False positives, the erroneous detection of clean files, have been referred to as the Achilles heel of the anti-virus industry. Some believe the problem false positives represent is growing. This belief is likely underpinned by the growth in anti-virus signatures, due to the exponential growth in malicious code over the past 2 years, and the corresponding impact this invariably has on false pos...

Recently, intrusion detection systems (IDSs) have been increasingly brought to task for failing to meet the expectations that researchers and vendors were raising. Promises that IDSs would be capable of reliably identifying malicious activity never turned into reality. While virus scanners and firewalls have visible benefits and remain virtually unnoticed during normal operation, intrusion dete...

ABSTRACT The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has detected thousands of exoplanet candidates since 2018, most which have yet to be confirmed. A key step in the confirmation process these is ruling out false positives through vetting. Vetting also eases burden on follow-up observations, provides input for demographics studies, and facilitates training machine learning algorithms. Her...

Recently, intrusion detection systems (IDSs) have been increasingly brought to task for failing to meet the expectations that researchers and vendors were raising. Promises that IDSs would be capable of reliably identifying malicious activity never turned into reality. While virus scanners and firewalls have visible benefits and remain virtually unnoticed during normal operation, intrusion dete...

Publish/subscribe systems provide a useful paradigm for selective data dissemination and most of the complexity related to addressing and routing is encapsulated within the network infrastructure. The challenge of such systems is to organize the peers so as to best match the interests of the consumers, minimizing false positives and avoiding false negatives. In this paper, we propose and evalua...