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Logical specifications play a key role in the formal analysis of behavioural models. Automating the derivation of such specifications is particularly valuable in complex systems, where manual construction is time-consuming and error-prone.…

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Software systems generate massive, evolving, semi-structured logs that are central to reliability engineering and AIOps, yet difficult to analyze at scale under drift and limited labels. Recent advances in pretrained Transformer models and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zeyang Ma , Jinqiu Yang , Tse-Hsun Chen

Log analysis is an important technique that engineers use for troubleshooting faults of large-scale service-oriented systems. In this study, we propose a novel semi-supervised log-based anomaly detection approach, LogDP, which utilizes the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yongzheng Xie , Hongyu Zhang , Bo Zhang , Muhammad Ali Babar , Sha Lu

Logging statements are essential for software debugging and maintenance. However, existing approaches to automatic logging generation rely on static analysis and produce statements in a single pass without considering runtime behavior. They…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xin Wang , Yang Feng , Jiaoxiao Qian , Yang Zhang , Zhenhao Li , Zishuo Ding

Numerous Deep Learning (DL)-based approaches have gained attention in software Log Anomaly Detection (LAD), yet class imbalance in training data remains a challenge, with anomalies often comprising less than 1% of datasets like Thunderbird.…

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A very useful technique a network administrator can use to identify problematic network behavior is careful analysis of logs of incoming and outgoing network flows. The challenge one faces when attempting to undertake this course of action,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dmitry Mogilevsky

Logs are semi-structured text files that represent software's execution paths and states during its run-time. Therefore, detecting anomalies in software logs reflect anomalies in the software's execution path or state. So, it has become a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shayan Hashemi , Mika Mäntylä

Automatic log analysis is essential for the efficient Operation and Maintenance (O&M) of software systems, providing critical insights into system behaviors. However, existing approaches mostly treat log analysis as training a model to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yilun Liu , Yuhe Ji , Shimin Tao , Minggui He , Weibin Meng , Shenglin Zhang , Yongqian Sun , Yuming Xie , Boxing Chen , Hao Yang

As machine learning (ML) systems increasingly permeate high-stakes settings such as healthcare, transportation, military, and national security, concerns regarding their reliability have emerged. Despite notable progress, the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Anthony Corso , David Karamadian , Romeo Valentin , Mary Cooper , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) describes the process of maintaining and operating large IT systems using diverse AI-enabled methods and tools for, e.g., anomaly detection and root cause analysis, to support the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Jasmin Bogatinovski , Gjorgji Madjarov , Sasho Nedelkoski , Jorge Cardoso , Odej Kao

Log analysis represents a critical sub-domain within AI applications that facilitates automatic approaches to fault and error management of large-scaled software systems, saving labors of traditional manual methods. While existing solutions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yuhe Ji , Yilun Liu , Feiyu Yao , Minggui He , Shimin Tao , Xiaofeng Zhao , Su Chang , Xinhua Yang , Weibin Meng , Yuming Xie , Boxing Chen , Shenglin Zhang , Yongqian Sun

Detection of anomalous situations for complex mission-critical systems hold paramount importance when their service continuity needs to be ensured. A major challenge in detecting anomalies from the operational data arises due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shanay Mehta , Shlok Mehendale , Nicole Fernandes , Jyotirmoy Sarkar , Santonu Sarkar , Snehanshu Saha

Detecting anomalies in general ledger data is of utmost importance to ensure trustworthiness of financial records. Financial audits increasingly rely on machine learning (ML) algorithms to identify irregular or potentially fraudulent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Alexander Bakumenko , Kateřina Hlaváčková-Schindler , Claudia Plant , Nina C. Hubig

Most log-based anomaly detectors assume logs are stable, though logs are often unstable due to software or environmental changes. Anomaly detection on unstable logs (ULAD) is therefore a more realistic, yet under-investigated challenge.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Fatemeh Hadadi , Qinghua Xu , Domenico Bianculli , Lionel Briand

Detecting system anomalies based on log data is important for ensuring the security and reliability of computer systems. Recently, deep learning models have been widely used for log anomaly detection. The core idea is to model the log…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xiao Han , Shuhan Yuan , Mohamed Trabelsi

Automated log analysis is crucial to ensure high availability and reliability of complex systems. The advent of LLMs in NLP has ushered in a new era of language model-driven automated log analysis, garnering significant interest. Within…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Lipeng Ma , Weidong Yang , Yixuan Li , Ben Fei , Mingjie Zhou , Shuhao Li , Sihang Jiang , Bo Xu , Yanghua Xiao

Logs provide users with useful insights to help with a variety of development and operations tasks. The problem is that logs are often unstructured, making their analysis a complex task. This is mainly due to the lack of guidelines and best…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Issam Sedki , Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj , Otmane Ait-Mohamed

Software log analysis can be laborious and time consuming. Time and labeled data are usually lacking in industrial settings. This paper studies unsupervised and time efficient methods for anomaly detection. We study two custom and two…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jesse Nyyssölä , Mika Mäntylä

Background: Machine Learning (ML) systems rely on data to make predictions, the systems have many added components compared to traditional software systems such as the data processing pipeline, serving pipeline, and model training. Existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Tuan Dung Lai , Anj Simmons , Scott Barnett , Jean-Guy Schneider , Rajesh Vasa

Log anomaly detection is crucial for preserving the security of operating systems. Depending on the source of log data collection, various information is recorded in logs that can be considered log modalities. In light of this intuition,…

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