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Generative AI cybersecurity and resilience (2025)
Journal Article
Radanliev, P., Santos, O., & Ani, U. D. (2025). Generative AI cybersecurity and resilience. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 8, Article 1568360. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2025.1568360

Generative Artificial Intelligence marks a critical inflection point in the evolution of machine learning systems, enabling the autonomous synthesis of content across text, image, audio, and biomedical domains. While these capabilities are advancing... Read More about Generative AI cybersecurity and resilience.

Socio‐Technical Security Modelling and Simulations in Cyber‐Physical Systems: Outlook on Knowledge, Perceptions, Practices, Enablers, and Barriers (2025)
Journal Article
Ani, U. D., Al‐Mhiqani, M., Tuptuk, N., Hailes, S., & McKendrick Watson, J. D. (2025). Socio‐Technical Security Modelling and Simulations in Cyber‐Physical Systems: Outlook on Knowledge, Perceptions, Practices, Enablers, and Barriers. IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, 10(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1049/cps2.70017

Socio‐Technical Security Modelling and Simulation (STSec‐M&S) is a technique used for reasoning and representing security viewpoints that include both the social and technical aspects of a system. It has shown great potential for improving the cybers... Read More about Socio‐Technical Security Modelling and Simulations in Cyber‐Physical Systems: Outlook on Knowledge, Perceptions, Practices, Enablers, and Barriers.

Skew bracoids containing a skew brace (2025)
Journal Article
Colazzo, I., Koch, A., Martin-Lyons, I., & Truman, P. J. (2025). Skew bracoids containing a skew brace. Journal of Algebra and Its Applications, https://doi.org/10.1142/S021949882650235X

Skew bracoids have been shown to have applications in Hopf-Galois theory. We show that a certain family of skew bracoids correspond bijectively with left cancellative semibraces. A consequence of this correspondence is that skew bracoids in this fami... Read More about Skew bracoids containing a skew brace.

Analysis of axisymmetric necking of a circular dielectric membrane based on a one-dimensional model (2025)
Journal Article
Yu, X., & Fu, Y. (2025). Analysis of axisymmetric necking of a circular dielectric membrane based on a one-dimensional model. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 198, Article 106071. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2025.106071

To facilitate the understanding of the mechanisms underlying the electric breakdown of dielectric elastomers, we derive a one-dimensional (1d) model for axisymmetric necking in a dielectric membrane subjected to equibiaxial stretching and an electric... Read More about Analysis of axisymmetric necking of a circular dielectric membrane based on a one-dimensional model.

Dynamically relevant recurrent flows obtained via a nonlinear recurrence function from two-dimensional turbulence (2024)
Journal Article
Redfern, E. M., Lazer, A. L., & Lucas, D. (in press). Dynamically relevant recurrent flows obtained via a nonlinear recurrence function from two-dimensional turbulence. Physical Review Fluids, 9(12), Article 124401. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevfluids.9.124401

This paper demonstrates the efficient extraction of unstable recurrent flows from two-dimensional turbulence by using nonlinear triads to diagnose recurrence in direct numerical simulations. Nearly recurrent episodes are identified from simulations a... Read More about Dynamically relevant recurrent flows obtained via a nonlinear recurrence function from two-dimensional turbulence.

Minimising cybersecurity risk exposures in industrial control system environments: a techno-human vulnerability analysis approach (2024)
Journal Article
Ani, U. D., Watson, J., He, H., Radanliev, P., & Epiphaniou, G. (in press). Minimising cybersecurity risk exposures in industrial control system environments: a techno-human vulnerability analysis approach. Journal of Cyber Security Technology, 1-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/23742917.2024.2421589

Organisations operating IoT-enabled industrial control systems (ICSs) are concerned about growing cybersecurity risks and impacts to their systems. Cyber-attacks on ICSs demonstrate that technology alone is neither a problem nor a solution to the gro... Read More about Minimising cybersecurity risk exposures in industrial control system environments: a techno-human vulnerability analysis approach.

