Enhancing IoT cybersecurity through lean-based hybrid feature selection and ensemble learning: A visual analytics approach to intrusion detection

Islam Zada; Esraa Omran; Salman Jan; Hessa Alfraihi; Seetah Alsalamah; Abdullah Alshahrani; Shaukat Hayat; Nguyen Phi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0328050

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Enhancing IoT cybersecurity through lean-based hybrid feature selection and ensemble learning: A visual analytics approach to intrusion detection

Islam Zada ,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: nguyenp@dntu.edu.vn (NP); islam.zada@iiu.edu.pk (IZ)

Affiliation Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of computing, International Islamic University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6472-8795

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Esraa Omran,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Gulf University for Science and Technology and Member in GEAR Research Center, Mubarak Al-Abdullah, Kwait
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Salman Jan,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Faculty of Computer Studies, Arab Open University, A’Ali, Kingdom of Bahrain
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Hessa Alfraihi,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8169-3766

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Seetah Alsalamah,

Affiliation College of Computer Science and Information, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Abdullah Alshahrani,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Shaukat Hayat,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of computing, International Islamic University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Nguyen Phi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: nguyenp@dntu.edu.vn (NP); islam.zada@iiu.edu.pk (IZ)

Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, Dong Nai Technology University, Bien Hoa City, Vietnam
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Enhancing IoT cybersecurity through lean-based hybrid feature selection and ensemble learning: A visual analytics approach to intrusion detection

Islam Zada,
Esraa Omran,
Salman Jan,
Hessa Alfraihi,
Seetah Alsalamah,
Abdullah Alshahrani,
Shaukat Hayat,
Nguyen Phi

Published: July 21, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328050

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