Dr. Ken Ferens, P.Eng.

Area

Cognitive machine learning, artificial intelligence, cognitive computational intelligence, regression, logistic classification, support vector machines, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, artificial neural networks, and particle swarm optimization.

Expertise

Dr. Ken Ferens has been doing research in the field of computational intelligence for over 33 years. His main area research is as follows: cognitive machine learning, artificial intelligence, cognitive computational intelligence, application of chaos and fractals, agent-based models, regression, logistic classification, support vector machines, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, artificial neural networks, and particle swarm optimization.

Research description

Dr. Ken Ferens and his research team conduct research in the Cyber-security Research Program of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba. They apply cognitive, chaotic, and computationally intelligent algorithms to build software and hardware intrusion detection systems for the detection of cyber-attacks on computer systems and computer network systems. They collaborate with national and international industry partners (e.g., Department of Advanced Information Management; Content Technology Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC), and Magellan Aerospace). In support of this program, they teach graduate level courses on Computer Network Security and Applied Computational Intelligence. These courses provide the theoretical background and hands-on experience in the current state-of-the-art software, hardware, and network methods of attacks on vulnerable systems, as well as methods for detecting and preventing such attacks on computer network and computer systems. As well, these courses provide the background and experience in applying cognitive machine learning, artificial intelligence, cognitive computational intelligence, chaos theory, agent-based models, regression, logistic classification, support vector machines, simulated annealing genetic algorithms, artificial neural networks, and particle swarm optimization.

Ken Ferens is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Manitoba, Canada. He is the Computer Engineering Champion in the Centre for Engineering Professional Practice and Engineering Education. He is the director of the Applied Cognitive Intelligence (ACI) Research Group in the Department of ECE. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Manitoba, and is a member of The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of the Province of Manitoba. He has authored over 100 publications in his research areas. Dr. Ferens is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE); a member of the Canadian Engineering Education Association; the Chair of the EduManCom Chapter of the IEEE; the Vice-Chair of the Computer and Computational Intelligence Chapter of the IEEE; and the Chair of the Industry, Teaching Assistants, and Student Forums, for Engineering Curriculum Review and Improvement.

Publications Awards

[1]    Siobhan Reid, Ken Ferens, Witold Kinsner, "Adaptive Chaotic Injection to Reduce Overfitting in Artificial Neural Networks," in Proc. 21 IEEE Intern. Conf. Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, ICCI*CC 2022 Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; Dec 8-10, 2022. (Best Paper Award: Paper was presented at the conference by Ken Ferens).
[2]    Hieu V. Dang and Witold Kinsner, "An Analytical Multiobjective Optimization of Joint Spectrum Sensing and Power Control in Cognitive Radio Networks," in Proc. 14th IEEE Intern. Conf. Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, ICCI*CC 2015 (Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China; July 6-8, 2015) pp. 39-48, 2015. {IEEE Catalog Number CFP15312-ART; ISBN 978-1-4673-7290-9}. RECEIVED BEST PAPER AWARD (Paper was presented by Ken Ferens).
[3]    D. Cook and K. Ferens, “Performance Analysis of a Reconfigurable Shared Memory Multiprocessor System for Embedded Applications,” Journal of ICT Research and Applications, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 15-35, August 2013. RECEIVED BEST JOURNAL PAPER AWARD FOR 2013 (http://journal.itb.ac.id/)
[4]    2010: B. Demianyk, D. Sandison, B. Libbey, R. Guderian, R. D. McLeod, M. R. Eskicioglu M. R. Friesen, K. Ferens, and S. Mukhi, “Technologies to Generate Contact Graphs for Personal Social Networks,” 12th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services, Lyon, France, July 2010. RECEIVED BEST POSTER AWARD (Presented by Ken Ferens)
[5]    1991: K. Ferens, C. Love, A. Indrayanto, A. Langi and W. Kin¬sner, “A neural network Hamming encoder and decoder,” IASTED Interna¬tional Conference on Computer, Electronics, Control, and Communication, Calgary,1991. RECEIVED BEST PAPER AWARD (Poster was presented by Ken Ferens).

Patent Applications

[1]    K. Ferens, T. Cwikla, C. P. Thang, S. Bal, and M. Borgford; “Highly integrated and compact baseband apparatus for portable newsgathering”; European Patent No.: EP1463328 (A1); U.S. Patent No.: US2004192217  (A1), Canadian Patent No.: CA2423896  (A1), Aug. 29, 2004. (Last Accessed July 8, 2010: http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=EPODOC&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=20040929&CC=EP&NR=1463328A1&KC=A1)

http://patents.justia.com/inventor/ken-ferens

[2]    K. Ferens, L. Dacombe; “An improved communications protocol for the transmission of data to/ from electronic signs”; U.S. Patent Application Publication; Pub. No. US 60/089,265; June, 1998.

