On Return Oriented Programming Threats In Android Runtime,
2017
Singapore Management University
On Return Oriented Programming Threats In Android Runtime, Akshaya Venkateswara Raja, Jehyun Lee, Debin Gao
Research Collection School Of Information Systems
Android has taken a large share of operating systems forsmart devices including smartphones, and has been an attractive target to theattackers. The arms race between attackers and defenders typically occurs ontwo front lines — the latest attacking technology and the latest updates to theoperating system (including defense mechanisms deployed). In terms of attackingtechnology, Return-Oriented Programming (ROP) is one of the most sophisticatedattack methods on Android devices. In terms of the operating system updates,Android Runtime (ART) was the latest and biggest change to the Android family.In this paper, we investigate the extent to which Android Runtime (ART) makesReturn-Oriented Programming (ROP ...
Discovering Explanatory Models To Identify Relevant Tweets On Zika,
2017
Wright State University - Main Campus
Discovering Explanatory Models To Identify Relevant Tweets On Zika, Roopteja Muppalla, Michele Miller, Tanvi Banerjee, William L. Romine
Kno.e.sis Publications
Zika virus has caught the worlds attention, and has led people to share their opinions and concerns on social media like Twitter. Using text-based features, extracted with the help of Parts of Speech (POS) taggers and N-gram, a classifier was built to detect Zika related tweets from Twitter. With a simple logistic classifier, the system was successful in detecting Zika related tweets from Twitter with a 92% accuracy. Moreover, key features were identified that provide deeper insights on the content of tweets relevant to Zika. This system can be leveraged by domain experts to perform sentiment analysis, and understand the ...
Automated Android Application Permission Recommendation,
2017
Singapore Management University
Automated Android Application Permission Recommendation, Lingfeng Bao, David Lo, Xin Xia
Research Collection School Of Information Systems
The number of Android applications has increased rapidly as Android is becoming the dominant platform in the smartphone market. Security and privacy are key factors for an Android application to be successful. Android provides a permission mechanism to ensure security and privacy. This permission mechanism requires that developers declare the sensitive resources required by their applications. On installation or during runtime, users are required to agree with the permission request. However, in practice, there are numerous popular permission misuses, despite Android introducing official documents stating how to use these permissions properly. Some data mining techniques (e.g., association rule mining ...
How Technology Is Reshaping Financial Services: Essays On Consumer Behavior In Card, Channel And Cryptocurrency Services,
2017
Singapore Management University
How Technology Is Reshaping Financial Services: Essays On Consumer Behavior In Card, Channel And Cryptocurrency Services, Dan Geng
Dissertations and Theses Collection
The financial services sector has seen dramatic technological innovations in the last several years associated with the “fintech revolution.” Major changes have taken place in channel management, credit card rewards marketing, cryptocurren-cy, and wealth management, and have influenced consumers’ banking behavior in different ways. As a consequence, there has been a growing demand for banks to rethink their business models and operations to adapt to changing consumer be-havior and counter the competitive pressure from other banks and non-bank play-ers. In this dissertation, I study consumer behavior related to different aspects of financial innovation by addressing research questions that are motivated ...
A Knowledge Graph Framework For Detecting Traffic Events Using Stationary Cameras,
2017
Wright State University - Main Campus
A Knowledge Graph Framework For Detecting Traffic Events Using Stationary Cameras, Roopteja Muppalla, Sarasi Lalithsena, Tanvi Banerjee, Amit Sheth
Kno.e.sis Publications
With the rapid increase in urban development, it is critical to utilize dynamic sensor streams for traffic understanding, especially in larger cities where route planning or infrastructure planning is more critical. This creates a strong need to understand traffic patterns using ubiquitous sensors to allow city officials to be better informed when planning urban construction and to provide an understanding of the traffic dynamics in the city. In this study, we propose our framework ITSKG (Imagery-based Traffic Sensing Knowledge Graph) which utilizes the stationary traffic camera information as sensors to understand the traffic patterns. The proposed system extracts image-based features ...
