Investigating coevolutionary algorithms For expensive fitness evaluations in cybersecurity
Author(s)
Pertierra Arrojo, Marcos (Marcos A.)
DownloadFull printable version (1.801Mb)
Other Contributors
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Advisor
Una-May O'Reilly and Erik Hemberg.
Terms of use
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
Coevolutionary algorithms require evaluating fitness of solutions against adversaries, and vice versa, in order to select high quality individuals to generate offspring and evolve the population. However, some problems require computationally expensive fitness evaluations, which makes it hard to generate solutions in a feasible amount of time. In this thesis, we devise coevolutionary algorithms and methods that achieve good results with fewer fitness evaluations, and we present methods for selecting a solution to deploy after running experiments with multiple coevolutionary algorithms. Comparing our new algorithms presented with baselines, we found that MEULockstepCoev performs relatively well, especially for attackers.
Description
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018. This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-76).
Date issued
2018Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencePublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.