Refereed Journal Articles:

[1]    Brezinski, K., Ferens, K. “Metamorphic Malware and Obfuscation - A Survey of Techniques, Variants and Generation Kits” Journal of Security and Communication Networks; submitted, under consideration (2023).
[2]    Rahman, M., Brezinski, K., Ferens, K. “Classifying SARS-CoV-2 and Common Co-infections from Genome Assemblies”, Advances in Security, Networks, and Internet of Things, In book: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence Chapter: Springer Nature, CSCE’22, July 26-29, 2022.
[3]    Kenneth Brezinski, Michael Guevarra, and Ken Ferens, “Population Based Equilibrium in Hybrid SA/PSO for Combinatorial Optimization”, International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI), 12(2), Pages: 13, © 2020, DOI: 10.4018/IJSSCI.2020040105.
[4]    Md Nasimuzzaman Chowdhury, Ken Ferens, “A Support Vector Machine Cost Function in Simulated Annealing for Network Intrusion Detection”, Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal (ASTESJ), vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 302-320, June, 2019, ISSN: 2415-6698
[5]    Mohammad Nurul Afsar Shaon, Ken Ferens, “A Computationally Intelligent Approach to the Detection of Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal (ASTESJ), vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 302-320, May, 2017, DOI: 10.25046/aj020340
[6]    Muhammad Salman Khan, Ken Ferens, and Witold Kinsner, “Multifractal Singularity Spectrum for Cognitive Cyber Defence in Internet Time Series”, International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI), vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 17-45, July-September © 2015.
[7]    Muhammad Salman Khan, Ken Ferens, and Witold Kinsner, “A Chaotic Complexity Measure for Cognitive Machine Classification of Cyber-attacks on Computer Networks”, International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence (IJCINI), vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 45-69, July-September © 2014.
[8]    Tong Duan, Ken Ferens, and Witold Kinsner, “Energy Efficient and Dynamic Hierarchical Clustering for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Journal of Communication and Computer (JCC), vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 1422-1432, 2013.
[9]    Ken Ferens, Darcy Cook, and Witold Kinsner, “Chaotic Walk in Simulated Annealing Search Space for Task Allocation in a Multiprocessing System”, International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence (IJCINI), vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 58-79, © 2013.
[10]    D. Cook and K. Ferens, “Performance Analysis of a Reconfigurable Shared Memory Multiprocessor System for Embedded Applications,” Journal of ICT Research and Applications, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 15-35, August 2013. RECEIVED BEST JOURNAL PAPER AWARD FOR 2013.
[11]    L. Woo, K. Ferens, W. Kinsner, and M. Potter, “Analysis of Modulated Monofractal Noise,” IEEE Trans. Electromagn. Compat., vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 524-530, May 2011.
[12]    B. Libbey, K. Ferens, M.R. Friesen and R.D. McLeod, “The utility of contact network graphs in pandemic preparedness planning“, BMC Public Health, in revision.
[13]    K. Ferens, M. Friesen, S. Ingram, “Impact Assessment of a Microprocessor Animation on Student Learning and Motivation in Computer Engineering,” IEEE Trans. on Education, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 118 – 128, May 2007.

Refereed Book Chapters: 