Interestingness Of Discovered Association Rules In Terms Of Neighborhood-Based Unexpectedness,
2017
Wright State University - Main Campus
Interestingness Of Discovered Association Rules In Terms Of Neighborhood-Based Unexpectedness, Guozhu Dong, Jinyan Li
Jinyan Li
One of the central problems in knowledge discovery is the development of good measures of interestingness of discovered patterns. With such measures, a user needs to manually examine only the more interesting rules, instead of each of a large number of mined rules. Previous proposals of such measures include rule templates, minimal rule cover, actionability, and unexpectedness in the statistical sense or against user beliefs. In this paper we will introduce neighborhood-based interestingness by considering unexpectedness in terms of neighborhood-based parameters. We first present some novel notions of distance between rules and of neighborhood of rules. The neighborhood-based interestingness of ...
The Space Of Jumping Emerging Patterns And Its Incremental Maintenance,
2017
Wright State University - Main Campus
The Space Of Jumping Emerging Patterns And Its Incremental Maintenance, Jinyan Li, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Guozhu Dong
Jinyan Li
The concept of jumping emerging patterns (JEPs) has been proposed to describe those discriminating features which only occur in the positive training instances but do not occur in the negative class at all; JEPs have been used to construct classifiers which generally provide better accuracy than the state-of-the-art classifiers such as C4.5. The algorithms for maintaining the space of jumping emerging patterns (JEP space) are presented in this paper. We prove that JEP spaces satisfy the property of convexity. Therefore JEP spaces can be concisely represented by two bounds: consisting respectively of the most general elements and the most ...
Making Use Of The Most Expressive Jumping Emerging Patterns For Classification,
2017
Wright State University - Main Campus
Making Use Of The Most Expressive Jumping Emerging Patterns For Classification, Jinyan Li, Guozhu Dong, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao
Jinyan Li
Classification aims to discover a model from training data that can be used to predict the class of test instances. In this paper, we propose the use of jumping emerging patterns (JEPs) as the basis for a new classifier called the JEP-Classifier. Each JEP can capture some crucial difference between a pair of datasets. Then, aggregating all JEPs of large supports can produce a more potent classification power. Procedurally, the JEP-Classifier learns the pair-wise features (sets of JEPs) contained in the training data, and uses the collective impacts contributed by the most expressive pair-wise features to determine the class labels ...
Evolution And Maintenance Of Frequent Pattern Space When Transactions Are Removed,
2017
Wright State University - Main Campus
Evolution And Maintenance Of Frequent Pattern Space When Transactions Are Removed, Mengling Feng, Guozhu Dong, Jinyan Li, Yap-Peng Tan, Limsoon Wong
Jinyan Li
This paper addresses the maintenance of discovered frequent patterns when a batch of transactions are removed from the original dataset. We conduct an in-depth investigation on how the frequent pattern space evolves under transaction removal updates using the concept of equivalence classes. Inspired by the evolution analysis, an effective and exact algorithm TRUM is proposed to maintain frequent patterns. Experimental results demonstrate that our algorithm outperforms representative state-of-the-art algorithms.
Quo Vadis-A Framework For Intelligent Routing In Large Communication Networks.,
2017
Iowa State University
Quo Vadis-A Framework For Intelligent Routing In Large Communication Networks., Armin Mikler, Johnny S. Wong, Vasant Honavar
Johnny Wong
This paper presents Quo Vadis, an evolving framework for intelligent traffic management in very large communication networks. Quo Vadis is designed to exploit topological properties of large networks as well as their spatio-temporal dynamics to optimize multiple performance criteria through cooperation among nodes in the network. It employs a distributed representation of network state information using local load measurements supplemented by a less precise global summary. Routing decisions in Quo Vadis are based on parameterized heuristics designed to optimize various performance metrics in an anticipatory or pro-active as well as compensatory or reactive mode and to minimize the overhead associated ...
