Browsing by Author "Hacilar, Hilal"

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An efficient network intrusion detection approach based on logistic regression model and parallel artificial bee colony algorithm
(ELSEVIER, 2024) Kolukısa, Burak; Dedeturk, Bilge Kagan; Hacilar, Hilal; Gungor, Vehbi Cagri; 0000-0003-0423-4595; 0000-0003-0803-8372; AGÜ, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü; Kolukısa, Burak; Hacilar, Hilal; Gungor, Vehbi Cagri
In recent years, the widespread use of the Internet has created many issues, especially in the area of cybersecurity. It is critical to detect intrusions in network traffic, and researchers have developed network intrusion and anomaly detection systems to cope with high numbers of attacks and attack variations. In particular, machine learning and meta-heuristic methods have been widely used for network intrusion detection systems (NIDS). However, existing studies on these systems usually suffer from low performance results such as accuracy, F1-measure, false positive rate, and false negative rate, and generally do not use automatic parameter tuning techniques. To address these challenges, this study proposes a novel approach based on a logistic regression model trained using a parallel artificial bee colony (LR-ABC) algorithm with a hyper-parameter optimization technique. The performance of the proposed model is evaluated against state -of-the-art machine learning and deep learning models on two publicly available NIDS datasets. Comparative performance evaluations show that the proposed method achieved satisfactory results with accuracy of 88.25% on the UNSW-NB15 dataset and 90.11% on the NSL-KDD dataset, and F1-measures of 88.26% and 90.15%, respectively. These findings demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed LR-ABC model in enhancing the accuracy and reliability, while providing a scalable solution to adapt to the dynamic and evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats.
Evaluation of Classification Algorithms, Linear Discriminant Analysis and a New Hybrid Feature Selection Methodology for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease
(IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA, 2018) Kolukisa, Burak; Hacilar, Hilal; Goy, Gokhan; Kus, Mustafa; Bakir-Gungor, Burcu; Aral, Atilla); Gungor, Vehbi Cagri; AGÜ, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 31% of the world's total deaths in 2016 (17.9 million) was due to cardiovascular diseases (CVD). With the development of information technologies, it has become possible to predict whether people have heart diseases or not by checking certain physical and biochemical values at a lower cost. In this study, we have evalated a set of different classification algorithms, linear discriminant analysis and proposed a new hybrid feature selection methodology for the diagnosis of coronary heart diseases (CHD). Throughout this research effort, using three publicly available Heart Disease diagnosis datasets (UCI Machine Learning Repository), we have conducted comparative performance evaluations in terms of accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, F-measure, AUC and running time.
Machine Learning Analysis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Associated Metagenomics Dataset
(IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA, 2018) Hacilar, Hilal; Nalbantoglu, O. Ufuk; Bakir-Gungor, Burcu; 0000-0002-2278-7786; 0000-0002-2272-6270; AGÜ, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü
There is an ongoing interplay between humans and our microbial communities. The microorganisms living in our gut produce energy from our food, strengthen our immune system, break down foreign products, and release metabolites and hormones, which are significant for regulating our physiology. The shifts away from this "healthy" gut microbiome is considered to be associated with many diseases. Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, are gut related disorders affecting the intestinal tract. Although some metagenomics studies are conducted on IBD recently, our current understanding of the precise relationships between the human gut microbiome and [BD remains limited. In this regard, the use of state-of-the art machine learning approaches became popular to address a variety of questions like early diagnosis of certain diseases using human microbiota. In this study, we investigate which subset of gut microbiota arc mostly associated with IBD and if disease-associated biomarkers can be detected via applying state-of-the art machine learning algorithms and proper feature selection methods.