[1]    Brezinski, K., Ferens, K. “Incorporating Topological Complexity into a Multilayer Perceptron”, Advances in Security, Networks, and Internet of Things, In book: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence Chapter: Springer Nature, CSCE’22, July 26-29, 2022.
[2]    Rahman, M., Brezinski, K., Ferens, K. “Classifying SARS-CoV-2 and Common Co-infections from Genome Assemblies”, Advances in Security, Networks, and Internet of Things, In book: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence Chapter: Springer Nature, CSCE’22, July 26-29, 2022.
[3]    Brezinski, K. and Ferens, K., “Transformers - Malware in Disguise”, Advances in Security, Networks, and Internet of Things, In book: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence Chapter: Springer Nature, April 2021.
[4]    Brezinski, K. and Ferens, K. “Sandy Toolbox: A Framework for Dynamic Malware Analysis and Model Development” Advances in Security, Networks, and Internet of Things, In book: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence Chapter: Springer Nature, April 2021.
[5]    Siobhan Reid and Ken Ferens, “A Hybrid Chaotic Activation Function for Artificial Neural Networks”, in SPRINGER NATURE - Research Book Series: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence: https://www.springer.com/series/11769, Book Title: Advances in Artificial Intelligence & Applied Cognitive Computing, Springer ID: 89066307 (Book ID: 495585_1_En), vol. x, no. x, Editors: Arabnia, H.R., Ferens, K., de la Fuente, D., Kozerenko, E.B., Olivas Varela, J.A., Tinetti, F.G. (Eds.). Springer Nature, May 25, 2021, pp. x-x, ISBN 978-3-030-70295-3.
[6]    Samilat Kaiser and Ken Ferens, “Variance Fractal Dimension Feature Selection for Detection of Cyber Security Attacks”, in SPRINGER NATURE - Research Book Series: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence: https://www.springer.com/series/11769, Book Title: Advances in Artificial Intelligence & Applied Cognitive Computing, Springer ID: 89066307 (Book ID: 495585_1_En), vol. x, no. x, Editors: Arabnia, H.R., Ferens, K., de la Fuente, D., Kozerenko, E.B., Olivas Varela, J.A., Tinetti, F.G. (Eds.). Springer Nature, May 25, 2021, pp. x-x, ISBN 978-3-030-70295-3.
[7]    Kenneth Brezinski and Ken Ferens, “An Adaptive Tribal Topology for Particle Swarm Optimization”, in SPRINGER NATURE - Research Book Series: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence: https://www.springer.com/series/11769, Book Title: Advances in Artificial Intelligence & Applied Cognitive Computing, Springer ID: 89066307 (Book ID: 495585_1_En), vol. x, no. x, Editors: Arabnia, H.R., Ferens, K., de la Fuente, D., Kozerenko, E.B., Olivas Varela, J.A., Tinetti, F.G. (Eds.). Springer Nature, May 25, 2021, pp. x-x, ISBN 978-3-030-70295-3.
[8]    Kaiser Nahiyan, Samilat Kaiser, and Ken Ferens, “A Cognitive Unsupervised Clustering for Detecting Cyber Attacks”, in SPRINGER NATURE - Research Book Series: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence: https://www.springer.com/series/11769, Book Title: Advances in Artificial Intelligence & Applied Cognitive Computing, Springer ID: 89066307 (Book ID: 495585_1_En), vol. x, no. x, Editors: Arabnia, H.R., Ferens, K., de la Fuente, D., Kozerenko, E.B., Olivas Varela, J.A., Tinetti, F.G. (Eds.). Springer Nature, May 25, 2021, pp. x-x, ISBN 978-3-030-70295-3.
[9]    Ainslee Heim and Ken Ferens, “Simulated Annealing Embedded Within Personal Velocity Update of Particle Swarm Optimization”, in SPRINGER NATURE - Research Book Series: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence: https://www.springer.com/series/11769, Book Title: Advances in Artificial Intelligence & Applied Cognitive Computing, Springer ID: 89066307 (Book ID: 495585_1_En), vol. x, no. x, Editors: Arabnia, H.R., Ferens, K., de la Fuente, D., Kozerenko, E.B., Olivas Varela, J.A., Tinetti, F.G. (Eds.). Springer Nature, May 25, 2021, pp. x-x, ISBN 978-3-030-70295-3.
[10]    Muhammad Salman Khan, Sana Siddiqui, and Ken Ferens, “A Cognitive and Concurrent Cyber Kill Chain Model”, in Computer and Network Security Essentials, vol. 1, no. 1, Kevin Daimi, Ed. University of Detroit Mercy, USA: Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 302-320, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58424-9, ISBN 978-3-319-58423-2 ISBN 978-3-319-58424-9 (eBook).
[11]    Sana Siddiqui, Muhammad Salman Khan, and Ken Ferens, “Cognitive Computing and Multiscale Analysis for Cyber Security”, in Computer and Network Security Essentials, vol. 1, no. 1, Kevin Daimi, Ed. University of Detroit Mercy, USA: Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 302-320, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58424-9, ISBN 978-3-319-58423-2 ISBN 978-3-319-58424-9 (eBook).
[12]    K. L.-M. K. F. I. J. a. R. D. M. Marcia R. Friesen, "Exploring Emergence in Simple Agent-Based Models," in Advances in Engineering Research, vol. 17, V. M. Petrova, Ed., Nova Science Publishers, 2017, pp. 93-116. Available: https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=63721.

Refereed Magazine Articles:

McLeod, R.D.; Tregobov, A.; Ferens, K.; , "ATM networks," Potentials, IEEE , vol.15, no.2, pp.36-42, Apr/May 1996.

Refereed Conference Publications:  

