Zubair Shafiq, Momina Tabish, Muddassar Farooq
Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, pp.1915-1916
ISBN 978-1-60558-325-9
July 2009
Download PDF (89.86Kb) (You need to be registered on forum)In this paper, we evaluate the performance of ten well-known evolutionary and non-evolutionary rule learning algorithms. The comparative study is performed on a real-world classification problem of detecting malicious executables. The executable dataset, used in this study, consists of a total of 189 attributes which are statically extracted from the executables of Microsoft Windows operating system. In our study, we evaluate the performance of rule learning algorithms with respect to four metrics: (1) classification accuracy, (2) the number of rules in the developed rule set, (3) the comprehensibility of the generated rules, and (4) the processing overhead of the rule learning process. The results of our study highlight important shortcomings in evolutionary rule learning classifiers that render them infeasible for deployment in a real-world malware detection system.