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Detection of Spyware by Mining Executable FilesHaider, Syed Imran, Shahzad, Raja M. Khurram January 2009 (has links)
Malicious programs have been a serious threat for the confidentiality, integrity and availability of a system. Different researches have been done to detect them. Two approaches have been derived for it i.e. Signature Based Detection and Heuristic Based Detection. These approaches performed well against known malicious programs but cannot catch the new malicious programs. Different researchers tried to find new ways of detecting malicious programs. The application of data mining and machine learning is one of them and has shown good results compared to other approaches. A new category of malicious programs has gained momentum and it is called Spyware. Spyware are more dangerous for confidentiality of private data of the user of system. They may collect the data and send it to third party. Traditional techniques have not performed well in detecting Spyware. So there is a need to find new ways for the detection of Spyware. Data mining and machine learning have shown promising results in the detection of other malicious programs but it has not been used for detection of Spyware yet. We decided to employ data mining for the detection of spyware. We used a data set of 137 files which contains 119 benign files and 18 Spyware files. A theoretical taxonomy of Spyware is created but for the experiment only two classes, Benign and Spyware, are used. An application Binary Feature Extractor have been developed which extract features, called n-grams, of different sizes on the basis of common feature-based and frequency-based approaches. The number of features were reduced and used to create an ARFF file. The ARFF file is used as input to WEKA for applying machine learning algorithms. The algorithms used in the experiment are: J48, Random Forest, JRip, SMO, and Naive Bayes. 10-fold cross-validation and the area under ROC curve is used for the evaluation of classifier performance. We performed experiments on three different n-gram sizes, i.e.: 4, 5, 6. Results have shown that extraction of common feature approach has produced better results than others. We achieved an overall accuracy of 90.5 % with an n-gram size of 6 from the J48 classifier. The maximum area under ROC achieved was 83.3 % with Random Forest. / +46709325761, +46762782550
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Enhanching the Human-Team Awareness of a RobotWåhlin, Peter January 2012 (has links)
The use of autonomous robots in our society is increasing every day and a robot is no longer seen as a tool but as a team member. The robots are now working side by side with us and provide assistance during dangerous operations where humans otherwise are at risk. This development has in turn increased the need of robots with more human-awareness. Therefore, this master thesis aims at contributing to the enhancement of human-aware robotics. Specifically, we are investigating the possibilities of equipping autonomous robots with the capability of assessing and detecting activities in human teams. This capability could, for instance, be used in the robot's reasoning and planning components to create better plans that ultimately would result in improved human-robot teamwork performance. we propose to improve existing teamwork activity recognizers by adding intangible features, such as stress, motivation and focus, originating from human behavior models. Hidden markov models have earlier been proven very efficient for activity recognition and have therefore been utilized in this work as a method for classification of behaviors. In order for a robot to provide effective assistance to a human team it must not only consider spatio-temporal parameters for team members but also the psychological.To assess psychological parameters this master thesis suggests to use the body signals of team members. Body signals such as heart rate and skin conductance. Combined with the body signals we investigate the possibility of using System Dynamics models to interpret the current psychological states of the human team members, thus enhancing the human-awareness of a robot. / Användningen av autonoma robotar i vårt samhälle ökar varje dag och en robot ses inte längre som ett verktyg utan som en gruppmedlem. Robotarna arbetar nu sida vid sida med oss och ger oss stöd under farliga arbeten där människor annars är utsatta för risker. Denna utveckling har i sin tur ökat behovet av robotar med mer människo-medvetenhet. Därför är målet med detta examensarbete att bidra till en stärkt människo-medvetenhet hos robotar. Specifikt undersöker vi möjligheterna att utrusta autonoma robotar med förmågan att bedöma och upptäcka olika beteenden hos mänskliga lag. Denna förmåga skulle till exempel kunna användas i robotens resonemang och planering för att ta beslut och i sin tur förbättra samarbetet mellan människa och robot. Vi föreslår att förbättra befintliga aktivitetsidentifierare genom att tillföra förmågan att tolka immateriella beteenden hos människan, såsom stress, motivation och fokus. Att kunna urskilja lagaktiviteter inom ett mänskligt lag är grundläggande för en robot som ska vara till stöd för laget. Dolda markovmodeller har tidigare visat sig vara mycket effektiva för just aktivitetsidentifiering och har därför använts i detta arbete. För att en robot ska kunna ha möjlighet att ge ett effektivt stöd till ett mänskligtlag måste den inte bara ta hänsyn till rumsliga parametrar hos lagmedlemmarna utan även de psykologiska. För att tyda psykologiska parametrar hos människor förespråkar denna masteravhandling utnyttjandet av mänskliga kroppssignaler. Signaler så som hjärtfrekvens och hudkonduktans. Kombinerat med kroppenssignalerar påvisar vi möjligheten att använda systemdynamiksmodeller för att tolka immateriella beteenden, vilket i sin tur kan stärka människo-medvetenheten hos en robot. / <p>The thesis work was conducted in Stockholm, Kista at the department of Informatics and Aero System at Swedish Defence Research Agency.</p>
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