2017
Authors
Dias, JP; Ferreira, HS;
Publication
8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AMBIENT SYSTEMS, NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGIES (ANT-2017) AND THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SEIT 2017)
Abstract
E-commerce website owners rely heavily on analysing and summarising the behaviour of costumers, making efforts to influence user actions and optimize success metrics. Machine learning and data mining techniques have been applied in this field, greatly influencing the Internet marketing activities. When faced with a new e-commerce website, the data scientist starts a process of collecting real-time and historical data about it, analysing and transforming this data in order to get a grasp into the website and its users. Data scientists commonly resort to tracking domain-specific events, requiring code modification of the web pages. This paper proposes an alternative approach to retrieve information from a given e-commerce website, collecting data from the site's structure, retrieving semantic information in predefined locations and analysing user's access logs, thus enabling the development of accurate models for predicting users' future behaviour. This is accomplished by the application of a web mining process, comprehending the site's structure, content and usage in a pipeline, resulting in a web graph of the website, complemented with a categorization of each page and the website's archetypical user profiles. 1877-0509 (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
2017
Authors
Dias, JP; Pinto, JP; Cruz, JM;
Publication
IoTBDS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security
Abstract
A botnet consists of a network of computers that run a special software that allows a third-party to remotely control them. This characteristic presents a major issue regarding security in the Internet. Although common malicious software infect the network with almost immediate visible consequences, there are cases where that software acts stealthy without direct visible effects on the host machine. This is the normal case of botnets. However, not always the bot software is created and used for illicit purposes. There is a need for further exploring the concepts behind botnets and network security. For this purpose, this paper presents and discusses an educational tool that consists of an open-source botnet software kit with built-in functionalities. The tool enables anyone with some computer technical knowledge, to experiment and find out how botnets work and can be changed and adapted to a variety of useful applications, such as introducing and exemplifying security and distributed systems' concepts. Copyright
2017
Authors
Duarte, D; Ferreira, HS; Dias, JP; Kokkinogenis, Z;
Publication
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Abstract
In order to increase sales and profits, it is common that e-commerce website owners resort to several marketing and advertising techniques, attempting to influence user actions. Summarizing and analysing user behaviour is a complex task since it is hard to extrapolate patterns that never occurred before and the causality aspects of the system are not usually taken into consideration. There has been studies about characterizing user behaviour and interactions in e-commerce websites that could be used to improve this process. This paper presents an agent-based framework for simulating models of user behaviour created through data mining processes within an e-commerce context. The purpose of framework is to study the reaction of user to stimuli that influence their actions while navigating the website. Furthermore a scalability analysis is performed on a case-study. © Springer International Publishing AG 2018.
2018
Authors
Dias, JP; Couto, F; Paiva, ACR; Ferreira, HS;
Publication
2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops, ICST Workshops, Västerås, Sweden, April 9-13, 2018
Abstract
Systems are error-prone. Big systems have lots of errors. The Internet-of-Things poses us one of the biggest and widespread systems, where errors directly impact people's lives. Testing and validating is how one deals with errors; but testing and validating a planetary-scale, heterogeneous, and evergrowing ecosystem has its own challenges and idiosyncrasies. As of today, the solutions available for testing these systems are insufficient and fragmentary. In this paper we provide an overview on test approaches, tools and methodologies for the Internet-of-Things, its software and its devices. Our conclusion is that we are still lagging behind on the best practices and lessons learned from the Software Engineering community in the past decades. © 2018 IEEE.
2018
Authors
Pinto, D; Dias, JP; Ferreira, HS;
Publication
CoRR
Abstract
2018
Authors
Dias, JP; Faria, JP; Ferreira, HS;
Publication
11th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2018, Coimbra, Portugal, September 4-7, 2018
Abstract
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