Supervisory control of malicious executables in software processes

Xin Xu; Vir V. Phoha; Asok Ray; Shashi Phoha

doi:10.1007/0-387-23903-0_9

Supervisory control of malicious executables in software processes

Xin Xu, Vir V. Phoha, Asok Ray, Shashi Phoha

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This chapter models the execution of a software process as a discrete event system that can be represented by a Deterministic Finite State Automaton (DFSA) in the discrete event setting. Supervisory Control Theory (SCT) is applied for on-line detection of malicious executables and prevention of their spreading. The language measure theory, described in Chapter 1, is adapted for performance evaluation and comparison of the unsupervised process automaton and five different supervised process automata. Simulation experiments under different scenarios show the rate of correct detection of malicious executables to be 88.75%.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Quantitative Measure for Discrete Event Supervisory Control
Publisher	Springer New York
Pages	239-259
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Print)	0387021086, 9780387021089
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23903-0_9
State	Published - 2005
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Discrete Event Supervisory Control
Language Measure
Malicious Executable
Software Systems

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General Computer Science

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