Discriminating self from non-self with finite mixtures of multivariate Bernoulli distributions

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Stibor

  • Affiliations:
  • Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Affinity functions are the core components in negative selection to discriminate self from non-self. It has been shown that affinity functions such as the r-contiguous distance and the Hamming distance are limited applicable for discrimination problems such as anomaly detection. We propose to model self as a discrete probability distribution specified by finite mixtures of multivariate Bernoulli distributions. As by-product one also obtains information of non-self and hence is able to discriminate with probabilities self from non-self. We underpin our proposal with a comparative study between the two affinity functions and the probabilistic discrimination.