Paul A. Watters

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1998-2024
Publications (10 Years): 65

Top Topics

Malware Detection

Machine Learning

Speech Emotion Recognition

Top Venues

Future Gener. Comput. Syst.

Publications

Teo Susnjak, Timothy R. McIntosh, Andre L. C. Barczak, Napoleon H. Reyes, Tong Liu, Paul A. Watters, Malka N. Halgamuge
Over the Edge of Chaos? Excess Complexity as a Roadblock to Artificial General Intelligence. CoRR (2024)
Timothy R. McIntosh, Teo Susnjak, Tong Liu, Paul A. Watters, Dan Xu, Dongwei Liu, Raza Nowrozy, Malka N. Halgamuge
From COBIT to ISO 42001: Evaluating cybersecurity frameworks for opportunities, risks, and regulatory compliance in commercializing large language models. Comput. Secur. 144 (2024)
Timothy R. McIntosh, Teo Susnjak, Tong Liu, Paul A. Watters, Malka N. Halgamuge
The Inadequacy of Reinforcement Learning From Human Feedback - Radicalizing Large Language Models via Semantic Vulnerabilities. IEEE Trans. Cogn. Dev. Syst. 16 (4) (2024)
Timothy R. McIntosh, Teo Susnjak, Tong Liu, Paul A. Watters, Malka N. Halgamuge
Inadequacies of Large Language Model Benchmarks in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence. CoRR (2024)
Timothy R. McIntosh, Teo Susnjak, Tong Liu, Paul A. Watters, Raza Nowrozy, Malka N. Halgamuge
From COBIT to ISO 42001: Evaluating Cybersecurity Frameworks for Opportunities, Risks, and Regulatory Compliance in Commercializing Large Language Models. CoRR (2024)
Timothy R. McIntosh, Tong Liu, Teo Susnjak, Paul A. Watters, Alex Ng, Malka N. Halgamuge
A Culturally Sensitive Test to Evaluate Nuanced GPT Hallucination. IEEE Trans. Artif. Intell. 5 (6) (2024)
Timothy R. McIntosh, Tong Liu, Teo Susnjak, Hooman Alavizadeh, Alex Ng, Raza Nowrozy, Paul A. Watters
Harnessing GPT-4 for generation of cybersecurity GRC policies: A focus on ransomware attack mitigation. Comput. Secur. 134 (2023)
Timothy R. McIntosh, Teo Susnjak, Tong Liu, Paul A. Watters, Malka N. Halgamuge
From Google Gemini to OpenAI Q* (Q-Star): A Survey of Reshaping the Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Landscape. CoRR (2023)
Timothy R. McIntosh, A. S. M. Kayes, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Alex Ng, Paul A. Watters
Applying staged event-driven access control to combat ransomware. Comput. Secur. 128 (2023)
Jinting Zhu, Julian Jang-Jaccard, Amardeep Singh, Paul A. Watters, Seyit Camtepe
Task-Aware Meta Learning-Based Siamese Neural Network for Classifying Control Flow Obfuscated Malware. Future Internet 15 (6) (2023)
Iqbal H. Sarker, Helge Janicke, Nazeeruddin Mohammad, Paul A. Watters, Surya Nepal
AI Potentiality and Awareness: A Position Paper from the Perspective of Human-AI Teaming in Cybersecurity. CoRR (2023)
Timothy R. McIntosh, A. S. M. Kayes, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Alex Ng, Paul A. Watters
Ransomware Mitigation in the Modern Era: A Comprehensive Review, Research Challenges, and Future Directions. ACM Comput. Surv. 54 (9) (2022)
Rathin Chandra Shit, Suraj Sharma, Paul A. Watters, Kumar Yelamarthi, Biswajeet Pradhan, Richard Davison, Graham Morgan, Deepak Puthal
Privacy-preserving cooperative localization in vehicular edge computing infrastructure. Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp. 34 (14) (2022)
Humayun Kayesh, Md. Saiful Islam, Junhu Wang, A. S. M. Kayes, Paul A. Watters
