Reverse engineering utility functions using genetic programming to detect anomalous behavior in software

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 141-149

  Wong, Sunny ^a   Aaron, Melissa ^a   Segall, Jeffrey ^a   Lynch, Kevin ^a   Mancoridis, Spiros ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic computing; Genetic programming; Software fault tolerance; Utility function

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR; AUTONOMIC COMPUTING; FALSE ALARMS; HIGH PRECISION; MEMORY USAGE; OPEN SOURCES; PRECISION AND RECALL; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RESOURCE USAGE; RUNTIMES; SECURITY ATTACKS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; SOFTWARE FAULT TOLERANCES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM RESOURCES; THRESHOLDING; UTILITY FUNCTIONS; WEB SERVERS;

FAULT TOLERANCE; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650634439     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2010.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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