NICIS Publications 2021 – 2025

2025

Publication 1Title: Managing risks and improving cyber resilience-assessing mobile application security using a reference model

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: Springer

Source: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Discipline: Information systems and technologies

Publication 2

Title: DFT-based evaluation of Li2MnO3 as a promising cathode coating material for lithium-ion batteries

Publication Type: Conference paper peer reviewed

Publisher: The South African Institute of Physics (SAIP)

Source: Proceedings of SAIP 2025, the 69th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 7-11 July 2025

Discipline: Energy industry

Publication 3

Title: DFT analysis of spin configurations and its impact on manganese oxide cathodes

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: N/A

Source: MATEC Web of Conferences

Discipline: Energy industry

Publication 4

Title: Investigating the structural stability and electronic properties of carbon doped silicon anode for lithium-ion batteries

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: N/A

Source: MATEC Web of Conferences

Discipline: Energy industry

Publication 5

Title: Privacy and legal implications regarding the processing of Honeypot Data

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Source: Communications in Computer and Information Science

Discipline: Information systems and technologies

Publication 6

Title: Proceedings of the 2025 29th International Conference Information Visualisation

Publication Type: Editorial collective works

Publisher: New Jersey: IEEE

Source: Proceedings of the 2025 29th International Conference Information Visualisation, Darmstadt, Germany, 5-8 August 2025

Discipline: Information systems and technologies

Publication 7

Title: A cost-effective honeypot deception technology for the detection and monitoring of emerging cyberthreats in public networks

Publication Type: Technology demonstrator

Publisher: N/A

Source: N/A

Discipline: N/A

Publication 8

Title: Discovering HPC Resources in Africa: Empowering Collaborative Research Opportunities

Publication Type: Conference paper peer reviewed

Publisher: N/A

Source: PEARC ’25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2025, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 20-26 July 2025

Discipline: Information systems and technologies

Publication 9

Title: Sticking (with) the Landing – A modern case for Knights Landing in resource-constrained environments

Publication Type: Conference paper peer reviewed

Publisher: New York: Association for Computing Machinery

Source: Proceedings of PEARC ’25: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 20-24 July 2025

Discipline: Computer programming

Publication 10

Title: From student SIG to success: The journey of a student HPC special interest group towards sustainable training and success in student cluster competitions

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: N/A

Source: Journal of Computational Science Education

Discipline: Computer programming

Publication 11

Title: Communication

Publication Type: Chapter in book

Publisher: Pretoria: DPME (Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation), GTAC (Governing Technical Advisory Centre) & NRF (National Research Foundation

Source: South Africa Covid-19 Country Report. 2nd Edition

Discipline: Health systems research

Publication 12

Title: ZAGRAF : bis({[2-(dihexylamino)-2-oxoethyl](methyl)amino}acetato)-copper dihydrate

Publication Type: Data

Publisher: CCDC: The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre

Source: The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC): DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc2ncpzq

Discipline: N/A

Publication 13

Title: Synthesis, comprehensive characterization, crystallographic and density functional theory (DFT) studies of tridentate amic acid compounds

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: Elsevier

Source: Journal of Molecular Structure

Discipline: Chemistry

Publication 14

Title: Understanding the risk: Mapping deepfake cyberattacks to a temporal attack model

Publication Type: Conference paper peer reviewed

Publisher: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

Source: Foundational Digital Capabilities Research (FDCR) 2025 Conference, Coastlands Umhlanga Hotel and Convention Centre, Umhlanga, South Africa, 15-18 July 2025

Discipline: Information systems and technologies

2024

Publication 1

Title: Friend or Foe – The impact of ChatGPT on capture the flag competitions

Publication Type: Conference paper peer reviewed

Publisher: N/A

Source: Proceedings of The 19th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (ICCWS), University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 26-27 March 2024

Discipline: Information systems and technologies

Publication 2

Title: Using digital forensics for Android smartphone devices to aid criminal investigations

Publication Type: Conference paper peer reviewed

Publisher: Academic Conferences International Limited

Source: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 26-27 March 2024

Discipline: Information systems and technologies

Publication 3

Title: Utilisation of a virtual honeynet to proactively secure the South African National Research and Education Network against cyberattacks

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: Springer, CHAM

Source: Communications in Computer and Information Science

Discipline: Information systems and technologies

Publication 4

Title: Hierarchy of coupled ocean-ice-biogeochemistry numerical model simulations of the Southern Ocean