[1]    Siobhan Reid, Ken Ferens, Witold Kinsner, "Adaptive Chaotic Injection to Reduce Overfitting in Artificial Neural Networks," in Proc. 21 IEEE Intern. Conf. Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, ICCI*CC 2022 Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; Dec 8-10, 2022. (Best Paper Award: Paper was presented at the conference by Ken Ferens).
[2]    Brezinski, K. and Ferens, K. “Complexity-Based Lambda Layer for Time Series Prediction”, 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, May 2021, Krakow, Poland. 10.1109/CEC45853.2021.9504995.
[3]    Kenneth Brezinski and Ken Ferens, "Complexity-Based Convolutional Neural Network for Malware Classification," in The 2020 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence CSCI'20: December 16-18, 2020, Las Vegas, USA.
[4]    Kenneth Brezinski, Ken Ferens, "Hybrid PSO/SA Combinatorial Optimization," in Proc. 18th IEEE Intern. Conf. Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, ICCI*CC 2019 Politecnico di Milano University, 32, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 20133 Milano, Italy; July 23-25, 2019) pp., 2019. {IEEE Catalog Number; ISBN }
[5]    Drew Cochrane, Nolan Evans, Michael Lane, Grant Woodbury, Xi Yin, Corey Zrobek, Marcia Friesen, Ken Ferens, “AN Internet of Things Drone Data Mule Proc. of the 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'19), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 29 – Aug 1, pp. , 2019.
[6]    Samilat Kaiser and Ken Ferens, “Samilat Kaiser and Ken Ferens,” Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Cognitive Computing (ACC'18), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 30 – Aug 2, pp. , 2018.
[7]    Philip de Luna, James Guan, Paolo Macalalad, Ginnello Suarez, Brian Vital, Marcia Friesen, Ken Ferens, “Spotter: An Internet of Things Parking-Lot-Stall Monitoring System,” Proc. of the 2018 International Conference on Internet Computing and Internet of Things (ICOMP'18), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 25-28, pp. , 2018.
[8]    Witold Kinsner, Ken Ferens, Philip Ferguson, Randy Herrmann, Hongru Li, Jason Tkachuk, Carole Yan Fook Cheong, Oghenemkome Michael, Siobhan Reid, Enze Cui, Shallom Oghenevwede Akporuku, and Josh Charles, "An unmanned aerial system to monitor a solar-cell farm and its power grid in remote locations," in Proc. ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting, ASM2018 (Ottawa, ON; December 10-14, 2018) 2018.
[9]    Danish Kaleem, Ken Ferens, " Irrelevant Hidden Neurons Pruning using Sensitivity Estimation Algorithm," in Proc. 17th IEEE Intern. Conf. Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, ICCI*CC 2018 University of California, Berkeley, USA; July 16-18, 2018) pp., 2018. {IEEE Catalog Number; ISBN }
[10]    Marian Grocholski, Nathan Moschler, Roslyn Debacker, Winston Grocholski, Ken Ferens, Marcia Friesen, “HomeUnit An Internet of Things Air Quality Monitor,” Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'17), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 16-20, pp. , 2017.
[11]    Md Nasimuzzaman Chowdhury, Ken Ferens, “A Computational Approach for Detecting Intrusion in Communication Network Using Machine Learning,” Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Applied Cognitive Computing (ACC'17), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 16-20, pp. , 2017.
[12]    Kaiser Nahiyan, Samilat Kaiser, Ken Ferens, Robert McLeod, “A Multi-agent Based Cognitive Approach to Unsupervised Feature Extraction and Classification for Network Intrusion Detection,” Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Applied Cognitive Computing (ACC'17), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 16-20, pp. , 2017.
[13]    Danish Kaleem, Ken Ferens, Marcia Friesen, “A Cognitive Multi-agent Model to Detect Malicious Threats,” Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Applied Cognitive Computing (ACC'17), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 16-20, pp. , 2017.
[14]    Danish Kaleem, Ken Ferens, “A Cognitive Approach for Attribute Selection in Internet Dataset," in Proc. 16th IEEE Intern. Conf. Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, ICCI*CC 2017 (University of Oxford, UK; July 26-28, 2017) pp. , 2017. {IEEE Catalog Number; ISBN }
[15]    Sana Siddiqui, Muhammad Salman Khan, Ken Ferens, and Witold Kinsner, “Fractal based Cognitive Neural Network to Detect Obfuscated and Indistinguishable Internet Threats," in Proc. 16th IEEE Intern. Conf. Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, ICCI*CC 2017 (University of Oxford, UK; July 26-28, 2017) pp. , 2017. {IEEE Catalog Number; ISBN }
[16]    Sana Siddiqui, Muhammad Salman Khan, Ken Ferens, “Multiscale Hebbian Neural Network for Cyber Threat Detection," 2017 IEEE  International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2017), Anchorage AK USA; May 14-19, 2017) pp. 1427-1434, 2017. { IEEE Catalog Number: CFP17IJS-CDR, ISBN: 978-1-5090-6181-5}