A deep learning model for mining and detecting causally related events in tweets. Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp. 34 (2) (2022)
Joel Scanlan, Paul A. Watters, Jeremy Prichard, Charlotte Hunn, Caroline Spiranovic, Richard Wortley
Creating Honeypots to Prevent Online Child Exploitation. Future Internet 14 (4) (2022)
Ikram Ul Haq, Paul Black, Iqbal Gondal, Joarder Kamruzzaman, Paul A. Watters, A. S. M. Kayes
Spam Email Categorization with NLP and Using Federated Deep Learning. ADMA (2) (2022)
Timothy R. McIntosh, Paul A. Watters, A. S. M. Kayes, Alex Ng, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen
Enforcing situation-aware access control to build malware-resilient file systems. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 115 (2021)
Mian Ahmad Jan, Fazlullah Khan, Rahim Khan, Spyridon Mastorakis, Varun G. Menon, Mamoun Alazab, Paul A. Watters
Lightweight Mutual Authentication and Privacy-Preservation Scheme for Intelligent Wearable Devices in Industrial-CPS. IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics 17 (8) (2021)
Ayman Alkhalifah, Alex Ng, Paul A. Watters, A. S. M. Kayes
A Mechanism to Detect and Prevent Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contract Reentrancy Attacks. Frontiers Comput. Sci. 3 (2021)
Fazlullah Khan, Mian Ahmad Jan, Ateeq Ur Rehman, Spyridon Mastorakis, Mamoun Alazab, Paul A. Watters
A Secured and Intelligent Communication Scheme for IIoT-enabled Pervasive Edge Computing. IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics 17 (7) (2021)
Mian Ahmad Jan, Jinjin Cai, Xiang-chuan Gao, Fazlullah Khan, Spyridon Mastorakis, Muhammad Usman, Mamoun Alazab, Paul A. Watters
Security and blockchain convergence with Internet of Multimedia Things: Current trends, research challenges and future directions. J. Netw. Comput. Appl. 175 (2021)
Nighat Usman, Saeeda Usman, Fazlullah Khan, Mian Ahmad Jan, Ahthasham Sajid, Mamoun Alazab, Paul A. Watters
Intelligent Dynamic Malware Detection using Machine Learning in IP Reputation for Forensics Data Analytics. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 118 (2021)
Mohammad Hammoudeh, Paul A. Watters, Gregory Epiphaniou, A. S. M. Kayes, Pedro Pinto
Special Issue "Security Threats and Countermeasures in Cyber-Physical Systems". J. Sens. Actuator Networks 10 (3) (2021)
Jinting Zhu, Julian Jang-Jaccard, Amardeep Singh, Paul A. Watters, Seyit Camtepe
Task-Aware Meta Learning-based Siamese Neural Network for Classifying Obfuscated Malware. CoRR (2021)
Timothy R. McIntosh, A. S. M. Kayes, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Alex Ng, Paul A. Watters
Dynamic user-centric access control for detection of ransomware attacks. Comput. Secur. 111 (2021)
Wang Wei, Xinyi Cao, He Li, Lingjie Shen, Yaqin Feng, Paul A. Watters
Improving speech emotion recognition based on acoustic words emotion dictionary. Nat. Lang. Eng. 27 (6) (2021)
Paul Black, Ammar Sohail, Iqbal Gondal, Joarder Kamruzzaman, Peter Vamplew, Paul A. Watters
API Based Discrimination of Ransomware and Benign Cryptographic Programs. ICONIP (2) (2020)
Hanfeng Zhong, Paul A. Watters
The Ethics of Corporate Censorship of Information-Sharing Behavior: A Nonconsequentialist Perspective. Libr. Trends 68 (4) (2020)
A. S. M. Kayes, Wenny Rahayu, Paul A. Watters, Mamoun Alazab, Tharam S. Dillon, Elizabeth Chang
Achieving security scalability and flexibility using Fog-Based Context-Aware Access Control. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 107 (2020)
