Irwin Brown

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YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
Inf. Syst. Res.
Sundeep Sahay, Shirish C. Srivastava, Michael I. Barrett, Robert M. Davison, Shirin Madon, Daniel Schlagwein, Irwin Brown, Suprateek Sarker
2025 conf
AMCIS
Jurgen Geitner, Zainab Ruhwanya, Irwin Brown
2025 C conf
ICIS
Sarah Mulombo Mulaji, Irwin Brown
2024 conf
ICT4D (2)
Kopano Moeketsi, Irwin Brown
2024 conf
HICSS
Sarah Mulombo Mulaji, Irwin Brown, Sumarie Roodt
2023 J jnl
Inf. Comput. Secur.
Kiara Jordan Butler, Irwin Brown
2023 C conf
ICIS
Tejumade V. Ogundipe, Irwin Brown, Kevin A. Johnston
2023 conf
ECIS
Sharon Geeling, Irwin Brown
2022 J jnl
Eur. J. Inf. Syst.
Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, Irwin Brown, Peter Meso
2022 J jnl
Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst.
Sharon Geeling, Irwin Brown, Peter Weimann
2022 conf
ACIS
Grant Oosterwyk, Irwin Brown
2022 conf
HAISA
Karabo Pilane, Zainab Ruhwanya, Irwin Brown
2021 conf
ECIS
Khanyisa Malufu, Irwin Brown
2021 J jnl
Telematics Informatics
Zane Davids, Irwin Brown
2021 J jnl
J. Enterp. Inf. Manag.
Grant Solomon, Irwin Brown
2020 conf
I3E (2)
Idah Mohungoo, Irwin Brown, Salah Kabanda
2020 conf
ECIS
Sharon L. Geeling, Irwin Brown
2020 conf
I3E (2)
Mike Abia, Irwin Brown
2020 conf
ECIS
Sharon Geeling, Irwin Brown, Peter Weimann
2020 conf
SAICSIT
Phillip Mangiza, Irwin Brown
2019 conf
ICICIS
Grant Oosterwyk, Irwin Brown, Sharon Geeling
2019 conf
ICICIS
Luqman Achmat, Irwin Brown
2019 conf
CENTERIS/ProjMAN/HCist
Jenifer Pedro, Irwin Brown, Mike Hart
2019 conf
ACIS
Joshua Katebe Mwenya, Irwin Brown
2019 conf
SAICSIT
Nancy Brown, Irwin Brown
2019 C conf
ICIS
Sharon Geeling, Irwin Brown, Peter Weimann
2018 conf
ECIS
Millicent Agangiba, Salah Kabanda, Irwin Brown
2018 conf
HICSS
Kasky Bisimwa Bacishoga, Irwin Brown, Kevin Allan Johnston
2018 conf
ISSA (Revised Selected Papers)
Amaanullah Parker, Irwin Brown
2018 J jnl
Int. J. Medical Informatics
Boroto Hwabamungu, Irwin Brown, Quentin Williams
2018 conf
UKAIS
Chidi G. Ononiwu, Irwin Brown, Sven Carlsson
2017 J jnl
Telematics Informatics
Salah Kabanda, Irwin Brown
2017 conf
SAICSIT
Joshua Katebe Mwenya, Irwin Brown
2017 conf
ICWL
Dimson Kalelo-Phiri, Irwin Brown
2017 J jnl
Inf. Technol. Dev.
Salah Kabanda, Irwin Brown
2017 C conf
ICIS
Sharon Geeling, Irwin Brown, Peter Weimann
2016 conf
SAICSIT
Tiaan de Jager, Irwin Brown
2016 conf
CONF-IRM
Sharon Geeling, Irwin Brown, Peter Weimann
2016 conf
CONF-IRM
Takunda Mujuru, Irwin Brown
2015 conf
SAICSIT
Rene Albertus, Ojelanki K. Ngwenyama, Irwin Brown
2015 J jnl
Inf. Technol. Dev.
Boniface J. Mwangi, Irwin Brown
2015 conf
SAICSIT
Mike Abia, Irwin Brown
2015 conf
SAICSIT
Iman Malaka, Irwin Brown
2015 J jnl
Electron. J. Inf. Syst. Dev. Ctries.
Salah Kabanda, Irwin Brown
2015 J jnl
Inf. Technol. Dev.
Felix Olu Bankole, Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, Irwin Brown
2015 J jnl
Inf. Technol. Dev.
Felix Olu Bankole, Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, Irwin Brown
2014 conf
ECIS
Salehu Anteneh, Irwin Brown, Aysegül Toker, Gamel O. Wiredu
2014 J jnl
Electron. J. Inf. Syst. Dev. Ctries.
Ricardo Harry, Kosheek Sewchurran, Irwin Brown
2013 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Prof. Commun.
Peter Weimann, Michael Pollock, Elsje Scott, Irwin Brown
2013 J jnl
Eur. J. Inf. Syst.
Rangarirai Matavire, Irwin Brown
2013 J jnl
Electron. J. Inf. Syst. Dev. Ctries.
Flora Mpazanje, Kosheek Sewchurran, Irwin Brown
2013 conf
ECIS
Chidi G. Ononiwu, Irwin Brown
2012 conf
AMCIS
Felix Olu Bankole, Omolola Ola Bankole, Irwin Brown, Eric Cloete
2012 J jnl
Eur. J. Inf. Syst.
Kennedy Njenga, Irwin Brown
2011 conf
SAICSIT
Chris Petzer, Carolyn McGibbon, Irwin Brown
2011 conf
SAICSIT
Nancy Brown, Irwin Brown
2011 conf
SAICSIT
Andrew Twine, Irwin Brown
2011 J jnl
Electron. J. Inf. Syst. Dev. Ctries.
Felix Olu Bankole, Farid Shirazi, Irwin Brown
2011 J jnl
Electron. J. Inf. Syst. Dev. Ctries.
Felix Olu Bankole, Omolola Ola Bankole, Irwin Brown
2011 ed.
SAICSIT
Irwin Brown, Kosheek Sewchurran, Hussein Suleman
2011 conf
SAICSIT
Eureka Sewchurran, Irwin Brown
2011 conf
Researching the Future in Information Systems
Kosheek Sewchurran, Irwin Brown
2010 conf
ECIS
Salah Kabanda, Irwin Brown
2010 conf
AMCIS
Irwin Brown, Paul Licker, Kudzai Kashora
2010 conf
ECIS
Irwin Brown
2010 conf
EGES/GISP
Kennedy Njenga, Irwin Brown
2010 conf
SAICSIT
David Denton, Irwin Brown
2009 conf
ISSA
Kennedy Njenga, Irwin Brown
2009 J jnl
Br. J. Educ. Technol.
Dick Ng'ambi, Irwin Brown
2009 J jnl
Electron. J. Inf. Syst. Dev. Ctries.
Irwin Brown, Boipelo Nancy Letsididi, Mohammed Nabeel Nazeer
2009 conf
ECIS
Walter Brown, Irwin Brown
2008 conf
ISSA
Kennedy Njenga, Irwin Brown
2008 J jnl
Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst.
Nixon Muganda Ochara, Jean-Paul Van Belle, Irwin Brown
2008 J jnl
South Afr. Comput. J.
Irwin Brown, Imtiaz Moola, Ariefah Mugjenkar, Michael Sands
2008 conf
AMCIS
Irwin Brown, Boipelo Nancy Letsididi, Mohammed Nabeel Nazeer
2008 conf
SAICSIT
Irwin Brown
2008 conf
SAICSIT
Rangarirai Matavire, Irwin Brown
2008 conf
HCC
Walter Brown, Irwin Brown
2008 J jnl
South Afr. Comput. J.
Irwin Brown, Maureen Tanner
2007 conf
SAICSIT
Tomasz Zukowski, Irwin Brown
2007 J jnl
Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst.
Irwin Brown, Timothy Collins, Bantse Malika, Denzil Morrison, Nixon Muganda, Hilary Speight
2007 J jnl
Int. J. Inf. Manag.
Irwin Brown, John Russell
2006 conf
ISSA
Kennedy Nduati Njenga, Irwin Brown
2005 J jnl
South Afr. Comput. J.
Irwin Brown, Michael Buys
2005
Irwin Brown
2005 conf
ACIS
Irwin Brown, Cailey Gordon, Nicholas Janik, Marc Meyer
2005 J jnl
South Afr. Comput. J.
Irwin Brown, Ignitia Motjolopane
2004 J jnl
Inf. Resour. Manag. J.
Irwin Brown
2004 J jnl
J. Glob. Inf. Manag.
Irwin Brown, Rudi Hoppe, Pauline Mugera, Paul Newman, Adrie Stander
2004 conf
ACIS
Irwin Brown, Dewald Roode
2004 J jnl
J. Educ. Technol. Soc.
Dick Ng'ambi, Irwin Brown
2003 J jnl
Int. J. Inf. Manag.
Irwin Brown, Zaheeda Cajee, Douglas Davies, Shaun Stroebel
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## LLIL function

