Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied to various applications, including image classification, text generation, audio recognition, and graph data analysis. However, recent studies have shown that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Though there are several works about adversarial attack and defense strategies on domains such as images and natural language processing, it is still difficult to directly transfer the learned knowledge to graph data due to its representation structure. Given the importance of graph analysis, an increasing number of studies over the past few years have attempted to analyze the robustness of machine learning models on graph data. Nevertheless, existing research considering adversarial behaviors on graph data often focuses on specific types of attacks with certain assumptions. In addition, each work proposes its own mathematical formulation, which makes the comparison among different methods difficult. Therefore, this review is intended to provide an overall landscape of more than 100 papers on adversarial attack and defense strategies for graph data, and establish a unified formulation encompassing most graph adversarial learning models. Moreover, we also compare different graph attacks and defenses along with their contributions and limitations, as well as summarize the evaluation metrics, datasets and future trends. We hope this survey can help fill the gap in the literature and facilitate further development of this promising new field We also have created an online resource to keep track of relevant research on the basis of this survey at https://github.com/safe-graph/graph-adversarial-learning-literature .
Multi-agent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) teaming becomes an essential part in science mission, modern warfare surveillance, and disaster rescuing. This paper proposes a decentralized UAV swarm persistent monitoring strategy in realizing continuous sensing coverage and network service. A two-layer (high altitude and low altitude) UAV teaming hierarchical structure is adopted in realizing the accurate object tracking in the area of interest (AOI). By introducing the UAV communication channel model in its path planning, both centralized and decentralized control schemes would be evaluated in the waypoint tracking simulation. The UAV swarm network service and object tracking are measured by metrics of communication link quality and waypoints tracking accuracy. UAV swarm network connectivity are evaluated over different aspects, such as stability and volatility. The comparison of proposed algorithms is presented with simulations. The result shows that the decentralized scheme outperforms the centralized scheme in the mission of persistent surveillance, especially on maintaining the stability of inner UAV swarm network while tracking moving objects.
Big data analytics and mining have the potential to enable real-time decision making and control in a range of Internet of Things (IoT) application domains, such as the Internet of Vehicles, the Internet of Wings, and the Airport of Things. The prediction toward air mobility, which is essential to the studies of air traffic management, has been a challenging task due to the complex spatial and temporal dependencies in air traffic data with highly nonlinear and variational patterns. Existing works for air traffic prediction only focus on either modeling static traffic patterns of individual flight or temporal correlation, with no or limited addressing of the spatial impact, namely, the propagation of traffic perturbation among airports. In this article, we propose to leverage the concept of graph and model the airports as nodes with time-series features and conduct data mining on graph-structured data. To be specific, first, airline on-time performance (AOTP) data is preprocessed to generate a temporal graph data set, which includes three features: 1) the number; 2) average delay; and 3) average taxiing time of departure and arrival flights. Then, a spatial–temporal graph neural networks model is implemented to forecast the mobility level at each airport over time, where a combination of graph convolution and time-dimensional convolution is used to capture the spatial and temporal correlation simultaneously. Experiments on the data set demonstrate the advantage of the model on spatial–temporal air mobility prediction, together with the impact of different priors on adjacency matrices and the effectiveness of the temporal attention mechanism. Finally, we analyze the prediction performance and discuss the capability of our model. The prediction framework proposed in this work has the potential to be generalized to other spatial–temporal tasks in IoT.
24 October 2025 in Journal of Biomedical Informatics