Jinting Zhu, Julian Jang-Jaccard, Paul A. Watters
Multi-Loss Siamese Neural Network With Batch Normalization Layer for Malware Detection. IEEE Access 8 (2020)
A. S. M. Kayes, Mohammad Hammoudeh, Shahriar Badsha, Paul A. Watters, Alex Ng, Fatma Mohammed, Mofakharul Islam
Responsibility Attribution Against Data Breaches. ICIoT (2020)
Iqbal H. Sarker, Alan Colman, Jun Han, A. S. M. Kayes, Paul A. Watters
CalBehav: A Machine Learning-Based Personalized Calendar Behavioral Model Using Time-Series Smartphone Data. Comput. J. 63 (7) (2020)
A. S. M. Kayes, Md. Saiful Islam, Paul A. Watters, Alex Ng, Humayun Kayesh
Automated measurement of attitudes towards social distancing using social media: A COVID-19 case study. First Monday 25 (11) (2020)
Paul A. Watters
Introduction: The Role of Censorship in Late Modern Societies. Libr. Trends 68 (4) (2020)
Wei Wang, Paul A. Watters, Xinyi Cao, Lingjie Shen, Bo Li
Significance of Phonological Features in Speech Emotion Recognition. Int. J. Speech Technol. 23 (3) (2020)
Iqbal H. Sarker, A. S. M. Kayes, Shahriar Badsha, Hamed AlQahtani, Paul A. Watters, Alex Ng
Cybersecurity data science: an overview from machine learning perspective. J. Big Data 7 (1) (2020)
Joel Scanlan, Andrew Eddy, Teresa Thomas, Tele Tan, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Paul A. Watters, Michael Fieldhouse, Lawrence Fung, Sonya Girdler
Neurodiverse Knowledge, Skills and Ability Assessment for Cyber Security. ACIS (2020)
Humayun Kayesh, Md. Saiful Islam, Junhu Wang, Shikha Anirban, A. S. M. Kayes, Paul A. Watters
Answering Binary Causal Questions: A Transfer Learning Based Approach. IJCNN (2020)
A. S. M. Kayes, Rudri Kalaria, Iqbal H. Sarker, Md. Saiful Islam, Paul A. Watters, Alex Ng, Mohammad Hammoudeh, Shahriar Badsha, Indika Kumara
A Survey of Context-Aware Access Control Mechanisms for Cloud and Fog Networks: Taxonomy and Open Research Issues. Sensors 20 (9) (2020)
Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury, A. S. M. Kayes, Paul A. Watters, Patrick Scolyer-Gray, Alex Ng
Patient Controlled, Privacy Preserving IoT Healthcare Data Sharing Framework. HICSS (2020)
Iqbal H. Sarker, A. S. M. Kayes, Paul A. Watters
Effectiveness analysis of machine learning classification models for predicting personalized context-aware smartphone usage. J. Big Data 6 (2019)
Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury, Md. Sadek Ferdous, Kamanashis Biswas, Niaz Chowdhury, A. S. M. Kayes, Mamoun Alazab, Paul A. Watters
A Comparative Analysis of Distributed Ledger Technology Platforms. IEEE Access 7 (2019)
Iqbal H. Sarker, Alan Colman, Jun Han, A. S. M. Kayes, Paul A. Watters
CalBehav: A Machine Learning based Personalized Calendar Behavioral Model using Time-Series Smartphone Data. CoRR (2019)
L. Jean Camp, Marthie Grobler, Julian Jang-Jaccard, Christian Probst, Karen Renaud, Paul A. Watters
Measuring Human Resilience in the Face of the Global Epidemiology of Cyber Attacks. HICSS (2019)
Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury, Md. Sadek Ferdous, Kamanashis Biswas, Niaz Chowdhury, A. S. M. Kayes, Paul A. Watters, Alex Ng
Trust Modeling for Blockchain-Based Wearable Data Market. CloudCom (2019)
Timothy R. McIntosh, Julian Jang-Jaccard, Paul A. Watters, Teo Susnjak
The Inadequacy of Entropy-Based Ransomware Detection. ICONIP (5) (2019)
Timothy R. McIntosh, Julian Jang-Jaccard, Paul A. Watters, Teo Susnjak