| Field Name | Field Type | Description |
|-------------|-------------|-------------|
| function_type | string | The inferred type of the analyzed function, determined by the FunctionTypeAnalysis module (e.g., standard, library, thunk). |
| sha256_llil | string | SHA-256 hash computed from the Low-Level Intermediate Language (LLIL) instructions of the function. |
| ssdeep_llil | string | Fuzzy hash (ssdeep) of the LLIL instruction sequence, used for similarity detection. |
| tlsh_llil | string | TLSH (Trend Locality Sensitive Hash) value of the LLIL instructions, used for approximate matching and similarity comparison. |
| instructions_types_llil | list[string] | List of unique LLIL instruction types (e.g., arithmetic, control flow, memory operations). |
| control_flow_count_llil | integer | Number of control flow instructions in the LLIL representation (e.g., branches, jumps, calls). |
| memory_access_pattern_llil | dict | Patterns of memory access operations detected in the LLIL code (e.g., loads, stores, stack operations). |
| register_usage | dict | Summary of register usage, indicating which registers are read and written in the function. |
| total_reg_reads | integer | Total number of register read operations in the LLIL code. |
| total_reg_written | integer | Total number of register write operations in the LLIL code. |
| data_references_count | integer | Number of data references in the LLIL code (e.g., constants, global variables). |
| max_block_size | integer | Size of the largest basic block in the LLIL representation, measured in number of instructions. |
| num_calls | integer | Total number of function call instructions present in the LLIL code. |
| stack_size | integer | Estimated stack size used by the function, inferred from LLIL analysis. |