[17]    Muhammad Salman Khan, Sana Siddiqui, Ken Ferens, “Using Information Fractal Dimension as Temperature in Restricted Boltzmann Machine," 2017 IEEE  International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2017), Anchorage AK USA; May 14-19, 2017) pp. 2290-2297, 2017. { IEEE Catalog Number: CFP17IJS-CDR, ISBN: 978-1-5090-6181-5}
[18]    Muhammad Salman Khan, Sana Siddiqui, Ken Ferens, "Cognitive Modeling of Polymorphic Malware Using Fractal Based Semantic Characterization," in Proc. 17th IEEE Internal Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security, Waltham, MA USA; April 25-26, 2017). {ISBN 978-1-5090-6356-7}
[19]    Sana Siddiqui, Muhammad Salman Khan, Ken Ferens, Witold Kinsner, “Detecting Advanced Persistent Threats using Fractal Dimension based Machine Learning Classification,” Proc. of the 2016 ACM on International Workshop on Security And Privacy Analytics, New Orleans, LA, USA, March 11, pp. 64-69, 2016.
[20]    Mohammad Nurul Afsar Shaon, Ken Ferens, “Wormhole Attack Detection in Wireless Sensor Network using Discrete Wavelet Transform,” Proc. of the 2016 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'16), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 25-28, pp. 22-29, 2016.
[21]    Muhammad Salman Khan, Sana Siddiqui, Robert D. McLeod, Ken Ferens, and Witold Kinsner, "Fractal Based Adaptive Boosting Algorithm for Cognitive Detection of Computer Malware," in Proc. 15th IEEE Intern. Conf. Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, ICCI*CC 2016 (Stanford University, Palo Alto, California USA; August 22-23, 2016) pp. 50-59, 2016. {IEEE Catalog Number CFP16312-POD; ISBN 978-1-5090-3847-3 }
[22]    Mohammad Nurul Afsar Shaon, Ken Ferens, Robert Mcleod, “An Efficient Self Organizing Algorithm for Mobile Sensor Network Based on RSSI,” Proc. of the 2016 International Conference on Internet Computing and Internet of Things (ICOMP'16), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 25-28, pp. 99-103, 2016.
[23]    Elias Klassen, Ryan Wieler, Maxim Krivoshchekov, Ziang Wang, Chunzi Jiang, Kelsey Wiens, Ken Ferens, Robert Mcleod, and Shamir Mukhi, “Water Quality Running on Droids,” Proc. of the 2016 International Conference on Internet Computing and Internet of Things (ICOMP'16), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 25-28, pp. 24-31, 2016.
[24]    Erwin Ramon Alejo, Jose Miguel Sevilla, Michael Jordan Apuya, Dominic Francis Villar, Ken Ferens, Marcia Friesen, “E-Pass: Implementation of an NFC-Based Electronic Pass System,” Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'16), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 25-28, pp. 69-75, 2016.
[25]    Muhammad Salman Khan, Sana Siddiqui, Ken Ferens, and Witold Kinsner, “Spectral Fractal Dimension Trajectory to Measure Cognitive Complexity Of Malicious DNS Traffic,” Proc. of the 2016 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'16), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 25-28, pp. 36-44, 2016.
[26]    Md Nasimuzzaman Chowdhury, Ken Ferens, “Network Intrusion Detection Using Machine Learning,” Proc. of the 2016 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'16), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 25-28, pp. 30-35, 2015.
[27]    Maryam Ghanbari, Ken Ferens, Witold Kinsner, “Anomaly Detection in Smart Grid Using Wavelet Transform and Artificial Neural Network,” Proc. of the 2016 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'16), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 25-28, pp. 15-21, 2016.
[28]    Mohammad Nurul Afsar Shaon, Ken Ferens, “Wormhole Attack Detection in Wireless Sensor Network using Variance Fractal Dimension,” Proc. of the 2016 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'16), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 25-28, pp. 22-29, 2016.
[29]    Mohammad Nurul Afsar Shaon and Ken Ferens, “Wireless Sensor Network Wormhole Detection using an Artificial Neural Network,” Proc. of the 2015 International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 26-30, pp. 115-120, 2015.
[30]    Muhammad Salman Khan, Ken Ferens, and Witold Kinsner, “A Polyscale Autonomous Sliding Window for Cognitive Machine Classification of Malicious Internet Traffic,” Proc. of the 2015 International Conference on Security and Management, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 26-30, pp. 96-103, 2015.
[31]    Olawale David Jegede, Ken Ferens, Bruce Griffith, Blake Podaima, “A Smart Shoe to Prevent and Manage Diabetic Foot Diseases,” Proc. of the 2015 International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 26-30, pp. 47-54, 2015
[32]    Muhammad Salman Khan, Ken Ferens, and Witold Kinsner, "A Cognitive Multifractal Approach to Characterize Complexity of Non-Stationary and Malicious DNS Data Traffic using Adaptive Sliding Window," in Proc. 14th IEEE Intern. Conf. Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, ICCI*CC 2015 (Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China; July 6-8, 2015) pp. 76-83, 2015. {IEEE Catalog Number CFP15312-ART; ISBN 978-1-4673-7290-9}
