Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

DOI

10.4236/jis.2017.84022

Publication Title

Journal of Information Security

Volume

8

Issue

4

Pages

339-361

Abstract

This survey aims to deliver an extensive and well-constructed overview of using machine learning for the problem of detecting anomalies in streaming datasets. The objective is to provide the effectiveness of using Hoeffding Trees as a machine learning algorithm solution for the problem of detecting anomalies in streaming cyber datasets. In this survey we categorize the existing research works of Hoeffding Trees which can be feasible for this type of study into the following: surveying distributed Hoeffding Trees, surveying ensembles of Hoeffding Trees and surveying existing techniques using Hoeffding Trees for anomaly detection. These categories are referred to as compositions within this paper and were selected based on their relation to streaming data and the flexibility of their techniques for use within different domains of streaming data. We discuss the relevance of how combining the techniques of the proposed research works within these compositions can be used to address the anomaly detection problem in streaming cyber datasets. The goal is to show how a combination of techniques from different compositions can solve a prominent problem, anomaly detection.

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Original Publication Citation

Muallem, A., Shetty, S., Pan, J. W., Zhao, J., & Biswal, B. (2017). Hoeffding tree algorithms for anomaly detection in streaming datasets: A survey. Journal of Information Security, 8(4), 339-361. doi:10.4236/jis.2017.84022

ORCID

0000-0002-8789-0610 (Shetty)

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