Anomaly detection with artificial immune network

Abstract

Inspired by the immune network theory, an adaptive anomaly detection paradigm based on artificial immune network, referred as APAI, is proposed. The implementation of the paradigm includes: initially, the first is to create the initial antibody network; then, through the learning of each training antigen, the antibody network is evolved and updated by the optimal antibodies. Finally, anomaly detection process is accomplished by majority vote of the k nearest neighbor antibodies in the network. The experiments used the famous Sonar Benchmark dataset in our study, which is taken from the UCI machine learning database. The obtained detection accuracy of APAI was 97.7%, which was very promising with regard to the other classification applications in the literature for this problem. In addition to its nonlinear classification properties, APAI possesses biological immune network properties such as clonal selection, immune network, and immune memory, which can be applied to pattern recognition, classification, and etc.