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Application of bagging, boosting and stacking to intrusion detection

Application of bagging, boosting and stacking to intrusion detection
Application of bagging, boosting and stacking to intrusion detection
This paper investigates the possibility of using ensemble algorithms to improve the performance of network intrusion detection systems. We use an ensemble of three different methods, bagging, boosting and stacking, in order to improve the accuracy and reduce the false positive rate. We use four different data mining algorithms, naïve bayes, J48 (decision tree), JRip (rule induction) and iBK( nearest neighbour), as base classifiers for those ensemble methods. Our experiment shows that the prototype which implements four base classifiers and three ensemble algorithms achieves an accuracy of more than 99% in detecting known intrusions, but failed to detect novel intrusions with the accuracy rates of around just 60%. The use of bagging, boosting and stacking is unable to significantly improve the accuracy. Stacking is the only method that was able to reduce the false positive rate by a significantly high amount (46.84%); unfortunately, this method has the longest execution time and so is insufficient to implement in the intrusion detection field
intrusion detection system, bagging, boosting, stacking, ensemble classifiers
Syarif, Iwan
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Zaluska, Ed
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Prugel-Bennett, Adam
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Wills, Gary
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Wills, Gary
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Syarif, Iwan, Zaluska, Ed, Prugel-Bennett, Adam and Wills, Gary (2012) Application of bagging, boosting and stacking to intrusion detection. MLDM 2012: 8th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, Berlin, Germany. 13 - 20 Jul 2012. 10 pp .

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This paper investigates the possibility of using ensemble algorithms to improve the performance of network intrusion detection systems. We use an ensemble of three different methods, bagging, boosting and stacking, in order to improve the accuracy and reduce the false positive rate. We use four different data mining algorithms, naïve bayes, J48 (decision tree), JRip (rule induction) and iBK( nearest neighbour), as base classifiers for those ensemble methods. Our experiment shows that the prototype which implements four base classifiers and three ensemble algorithms achieves an accuracy of more than 99% in detecting known intrusions, but failed to detect novel intrusions with the accuracy rates of around just 60%. The use of bagging, boosting and stacking is unable to significantly improve the accuracy. Stacking is the only method that was able to reduce the false positive rate by a significantly high amount (46.84%); unfortunately, this method has the longest execution time and so is insufficient to implement in the intrusion detection field

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Published date: 13 July 2012
Venue - Dates: MLDM 2012: 8th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, Berlin, Germany, 2012-07-13 - 2012-07-20
Keywords: intrusion detection system, bagging, boosting, stacking, ensemble classifiers
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 338222
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/338222
PURE UUID: daf08099-97fc-49cc-9f24-ac41dbe41273
ORCID for Gary Wills: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5771-4088

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Date deposited: 14 May 2012 11:06
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:51

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Author: Iwan Syarif
Author: Ed Zaluska
Author: Adam Prugel-Bennett
Author: Gary Wills ORCID iD

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