Malicious code detection using active learning

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5456 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 74-91

  Moskovitch, Robert ^a   Nissim, Nir ^a   Elovici, Yuval ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION PROCESS; ACTIVE LEARNING; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; EVALUATION MEASURES; FAST ACQUISITION; FILE CONTENTS; IN-NETWORK; LEARNING FRAMEWORKS; MALICIOUS CODE DETECTION; MALICIOUS CODES; PRECISION AND RECALL; RIGOROUS EVALUATION; TEST COLLECTION; TEXT CATEGORIZATION;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; TEXT PROCESSING;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 67650251631     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01718-6_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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