## CFG level

| Field Name          | Field Type    | Description                                                                                                                               |
|---------------------|---------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| block_id            | integer       | Unique identifier for the basic block within the function (block_instructions + str(block.start) + str(block.end) + str(function.start)). |
| function_address    | integer       | Starting memory address of the parent function containing this block.                                                                     |
| block_start_address | integer       | Starting address of the basic block in memory.                                                                                            |
| block_end_address   | integer       | Ending address of the basic block in memory.                                                                                              |
| block_size          | integer       | Size of the basic block in bytes (computed as end - start).                                                                               |
| instructions_count  | integer       | Number of instructions contained in the basic block.                                                                                      |
| block_instructions  | string        | MD5 hash of the block's instruction sequence, used for integrity or similarity checks.                                                    |
| predecessor_blocks  | list[u64]     | List of addresses or IDs of predecessor blocks in the control flow graph (CFG).                                                           |
| successor_blocks    | list[u64]     | List of addresses or IDs of successor blocks in the CFG.                                                                                  |
| depth               | integer       | Depth level of the block in the control flow graph, starting from the entry block.                                                        |
| position            | integer       | Sequential position or index of the block within the function’s block map.                                                                |
| branch_type         | string        | Type of branch ending the block (e.g., conditional, unconditional, call, return).                                                         |
| block_type          | string        | Classification of the block (e.g., entry, exit, loop header, regular).                                                                    |
| flags               | dict          | Metadata or attributes extracted from the block (e.g., specific behavior or conditions).                                                  |
| dominators          | list[integer] | List of block addresses or IDs that dominate this block in the control flow graph.                                                        |
| post_dominators     | list[integer] | List of block addresses or IDs that post-dominate this block in the control flow graph.                                                   |
 | measures            | list[tuples]  | List of measures to be defined                                                                                                            |

## Disassembly

| Field Name | Field Type | Description |
|-------------|-------------|-------------|
| disassembled_function_hash | string | SHA-256 hash of the disassembled function string, used as a unique identifier. |
| disassembled_function | string | The disassembled function including instruction addresses. |
| disassembled_function_no_addresses | string | The disassembled function without instruction addresses, containing only the instruction mnemonics and operands. |
| disassembled_function_name | string | The name of the analyzed function. |
| disassembled_function_address | integer | The starting memory address of the disassembled function. |
| instructions_count | integer | Total number of instructions within the disassembled function. |
| function_type | string | The inferred type of the function as determined by the FunctionTypeAnalysis module (e.g., standard, library, thunk). |
| instructions_types | list[string] | List of unique instruction types (e.g., arithmetic, logic, control flow, memory). |
| control_flow_count | integer | Number of control flow instructions (e.g., jumps, calls, returns). |
| memory_access_pattern | dict | Patterns of memory access operations detected in the function (e.g., loads, stores, stack operations). |
| register_usage | dict | Summary of register usage, showing which registers are read from or written to. |
| data_references_count | integer | Count of data references made by the function (e.g., global variables or constants). |
| max_block_size | integer | The size of the largest basic block (in number of instructions). |
| num_calls | integer | Total number of function call instructions. |
| stack_size | integer | Estimated stack size used by the function. |

## Decompilation

| Field Name | Field Type | Description |
|-------------|-------------|-------------|
| decompiled_function_hash | string | SHA-256 hash of the decompiled function code, used as a unique identifier. |
| decompiled_function | string | The decompiled function source code in high-level representation. |
| decompiled_function_name | string | The name of the decompiled function. |
| decompiled_function_prototype | string | The function prototype, including return type, name, and parameters. |
| decompiled_function_address | integer | The starting memory address of the decompiled function. |
| function_type | string | The inferred function type from the FunctionTypeAnalysis module (e.g., standard, library, thunk). |
| functions_caller | list[string] | List of functions that call this function (incoming call references). |
| functions_call | list[string] | List of functions called by this function (outgoing call references). |
| flattened_score | float | Score representing the degree of control-flow flattening detected in the function. |
| mba_score | float | Score representing the presence or intensity of mixed boolean arithmetic (MBA) obfuscation patterns. |