Wallace A. Pinheiro

Work place: Center for Systems Development, Brazilian Army, Brazil

E-mail: wallaceapinheiro@gmail.com

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Biography

Wallace A. Pinheiro graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1998 at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Master in Computer Systems in 2004 at the Military Engineering Institute (IME). Doctor in Systems and Computer Engineering in 2010 at UFRJ. From 2010 to 2014, He was a professor at the IME, working on the following themes: command and control, databases, data quality, and information retrieval. From 2014 to 2017, he worked at the Systems Development Center (CDS), an organization responsible for developing various systems used by the Brazilian Army. In 2018, he made a post-doctorate at UFRJ in Systems and Computer Engineering. From 2019 to 2022, he returned to work at the Systems Development Center (CDS), where he could apply his postdoctoral research. Currently, he is interested in data mining and artificial intelligence.

Author Articles
Framework for Incident Identification Based on LLMs and Cybersecurity Ontologies

By Wallace A. Pinheiro Ricardo Q. A. Fernandes

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2026.02.09, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2026

Accurate and immediate incident identification is essential in the cybersecurity area, as it allows the timely detection of threats, along with countermeasures and mitigation, ensuring security for organizations and individuals. This reduces false positives and enables efforts to be concentrated on real risks. This paper presents a framework that integrates ontologies and Large Language Models (LLMs) to identify incidents from events within the context of security threats. Ontology rules are employed to infer probable incidents, resulting in an initial set of incidents for analysis. Furthermore, ontologies provide contextual information, which is combined with event data to formulate queries for LLMs. These interactions with LLMs produce a second set of probable incidents. The outputs from ontol-ogy-based inferences and LLM-driven responses are then compared, and the discrepancies are leveraged to refine ontology rules and adjust LLM responses. Experimental results, focusing on context generation and incident detection, demonstrate that the integration of ontologies and LLMs significantly enhances the accuracy of incident identification when compared to using only LLMs.

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Sample of Groups: A New Strategy to Find a Representative Point for Each Undisclosed Cluster

By Wallace A. Pinheiro Ana B. S. Pinheiro

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2023.05.01, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2023

Some problems involving the selection of samples from undisclosed groups are relevant in various areas such as health, statistics, economics, and computer science. For instance, when selecting a sample from a population, well-known strategies include simple random and stratified random selection. Another related problem is selecting the initial points corresponding to samples for the K-means clustering algorithm. In this regard, many studies propose different strategies for choosing these samples. However, there is no consensus on the best or most effective ap-proaches, even when considering specific datasets or domains. In this work, we present a new strategy called the Sam-ple of Groups (SOG) Algorithm, which combines concepts from grid, density, and maximum distance clustering algo-rithms to identify representative points or samples located near the center of the cluster mass. To achieve this, we create boxes with the right size to partition the data and select the representatives of the most relevant boxes. Thus, the main goal of this work is to find quality samples or seeds of data that represent different clusters. To compare our approach with other algorithms, we not only utilize indirect measures related to K-means but also employ two direct measures that facili-tate a fairer comparison among these strategies. The results indicate that our proposal outperforms the most common-ly used algorithms.

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