Explore ESI research on cybersecurity and resilience, responsible artificial intelligence, and education. Browse 20 journal articles, conference papers and book chapters, with links to publishers and available full texts.
Cybersecurity and resilience 13 publications
Posea, Vlad, George Sharkov, Adrian Baumann, and Georgios Chatzichristos. “Towards Unified European Cyber Incident and Crisis Management Ontology.” Information & Security: An International Journal 53, no. 1 (2022): 33-44.
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George Sharkov. 2016. From Cybersecurity to Collaborative Resiliency. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Workshop on Automated Decision Making for Active Cyber Defense (SafeConfig’ 16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3-9. ISBN: 978-1-4503-4566-8.
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Sharkov, G., Todorova, C. (2024). Approaching Cyber Situational Awareness Through Digital Services Availability Monitoring and Threat Intelligence: The MonSys Platform Experience. In: Tagarev, T., Stoianov, N. (eds) Digital Transformation, Cyber Security and Resilience. DIGILIENCE 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1790. Springer, Cham.
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Sharkov, G., Todorova, C., Koykov, G., Nikolov, I. (2022) “Towards a Robust and Scalable Cyber Range Federation for Sectoral Cyber/Hybrid Exercising: The Red Ranger and ECHO Collaborative Experience”, Information & Security: An International Journal 53, no. 2 (2022): 287-302.
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Sharkov, George, Christina Todorova, Georgi Koykov, and Georgi Zahariev. A System-of-Systems Approach for the Creation of a Composite Cyber Range for Cyber/Hybrid Exercising. Information & Security: An International Journal 50, no. 2 (2021): 129-148.
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Sharkov, G., Todorova, C., Koykov, G., Zahariev, G. Hybrid exercising for cyber-resilient healthcare and cross-sector crisis response operability (2021), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2933, pp. 329-351. ISSN: 1613-0073.
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Sharkov, G. (2020) Assessing the Maturity of National Cybersecurity and Resilience, December 2020, Connections: The Quarterly Journal 19(4):5-24, ISSN 1812-1098, e-ISSN 1812-2973.
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Todor Tagarev, Nikolai Stoianov, and George Sharkov, “Integrative Approach to Understand Vulnerabilities and Enhance the Security of Cyber-Bio-Cognitive-Physical Systems” in Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Cyberwarfare and Security (ECCWS19), edited by Tiago Cruz and Paulo Simoes, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 4-5 July 2019, pp. 492-500, ISBN: 9781510890091,
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Todor Tagarev, George Sharkov: Computationally Intensive Functions in Designing and Operating Distributed Cyber Secure and Resilient Systems. CompSysTech ’19: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies June 2019 Pages 8–18
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Sharkov, G., Papazov, Y., Todorova, C., Koykov, G., Zahariev, G., MonSys: A Scalable Platform for Monitoring Digital Services Availability, Threat Intelligence and Cyber Resilience Situational Awareness, Information & Security An International Journal 46-2 (2020):155-167
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Yavor Papazov, George Sharkov, Georgi Koykov, Christina Todorova (2021/3) Managing Cyber-Education Environments with Serverless Computing, In: “Digital Transformation, Cyber Security and Resilience of Modern Societies”, pp. 49-60, Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-030-65721-5, ISSN 21976503.
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George Sharkov (2017), A Systems-of-Systems Approach to Cybersecurity and Resilience, Information & Security: An International Journal, Volume 37 (2017), pp. 69-94, ISSN 0861-5160, e-ISSN 1314-2119.
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George Sharkov and Christina Todorova. Capture the Flag for Cyber-Resilience Exercising through Cryptographic Puzzles and Collaborative Problem-Solving. Information & Security: An International Journal (2017): 95-102.
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Artificial intelligence 4 publications
Christina Todorova, George Sharkov, Huib Aldewereld, Stefan Leijnen, Alireza Dehghani, Stefano Marrone, Carlo Sansone, Maurice Lynch, John Pugh, Tarry Singh, Kitti Mezei, Péter Antal, Péter Hanák, Alessandro Barducci, Fernando Perez-Tellez, and Francesco Gargiulo. 2023. The European AI Tango: Balancing Regulation Innovation and Competitiveness. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Centered Artificial Intelligence: Education and Practice (HCAIep ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2–8.
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Sharkov, George, Christina Todorova, and Pavel Varbanov. Strategies, Policies, and Standards in the EU Towards a Roadmap for Robust and Trustworthy AI Certification. Information & Security: An International Journal 50, no. 1 (2021): 11-22.
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Sharkov, G., Todorova, C., Varbanov, P. (2022) Harnessing the Power of Responsible Innovation: The Shift Towards Human-Centered Skills and Competences in AI Engineering, CEUR Workshop Proceedings ISGT’22, Vol. 3191, ISSN 1613-0073, pp. 1-17.
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George Sharkov (2021) Harnessing the Potential of AI Against COVID-19 Through the Lens of Cybersecurity: Challenges, Tools, and Techniques. Information & Security: An International Journal, Vol. 49 (2021):49-69.
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Education 3 publications
Sharkov, G., Stoeva, M. (2022) Multi-disciplinary approach to industry standards in the IT higher education programs, CEUR Workshop Proceedings ISGT’2022, Vol. 3191, ISSN 1613-0073, pp. 51-62.
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Sharkov, G., Stoeva, M. (2021) Introducing software quality maturity models in software engineering education and small organizations, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2933, pp. 97-113. ISSN: 1613-0073.
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Ivaylo Gueorguiev, Christina Todorova, Pavel Varbanov, Petar Sharkov, George Sharkov, Carina Girvan, Nikoleta Yiannoutsou and Marianthi Grizioti: Educational Robotics for Communication, Collaboration and Digital Fluency. In: Lepuschitz W., Merdan M., Koppensteiner G., Balogh R., Obdržálek D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 630, pp. 113–125. Springer, Cham, ISBN 978-3-319-62874-5.
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