capture Files. In: Czarnowski, I., Howlett, R. J., Jain, L. C. (eds.) Intelligent Decision Technologies 2019, vol. 1, pp. 345–351. Springer, Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8311-3_30. The 11th KES International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT-19), 17–19 June 2019, Malta
Philp, D., Chan, N., Sikos, L. F. (2019) Decision Support for Network Path Estimation via Automated Reasoning. In: Czarnowski, I., Howlett, R. J., Jain, L. C. (eds.) Intelligent Decision Technologies 2019, vol. 1, pp. 335–344. Springer, Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8311-3_29. The 11th KES International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT-19), 17–19 June 2019, Malta.
Sikos, L. F., Philp, D., Voigt, S., Howard, C., Stumptner, M., Mayer, W. (2018) Provenance-Aware LOD Datasets for Detecting Network Inconsistencies. In: Capadisli, S., Cotton, F., Giménez-Garcı́a, J. M., Haller, A., Kalampokis, E., Nguyen, V., Sheth, A., and Troncy, R. (eds.) (2018) Joint Proceedings of the International Workshops on Contextualized Knowledge Graphs, and Semantic Statistics co-located with the 17th International Semantic Web Conference, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2317, Article 3. RWTH Aachen University, Aachen. 2018 International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Monterey, CA, USA, 8–12 Oct 2018
Sikos, L. F., Stumptner, M., Mayer, W., Howard, C., Voigt, S., Philp, D. (2018) Visualization of Conceptualized Dynamic Network Knowledge for Cyber-Situational Awareness. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Concept Mapping, Medellín, Colombia, 26–28 Sep 2018. Poster 15
Sikos, L. F., Stumptner, M., Mayer, W., Howard, C., Voigt, S., Philp, D. (2018) Representing Network Knowledge Using Provenance-Aware Formalisms for Cyber-Situational Awareness. Procedia Computer Science 126:29–38. DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2018.07.206. 22nd International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2018), 3–5 September 2018, Belgrade, Serbia
Sikos, L. F., Stumptner, M., Mayer, W., Howard, C., Voigt, S., Philp, D. (2018) Automated Reasoning over Provenance-Aware Communication Network Knowledge in Support of Cyber-Situational Awareness. In: Liu, W., Giunchiglia, F., Yang, B. (eds.) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, pp. 132–143. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99247-1_12. 11th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2018), 17–19 August 2018, Changchun, China
Sikos, L. F. (2018) Handling Uncertainty and Vagueness in Network Knowledge Representation for Cyberthreat Intelligence. In: Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) (part of the 2018 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence). Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2018.8491686. 8–13 July 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sikos, L. F., Stumptner, M., Mayer, W., Howard, C., Voigt, S., Philp, D. (2018) Summarizing Network Information for Cyber-Situational Awareness via Cyber-Knowledge Integration. AOC 2018 Convention, Adelaide, Australia, 30 May 2018
Sikos, L. F. (2018) Spatiotemporal Reasoning for Complex Video Event Recognition in Content-Based Video Retrieval. In Hassanien, A., Shaalan, K., Gaber, T., Tolba, M. (eds.) Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 704–713. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-64861-3_66. International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2017 (AISI 2017), 9–11 September Cairo, Egypt

Sikos, L. F. (2017) Utilizing Multimedia Ontologies in Video Scene Interpretation via Information Fusion and Automated Reasoning. In 2017 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, pp. 91–98. New York: IEEE. doi: 10.15439/2017F66. 3–6 September 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
Sikos, L. F. (2017) 3D Model Indexing in Videos for Content-Based Retrieval via X3D-Based Semantic Enrichment and Automated Reasoning. New York: ACM, Article No. 19. doi: 10.1145/3055624.3075943. 22nd International Conference on 3D Web Technology, 5–7 June 2017, Brisbane, Australia
Sikos, L. F. (2016) Rich Semantics for Interactive 3D Models of Cultural Artifacts. In Garoufallou, E., Subirats, I., Stellato, A., and Greenberg, J. (eds.) Metadata and Semantics Research. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 169–180. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-49157-8_14. 10th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2016), 22–25 November 2016, Göttingen, Germany
Sikos, L. F. (2016) A Novel Approach to Multimedia Ontology Engineering for Automated Reasoning over Audiovisual LOD Datasets. In Nguyễn, N. T., Trawiński, B., Fujita, H., and Hong, T.-P. (eds.) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer, pp. 3–12. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-49381-6_1. Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2016), 14–16 March, Đà Nẵng, Vietnam
Sikos, L. F. and Powers, D. M. W. (2015) Knowledge-Driven Video Information Retrieval with LOD: from Semi-Structured to Structured Video Metadata. In Eighth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval. New York: ACM, pp. 35–37. doi: 10.1145/2810133.2810141. 23 October 2015, Melbourne, Australia

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