Ricardo J. Rodríguez

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Ph.D. on Computer Science and System Engineering by the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Researching on program binary analysis, digital forensics, and system security analysis. Procrastination lover. Living as a Markovian process

  
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2023

  • MOSTO: A Toolkit to Facilitate Security Auditing of ICS Devices using Modbus/TCP. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Stefano Marrone, Ibai Marcos, Giuseppe Porzio, Computers & Security, vol. 132, pp. 103373, 2023. doi: 10.1016/j.cose.2023.103373 external URL
  • Module Extraction and DLL Hijacking Detection via Single or Multiple Memory Dumps. Pedro Fernández-Álvarez, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, vol. 44, pp. 301505, 2023. doi: 10.1016/j.fsidi.2023.301505 external URL
  • Towards UAV-based MEC Service Chain Resilience Evaluation: A Quantitative Modeling Approach. Jing Bai, Xiaolin Chang, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Kishor Trivedi, Shupan Li, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, iss. 4, pp. 5181–5194, 2023. doi: 10.1109/TVT.2022.3225564 external URL

2022

  • Resource Consumption Evaluation of C++ Cryptographic Libraries on Resource-Constrained Devices. Razvan Raducu, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Pedro Álvarez, in Applied Cryptography in Computer and Communications, pp. 65–75, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2022. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-17081-2_5 external URL
  • DI-AA: An Interpretable White-box Attack for Fooling Deep Neural Networks. Yixiang Wang, Jiqiang Liu, Xiaolin Chang, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Jianhua Wang, Information Sciences, vol. 610, pp. 14–32, 2022. doi: 10.1016/j.ins.2022.07.157 external URL
  • AB-FGSM: AdaBelief Optimizer and FGSM-Based Approach to Generate Adversarial Examples. Yixiang Wang, Jiqiang Liu, Xiaolin Chang, Jianhua Wang, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Journal of Information Security and Applications, vol. 68, pp. 103227, 2022. doi: 10.1016/j.jisa.2022.103227 external URL
  • OCamello: A Course and Summer School with Learn-OCaml. Roberto Blanco, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, OCaml Users and Developers Workshop 2022, vol. PP, iss. PP, pp. 2, 2022. external URL
  • Towards a Testbed for Critical Industrial Systems: SunSpec Protocol on DER Systems as a Case Study. Esteban Damián Gutiérrez Mlot, Jose Saldana, Ricardo J. Rodrı́guez, in Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, pp. 1–4, IEEE, 2022. doi: 10.1109/ETFA52439.2022.9921522 external URL
  • Assessing Anonymous and Selfish Free-rider Attacks in Federated Learning. Jianhua Wang, Xialoin Chang, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Yixiang Wang, in Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, pp. 6, IEEE, 2022. doi: 10.1109/ISCC55528.2022.9912903 external URL
  • Evasion and Countermeasures Techniques to Detect Dynamic Binary Instrumentation Frameworks. Ailton Santos Filho, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Eduardo L. Feitosa, Digital Threats: Research and Practice, vol. 3, iss. 2, pp. 28, 2022. doi: 10.1145/3480463 external URL
  • Defense and Attack Techniques against File-based TOCTOU Vulnerabilities: a Systematic Review. Razvan Raducu, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Pedro Alvarez, IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 21742–21758, 2022. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3153064 external URL
  • Characterization and Evaluation of IoT Protocols for Data Exfiltration. Daniel Uroz, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, iss. 19, pp. 19062–19072, 2022. doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2022.3163469 external URL
  • Extraction and Analysis of Retrievable Memory Artifacts from Windows Telegram Desktop Application. Pedro Fernández-Álvarez, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, vol. 40, pp. 301342, 2022. doi: 10.1016/j.fsidi.2022.301342 external URL

