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A Fast Feature-Based Method to Detect Unusual Patterns in Multidimensional Datasets

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Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2009)

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We introduce a feature-based method to detect unusual patterns. The property of normality allows us to devise a framework to quickly prune the normal observations. Observations that can not be combined into any significant pattern are considered unusual. Rules that are learned from the dataset are used to construct the patterns for which we compute a score function to measure the interestingness of the unusual patterns. Experiments using the KDD Cup 99 dataset show that our approach can discover most of the attack patterns. Those attacks are in the top set of unusual patterns and have a higher score than the patterns of normal connections. The experiments also show that the algorithm can run very fast.

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Nguyen, M.Q., Omiecinski, E., Mark, L. (2009). A Fast Feature-Based Method to Detect Unusual Patterns in Multidimensional Datasets. In: Pedersen, T.B., Mohania, M.K., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery. DaWaK 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5691. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03730-6_14

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