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Given a stream of heterogeneous graphs containing different types of nodes and edges, how can we spot anomalous ones in real-time while consuming bounded memory? This problem is motivated by and generalizes from its application in security…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Emaad A. Manzoor , Sadegh Momeni , Venkat N. Venkatakrishnan , Leman Akoglu

Given sensor readings over time from a power grid, how can we accurately detect when an anomaly occurs? A key part of achieving this goal is to use the network of power grid sensors to quickly detect, in real-time, when any unusual events,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Shimiao Li , Amritanshu Pandey , Bryan Hooi , Christos Faloutsos , Larry Pileggi

In an Industrial Control System (ICS), its complex network of sensors, actuators and controllers have raised security concerns for critical infrastructures and industrial production units. This opinion paper strives to initiate discussion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed , Jay Prakash , Jianying Zhou

Complex networks have now become integral parts of modern information infrastructures. This paper proposes a user-centric method for detecting anomalies in heterogeneous information networks, in which nodes and/or edges might be from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Vahid Ranjbar , Mostafa Salehi , Pegah Jandaghi , Mahdi Jalili

Automatic anomaly detection is a major issue in various areas. Beyond mere detection, the identification of the origin of the problem that produced the anomaly is also essential. This paper introduces a general methodology that can assist…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-09-17 Tsirizo Rabenoro , Jérôme Lacaille , Marie Cottrell , Fabrice Rossi

Despite the continuous proposal of new anomaly detection algorithms and extensive benchmarking efforts, progress seems to stagnate, with only minor performance differences between established baselines and new algorithms. In this position…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Philipp Röchner , Simon Klüttermann , Franz Rothlauf , Daniel Schlör

Anomaly detection becomes increasingly important for the dependability and serviceability of IT services. As log lines record events during the execution of IT services, they are a primary source for diagnostics. Thereby, unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Thorsten Wittkopp , Alexander Acker , Sasho Nedelkoski , Jasmin Bogatinovski , Dominik Scheinert , Wu Fan , Odej Kao

Data representation plays a critical role in the performance of novelty detection (or ``anomaly detection'') methods in machine learning. The data representation of network traffic often determines the effectiveness of these models as much…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Kun Yang , Samory Kpotufe , Nick Feamster

With the advent of 5G, mobile networks are becoming more dynamic and will therefore present a wider attack surface. To secure these new systems, we propose a multi-domain anomaly detection method that is distinguished by the study of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Thomas Hoger , Philippe Owezarski

Given a stream of entries over time in a multi-dimensional data setting where concept drift is present, how can we detect anomalous activities? Most of the existing unsupervised anomaly detection approaches seek to detect anomalous events…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Siddharth Bhatia , Arjit Jain , Shivin Srivastava , Kenji Kawaguchi , Bryan Hooi

Graphs are used widely to model complex systems, and detecting anomalies in a graph is an important task in the analysis of complex systems. Graph anomalies are patterns in a graph that do not conform to normal patterns expected of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Hwan Kim , Byung Suk Lee , Won-Yong Shin , Sungsu Lim

Water Distribution Networks (WDNs), critical to public well-being and economic stability, face challenges such as pipe blockages and background leakages, exacerbated by operational constraints such as data non-stationarity and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Jin Li , Kleanthis Malialis , Stelios G. Vrachimis , Marios M. Polycarpou

Intruders detection in computer networks has some deficiencies from machine learning approach, given by the nature of the application. The principal problem is the modest display of detection systems based on learning algorithms under the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Jorge Luis Rivero Pérez , Bernardete Ribeiro , Kadir Hector Ortiz

Deep packet inspection is widely recognized as a powerful way which is used for intrusion detection systems for inspecting, deterring and deflecting malicious attacks over the network. Fundamentally, almost intrusion detection systems have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-03-04 Tamer AbuHmed , Abedelaziz Mohaisen , DaeHun Nyang

Modern networked systems are constantly under threat from systemic attacks. There has been a massive upsurge in the number of devices connected to a network as well as the associated traffic volume. This has intensified the need to better…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Nidhi Rastogi

Given high-dimensional time series data (e.g., sensor data), how can we detect anomalous events, such as system faults and attacks? More challengingly, how can we do this in a way that captures complex inter-sensor relationships, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ailin Deng , Bryan Hooi

Log anomaly detection has become a common practice for software engineers to analyze software system behavior. Despite significant research efforts in log anomaly detection over the past decade, it remains unclear what are practitioners'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xiaoxue Ma , Yishu Li , Jacky Keung , Xiao Yu , Huiqi Zou , Zhen Yang , Federica Sarro , Earl T. Barr

Anomaly detection in massive networks has numerous theoretical and computational challenges, especially as the behavior to be detected becomes small in comparison to the larger network. This presentation focuses on recent results in three…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Benjamin A. Miller , Nicholas Arcolano , Michael M. Wolf , Nadya T. Bliss

In the authors' opinion, anomaly detection systems, or ADS, seem to be the most perspective direction in the subject of attack detection, because these systems can detect, among others, the unknown (zero-day) attacks. To detect anomalies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Yuri Monakhov , Oleg Nikitin , Anna Kuznetsova , Alexey Kharlamov , Alexandr Amochkin

This paper investigates a flow- and path-sensitive static information flow analysis. Compared with security type systems with fixed labels, it has been shown that flow-sensitive type systems accept more secure programs. We show that an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Peixuan Li , Danfeng Zhang