Publication Type: Technology demonstrator

Publisher: N/A

Source: N/A

Discipline: N/A

Publication 5

Title: Graph & network visualization and beyond

Publication Type: Editorial collective works

Publisher: Sage

Source: Information Visualization

Discipline: Information systems and technologies

Publication 6

Title: Materials modelling in the University of Limpopo

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: The Royal Society Publishing

Source: Interface Focus

Discipline: Physics

Publication 7

Title: Common Integrated Government Services Platform, Smart applications and associated local cloud platforms for improved service delivery

Publication Type: Technical report

Publisher: N/A

Source: N/A

Discipline: N/A

Publication 8

Title: Interaction Design’s Role in Safeguarding Against Digital Deception

Publication Type: Conference paper peer reviewed

Publisher: N/A

Source: IndiaHCI 2024 – The 15th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, 7-9 November 2024

Discipline: Information systems and technologies

Publication 9

Title: The use of amino acids in gold leaching; the FTIR and DFT approach

Publication Type: Conference paper peer reviewed

Publisher: N/A

Source: XXXI IMPC International Mineral Processing Congress, Washington DC, 29 September – 3 October 2024

Discipline: Mining engineering

Publication 10

Title: Exploring compatibility and accuracy of functionals on structural and electronic properties of manganese oxide cathode materials: A dft and dft+u study

Publication Type: Conference paper peer reviewed

Publisher: The South African Institute of Physics (SAIP)

Source: Proceedings of the 68th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1-5 July 2024

Discipline: Energy industry

Publication 11

Title: 28th International Conference Information Visualisation IV 2024

Publication Type: Editorial collective works

Publisher: IEEE

Source: 28th International Conference Information Visualisation IV, 22-26 July,  Coimbra, Portugal ,  2024

Discipline: N/A

Publication 12

Title: SANReN’s 100 Gbps Data Transfer Service: Transferring data fast!

Publication Type: Conference paper peer reviewed

Publisher: IEEE

Source: SC24-W: Workshops of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Atlanta, Georgia, 17-22 November 2024

Discipline: N/A

Publication 13

Title: AmLight – Maximizing technological advancements in Research and Education; network connectivity for Open Science between South Africa, the US, and South America

Publication Type: Conference paper peer reviewed

Publisher: N/A

Source: UbuntuNet-Connect2024, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 31 October – 1 November 2024

Discipline: N/A

Publication 14

Title: Second Life: Enabling a Student Special Interest Group through_x000D_
Decommissioned HPC Systems

Publication Type: Conference paper peer reviewed

Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, United States

Source: PEARC ’24: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2024: Human Powered Computing, Providence, RI, USA, 21-25 July 2024

Discipline: N/A

Publication 15

Title: Ten years of the HPC Ecosystems Project: Transforming HPC in Africa for the past decade

Publication Type: Conference paper peer reviewed

Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, United States

Source: PEARC ’24: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2024: Human Powered Computing, Providence RI USA, 21-25 July 2024

Discipline: N/A

2023

Publication 1

Title: Mobile Application Security Assessement Platform (mSAP)

Publication Type: Conference paper peer reviewed

Publisher: IEEE

Source: THREAT2023: Cyberfuture, a unique and forward-looking cybersecurity conference, Stellenbosch, 19-24 November 2023

Discipline: Security systems

Publication 2

Title: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV 2023), Tampere, Finland, 25-28 July 2023

Publication Type: Editorial collective works

Publisher: IEEE|Curran Associates

Source: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV 2023), Tampere, Finland, 25-28 July 2023

Discipline: Information systems and technologies

Publication 3

Title: Electronic Warfare (EW) 101 E-Learning Tool

Publication Type: Technology demonstrator

Publisher: N/A

Source: N/A

2022

Publication 1

Title: A DFT study of two-dimensional CdS/TiS2 on isotropic chalcogenide AgSbTe2 thermoelectric material: Electronic charge transfer and optical properties

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: Elsevier

Source: Current Applied Physics

Discipline: Physics

Publication 2

Title: Computational study of the mechanistic pathway of hydroxyl radical-initiated degradation of disperse red 73 dye

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: Springer

Source: Chemistry Africa

Discipline: Chemical engineering

Publication 3

Title: A DFT study of the chemical reactivity properties, spectroscopy and bioactivity scores of bioactive flavonols

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: Elsevier

Source: Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Discipline: Chemistry

Publication 4

Title: Platinum(II) complexes bearing asymmetrically substituted pivaloylthioureas: Synthesis, crystal structures, DFT and antioxidant studies

