Publications

Book

1. Miguel A. Labrador, Alfredo J. Perez, and Pedro M. Wightman, “Location-Based Information Systems – Developing Real-Time Tracking Applications”. Book published by Taylor and Francis, Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer and Information Science Series, October 2010.

Book Chapters

1. Gabriel Bello, Alfredo J. Perez. On the Application of Financial Security Standards in Blockchain Platforms. In: Choo KK., Dehghantanha A., Parizi R. (eds) Blockchain Cybersecurity, Trust and Privacy. Advances in Information Security, vol 79. Springer, 2020.

Patents

1. US Patent 9,130,995. Sean J. Barbeau, Philip Winters, Rafael Perez, Miguel Labrador, Nevine Georggi, Alfredo J. Perez. "System and method for rendering a distributed location-aware system", Issued September 8, 2015.                                                                                               

2. US Patent 8,924,536. Sean J. Barbeau, Philip Winters, Rafael Perez, Miguel Labrador, Nevine Georggi, Alfredo J. Perez, “Geotella – A Distributed and Decentralized Location-Aware Architecture”, Issued December 30, 2014.                                                                                               

3. US Patent 8,725,831. Sean J. Barbeau, Philip Winters, Rafael Perez, Miguel Labrador, Nevine Georggi, Alfredo J. Perez, “Architecture and Two-Layered Protocol for Real-time Location-Aware Applications”.  Issued May 13, 2014.

Guest Editorship

1. Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Juan A. Gómez-Pulido & Alfredo J. Perez (Eds.): Intelligent Health Services Based on Biomedical Smart Sensors . Applied Sciences, 2019.  Recognized by MDPI as a Highly-cited Special Issue  [Issue]

Refereed Journal Papers 

1. Alfredo J. Perez, Sherali Zeadally, and David Kingsley Tan. "Detecting Mobile Malware Associated With Global Pandemics." IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 22, No. 4, 2023.

2. Alfredo J. Perez, Farham Siddiqui, Sherali Zeadally, Derek Lane,  "A Review of IoT Systems to Enable Independence for the Elderly and Disabled Individuals", Internet of Things (Elsevier), Vol. 21, April 2023,  100653 , 2023.

3. Badis Hammi, Sherali Zeadally, Alfredo J. Perez, "Non-Fungible Tokens: A Review", IEEE Internet of Things Magazine Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2023, 2023.

4. Frederick Stock, Yesem Kurt Peker, Alfredo J. Perez,  Jarel Hearst, "Physical Visitor Access Control and Authentication Using Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Internet of Things",  Cryptography, Vol. 6, No. 4, 65, 2022.

5. Alfredo J. Perez, Sherali Zeadally ,  "Secure and Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing using Smart Contracts: Issues and Solutions", Computer Science Review,  Vol.23,  No, 43, 100450, 2022 .

6. Yeṣem Kurt Peker, Gabriel Bello and Alfredo J. Perez, On the Security of Bluetooth Low Energy in Two Consumer Wearable Heart Rate Monitors/Sensing Devices, Sensors,  Vol 23, No. 3, 988, 2022.

7. Anastasia Angelopoulou, Rania Hodhod, Alfredo J. Perez,  "Factors affecting student educational choices regarding OER material in Computer Science",   Journal of Computers in Education,  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40692-022-00219-x  ,  Jan. 2022.  ShareLink: https://rdcu.be/cE50k 

8. Alfredo J. Perez, Sherali Zeadally ,  "Recent Advances in Wearable Sensing Technologies", Sensors, Vol. 21, No. 20, 6828, 2021.

9. Alfredo J. Perez, Sherali Zeadally ,  Scott Griffith, Luis Y. Matos Garcia, Jaouad Mouloud,  "A User Study of a Wearable System to Enhance Bystanders’ Facial Privacy ", IoT (MDPI), Vol 1. No 2, 198-217,  2020. 