[33]    R. D. McLeod, K. Ferens, M. R. Friesen, “The IoT: Examples and Trends,” Proc. of the 2015 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 7-9, pp. , 2015.
[34]    Muhammad Salman Khan, Ken Ferens, and Witold Kinsner, "A Chaotic Measure for Cognitive Machine Classification of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks," in Proc. 13th IEEE Intern. Conf. Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, ICCI*CC 2014 (Southbank University, London, UK; August 18-20, 2014) pp. 100-108, 2014. {IEEE Catalog Number CFP14312-ART; ISBN 978-1-4799-6081-1}
[35]    Olawale David Jegede, Ken Ferens, Bruce Griffith, Blake Podaima, Ramin Soltanzadeh, “A Computer Engineering Approach to Detect, Prevent and Manage Diabetic Foot Diseases,” Proc. of the 2014 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-24, pp. 39-45, 2014.
[36]    K. Ferens, J. Seniuk Cicek, N. Sepehri, W. Kinsner, J.P. Burak, A. Parker, D. McNeill, D. Ruth, I. Jeffrey, N. Godavari, S. Ingram, “Industry Forum III: Towards A Common Language,” Proc. of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA/ACEG) Conference, Canmore, AB; June 8-11, 2014.
[37]    Jillian Seniuk Cicek, Sandra Ingram, Nariman Sepehri, J.P. Burak, Paul Labossiere, Danny Mann, Douglas Ruth, Anne Parker, Ken Ferens, Norma Godavari, Jan Oleszkiewicz and Aidan Topping, “Rubrics as a Vehicle to Define the Twelve CEAB Graduate Attributes, Determine Graduate Competencies, and Develop a Common Language for Engineering Stakeholders,” Proc. of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA/ACEG) Conference, Canmore, AB; June 8-11, 2014.
[38]    Ken Ferens, Darcy Cook, and Witold Kinsner, "Chaotic simulated annealing for task allocation in a multiprocessing system," in Proc. 12th IEEE Intern. Conf. Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, ICCI*CC 2013 (Fordham University, New York; July 16-18, 2013) pp. 26-35, 2013. {IEEE Catalog Number CFP13312-CDR; ISBN 978-1-4799-0781-6}
[39]    N. Sepehri, W. Kinsner, J.P. Burak, C. Shafai, U. Annakkage, D. Mann, D. Kuhn, A. Shalaby, M. Alfaro, J. Morrison, K. Ferens, M. Birouk, P. Labossiere, M. Torchia, J. Beddoes, “The Process of Continual Improvement of Engineering Programs at the University of Manitoba: Now and Next,” Proc. of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA/ACEG) Conference, Montreal, QB, Canada, June 17-20, 2013.
[40]    K. Ferens, “Teaching Design in Computer Engineering,” Proc. of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA/ACEG) Conference, Montreal, QB, Canada, June 17-20, 2013.
[41]    S. Rizvi and K. Ferens, “VisualNet: General Purpose Visualization Tool for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of the 2013 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'13), Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 22-25, pp. 74-79, 2013.
[42]    T. Kaiser, O. D. Jegede, K. Ferens, and D. Buchanan, “A Genetic Algorithm for Multiprocessor Task Scheduling,” Proc. of the 2013 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 22-25, pp. 105-110, 2013.
[43]    O. D. Jegede and K. Ferens, “A Genetic Algorithm for Node Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of the 2013 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 22-25, pp. 126-132, 2013.
[44]    O. D. Jegede, K. Ferens, and W. Kinsner, “Chaotic Genetic Algorithm for Radio Spectrum Allocation,” Proc. of the 2013 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 22-25, pp. 118-125, 2013.
[45]    C. Gunasekara and K. Ferens, “Dynamic TDMA Sense Window Prediction for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of the 2013 International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 22-25, pp. 149-152, 2013.
[46]    C. Yi and K. Ferens, “An Energy Efficient and Minimum Latency Routing Protocol for Multihop WSNs,” Proc. of the 2013 International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 22-25, pp. 234-242, 2013.
[47]    R. Belal, K. Ferens, and W. Kinsner, “A Fuzzy Approach in Single Relay Selection for Cooperative Communication Based on Signal Strength and Residual Energy,” Proc. of the 2013 International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 22-25, pp. 253-259, 2013.
[48]    T. Duan, K. Ferens, and W. Kinsner, “An Energy Efficient Hierarchical Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of the 2013 International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 22-25, pp. 78-84, 2013.
[49]    S. Cui and K. Ferens, “A Knapsack Scheduling Algorithm for Soft Real-time Multiprocessor System,” Proc. of the 2013 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 22-25, pp. 55-59, 2013.