Masquerade Attacks Against Security Software Exclusion Lists. Aust. J. Intell. Inf. Process. Syst. 16 (4) (2019)
Omaru Maruatona, Ahmad Azab, Paul A. Watters
AVOCAD: Adaptive Terrorist Comms Surveillance and Interception using Machine Learning. TrustCom/BigDataSE (2019)
Paul A. Watters, Patrick Scolyer-Gray, A. S. M. Kayes, Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury
This would work perfectly if it weren't for all the humans: Two factor authentication in late modern societies. First Monday 24 (7) (2019)
Bernd Troegeler, Paul A. Watters
Steganographic Transports: A Vector for Hidden Secret Internets? TrustCom/BigDataSE (2018)
Paul A. Watters
Modelling the Efficacy of Auto-Internet Warnings to Reduce Demand for Child Exploitation Materials. PAKDD (Workshops) (2018)
Shadi Esnaashari, Lesley A. Gardner, Paul A. Watters
Clustering Student Participation: Implications for Education. AINA Workshops (2018)
Paul A. Watters
Investigating Malware Epidemiology and Child Exploitation Using Algorithmic Ethnography. HICSS (2018)
Ebrima N. Ceesay, K. Myers, Paul A. Watters
Human-centered strategies for cyber-physical systems security. EAI Endorsed Trans. Security Safety 4 (14) (2018)
Erica Shuford, Tara Kavanaugh, Brian Ralph, Ebrima N. Ceesay, Paul A. Watters
Measuring Personal Privacy Breaches Using Third-Party Trackers. TrustCom/BigDataSE (2018)
Omaru Maruatona, Peter Vamplew, Richard Dazeley, Paul A. Watters
Rapid Anomaly Detection Using Integrated Prudence Analysis (IPA). PAKDD (Workshops) (2018)
Timothy R. McIntosh, Julian Jang-Jaccard, Paul A. Watters
Large Scale Behavioral Analysis of Ransomware Attacks. ICONIP (6) (2018)
Omaru Maruatona, Peter Vamplew, Richard Dazeley, Paul A. Watters
Evaluating Accuracy in Prudence Analysis for Cyber Security. ICONIP (5) (2017)
Suriadi Suriadi, Teo Susnjak, Agate M. Ponder-Sutton, Paul A. Watters, Christoph Schumacher
Using Data-Driven and Process Mining Techniques for Identifying and Characterizing Problem Gamblers in New Zealand. Complex Syst. Informatics Model. Q. 9 (2016)
Matthew Comb, Paul A. Watters
Peeking behind the great firewall: Privacy on Chinese file sharing networks. PST (2016)
Paul A. Watters, Jacqueline Ziegler
Controlling information behaviour: the case for access control. Behav. Inf. Technol. 35 (4) (2016)
Victor Chang, Muthu Ramachandran, Gary B. Wills, Robert John Walters, Chung-Sheng Li, Paul A. Watters
Editorial for FGCS special issue: Big Data in the cloud. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 65 (2016)
Shadi Esnaashari, Anuradha Mathrani, Paul A. Watters
Investigation of Audience Interaction Tools from the Perspective of Activity Theory. CoRR (2016)
Charles Perez, Babiga Birregah, Robert Layton, Marc Lemercier, Paul A. Watters
REPLOT: REtrieving Profile Links On Twitter for malicious campaign discovery. AI Commun. 29 (1) (2016)
Suriadi Suriadi, Teo Susnjak, Agate M. Ponder-Sutton, Paul A. Watters, Christoph Schumacher
Characterizing Problem Gamblers in New Zealand: A Novel Expression of Process Cubes. CAiSE Forum (2016)
Robert Layton, Paul A. Watters, Richard Dazeley
Authorship analysis of aliases: Does topic influence accuracy? Nat. Lang. Eng. 21 (4) (2015)
Paul A. Watters
Censorship is f̶u̶t̶i̶l̶e̶ possible but difficult: A study in algorithmic ethnography. First Monday 20 (1) (2015)
Paul A. Watters, Maya F. Watters, Jacqueline Ziegler
Maximising Eyeballs but Facilitating Cybercrime? Ethical Challenges for Online Advertising in New Zealand. HICSS (2015)
