By Dr Tim Lynar

Book Chapters

Price K; Lynar T, 2025, 'Auditing Windows Bluetooth Security at the Application Layer', in , pp. 15 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-1758-6_2

Farlow H; Sadhani T; Garratt M; Mount G; Lynar T, 2025, 'Deceive, Disrupt, Disclose: The 3D Model for AI Security', in , pp. 435 - 443, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-1758-6_36

Craufurd-Hill J; Kaehler B; Kasmarik K; Lynar T, 2025, 'Unveiling the Hidden Pandemic of IoT Malware with Biological and Health Approaches', in , pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-1758-6_1

Journal articles

Wasswa H; Abbass HA; Lynar T, 2025, 'ResDNViT: A hybrid architecture for Netflow-based attack detection using a residual dense network and Vision Transformer', Expert Systems with Applications, 282, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.127504

Somerville A; Lynar T; Joiner K; Wild G, 2024, 'Use of simulation for pre-training of drone pilots', Drones, 8, pp. 640 - 640, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/drones8110640

Somerville A; Lynar T; Wild G, 2023, 'The nature and costs of civil aviation flight training safety occurrences', Transportation Engineering, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.treng.2023.100182

Salim O; Lynar T, 2023, 'Classification of a Ferry Network Activity Based on ES Sensors and Convolutional Neural Networks', IEEE Sensors Journal, 23, pp. 775 - 786, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2022.3223328

Yang S; Barlow M; Townsend T; Liu X; Samarasinghe D; Lakshika E; Moy G; Lynar T; Turnbull B, 2023, 'Reinforcement Learning Agents Playing Ticket to Ride-A Complex Imperfect Information Board Game With Delayed Rewards', IEEE Access, 11, pp. 60737 - 60757, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3287100

Liu L; Essam D; Lynar T, 2022, 'Complexity Measures for IoT Network Traffic', IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 9, pp. 25715 - 25735, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2022.3197323

Akter M; Moustafa N; Lynar T; Razzak I, 2022, 'Edge Intelligence: Federated Learning-Based Privacy Protection Framework for Smart Healthcare Systems', IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 26, pp. 5805 - 5816, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2022.3192648

Samarasinghe Widana Arachchige D; Barlow M; Lakshika E; Lynar T; Moustafa N; Townsend T; Turnbull B, 2021, 'A Data Driven Review of Board Game Design and Interactions of Their Mechanics', IEEE Access, 9, pp. 114051 - 114069, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3103198

Moustafa N; Hassan M; Choo K-KR; Lynar T; Camtepe S; Whitty M, 2021, 'DAD: A Distributed Anomaly Detection system using ensemble one-class statistical learning in edge networks', Future Generation Computer Systems, 118, pp. 240 - 251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2021.01.011

Modini J; Lynar T; Sitnikova E; Joiner K, 2020, 'The Application of Epidemiology for Categorising DNS Cyber Risk Factors', International Journal of Computers and Communications, 8, pp. 12 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jcc.2020.812002

Hettiarachchige C; von Cavallar S; Lynar T; Hickson RI; Gambhir M, 2018, 'Risk prediction system for dengue transmission based on high resolution weather data', Plos One, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208203

Lynar TM; Nelson MD, 2015, 'Blue Gene/Q defragmentation for energy waste minimisation', Journal of Supercomputing, 71, pp. 202 - 216, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11227-014-1293-8

Lynar TM; Steer KCB; Eng F; Smith O, 2014, 'Resilient heterogeneous power and energy constrained computing', Energy Systems, 5, pp. 145 - 161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12667-013-0089-x

Lynar TM; Simon ; Herbert RD; Chivers WJ, 2013, 'Reducing energy consumption in distributed computing through economic resource allocation', International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 4, pp. 231 - 241, http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJGUC.2013.057117

Lynar TM; Herbert RD; Simon ; Chivers WJ, 2011, 'Resource allocation to conserve energy in distributed computing', International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 2, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJGUC.2011.039976

Lynar TM; Simon ; Herbert RD; Chivers WJ, 2010, 'Clustering Obsolete Computers to Reduce E-Waste', International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change, 1, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jissc.2010092901

Lynar TM; Herbert RD; Chivers WJ; Simon , 2009, 'A grid resource allocation mechanism for heterogeneous E-waste computers', Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series, 99, pp. 69 - 75