10. Yesem Kurt-Peker, Xavier Rodriguez, James Ericsson, Sukjin Lee, Alfredo J. Perez. "A Cost Analysis of Internet of Things Sensor Data Storage on Blockchain via Smart Contracts". Electronics, Vol. 9, No. 2, 244, 2020.                                                                                                                                                        

11. Alfredo J. Perez, and Sherali Zeadally , "A Communication Architecture for Crowd Management in Emergency and Disruptive Scenarios", IEEE Communications, vol. 57 No. 4, pp. 54-60, 2019.                                                                                                                                                   

12. Alfredo J. Perez, Sherali Zeadally , Luis Y. Matos Garcia, Jaouad Mouloud, Scott Griffith,  "FacePET: Enhancing Bystanders’ Facial Privacy with Smart  Wearables/Internet of Things",  Electronics,  Vol. 7, no. 12,  379, 2018. 

13. Alfredo J. Perez, Sherali Zeadally , Jonathan Cochran, "A review and an empirical analysis of privacy policy and notices for consumer Internet of Things (IoT)", Wiley Security and Privacy, Vol. 1, no. 3, e15, 2018. 

14. Alfredo J. Perez and Sherali Zeadally, " Privacy Issues and Solutions for Consumer Wearables", IEEE IT Professional. Vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 46 - 56. 2018. Highlighted article by IEEE IT Professional for July/Aug 2018 issue.  Most Popular Paper, IEEE IT Professional Magazine, Fall 2019.   

15. Alfredo J. Perez, Sherali Zeadally and Nafaa Jabeur, "Security and Privacy in Ubiquitous Sensor Networks",  Journal of Information Processing Systems, Vol. 14, no. 2, 286-308, 2018.   Outstanding Survey Paper Award.   

16. Alfredo J. Perez and Sherali Zeadally, "Design and Evaluation of a Privacy Architecture for Crowdsensing Applications", ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review, Vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 7 - 18, 2018.  

17. Alfredo J. Perez, Sherali Zeadally, Scott Griffith, " Bystanders' Privacy ", IEEE IT Professional. Vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 61 - 65. May 2017.  Highlighted article by IEEE IT Professional for May/June 2017 issue.; Republished in IEEE ComputingEdge Special Issue on Wireless and Wearables (Sept. 2017), pp. 39 - 43, 2017.  This article was also shared on the official social networking sites of the IEEE Computer Society in Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.                                                                                                                                                                                               

18. Oscar Lara, Alfredo J. Perez, Miguel A. Labrador, Jose Posada, “Centinela: A Human Activity Recognition System Based on Acceleration and Vital Sign Data”, Elsevier Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing. Vol.  8, no.5, pp. 717-729. October 2012.  

19. Sean J. Barbeau, Rafael A. Perez , Miguel A. Labrador, Alfredo J. Perez, Nevine L. Georggi, and Philip L. Winters “LAISYC – A Location-Aware Framework to Support Intelligent Real-time Applications for GPS-Enabled Mobile Phones”, IEEE Pervasive Computing,  Vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 58-67, July-September 2011.                                                                                                                                                                                              

20. Alfredo J. Perez, Miguel A. Labrador, and Sean J. Barbeau, “G-Sense: A Scalable Architecture for Global Sensing and Monitoring “, IEEE Network, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 57-64, July 2010.                      

21. Elias Niño, Carlos Ardila, Alfredo J. Perez, and Yezid Donoso, “A Genetic Algorithm for Multiobjective Hard Scheduling Optimization”, International Journal on Computers, Communications and Control, May 2010.   

22. David P. Aguilar, Sean J. Barbeau, Miguel A. Labrador, Alfredo J. Perez, Rafael A. Perez, and Philip L. Winters, “Quantifying the Position Accuracy of Real-time Multi-Modal Transportation Behavior Data Collected using GPS-Enabled Mobile Phones”, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board No. 1992, pp. 54-60, October 2007.  

