The early detection of faults (just beginning and still developing) can help avoid system shutdown, breakdown and even catastrophes involving human fatalities and material damage. Computational intelligence techniques are being investigated as an extension to the traditional fault diagnosis methods. This paper discusses the neuro-fuzzy approach to modelling and fault diagnosis, based on the TSK...

We present an approach and system for real-time reconstruction of attack scenarios on an enterprise host. To meet the scalability and real-time needs of the problem, we develop a platform-neutral, main-memory based, dependency graph abstraction of audit-log data. We then present efficient, tag-based techniques for attack detection and reconstruction, including source identification and impact a...

PTK is a new open-source tool for all complex digital investigations. It represents an alternative to the well-known but now obsolete front-end Autopsy Forensic Browser. This latter tool has a number of inadequacies taking the form of a cumbersome user interface, complicated case and evidence management, and a non-interactive timeline that is difficult to consult. A number of important function...

From the moment that a writer conceives an idea which he desires to communicate to his fellow men, sizable stumbling blocks are strewn in the path of the future translator. For the ability to shape one’s thought clearly, or even completely, is not granted to many; rarer still is the gift of expressing the thought— precisely, concisely, unambiguously—in the form of words. There is no guarantee, ...

This research simulates the urban growth and therefore the landscape change of a mountain city of Chongqing, China through a Cellular Automata (CA) based model of SLEUTH. The fundamental data were four Landsat TM images of 1978, 1988, 1993, and 2001 which were utilized for generating maps of land use, road networks, and urbanized area. Three alternative development scenarios, including business...

Concept lattices assist human understanding in three ways: firstly, by collecting formal concepts that contain maximal sets of objects with shared attributes; secondly, the relatedness of concepts is revealed by providing a hierarchy of formal concepts in the information space. Finally, the concept lattice (drawn as a line diagram) reveals inferences that can automatically derive association ru...

Rapidly increasing urbanization in the world, especially in developing countries, let to increasing urban extents. Rapid urban growth causes to appearance many problems such as wasting environmental resources, inability of providing necessary services for citizens and unplanned growth. Urban mangers and planners need tools for understanding amount and size of future urban growths to prevent the...