[50]    K. Ferens, “Teaching Hands-on Design in Systems Engineering Principals,” Proc. of International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 22-25, pp. 387-390, 2013.
[51]    D. Cook, K. Ferens and W. Kinsner, "Application of Chaotic Simulated Annealing in the Optimization of Task Allocation in a Multiprocessing System," in Proceedings of the 4th International Interdisciplinary Chaos Symposium, Antalya, Turkey, 2012.
[52]    K. Ferens, “External Assessment of Engineering Programs,” Proc. of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA/ACEG) Conference, St. John’s, NL, Canada, June 17-20, 2012.
[53]    K. Ferens, “Teaching Embedded System Design,” Proc. of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA/ACEG) Conference, St. John’s, NL, Canada, June 17-20, 2012.
[54]    S. Rizvi, K. Ferens, “Multipath Route Construction Using Cumulative Residual Energy for Wireless Sensor Networks,” The Seventh International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications, Lisbon, Portugal, November 18-23, 2012.
[55]    K. Ferens, “An industry focus group forum for the assessment of new engineering graduates,” Proc. of International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July, 2012.
[56]    J. Benavides, B. McLeod, K. Ferens, “Directed belief diffusion for dynamic social networks,” Proc. of the 2013 International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July, 2012.
[57]    S. Wijedasa, S. Rizvi, K. Ferens, “Load Balancing Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of the 2013 International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July, 2012.
[58]    T. Kaiser, P. Card, K. Ferens, “Environment Feature Map for Wireless Device Localization,” Proc. of The 2013 International Conference on Security and Management, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July, 2012.
[59]    J. Benavides, B. Demianyk, R. D. McLeod, M. R. Friesen, K. Ferens, and S. Mukhi, “'3G Smartphone Technologies for Generating Personal Social Network Distributions and Graphs,” accepted to 13th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services, Columbia, MO, USA, June 2011. 
[60]    K. Ferens, W. Kinsner, “Industry Focus Group Forum Approach for Assessing Undergraduate Engineering Program Outcomes,” Proc. of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA/ACEG)  Conference, St. John’s, NL, Canada, June 6-8, 2011.
[61]    K. Ferens, M. Friesen, “Industry Focus Group Forum for Engineering Program Assessment,” accepted to International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 2011.
[62]    S. Cui, K. Ferens, “Energy Efficient Clustering Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks,” accepted to International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 2011.
[63]    J. Benavides, B.C.P. Demianyk, S.N. Mukhi, K. Ferens, M.R. Friesen & R.D. McLeod, 3G Technologies for Social Network Data Generation, accepted to CMBEC34, Toronto, ON, Canada, June 2011.
[64]    K. Ferens, “Work in progress: are we teaching the right stuff?,” WORLDCOMP'10 - The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 2010.
[65]    B. Demianyk, D. Sandison, B. Libbey, R. Guderian, R. D. McLeod, M. R. Eskicioglu M. R. Friesen, K. Ferens, and S. Mukhi, “Technologies to Generate Contact Graphs for Personal Social Networks,” 12th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services, Lyon, France, July 2010. RECEIVED BEST POSTER AWARD
[66]    A. Tovar, T. Friesen, and K. Ferens, and B. McLeod, “A DTN wireless sensor network for wildlife habitat monitoring,” IEEE 2010 Proc. Canadian Conf. Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2010), Calgary, AB, CA, May 2-5.
[67]    L. Woo, W. Kinsner, K. Ferens, “Reliability of zigbee networks under broadband electromagnetic noise interference,” IEEE 2010 Proc. Canadian Conf. Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2010), Calgary, AB, CA, May 2-5.
[68]    M. Laskowski, J. Allen, K. Ferens, M.R. Friesen, and R.D. McLeod, “Rapid prototyping vehicle-to-infrastructure applications using the AndroidTM,” The 9th Int. Conference on IST Telecommunications, Lille, France, October 2009.
[69]    K. Ferens, L. Woo, and W. Kinsner, “Performance Of Zigbee Networks In The Presence Of Broadband Electromagnetic Noise,” in IEEE 2009 Proc. Canadian Conf. Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2009), St. John’s, NF, CA, May 3-6, 2009.
[70]    J. Maier and K. Ferens, “Classification Of English Phrases And SMS Text Messages Using Bayes And Support Vector Machine Classifiers,” in IEEE 2009 Proc. Canadian Conf. Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2009), St. John’s, NF, CA, May 3-6, pp. , 2009.
[71]    L. Woo, W. Kinsner, and K. Ferens, “An analysis of captured industrial vehicular noise signals for ZigBee communications,” in IEEE 2008 Proc. Canadian Conf. Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2008), Niagara Falls, ON, CA, May 4-7, pp. 1423-1428, 2008.
