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2023
ISSTA	Kai Cheng, et al, “Detecting Vulnerabilities in Linux-based Embedded Firmware with SSE-based On-demand Alias Analysis,” 32th edition of ACM ISSTA, 2023 (accepted).
ChatGPT for Software Security	Z. Wang, L. Zhang, P. Liu, “ChatGPT for Software Security: Exploring the Strengths and Limitations of ChatGPT in the Security Applications,” arXiv preprint, arXiv: 2307.12488, 2023.
IEEE IoT Journal	Lingyun Situ, et al., “Physical Devices-Agnostic Hybrid Fuzzing of IoT Firmware”, IEEE IoT Journal, 2023 (accepted).
Theorem-Carrying Transactions (White Paper)	Nikolaj Bjørner, Shuo Chen, Yang Chen, Zhongxin Guo, Peng Liu, Nanqing Luo, “An Ethereum-compatible Blockchain that Explicates and Ensures Design-level Safety Properties for Smart Contracts,” arXiv preprint, arXiv:2304.08655, 2023.
arXiv	L. Zhang, C. Cao, Z. Wang, P. Liu, “Which Features are Learned by CodeBert: An Empirical Study of the BERT-based Source Code Representation Learning,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.08427, 2023.
arXiv	J Niu, X Zhu, M Zeng, G Zhang, Q Zhao, C Huang, Y Zhang, S An, Y Wang, et al., “SoK: Comparing Different Membership Inference Attacks with a Comprehensive Benchmark,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.06123, 2023.
Cybersecurity	Haizhou Wang, Anoop Singhal, Peng Liu, “Tackling imbalanced data in cybersecurity with transfer learning: a case with ROP payload detection,” SpringerOpen Cybersecurity, January 2023.
Encyclopedia	P. Liu, “Cyber Situational Awareness,” in Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy, edited by Sushil Jajodia, Pierangela Samarati and Moti Yung, 2023.
Encyclopedia	A. Singhal, P. Liu, “Advanced Persistent Threats,” in Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy, edited by Sushil Jajodia, Pierangela Samarati and Moti Yung, 2023.
PhD Thesis	Qingtian Zou, “Applying Deep Learning to The Detection of Advanced Persistent Threats,” College of IST, Penn State, 2023.
MS Thesis	Rajiv Thummala, “Space Worms: On the Threat of Cyber-ASAT Weaponry to Satellite Constellations,” College of IST, Penn State, March 2023.
2022
Handbook of “AI for Cybersecurity” use cases	Peng Liu, Tao Liu, Nanqing Luo, Zitong Shang, Haizhou Wang, Zhilong Wang, Lan Zhang, and Qingtian Zou. AI for Cybersecurity: A Handbook of Use Cases. 2022. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09T3123RB, Kindle edition.
CCS	Wei Zhou, Lan Zhang, Le Guan, Peng Liu, Yuqing Zhang, “What Your Firmware Tells You Is Not How You Should Emulate It: A Specification-Guided Approach for Firmware Emulation,” ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’22), 2022. (Accepted)
ASPLOS	Benjamin Reidys, Peng Liu, Jian Huang, “RSSD: Defend Against New Ransomware Attacks with Efficient Hardware-Assisted Logging and Post-Attack Analysis,” To appear in the Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS'22), 2022. (Published)
Oakland	Lei Zhang, K. Lian, H. Xiao, Z. Zhang, P. Liu, Y. Zhang, M. Yang, H. Duan, “Exploit the Last Straw that Breaks Android System,” In Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2022), 2022. (Published)
USENIX Security	S. Zhou, Z. Yang, D. Qiao, P. Liu, M. Yang, Z. Wang, C. Wu, "Ferry: State-Aware Symbolic Execution for Exploring State-Dependent Program Paths," USENIX Security Symposium, 2022. (Published)
CCS	S. Li, Z. Yang, N. Hua, P. Liu, X. Zhang, G. Yang, M. Yang, "Collect Responsibly but Deliver Arbitrarily? A Study on Cross-User Privacy Leakage in Mobile Apps," ACM CCS, 2022. (Published)
ICISS	Q. Zou, L. Zhang, A. Singhal, X. Sun, P. Liu, “Attacks on ML Systems: From Security Analysis to Attack Mitigation,” ICISS, 2022. (Published)
iThings	D. Rajgarhia, P. Liu, S. Sural, “Identifying Channel Related Vulnerabilities in Zephyr Firmware,” Short Paper, IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings-2022), 2022. (Published)
ASCEND	Rajiv Thummala, Peng Liu, "Exploring the Applications of Frequency Modulation to Secure CubeSats (Space-Based IoT) from Eavesdropping, Jamming, and Interference," The 2022 ASCEND Conference, 2022. (Published)
arXiv	Hui Liu, Bo Zhao, Yuefeng Peng, Weidong Li, Peng Liu, “Towards Understanding and Harnessing the Effect of Image Transformation in Adversarial Detection,” arXiv:2201.01080
TDSC	Lan Zhang, P. Liu, Y. H. Choi, P. Chen, “Semantics-preserving Reinforcement Learning Attack Against Graph Neural Networks for Malware Detection,” IEEE TDSC, 2022. (Published)
TIFS	J. Zhou, et al., “DeepSyslog: Deep Anomaly Detection on Syslog Using Sentence Embedding and Metadata,” IEEE TIFS, 2022. (Published)
JCS	Q. Zou, A. Singhal, X. Sun, P. Liu, “Deep learning for detecting logic-flaw-exploiting network attacks: An end-to-end approach,” Journal of Computer Security, 2022. (Published)
IEEE IoT Journal	He, Xixun; Yang, Yiyu; Zhou, Wei; Wang, Wenjie; Liu, Peng; Zhang, Yuqing, “Fingerprinting Mainstream IoT Platforms Using Traffic Analysis,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022. (Published)
Information Sciences	H. Liu, B. Zhao, M. Ji, M. Li, P. Liu, “GreedyFool: Multi-Factor Imperceptibility and Its Application to Designing a Black-box Adversarial Attack”, (Elsevier) Information Sciences, 2022. (Published)
IEEE Trans. on Big Data	Y. Zhang, J. Wang, H. Huang, Y. Zhang, P. Liu, “Understanding and Conquering the Difficulties in Identifying Third-party Libraries from Millions of Android Apps,” IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2022.
IEEE Access	SEOK-HWAN CHOI, JINMYEONG SHIN, PENG LIU, YOON-HO CHOI, "ARGAN: Adversarially Robust Generative Adversarial Networks for Deep Neural Networks against Adversarial Examples," IEEE Access, 2022. (Accepted)
Elsevier CEE	H. Wang, H. He, W. Zhang, W. Liu, P. Liu, A. Javadpour, “Using honeypots to model botnet attacks on the internet of medical things,” Elsevier Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal, Volume 102, September 2022. (Published)
Elsevier ASC	H. Liu, et al., “Feature-Filter: Detecting Adversarial Examples by Filtering out Recessive Features,” Elsevier Applied Soft Computing Journal, 2022. (Published)
Workshop	Gaurav Goyal, Peng Liu and Shamik Sural, “Securing Smart Home IoT Systems with Attribute-Based Access Control,” ACM SaT-CPS workshop (in conjunction with CODASPY), 2022. (Published)
Workshop	M. Gu, et al., "Hierarchical Attention Network for Interpretable and Fine-Grained Vulnerability Detection," IEEE BigSecurity workshop (in conjunction with INFOCOM), 2022. (Published)
2021
arXiv	Z. Wang, H. Wang, H. Hu, P. Liu, “Identifying Non-Control Security-Critical Data in Program Binaries with a Deep Neural Model,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.12071
arXiv	Zhilong Wang, Li Yu, Suhang Wang, Peng Liu, “Spotting Silent Buffer Overflows in Execution Trace through Graph Neural Network Assisted Data Flow Analysis,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.10452
arXiv	A Oseni, N Moustafa, H Janicke, P Liu, Z Tari, A Vasilakos, “Security and privacy for artificial intelligence: Opportunities and challenges,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.04661, 2021.
arXiv	H. Wang, P. Liu, “Tackling Imbalanced Data in Cybersecurity with Transfer Learning: A Case with ROP Payload Detection,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.02996
arXiv	Wei Song, Jiameng Ying, Sihao Shen, Boya Li, Hao Ma, Peng Liu, “A Comprehensive and Cross-Platform Test Suite for Memory Safety -- Towards an Open Framework for Testing Processor Hardware Supported Security Extensions,” arXiv:2111.14072
arXiv	Kai Cheng, Tao Liu, Le Guan, Peng Liu, Hong Li, Hongsong Zhu, Limin Sun, “Finding Taint-Style Vulnerabilities in Linux-based Embedded Firmware with SSE-based Alias Analysis,” https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12209
arXiv	Hui Liu, Bo Zhao, Minzhi Ji, Yuefeng Peng, Jiabao Guo, Peng Liu, “Feature-Filter: Detecting Adversarial Examples through Filtering off Recessive Features,” https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09502
USENIX Security	Wei Zhou, Le Guan, Peng Liu, Yuqing Zhang, “Automatic Firmware Emulation through Invalidity-guided Knowledge Inference,” Proc. 30th USENIX Security Symposium, 2021.
Oakland	W. Song, B. Li, Z. Xue, Z. Li, W. Wang, P. Liu, “Randomized Last-Level Caches Are Still Vulnerable to Cache Side-Channel Attacks! But We Can Fix It,” In Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2021), San Francisco, CA, 2021.
ACSAC	D. Fang, Z. Song, L. Guan, Puzhuo Liu, A. Peng, K. Cheng, Y. Zheng, P. Liu, H. Zhu, L. Sun, “ICS3Fuzzer: A Framework for Discovering Protocol Implementation Bugs in ICS Supervisory Software by Fuzzing,” ACSAC, 2021. (Accepted)
AsiaCCS	W. Zhang, P. Liu, T. Jaeger, “Analyzing the Overhead of File Protection by Linux Security Modules,” The ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2021.
AsiaCCS	Lun-Pin Yuan, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu, “Recompose Event Sequences vs. Predict Next Events: A Novel Anomaly Detection Approach for Discrete Event Logs,” The ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2021.
DBSEC	Q Zou, A Singhal, X Sun, P Liu, “Deep Learning for Detecting Network Attacks: An End-to-End Approach,” Proc. IFIP Annual Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, short paper, 2021.
SpringerOpen Cybersecurity (Feature article)	Zhilong Wang, Peng Liu. “GPT Conjecture: Understanding the Trade-offs between Granularity, Performance and Timeliness in Control-Flow Integrity,” Cybersecurity, 2021.
TIFS	Z. Hu, P. Chen, M. Zhu, P. Liu, “A co-design adaptive defense scheme with bounded security damages against Heartbleed-like attacks,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2021. (Accepted)
IEEE IoT Journal	Wei Zhou, Chen Cao, Dongdong Huo, Kai Cheng, Lan Zhang, Le Guan, Tao Liu, Yan Jia, Yaowen Zheng, Yuqing Zhang, Limin Sun, Yazhe Wang, Peng Liu, “Reviewing IoT Security via Logic Bugs in IoT Platforms and Systems,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021.
TDSC	S. Jia, et al., “MDEFTL: Incorporating Multi-Snapshot Plausible Deniability into Flash Translation Layer,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. (Accepted)
IEEE IoT Journal	H. Wang, et al., “An Evolutionary Study of IoT Malware,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021. (Accepted)
IEEE TC	L. Zhao, P. Li, R. Hou, M. Huang, P. Liu, L. Zhang, D. Meng, “Exploiting Security Dependence for Conditional Speculation against Spectre Attacks,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2021, published.
JSA	D. Huo, et al., “Commercial Hypervisor-based Task Sandboxing Mechanisms Are Unsecured? But We Can Fix It!” Journal of Systems Architecture, 2021. (Accepted)
JCST	L. Situ, et al., “Vulnerable Region-Aware Greybox Fuzzing,” Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2021, published.
PhD Dissertation	Sadegh Farhang, “Organizations security management in different problem domains: Empirical Evidence and game-theoretic modeling,” PhD Dissertation, Penn State University, 2021.
PhD Dissertation	Lun-Pin Yuan, “Towards Designing Accurate Detection Methods for Emerging Cyber Threats,” PhD Dissertation, Penn State University, 2021.
2020
arXiv	Q. Zou, A. Singhal, X. Sun, P. Liu, “Generating Comprehensive Data with Protocol Fuzzing for Applying Deep Learning to Detect Network Attacks,” https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12743, 2020.
arXiv	Lan Zhang, Peng Liu, Yoon-Ho Choi, “Semantic-preserving Reinforcement Learning Attack against Graph Neural Networks for Malware Detection,” https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05602, 2020.
arXiv	Lun-Pin Yuan, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu, “Recomposition vs. Prediction: A Novel Anomaly Detection for Discrete Events Based on Autoencoder,” https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.13972, 2020
ACSAC	Chen Cao*, Le Guan*, Jiang Ming, Peng Liu, “Device-agnostic Firmware Execution is Possible: A Concolic Execution Approach for Peripheral Emulation,” ACSAC 2020, published. (*equal contribution)
Oakland	Feng Xiao, Jinquan Zhang, Jianwei Huang, Guofei Gu, Dinghao Wu, Peng Liu, “Unexpected Data Dependency Creation and Chaining: A New Attack to SDN,” In Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2020), San Francisco, CA, May 18-20, 2020, published.
WWW	S. Farhang, M. B. Kirdan, A. Laszka, and J. Grossklags, “An Empirical Study of Android Security Bulletins in Different Vendors,” WWW 2020, published.
RAID	Y. He, Y. Xu, X. Jia, S. Zhang, P. Liu, S. Chang, “EnclavePDP: A General Framework to Verify Data Integrity in Cloud Using Intel SGX,” RAID 2020, published.
American Control Conference	H. Kim, et al., “On Data-driven Attack-resilient Gaussian Process Regression for Dynamic Systems,” ACC 2020.
TrustCom	Chen Tian, Yazhe Wang, Peng Liu, Yu Wang, Ruirui Dai, Anyuan Zhou, Zhen Xu, “Prihook: Differentiated context-aware hook placement for different owners’ smartphones,” 19^th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2020.
ICICS	D. Huo, et al., “A Machine-Learning-based Compartmentalization Scheme for Bare-Metal Systems,” ICICS 2020.
ICPR	Junwei Zhou, Ke Shu, Peng Liu, Jianwen Xiang, ShengWu Xiong, “Face Anti-spoofing Based on Dynamic Color Texture Analysis Using Local Directional Number Pattern,” International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2020.
