Nested-C protocol: consensus protocol designed for NestedChain.

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Daniel Alejandro Maldonado-Ruiz César Tufiño Gabriel Vásconez Elian Caizapanta Eddy Castro Thelman Pabón Jenny Torres 0001 Nour El Madhoun Nested-C protocol: consensus protocol designed for NestedChain. 2026 April 149-173 81 Ann. des Télécommunications 3 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-025-01104-1 db/journals/adt/adt81.html#MaldonadoRuizTVCCPTM26 streams/journals/adt

Daniel Alejandro Maldonado-Ruiz Chan Yeong Hwang Elina Jankovskaja Karima Sadykova Messilva Mazari Jenny Torres 0001 Nour El Madhoun Implementation of Two-Signature Security on an Identity Storage Smart Contract. 81-94 2025 AINA (2) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87766-7_8 conf/aina/2025-2 db/conf/aina/aina2025-2.html#Maldonado-RuizH25 Djamel Mesbah Nour El Madhoun Khaldoun Al Agha Hani Chalouati Exploring NLP Techniques for Code Smell Detection: A Comparative Study. 93-104 2025 AINA (3) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87769-8_9 conf/aina/2025-3 db/conf/aina/aina2025-3.html#MesbahMAC25 Saad El Jaouhari Andrei Vavilov Julia Soloveva Alexandru Archip Nour El Madhoun MIDPS: A Multi-agent Host Intrusion Detection and Prevention System. 257-268 2025 AINA (4) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87772-8_22 conf/aina/2025-4 db/conf/aina/aina2025-4.html#JaouhariVSAM25 Djamel Mesbah Nour El Madhoun Khaldoun Al Agha Hani Chalouati Leveraging Prompt-Based Large Language Models for Code Smell Detection: A Comparative Study on the MLCQ Dataset. 444-454 2025 EIDWT https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-86149-9_42 conf/eidwt/2025 db/conf/eidwt/eidwt2025.html#MesbahMAC25 Hussein Kazem Youakim Badr Nour El Madhoun Pierrick Conord Digital Signature Quantification in the Bitcoin Blockchain: A Statistical Approach. 93-99 2025 NTMS https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS65597.2025.11076912 conf/ntms/2025 db/conf/ntms/ntms2025.html#KazemBMC25 streams/conf/ntms Nour El Madhoun Evolving Trust in Transactions: From Centralization to Decentralization. 125-129 2025 SOLI https://doi.org/10.1109/SOLI66289.2025.11396227 conf/soli/2025 db/conf/soli/soli2025.html#Madhoun25 Baoxiang Jiang Tristan Bilot Nour El Madhoun Khaldoun Al Agha Anis Zouaoui Shahrear Iqbal Xueyuan Han Thomas Pasquier ORTHRUS: Achieving High Quality of Attribution in Provenance-based Intrusion Detection Systems. 7173-7192 2025 USENIX Security Symposium https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity25/presentation/jiang-baoxiang conf/uss/2025 db/conf/uss/uss2025.html#JiangBMAZIHP25 Tristan Bilot Baoxiang Jiang Zefeng Li Nour El Madhoun Khaldoun Al Agha Anis Zouaoui Thomas Pasquier Sometimes Simpler is Better: A Comprehensive Analysis of State-of-the-Art Provenance-Based Intrusion Detection Systems. 7193-7212 2025 USENIX Security Symposium https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity25/presentation/bilot conf/uss/2025 db/conf/uss/uss2025.html#BilotJLMAZP25

Tristan Bilot Nour El Madhoun Khaldoun Al Agha Anis Zouaoui Few Edges Are Enough: Few-Shot Network Attack Detection with Graph Neural Networks. 2025 January abs/2501.16964 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.16964 db/journals/corr/corr2501.html#abs-2501-16964 streams/journals/corr

Daniel Alejandro Maldonado-Ruiz Alan Pulval-Dady Yulin Shi Zhe Wang Nour El Madhoun Jenny Torres 0001 NestedChain: "Blockchain-inside-a-Blockchain" new generation prototype. 881-899 2024 December 79 Ann. des Télécommunications 11-12 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-024-01030-8 db/journals/adt/adt79.html#MaldonadoRuizPSWMT24 streams/journals/adt

