Catching synchronized behaviors in large networks: A graph mining approach

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Jiang, Meng ^a   Cui, Peng ^a   Beutel, Alex ^b   Faloutsos, Christos ^b   Yang, Shiqiang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Anomaly detection; Connectivity pattern; Graph mining; Suspicious behavior

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACK; DIRECTED GRAPHS; MALWARE; NETWORK SECURITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TOPOLOGY;

ANOMALY DETECTION; BEHAVIOR PATTERNS; CONNECTIVITY PATTERN; DETECTION ACCURACY; DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK; GRAPH MINING; SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR; TIMING INFORMATION;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 84978971731     PISSN: 15564681     EISSN: 1556472X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2746403     Document Type: Article

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