IEEE Computer	Q. Zou, X. Sun, P. Liu, A. Singhal, “An Approach for Detection of Advanced Persistent Threat Attacks,” column paper, IEEE Computer, 2020.
Journal of Computer Security	X. Li, Z. Hu, H. Wang, Y. Fu, P. Chen, M. Zhu, P. Liu, “DEEPRETURN: A Deep Neural Network Can Learn How to Detect Previously-Unseen ROP Payloads without Using Any Heuristics,” Journal of Computer Security, 2020, published.
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security	Z. Hu, M. Zhu, P. Liu, et al., “Adaptive Cyber Defense against Multi-stage Attacks using Learning-based POMDP,” ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, 2020.
IEEE TCC	D. Tian, et al., “Semi-synchronized Non-blocking Concurrent Kernel Cruising,” IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
Cybersecurity	Yoon-Ho Choi, Peng Liu, Zitong Shang, Haizhou Wang, Zhilong Wang, Lan Zhang, Junwei Zhou and Qingtian Zou. 2019. “Using Deep Learning to Solve Computer Security Challenges: A Survey.” Cybersecurity, 2020, published.
Automatica (Brief Paper)	H. Kim, P. Guo, M. Zhu and P. Liu, “Simultaneous input and state estimation for stochastic nonlinear systems with additive unknown inputs,” Automatica, Brief Paper, 2020. Published.
IEEE TR	Weizhe Zhang, Huanran Wang, Hui He, Peng Liu, “DAMBA: Detecting Android Malware by OTGB Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2020, published.
IEEE TCC	J. Wang, H. Hu, B. Zhao, H. Li, W. Zhang, J. Xu, P. Liu, J. Ma, “S-Blocks: Lightweight and Trusted Virtual Security Function with SGX,” IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
IEEE Access	DH Ko, SH Choi, JM Shin, P Liu, YH Choi, “Structural Image De-Identification for Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning,” IEEE Access, 2020, published.
IEEE TNSE	S. H. Choi, J. Shin, P. Liu, Y. Choi, “EEJE: Two-Step Input Transformation for Robust DNN against Adversarial Examples,” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2020, published.
SCN	F Chen, P Liu, J Zhu, S Gao, Y Zhang, M Duan, Y Wang, K Hwang, “Improving Topic-Based Data Exchanges among IoT Devices,” Security and Communication Networks, 2020. (Published)
arXiv	E. Yoon, P. Liu, “Practical Verification of MapReduce Computation Integrity via Partial Re-execution,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.09560.
Workshop	Q Zou, A Singhal, X Sun, P Liu, “Automatic Recognition of Advanced Persistent Threat Tactics for Enterprise Security,” Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics, 2020, published.
Book Chapter	C. Zhong, J. Yen, P. Liu, “Can Cyber Operations Be Made Autonomous? An Answer from the Situational Awareness Viewpoint,” In S. Jajodia, G. Cybenko, V. S. Subrahmanian, V. Swarup, C. Wang, and M. Wellman (Eds.), Adaptive Autonomous Secure Cyber Systems, Springer 2020, published.
2019
17 Logic Bugs in IoT platforms	Logic Bugs in IoT Platforms and Systems: A Review. Wei Zhou, Chen Cao, Dongdong Huo, Kai Cheng, Lan Zhang, Le Guan, Tao Liu, Yaowen Zheng, Yuqing Zhang, Limin Sun, Yazhe Wang, Peng Liu. arXiv 1912.13410
Deep Learning for system security: a survey	Using Deep Learning to Solve Computer Security Challenges: A Survey. (authors are ordered in alphabetic order) Yoon-Ho Choi, Peng Liu, Zitong Shang, Haizhou Wang, Zhilong Wang, Lan Zhang, Junwei Zhou, Qingtian Zou. arXiv 1912.05721
GPT Conjecture	Zhilong Wang, Peng Liu, “GPT Conjecture: Understanding the Trade-offs between Granularity, Performance and Timeliness in Control-Flow Integrity,” arXiv 1911.07828.
arXiv preprint	ROPNN: Detection of ROP Payloads Using Deep Neural Networks. Xusheng Li, Zhisheng Hu, Yiwei Fu, Ping Chen, Minghui Zhu, Peng Liu. arXiv 1807.11110.
arXiv preprint	Good Motive but Bad Design: Why ARM MPU Has Become an Outcast in Embedded Systems. W Zhou, L Guan, P Liu, Y Zhang. arXiv 1908.03638.
Usenix Security	W. Zhou, Y. Jia, Y. Yao, L. Zhu, L. Guan, Y. Mao, P. Liu, Y. Zhang, “Discovering and Understanding the Security Hazards in the Interactions between IoT Devices, Mobile Apps, and Cloud on Smart Home Platforms,” Usenix Security 2019.
NDSS	M. Nasr, S. Farhang, A. Houmansadr, and J. Grossklags, “Enemy At the Gateways: Censorship-Resilient Proxy Distribution Using Game Theory,” In Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2019.
RAID	Lun-Pin Yuan, Wenjun Hu, Ting Yu, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu, “Towards Large-Scale Hunting for Android Negative-Day Malware,” RAID 2019
RAID	Wei Song, Peng Liu, “Dynamically Finding Minimal Eviction Sets Can Be Quicker Than You Think for Side-Channel Attacks against the LLC,” RAID 2019
ESORICS	Y. Yao, W. Zhou, Y. Jia, L. Zhu, P. Liu, Y. Zhang, “Identifying Privilege Separation Vulnerabilities in IoT Firmware with Symbolic Execution,” ESORICS 2019
WiSec	Le Guan, Chen Cao, Sencun Zhu, Jingqiang Lin, Peng Liu, Yubin Xia, Bo Luo, “Protecting Mobile Devices from Physical Memory Attacks with Targeted Encryption,” Proc. 12th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, WiSec’19.
CODASPY	Peiying Wang, Shijie Jia, Bo Chen, Luning Xia and Peng Liu. MimosaFTL: Adding Secure and Practical Ransomware Defense Strategy to Flash Translation Layer. The Ninth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY '19), Dallas, TX, 2019 (Acceptance rate: 23.5%).
Automatica	Z. Hu, M. Zhu, P. Chen and P. Liu, “On convergence rates of game theoretic reinforcement learning algorithms,” Automatica, 2019, published.
TSE	Mu, D., Du, Y., Xu, J., Xu, J., Xing, X., Mao, B., Liu, P., “POMP++: Facilitating Postmortem Program Diagnosis with Value-set Analysis,” IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, 2019.
SOC data triage	Chen Zhong, John Yen, Peng Liu, and Robert F. Erbacher. “Learning from Experts’ Experience: Towards Automated Cyber Security Data Triage,” IEEE Systems Journal, March 2019, published.
IEEE TMC	Lannan Luo, Qiang Zeng, Chen Cao, Kai Chen, Jian Liu, Limin Liu, Neng Gao, Min Yang, Xinyu Xing, and Peng Liu. “Tainting-Assisted and Context-Migrated Symbolic Execution of Android Framework for Vulnerability Discovery and Exploit Generation.” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2019.
IEEE Security & Privacy magazine	Sun, Xiaoyan, Peng Liu, and Anoop Singhal. ``Toward Cyberresiliency in the Context of Cloud Computing.” IEEE Security & Privacy 16.6 (2018): 71-75. (Published in Jan 2019)
Elsevier FGCS Journal	J. Shin, S. H. Choi, P. Liu, Y. H. Choi, “Unsupervised Multi-Stage Attack Detection Framework without Details on Single-State Attacks,” Future Generation of Computer Systems 100, 811-825, 2019, published.
Edited book	S. Jajodia, G. Cybenko, P. Liu, C. Wang, and M. Wellman (Eds.), Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber Defense, Springer 2019, published.
Edited Proceedings	P. Liu and Y. Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International ACM Workshop on Security and Privacy for the Internet-of-Things, in conjunction with ACM CCS 2019.
Book Chapter	P. Chen, Z. Hu, J. Xu, M. Zhu, R. Erbacher, S. Jajodia, P. Liu, “MTD Techniques for Memory Protection against Zero-Day Attacks,” In S. Jajodia, G. Cybenko, P. Liu, C. Wang, and M. Wellman (Eds.), Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber Defense, Springer 2019.
Book Chapter	B. W. Priest, G. Cybenko, S. Singh, M. Albanese, P. Liu, “Online and Scalable Adaptive Cyber Defense,” In S. Jajodia, G. Cybenko, P. Liu, C. Wang, and M. Wellman (Eds.), Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber Defense, Springer 2019.
Book Chapter	Z. Hu, P. Chen, M. Zhu, P. Liu, “Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Cyber Defense against Zero-Day Attacks,” In S. Jajodia, G. Cybenko, P. Liu, C. Wang, and M. Wellman (Eds.), Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber Defense, Springer 2019.
Book Chapter	G. Cybenko, M. Wellman, P. Liu, M. Zhu, "Overview of Control and Game Theory in Adaptive Cyber Defenses", In S. Jajodia, G. Cybenko, P. Liu, C. Wang, and M. Wellman (Eds.), Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber Defense, Springer 2019.
ICPR	Wenhui Zhang, Yizheng Jiao, Dazhong Wu, Srivatsa Srinivasa, Asmit De, Swaroop Ghosh, Peng Liu, “ArmorPLC: Cyber Security Threats Detection through Ladder Logic Validation for PLCs,” ICPR 2019
Workshop	“Robustness Analysis of CNN-based Malware Family Classification Methods Against Various Adversarial Attacks”. SH Choi, JM Shin, P Liu, YH Choi, Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security, in conjunction with IEEE CNS 2019.
Poster	Lingyun Situ, Linzhang Wang, Xuandong Li, Le Guan, Wenhui Zhang, Peng Liu (2019). Poster: Energy Distribution Matters in Greybox Fuzzing. 41th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE’19.
Poster	To be announced.
PhD Dissertation	Eunjung Yoon, “ENSURING SERVICE INTEGRITY IN CLOUD COMPUTING,” Penn State University, 2019
2018
DEFCON	Feng Xiao, Jianwei Huang, Peng Liu, “Hacking the Brain: Customize Evil Protocol to Pwn an SDN Controller,” DEF CON 2018
DSN (Attacks against robots)	P. Guo, H. Kim, N. Virani, J. Xu, M. Zhu and P. Liu, “RoboADS: Anomaly detection against sensor and actuator misbehaviors in mobile robots,” DSN 2018.
RAID	Chen Cao, Le Guan, Ning Zhang, Neng Gao, Jingqiang Lin, Bo Luo, Peng Liu, Ji Xiang, Wenjing Lou, “CryptMe: Data Leakage Prevention for Unmodified Programs on ARM Devices,” RAID 2018.
ACSAC	S. Farhang, J. Weidman, M. M. Kamani, J. Grossklags, P. Liu, “Take It or Leave It: A Survey Study on Operating System Upgrade Practices,” ACSAC 2018. (Accepted)
WiSec	L. Yuan, P. Liu, S. Zhu, “Android STAR: Interaction-Preserving Messenger-Usage Inspection,” To appear in Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2018.
SACMAT	Lingjing Yu, Sri Mounica Motipalli, Dongwon Lee, Peng Liu, Heng Xu, Qingyun Liu, Jianlong Tan and Bo Luo. My Friend Leaks My Privacy: Modeling and Analyzing Privacy in Social Networks. In ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), 2018.
TrustShadow TEE	Le Guan, Chen Cao, Peng Liu, Xinyu Xing, Xinyang Ge, Shengzhi Zhang, Meng Yu and Trent Jaeger, “Building a Trustworthy Execution Environment to Defeat Exploits from both Cyber Space and Physical Space for ARM,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). (Accepted)
Survey on IoT Security	Wei Zhou, Yan Jia, Anni Peng, Yuqing Zhang, and Peng Liu, “The Effect of IoT New Features on Security and Privacy: New Threats, Existing Solutions, and Challenges Yet to Be Solved,” IEEE IoT Journal, 2018.
Cybersecurity issues in Digital Manufacturing	Wu, D., Ren, A., Zhang, W., Fan, F., Liu, P., Fu, X. & Terpenny, J., “Cybersecurity for Digital Manufacturing,” Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2018.
Feedback control against zero-day attacks	P. Chen, Z. Hu, J. Xu, M. Zhu, P. Liu, “Feedback Control Can Make Data Structure Layout Randomization More Cost-Effective under Zero-day Attacks,” Cybersecurity (a new journal), 2018, published.
TIFS	X. Sun, J. Dai, P. Liu, A. Singhal, J. Yen, “Using Bayesian Networks for Probabilistic Identification of Zero-day Attack Paths,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2018.
TMC	Kai Chen, Yingjun Zhang, Peng Liu, “Leveraging Information Asymmetry to Transform Android Apps into Self-Defending Code against Repackaging Attacks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2018.
IEEE Trans. Big Data	Heqing Huang, et al., “A Large-scale Study of Android Malware Development Phenomenon on Public Malware Submission and Scanning Platform,” IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2018.
Cybersecurity (New Journal)	C. Tian, Y. Wang, P. Liu, Q. Zhou, C. Zhang, “Using IM-Visor to Stop Untrusted IME Apps from Stealing Sensitive Keystrokes,” Cybersecurity, 2018, published.
Cybersecurity	D. Meng, R. Hou, G. Shi, B. Tu, A. Yu, Z. Zhu, X. Jia, P. Liu, “Security-first architecture: deploying physically isolated active security processors for safeguarding the future of computing”, Cybersecurity, 2018, published.
Computers & Security	Cheng Zhong, et al., “A Cyber Security Data Triage Operation Retrieval System,” Computers & Security Journal, 2018.
Software: Practice and Experience	Donghai Tian, et al., “A Policy-Centric Approach to Protecting OS Kernel from Vulnerable LKMs,” Software: Practice and Experience Journal, 2018.
IoTSec	Chen Cao, Le Guan, Peng Liu, Neng Gao, Jingqiang Lin, and Ji Xiang, “Hey, you, keep away from my device: remotely implanting a virus expeller to defeat Mirai on IoT devices,” 1st International Workshop on Security and Privacy for the Internet-of-Things (IoTSec), co-located with the Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things Week, 2018.
APSEC	Weijuan Zhang, Xiaoqi Jia, Shengzhi Zhang, Rui Wang and Peng Liu, “Running OS Kernel in Separate Domains: A New Architecture for Applications and OS Services Quarantine,” 25th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Japan, 2018.
DBSEC	Chen Cao, Lunpin Yuan, Anoop Singhal, Peng Liu, Xiaoyan Sun, Sencun Zhu, “Assessing the Impact on Business Processes by Interconnecting Attack Graphs and Entity Dependency Graphs,” IFIP International Conference on Database and Application Security and Privacy (DBSEC), 2018.