Tristan Bilot Nour El Madhoun Khaldoun Al Agha Anis Zouaoui A Survey on Malware Detection with Graph Representation Learning. 278:1-278:36 2024 November 56 ACM Comput. Surv. 11 https://doi.org/10.1145/3664649 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131115196 db/journals/csur/csur56.html#BilotMAZ24 streams/journals/csur

Nour El Madhoun Badis Hammi Saad El Jaouhari Djamel Mesbah Elsi Ahmadieh Addressing Security Challenges in Copyright Management Applications: The Blockchain Perspective. 169-182 2024 AINA (6) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57942-4_18 conf/aina/2024-6 db/conf/aina/aina2024-6.html#MadhounHJMA24 Badis Hammi Tristan Bilot Danyil Bazain Nicolas Binand Maxime Jaen Chems Mitta Nour El Madhoun An End-to-End Approach for the Detection of Phishing Attacks. 314-325 2024 AINA (4) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57916-5_27 conf/aina/2024-4 db/conf/aina/aina2024-4.html#HammiBBBJMM24 Elsi Ahmadieh Nour El Madhoun Comparative E-Voting Security Evaluation: Multi-Modal Authentication Approaches. 250-254 2024 BCCA https://doi.org/10.1109/BCCA62388.2024.10844450 conf/bcca/2024 db/conf/bcca/bcca2024.html#AhmadiehM24 Nour El Madhoun Badis Hammi Blockchain Technology in the Healthcare Sector: Overview and Security Analysis. 439-446 2024 CCWC https://doi.org/10.1109/CCWC60891.2024.10427731 conf/ccwc/2024 db/conf/ccwc/ccwc2024.html#MadhounH24 Ilham Laabab Abdellatif Ezzouhairi Nour El Madhoun Muhammad Haris Khan Blockchain and Biometric Systems Integration for IoMT Security. 259-262 2024 CSNet https://doi.org/10.1109/CSNet64211.2024.10851762 conf/csnet/2024 db/conf/csnet/csnet2024.html#LaababEMK24 streams/conf/csnet Tristan Bilot Nour El Madhoun Khaldoun Al Agha Anis Zouaoui Few Edges are Enough: Few-Shot Network Attack Detection with Graph Neural Networks. 257-276 2024 IWSEC https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-7737-2_15 conf/iwsec/2024 db/conf/iwsec/iwsec2024.html#BilotMAZ24 streams/conf/iwsec Djamel Mesbah Nour El Madhoun Khaldoun Al Agha Hani Chalouati Beyond the Code: Unraveling the Applicability of Graph Neural Networks in Smell Detection. 148-161 2024 NBiS https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72325-4_15 conf/nbis/2024 db/conf/nbis/nbis2024.html#MesbahMAC24 Hussein Kazem Nour El Madhoun Samia Bouzefrane 0001 Pierrick Conord Security Challenges and Countermeasures in Blockchain's Peer-to-Peer Architecture. 111-127 2024 WISTP https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60391-4_8 conf/wistp/2024 db/conf/wistp/wistp2024.html#KazemMBC24

Tristan Bilot Nour El Madhoun Khaldoun Al Agha Anis Zouaoui Graph Neural Networks for Intrusion Detection: A Survey. 49114-49139 2023 11 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3275789 db/journals/access/access11.html#BilotMAZ23

Parvez Faruki Rati Bhan Vinesh Jain Sajal Bhatia Nour El Madhoun Rajendra Pamula A Survey and Evaluation of Android-Based Malware Evasion Techniques and Detection Frameworks. 374 2023 14 Inf. 7 https://doi.org/10.3390/info14070374 db/journals/information/information14.html#FarukiBJBMP23