2021

  • LSGAN-AT: Enhancing Malware Detector Robustness against Adversarial Examples. Jianhua Wang, Xiaolin Chang, Yixiang Wang, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Jianan Zhang, Cybersecurity, vol. 4:38, iss. 1, pp. 15, 2021. doi: 10.1186/s42400-021-00102-9 external URL
  • Towards Optimal LSTM Neural Networks for Detecting Algorithmically Generated Domain Names. Jose Selvi, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Emilio Soria-Olivas, IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 126446–126456, 2021. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3111307 external URL
  • Quantifying Paging on Recoverable Data from Windows User-Space Modules. Miguel Martín-Pérez, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, in Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime, Springer, 2021. external URL
  • Evasion and Countermeasures Techniques to Detect Dynamic Binary Instrumentation Frameworks. Ailton Santos Filho, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Eduardo L. Feitosa, Digital Threats: Research and Practice, vol. PP, iss. PP, pp. , 2021. doi: 10.1145/3480463 external URL
  • A Vision for Improving Business Continuity through Cyber-resilience Mechanisms and Frameworks. Miguel Hernández-Bejarano, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, José Merseguer, in Proceedings of the 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), pp. 1–5, 2021. doi: 10.23919/CISTI52073.2021.9476324 external URL
  • Evaluation of the Executional Power in Windows using Return Oriented Programming. Daniel Uroz, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT), pp. 361–372, IEEE, 2021. doi: 10.1109/SPW53761.2021.00056 external URL
  • Bringing Order to Approximate Matching: Classification and Attacks on Similarity Digest Algorithms. Miguel Martín-Pérez, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Frank Breitinger, Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, vol. 36, pp. 301120, 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.fsidi.2021.301120 external URL
  • Pre-processing Memory Dumps to Improve Similarity Score of Windows Modules. Miguel Martín-Pérez, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Davide Balzarotti, Computers & Security, vol. 101, pp. 102119, 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.cose.2020.102119 external URL

2020

  • On Challenges in Verifying Trusted Executable Files in Memory Forensics. Daniel Uroz, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, vol. 32, pp. 300917, 2020. doi: 10.1016/j.fsidi.2020.300917 external URL
  • On Fingerprinting of Public Malware Analysis Services. Álvaro Botas, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Vicente Matellan, Juan F. García, M. T Trobajo, Miguel V. Carriegos, Logic Journal of the IGPL, vol. 28, iss. 4, pp. 473–486, 2020. doi: 10.1093/jigpal/jzz050 external URL
  • Reducing the Attack Surface of Dynamic Binary Instrumentation Frameworks. Ailton Santos Filho, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Eduardo L. Feitosa, in Developments and Advances in Defense and Security, vol. 152, pp. 3–13, Springer Singapore, 2020. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-9155-2_1 external URL
  • An Evaluation Framework for Comparative Analysis of Generalized Stochastic Petri Net Simulation Techniques. R. J. Rodríguez, S. Bernardi, A. Zimmermann, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 50, iss. 8, pp. 2834–2844, 2020. doi: 10.1109/TSMC.2018.2837643 external URL

2019

  • Characteristics and Detectability of Windows Auto-Start Extensibility Points in Memory Forensics. Daniel Uroz, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Digital Investigation, vol. 28, pp. S95–S104, 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.diin.2019.01.026 external URL
  • Detection of Algorithmically Generated Malicious Domain Names using Masked N-Grams. Jose Selvi, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Emilio Soria-Olivas, Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 124, pp. 156–163, 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2019.01.050 external URL
  • Profiling the Publish/Subscribe Paradigm for Automated Analysis Using Colored Petri Nets. Abel Gómez, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, María-Emilia Cambronero, Valentín Valero, Software and Systems Modeling, vol. 18, iss. 5, pp. 2973–3003, 2019. doi: 10.1007/s10270-019-00716-1 external URL
  • Quantitative security analysis of a dynamic network system under lateral movement-based attacks. Yu Shi, Xiaolin Chang, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Zhenjiang Zhang, Kishor S. Trivedi, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 183, pp. 213–225, 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2018.11.022 external URL
  • A Dynamic Data-Throttling Approach to Minimize Workflow Imbalance. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Omer F. Rana, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, vol. 19, iss. 3, pp. 1–21, 2019. doi: 10.1145/3278720 external URL
  • On Throughput Approximation of Resource Allocation Systems by Bottleneck Regrowing. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Javier Campos, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 27, iss. 1, pp. 370–377, 2019. doi: 10.1109/TCST.2017.2768512 external URL

2018

  • Desanonimización y categorización de servicios ocultos de la red Tor. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Jorge García de Quirós, in Actas del VI Congreso Nacional de i+d en Defensa y Seguridad (DESEi+d 2018), 2018. external URL
  • Survivability Model for Security and Dependability Analysis of a Vulnerable Critical System. Xiaolin Chang, Shaohua Lv, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Kishor Trivedi, in Proceedings of the 2018 27th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN), pp. 1–6, 2018. doi: 10.1109/ICCCN.2018.8487446 external URL
  • A Tool to Compute Approximation Matching between Windows Processes. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Miguel Martín-Pérez, Iñaki Abadía, in Proceedings of the 2018 6th International Symposium on Digital Forensic and Security (ISDFS), pp. 313–318, 2018. doi: 10.1109/ISDFS.2018.8355372 external URL
  • Model-based Sensitivity Analysis of IaaS Cloud Availability. Bo Liu, Xiaolin Chang, Zhen Han, Kishor Trivedi, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 83, pp. 1–13, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.future.2017.12.062 external URL
  • A Methodology for Model-based Verification of Safety Contracts and Performance Requirements. Elena Gómez-Martínez, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Clara Benac Earle, Leire Etxeberria Elorza, Miren Illarramendi Rezaba, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, vol. 232, iss. 3, pp. 227–247, 2018. doi: 10.1177/1748006X16667328 external URL
  • Modeling and Analysis of High Availability Techniques in a Virtualized System. Xiaolin Chang, Tianju Wang, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Zhenjiang Zhang, The Computer Journal, vol. 61, iss. 2, pp. 180–198, 2018. doi: 10.1093/comjnl/bxx049 external URL

