publications

2026

1. ESORICS

   

   Automated Cyber Defence with Reinforcement Learning in Multi-attack Environments

   Joshua Sylvester and Rogério Lemos

   In Computer Security. ESORICS 2025 International Workshops, 2026

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-032-16165-9_4,
     author = {Sylvester, Joshua and de Lemos, Rog{\'e}rio},
     editor = {Laborde, Romain and Garcia-Alfaro, Joaquin and Yazdinejad, Abbas and Epiphaniou, Gregory and Abie, Habtamu and Ranise, Silvio and Chora{\'{s}}, Micha{\l} and Wo{\'{z}}niak, Micha{\l} and Hara, Yuko and M{\"u}hlberg, Jan Tobias and Greco, Claudia and Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-16165-9_4},
     title = {Automated Cyber Defence with Reinforcement Learning in Multi-attack Environments},
     booktitle = {Computer Security. ESORICS 2025 International Workshops},
     year = {2026},
     publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
     address = {Cham},
     pages = {57--74},
     isbn = {978-3-032-16165-9}
   }

2. ESORICS

   Knowledge Retention for Generic Reinforcement Learning Policies in Autonomous Cyber Defence

   Joshua Sylvester and Rogério Lemos

   In Computer Security. ESORICS 2025 International Workshops, 2026

   Awarded DOI Bib

   Distinguished Paper Award

   @inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-032-16165-9_3,
     author = {Sylvester, Joshua and de Lemos, Rog{\'e}rio},
     editor = {Laborde, Romain and Garcia-Alfaro, Joaquin and Yazdinejad, Abbas and Epiphaniou, Gregory and Abie, Habtamu and Ranise, Silvio and Chora{\'{s}}, Micha{\l} and Wo{\'{z}}niak, Micha{\l} and Hara, Yuko and M{\"u}hlberg, Jan Tobias and Greco, Claudia and Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-16165-9_3},
     title = {Knowledge Retention for Generic Reinforcement Learning Policies in Autonomous Cyber Defence},
     booktitle = {Computer Security. ESORICS 2025 International Workshops},
     year = {2026},
     publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
     address = {Cham},
     pages = {39--56},
     isbn = {978-3-032-16165-9}
   }

2024

1. IEEE

   

   Identifying Novelty in Network Traffic

   Joshua Sylvester and Rogério De Lemos

   In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR), 2024

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{10679382,
     author = {Sylvester, Joshua and De Lemos, Rogério},
     booktitle = {2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR)},
     title = {Identifying Novelty in Network Traffic},
     year = {2024},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {506-511},
     publisher = {IEEE},
     keywords = {Accuracy;Telecommunication traffic;Benchmark testing;Security;Computer crime;Anomaly detection;Monitoring},
     doi = {10.1109/CSR61664.2024.10679382}
   }