PUBLICATIONS

As the project implementation progresses, publications stemming from and acknowledging EMERALD will be available here.

Title:CertGraph: Towards a Comprehensive Knowledge Graph for Cloud Security Certifications
Author(s):Stefan Schöberl, Christian Banse, Verena Geist, Immanuel Kunz, Martin Pinzger
Proceeding:MODELS Companion ’24: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 27th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, pp.76-77 (2024)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3652620.3687795
Title:owl2proto: Enabling Semantic Processing in Modern Cloud Micro-Services
Author(s):Christian Banse, Angelika Schneider, Immanuel Kunz
Proceeding:KEOD 2024: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development, (2024)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.06562 (arXiv version)
https://doi.org/10.5220/0012993600003838
Title:Automatic association of quality requirements and quantifiable metrics for cloud security certification
Author(s):John Bianchi, Shuya Dong, Luca Petrillo and Marinella Petrocchi
Proceeding:AIABI 2024: 4th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Applications for Business and Industries (2024)
DOI:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09460 (arXiv version)
Title:Blockchain-Based Evidence Trustworthiness System in Certification
Author(s):Cristina Regueiro and Borja Urquizu
Journal:Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/jcp5010001
Title:EMERALD: Evidence Management for Continuous Certification as a Service in the Cloud
Author(s):Christian Banse, Björn Fanta, Juncal Alonso, Cristina Martinez
Proceeding:CLOSER 2025: 15th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (2025)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.07330 (arXiv version)
https://doi.org/10.5220/0013348100003950
Title:Efficient Software Security Evaluation: A Human-in-the-Loop Approach (Best Paper)
Author(s):Christian Banse, Immanuel Kunz, Alexander Küchler, Shala Leutrim, Konrad Weiss, Maximilian Kaul
Proceeding:ITEQS 2026: International Workshop on Testing and Evaluation of Quantum Software @ ICST 2026: IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation
DOI:in press
Title:Developing Security Metrics for Automated Compliance Checking
Author(s):Immanuel Kunz, Nico Haas, Angelika Schneider and Christian Banse
Proceeding:IFIP TC11 Information Security & Privacy Conference (IFIP-SEC 2026)
DOI:in press
Title:Automatic Association of Cloud Security Controls and Quantifiable Metrics for Certification
Author(s):John Bianchi, Luca Petrillo, Marinella Petrocchi
Proceeding:2nd Workshop on Whole-Lifecycle Security for Smart Systems Methods and Tools (LIFESEC 2026) @ 12th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp 2026)
DOI:in press
Title:Automated Compliance Mapping in Cloud Security with Domain-Adapted Sentence Transformers
Author(s):John Bianchi, Luca Petrillo, Fabio Martinelli, Marinella Petrocchi
Proceeding:30th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2026)
DOI:in press