Journal	Le Guan, Sadegh Farhang, Yu Pu, Pinyao Guo, Jens Grossklags and Peng Liu, “VaultIME: Regaining User Control for Password Managers through Auto-correction,” EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety, 2018.
Journal	X. Sun, J. Dai, A. Singhal, P. Liu, “Probabilistic Inference of the Stealthy Bridges between Enterprise Networks in Cloud,” EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety, 2018.
Journal	Chen Zhong, John Yen, Peng Liu, Donald R. Shemanski, ``Using an UD-UC-CSP Model to Infer Missing Actor for Intelligence Analysis'', Journal of Secure Communication and Systems. (Accepted)
Poster	Anoop Singhal, Xiaoyan Sun, Peng Liu, “Towards Cyber Resiliency in the Context of Cloud Computing,” ACSAC 2018 Work in Progress Session.
Proceedings	Liu, Peng, Mauw, Sjouke, Stolen, Ketil (Eds.), Graphical Models for Security (Proceedings of the GraMSec 2017 Workshop), Springer LNCS 10744, Feb 2018. Published.
Proceedings	L. Lazos, P. Liu, M. Li, W. Zhu, Proceedings of 2018 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), September 2018. Published.
PhD Dissertation	Jun Xu, “BATTLING CYBER ATTACKS WITH SOFTWARE CRASH DIAGNOSIS,” PhD Dissertation, College of IST, 2018, Penn State University
PhD Dissertation	Pinyao Guo, “Detection and Prevention: Towards Secure Mobile Robotic Systems,” PhD Dissertation, College of IST, 2018, Penn State University
MS Thesis	Tao Lin, “A CYBER SECURITY DATA TRIAGE OPERATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM”, MS Thesis, College of IST, 2018, Penn State University
MS Thesis	Tao Zhang, “TOWARDS FLEXIBLE AND REALISTIC INSIDER MISSION SIMULATION,” MS Thesis, College of IST, 2018, Penn State University
2017
ACSAC (Best Paper Award)	Le Guan, Shijie Jia, Bo Chen, Fengwei Zhang, Bo Luo, Jingqiang Lin, Peng Liu, Xinyu Xing and Luning Xia, “Supporting Transparent Snapshot for Bare-metal Malware Analysis on Mobile Devices,” in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference on Computer Security Applications, ACSAC '17, 2017.
CCS	Jian Huang, Jun Xu, Xinyu Xing, Peng Liu, Moinuddin K. Qureshi, “FlashGuard: Leveraging Intrinsic Flash Properties to Defend Against Encryption Ransomware,” CCS 2017.
CCS	S. Jia, L. Xia, B. Chen, P. Liu, “DEFTL: Implementing Plausibly Deniable Encryption in Flash Translation Layer,” CCS 2017.
USENIX Security	Xu, J., Mu, D., Xing, X., Liu, P., Chen, P., Mao, B., "POMP: Postmortem Program Analysis with Hardware-Enhanced Post-Crash Artifacts", in Proceedings of the 26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), Vancouver, Canada, August 2017.
NDSS	Chuangang Ren, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu, “WindowGuard: Systematic Protection of GUI Security in Android,” NDSS 2017.
MobiSys	Lannan Luo^*, Qiang Zeng^*, Chen Cao, Kai Chen, Jian Liu, Limin Liu, Neng Gao, Min Yang, Xinyu Xing, and Peng Liu. (^*Co-first authors), “System Service Call-oriented Symbolic Execution of Android Framework with Applications to Vulnerability Discovery and Exploit Generation,” ACM MobiSys 2017.
MobiSys	L. Guan, P. Liu, X. Xing, X. Ge, S. Zhang, M. Yu, and T. Jaeger, “TrustShadow: Secure execution of unmodified applications with ARM TrustZone,” ACM MobiSys 2017.
Mirai Expeller	Chen Cao, Le Guan, Peng Liu, Neng Gao, Jingqiang Lin, Ji Xiang, “Hey, you, keep away from my device: remotely implanting a virus expeller to defeat Mirai on IoT devices,” June 2017, arXiv, http://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05779
TSE	Lannan Luo, Jiang Ming, Dinghao Wu, Peng Liu, and Sencun Zhu, “Semantics-Based Obfuscation-Resilient Binary Code Similarity Comparison with Applications to Software and Algorithm Plagiarism Detection,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 43, Issue 12, January 2017.
VEE	D. Liang, P. Liu, J. Xu, P. Chen, Q. Zeng, “Dancing with Wolves: Towards Practical Event-driven VMM Monitoring,” VEE 2017.
DSN	P. Chen, J. Xu, Z. Hu, X. Xing, M. Zhu, B. Mao, P. Liu, “What You See is Not What You Get! Thwarting Just-in-Time ROP with Chameleon,” DSN 2017.
DSN	Chen Tian, Yazhe Wang, Peng Liu, Qihui Zhou, Chengyi Zhang, “IM-Visor: A Pre-IME Guard to Prevent IME Apps from Stealing Sensitive Keystrokes Using TrustZone,” DSN 2017.
MASS (short)	Chengyi Zhang, Yazhe Wang, Peng Liu, Tao Lin, Lvgen Luo, Ziqi Yu, and Xinwang Zhuo, “PMViewer: A Crowdsourcing Approach to Fine-Grained Urban PM2.5 Monitoring in China,” MASS 2017.
SecureComm (short)	Le Guan, Sadegh Farhang, Yu Pu, Pinyao Guo, Jens Grossklags and Peng Liu, “VaultIME: Regaining User Control for Password Managers through Auto-correction,” in Security and Privacy in Communication Networks: 13th International Conference, SecureComm 2017, 2017.
SecureComm	Pinyao Guo, Hunmin Kim, Le Guan, Minghui Zhu and Peng Liu, “VCIDS: Collaborative Intrusion Detection of Sensor and Actuator Attacks on Connected Vehicles,” in Security and Privacy in Communication Networks: 13th International Conference, SecureComm 2017, 2017.
ACC	H. Kim, P. Guo, M. Zhu and P. Liu, “On attack-resilient estimation of switched nonlinear cyber-physical systems,” 2017 American Control Conference, May 2017, invited paper.
MTD	Z. Hu, M. Zhu and P. Liu, “Online algorithms for adaptive cyber defense on Bayesian attack graphs,” Fourth ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense in Association with 2017 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Dallas, pages: 99-109, Oct 2017.
DBSEC	Xiaoyan Sun, Anoop Singhal and Peng Liu, “Towards Actionable Mission Impact Assessment in the Context of Cloud computing,” DBSEC 2017.
ISERC	Ren, A., Wu, D., Terpenny, J., Zhang, W., & Liu, P. (2017). Cyber Security in Smart Manufacturing: Survey and Challenges, Proceedings of the 2017 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
Cryptology ePrint Archive	Dingfeng Ye, Peng Liu, Jun Xu, “Towards Practical Obfuscation of General Circuits,” Cryptology ePrint Archive report 2017/321
Edited Book	Theory and Models for Cyber Situation Awareness, Peng Liu, Sushil Jajodia, and Cliff Wang (Eds.), Springer LNCS, Volume No. 10030, 2017, published.
Book Chapters	P. Liu, et al., “Computer-aided Human Centric Cyber Situation Awareness,” In Peng Liu, Sushil Jajodia, and Cliff Wang (Eds.), Theory and Models for Cyber Situation Awareness, Springer LNCS vol. 10030, 2017, published. Chen Zhong, John Yen, Peng Liu, Robert F. Erbacher and Christopher Garneau. “Studying Analysts Data Triage Operations in Cyber Defense Situational Analysis,” In Peng Liu, Sushil Jajodia, and Cliff Wang (Eds.), Theory and Models for Cyber Situation Awareness, Springer LNCS vol. 10030, 2017, published. Xiaoyan Sun, Jun Dai, Anoop Singhal, Peng Liu, “Enterprise-Level Cyber Situation Awareness,” In Peng Liu, Sushil Jajodia, and Cliff Wang (Eds.), Theory and Models for Cyber Situation Awareness, Springer LNCS vol. 10030, 2017, published. X. Sun, J. Dai, P. Liu, A. Singhal, J. Yen, “Using Bayesian Networks to Fuse Intrusion Evidences and Detect Zero-day Attack Paths,” in Lingyu Wang, Sushil Jajodia, and Anoop Singhal (Eds.), Network Security Metrics, Springer LNCS, 2017, published.
2016
CCS	Xu, J., Mu, D., Chen, P., Xing, X., Liu, P., “CREDAL: Towards Locating a Memory Corruption Vulnerability with Your Core Dump,” ACM CCS 2016.
Big Data (Dataset release)	“Android Malware Development on Public Malware Scanning Platforms: A Large-scale Data-driven Study.” Heqing Huang, Cong Zheng, Junyuan Zeng, Wu Zhou, Sencun Zhu, Peng Liu, Suresh Chari, Ce Zhang, 2016 IEEE Big Data (79/423=18.7%) (A new Android malware dataset released @ the result website)
CCS	Kai Wang, Yuqing Zhang, Peng Liu, “Call Me Back! Attacks on System Server and System Apps in Android through Synchronous Callback,” ACM CCS 2016.
SenSys	Guan, L., Xu, J., Wang, S., Xing, X., Lin, L., Huang, H., Liu, P., Lee, W., “From Physical to Cyber: Escalating Protection for Personalized Auto Insurance,” in Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2016), Palo Alto, USA, December 2016.
ASE	“StraightTaint: Decoupled Offline Symbolic Taint Analysis,” by Jiang Ming, Dinghao Wu, Gaoyao Xiao, Jun Wang, and Peng Liu. In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2016), Singapore, September 3-7, 2016, published.
DSN	Lannan Luo, Yu Fu, Dinghao Wu, Sencun Zhu, and Peng Liu, "Repackage-proofing Android Apps," Proc. 46th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2016), Toulouse, France, June 28-July 1, 2016.
ACSAC	Shijie Jia, Luning Xia, Bo Chen, and Peng Liu, “Sanitizing Data Is Not Enough! Towards Sanitizing Structural Artifacts in Flash Media,” ACSAC, 2016, published.
ESORICS	Fabo Wang, Yuqing Zhang, Kai Wang, Peng Liu and Wenjie Wang, “Stay in Your Cage! A Sound Sandbox for Third-Party Libraries on Android,” ESORICS, 2016, published.
ESORICS	Qianru Wu, Qixu Liu, Yuqing Zhang, Peng Liu and Guanxing Wen, “A Machine Learning Approach for Detecting Third-Party Trackers on the Web,” ESORICS, 2016, published.
ESORICS	Aron Laszka, Mingyi Zhao and Jens Grossklags, “Banishing Misaligned Incentives for Validating Reports in Bug-Bounty Platforms,” ESORICS, 2016.
IDS	Chen Zhong, John Yen, Peng Liu, and Robert F. Erbacher. “Automate Cybersecurity Data Triage by Leveraging Human Analysts Cognitive Process,” In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security (IEEE IDS), 2016, published.
CNS (Best Paper Runner up Award)	Xiaoyan Sun, Jun Dai, Peng Liu, Singhal, Anoop, John Yen, “Towards Probabilistic Identification of Zero-day Attack Paths,” IEEE CNS, 2016.
AsiaCCS	Shijie Jia, Luning Xia, Bo Chen, and Peng Liu, “NFPS: Adding Undetectable Secure Deletion to Flash Translation Layer,” Proc. 11th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS '16), Xi'an, China, May 30 - June 3, 2016.
CODASPY (8 pages)	“Program-object Level Data Flow Analysis with Applications to Data Leakage and Contamination Forensics,” short paper, by Gaoyao Xiao, Jun Wang, Peng Liu, Jiang Ming, and Dinghao Wu. In Proc. 6th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2016), New Orleans, LA, March 9-11, 2016, published.
CIC	Z. Hu, P. Chen, Y. Lu, M. Zhu and P. Liu, “Towards a science for adaptive defense: Revisit server protection,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC 2016), Pittsburgh, November 2016, invited paper, published.
ESSoS (Artifact Evaluation Award)	“Empirical Analysis and Modeling of Black-box Mutational Fuzzing,” by Mingyi Zhao and Peng Liu, International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS) 2016, published.
WEIS	Thomas Maillart, Mingyi Zhao, Jens Grossklags and John Chuang, “Given Enough Eyeballs, All Bugs Shallow? Revisiting Eric Raymond with Bug Bounty Market,” Proc. 15th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2016.
ICSE-SEET	Lannan Luo, and Qiang Zeng, “SolMiner: Mining Distinct Solutions in Programs,” In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering, SEET track, Austin, TX, May 14-22, 2016.
SAC	Yuan Zhao, Wuqiong Pan, Jingqiang Lin, Peng Liu, Cong Xue and Fangyu Zheng, “PhiRSA: Exploiting the Computing Power of Vector Instructions on Intel Xeon Phi for RSA,” Proc. 23rd Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2016), Canada, 2016, published.
HASE	“Feature-based Software Customization: Preliminary Analysis, Formalization, and Methods,” by Yufei Jiang, Can Zhang, Dinghao Wu, and Peng Liu. In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium (HASE 2016), Orlando, Florida, USA, January 7-9, 2016.
COMPSAC	“JRed: Program Customization and Bloatware Mitigation based on Static Analysis,” by Yufei Jiang, Dinghao Wu, and Peng Liu. In Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Computer Society International Conference on Computers, Software & Applications (COMPSAC 2016), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 10-14, 2016. (Published. Acceptance rate: 18%)
ICICS	Weijuan Zhang, Xiaoqi Jia, Chang Wang, Shengzhi Zhang, Qingjia Huang, Mingsheng Wang, Peng Liu, “A Comprehensive Study of Co-residence Threat in Multi-tenant Public PaaS Clouds,” 18th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2016), Singapore, Singapore, November 29 – December 2, 2016
arXiv	Q. Wang, W. Guo, A. Ororbia, X. Xing, L. Lin, C. L. Giles, X. Liu, P. Liu, G. Xiong, “Using non-invertible data transformations to build adversary-resistant deep neural networks,” arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01934, 2016.
TRE	Kai Chen, Yingjun Zhang, Peng Liu, “Dynamically Discovering Likely Memory Layout to Perform Accurate Fuzzing,” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2016, published.
TRE	Jiang Ming, Fangfang Zhang, Dinghao Wu, Peng Liu, and Sencun Zhu, “Deviation-Based Obfuscation-Resilient Program Equivalence Checking with Application to Software Plagiarism Detection,” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2016, published.
Journal of Computer Virology	Jiang Ming, Zhi Xin, Pengwei Lan, Dinghao Wu, Peng Liu, and Bing Mao, "Impeding Behavior-based Malware Analysis via Replacement Attacks to Malware Specifications," Springer Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques, 2016, published.
IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine	Jingqiang Lin, Bo Luo, Le Guan, Jiwu Jing, “Secure Computing using Registers and Caches: the Problem, Challenges and Solutions,” IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, 2016. (Accepted)
Journal	Shengzhi Zhang, Xiaoqi Jia, Peng Liu, "Towards Service Continuity for Transactional Applications via Diverse Device Drivers," International Journal of Information and Computer Security, 2016. (Accepted)
Journal	Chen Cao, Neng Gao, Ji Xiang, Peng Liu, “Towards Input Validation Vulnerability Analysis of Android System Services,” Journal of Cyber Security, China Science Press, 2016. (In Chinese), published.
Journal	K. Chen, P. Wang, Y. Lee, X. F. Wang, N. Zhang, H. Huang, W. Zou, P. Liu, “Scalable Detection of Unknown Malware from Millions of Apps,” Journal of Cyber Security, China Science Press, 2016. (In Chinese), published.
System Demo	Xu, J., Guo, P., Chen, B., Erbacher, R., Chen, P., & Liu, P., “Demo: A Symbolic N-Variant System,” Proc. Third ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2016), Vienna, Austria, October 2016, published.
Book Chapters	Wanyu Zang, Meng Yu, Peng Liu, "Privacy Protection in Cloud Computing through Architectural Design", book chapter, In Security in the Private Cloud, (John R. Vacca eds.), CRC Press, 2017, published.
	“iCruiser: Protecting Kernel Link-Based Data Structures with Secure Canary,” by Li Wang, Dinghao Wu, and Peng Liu. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Workshop on Trustworthy Computing (TC 2016), in conjunction with QRS 2016 Vienna, Austria, August 1-3, 2016, published.
PhD Dissertations	1. Chen Zhong, A COGNITIVE PROCESS TRACING APPROACH TO CYBERSECURITY DATA TRIAGE OPERATIONS AUTOMATION, Penn State University, College of IST, May 2016. 2. Chuangang Ren, A STUDY OF SELECTED SECURITY ISSUES IN ANDROID SYSTEMS, Penn State University, College of Engineering, May 2016. 3. Xiaoyan Sun, USING BAYESIAN NETWORKS FOR ENTERPRISE NETWORK SECURITY ANALYSIS, Penn State University, College of IST, May 2016. 4. Heqing Huang, A STUDY OF ANDROID SYSTEM VULNERABILITY AND MALWARE, Penn State University, College of Engineering, Feb 2016. 5. Mingyi Zhao, DISCOVERING AND MITIGATING SOFTWARE VULNERABILITIES THROUGH LARGE-SCALE COLLABORATION, Penn State University, College of IST, Oct 2016. 6. Wenhui Hu, THIRD-PARTY LIBRARY SECURITY MANAGEMENT FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS, Penn State University, College of Engineering, Dec. 2016.
2015
USENIX ATC	Jun Wang, Xi Xiong, Peng Liu, “Between Mutual Trust and Mutual Distrust: Practical Fine-grained Privilege Separation in Multithreaded Applications,” Proc. USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2015, published. [PDF]
USENIX Security	Chuangang Ren, Yulong Zhang, Hui Xue, Tao Wei, Peng Liu, "Towards Discovering and Understanding Task Hijacking in Android," USENIX Security 2015, published. [PDF]
USENIX Security	Jiang Ming, Dinghao Wu, Gaoyao Xiao, Jun Wang, and Peng Liu, “TaintPipe: Pipelined Symbolic Taint Analysis,” USENIX Security 2015, published. [PDF]
USENIX Security	Kai Chen, Peng Wang, Yeonjoon Lee, Xiaofeng Wang, Nan Zhang, Heqing Huang, Wei Zou, Peng Liu, "Finding Unknown Malice in 10 Seconds: Mass Vetting for New Threats at the Google-Play Scale," USENIX Security 2015, published. [PDF]
CCS	Heqing Huang, Sencun Zhu, Kai Chen, Peng Liu, “From System Services Freezing to System Server Shutdown in Android: All You Need Is a Loop in an Application”, ACM CCS 2015, published.
CCS Data and Code Release	Mingyi Zhao, Jens Grossklags, Peng Liu, “An Empirical Study of Web Vulnerability Discovery Ecosystems,” ACM CCS 2015, published. [PDF] (Data and Code Release)
TSE	Yoon-Chan Jhi, Xinran Wang, Xiaoqi Jia, Sencun Zhu, Peng Liu, and Dinghao Wu, “Program Characterization Using Runtime Values and Its Application to Software Plagiarism Detection,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 41(9), pages 925-943, September 2015. [PDF]
US Patent	U.S. Patent 8,904,535, “Proactive Worm Containment (PWC) For Enterprise Networks”
ESORICS	Ping Chen, Jun Xu, Zhiqiang Lin, Dongyan Xu, Bing Mao and Peng Liu, "A Practical Approach for Adaptive Data Structure Layout Randomization," ESORICS 2015, published. [PDF]
DSN	Q. Zeng, M. Zhao, P. Liu, “HeapTherapy: An Efficient End-to-end Solution against Heap Buffer Overflows,” DSN 2015, published. [PDF]
DSN	B. Zhao, P. Liu, “Private Browsing Mode Not Really That Private: Dealing with Privacy Breach Caused by Browser Extensions,” DSN 2015, published. [PDF]
DSN	Jun Wang, Mingyi Zhao, Qiang Zeng, Dinghao Wu, and Peng Liu, “Risk Assessment of Buffer ‘Heartbleed’ Over-read Vulnerabilities” (Practical Experience Report), In Proceedings of the 45th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2015), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 22-25, 2015. (Published). [PDF]
ACSAC	Chen Cao, Neng Gao, Peng Liu, Ji Xiang, “Towards Analyzing the Input Validation Vulnerabilities associated with Android System Services," In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2015.
ACSAC	Bing Chang, Zhan Wang, Bo Chen, Fengwei Zhang, “MobiPluto: File System Friendly Deniable Storage for Mobile Devices,” In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2015.
ASIACCS	Heqing Huang, Kai Chen, Chuangang Ren, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu and Dinghao Wu, “Towards Discovering and Understanding the Unexpected Hazards in Tailoring Antivirus Software for Android,” ACM ASIACCS 2015, full paper, published. [PDF]
ASIACCS	Jun Wang, Zhiyun Qian, Zhichun Li, Zhenyu Wu, Junghwan Rhee, Xia Ning, Peng Liu and Geoff Jiang, “Discover and Tame Long-running Idling Processes in Enterprise Systems,” ACM ASIACCS 2015, full paper, published. [PDF]
CODASPY	Zhongwen Zhang, Peng Liu, Ji Xiang, Jiwu Jing and Lingguang Lei, “How Your Phone Camera Can Be Used to Stealthily Spy on You: Transplantation Attacks against Android Camera Service,” ACM CODASPY 2015, published. [PDF]
ACNS	Jiang Ming, Zhi Xin, Pengwei Lan, Dinghao Wu, Peng Liu, and Bing Mao, “Replacement Attacks: Automatically Impeding Behavior-based Malware Specifications,” In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2015), New York, June 2-5, 2015, published. [PDF]
HotSOS	C. Zhong, J. Yen, P. Liu, R. Erbacher, R. Etoty, and C. Garneau, “An Integrated Computer-Aided Cognitive Task Analysis Method for Tracing Cyber-Attack Analysis Processes,” Proceedings of the 2015 Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security, ACM, 2015, published. [PDF]
CogSIMA	C. Zhong, J. Yen, P. Liu, R. Erbacher, R. Etoty, and C. Garneau, “ARSCA: A Computer Tool for Tracing the Cognitive Processes of Cyber-Attack Analysis,” Proceedings of IEEE CogSIMA Conference, 2015, published.
DBSEC	M. Zhao, P. Liu, J. Lobo, “Towards Collaborative Query Planning in Multi-party Database Networks,” DBSEC, 2015, published.
	A Preliminary Analysis and Case Study of Feature-based Software Customization (Extended Abstract), by Yufei Jiang, Can Zhang, Dinghao Wu, and Peng Liu. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS 2015), Vancouver, Canada, August 3-5, 2015. Xiaoyan Sun, Anoop Singhal, Peng Liu, “Who Touched My Mission: Towards Probabilistic Mission Impact Assessment,” In Proceedings of ACM SafeConfig Workshop, in association with ACM CCS 2015. M. Zhu and P. Liu. “Reviewing the book Principles of Cyber-physical Systems from a security perspective.” EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety, Special issue on miscellaneous emerging security problems, 15(4), 2015, book review. Chen Zhong, John Yen, Peng Liu, Robert F. Erbacher, and Christopher Garneau, “Peer into Cyber Security Analysts’ Minds: Capturing and Studying Their Cognitive Processes of Analytical Reasoning,” Penn State Graduate Exhibition of Research, University Park, PA, March 2015. Awarded the First Place in Engineering.
PhD Dissertations	Bin Zhao, IDENTIFYING PRIVATE DATA LEAKAGE THREATS IN WEB BROWSERS, PhD Dissertation, College of IST, June 2015, Penn State University. Jun Wang, PROTECTING SERVER PROGRAMS AND SYSTEMS: PRIVILEGE SEPARATION, ATTACK SURFACE REDUCTION, AND RISK ASSESSMENT, PhD Dissertation, College of IST, November 2015, Penn State University.
MS Thesis	Pinyao Guo, DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF A SYMBOLIC N-VARIANT SIMULATOR, College of IST, summer 2015, Penn State University Gaoyao Xiao, DETECTING AUTOMATED AGENTS BASED INSIDER ATTACKS THROUGH ADJACENCY MATRIX ANALYSIS, MS Thesis, College of IST, Spring 2015, Penn State University Wenqi Cao, MEMORY ANALYSIS TOWARDS MORE EFFICIENT LIVE MIGRATION OF APACHE WEB SERVER, MS Thesis, College of Engineering, Spring 2015, Penn State University
2014
US Patent	US Patent 8,881,288, “Graphical models for cyber security analysis in enterprise networks,” by R Levy, H Li, P Liu, and M Lyell, November 4, 2014.
ICSE	Kai Chen, Peng Liu, Yingjun Zhang, “Achieving Accuracy and Scalability Simultaneously in Detecting Application Clones on Android Markets”, ICSE 2014, regular paper, June 2014. [PDF]
CGO	Q. Zeng, J. Rhee, H. Zhang, N. Arora, G. Jiang, P. Liu, “Precise and Scalable Calling Context Encoding,” Proc. International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO 2014), 2014. [PDF]
DSN	R. Wu, P. Chen, P. Liu, B. Mao, “System Call Redirection: A Practical Approach to Meeting Real-world VMI Needs,” DSN 2014, June 2014.
FSE Distinguished Paper Award nomination	Lannan Luo, Jiang Ming, Dinghao Wu, Peng Liu and Sencun Zhu, “Semantics-Based Obfuscation-Resilient Binary Code Similarity Comparison with Applications to Software Plagiarism Detection,” FSE 2014, Nov. 16-22, 2014.
ESORICS	Lingchen Zhang, Sachin Shetty, Peng Liu, Jiwu Jing, “RootkitDet: Practical End-to-End Defense against Kernel Rootkits in a Cloud Environment,” ESORICS 2014, Sept. 7-11, 2014.
ESORICS	Min Li, Zili Zha, Wanyu Zang, Meng Yu, Peng Liu, Kun Bai, “Detangling Resource Management Functions from the TCB in Privacy-Preserving Virtualization,” ESORICS 2014, Sept. 7-11, 2014.
ASE	Chuangang Ren, Kai Chen, Peng Liu, “Droidmarking: Resilient Software Watermarking for Impeding Android Application Repackaging,” ASE 2014, Sept. 15-19, Sweden, 2014.
ACM WiSec	Wenhui Hu, Damien Octeau, Patrick McDaniel, and Peng Liu, “Duet: Library Integrity Verification for Android Applications,” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), July 2014. Oxford, United Kingdom.
ACM WiSec	Fangfang Zhang, Heqing Huang, Sencun Zhu, Dinghao Wu and Peng Liu, “ViewDroid: Towards Obfuscation-Resilient Mobile Application Repackaging Detection,” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), July 2014. Oxford, United Kingdom.
TKDE	Qiang Zeng, Mingyi Zhao, Peng Liu, Poonam Yadav, Seraphin Calo, and Jorge Lobo. “Enforcement of Autonomous Authorizations in Collaborative Distributed Query Evaluation.” To appear in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2014.
SecureComm Best Paper Award nomination	Xiaoyan Sun, Jun Dai, Anoop Singhal, Peng Liu, “Inferring the Stealthy Bridges between Enterprise Network Islands in Cloud Using Cross-Layer Bayesian Networks,” SecureComm 2014, Beijing, Sept. 23-26, 2014.
ISSRE	Fangfang, Zhang, Dinghao Wu, Peng Liu, and Sencun Zhu, “Program Logic Based Software Plagiarism Detection,” In Proceedings of the 25th annual International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2014), Naples, Italy, November 3-6, 2014.
MTD Workshop	Minghui Zhu, Zhisheng Hu and Peng Liu, “Reinforcement learning algorithms for adaptive cyber defense against Heartbleed”, Proc. First ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2014), in association with CCS’14, Nov. 2014.
MTD Workshop	J. Xu, P. Guo, M. Zhao, R. F. Erbacher, M. Zhu, P. Liu, “Comparing Different Moving Target Defense Techniques.” Proc. First ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2014), in association with CCS’14, Nov. 2014.
IFIP Networking	Lu Su, Yunlong Gao, Fan Ye, Peng Liu, Oktay Gunluk, Tom Berman, Seraphin Calo, Tarek Abdelzaher, "Robust Confidentiality Preserving Data Delivery in Federated Coalition Networks," Proc. 13th IFIP International Conference on Networking (Networking 2014), Trondheim, Norway, June, 2014.
CogSIMA	C. Zhong, D. Samuel, J. Yen, P. Liu, R. Erbacher, S. Hutchinson, R. Etoty, H. Cam, and W. Glodek, “RankAOH: Context-driven Similarity-based Retrieval of Experiences in Cyber Analysis,” In Proceedings of IEEE CogSIMA Conference, 2014.