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: Elsevier

Source: Polyhedron

Discipline: Chemistry

Publication 5

Title: Iron(III) and copper(II) complexes derived from the flavonoids morin and quercetin: Chelation, crystal structure and DFT studies

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: Elsevier

Source: Journal of Molecular Structure

Discipline: Molecular and cell biology

Publication 6

Title: A comparative review analysis of OpenFlow and P4 protocols based on software defined networks

Publication Type: Chapter in book

Publisher: Singapore: Springer

Source: Data Intelligence and Cognitive Informatics

Discipline: Information systems and technologies

Publication 7

Title: High speed and secured network connectivity for higher education institutions using software defined networks

Publication Type: Chapter in book not counted

Publisher: New York: John Wiley and Sons

Source: Data Analysis and Related Applications 1: Computational, Algorithmic and Applied Economic Data Analysis, Volume 9

Discipline: Information systems and technologies

Publication 8

Title: Physical properties of molten slags: thermodynamics, transport and other properties obtained using molecular dynamics, empirical correlations, databases and neural networks

Publication Type: Conference paper other

Publisher: N/A

Source: International Conference on Enhanced Use of Thermodynamic Data in Pyrometallurgy Teaching and Research, Mintek, Randburg 28-29 September 2022

Discipline: Mining engineering

Publication 9

Title: ZAGQUY : bis({[2-(di-n-octylamino)-2-oxoethyl](methyl)amino}acetato)-copper chloroform solvate

Publication Type: Data

Publisher: ​​The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC)

Source: The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC): DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc2c79b8

Discipline: N/A

Publication 10

Title: ZEJQEO : bis(N’-[2,2-dimethyl-1-(oxo)propyl]-N-ethyl-N-methylcarbamimidothioato)-platinum(ii)

Publication Type: Data

Publisher: ​​The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC).

Source: ​​The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC)

Discipline: N/A

Publication 11

Title: ZEJQIS : bis(N-[2,2-dimethyl-1-(oxo)propyl]-2-methylpyrrolidine-1-carboximidothioato)-platinum(ii)

Publication Type: Data

Publisher: ​The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC)

Source: The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC): DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc2c29tl

Discipline: N/A

Publication 12

Title: ZEJQOY : bis(N’-[2,2-dimethyl-1-(oxo)propyl]-N-methyl-N-phenylcarbamimidothioato)-platinum(ii)

Publication Type: Data

Publisher: ​​The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC)

Source: ​​The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC)

Discipline: N/A

2021

Publication 1

Title: Computational development and validation of a representative MDI-BDO–based polyurethane hard segment model

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: Springer

Source: Journal of Molecular Modeling

Discipline: Computer science

Publication 2

Title: Exploring the bioactivity of pentacyclic triterpenoids as potential antimycobacterial nutraceutics: Insights through comparative biomolecular modelling

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: Elsevier

Source: Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling

Discipline: Bioinformatics

Publication 3

Title: Sensitivity of tropical cyclone Idai simulations to cumulus parametrization schemes

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: MDPI

Source: Atmosphere

Discipline: Climate research

Publication 4

Title: Quantum mechanistic studies of the oxidation of ethylene by rhenium oxo complexes

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: HINDAWI LTD

Source: Journal of Chemistry

Discipline: Chemical engineering

Publication 5

Title: Model inter-comparison for short-range forecasts over the southern African domain

Publication Type: Article in accredited journal

Publisher: Academy of Science South Africa (ASSAF)

Source: South African Journal of Science

Discipline: Climate research

Publication 6

Title: Description of a network attack ontology presented formally

Publication Type: Chapter in book

Publisher: CHAM (The Capital Region of Denmark): Springer

Source: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security: Methods, Issues and Possible Horizons or Opportunities

Discipline: Other information and computer technologies

Publication 7

Title: A systems thinking approach to value-added services adoption in national research and education networks

Publication Type: Conference paper peer reviewed

Publisher: IEEE

Source: 2021 IEEE AFRICON, Arusha, Tanzania, 13-15 September 2021

Discipline: Other information and computer technologies

Publication 8

Title: The design and development of a GPU-accelerated radar simulator for space debris monitoring

Publication Type: Conference paper peer reviewed

Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery

Source: High Performance Computing and Cluster Technologies Conference, Qingdao, China, 02–04 July, 2021

Discipline: Mining engineering

Publication 9

Title: Electronic warfare mission support system

Publication Type: Technology demonstrator

Publisher: N/A

Source: N/A

Discipline: N/A