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Data analysis. (English) Zbl 1490.68002

Goethals, Paul L. (ed.) et al., Mathematics in cyber research. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. 267-301 (2022).
Summary: The military establishment has a long history of using modeling and analytics to understand complex systems and processes. Cyber has emerged as a very important area of research and in operations from both a defensive and an offensive perspective. This chapter presents an initial familiarization into various modeling and data analytical methods for the cyber researcher. A sampling of modeling methods is discussed. The discussion addresses the use of visualization as an analytical tool, the various forms of modeling and simulation, as well as coverage of methods such as risk management and cyber red teaming. Overviews of more mathematical methods such as game theory and Markov chains are presented. A fairly comprehensive discussion of data analytical methods starts with a general classification scheme for the plethora of methods that are available. This classification is then used to discuss specific methods that fall into supervised learning methods for either prediction purposes or clustering purposes, as well as unsupervised methods for either clustering purposes or dimensional reduction to improve the analytical task. Military examples are used in the chapter to highlight the use of the techniques and methods that are discussed.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1484.05004].

MSC:

68-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to computer science
62-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics
60J20 Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.)
62H30 Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects)
62R07 Statistical aspects of big data and data science
68T05 Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence
68T09 Computational aspects of data analysis and big data
91A80 Applications of game theory
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