Synthetic data creation for forensic tool testing: Improving performance of the 3LSPG framework

Proceedings - 2012 7th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 613-619

  Yannikos, York ^a   Winter, Christian ^a   Schneider, Markus ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SECURE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SIT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forensic tool testing; linear programming; markov chains; model based simulation; synthetic data generation

Indexed keywords

FORENSIC TOOLS; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; MARKOV MODEL; MODEL-BASED SIMULATIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SIMPLEX ALGORITHM; STATE TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; SYNTHETIC DATA; SYNTHETIC TESTS; TEST DATA;

ALGORITHMS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 84869396274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ARES.2012.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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