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  1. Helping Security Analysts and AI Work Better Together

    Article • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, June 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE, Faayed Al Faisal, Arka Ghosh, Dmitry Goldgof, Kritan Banstola, Dr. Kevin Lybarger

  2. Optimizing IDS rule placement via set covering with capacity constraints

    Article • Computers & Security, February 2026, Elsevier

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE, Arka Ghosh

  3. Resilience and performance quantification of dynamic reconfiguration

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, November 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  4. Classifying Human-Generated and AI-Generated Election Claims in Social Media

    Article • January 2024, Scitepress

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  5. A framework for designing vulnerability metrics

    Article • Computers & Security, September 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  6. Measuring the Impact of Cyber Attacks on Complex Systems

    Article • Security and Privacy, January 2023, Wiley

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  7. Dependency Graphs

    Article • December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  8. Biometric multi‐factor authentication: On the usability of the FingerPIN scheme

    Article • Security and Privacy, November 2022, Wiley

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  9. A Formal Model for Credential Hopping Attacks

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  10. Mason Vulnerability Scoring Framework: A Customizable Framework for Scoring Common Vulnerabilities and Weaknesses

    Article • January 2022, Scitepress

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  11. FingerPIN: An Authentication Mechanism Integrating Fingerprints and Personal Identification Numbers

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  12. Performance Modeling of Moving Target Defenses with Reconfiguration Limits

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, January 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  13. Security and trust in cloud application life-cycle management

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, October 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  14. A Quantitative Framework to Model Reconnaissance by Stealthy Attackers and Support Deception-Based Defenses

    Article • June 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  15. SCIBORG: Secure Configurations for the IoT Based on optimization and Reasoning on Graphs

    Article • June 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  16. Adaptive Cyber Defenses for Botnet Detection and Mitigation

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  17. Moving Target Defense Quantification

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  18. Online and Scalable Adaptive Cyber Defense

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  19. Proactive Defense Through Deception

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  20. DeBot: A novel network‐based mechanism to detect exfiltration by architectural stealthy botnets

    Article • Security and Privacy, November 2018, Wiley

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  21. Measuring the Effectiveness of Network Deception

    Article • November 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  22. On Defensive Cyber Deception: A Case Study Using SDN

    Article • October 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  23. MTD 2018

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  24. A Quantitative Framework to Model Advanced Persistent Threats

    Article • January 2018, Scitepress

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  25. Defending from Stealthy Botnets Using Moving Target Defenses

    Article • IEEE Security & Privacy, January 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  26. From Cyber Situational Awareness to Adaptive Cyber Defense: Leveling the Cyber Playing Field

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  27. Detecting Stealthy Botnets in a Resource-Constrained Environment using Reinforcement Learning

    Article • October 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  28. Performance Modeling of Moving Target Defenses

    Article • October 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  29. A Graphical Model to Assess the Impact of Multi-Step Attacks

    Article • The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation Applications Methodology Technology, April 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  30. From idea to prototype: Introducing students to entrepreneurship

    Article • January 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dann Sklarew, Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  31. A Framework for Moving Target Defense Quantification

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  32. Computer-Aided Human Centric Cyber Situation Awareness

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  33. An Integrated Framework for Cyber Situation Awareness

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  34. A Moving Target Defense Approach to Disrupting Stealthy Botnets

    Article • October 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  35. Moving Target Defense against DDoS Attacks

    Article • October 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  36. A moving target defense approach to mitigate DDoS attacks against proxy-based architectures

    Article • October 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  37. A quantitative risk assessment framework for adaptive Intrusion Detection in the cloud

    Article • October 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  38. Network Diversity: A Security Metric for Evaluating the Resilience of Networks Against Zero-Day Attacks

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, May 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  39. Deceiving Attackers by Creating a Virtual Attack Surface

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  40. A deception based approach for defeating OS and service fingerprinting

    Article • September 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  41. Disrupting stealthy botnets through strategic placement of detectors

    Article • September 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  42. Security and Privacy Issues in Social Networks

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  43. Keeping Intruders at Bay: A Graph-theoretic Approach to Reducing the Probability of Successful Network Intrusions

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  44. Manipulating the attacker's view of a system's attack surface

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  45. Next-generation technologies for preventing accidental death of children trapped in parked vehicles

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  46. A probabilistic framework for jammer identification in MANETs

    Article • Ad Hoc Networks, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  47. Discovering the Top-k Unexplained Sequences in Time-Stamped Observation Data

