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This is a list of publications related to the computer immune system project.

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Last Update: October, 2000


The Big Picture

  • Immunology as information processing. S. Forrest and S.A. Hofmeyr. In Design Principles for the Immune System and Other Distributed Autonomous Systems, edited by L.A. Segel and I. Cohen. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. New York: Oxford University Press (In Press). Postscript

  • Principles of a Computer Immune System. A. Somayaji, S. Hofmeyr, and S. Forrest. 1997 New Security Paradigms Workshop, pp75-82, ACM (1998). Abstract PDF Postscript]

Automated Response

  • "Automated Response Using System-Call Delays" A. Somayaji and S. Forrest. Usenix 2000. Abstract Postscript

Security Through Diversity

  • Building diverse computer systems. S. Forrest, A. Somayaji, and D. Ackley. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 67-72 (1997). Abstract PDF Postscript

Intrusion Detection

  • Architecture for an Artificial Immune System. S. Hofmeyr and S. Forrest. Evolutionary Computation 7(1), Morgan-Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA, pp. 1289-1296 (1999). Abstract Postscript

  • Immunity by Design: An Artificial Immune System. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Morgan-Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA, pp. 1289-1296 (1999). Postscript PDF

  • A sense of self for Unix processes. S. Forrest, S. A. Hofmeyr, A. Somayaji, and T. A. Longstaff. In Proceedings of 1996 IEEE Symposium on Computer Security and Privacy (1996). Abstract PDF Postscript
  • Intrusion Detection using Sequences of System Calls. S. A. Hofmeyr, A. Somayaji, and S. Forrest.
    Note: this is the pre-submission version. A somewhat later version of this paper was published in the Journal of Computer Security Vol. 6 (1998) pg 151-180 . Abstract PDF Postscript

  • An Immunological Approach to Distributed Network Intrusion Detection. S. A. Hofmeyr, S. Forrest, and P. D'haeseleer. Paper presented at RAID'98 - First International Workshop on the Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium September 1998. Abstract only

  • Detecting Intrusions Using System Calls: Alternative Data Models. C. Warrender, S. Forrest, B. Pearlmutter. 1999 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy pp. 133-145 (1999). Abstract PDF Postscript

Distributed Change Detection

  • A distributed approach to anomaly detection. P. D'haeseleer, S. Forrest, and P. Helman.
    Submitted to ACM Transactions on Information System Security (1997) Abstract PDF Postscript

  • Self-nonself discrimination in a computer. S. Forrest, A.S. Perelson, L. Allen, R. and Cherukuri. In Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press (1994). Abstract PDF Postscript

  • An immunological approach to change detection: algorithms, analysis, and implications. P. D'haeseleer, S. Forrest, and P. Helman. In Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Computer Security and Privacy (1996). Abstract PDF Postscript

  • An immunological approach to change detection: Theoretical Results. P. D'haeseleer. In 9th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop (1996). Abstract PDF Postscript


 
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