Negative feature selection algorithm for anomaly detection in real time

Abstract

Anomaly detection methods are of common use in many fields, including databases and large computer systems. This article presents new algorithm based on negative feature selection, which can be used to find anomalies in real time. Proposed algorithm, called Negative Feature Selection algorithm (NegFS) can be also used as first step for preprocessing data analyzed by neural networks, rule-based systems or other anomaly detection tools, to speed up the process for large and very large datasets of different types.