ICISS	George Cybenko, Sushil Jajodia, Michael P. Wellman, and Peng Liu, “Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber Defense: Building the Scientific Foundation,” In Proc. ICISS 2014, invited paper, 8 pages
SIW	Mingyi Zhao, Jens Grossklags and Kai Chen, “An Exploratory Study of White Hat Behaviors in a Web Vulnerability Disclosure Program,” Proc. CCS Workshop on Security Information Workers, November 7, 2014, Scottsdale, AZ
Elsevier ECE	D. Tian, X. Xiong, C. Hu, P. Liu, “Defeating Buffer Overflow Attacks via Virtualization,” Elsevier Computers & Electrical Engineering Journal, Vol. 40, Issue 6, Pages 1940-1950, August 2014.
PhD Dissertations	Jun Dai, “GAINING BIG PICTURE AWARENESS IN ENTERPRISE CYBER SECURITY DEFENSE,” PhD Dissertation, College of IST, Penn State University, July 2014 Qiang Zeng, “IMPROVING SOFTWARE SECURITY WITH CONCURRENT MONITORING, AUTOMATED DIAGNOSIS, AND SELF-SHIELDING,” PhD Dissertation, Dept. of CSE, College of Engineering, Penn State University, Oct. 2014
Book Chapters	John Yen, Robert Erbacher, Cheng Zhong, and Peng Liu, “Cognitive Process,” Book Chapter, in Cyber Defense and Situational Awareness, Robert Erbacher, Alexander Kott, and Cliff Wang (eds.), to appear. D. Wu, P. Liu, Q. Zeng, D. Tian, “Software Cruising: A New Technology for Building Concurrent Software Monitor,” Book Chapter, in Secure Cloud Computing, Springer, Sushil Jajodia, Krishna Kant, Pierangela Samarati, Anoop Singhal, Vipin Swarup, and Cliff Wang (eds.), pages 303-324. Springer, 2014. Haitao Du, Changzhou Wang, Tao Zhang, Shanchieh Jay Yang, Jai Choi, and Peng Liu, “Cyber Insider Mission Detection for Situation Awareness,” Book Chapter, in Intelligent Methods for Cyberwarfare, Springer, to appear.
Others	Qiang Zeng, Mingyi Zhao, and Peng Liu. “Targeted Therapy for Software Bugs and Vulnerabilities.” In Poster Session, 35th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2014. H. Tripp, K. Warr, A. Freeman, P. Liu, S. Wang, K. Leung, J. Lobo, “A security model for micro-cloud technology in hybrid tactical environments,” short paper and poster, The 2014 Fall Meeting of ITA, 2014. Mingyi Zhao, Peng Liu, Qiang Zeng, Fan Ye, Seraphin Calo, Graham Bent, Patrick Dantressangle, and Jorge Lobo, “Authorization Information Leakage Control in Collaborative Distributed Query Processing,” short paper and poster, The 2014 Fall Meeting of ITA, 2014. Heqing Huang, Kai Chen, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu, and Dinghao Wu, “Uncovering the Dilemmas on Antivirus Software Design in Modern Mobile Platforms,” Proc. Int'l Workshop on System Level Security of Smartphones, in conjunction with SecureComm 2014, Springer LNICST, Sept. 23, Beijing, China
2013
US Patent	U.S. Patent 8,443,442, “Signature-Free Buffer Overflow Attack Blocker”
Technical Report (code released)	J. Wang, X. Xiong, P. Liu, [Arbiter System] “Practical Fine-grained Privilege Separation in Multithreaded Applications,” Penn State Cyber Security Lab Technical Report PSU-S2-13-051, arXiv:1305.2553, communicated 12 May 2013. Arbiter project website (code released): here
RAID	Xi Xiong and Peng Liu, “SILVER: Fine-grained and Transparent Protection Domain Primitives in Commodity OS Kernel,” RAID 2013, published. [PDF]
RAID	Bin Zhao and Peng Liu, “Behavior Decomposition: Aspect-level Browser Extension Clustering and Its Security Implications,” RAID 2013, published. [PDF]
ESORICS	Jun Dai, Xiaoyan Sun, Peng Liu, “Patrol: Revealing Zero-day Attack Paths through Network-wide System Object Dependencies,” ESORICS 2013, published. [PDF]
ACSAC	Meng Yu, Min Li, Wanyu Zang, et al., “MyCloud: Supporting User-configured Privacy Protection in Cloud Computing,” ACSAC 2013, accepted. [PDF]
TIFS	Fengjun Li, Bo Luo, Peng Liu, Dongwon Lee, Chao-Hsien Chu, “Enforcing Secure and Privacy-Preserving Information Brokering in Distributed Information Sharing,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 10.1109/TIFS.2013.2247398, Feb 2013. [PDF]
ICICS	Eunjung Yoon and Peng Liu, “XLRF: A Cross-Layer Intrusion Recovery Framework for Damage Assessment and Recovery Plan Generation,” ICICS 2013, published.
ICICS	Jing Wang, Peng Liu, Le Guan, Jiwu Jing, “Fingerprint Embedding: A Proactive Strategy of Detecting Timing Channels,” ICICS 2013, published.
FGCS	Shengzhi Zhang, Wenjie Wang, Haishan Wu, Athanasios Vasilakos, Peng Liu, “Towards Transparent and Distributed Workload Management for Large Scale Web Servers,” Elsevier FGCS Journal: Future Generation Computer Systems, volume 29 issue 4 (June 2013), pages 913-925
ISI	C. Zhong, D. S. Kirubakaran, J. Yen, P. Liu, S. Hutchinson, H. Cam, “How to Use Experience in Cyber Analysis: An Analytical Reasoning Support System,” IEEE ISI 2013, published, short paper. [PDF]
TRUST	H. Huang, S. Zhu, P. Liu, D. Wu, “A Framework for Evaluating Mobile App Repackaging Detection Algorithms,” TRUST 2013, published.
SERE	Lei Wang, Ji Xiang, Peng Liu, Jiwu Jing, “MJBlocker: A Lightweight and Run-time Malicious JavaScript Extensions Blocker,” IEEE SERE 2013, published.
SCN	Xiaoqi Jia, Rui Wang, Jun Jiang, Shengzhi Zhang, Peng Liu, “Defeating Return Oriented Programming based on Virtualization Techniques,” Wiley Journal Security and Communication Networks, DOI: 10.1002/sec.693, Jan 2013
JNCA	Yan Yang, Yulong Zhang, Alex Hai Wang, Meng Yu, Wanyu Zang, Peng Liu, Sushil Jajodia, “Quantitative Survivability Evaluation of Three Virtual Machine based Server Architectures,” Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), Volume 36 Issue 2, March, 2013, Pages 781-790.
	Xiaoyan Sun, Jun Dai, Peng Liu, “SKRM: Where Security Techniques Talk to Each Other,” CogSIMA 2013, IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support, February 26-28, 2013, San Diego, 4 page position paper, plus poster. C. Zhong, M. Zhao, G. Xiao, J. Xu, “Agile Cyber Analysis: Leveraging Visualization as Functions in Collaborative Visual Analytics,” IEEE VAST Challenge 2013 Workshop, part of IEEE Viz 2013, short paper, plus poster. Mingyi Zhao, Peng Liu, Fan Ye, Jorge Lobo, “Decentralized Policy Confidentiality Preserving Query Planning in Coalition Networks,” ACITA 2013 (2-page short paper). Zongbin Liu, Neng Gao, Jiwu Jing, Peng Liu, “HPAZ: a High-throughput Pipeline Architecture of ZUC in Hardware,” IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2013/461 (2013).
Thesis	Robert Cole, PhD dissertation, “Multi-Step Attack Detection via Bayesian Modeling under Model Parameter Uncertainty,” defended Dec, 2012 Zhi Xin (Nanjing University), PhD dissertation, “Study on Program Diversity for Software Security,” defended May, 2013 D. S. Kirubakaran, MS Thesis, “Context-driven Similarity-based Retrieval of Cyber Analyst Experiences for Multi-step Attack Analysis,” CSE Department, defended March, 2013
2012
NDSS	D. Tian, Q. Zeng, D. Wu, P. Liu, C. Z. Hu, “Kruiser: Semi-synchronized Non-blocking Concurrent Kernel Heap Buffer Overflow Monitoring,” NDSS 2012, published. [PDF]
RAID	Shengzhi Zhang, Peng Liu, “Assessing the Trustworthiness of Drivers,” RAID 2012, published. [PDF]
ISSTA	F. Zhang, Yoon-Chan Jhi, Dinghao Wu, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu, “Towards Algorithm Plagiarism Detection,” ISSTA 2012, published.
ESORICS	Q. Gu, K. Jones, W. Zang, M. Yu, P. Liu, “Revealing Abuses of Channel Assignment Protocols in Multi-Channel Wireless Networks: An Investigation Logic Approach,” ESORICS 2012.
CODASPY	Yuhao Yang, Jonathan Lutes, Fengjun Li, Bo Luo and Peng Liu, “Stalking Online: on User Privacy in Social Networks,” In ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), 2012; Acceptance rate: 18.6%.
CogSIMA Best Paper Award	Po-Chun Chen, Peng Liu, and John Yen, "Experience-Based Cyber Situation Recognition Using Relaxable Logic Patterns", Proc. IEEE CogSIMA 2012, New Orleans, LA
ASIACCS	Shengzhi Zhang, Peng Liu, “Letting Applications Operate through Attacks Launched from Compromised Drivers,” ACM ASIACCS, 2012, short paper, May 2012, Korea.
TrustCom	Qijun Gu, Wanyu Zang, Meng Yu, Peng Liu, “Collaborative Traffic-aware Intrusion Monitoring in Multi-channel Mesh Networks,” IEEE TrustCom 2012, published.
GameSec	J. Lin, P. Liu, J. Jing, “Using Signaling Games to Model the Multi-step Attack-defense Scenarios on Confidentiality,” GameSec 2012, published.
SAFECONFIG	M. Zhao, P. Liu, “Modeling and Checking the Security of DIFC System Configurations,” SAFECONG-2012, Baltimore, MD, 2012.
ASE Cyber Security	Jun Dai, Xiaoyan Sun, Peng Liu, Nicklaus Giacobe, “Gaining Big Picture Awareness through an Interconnected Cross-layer Situation Knowledge Reference Model,” ASE International Conference on Cyber Security, Washington DC, Dec 14-16, 2012, published.
SPIE	Y. Cheng, Y. E. Sagduyu, J. Deng, J. Li, and Peng Liu, "Integrated Situational Awareness for Cyber-attack Detection, Analysis, and Mitigation," Proc. SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Conference, 2012.
ACITA	Q. Zeng, J. Lobo, P. Liu, S. Calo, and P. Yadav, “Safe query processing for pairwise authorizations in coalition networks,” ACITA 2012, (extended abstract). Mingyi Zhao, Qiang Zeng, Jorge Lobo, Peng Liu, Fan Ye, Seraphin Calo, Tom Berman, “Distributed Query Planning in Coalition Network,” ACITA 2012, (2-page short paper). Tom Berman, David Vyvyan, Graham Bent, Patrick Dantressangle, Jorge Lobo, Fan Ye, Peng Liu, “A Comparative Study on Trusted Path Discovery in Two Algorithms,” ACITA 2012, (2-page short paper). David Vyvyan, Tom Berman, Graham Bent, Patrick Dantressangle, Jorge Lobo, Fan Ye, Peng liu, “Trust-based Routing in Gaian Networks,” demo, ACITA 2012, Sept., 2012 UK.
JSR	Jun Shao, Peng Liu, Yuan Zhou, “Achieving Key Privacy without Losing CCA Security in Proxy Re-Encryption,” Journal of Systems and Software, accepted.
SCN	Jingqiang Liu, Jiwu Jing, Peng Liu, Qiongxiao Wang, "Impossibility of Finding Any Third Family of Server Protocols Integrating Byzantine Quorum Systems with Threshold Signature Schemes," Wiley Journal Security and Communication Networks, accepted.
BMC Bioinformatics	Fengjun Li, Xukai Zhou, Peng Liu, Jake Y. Chen, New Threats to Health Data Privacy, BMC Bioinformatics, in press.
IJIS	Zhi Xin, Huiyu Chen, Xinche Wang, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu, Bing Mao, Li Xie, “Replacement Attacks: Automatically Evading Behavior Based Software Birthmark,” International Journal of Information Security, Springer, accepted, 2012.
SCN	Deguang Kong, Dinghao Wu, Donghai Tian, Peng Liu, “Semantic Aware Attribution Analysis of Remote Exploits,” Wiley Journal Security and Communication Networks, accepted.
Thesis	Xi Xiong, PhD Dissertation, “Protecting System Integrity in Commodity Computers,” defended, Oct 2012 Shengzhi Zhang, PhD Dissertation, “Virtualization-based Security Analysis of Production Server Systems,” defended, July 2012 Dan Keating, MS Thesis, “Exploiting Memory Remnants Vulnerabilities to Do Cross-Tenant Data Extraction in Cloud Systems,” defended, July 2012 Donghai Tian (BIT), PhD Dissertation on “Kernel Cruising” and systems integrity protection, defended, Feb 2012 Jian Liu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics), PhD Dissertation, “HCS: Study on Algorithms and Models of Decision Making Problem Based on Human-Centered Services,” defended, June 2012 Lei Wang (CAS), PhD Dissertation, “Study on Behavior-based Analysis of Malicious Network Scripts,” defended, May 2012 Zongbin Liu (CAS), PhD Dissertation, “Study on Hardware Implementations of ECC and Other Cryptographic Algorithms,” defended, May 2012
2011
NDSS	X. Xiong, D. Tian, P. Liu, “Practical Protection of Kernel Integrity for Commodity OS from Untrusted Extensions,” NDSS 2011, Feb, 2011, CA. [PDF]
PLDI	Qiang Zeng, Dinghao Wu, Peng Liu, “Cruiser: Concurrent Heap Buffer Overflow Monitoring Using Lock-free Data Structures,” PLDI 2011, June, 2011. [PDF]
TIFS	Shengzhi Zhang, Xiaoqi Jia, Peng Liu, Jiwu Jing, “PEDA: Comprehensive Damage Assessment for Production Environment Server Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 6, No. 4, Dec 2011, pages 1323-1334.
ICSE (SPIE track)	Y. C. Jhi, X. Wang, X. Jia, S. Zhu, P. Liu, D. Wu, "Value-Based Program Characterization and Its Application to Software Plagiarism Detection", ICSE 2011 (SPIE Track), 2011.
HotNets	John R. Douceur, Jon Howell, Bryan Parno, Xi Xiong, Michael Walfish, “The Web Interface Should Be Radically Refactored,” to appear, HotNets X, 2011
“Cloud Shredder”	Nan Zhang, J. Jing, P. Liu, “Cloud Shredder: Removing the Laptop On-Road Data Disclosure Threat in the Cloud Computing Era,” Proc. 6th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, IEEE Digital Library, 2011
SSDBM	Fengjun Li, Yuxin Chen, Bo Luo, Dongwon Lee and Peng Liu, “Privacy-Preserving Group Linkage,” SSDBM 2011, accepted.
