Particle Swarm Optimization: A Wrapper-Based Feature Selection Method for Ransomware Detection and Classification. - Muhammad Shabbir Abbasi; Harith Al-Sahaf; Ian Welch (EvoApplications, 2020)

Automated Behavior-based Malice Scoring of Ransomware Using Genetic Programming. - Muhammad Shabbir Abbasi; Harith Al-Sahaf; Ian Welch (SSCI, 2021)

Automatically evolving malice scoring models through utilisation of genetic programming: a cooperative coevolution approach. - Taran Cyriac John; Muhammad Shabbir Abbasi; Harith Al-Sahaf; Ian Welch (GECCO Companion, 2022)

Behavior-based ransomware classification: A particle swarm optimization wrapper-based approach for feature selection. - Muhammad Shabbir Abbasi; Harith Al-Sahaf; Masood Mansoori; Ian Welch (Appl. Soft Comput., 2022)

Evolving malice scoring models for ransomware detection: An automated approach by utilising genetic programming and cooperative coevolution. - Taran Cyriac John; Muhammad Shabbir Abbasi; Harith Al-Sahaf; Ian Welch; Julian Jang-Jaccard (Comput. Secur., 2023)