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, March 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  48. A Multi-Layer Moving Target Defense Approach for Protecting Resource-Constrained Distributed Devices

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  49. An Efficient Framework for Evaluating the Risk of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  50. Attack Graph and Network Hardening

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  51. Automated Cyber Situation Awareness Tools and Models for Improving Analyst Performance

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  52. Conclusion

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  53. Formation of Awareness

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  54. Introduction

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  55. Keeping Intruders at Large - A Graph-theoretic Approach to Reducing the Probability of Successful Network Intrusions

    Article • January 2014, Scitepress

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  56. Linear-Time Network Hardening

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  57. Minimum-Cost Network Hardening

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  58. Modeling Network Diversity for Evaluating the Robustness of Networks against Zero-Day Attacks

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  59. Network Hardening

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  60. Related Work

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  61. An Efficient Framework for Evaluating the Risk of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  62. Securing Mission-Centric Operations in the Cloud

    Article • December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  63. A Logic Framework for Flexible and Security-Aware Service Composition

    Article • December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  64. Security-Aware Scheduling of Mission Tasks under Temporal Constraints

    Article • December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  65. A Multimedia Recommender System

    Article • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, November 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  66. A moving target defense mechanism for MANETs based on identity virtualization

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  67. A moving target defense approach for protecting resource-constrained distributed devices

    Article • August 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  68. Recognizing Unexplained Behavior in Network Traffic

    Article • June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  69. Reliable mission deployment in vulnerable distributed systems

    Article • June 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  70. Fast Activity Detection: Indexing for Temporal Stochastic Automaton-Based Activity Models

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, February 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  71. A Novel Strategy for Recommending Multimedia Objects and its Application in the Cultural Heritage Domain

    Article • January 2013, IGI Global

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  72. A Probabilistic Framework for Distributed Localization of Attackers in MANETs

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  73. Measuring Trust in Big Data

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  74. Automated Coding of Decision Support Variables

    Article • November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  75. Time-efficient and cost-effective network hardening using attack graphs

    Article • June 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  76. A Probabilistic Framework for Localization of Attackers in MANETs

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  77. Cauldron mission-centric cyber situational awareness with defense in depth

    Article • November 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  78. A Novel Strategy for Recommending Multimedia Objects and its Application in the Cultural Heritage Domain

    Article • International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management, October 2011, IGI Global

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  79. A Multimedia Semantic Recommender System for Cultural Heritage Applications

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  80. PLINI: A Probabilistic Logic Program Framework for Inconsistent News Information

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  81. Scalable Analysis of Attack Scenarios

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  82. Scalable Detection of Cyber Attacks

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  83. PADS: A Probabilistic Activity Detection Framework for Video Data

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, December 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  84. Capturing user behavior in multimedia recommenders

    Article • June 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  85. A multimedia recommender integrating object features and user behavior

    Article • Multimedia Tools and Applications, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  86. A ranking method for multimedia recommenders

    Article • January 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  87. Modeling recommendation as a social choice problem

    Article • January 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  88. Semantic Video Content Analysis

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  89. A Constrained Probabilistic Petri Net Framework for Human Activity Detection in Video*

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, December 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  90. A Constrained Probabilistic Petri Net Framework for Human Activity Detection in Video

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, October 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  91. MAGIC: A Multi-Activity Graph Index for Activity Detection

    Article • August 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  92. CARA: A Cultural-Reasoning Architecture

    Article • IEEE Intelligent Systems, March 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  93. Story creation from heterogeneous data sources

    Article • Multimedia Tools and Applications, February 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  94. The priority curve algorithm for video summarization

    Article • Information Systems, November 2006, Elsevier

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  95. Experience of Animate Similarity Concepts in Multimedia Database

    Article • January 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  96. Information Retrieval from the Web: An Interactive Paradigm

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  97. A Formal Model for Video Shot Segmentation and its Application via Animate Vision

    Article • Multimedia Tools and Applications, December 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  98. A multimedia data base browsing system

    Article • January 2004, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  99. A web personalization system based on web usage mining techniques

    Article • January 2004, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  100. The priority curve algorithm for video summarization

    Article • January 2004, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  101. Web personalization based on static information and dynamic user behavior

    Article • January 2004, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE

  102. A web personalization system based on web usage mining techniques

    Article • January 2004, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. MASSIMILIANO ALBANESE