ISC Best Paper Award	Zhi Xin, Huiyu Chen, Xinche Wang, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu and Bing Mao, "Replacement Attacks on Behavior Based Software Birthmark",(2011), ISC 2011, accepted.
SecureComm	Deguang Kong, Donghai Tian and Peng Liu, "SAEA: Automatic Semantic Aware Remote Exploits Attribution Analysis", (2011). Proc. SECURECOMM 2011, to appear
ICICS	Jun Jiang, Xiaoqi Jia, Dengguo Feng, Shengzhi Zhang, Peng Liu, “HyperCrop: A Hypervisor-based Countermeasure for Return Oriented Programming,” accepted, to appear in Proc. ICICS 2011.
CNSM	S. Zhang, H. Wu, W. Wang, B. Yang, P. Liu, A. V. Vasilakos, "Distributed Workload and Response Time Management for Web Applications", (2011), Proc. IEEE CNSM 2011, to appear, acceptance ratio 15%
SECRYPT	Zongbin Liu, Luning Xia, Jiwu Jing, Peng Liu, A Tiny RSA Coprocessor Based on Optimized Systolic Montgomery Architecture, Proc. SECRYPT 2011, acceptance ratio 13%
CODASPY	Junfeng Yu, P. Liu, Z. Li, S. Zhang, et al., “LeakProber: A framework for profiling sensitive data leakage paths,” ACM CODASPY 2011, 2011.
ICC	Qijun Gu, Meng Yu, Wanyu Zang, Peng Liu, “Lightweight Attacks against Channel Assignment Protocols in MIMC Wireless Networks,” ICC 2011, 2011.
ICC	Jun Shao, Peng Liu, Zhenfu Cao, Guiyi Wei, “Multi-use Unidirectional Proxy Re-Encryption,” ICC 2011, 2011
ACITA	Jorge Lobo, Qiang Zeng, “Towards Securing Query Processing in Distributed Databases,” position paper, Proc. ACITA 2011
IJIS	Deguang Kong, Yoon-Chan Jhi, Tao Gong, Sencun Zhu, Peng Liu, Hongsheng Xi, “SAS: Semantics Aware Signature Generation for Polymorphic Worm Detection,” International Journal of Information Security, Springer, in press.
SCN	Jun Shao, Zhenfu Cao, Peng Liu, “SCCR: a generic approach to simultaneously achieve CCA security and collusion-resistance in proxy re-encryption,” Security and Communication Networks 4(2): 122–135 (2011)
ISPEC	Donghai Tian, Xi Xiong, Changzhen Hu, and Peng Liu, “Policy-Centric Protection of OS Kernel from Vulnerable Loadable Kernel Modules,” ISPEC 2011, accepted.
JQRE	Jingqiang Lin, Jiwu Jing, Peng Liu, “Evaluating Intrusion Tolerant Certification Authority Systems,” Journal of Quality and Reliability Engineering, accepted, in press
GENSIPS	Xukai Zou, Peng Liu and Jake Chen, “Personal Genome Privacy Protection with Feature-based Hierarchical Dual-stage Encryptions,” GENSIPS 2011, to appear
SCN	Jun Shao, Peng Liu, Guiyi Wei, Yun Ling, “Anonymous Proxy Re-encryption,” Security and Communication Networks Journal, published.
IJSCCPS	Baojun Qiu, Kristinka Ivanova, John Yen, Peng Liu, Frank E. Ritter, “Event-driven Modeling of Evolving Social Networks,” Int. J. of Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems, published.
IJSN	Fengjun Li, Bo Luo, Peng Liu, “Secure and Privacy-Preserving Information Aggregation for Smart Grids,” International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), 6(1):28 - 39, 2011.
	Qi Fang, Peng Liu, John Yen, Frank Ritter, Jonathan Morgan, “A Threaded Event-Based Simulation Approach for Supporting Intelligence Analysis,” Proc. 2011 WG 11.10 Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection, published. Kevin Hamlen, Peng Liu, Murat Kantarcioglu, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Ting Yu, “Identity management for cloud computing: Developments and directions,” Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Workshop on Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research, 2011.
2010
ACSAC	S. Zhang, X. Jia, P. Liu, J. Jing, “Cross-Layer Comprehensive Intrusion Harm Analysis for Production Workload Server Systems,” In Proceedings of ACSAC 2010, Dec. 2010, Austin, Texas.
ISC	D. Tian, X. Xiong, C. Z. Hu, P. Liu, “Short Paper: Integrating Offline Analysis and Online Protection to Defeat Buffer Overflow Attacks,” In Proceedings of ISC 2010, Florida
SmartGridComm Selected into IJSN Special Issue	F. Li, B. Luo, P. Liu, “Secure Information Aggregation for Smart Grids Using Homomorphic Encryption,” In Proceedings of First IEEE Conf. on Smart Grid Communications, Oct. 4-6, 2010, NIST, MD.
INFOCOM	F. Li, B. Luo, P. Liu, C. H. Chu, “A Node Failure Resilient Anonymous Communication Protocol through Commutative Path Hopping,” In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2010, March 2010, San Diego, CA, USA, regular paper.
MILCOM Tutorial	Jason Li, Peng Liu, “Cyber Security Analysis and Situation Awareness: Theory and Practice,” MILCOM 2010, San Jose, CA
DSN 10-year Test-of-Time Award	Peng Xie, Jason H Li, Xinming Ou, Peng Liu and Renato Levy, “Using Bayesian Networks for Cyber Security Analysis,” In Proceedings of IEEE DSN-DCCS 2010, June 2010, Chicago, USA, regular paper.
SecureComm	J. Lin, P. Liu, J. Jing, Q. Wang, “Impossibility of Finding Any Third Family of Server Protocols Integrating Byzantine Quorum Systems with Threshold Signature Schemes” , Proceedings of SecureComm 2010, Sept. 2010, Singapore, accepted.
SecureComm Selected into IJIS Special Issue	D. Kong, Y. C. Jhi, T. Gong, S. Zhu, P. Liu, H. Xi, “SAS: Semantics Aware Signature Generation for Polymorphic Worm Detection”, Proceedings of SecureComm 2010, Sept. 2010, Singapore, accepted.
VLDB Journal	QFilter: Rewriting Insecure XML Queries to Secure Ones using Non-Deterministic Finite Automata, Bo Luo, Dongwon Lee, Wang-Chien Lee, Peng Liu, In The VLDB J., accepted.
Position Paper	Shengzhi Zhang, Xi Xiong, Peng Liu, “Challenges in Improving the Survivability of Data Centers,” Proc. of the Survivability in Cyberspace Workshop, 2010
Position Paper	Peng Liu, “Security and Privacy cannot be taken for Granted by the Cloud Computing Industry,” Proc. of METS 2010, Taiwan, Nov. 2010
COMCOM	Choi, Y. H., Liu, P. and Seo, S. W. “Using Information Collected by Botnets to Create Importance Scanning Worms,” Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, 33 (6), 676-688, 2010
TDSC	X. Wang, C. Pan, P. Liu, S. Zhu, SigFree: A Signature-free Buffer Overflow Attack Blocker, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), accepted, in press
ACISP	Jun Shao, Min Feng, Bin Zhu, Zhenfu Cao and Peng Liu, “The Security Model of Unidirectional Proxy Re-Signature with Private Re-Signature Key,” Proc. of 15th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, July 5-7, 2010, Sydney, Australia
ARES	Hai Wang, Yan Su, Peng Liu, "A Semi-Markov Survivability Evaluation Model for Intrusion Tolerant Database Systems," accepted for publication in ARES 2010 (The Fifth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security)
COSE	Yoon-Ho Choi, Lunquan Li, Peng Liu, George Kesidis, “Worm Virulence Estimation for the Containment of Local Worm Outbreak,” Elsevier Computers & Security journal, Feb. 2010
ISPEC	Xiaoqi Jia, Xi Xiong, Jiwu Jing, Peng Liu, “Using Purpose Capturing Signatures to Defeat Computer Virus Mutating, “ accepted by The Sixth International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience Conference (ISPEC 2010), 2010. Springer-Verlag LNCS, to appear.
CNS	Heywoong Kim, Qijun Gu, Meng Yu, Wanyu Zang and Peng Liu, “A Simulation Framework for Performance Analysis of Multi-Interface and Multi-Channel Wireless Networks in INET/OMNET++,” accepted by 13th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS'10)
SECRYPT	Meng Yu, W. Zang, H. Wang, P. Liu, “Evaluating Survivability and Costs of Three Virtual Machine based Server Architectures,” Proc. of SECRYPT 2010, accepted, 2010
Eurosys Poster	Shengzhi Zhang, Xiaoqi Jia, Peng Liu, “Rupi’s Dance: Cross-Layer Comprehensive Infection Diagnosis for Availability-Critical Server Systems,” poster, Eurosys 2010
CSI	Peng Liu, Meng Yu, “Damage Assessment and Repair in Attack Resilient Distributed Database Systems,” Elsevier Computer Standards & Interfaces Journal, accepted.
BIOKDD	Fengjun Li, Jake Chen, Xukai Zou, Peng Liu, “New Privacy Threats in Healthcare Informatics: When Medical Records Join the Web,” short paper, BIOKDD workshop 2010, Washington D.C.
IET Info Security	Meng Yu, Wanyu Zang, Peng Liu, “Recovery of Data Integrity under Multi-Tier Architectures”, IET Information Security Journal, accepted.
PhD Dissertations	Fengjun Li, “Secure and Privacy-Preserving Information Brokering,” PhD Dissertation, Oct. 2010 Yoon-Chan Jhi, “A Study of Selected Security Measures against Non-legitimate Use of Code,” PhD Dissertation, Aug. 2010 Xiaoqi Jia (joint PhD training), “A Study of Virtualization-based High Availability and Security Mechanisms,” PhD Dissertation, June 2010, Degree granted by Graduate University of CAS Po-Chun Chen (affiliated student), “Experience-based Cyber Security Analysis,” PhD Dissertation, fall 2010 Deguang Kong (joint PhD training), “Research on Applications of Semantic Aware Statistical Learning Approaches in Code Security Problems”, PhD Dissertation, May 2010, Degree granted by University of Sci. and Tech. of China
	David Basin, Peng Liu, Peng Ning (eds.), Proc. of 5^th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS’10), ACM Press, April, 2010, to appear D. Tian, D. Kong, C. Z. Hu, P. Liu, “Protecting Kernel Data through Virtualization Technology,” Proc. SecureWare 2010 Baojun Qiu, Kristinka Ivanova, John Yen and Peng Liu, “Behavior Evolution and Event-driven Growth Dynamics in Social Networks,” IEEE Social Computing Conference (SocialCom 2010) Baojun Qiu, Kristinka Ivanova, John Yen and Peng Liu, “Study of Effect of Node Seniority in Social Networks,” Proc. of IEEE ISI 2010, short paper Zongbin Liu, Jiwu Jing, and Peng Liu, “Rate-based Watermark Traceback: A New Approach,” Proc. of The Sixth International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience Conference (ISPEC 2010), 2010 Xiaoqi Jia, Jun Shao, Peng Liu, “CCA-Secure Type-based Proxy Re-encryption with Invisible Proxy,” accepted by CIT 2010, Proc. of The 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 2010 Daren Zha, Jiwu Jing, Peng Liu, Jingqiang Lin, Xiaoqi Jia, “Proactive Identification and Prevention of Unexpected Future Rule Conflicts in Attribute Based Access Control, “ Springer-Verlag LNCS, 2010.
2009
Cyber Situation Awareness	S. Jajodia, P. Liu, V. Swarup, C. Wang (eds.), Cyber Situational Awareness: Issues and Research, Springer, published in Nov. 2009
CCS	X. Wang, Y. C. Jhi, S. Zhu, P. Liu, “Behavior Based Software Theft Detection,” Proc. ACM CCS, 2009. [PDF]
ACSAC	X. Wang, Y. C. Jhi, S. Zhu, P. Liu, “Detecting Software Theft via System Call Based Birthmarks”, Proc. ACSAC, 2009, accepted, to appear. 19.6% acceptance rate.
ACSAC	X. Xiong, X. Jia, P. Liu, “SHELF: Preserving Business Continuity and Availability in an Intrusion Recovery System”, Proc. ACSAC, 2009, accepted, to appear. 19.6% acceptance rate.
VMSEC	Zhang, S., Xiong, X., Jia, X. and Liu, P. (2009) “Availability-sensitive Intrusion Recovery”, Proceedings of Second ACM Workshop on Virtual Machine Security, Chicago, IL, November 2009, 6 page position paper
TKDE	B. Zheng, W. C. Lee, P. Liu, D. L. Lee, X. Ding, Tuning On-Air Signatures for Balancing Performance and Confidentiality, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 21, Issue. 12, pp. 1783-1797, Dec. 2009
TDSC	Q. Gu, P. Liu, W. C. Lee, C. H. Chu, KTR: An Efficient Key Management Scheme For Secure Data Access Control in Wireless Broadcast Services, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Volume 6, Number 3, July-Sept. 2009, pp. 188-201. [PDF]
EDBT	Damage Tracking Quarantine and Recovery for Mission-Critical Database Systems, Proc. EDBT 2009, March 2009.