An Object Oriented Approach To Modeling And Simulation Of Routing In Large Communication Networks,
2017
Iowa State University
An Object Oriented Approach To Modeling And Simulation Of Routing In Large Communication Networks, Armin Mikler, Johnny S. Wong, Vasant Honavar
Johnny Wong
The complexity (number of entities, interactions between entities, and resulting emergent dynamic behavior) of large communication environments which contain hundreds of nodes and links make simulation an important tool for the study of such systems. Given the difficulties associated with complete analytical treatment of complex dynamical systems, it is often the only practical tool that is available. This paper presents an example of a flexible, modular, object-oriented toolbox designed to support modeling and experimental analysis of a large family of heuristic knowledge representation and decision functions for adaptive self-managing communication networks with particular emphasis on routing strategies. It discusses in ...
Feature Selection In Intrusion Detection System Over Mobile Ad-Hoc Network,
2017
Iowa State University
Feature Selection In Intrusion Detection System Over Mobile Ad-Hoc Network, Xia Wang, Tu-Liang Lin, Johnny S. Wong
Johnny Wong
As Mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) has become a very important technology the security problem, especially, intrusion detection technique research has attracted many people�s effort. MANET is more vulnerable than wired network and suffers intrusion like wired network. This paper investigated some intrusion detection techniques using machine learning and proposed a profile based neighbor monitoring intrusion detection method. Further analysis shows that the features collected by each node are too many for wireless devices with limited capacity. We apply Markov Blanket algorithm [1] to the feature selection of the intrusion detection method. Experimental studies have shown that Markov Blanket algorithm ...
Quo Vadis - Adaptive Heuristics For Routing In Large Communication Networks,
2017
Iowa State University
Quo Vadis - Adaptive Heuristics For Routing In Large Communication Networks, Armin Mikler, Johnny S. Wong, Vasant Honavar
Johnny Wong
This paper presents Quo Vadis, an evolving framework for intelligent traffic management in very large communication networks. Quo Vadis is designed to exploit topological properties of large networks as well as their spatio-temporal dynamics to optimize multiple performance criteria through cooperation among nodes in the network. It employs a distributed representation of network state information using local load measurements supplemented by a less precise global summary. Routing decisions in Quo Vadis are based on parameterized heuristics designed to optimize various performance metrics in an anticipatory or pro-active as well as compensatory or reactive mode and to minimize the overhead associated ...
The Methodology For Evaluating Response Cost For Intrusion Response Systems,
2017
Iowa State University
The Methodology For Evaluating Response Cost For Intrusion Response Systems, Christopher Roy Strasburg, Natalia Stakhanova, Samik Basu, Johnny S. Wong
Johnny Wong
Recent advances in the field of intrusion detection brought new requirements to intrusion prevention and response. Traditionally, the response to the detected attack was selected and deployed manually, in the recent years the focus has shifted towards developing automated and semi-automated methodologies for responding to intrusions. In this context, the cost-sensitive intrusion response models have gained the most interest mainly due to their emphasis on the balance between potential damage incurred by the intrusion and cost of the response. However, one of the challenges in applying this approach is defining consistent and adaptable measurement of these cost factors on the ...
Specification Synthesis For Monitoring And Analysis Of Manet Protocols,
2017
Iowa State University
Specification Synthesis For Monitoring And Analysis Of Manet Protocols, Natalia Stakhanova, Samik Basu, Zhang Wensheng, Xia Wang, Johnny S. Wong
Johnny Wong
This paper introduces an approach to automatic synthesis of the specification models of rout- ing protocol behavior from the observed flow of the network traffic. In particular, our technique generalizes the monitored sequences of routing messages constructing a high-level abstract view of the protocol. The basis of our method is similar to Inductive Logic Programming technique that derives a sound hypothesis from the individual examples. We conduct preliminary experi- ments on the example of AODV and DSR ad-hoc routing protocols and discuss the effectiveness of the generated specification models in detecting protocol misuses.