Elsi Ahmadieh Nour El Madhoun Artwork NFTs for Online Trading and Transaction Cancellation. 235-239 2023 BCCA https://doi.org/10.1109/BCCA58897.2023.10338886 conf/bcca/2023 db/conf/bcca/bcca2023.html#AhmadiehM23 Elsi Ahmadieh Nour El Madhoun NFTs for Online Trading of Artworks. 1-2 2023 ICBC https://doi.org/10.1109/ICBC56567.2023.10174931 conf/icbc2/2023 db/conf/icbc2/icbc2023.html#AhmadiehM23 Kevin Daimi Abeer Alsadoon Cathryn Peoples Nour El Madhoun Emerging Trends in Cybersecurity Applications Springer International Publishing 2023 978-3-031-09639-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09640-2 db/books/collections/DAPM2023.html

Tristan Bilot Nour El Madhoun Khaldoun Al Agha Anis Zouaoui A Survey on Malware Detection with Graph Representation Learning. 2023 abs/2303.16004 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.16004 db/journals/corr/corr2303.html#abs-2303-16004

Daniel Alejandro Maldonado-Ruiz Jenny Torres 0001 Nour El Madhoun Mohamad Badra Current Trends in Blockchain Implementations on the Paradigm of Public Key Infrastructure: A Survey. 17641-17655 2022 10 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3145156 db/journals/access/access10.html#Maldonado-RuizT22

Ali Benabdallah Antoine Audras Louis Coudert Nour El Madhoun Mohamad Badra Analysis of Blockchain Solutions for E-Voting: A Systematic Literature Review. 70746-70759 2022 10 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3187688 db/journals/access/access10.html#BenabdallahACMB22

Nour El Madhoun Emmanuel Bertin Mohamad Badra Guy Pujolle New Security Protocols for Offline Point-of-Sale Machines. 446-467 2022 AINA (2) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99587-4_38 conf/aina/2022-2 db/conf/aina/aina2022-2.html#MadhounBBP22 Samir Chabbi Nour El Madhoun Lazhar Khamer Security of NFC Banking Transactions: Overview on Attacks and Solutions. 1-5 2022 CSNet https://doi.org/10.1109/CSNet56116.2022.9955600 conf/csnet/2022 db/conf/csnet/csnet2022.html#ChabbiMK22 Samir Chabbi Nour El Madhoun A New Security Solution Enhancing the Dynamic Array PIN Protocol. 991-996 2022 IWCMC https://doi.org/10.1109/IWCMC55113.2022.9825252 conf/iwcmc/2022 db/conf/iwcmc/iwcmc2022.html#ChabbiM22

Nour El Madhoun Julien Hatin Emmanuel Bertin A decision tree for building IT applications. 131-144 2021 76 Ann. des Télécommunications 3-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-020-00814-y db/journals/adt/adt76.html#MadhounHB21

Nour El Madhoun Emmanuel Bertin Mohamad Badra Guy Pujolle Towards more secure EMV purchase transactions. 203-222 2021 76 Ann. des Télécommunications 3-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-020-00784-1 db/journals/adt/adt76.html#MadhounBBP21