Low-frequency propagating and evanescent waves in strongly inhomogeneous sandwich plates (2024)
Journal Article
Prikazchikova, L., Rege, A., Kaplunov, J., & Prikazchikov, D. (2024). Low-frequency propagating and evanescent waves in strongly inhomogeneous sandwich plates. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik, 75, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-024-02347-z

The paper aims at studying dispersion of elastic waves in a sandwich plate with the parameters, characteristic of aerogel core and hard skin layers, typical for aerospace applications including optimal design of fuselage structural components. The pr... Read More about Low-frequency propagating and evanescent waves in strongly inhomogeneous sandwich plates.

Wrinkling of differentially growing bilayers with similar film and substrate moduli (2024)
Journal Article
Shen, J., Fu, Y., Pirrera, A., & Groh, R. M. (2024). Wrinkling of differentially growing bilayers with similar film and substrate moduli. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 193, Article 105900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2024.105900

Growth-induced surface wrinkling in constrained bilayers comprising a thin film attached to a thick substrate is a canonical model for understanding pattern formation in many biological systems. While the bilayer model has received much prior attenti... Read More about Wrinkling of differentially growing bilayers with similar film and substrate moduli.

AI security and cyber risk in IoT systems (2024)
Journal Article
Radanliev, P., De Roure, D., Maple, C., Nurse, J. R. C., Nicolescu, R., & Ani, U. (in press). AI security and cyber risk in IoT systems. Frontiers in Big Data, 7, Article 1402745. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2024.1402745

Internet-of-Things (IoT) refers to low-memory connected devices used in various new technologies, including drones, autonomous machines, and robotics. The article aims to understand better cyber risks in low-memory devices and the challenges in IoT r... Read More about AI security and cyber risk in IoT systems.

Self-induced transparency of long water waves over bathymetry: the dispersive shock mechanism (2024)
Journal Article
Sheremet, A., Qayyum, R., & Shrira, V. (2024). Self-induced transparency of long water waves over bathymetry: the dispersive shock mechanism. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 997, https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2024.850

The shoreline hazard posed by ocean long waves such as tsunamis and meteotsunamis critically depends on the fraction of energy transmitted across the shallow near-shore shelf. In linear setting, bathymetric inhomogeneities of length comparable to the... Read More about Self-induced transparency of long water waves over bathymetry: the dispersive shock mechanism.

Analytical and numerical study of anti-plane elastic wave scattering in a structured quadrant subjected to a boundary point load (2024)
Journal Article
Nieves, M., Kisil, A., & Mishuris, G. S. (in press). Analytical and numerical study of anti-plane elastic wave scattering in a structured quadrant subjected to a boundary point load. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 480(2299), Article 20240099. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2024.0099

We verify the recently developed method by Kisil (Kisil 2024 SIAM J. Appl. Math. 84, 464–476 (doi: 10.1137/23M1562445)) through its application in the study of the anti-plane dynamic response of an elastic square-cell lattice quadrant having a free l... Read More about Analytical and numerical study of anti-plane elastic wave scattering in a structured quadrant subjected to a boundary point load.

Near-field scattering by the method of locally subsonic waves (2024)
Journal Article
Chapman, C. J., & Hawkins, S. C. (2024). Near-field scattering by the method of locally subsonic waves. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 480(2292), 1 - 26. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2023.0720

A technique is developed for determining the sound field scattered by a compact body when it is close enough to an acoustic source to be in its near field. Our approach is based on the fact that large regions of many near fields may be well approxima... Read More about Near-field scattering by the method of locally subsonic waves.

Wrinkling of a film/substrate bilayer with periodic material properties: An assessment of the Winkler foundation model (2024)
Journal Article
Fu, Y., Wang, Y.-S., & Fu, Y. (2024). Wrinkling of a film/substrate bilayer with periodic material properties: An assessment of the Winkler foundation model. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 166, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2024.104815

The Winkler foundation model is often used to analyze the wrinkling of a film/substrate bilayer under compression, and it can be rigorously justified when both the film and substrate are homogeneous and the film is much stiffer than the substrate. We... Read More about Wrinkling of a film/substrate bilayer with periodic material properties: An assessment of the Winkler foundation model.