[72]    K. Ferens, “A Visual Tool to Enhance Comprehension and Design in Microprocessing Systems,” Proceedings from the Canadian Design Engineering Network (CDEN) Conference, Winnipeg, Canada, 2007.
[73]    L. Woo, W. Kinsner, K. Ferens, J. Diamond, “Analysis of modulated fractal noise,” in Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) 2007, Vancouver, April 2007.
[74]    L. Woo, W. Kinsner, K. Ferens, J. Diamond, “Performance results and analysis of Zigbee in the presence of multifractal noise,” in Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Vancouver, April 2007.
[75]    J. Graumann and K. Ferens, “The effects of adaptive error correction on satellite optimized TCP,” in Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) 2007, Vancouver, April 2007.
[76]    L. Woo, W. Kinsner, K. Ferens, J. Diamond, “Modeling and Emulation of Multifractal Noise in Performance Evaluation of Mesh Networks,” in Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Ottawa, May 2006.
[77]    K. Ferens; “Computer animation for teaching micro-programmability of a basic micro-processor”; Conference presentation, Canadian Conference on Computer and Software Engineering Education, Sherbrooke, QB, Jun 22-23, 2006.
[78]    S. Voora, K. Ferens, A. Alfa, “QoS for Digital Video Broadcasting,” Proc. of 2005 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering.
[79]    S. Philopoulos and K. Ferens; “Proxy based connection splitting architecture for improving TCP performance over satellite channels”. Proceedings of the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2002, pp. 1430-1435.
[80]    C. Urmson and K. Ferens, “Video compression through fractal block coding,” in Proceeding of 1998 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Eng., (ISSN 0-840-7789, IEEE CAT 98TH8341), pp. 465 - 468, May. 1998.
[81]    K. Ferens and W. Kinsner, “A multifractal entropy measure of signals,” in Proceeding of Tenth International Conference on mathemat¬ical and Computer Modelling and Scientific Computing., July. 1995.
[82]    K. Ferens, W. Kinsner. "Adaptive wavelet subband coding for music compression," dcc, p. 460, Data Compression Conference (DCC '95), 1995.
[83]    K. Ferens and W. Kinsner, “Multifractal texture classifica¬tion of images,” Proc. IEEE WESCANEX ‘95, (Winnipeg, MB, Canada), IEEE CAT. NO. 95CH3581-6/0-7803-2741-1, pp 438-444, 1995.
[84]    K. Ferens and W. Kinsner, “A multifractal entropy measure for feature extraction of images,” in Proceeding of 1994 Canadian Confer¬ence on Electrical and Computer Eng., (ISSN 0-7803-2416-1, IEEE CAT 94TH8023), Appendix, Sep. 1994.
[85]    A. Langi, K. Ferens, W. Kinsner, T. Kect, and G. Sawatzky, “Intelligent storm identification system using a hierarchical neural net¬work,” in Proceeding of 1994 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Eng., (ISSN 0-7803-2416-1, IEEE CAT 94TH8023), pp. 501-504, Sep. 1994.
[86]    A. Keck, L. Legal, G. Sawatzky, D. Westmore, R. Vivanco, W. Kinsner, A. Langi and K. Ferens, “Automated recognition of severe summer weather features in radar data based on neural networks and expert systems,” in Proceeding of 1994 Conference on Decision Support System 2001., Toronto, pp., Sep. 1994.
[87]    K. Ferens, W. Lehn, and W. Kinsner, “Image compression using learned vector quantization,” Proc. IEEE WESCANEX ‘93, (SK, Canada), IEEE 93CH3317-5, pp 299-312, 1993.
[88]    L. Wall, K. Ferens, and W. Kinsner, “Real-time dynamic arithmetic coding for low bit rate channels,” Proc. IEEE WESCANEX ‘93, (SK, Canada), IEEE 93CH3317-5, pp. 381-391, 1993.
[89]    A. Langi, K. Ferens, and W. Kinsner, “A wavelet model of LPC excitation for speech signal compression,” J. Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing (special issue), (ISSN: 1067-0688), 1993.
[90]    K. Ferens, A. Langi, and W. Kinsner, “Energy and fre¬quency adaptive wavelet subband coding for wideband audio compres¬sion,” J. Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing (special issue), (ISSN: 1067-0688), 1993.
[91]    K. Ferens, C. Love, A. Indrayanto, A. Langi and W. Kin¬sner, “A neural network Hamming encoder and decoder,” IASTED Interna¬tional Conference on Computer, Electronics, Control, and Communication, Calgary,1991. RECEIVED BEST PAPER AWARD.
[92]    K. Ferens and W. Kinsner, “Word synthesis using fuzzy splicing,” Proc. IEEE WESCANEX ‘91, (SK, Canada), IEEE 91CH2927-2, pp 210-215, 1991.
[93]    C. Anderson, D. McNeill, K. Ferens, and W. Kinsner, “A speech processing system using ADPCM and xilinx,” Int. Conf. Engineer¬ing, Medicine, and Biology Society (EMBS), 1990.
[94]    K. Ferens and W. Kinsner, “A speech processing system for a speech splicer,” The Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Soci¬ety (CMBES), 1990.
[95]    C. Love, K. Ferens and W. Kinsner, “A speech recorder and synthesizer using ADPCM,” Int. Conf. Engineering, Medicine, and Biology Society (EMBS), IEEE cat. no. 89 CH2770-6, pp 659-660, 1989.