23. Yezid Donoso, Carolina Alvarado, Alfredo J. Perez, and Ivan Herazo, “An Approach to the Optimization of Convergent Networks on IP/MPLS with an Optical GMPLS Backbone in Multicast”, WSEAS Transactions on Communications, Vol 5, No. 6, June 2006.    

24. Yezid Donoso, Alfredo J. Perez, Carlos Ardila, and Ramon Fabregat, “Optimizing Multiple Objectives on Multicast Networks using Memetic Algorithms”, International Transactions on Computer Science and Engineering, Vol. 20, No 1, October 2005.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

1. Mustafa Al Lail,  Antonio Rosales Viesca, Hector Cardenas , Mohammad Zarour,  Alfredo J. Perez, "TPV: A Tool for Validating Temporal Properties in UML Class Diagrams", Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024), Lisbon, Portugal, April 2024.

2. Seth Johnson,  Ray Donner, Alfredo J. Perez, "Comparing Classifiers: A Look at Machine-Learning and the Detection of Mobile Malware in COVID-19 Android Mobile Applications",  Proceedings of 2023 ACM 24th International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing  (MobiHoc '23), Washington D.C., October 2023.

3. Mustafa Al Lail, Antonio Rosales, Hector Cardenas, Lars Hamann and Alfredo Perez, "Transformation of TOCL Temporal Properties into OCL", Proceedings of 21st International Workshop on OCL and Textual Modeling , Montreal, Canada, October 2022.

4. Hector Cardenas, Ryan Zimmerman, Antonio Rosales Viesca, Mustafa Al Lail, and Alfredo J. Perez, "Formal UML-based Modeling and Analysis for Securing Location-based IoT Applications",  Proceedings of 2022 IEEE MASS Workshops, Denver, CO, USA, October 2022.

5. Vincent Miller, Jesus R. Rijo Candelario, Lydia Ray, and Alfredo J. Perez. "Assessing Purpose-Extraction for Automated Corpora Annotations",  Proceedings of 2022 IEEE 19th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), pp. 718-719. IEEE, 2022.

6. Elijah Neundorfer, Alfredo J. Perez, "ClearCommPrivacy: communicating app privacy behavior in Android",  Proceedings of 2022 ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE'22), Mobile, AL, USA, 2022 . 

7. Brandon Corn, Alfredo J. Perez, Ashley Ruiz, Cagri Cetin and Jay Ligatti, "An Evaluation of the Power Consumption of Coauthentication as a Continuous User Authentication Method in Mobile Systems", Proceedings of 2020 ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE'20), Tampa, FL, USA, 2020.                                                                                                                                                            

8. Vabrice T. Wilder, Yujing Gao, Shuangbao Wang, Alfredo J. Perez, "Multi-Factor Stateful Authentication using NFC and Mobile Phones ", Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE SoutheastCon, Huntsville, AL, USA, 2019.                                                                                                                                                      

9. Gabriel Bello, Alfredo J. Perez "Adapting Financial Technology Standards to Blockchain Platforms",  Proceedings of the 2019 Annual ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE'19), Kennesaw, GA, USA, 2019.                                                                                                                                                         

10. Alfredo J. Perez, Hillary Fleenor, "What does it take to Teach K12 Computer Science?: Exploring Teachers' Attitudes Towards Teaching CS K12 in Georgia", Proceedings of the 2019 ACMSIGCSE Conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2019.   

11. Ramon P. Medina, Elijah Neundorfer, Radhouane Chouchane, Alfredo J. Perez, "PRAST: Using Logic Bombs to Exploit the Android Permission Model and a Module Based Solution", Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Malware Conference (IEEE MALWARE), Nantucket, USA, 2018.                                                                                                                                                                 

12. Alfredo J. Perez, Kevin Arroyo-Rivera, Miguel A. Labrador, Idalides Vergara-Laurens, “HR-Auth: Heart Rate Data Authentication using Consumer Wearables”, Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft@ICSE). Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2018.                                                                                                                                                                                              