Darine Al-Mohtar Amani Ramzi Daou Nour El Madhoun Rachad Maallawi A secure blockchain-based architecture for the COVID-19 data network. 1-5 2021 CSNet https://doi.org/10.1109/CSNet52717.2021.9614272 conf/csnet/2021 db/conf/csnet/csnet2021.html#Al-MohtarDMM21 Daniel Alejandro Maldonado-Ruiz Jenny Torres 0001 Nour El Madhoun Mohamad Badra An Innovative and Decentralized Identity Framework Based on Blockchain Technology. 1-8 2021 NTMS https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS49979.2021.9432656 conf/ntms/2021 db/conf/ntms/ntms2021.html#Maldonado-Ruiz021 Daniel Alejandro Maldonado-Ruiz Jenny Torres 0001 Nour El Madhoun 3BI-ECC: a Decentralized Identity Framework Based on Blockchain Technology and Elliptic Curve Cryptography. 45-46 2020 BRAINS https://doi.org/10.1109/BRAINS49436.2020.9223300 conf/brains/2020 db/conf/brains/brains2020.html#Maldonado-RuizT20 Daniel Alejandro Maldonado-Ruiz Mohamad Badra Nour El Madhoun Jenny Torres 0001 Secure and Internet-Less Connectivity to a Blockchain Network for Limited Connectivity Bank Users. 15-30 2020 MSPN https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67550-9_2 conf/mspn/2020 db/conf/mspn/mspn2020.html#Maldonado-RuizB20 Julien Hatin Emmanuel Bertin Baptiste Hemery Nour El Madhoun Welcome to the Jungle: A Reference Model for Blockchain, DLT and Smart-Contracts (Short Paper). 13:1-13:5 2020 Tokenomics https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.Tokenomics.2020.13 conf/tokenomics/2020 db/conf/tokenomics/tokenomics2020.html#HatinBHM20 Nour El Madhoun Julien Hatin Emmanuel Bertin Going Beyond the Blockchain Hype: In Which Cases are Blockchains Useful for IT Applications? 21-27 2019 CSNet https://doi.org/10.1109/CSNet47905.2019.9108966 conf/csnet/2019 db/conf/csnet/csnet2019.html#MadhounHB19 Nour El Madhoun Emmanuel Bertin Guy Pujolle The EMV Payment System: Is It Reliable? 80-85 2019 CSNet https://doi.org/10.1109/CSNet47905.2019.9108846 conf/csnet/2019 db/conf/csnet/csnet2019.html#MadhounBP19 Nour El Madhoun Emmanuel Bertin Guy Pujolle For Small Merchants: A Secure Smartphone-Based Architecture to Process and Accept NFC Payments. 403-411 2018 TrustCom/BigDataSE https://doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2018.00067 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2018.00067 conf/trustcom/2018 db/conf/trustcom/trustcom2018.html#MadhounBP18 Nour El Madhoun Emmanuel Bertin Magic always comes with a price: Utility versus security for bank cards. 1-7 2017 CSNet https://doi.org/10.1109/CSNET.2017.8241995 conf/csnet/2017 db/conf/csnet/csnet2017.html#MadhounB17 Nour El Madhoun Guy Pujolle Security Enhancements in EMV Protocol for NFC Mobile Payment. 1889-1895 2016 Trustcom/BigDataSE/ISPA https://doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom.2016.0289 conf/trustcom/2016 db/conf/trustcom/trustcom2016.html#MadhounP16 Nour El Madhoun Fouad Amine Guenane Guy Pujolle A cloud-based secure authentication protocol for contactless-NFC payment. 328-330 2015 CloudNet https://doi.org/10.1109/CloudNet.2015.7335332 conf/cloudnet/2015 db/conf/cloudnet/cloudnet2015.html#MadhounGP15 Nour El Madhoun Fouad Amine Guenane An innovative cloud-based RFID traceability architecture and service. 1-5 2014 NOF https://doi.org/10.1109/NOF.2014.7119772 conf/nof/2014 db/conf/nof/nof2014.html#MadhounG14 Khaldoun Al Agha Elsi Ahmadieh Darine Al-Mohtar Abeer Alsadoon Alexandru Archip Antoine Audras Youakim Badr Mohamad Badra Danyil Bazain Ali Benabdallah Emmanuel Bertin Rati Bhan Sajal Bhatia Tristan Bilot Nicolas Binand Samia Bouzefrane 0001 Elian Caizapanta Eddy Castro Samir Chabbi Hani Chalouati Pierrick Conord Louis Coudert Kevin Daimi Amani Ramzi Daou Abdellatif Ezzouhairi Parvez Faruki Fouad Amine Guenane Badis Hammi Xueyuan Han Julien Hatin Baptiste Hemery Chan Yeong Hwang Shahrear Iqbal Maxime Jaen Vinesh Jain Elina Jankovskaja Saad El Jaouhari Baoxiang Jiang Hussein Kazem Lazhar Khamer Muhammad Haris Khan Ilham Laabab Zefeng Li Rachad Maallawi Daniel Alejandro Maldonado-Ruiz Messilva Mazari Djamel Mesbah Chems Mitta Thelman Pabón Rajendra Pamula Thomas Pasquier Cathryn Peoples Guy Pujolle Alan Pulval-Dady Karima Sadykova Yulin Shi Julia Soloveva Jenny Torres 0001 César Tufiño Gabriel Vásconez Andrei Vavilov Zhe Wang Anis Zouaoui