2017

  • Some Notes on Rare-Event Simulation Challenges: Fast Abstract. Armin Zimmermann, Andrés Canabal Lavista, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, in Proceedings of 11th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS 2017), pp. 263–264, ACM, 2017. doi: 10.1145/3150928.3150963 external URL
  • Empirical Study to Fingerprint Public Malware Analysis Services. Álvaro Botas, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Vicente Matellán, Juan F. García, in Proceedings of the International Joint Conference SOCO’17-CISIS’17-ICEUTE’17, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series, vol. 649, pp. 589–599, Springer International Publishing, 2017. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-67180-2_57 external URL
  • Security Assessment of the Spanish Contactless Identity Card. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin, IET Information Security, vol. 11, iss. 6, pp. 386–393(7), 2017. doi: 10.1049/iet-ifs.2017.0299 external URL
  • Evolution and Characterization of Point-of-Sale RAM Scraping Malware. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Journal in Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques, vol. 13, iss. 3, pp. 179–192, 2017. doi: 10.1007/s11416-016-0280-4 external URL
  • A Petri Net Tool for Software Performance Estimation Based on Upper Throughput Bounds. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Automated Software Engineering, vol. 24, iss. 1, pp. 73–99, 2017. doi: 10.1007/s10515-015-0186-2 external URL

2016

  • On Qualitative Analysis of Fault Trees Using Structurally Persistent Nets. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 46, iss. 2, pp. 282–293, 2016. doi: 10.1109/TSMC.2015.2437360 external URL
  • Towards the Detection of Isolation-Aware Malware. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Iñaki Rodríguez-Gastón, Javier Alonso, IEEE Latin America Transactions (Revista IEEE America Latina), vol. 14, iss. 2, pp. 1024–1036, 2016. doi: 10.1109/TLA.2016.7437254 external URL
  • Model-Based Vulnerability Assessment of Self-Adaptive Protection Systems. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Stefano Marrone. Paulo Novais, David Camacho, Cesar Analide, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Costin Badica, editors, in Intelligent Distributed Computing IX, Studies in Computational Intelligence series, vol. 616, pp. 439–449, Springer International Publishing, 2016. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-25017-5_41 external URL
  • Survivability Analysis of a Computer System under an Advanced Persistent Threat Attack. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Xiaolin Chang, Xiaodan Li, Kishor S. Trivedi. Barbara Kordy, Mathias Ekstedt, Seong Dong Kim, editors, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security, vol. 9987, pp. 134–149, 2016. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-46263-9_9 external URL
  • Formal Security Assessment of Modbus Protocol. Roberto Nardone, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Stefano Marrone, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, pp. 142–147, IEEE, 2016. doi: 10.1109/ICITST.2016.7856685 external URL
  • A Peek Under the Hood of iOS Malware. Laura García, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, in Proceedings of the 2016 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), pp. 590–598, 2016. doi: 10.1109/ARES.2016.15 external URL

2015

  • Practical Experiences on NFC Relay Attacks with Android: Virtual Pickpocketing Revisited. José Vila, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, in Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDsec), Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, vol. 9440, pp. 87–103, Springer, 2015. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24837-0_6 external URL
  • Modelling Security of Critical Infrastructures: A Survivability Assessment. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, José Merseguer, Simona Bernardi, The Computer Journal, vol. 58, iss. 10, pp. 2313–2327, 2015. doi: 10.1093/comjnl/BXU096 external URL
  • On Synergies of Cyber and Physical Security Modelling in Vulnerability Assessment of Railway Systems. Stefano Marrone, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Roberto Nardone, Francesco Flammini, Valeria Vittorini, Computers and Electrical Engineering, vol. 47, pp. 275–285, 2015. doi: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2015.07.011 external URL
  • Model-Based Verification of Safety Contracts. Elena Gómez-Martínez, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Leire Etxeberria, Miren Illarramendi, Clara Benac, in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Safety and Formal Methods (SaFoMe), Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, vol. 8938, pp. 101–115, Springer International Publishing, 2015. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-15201-1_7 external URL
  • Counterfeiting and Defending the Digital Forensic Process. Alvaro Botas, Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Teemu Vaisanen, Patrycjusz Zdzichowski, in Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM), pp. 1966–1971, IEEE, 2015. doi: 10.1109/CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM.2015.291 external URL