Lynar TM; Herbert RD; Simon , 2009, 'Auction resource allocation mechanisms in grids of heterogeneous computers', Wseas Transactions on Computers, 8, pp. 1671 - 1680

Lynar TM; Herbert RD; Chivers WJ, 2009, 'Implementing an agent based auction model on a cluster of reused workstations', International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 34, pp. 230 - 234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJCAT.2009.024071

Conference Papers

Somerville A; Lynar T; Joiner K; Wild G, 2025, 'Use of simulation for pre-training of RPAS pilots', Orlando, Florida, presented at 2025 AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando, Florida, 06 January 2025 - 10 January 2025, http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2025-2728

Farlow H; Ceruti C; Garratt M; Mount G; Lynar T, 2024, 'Beyond Words: Memetic Theory as a Lens to Expose Ideological Bias in Language Models', in Proceedings of the International Conference on Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence Iscmi, pp. 227 - 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISCMI63661.2024.10851522

Wasswa H; Nanyonga A; Lynar T, 2024, 'Impact of Latent Space Dimension on IoT Botnet Detection Performance: VAE-Encoder Versus ViT-Encoder', in 2024 3rd International Conference for Innovation in Technology Inocon 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INOCON60754.2024.10511431

Farlow H; Ceruti C; Garratt M; Mount G; Lynar T, 2024, 'Memes in the Machine: Ideological Propagation in Large Language Models', in 2024 IEEE 15th International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications Coginfocom 2024, pp. 17 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CogInfoCom63007.2024.10894714

Wasswa H; Nanyonga A; Lynar T, 2024, 'Preserving Seasonal and Trend Information: A Variational Autoencoder-Latent Space Arithmetic Based Approach for Non-Stationary Learning', in 2024 IEEE Region 10 Symposium Tensymp 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TENSYMP61132.2024.10752272

Somerville A; Pollock L; Joiner K; Lynar T; Wild G, 2023, 'Sustainable Aircraft Design in Engineering Education: Conceive, Design, Implement, and Operate Virtually', in Lyng R; Bennedsen J; Bettaieb L; Bodsberg NR; Edström K; Guðjónsdóttir MS; Roslöf J; Solbjørg OK; Øien G (eds.), The 19th CDIO International Conference, Norwegian University of Science and Tecnology, Trondheim, pp. 491 - 501, presented at 19th International Conceive Design Implement Operate (CDIO) Conference at NTNU, Norway, Trondheim, 26 June 2023 - 29 June 2023, https://www.ntnu.edu/documents/1308247420/0/CDIO+2023+Proceedings.pdf

Salim O; Lynar T, 2023, 'Classification of Marine Traffic Activities Using ES Sensors and A VAE-CapsNet Approach', in Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RADAR54928.2023.10371112

Wasswa H; Lynar T; Abbass H, 2023, 'Enhancing IoT-Botnet Detection using Variational Auto-encoder and Cost-Sensitive Learning: A Deep Learning Approach for Imbalanced Datasets', in 2023 IEEE Region 10 Symposium Tensymp 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TENSYMP55890.2023.10223613

Wasswa H; Lynar T; Nanyonga A; Abbass H, 2023, 'IoT Botnet Detection: Application of Vision Transformer to Classification of Network Flow Traffic', in 2023 Global Conference on Information Technologies and Communications Gcitc 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/GCITC60406.2023.10426522

Somerville A; Lynar T; Wild G, 2023, 'Safety Implications of Pilot Incapacitation Occurrences for Future Single Pilot Operations', in AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition AIAA Aviation Forum 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-3613

Farlow H; Garratt M; Mount G; Lynar T, 2023, 'The Race to Robustness: Exploiting Fragile Models for Urban Camouflage and the Imperative for Machine Learning Security', in 2023 IEEE Region 10 Symposium Tensymp 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TENSYMP55890.2023.10223620

Chang CM; Hsiao HC; Lynar T; Mori T, 2022, 'Know Your Victim: Tor Browser Setting Identification via Network Traffic Analysis', in Www 2022 Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2022, pp. 201 - 204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3487553.3524244

Akter M; Moustafa N; Lynar T, 2022, 'Edge Intelligence-based Privacy Protection Framework for IoT-based Smart Healthcare Systems', in INFOCOM Wkshps 2022 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS54753.2022.9798196