NCA	Meng Yu, Peng Liu, Wanyu Zang: The implementation and evaluation of a recovery system for workflows. Elsevier J. Network and Computer Applications 32(1): 158-183 (2009)
SCN	Yoon-Chan Jhi, Peng Liu, Lunquan Li, Qijun Gu, Jiwu Jing, George Kesidis, PWC: A Proactive Worm Containment Solution for Enterprise Networks, Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal, accepted, to appear
	K. Bai, Ying Liu, Peng Liu, “Prevent Identity Disclosure in Social Network Data Study,” Proc. ACM CCS 2009, poster Zang, W., Gu, Q., Yu, M. and Liu, P. (2009) “An Attack-Resilient Channel Assignment MAC Protocol Not relying on Trust Management”, Proc. International Workshop on Data Security and Privacy in Emerging Networked Systems, in association with NBiS, Indianapolis, Aug. 19-21. Ruidong Li, Jie Li, Peng Liu, Jien Kato, “A Novel Hybrid Trust Management Framework for MANETs,” Proc. 2009 International Workshop on Next Generation Network Architecture (NGNA 2009) , in association with ICDCS’09. M. Yung, P. Liu, D. Lin (eds.), Information Security and Cryptology, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009, ISBN 3-540-36796-9 P. Liu, R. Molva, R. D. Pietro (eds.), Proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (Securecomm 2008), ACM Digital Library, 2008 M. Yung, P. Liu, D. Lin (eds.), Information Security and Cryptology - Proceedings of the Short Papers Presented on Inscrypt 2008, Chinese Science Press, 2009 Zang, W., Liu, P. and Yu, M. (2009) “Incentive-based Methods for Inferring Attacker Intent and Strategies and Measuring Attack Resilience,” in Annals of Emerging Research in IA, Security and Privacy Service, H. R. Rao and Shambhu Upadhyaya (eds.), Elsevier, in press. Barford, P., Dacier, M., Dietterich, T. G., Fredrikson, M., Giffin, J., Jajodia, S., Jha, S., Li, J., Liu, P., Ning, P., Ou, X., Song, D., Strater, L., Swarup, V., Tadda, G., Wang, C. and Yen, J. (2009) “Cyber SA: Situational Awareness for Cyber Defense,” in Cyber Situational Awareness: Issues and Research, S. Jajodia, P. Liu, V. Swarup, C. Wang (Eds.), ISBN: 98-1-4419-0139-2, Springer International Series on Advances in Information Security, Nov. 2009 Yen, J., McNeese, M., Mullen, T., Hall, D., Fan, X. and Liu, P. (2009) “RPD-based Hypothesis Reasoning for Cyber Situation Awareness,” in Cyber Situational Awareness: Issues and Research, S. Jajodia, P. Liu, V. Swarup, C. Wang (Eds.), ISBN: 98-1-4419-0139-2, Springer International Series on Advances in Information Security, Nov. 2009 Liu, P., Jia, X., Zhang, S., Xiong, X., Jhi, Y. C., Bai, K. and Li, J. (2009) “Cross-Layer Damage Assessment for Cyber Situational Awareness,” in Cyber Situational Awareness: Issues and Research, S. Jajodia, P. Liu, V. Swarup, C. Wang (Eds.), ISBN: 98-1-4419-0139-2, Springer International Series on Advances in Information Security, Nov. 2009 Liu, P., La Porta, T. and Kotapati, K. (2009) “Cellular Network Security,” in Handbook of Wireless Networks, John R. Vacca (editor), Morgan Kaufmann, published. P. Luenam, P. Liu, A. F. Norcio, A Neuro-Fuzzy Approach towards Adaptive Intrusion Tolerant Database Systems, in Computational Intelligence and Its Applications, X. Li, X. Yao (eds.), USTC Press, Hefei, China, 2009 Kun Bai, Damage Management in Database Management Systems, Ph.D. Dissertation, defended in Summer 2009
2008
VMSEC	X. Jia, S. Zhang, J. Jing, P. Liu, Using Virtual Machines to Do Cross-Layer Damage Assessment, Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Virtual Machine Security, in association with ACM CCS, 2008
ACSAC	Robert Cole, Peng Liu, Addressing Low Base Rates in Intrusion Detection via Uncertainty-Bounding Multi-Step Analysis, Proceedings of 24th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2008
ACSAC	X. Wang, Y-C Jhi, S. Zhu, P. Liu, STILL: Exploit Code Detection via Static Taint and Initialization Analyses Proceedings of 24th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2008
ESORICS	K. Bai, P. Liu, M. Yu, TRACE: Zero-down-time Database Damage Tracking, Quarantine, and Cleansing with Negligible Run-time Overhead, Proc. ESORICS 2008
WINET	Kameswari Kotapati, Peng Liu, and Thomas F. LaPorta, Evaluating MAPSec by Marking Attack Graphs, Kluwer/ACM Wireless Networks Journal (WINET), in press.
TELESYS	K. Kotapati, P. Liu, T. F. LaPorta, Dependency Relation based Vulnerability Analysis of 3G Networks: Can It Identify Unforeseen Cascading Attacks? Springer Telecommunications Systems Journal, special issue on “Security, Privacy and Trust for Beyond-3G Networks,” in press [PDF]
	Q. Gu, C. H. Chu, P. Liu, Modeling and Analysis of Bandwidth Competition in 802.11 Networks, International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation, in press. F. Li, B. Luo, P. Liu, D. Lee, P. Mitra, W. Lee, C. Chu, In-broker Access Control: Towards Efficient End-to-End Performance of Information Brokerage Systems, International Journal on Intelligent Control and Systems, Special Issue on Information Assurance, in press. W. Zang, M. Yu, P. Liu, How Resilient is the Internet against DDoS attacks? - A Game Theoretic Analysis of Signature-based Rate Limiting, International Journal on Intelligent Control and Systems, Special Issue on Information Assurance, in press. X. Wen, J. Jing, P. Liu, A model of efficient intrusion recovery solution based on log-structured file system, Journal of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (JGSCAS), No. 6, 2008 L. Li, P. Liu, G. Kesidis, Threshold Smart Walk for the Containment of Local Worm Outbreak, Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 F. Li, R. Luo, P. Liu, A. Squicciarini, D. Lee, C. Chu, Defending against Attribute-Correlation Attacks in Privacy-Aware Information Brokering, Proc. CollaborateCom 2008, invited paper K. Bai, P. Liu, A Fine-grained Damage Management Scheme in a Self-Healing PostgreSQL System, Proc. IEEE High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium (HASE), Dec 3-5, 2008, Nanjing, China Xinran Wang, Yoon-Chan Jhi, Sencun Zhu, Peng Liu, Protecting Web Services from Remote Exploit code: A Static Analysis Approach, Poster paper, Proc. 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), Beijing, China, April 2008, to appear. K. Bai, P. Liu, A Light Weighted Damage Tracking Quarantine and Recovery Scheme for Mission-Critical Database System, poster paper, Proceedings of ACM CIKM 2008. Yuewu Wang, Peng Liu, Jiwu Jing, Xiaoqi Jia, A Multi-Level Fidelity-preserving Bandwidth-Limited Worm Simulation Model and Its Application, Proc. 41st Annual IEEE Simulation Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, April 14-16, 2008, to appear. Mohammad M. Masud, Latifur Khan, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Xinran Wang, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu, A Data Mining Technique to Detect Remote Exploits, Fourth IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, Kyoto, Japan, January 27-30, 2008, to appear Kameswari Kotapati, Peng Liu, Thomas F. LaPorta, EndSec : An End-to-En Message Security Protocol for Mobile Telecommunication Networks, IEEE Workshop on Security, Privacy and Authentication in Wireless Networks, in conjunction with 9th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, 2008, accepted, to appear P. Liu, S. Jajodia, M. Yu, Damage Quarantine and Recovery in Data Processing Systems, in Handbook of Database Security, M. Gertz, S. Jajodia, eds., Springer, to appear. [PDF] Q. Gu, P. Liu, Denial of Service Attacks, in Handbook of Computer Networks, Hossein Bidgoli et al. (eds.), John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2008. [PDF] H. Wang, P. Liu, Survivability Evaluation: Modeling Techniques And Measures, in Jatinder Gupta and Sushil Sharma eds., in Handbook of Research on Information Security and Assurance, Idea Group Inc., August 2008 Kameswari Kotapati, Assessing Security of Mobile Telecommunication Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, defended in Jan 2008 Lunquan Li, Enterprise Worm: Simulation, Detection, and Optimal Containment, Ph.D. Dissertation, defended in May 2008 Robert (Bo) Luo, XML Access Control in Native and RDBMS Systems, Ph.D. Dissertation, defended in May 2008
2007
CCS	Fengjun Li, Bo Luo, Peng Liu, Dongwon Lee, Chao-Hsien Chu, Automaton Segmentation: A New Approach to Preserve Privacy in XML Information Brokering, In 14th ACM Conf. on Computer and Communication Security (CCS), Alexandria, VA, USA, October 2007, pages 508-518. [PDF]
ESORICS	B. Luo, D. Lee, P. Liu, Pragmatic XML Access Control Enforcement using Off-the-shelf RDBMS, ESORICS 2007, pages 55-71. [PDF]
SRDS	J. Lin, J. Jing, P. Liu, A Framework for Intrusion Tolerant Certification Authority System Evaluation, IEEE SRDS 2007, acceptance rate = 15%
ACSAC	M. Yu, W. Zang, P. Liu, Database Isolation and Filtering against Data Corruption Attacks, ACSAC 2007.
SecureComm	Y. Jhi, P. Liu, L. Li, Q. Gu, J. Jing, G. Kesidis, PWC: A Proactive Worm Containment Solution for Enterprise Networks, IEEE SecureComm 2007. [PDF]
ASIACCS	P. Ayyagari, P. Mitra, D. Lee, W. Lee, P. Liu, Incremental Adaptation of XML Access-Control Views, Proc. Second ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2007, acceptance rate = 18%.
TC	Peng Liu, Jie, Li, Sushil Jajodia, Paul Ammann, Can Follow Concurrency Control, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 56(10), pp. 1425-1430 (brief contribution)
	Q. Gu, P. Liu, C. Chu, Analysis of Area-congestion-based DDoS Attacks in Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Vol. 5/5, 2007, pages 613-625. [PDF] H. Wang, P. Liu, L. Li, Evaluating the Survivability of Intrusion Tolerant Database Systems and the Impact of Intrusion Detection Deficiencies, International Journal of Information and Computer Security, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 315-340. Q. Gu, P. Liu, S. Zhu, C. Chu, Defending against Packet Injection Attacks in Unreliable Ad Hoc Networks, International Journal of Security and Networks, Vol. 2, 2007, pages 154-169. [PDF] W. Zang, M. Yu, P. Liu, A Distributed Algorithm for Workflow Recovery, International Journal on Intelligent Control and Systems, Volume 12, Number 1, March 2007 Page(s): 56- 62 M. Yu, P. Liu, S. Jajodia, Trusted Recovery, in Secure Data Management in Decentralized Systems, T. Yu, S. Jajodia, eds., Springer, Berlin, ISBN / ASIN: 0387276947, Dec. 2006. L. Li, P. Liu, Y. C. Jhi, G. Kesidis, Evaluation of Collaborative Worm Containment on DETER Testbed, In Proc. DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation, in association with Usenix Security Symposium, Boston, August 2007 J. Li, R. Levy, P. Liu, Intelligent Cyber Security Analysis in Enterprise Networks, AAAI RIDIS Workshop 2007, position paper. R. Li, J. Li, P. Liu, H. H. Chen, An Objective Trust Management Framework for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE VTC 2007. Pramote Luenam, A Neuro-Fuzzy Approach Towards Adaptive Intrusion Tolerant Database Systems, Ph.D. Dissertation, defended in May 2007 Hai Wang, Modeling and Evaluating the Survivability of an Intrusion Tolerant Database System, Ph.D. Dissertation, defended in July 2007
2006
USENIX Security	X. Wang, C. Pan, P. Liu, S. Zhu, SigFree: A Signature-free Buffer Overflow Attack Blocker, Proc. USENIX Security 2006, acceptance rate = 12% [PDF]
ESORICS	H. Wang, P. Liu, Modeling and Evaluating the Survivability of an Intrusion Tolerant Database System, Proc. ESORICS 2006, acceptance rate = 20%
ACSAC	K. Bai, P. Liu, Towards Database Firewall: Mining the Damage Spreading Patterns, Proc. ACSAC 2006, to appear, acceptance rate = 20%
SACMAT	P. Mitra, C. Pan, P. Liu, Semantic Access Control for Information Interoperation, Proc. ACM SACMAT 2006, to appear.
