A feature selection and evaluation scheme for computer virus detection

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 891-895

  Henchiri, Olivier ^a   Japkowicz, Nathalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION RATES; EVALUATION SCHEMES;

COMPUTER VIRUSES; DATA MINING; HEURISTIC METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SECURITY OF DATA;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 34748865971     PISSN: 15504786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDM.2006.4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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