Network anomaly detection using Deep Autoencoder and parallel Artificial Bee Colony algorithm-trained neural network
(PEERJ INC, 2024) Hacilar, Hilal; Dedeturk, Bilge Kagan; Bakir-Gungor, Burcu; Gungor, Vehbi Cagr; 0000-0002-5811-6722; 0000-0002-2272-6270; AGÜ, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü; Hacilar, Hilal; Bakir-Gungor, Burcu
Cyberattacks are increasingly becoming more complex, which makes intrusion detection extremely difficult. Several intrusion detection approaches have been developed in the literature and utilized to tackle computer security intrusions. Implementing machine learning and deep learning models for network intrusion detection has been a topic of active research in cybersecurity. In this study, artificial neural networks (ANNs), a type of machine learning algorithm, are employed to determine optimal network weight sets during the training phase. Conventional training algorithms, such as back- propagation, may encounter challenges in optimization due to being entrapped within local minima during the iterative optimization process; global search strategies can be slow at locating global minima, and they may suffer from a low detection rate. In the ANN training, the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm enables the avoidance of local minimum solutions by conducting a high-performance search in the solution space but it needs some modifications. To address these challenges, this work suggests a Deep Autoencoder (DAE)-based, vectorized, and parallelized ABC algorithm for training feed-forward artificial neural networks, which is tested on the UNSW-NB15 and NF-UNSW-NB15-v2 datasets. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed DAE-based parallel ABC-ANN outperforms existing metaheuristics, showing notable improvements in network intrusion detection. The experimental results reveal a notable improvement in network intrusion detection through this proposed approach, exhibiting an increase in detection rate (DR) by 0.76 to 0.81 and a reduction in false alarm rate (FAR) by 0.016 to 0.005 compared to the ANN-BP algorithm on the UNSWNB15 dataset. Furthermore, there is a reduction in FAR by 0.006 to 0.0003 compared to the ANN-BP algorithm on the NF-UNSW-NB15-v2 dataset. These findings underscore the effectiveness of our proposed approach in enhancing network security against network intrusions.
Network intrusion detection based on machine learning strategies: performance comparisons on imbalanced wired, wireless, and software-defined networking (SDN) network traffics
(TÜBİTAK Academic Journals, 2024) Hacilar, Hilal; Aydin, Zafer; Gungor, Vehbi Cagri; 0000-0025-8116-722; 0000-0001-7686-6298; 0000-0003-0803-8372; AGÜ, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü; Hacilar, Hilal; Aydin, Zafer; Gungor, Vehbi Cagri
The rapid growth of computer networks emphasizes the urgency of addressing security issues. Organizations rely on network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs) to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access and theft. These systems analyze network traffic to detect suspicious activities, such as attempted breaches or cyberattacks. However, existing studies lack a thorough assessment of class imbalances and classification performance for different types of network intrusions: wired, wireless, and software-defined networking (SDN). This research aims to fill this gap by examining these networks' imbalances, feature selection, and binary classification to enhance intrusion detection system efficiency. Various techniques such as SMOTE, ROS, ADASYN, and SMOTETomek are used to handle imbalanced datasets. Additionally, eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) identifies key features, and an autoenco der (AE) assists in feature extraction for the classification task. The study evaluates datasets such as AWID, UNSW, and InSDN, yielding the best results with different numbers of selected features. Bayesian optimization fine-tunes parameters, and diverse machine learning algorithms (SVM, kNN, XGBoost, random forest, ensemble classifiers, and autoencoders) are employed. The optimal results, considering F1-measure, overall accuracy, detection rate, and false alarm rate, have been achieved for the UNSW-NB15, preprocessed AWID, and InSDN datasets, with values of [0.9356, 0.9289, 0.9328, 0.07597], [0.997, 0.9995, 0.9999, 0.0171], and [0.9998, 0.9996, 0.9998, 0.0012], respectively. These findings demonstrate that combining Bayesian optimization with oversampling techniques significantly enhances classification performance across wired, wireless, and SDN networks when compared to previous research conducted on these datasets.
OFFER : Referees Suggester for the Journal Editors
(IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA, 2019) Coskun, Mustafa; Hacilar, Hilal; Gezer, Cengiz; Gungor, Vehbi Cagri; AGÜ, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü
Assigning appropriate referees to a journal or conference paper is a vital task for many reasons, including enhancing the journal venue quality and reliance, fair judgement of the papers, and among many others. While assigning the referees to the papers, the editors of a journal venue need to find suitable referees who are both related to field of the given paper and have no conflict of interest with the authors of the paper. Editorial-wise this referee assignment process is implemented in a hand-crafted manner, i.e., the editor needs to find the most suitable referees to the paper via a search engine and manually refines the all unrelated and having conflict of interest authors to the paper authors. Clearly, such a manual referee searching process is tedious and time consuming for the editors. In this paper, we present an alternate automated approach for assigning referees problem using intrinsic random walk with restart proximity measure. In our experiments based on a comprehensive DBLP networks, we show that our approach, called OFFER, significantly outperforms state-of-the-art the random walk with restart based method.