A mathematical model of signalling molecule-mediated processes during regeneration of osteochondral defects after chondrocyte implantation (2024)
Journal Article
Campbell, K., Naire, S., & Kuiper, J.-H. (2024). A mathematical model of signalling molecule-mediated processes during regeneration of osteochondral defects after chondrocyte implantation. Journal of Theoretical Biology, Article 111874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2024.111874

Treating bone-cartilage defects is a fundamental clinical problem. The ability of damaged cartilage to self-repair is limited due to its avascularity. Left untreated, these defects can lead to osteoarthritis. Details of osteochondral defect repair ar... Read More about A mathematical model of signalling molecule-mediated processes during regeneration of osteochondral defects after chondrocyte implantation.

Localized wave structures: Solitons and beyond (2024)
Journal Article
Ostrovsky, L., Pelinovsky, E., Shrira, V., & Stepanyants, Y. (2024). Localized wave structures: Solitons and beyond. Chaos, 34(6), Article 062101. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0210903

The review is concerned with solitary waves and other localized structures in the systems described by a variety of generalizations of the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation. Among the topics we focus upon are “radiating solitons,” the generic structur... Read More about Localized wave structures: Solitons and beyond.

Taxonomy of Emerging Security Risks in Digital Railway (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Mhiqani, M., Ani, U., Watson, J., & He, H. (2023, July). Taxonomy of Emerging Security Risks in Digital Railway. Presented at CYBER SCIENCE 2023, University of Aalborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

The railway industry has embraced digitisation and interconnectivity by introducing Information and Communication Technologies into traditional operational technology infrastructure. This convergence has brought numerous advantages, including improve... Read More about Taxonomy of Emerging Security Risks in Digital Railway.

On the incremental equations in surface elasticity (2024)
Journal Article
Yu, X., & Fu, Y. (in press). On the incremental equations in surface elasticity. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, https://doi.org/10.1177/10812865231226183

We derive the incremental equations for a hyperelastic solid that incorporate surface tension effect by assuming that the surface energy is a general function of the surface deformation gradient. The incremental equations take the same simple form as... Read More about On the incremental equations in surface elasticity.

'Hypocrite!' Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack (2024)
Journal Article
de Quincey, E., Richardson, J. E., Giraud, E. H., & Poole, E. (2024). 'Hypocrite!' Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack. Media, Culture and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437241229322

This article intervenes in debates about whether public-facing social media enable the rapid spread of hate speech, or whether these platforms can offer valuable opportunities to contest it. Advancing scholarship on ‘networked counter-publics’ and re... Read More about 'Hypocrite!' Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack.

Smoclust: synthetic minority oversampling based on stream clustering for evolving data streams (2023)
Journal Article
Chiu, C. W., & Minku, L. L. (2024). Smoclust: synthetic minority oversampling based on stream clustering for evolving data streams. Machine Learning, 113(7), 4671-4721. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-023-06420-y

Many real-world data stream applications not only suffer from concept drift but also class imbalance. Yet, very few existing studies investigated this joint challenge. Data difficulty factors, which have been shown to be key challenges in class imbal... Read More about Smoclust: synthetic minority oversampling based on stream clustering for evolving data streams.

New mountain ridge modes in a film/substrate bilayer (2023)
Journal Article
Fu, Y., Wang, Y., & Fu, Y. (in press). New mountain ridge modes in a film/substrate bilayer. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/10812865231208414

This article is concerned with the buckling of a film-substrate bilayer in a state of plane strain when it is subjected to a uni-axial compression along its free surface. Previous numerical simulations have indicated that pre-stretching the substrate... Read More about New mountain ridge modes in a film/substrate bilayer.