ASIACCS	P. Mitra, C. Pan, P. Liu, V. Atluri, Privacy-preserving Semantic Interoperation and Access Control of Heterogeneous Databases, Proc. ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2006, to appear, acceptance rate = 17% [PDF]
SEC	K. Kotapati, P. Liu, T. F. LaPorta, CAT – A Practical Graph & SDL Based Toolkit for Vulnerability Assessment of 3G Networks, In Proc. IFIP SEC 2006, to appear, acceptance rate = 24.8% [PDF]
	F. Li, B. Luo, P. Liu, D. Lee, P. Mitra, W. Lee, C. Chu, In-broker Access Control: Towards Efficient End-to-End Performance of Information Brokerage Systems, Proc. IEEE SUTC 2006, acceptance rate = 25% [PDF] L. Li, I. Hamadeh, S. Jiwasurat, G. Kesidis, P. Liu, C. Newman, Emulating Sequential Scanning Worms on the DETER Testbed, Proc. IEEE TridentCom ’06. [PDF] L. Li, P. Liu, G. Kesidis, Visual Studio for Network Security Experiment Specification and Data Analysis, Proc. ACM VizSEC Workshop 2006 (in association with CCS’06), Nov 2006. R. Li, J. Li, P. Liu, H. H. Chen, On-Demand Public-Key Management for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC), 6:1-12, 2006. Q. Gu, Chao-Hsien Chu, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu, Slander Resistant Attacker Isolation in Ad Hot Networks, International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation, Inderscience Publishers, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2006. E. Damiani, P. Liu (eds.), Database and Applications Security XX, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 4127, 2006, ISBN 3-540-36796-9 M. Yu, P. Liu (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Information Assurance in Distributed Systems, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2006. Q. Gu, K. Bai, H. Wang, P. Liu, C. Chu, Modeling of Pollution in P2P File Sharing Systems, Proc. 2006 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 8-10 January 2006, Las Vegas, NV L. Li, P. Liu, G. Kesidis, Scanning An Integrated Experiment Specification and Visualization Tool for Testbed Emulation, (3 page short paper), Proc. 2006 DETER Community Workshop, Arlington, VA, June 2006 L. Li, G. Kesidis, P. Liu, Scanning Worm Emulation on the DETER Testbed (3 page short paper), Proc. 2006 DETER Community Workshop, Arlington, VA, June 2006 P. Liu, Book Review, Information Security – A Strategic Approach, Vincent Leveque, IEEE Computer Society & Wiley Inderscience, ISBN 0471736120, Elsevier Information Processing & Management Journal, 2006, in press
2005
TISSEC	P. Liu, W. Zang, M. Yu, Incentive-Based Modeling and Inference of Attacker Intent, Objectives and Strategies, ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security, Vol. 8, No. 1, 41 pages. [PDF]
JCS	M. Yu, P. Liu, W. Zang, Specifying and Using Group-to-Group Communication Services for Intrusion Masking, Journal of Computer Security, Vol. 13, No. 4, 623-658. [PDF]
JASIST	Peng Liu, Amit Chetal, Trust-based Secure Information Sharing between Federal Government Agencies, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56(3): 283--298. [PDF]
CIKM	Q. Tan, W. Lee, B. Zhang, P. Liu, D. L. Lee, Balancing Performance and Confidentiality in Air Index, ACM CIKM 2005, to appear, acceptance rate = 18% [PDF]
ACSAC	M. Yu, W. Zang, P. Liu, Defensive Execution of Transactional Processes against Attacks, Proc. ACSAC 2005, to appear, acceptance rate = 19.6% [PDF]
ITC	L. Li, S. Jiwasurat, P. Liu, G. Kesidis, Emulation of Single Packet UDP Scanning Worms in Large Enterprises, In Proc. 19 International Teletraffic Congress (ITC19), August, Beijing, China, 2005. [PDF]
DOE	P. Liu, A Game Theoretic Approach to Cyber Attack Prediction, DOE ECPI Program Final Technical Report, Dec 2005, 26 pages
	P. Liu, Emerging Technologies in Information Assurance, DoD IA Newsletter, summer volume Q. Gu, P. Liu, S. Zhu, C. Chu, Defending against Packet Injection Attacks in Unreliable Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE GLOBECOM ’05, acceptance rate = 30%. Click [PDF] for the full size technical report. Y. Sun, P. Liu, P. Kermani, T. F. La Porta, “An Architecture and Key Management Approach for Maintaining Privacy in Location Based Group Services,” Proc. IEEE CollaborateCom 2005. Q. Gu, P. Liu, W. Lee, C. Chu, KTR: An Efficient Key Management Scheme for Air Access Control, Proc. IEEE Mobiquitous 2005 (short paper). Click [PDF] for the full size technical report. K. Bai, H. Wang, P. Liu, Towards Database Firewalls, Proc. 19^th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security (DBSEC ’05), Storrs, CT, August 7-10, 2005. K. Kotapati, P. Liu., Y. Sun, T. F. LaPorta, A Taxonomy of Cyber Attacks on 3G Networks, Proc. IEEE Int’l Conf. on Intelligence and Security Informatics (extended abstract) (ISI ’05), Springer LNCS Vol. xx Y. Sun, P. Liu, P. Kermani, T. F. La Porta, “An Architecture and Key Management Approach for Maintaining Privacy in Location Based Group Services,” Proc. IEEE CollaborateCom 2005, International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, 2005. Q. Gu, Chao-Hsien Chu, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu, Slander Resistant Attacker Isolation in Ad Hot Networks, Proc. International Conference on Telecommunication Systems – Modeling and Analysis, November 17-20, 2005, Dallas, TX, 13 pages, To appear. M. Yu, W. Zang, P. Liu, J. Wang, The Architecture of An Automatic Distributed Recovery System, Proc. 2005 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC ’05). P. Mitra, P. Liu, C. Pan, Privacy Preserving Ontology Matching, In Proc. AAAI-05 Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications (4-page short paper), 2005, to appear. B. Luo, D. Lee, W. Lee, P. Liu, Deep Set Operators for XQuery, In Proc. Second International Workshop on XQuery Implementation, Experience and Perspectives (XIME-P 2005) (short paper), in association with SIGMOD 2005, to appear S. Roberts, S. Coyne, Form Follows Function: Information Assurance Network Design for Problem Based Learning, In Proc. 9th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE ’05), 6-10 June, Atlanta Georgia, 2005. M. Yu, W. Zang, P. Liu, Self Healing Workflows under Attacks, 5 minute talk, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2005 Qijun Gu, Peng Liu, Chao-Hsien Chu, Hacking Techniques in Wired Networks, In The Handbook of Information Security, Hossein Bidgoli et al. (eds.), John Wiley & Sons, to appear [PDF] Peng Liu, Meng Yu, Jiwu Jing, Information Assurance, In The Handbook of Information Security, Hossein Bidgoli et al. (eds.), John Wiley & Sons; to appear [PDF] Qijun Gu, A Study of Selected Security Issues in Wireless Networks, Ph.D. Dissertation, defended in June 21, 2005
2004
ICDCS	M. Yu, P. Liu, W. Zang, Self Healing Workflow Systems under Attacks, Proc. 24^th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS ’04), Tokyo, Japan, March 2004, pages 418-425. Acceptance rate = 17.68% [PDF]
CIKM	B. Luo, D. Lee, W. C. Lee, P. Liu, QFilter: Fine-Grained Run-Time XML Access Controls via NFA-based Query Rewriting, Proc. ACM CIKM 2004. Acceptance rate = 19%. [PDF]
CACM	R. Bazjscy, T. Benzel, M. Bishop, B. Braden, C. Brodley, S. Fahmy, S. Floyd, W. Hardaker, A. Joseph, G. Kesidis, K. Levitt, B. Lindell, P. Liu, D. Miller, R. Mundy, C. Neuman, R. Ostrenga, V. Paxson, P. Porras, C. Rosenberg, J. Tygar, S. Sastry, D. Sterne, S.F. Wu, Cyber Defense Technology Networking and Evaluation, Communications of the ACM, March 2004, Vol. 47, No. 3, pages 58-61
ISC	H. Wang, P. Liu, L. Li, Evaluating the Impact of Intrusion Detection Deficiencies on the Cost-Effectiveness of Attack Recovery, In Proceedings of the 7th Information Security Conference (ISC ’04), Springer LNCS, September 2004.
	R. Li, J. Li, H. Kameda, P. Liu, Localized Public-key Management for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Proc. IEEE Globecom ’04. Acceptance rate = 29% [PDF] Peng Liu, H. Wang, L. Li, Real-Time Data Attack Isolation for Commercial Database Applications, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications, in press. P. Liu, J. Jing, P. Luenam, Y. Wang, L. Li, S. Ingsriswang, The Design and Implementation of a Self-Healing Database System, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Vol. 23, No. 3, 247-269, 2004 [PDF] B. Luo, D. Lee, W. C. Lee, P. Liu, A Flexible Framework for Architecting XML Access Control Enforcement Mechanisms, In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Secure Data Management in a Connected World (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3178), August 2004. Q. Gu, P. Liu, C. Chu, Tactical Bandwidth Exhaustion in Ad Hoc Networks, Proceedings of the 5th Annual IEEE Information Assurance Workshop (IA ’04), West Point, June 2004. B. Pfitzmann, P. Liu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ACM Press, 2004, ACM ISBN: 1-58113-961-6. Dan Gao, TCP-based Worm Analysis and Experiments on Emulab, BS Thesis, IST & Schreyer Honors College W. C. Lee, P. Liu, L. Giles, Research Issues in Secure Wireless Data Broadcast Systems, Technical Report
2003
CCS Selected into TISSEC Special Issue	P. Liu, W. Zang, Incentive-Based Modeling and Inference of Attacker Intent, Objectives and Strategies, Proc. 10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’03) (Acceptance rate 36/252=14.3%), October 28-31, Washington DC, 2003, pages 179-189. [PDF]
ACSAC	M. Yu, P. Liu, W. Zang, Multi-Version Data Objects Based Attack Recovery of Workflows, Proc. 19th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC ’03), Las Vegas, Dec, 2003, pages 142-151. [PDF]
SEC	M. Yu, P. Liu, W. Zhang, Intrusion Masking for Distributed Atomic Operations, Proc. 18th IFIP International Information Security Conference (SEC ’03), May 2003, acceptance ratio 27%, pages 229-240.
SSRS	J. Jing, P. Liu, D. G. Feng, J. Xiang, N. Gao, J. Q. Lin, ARECA: A Highly Attack Resilient Certification Authority, Proc. First ACM Workshop on Survivable and Self-Regenerative Systems (SSRS ’03), October 2003, pages 53-63. [PDF]
XSYM	D. Lee, W. C. Lee, and P. Liu, Supporting XML Security Models using Relational Databases: A Vision, Proc. First International Symposium of XML Databases (XSym ’03) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), September 2003. [PDF]
	J. Zhang, P. Liu, Delivering Services with Integrity Guarantees in Survivable Database Systems, Proc. 17th IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security (DBSEC ’03), August 2003, pages 31-45. Peng Liu, Engineering a Distributed Intrusion Tolerant Database System Using COT Components, Proc. DISCEX III, Volume 2, pages 284-289, April 2003 Peng Liu, ITDB: An Attack Self-Healing Database System Prototype, Demo Abstract, Proc. DISCEX III, Volume 2, pages 131-133, 2003 P. Liu, Architectures for Intrusion Tolerant Database Systems, in Foundations of Intrusion Tolerant Systems, Jaynarayan H. Lala (ed.), IEEE Computer Society Press, 2003, pages 3-13. A previous version appears as [28]. P. Luenam, P. Liu, The Design of an Adaptive Intrusion Tolerant Database System, in Foundations of Intrusion Tolerant Systems, Jaynarayan H. Lala (ed), IEEE Computer Society Press, 2003, pages 14-21. A previous version appears as [30]. P. Liu, Measuring Quality of Information Assurance, DARPA OASIS Final Technical Report, 2003 R. R. Barton, W. J. Hery, P. Liu, An S-Vector for Web Applications Security Management, Proc. First ACM Workshop on Business Driven Security Engineering (SDSE ’03), October 2003, 5 page poster paper. P. Liu and P. Pal (Eds.), Proc. First ACM Workshop on Survivable and Self-Regenerative Systems, ACM Press, 2003, ACM ISBN: 1-58113-784-2/03/0010. V. Atluri and P. Liu (Eds.), 10th ACM Proceedings on Computer and Communications Security, ACM Press, 2003, ISBN: 1-58113-738-9 Amit Chetal, Trust-Based Secure Info Sharing Between Federal Government Agencies, MS Thesis, Cyber Security Group, 2003
2002
BOOK	(Book) P. Liu, S. Jajodia, Trusted Recovery and Defensive Information Warfare, Monograph, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. ISBN 0-7923-7572-6
TKDE	P. Ammann, S. Jajodia, P. Liu, Recovery from Malicious Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 5, September 2002, pages 1167-1185. [PDF]
ACSAC	P. Liu, Architectures for Intrusion Tolerant Database Systems, Proc. 18th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC ’02), Dec 2002, acceptance ratio 32%, pages 311-320. [PDF]
	P. Liu, Y. Wang, The Design and Implementation of a Multiphase Database Damage Confinement System, Proc. 16th IFIP Working Conf. on Data and Applications Security (DBSEC ’02), July 2002. [PDF] P. Luenam, P. Liu, The Design of an Adaptive Intrusion Tolerant Database System, Proc. IEEE Workshop on Intrusion Tolerant Systems (ITS ’02) June 2002. [PDF]  P. Liu, S. Jajodia, P. Ammann, J. Li, Can-Follow Concurrency Control, Proc. 2002 IASTED Int’l Conf. on Networks, Parallel and Distributed Processing, and Applications (NPDPA ’02), Japan, Oct 2002 [Postscript] P. Liu, L. Li, A Game Theoretic Approach to Attack Prediction, Technical Report, Cyber Security Group, 2002. [PDF] P. Liu, Engineering a Distributed Intrusion Tolerant Database System, DARPA OASIS Final Technical Report, 2002.
2001
CSF	P. Liu, S. Jajodia, Multi-Phase Damage Confinement in Database Systems for Intrusion Tolerance, Proc. 14th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop (CSFW ’01)), June 2001, pages 191-205. [PDF]
ACSAC	P. Liu, DAIS: A Real-Time Data Attack Isolation System for Commercial Database Applications, Proc. 17th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC ’01), Dec 2001, pages 219-229.  [PDF]
	Peng Liu, Xu Hao, Efficient Damage Assessment and Repair in Resilient Distributed Database Systems, Proc. 15th IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security (DBSEC ’01), July 2001. [Postscript] P. Luenam, P. Liu, ODAR: An On-the-fly Damage Assessment and Repair System for Commercial Database Applications, Proc. 15th IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Application Security (DBSEC ’01), July 2001. [PDF]
2000
JCS	P. Liu, S. Jajodia, C. D. McCollum, Intrusion Confinement by Isolation in Information Systems, Journal of Computer Security, Vol. 8, No. 4, pages 243-279. [PDF]
DSS	P. Liu, P. Ning, S. Jajodia, Avoiding Loss of Fairness Owing to Failures in Fair Data Exchange Systems, Decision Support Systems, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2001, pages 337-350. [PDF]
DPDB	P. Liu, P. Ammann, S. Jajodia, Rewriting Histories: Recovering From Malicious Transactions, Distributed and Parallel Databases, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 2000, pages 7-40. [PDF]
	Peng Liu, Peng Ning, Sushil Jajodia, Avoiding Loss of Fairness Owing to Process Crashes in Fair Data Exchange Protocols, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN ’00), Workshop on Dependability Despite Malicious Faults, June 2000, pages 631-640. Peng Liu, General Design of ItDBMS, Technical Report, 2000.
1999
ICDCS	P. Liu, P. Ammann, S. Jajodia, Incorporating Transaction Semantics to Reduce Reprocessing Overhead in Replicated Mobile Data Applications, Proc. 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS ’99), June 1999, pages 414-423. [PDF]
THESIS	Peng Liu, Trusted Recovery from Malicious Attacks, PhD Dissertation, June 1999.
	Paul Ammann, Sushil Jajodia, Peng Liu, A fault tolerance approach to survivability, in Computer Security, Dependability, and Assurance: From Needs to Solutions, P. Ammann, B. H. Barnes, S. Jajodia, E. H. Sibley (eds.), IEEE Computer Society Press, 1999 P. Liu, S. Jajodia, C. D. McCollum, Intrusion Confinement by Isolation in Information Systems, Proc. IFIP WG 11.3 13th Working Conference on Database Security (DESEC ’99), July 1999. S. Jajodia, P. Ammann, P. Liu, A Fault Tolerance Approach to Survivability, Proc. IST 4th Symposium on Protecting NATO Information Systems (NATO Security ’99), Oct 1999, pages 20-1 to 20-7
-1998
ACSAC	S. Jajodia, P. Liu, C. D. McCollum, Application Level Isolation to Cope with Malicious Database Users, Proc. 14th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC ’98), December 1998, pages 73-82.
	Peng Liu, Semantic Views of Multilevel Secure Relational Data Models, Technical Report, George Mason University, 1997. Peng Liu, SDB2: A Secure Client-Server Database System Prototype, Master Thesis, University of Science and Technology of China, 1996. Jiwu Jing, Peng Liu, IsData: A Secure Networked Management Information System Architecture, IDG Computer World Newspaper, 1995. Invited paper. Jiwu Jing, Peng Liu, Threats of Virus to Networked Management Information Systems, IDG Computer World Newspaper, 1995. Invited paper. Peng Liu, Yinxia Dai, Shuwang Lu, Secure Multimedia Data Communications, Proc. 2nd Chinese Annual Conference on Multimedia (Chinese Multimedia ’93), September, 1993. Peng Liu, A Neural Network Approach to Information Management and Decision Support Expert Systems, BS Thesis, University of Science and Technology of China, 1993.