Liu L; Engelen G; Lynar T; Essam D; Joosen W, 2022, 'Error Prevalence in NIDS datasets: A Case Study on CIC-IDS-2017 and CSE-CIC-IDS-2018', in 2022 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security CNS 2022, pp. 254 - 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CNS56114.2022.9947235

Liu L; Essam D; Lynar T, 2021, 'On quantifying the complexity of IoT traffic', in Proceedings Conference on Local Computer Networks LCN, pp. 379 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LCN52139.2021.9525007

Glukhov G; Lynar T, 2021, 'Data preprocessing for non-image data: using convolution neural networks for network intrusion detection systems', in Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation Modsim, pp. 799 - 805

Modini J; Lynar T; Sitnikova E; Joiner K, 2020, 'Applications of Epidemiology to Cyber Security', Chester, U.K., pp. 483 - 490, presented at 19th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, Chester, U.K., 25 June 2020 - 26 June 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.34190/EWS.20.057

Modini J; Van Zomeran M; Fowler S; Joiner K; Lynar T, 2020, 'Rising to the Challenge of Insider Threats for Middle Powers', in Payne BK; Wu H (ed.), Academic Conferences and Publishing International Ltd, Norfolk, Virginia, pp. 521 - 529, presented at 15th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, Norfolk, Virginia, 12 March 2020 - 13 March 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.34190/ICCWS.20.131

Jalali F; Lynar T; Smith OJ; Kolluri RR; Hardgrove CV; Waywood N; Suits F, 2019, 'Dynamic Edge Fabric EnvironmenT: Seamless and Automatic Switching among Resources at the Edge of IoT Network and Cloud', in Proceedings 2019 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing Edge 2019 Part of the 2019 IEEE World Congress on Services, pp. 77 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EDGE.2019.00028

Lynar T; Jalali F; Kolluri RR; Smith OJ; Suits F, 2018, 'Machine Learning Assisted Heuristic Approach for Optimal Task Deployment in Hybrid Cloud/Edge Environments', Stockholm, Sweden, presented at Workshop on AI for Internet of Things, Stockholm, Sweden, 13 July 2018 - 15 July 2018, https://www.zurich.ibm.com/AI4IoT/2018/AI4IoT-18_Lynar.pdf

Jalali F; Smith OJ; Lynar T; Suits F, 2017, 'Cognitive IoT gateways: Automatic task sharing and switching between cloud and Edge/Fog computing', in SIGCOMM Posters and Demos 2017 Proceedings of the 2017 SIGCOMM Posters and Demos Part of SIGCOMM 2017, pp. 121 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3123878.3132008

Salehi M; Rusu LI; Lynar T; Phan A, 2016, 'Dynamic and robust wildfire risk prediction system: An unsupervised approach', in Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 245 - 254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2939672.2939685

Lynar TM; Herbert RD; Simon ; Chivers WJ, 2010, 'Reducing grid energy consumption through choice of resource allocation method', in Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops and Phd Forum Ipdpsw 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPDPSW.2010.5470911

Herbert RD; Lynar TM, 2009, 'A comparison of economic resource allocation mechanisms in grids of e-waste computers', in Proc 9th Wseas Int Conf Simulation Modelling and Optimization Smo 09 5th Wseas Int Symp Grid Computing Proc 5th Wseas Int Symp Digital Libraries Proc 5th Wseas Int Symp Data Mining, pp. 41 - 46

Lynar TM; Herbert RD, 2009, 'Allocating grid resources for speed and energy conservation', in 6th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications Icita 2009, pp. 55 - 60

Lynar TM; Herbert RD; Simon ; Chivers WJ, 2009, 'Why decide: Is a user's estimation of job completion time useful in grid resource allocation?', in 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings, pp. 1031 - 1037

Lynar TM; Herbert RD; Simon ; Chivers WJ, 2009, 'Why decide: Is a user's estimation of job completion time useful in grid resource allocation?', in 18th World Imacs Congress and Modsim 2009 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences Proceedings, pp. 1031 - 1037

Lynar TM; Herbert RD; Chivers WJ, 2008, 'Implementing an agent based auction model on a cluster of re-used workstations', in 5th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications Icita 2008, pp. 642 - 646

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