2014

  • Cost Optimisation in Certification of Software Product Lines. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Sasikumar Punnekkat, in Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW), pp. 509–514, IEEE, 2014. doi: 10.1109/ISSREW.2014.103 external URL
  • Model-based Safety Assessment using OCL and Petri Nets. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Elena Gómez-Martínez, in Proceedings of the 40th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), pp. 56 – 59, 2014. doi: 10.1109/SEAA.2014.36 external URL
  • Execution and Verification of UML State Machines with Erlang (Tool Paper). Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Lars-̊Ake Fredlund, Ángel Herranz, Julio Mariño. Dimitra Giannakopoulou, Gwen Salaün, editors, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM), Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, vol. 8702, pp. 284–289, Springer, 2014. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-10431-7_22 external URL
  • Performance Evaluation of Dynamic Binary Instrumentation Frameworks. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Juan Antonio Artal, José Merseguer, IEEE Latin America Transactions (Revista IEEE America Latina), vol. 12, iss. 8, pp. 1572–1580, 2014. doi: 10.1109/TLA.2014.7014530 external URL

2013

  • Performance Analysis and Resource Optimisation of Critical Systems Modelled by Petri Nets Ricardo J. Rodríguez. PhD. thesis, Dpto. de Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas, Universidad de Zaragoza, 2013. external URL
  • On the Performance Estimation and Resource Optimisation in Process Petri Nets. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Jorge Júlvez, José Merseguer, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 43, iss. 6, pp. 1385–1398, 2013. doi: 10.1109/TSMC.2013.2245118 external URL
  • Quantification and Compensation of the Impact of Faults in System Throughput. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Jorge Júlvez, José Merseguer, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, vol. 227, iss. 6, pp. 614–628, 2013. doi: 10.1177/1748006X13492284 external URL
  • From UML State-Machine Diagrams to Erlang. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Lars-̊Ake Fredlund, Ángel Herranz, in Proceedings of the XIII Spanish Conference on Programming and Computer Languages (PROLE 2013), pp. 288–299, 2013. external URL

2012

  • Measuring the Effectiveness of Thottled Data Transfers on Data-Intensive Workflows. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Omer F. Rana. Gordan Jezic, Mario Kusek, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain, editors, in Proceedings of the 6th International KES Conference on Agents and Multi-agent Systems – Technologies and Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, vol. 7327, pp. 144–153, Springer, 2012. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-30947-2_18 external URL
  • Automating Data-Throttling Analysis for Data-Intensive Workflows. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Omer F. Rana, in Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), pp. 310–317, IEEE, 2012. doi: 10.1109/CCGrid.2012.27 external URL
  • Fault-Tolerant Techniques and Security Mechanisms for Model-based Performance Prediction of Critical Systems. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Catia Trubiani, José Merseguer, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Architecting Critical Systems (ISARCS), pp. 21–30, ACM, 2012. doi: 10.1145/2304656.2304660 external URL
  • PeabraiN: A PIPE Extension for Performance Estimation and Resource Optimisation. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Jorge Júlvez, José Merseguer, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Designs (ACSD), pp. 142–147, IEEE, 2012. doi: 10.1109/ACSD.2012.13 external URL

2011

  • A Security Analysis and Modelling profile: an Overview. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, José Merseguer, Simona Bernardi, Technical report, Dpto. de Ingeniería e Informática de Sistemas, Universidad de Zaragoza, 2011.

2010

  • Integrating Fault-Tolerant Techniques into the Design of Critical Systems. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, José Merseguer. Holger Giese, editors, in Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Architecting Critical Systems (ISARCS), Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, vol. 6150, pp. 33–51, Springer, 2010. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-13556-9_3 external URL
  • Modelling and Analysing Resilience as a Security Issue within UML. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, José Merseguer, Simona Bernardi, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems (SERENE), pp. 42–51, ACM, 2010. doi: 10.1145/2401736.2401741 external URL
  • Accurate Performance Estimation for Stochastic Marked Graphs by Bottleneck Regrowing. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Jorge Júlvez, in Proceedings of the 7th European Performance Engineering Workshop (EPEW), Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, vol. 6342, pp. 175–190, Springer, 2010. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-15784-4_12 external URL