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Advances in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Intrusion Detection Systems, 2nd Edition

Submission Deadline: 30 December 2026 View: 1233 Submit to Special Issue

Guest Editor(s)

Dr. Ateeq Ur Rehman

Email: 202411144@gachon.ac.kr

Affiliation: School of Computing, Gachon University, Seongnam-Si, Republic of Korea

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Research Interests: artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, big data


Prof. Habib Hamam

Email: habib.hamam@umoncton.ca

Affiliation: Faculty of Engineering, Uni de Moncton, Moncton, NB, Canada

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Research Interests: artificial intelligence-based design


Dr. Salil Bharany

Email: salil.bharany@gmail.com

Affiliation: Department of Computer Engineering & Technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India

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Research Interests: cybersecurity, AI-bioinspired


Mr. Tehseen Mazhar

Email: tehseenmazhar719@gmail.com

Affiliation: School of Computer Science, National College of Business Administration and Economics, Lahore, Pakistan

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Research Interests: machine mearning, cloud computing, blockchain


Summary

For years, designing intrusion detection systems (IDS) that can handle rising traffic and new cyberattacks has been a challenge. Though there has been significant advancement in this area, however, there is still a need of modern, robust and advanced machine learning techniques to detect previously unknown threads with higher accuracy.

An efficient intrusion detection system is essential since technological advancements embark on new kinds of attacks and security limitations. Traditional IDS models may perform poorly with modern datasets that better reflect network traffic patterns. Class imbalance, attack type representation, and precise traffic classification make creating realistic datasets difficult. Recent advances in network intrusion detection have been made by integrating machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models. Advanced AI/ML models can automatically identify traffic features connected to intrusions at multiple abstraction layers, even in massive data volumes.

The scope of this special issue is to improve AI/ML intrusion detection models' complexity, applicability, flexibility, and explainability. We also accept papers that propose novel algorithms, techniques, or methodologies to enhance the detection of new and evolving intrusions. Additionally, we encourage submissions that provide high-quality datasets to address the challenges of class imbalance, attack type representation, and precise traffic classification.

We invite high-quality, original research papers and review articles addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:
· AI-Enhanced Network Intrusion Detection Techniques
· Explainable Machine Learning Models for Cybersecurity
· Hybrid and Ensemble Methods for Threat Detection
· Intrusion Detection in IoT and Cloud Environments
· Deep Learning Architectures for Anomaly and Signature-Based Detection
· Creation and Use of Benchmark Datasets for IDS
· Real-Time and Scalable Intrusion Detection Systems


Keywords

intrusion detection system, machine learning, deep learning, cybersecurity, advances in artificial intelligence.

Published Papers


  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Optimized Hybrid Deep Learning Frameworks for IoT Cybersecurity against IoT Attacks in Smart Cities

    Muhammad Usman Ghani, Muhammad Javed, Zeeshan Ali Haider, Mohd Faizal Bin Yusof, Jamil Abedalrahim Jamil Alsayaydeh, Inam Ullah, Fida Muhammad Khan
    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2026.083690
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Advances in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Intrusion Detection Systems, 2nd Edition)
    Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) networks in smart cities experience high-dimensional, time-dependent traffic types, and the detection of attacks is difficult in a timely fashion, particularly in the case of imbalanced classes of attacks. Two hybrid deep learning-based intrusion detection frameworks, TimeSpaceNet and ContextFusionNet, are proposed for IoT intrusion detection: TimeSpaceNet, a CNN-LSTM model enhanced with spatial-temporal normalization, and ContextFusionNet, a CNN-BiLSTM model strengthened with contextual fusion attention. For both models, class imbalance is addressed with SMOTE, and training convergence is assisted by the ADOPT optimizer. All the models are tested on the IoT Bot… More >

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