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The increasing digitization of smart grids has made addressing cybersecurity issues crucial in order to secure the power supply. Anomaly detection has emerged as a key technology for cybersecurity in smart grids, enabling the detection of…

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Health monitoring is important for maintaining reliable information and communications technology (ICT) systems. Anomaly detection methods based on machine learning, which train a model for describing "normality" are promising for…

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Anomaly detection methods can be very useful in identifying interesting or concerning events. In this work, we develop and examine new probabilistic anomaly detection methods that let us evaluate management decisions for a specific patient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Milos Hauskrecht , Michal Valko , Branislav Kveton , Shyam Visweswaran , Gregory Cooper

Prompt and accurate detection of system anomalies is essential to ensure the reliability of software systems. Unlike manual efforts that exploit all available run-time information, existing approaches usually leverage only a single type of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Baitong Li , Tianyi Yang , Zhuangbin Chen , Yuxin Su , Yongqiang Yang , Michael R. Lyu

Although there exist very accurate hardware systems for measuring traffic on the internet, their widespread use for analysis tasks is limited by their high cost. On the other hand, less expensive, software-based systems exist that are…

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Given a long list of anomaly detection algorithms developed in the last few decades, how do they perform with regard to (i) varying levels of supervision, (ii) different types of anomalies, and (iii) noisy and corrupted data? In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Songqiao Han , Xiyang Hu , Hailiang Huang , Mingqi Jiang , Yue Zhao

Anomaly detection is a longstanding and active research area that has many applications in domains such as finance, security, and manufacturing. However, the efficiency and performance of anomaly detection algorithms are challenged by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yang Cao , Haolong Xiang , Hang Zhang , Ye Zhu , Kai Ming Ting

We develop a supervised machine learning model that detects anomalies in systems in real time. Our model processes unbounded streams of data into time series which then form the basis of a low-latency anomaly detection model. Moreover, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Derek Farren , Thai Pham , Marco Alban-Hidalgo

Within today's large-scale systems, one anomaly can impact millions of users. Detecting such events in real-time is essential to maintain the quality of services. It allows the monitoring team to prevent or diminish the impact of a failure.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Arthur Vervaet

Modern telecom systems are monitored with performance and system logs from multiple application layers and components. Detecting anomalous events from these logs is key to identify security breaches, resource over-utilization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Abhishek Sarkar , Tanmay Sen , Srimanta Kundu , Arijit Sarkar , Abdul Wazed

Logging code is written by developers to capture system runtime behavior and plays a vital role in debugging, performance analysis, and system monitoring. However, defects in logging code can undermine the usefulness of logs and lead to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xin Wang , Zhenhao Li , Zishuo Ding

Checking various log files from different processes can be a tedious task as these logs contain lots of events, each with a (possibly large) number of attributes. We developed a way to automatically model log files and detect outlier traces…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Stephen Pauwels , Toon Calders

Software Log anomaly event detection with masked event prediction has various technical approaches with countless configurations and parameters. Our objective is to provide a baseline of settings for similar studies in the future. The…

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Nowadays, there are outstanding strides towards a future with autonomous vehicles on our roads. While the perception of autonomous vehicles performs well under closed-set conditions, they still struggle to handle the unexpected. This survey…

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Time series anomaly detection has applications in a wide range of research fields and applications, including manufacturing and healthcare. The presence of anomalies can indicate novel or unexpected events, such as production faults, system…

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This article introduces a novel method for detecting anomalies within log data from control system nodes at the European XFEL accelerator. Effective anomaly detection is crucial for providing operators with a clear understanding of each…

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Bug fixing is a complex and time-consuming task in software development. Bug localization research tends to focus on the accuracy of automated tools that suggest source code files for developers to look at. However, little is known about…

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Anomaly detection is a crucial task in complex distributed systems. A thorough understanding of the requirements and challenges of anomaly detection is pivotal to the security of such systems, especially for real-world deployment. While…

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

The identification of undesirable behavior in event logs is an important aspect of process mining that is often addressed by anomaly detection methods. Traditional anomaly detection methods tend to focus on statistically rare behavior and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Kiran Busch , Timotheus Kampik , Henrik Leopold