Utility-Theoretic Heuristics For Intelligent Adaptive Routing In Large Communcation Networks,
2017
Iowa State University
Utility-Theoretic Heuristics For Intelligent Adaptive Routing In Large Communcation Networks, Armin Mikler, Vasant Honavar, Johnny S. Wong
Johnny Wong
Utility theory offers an elegant and powerful theoretical framework for design and analysis of autonomous adaptive communication networks. Routing of messages in such networks presents a real-time instance of a multi-criterion quasi-optimization problem in a dynamic and uncertain environment. In this paper, we examine several heuristic decision functions that can be used to guide messages along a near-optimal (e.g., minimum delay) path in a large network. We present an analysis of properties of such heuristics under a set of simplifying assumptions about the network topology and load dynamics. In particular, we identify the conditions under which one such utility-theoretic ...
Virtualization In Wireless Sensor Networks: Fault Tolerant Embedding For Internet Of Things,
2017
Singapore Management University
Virtualization In Wireless Sensor Networks: Fault Tolerant Embedding For Internet Of Things, Omprakash Kaiwartya, Abdul Hanan Abdullah, Yue Cao, Jaime Lloret, Sushil Kumar, Rajiv Ratn Shah, Mukesh Prasad, Shiv Prakash
Research Collection School Of Information Systems
Recently, virtualization in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has witnessed significant attention due to the growing service domain for IoT. Related literature on virtualization in WSNs explored resource optimization without considering communication failure in WSNs environments. The failure of a communication link in WSNs impacts many virtual networks running IoT services. In this context, this paper proposes a framework for optimizing fault tolerance in virtualization in WSNs, focusing on heterogeneous networks for service-oriented IoT applications. An optimization problem is formulated considering fault tolerance and communication delay as two conflicting objectives. An adapted non-dominated sorting based genetic algorithm (A-NSGA) is developed to ...
Measuring The Declared Sdk Versions And Their Consistency With Api Calls In Android Apps,
2017
Singapore Management University
Measuring The Declared Sdk Versions And Their Consistency With Api Calls In Android Apps, Daoyuan Wu, Ximing Liu, Jiayun Xu, David Lo, Debin Gao
Research Collection School Of Information Systems
Android has been the most popular smartphone system, with multiple platform versions (e.g., KITKAT and Lollipop) active in the market. To manage the application’s compatibility with one or more platform versions, Android allows apps to declare the supported platform SDK versions in their manifest files. In this paper, we make a first effort to study this modern software mechanism. Our objective is to measure the current practice of the declared SDK versions (which we term as DSDK versions afterwards) in real apps, and the consistency between the DSDK versions and their app API calls. To this end, we ...
Community Detection In Social Networks,
2017
San Jose State University
Community Detection In Social Networks, Ketki Kulkarni
Master's Projects
The rise of the Internet has brought people closer. The number of interactions between people across the globe has gone substantially up due to social awareness, the advancements of the technology, and digital interaction. Social networking sites have built societies, communities virtually. Often these societies are displayed as a network of nodes depicting people and edges depicting relationships, links. This is a good and e cient way to store, model and represent systems which have a complex and rich information. Towards that goal we need to nd e ective, quick methods to analyze social networks. One of the possible solution ...
Influence Detection And Spread Estimation In Social Networks,
2017
San Jose State University
Influence Detection And Spread Estimation In Social Networks, Madhura Kaple
Master's Projects
A social network is an online platform, where people communicate and share information with each other. Popular social network features, which make them di erent from traditional communication platforms, are: following a user, re-tweeting a post, liking and commenting on a post etc. Many companies use various social networking platforms extensively as a medium for marketing their products. A xed amount of budget is alloted by the companies to maximize the positive in uence of their product. Every social network consists of a set of users (people) with connections between them. Each user has the potential to extend its in ...