Robert Layton, Paul A. Watters
A methodology for estimating the tangible cost of data breaches. J. Inf. Secur. Appl. 19 (6) (2014)
Paul A. Watters
A Systematic Approach to Measuring Advertising Transparency Online: An Australian Case Study. AWC (2014)
Jeremy Prichard, Caroline Spiranovic, Paul A. Watters, Christopher Lueg
Young people, child pornography, and subcultural norms on the Internet. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 64 (5) (2013)
Paul A. Watters, Christopher Lueg, Caroline Spiranovic, Jeremy Prichard
Patterns of ownership of child model sites: Profiling the profiteers and consumers of child exploitation material. First Monday 18 (2) (2013)
Robert Layton, Paul A. Watters, Richard Dazeley
Local n-grams for Author Identification Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2013. CLEF (Working Notes) (2013)
Anthony Dekker, Hebert Pérez-Rosés, Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio, Paul A. Watters
The Maximum Degree & Diameter-Bounded Subgraph and its Applications. J. Math. Model. Algorithms 11 (3) (2012)
Robert Layton, Paul A. Watters, Richard Dazeley
Unsupervised authorship analysis of phishing webpages. ISCIT (2012)
Paul A. Watters, Nigel Phair
Detecting Illicit Drugs on Social Media Using Automated Social Media Intelligence Analysis (ASMIA). CSS (2012)
Mamoun Alazab, Sitalakshmi Venkatraman, Paul A. Watters, Moutaz Alazab, Ammar Alazab
Cybercrime: The Case of Obfuscated Malware. ICGS3/e-Democracy (2011)
Paul A. Watters
Social networking threats. Inf. Secur. Tech. Rep. 16 (2) (2011)
Lei Zhang, Shui Yu, Di Wu, Paul A. Watters
A Survey on Latest Botnet Attack and Defense. TrustCom (2011)
Mamoun Alazab, Sitalakshmi Venkatraman, Paul A. Watters, Moutaz Alazab
Zero-day Malware Detection based on Supervised Learning Algorithms of API call Signatures. AusDM (2011)
Susan Bruck, Paul A. Watters
The factor structure of cybersickness. Displays 32 (4) (2011)
Jeremy Prichard, Paul A. Watters, Caroline Spiranovic
Internet subcultures and pathways to the use of child pornography. Comput. Law Secur. Rev. 27 (6) (2011)
Ann Pan, Donald Winchester, Lesley Land, Paul A. Watters
Descriptive Data Mining on Fraudulent Online Dating Profiles. ECIS (2010)
Desmond Lobo, Paul A. Watters, Xin Wen Wu
RBACS: Rootkit Behavioral Analysis and Classification System. WKDD (2010)
Robert Layton, Paul A. Watters, Richard Dazeley
Automatically determining phishing campaigns using the USCAP methodology. eCrime (2010)
Liping Ma, Rosemary Torney, Paul A. Watters, Simon Brown
Automatically Generating Classifier for Phishing Email Prediction. ISPAN (2009)
Paul A. Watters
Why do users trust the wrong messages? A behavioural model of phishing. eCrime (2009)
Robert Layton, Paul A. Watters
Determining provenance in phishing websites using automated conceptual analysis. eCrime (2009)
Liping Ma, John Yearwood, Paul A. Watters
Establishing phishing provenance using orthographic features. eCrime (2009)
Paul A. Watters, Frances H. Martin, H. Steffen Stripf
Visual detection of LSB-encoded natural image steganography. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 5 (1) (2008)
Huu Tran, Paul A. Watters, Michael Hitchens, Vijay Varadharajan
Trust and authorization in the grid: a recommendation model. ICPS (2005)
Paul A. Watters, Maya F. Watters, Stuart C. Carr
Evaluating Internet information services in the Asia-Pacific region. Internet Res. 8 (3) (1998)