Stephanie Forrest - Publications - Immune System Applications & Computer Security

COMPUTER SECURITY & OTHER APPLICATIONS OF IMMUNOLOGY

"Autonomous security for autonomous systems". J. Karlin, J. Rexford, and S. Forrest. Computer Networks (in press). PDF
"An integrated model of traffic, geography and economy in the Internet." P. Holme, J. Karlin, and S. Forrest. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 38:3, pp. 7-15 (2008). PDF
"Negative representations of information." F. Esponda, S. Forrest, and P. Helman. International Journal of Information Security. (in press). PDF.
"Scaling theory for information networks." M. Moses, S. Forrest, A. L. Davis, M. Lodder, and J. H. Brown. Journal of the Royal Society Interface (2008). Preprint. PDF.
"Anonymous data collection in sensor networks." J. Horey, M. Groat, S. Forrest, and F. Esponda. The 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services. (2007) PDF
"Protecting Data Privacy through Hard-to-Reverse Negative Databases." F. Esponda, E.S. Ackley, P. Helman, H. Jia, and S. Forrest. Int. Journal of Information Security 6:6 (2007). PDF.
"A Relational Algebra for Negative Databases". F. Esponda, E. Trias, E. Ackley, S. Forrest. UNM Computer Science Tech Report, TR-CS-2007-18.
"Protecting BGP from Invalid Paths". J. Karlin, S. Forrest, J. Rexford. UNM Computer Science Tech Report, TR-CS-2007-12.
"Radial Structure of the Internet". P. Holme, J. Karlin, S. Forrest. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 463:1231-1246 (2007). Preprint. PDF
"Learning DFA representations of HTTP for protecting web applications," K. Ingham, A. Somayaji, S. Forrest, and J. Burge, Journal of Computer Networks. 51:5, pp. 1239-1255 (2007). PDF
"Pretty Good BGP: Improving BGP by cautiously adopting routes," J. Karlin, J. Rexford, and S. Forrest, The 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (2006). PDF
"Protecting Data Privacy through Hard-to-Reverse Negative Databases," F. Esponda, H. Jia, S. Forrest, and P. Helman, Proceedings of the Information Security Conference 2006 (ISC06) Springer LNCS 4176, September 2006. pp. 72-84. PDF
"On the prediction of Java object lifetimes." H. Inoue, D. Stefanovic, and S. Forrest. IEEE Transactions on Computers 55:7, pp. 880- 892 (2006) PDF
"Increasing Communications Security through Protocol Parameter Diversity". E.G. Barrantes and S. Forrest. In Proceedings of the XXXII Latin-American Conference on Informatics (CLEI 2006), Santiago, Chile 20-25 August 2006. PDF
"Inferring Java Security Policies Through Dynamic Sandboxing ," H. Inoue and S. Forrest, International Conference on Programming Languages and Compilers (PLC 05), 2005. PDF
"Randomized Instruction Set Emulation ," G. Barrantes, D. Ackley, S. Forrest, and D. Stefanovic, ACM Transactions on Information Systems Security (TISSEC), Vol 8, No 1 pp. 3-40 (2005). PDF
"A Machine Learning Evaluation of an Artificial Immune System ," M. Glickman, J. Balthrop, and S. Forrest, Evolutionary Computation Journal, Vol 13, No 2 pp. 179-212 (2005). PDF
"On-line Negative Databases," F. Esponda, E. Ackley, S. Forrest, and P. Helman, Journal of Unconventional Computing, Vol 1, No 3 pp. 201-220 (2005). PDF
"Adaptive Radio: Achieving Consensus Using Negative Preferences," D.L. Chao, J. Balthrop, S. Forrest, ACM GROUP05, 2005. PDF
"Network Firewalls" K. Ingham and S. Forrest, In V. Rao Vemuri and V. Sreeharirao Eds. Enhancing Computer Security with Smart Technology pp. 9-35. CRC Press (2005). PDF
"Technological Networks and the Spread of Computer Viruses," J. Balthrop, S. Forrest, M. E. J. Newman, M. M. Williamson, Science, Vol 304, Issue 5670, 527-529 , 23 April 2004. Summary Full Text
"On-line negative databases." F. Esponda, E. Ackley, S. Forrest, and P. Helman, Third International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS) (2004) Best paper award. PDF
"A formal framework for positive and negative detection." F. Esponda, S. Forrest, and P. Helman, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 34:1 pp. 357-373 (2004). PDF
