Most active research in Host and Network-based Intrusion Detection (ID) and Intrusion Prevention (IP) systems are only able to detect and prevent attacks of the computer systems and attacks at the Network Layer. They are not adequate to countermeasure XML-related attacks. Furthermore, although research have been conducted to countermeasureWeb application attacks, they are still not adequate in ...

The aim of this paper is to provide a crystal clear insight into the true semantics of the measures of support and confidence that are used to assess rule quality in fuzzy association rule mining. To achieve this, we rely on two important pillars: the identification of transactions in a database as positive or negative examples of a given association between attributes, and the correspondence b...

This work focuses on the formalization of a Fuzzy Cognitive Map based decision support system using fuzzy If-Then rules (extracted from data) accompanied with the available experts’ knowledge. The proposed approach is applied to build a Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) grading tool, an advanced FCM-based model used for prediction. The FCM is a modeling methodology based on exploiting knowledge and exp...

The major drawback of fuzzy data mining is that after applying fuzzy data mining on the quantitative data, the number of extracted fuzzy association rules is very huge. When many association rules are obtained, the usefulness of them will be reduced. In this paper, we introduce an approach to reduce and summarize the extracted fuzzy association rules after fuzzy data mining. In our approach, in...

Imbalanced classification problems are attracting the attention of research community because they prevalent in real-world and impose extra difficulties for learning methods. Fuzzy rule-based systems have been applied to cope with these problems, mostly together sampling techniques. In this paper, we define a new fuzzy association classifier, named FARCI, tackle directly imbalanced problems. Ou...

The definition of the Fuzzy Rule Base is one of the most important and difficult tasks when designing Fuzzy Systems. This paper discusses the results of two different hybrid methods, previously investigated, for the automatic generation of fuzzy rules from numerical data. One of the methods, named DoC-based, proposes the creation of Fuzzy Rule Bases using genetic algorithms in association with ...