13. Alfredo J. Perez, “M-SPOT: A Hybrid Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for Node Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, Krakow, Poland, 2018.                                                                                                                                                                     

14. Sneha Gogineni, Lydia Ray, Alfredo J. Perez," Construction and Evaluation of an Easy-to-use Personal Stress Monitoring System with GSR Sensor", Proceedings of  2017 ACM MidSE Conference.                                                                                                                                                                                               

15. Alfredo J. Perez, Sherali Zeadally, "PEAR: A Privacy-Enabled Architecture for Crowdsensing ", Proceedings of ACM RACS 2017. Poland, September 2017.                                                                                                                                                                                   

16. Alfredo J. Perez, Sherali Zeadally, Nafaa Jabeur, " Investigating Security for Ubiquitous Sensor Networks ",  Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2017), Elsevier Procedia Computer Science, Volume 109, Madeira, Portugal, May 2017.                                                                                                                                                                                              

17. Jorge Crichigno, Ivan Lopez, Raul Peralta, Alfredo J Perez. "From Conception to Accreditation: The Path of an Engineering Technology Program". Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference of American Society for Engineering Education, Seattle, WA, June 2015. 

18. Alfredo J. Perez, Ivan Lopez, Jorge Crichigno, Raul Peralta, David Torres. “Enhancing Computational Thinking Skills for New Mexico Schools". Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference of American Society for Engineering Education, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 2014.              

19. Jorge Crichigno, Ivan Lopez, Alfredo J. Perez. “A Learning-by-Doing Technology Program Based on Traditional Engineering Foundations and Hands-on Implementation. Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference of American Society for Engineering Education, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 2014.                                                                                                                                                                                              

20. Ivan Lopez, Jorge Crichigno, Alfredo J. Perez. “A Successful Partnership between Industry and Academia: Improving Curriculum, Research, and Outreach by Collaboration with Industry”.  Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference of American Society for Engineering Education, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 2014.                                                                                                                                                                                              

21. Jose Marcio Luna, Greg Heileman, Tim Schroeder, Chaouki Abdallah, Jorge Crichigno, Alfredo J. Perez, Ivan Lopez, “Online Student Support Services for STEM Courses in New Mexico: A Cross-Institutional Approach”. Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference of American Society for Engineering Education, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 2014.                                                                                                                                                                    

22. Jorge Crichigno, Ivan Lopez, Alfredo J. Perez, Greg Heileman, Ramiro Jordan, "Cross-institutional Collaboration on Hybrid Engineering Courses among Institutions in New Mexico". Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference of American Society for Engineering Education, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2013. 

23. Diego Mendez-Chavez, Alfredo J. Perez, Miguel A. Labrador, and Juan Marron, “P-Sense: A Participatory Sensing System for Air Pollution Monitoring and Control”, Proceedings of the IEEE PerCom WIP 2011 Conference, April 2011. 

24. Alfredo J. Perez, Miguel A. Labrador, and Pedro Wightman, “A Multiobjective Approach to the Relay Placement Problem in WSNs”, Proceedings of the IEEE WCNC 2011 Conference, March 2011. 

25. Sean J. Barbeau, Miguel A. Labrador, Alfredo J. Perez, Philip Winters, Nevine Georggi, David Aguilar, and Rafael Perez, “Dynamic Management of Real-Time Location Data on GPS-enabled Mobile Phones,” UBICOMM 2008 – The Second International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services, and Technologies, Valencia, Spain, September 29 – October 4, 2008.                                             

26. Yezid Donoso, Carolina Alvarado, Alfredo J. Perez, and Ivan Herazo,“A Multi-objective Solution Applying MOEA in Optical Networks”, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM 2007), Hawaii, USA, April 2007.                                                                                                                                                                      

27. Yezid Donoso, Carolina Alvarado, Alfredo J. Perez, Ivan Herazo, “Multiobjective optimization for multicast transmissions on IP/MPLS networks with an optical GMPLS backbone”, Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS International Conference on Telecommunications and Informatics, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2006.