"Computation in the Wild" S. Forrest, J. Balthrop, M. Glickman, and D. Ackley, K. Park and W. Willins Eds. The Internet as a Large-Scale Complex System. Oxford University Press (2005). Postscript PDF
"Randomized Instruction Set Emulation to Disrupt Binary Code Injection Attacks." E.G. Barrantes, D.H. Ackley, S. Forrest, T.S. Palmer, D. Stefanovic, D.D. Zovi. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2003), pp.281-289 (2003). Postscript PDF
"The Crossover Closure and Partial Match Detection," F. Esponda, S. Forrest and P. Helman, The second International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS) Best paper award (2003). PDF
"Anomaly Intrusion Detection in Dynamic Execution Environments." H. Inoue and S. Forrest. New Security Paradigms Workshops. (2002). Postscript PDF
"Generating biomorphs with an aesthetic immune system." D. L. Chao and S. Forrest, Artificial Life VIII: The 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2002.
"Coverage and Generalization in an Artificial Immune System." J. Balthrop, F. Esponda, S. Forrest and M. Glickman. In W. B. Langdon, E. Cantu-Paz, K. Mathias, R. Roy, D. Davis, R. Poli, K. Balakrishnan, V. Hanovar, G. Rudolph, J. Wegener, L. Bull, M. A. Potter, A. C. Schultz, J. F. Miller, E. Burke and N. Jonaska, editors. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. (GECCO 2002), Morgan Kaufmann. New York, pp. 3-10 (2002). Postscript PDF
"Information Immune Systems." D. L. Chao and S. Forrest. International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS). pp. 132-140 (2002) PDF
"Email Networks and the Spread of Computer Viruses." M. Newman, S. Forrest and J. Balthrop. Physical Review E 66, 035101. (2002) Postscript PDF
"Positive and Negative Detection." F. Esponda, S. Forrest, and P. Helman. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. (Submitted July, 2002). Postscript PDF
"Revisiting LISYS: Parameters and Normal Behavior." J. Balthrop, S. Forrest, and M. Glickman. Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2002). Postscript PDF
"Architecture for an Artificial Immune System." S. Hofmeyr and S. Forrest. Evolutionary Computation 7(1), Morgan-Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA, pp. 1289-1296 (2000). Abstract Postscript PDF
"Automated Response Using System-Call Delays." A. Somayaji and S. Forrest. Usenix 2000. Abstract Postscript PDF
"Novelty Detection in Time Series Data using Ideas from Immunology." D. Dasgupta and S. Forrest. In Proceedings of The International Conference on Intelligent Systems (1999). Abstract Postscript PDF
"Detecting intrusions using system calls: Alternative data models." C. Warrender, S. Forrest, B. Pearlmutter. 1999 IEEE Symposium on security and Privacy (1999). Abstract Postscript PDF
"Artificial Immune Systems in Industrial Applications." D. Dasgupta and S. Forrest. Accepted for presentation at the International conference on Intelligent Processing and Manufacturing Material (IPMM). Honolulu, HI (July 10-14, 1999). Postscript PDF
"Intrusion Detection Using Sequences of System Calls." S. Hofmeyr, S. Forrest, and A. Somayaji Journal of Computer Security Vol. 6, pp. 151-180 (1998). Abstract Postscript PDF
"Principles of a Computer Immune System." A. Somayaji, S. Hofmeyr, and S. Forrest. 1997 New Security Paradigms Workshop pp. 75-82 (1998). Abstract Postscript PDF
"A Distributed Approach to Anomaly Detection." P. D'haeseleer, S. Forrest, and P. Helman (1997). Abstract Postscript PDF
"Computer Immunology." S. Forrest, S. Hofmeyr, and A. Somayaji. Communications of the ACM Vol. 40, No. 10, pp. 88-96 (1997). PDF
"Building Diverse Computer Systems." S. Forrest, A. Somayaji, and D. Ackley. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (1997). Abstract Postscript PDF
"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 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 Postscript PDF
"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 Postscript PDF

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