Olga Tushkanova

Dr. Olga Tushkanova


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Academic Career Length

16Years (2011-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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3 February 2023 in Algorithms
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OTOlga Tushkanova
Olga Tushkanova
DGDiana Gaifulina
Diana Gaifulina
ABAlexander Branitskiy
Alexander Branitskiy
EDElena Doynikova
Elena Doynikova
ENEvgenia Novikova
Evgenia Novikova
Igor KotenkoIgor Kotenko
Igor Kotenko
Cyberattacks on cyber-physical systems (CPS) can lead to severe consequences, and therefore it is extremely important to detect them at early stages. However, there are several challenges to be solved in this area; they include an ability of the security system to detect previously unknown attacks. This problem could be solved with the system behaviour analysis methods and unsupervised or semi-supervised machine learning techniques. The efficiency of the attack detection system strongly depends on the datasets used to train the machine learning models. As real-world data from CPS systems are mostly not available due to the security requirements of cyber-physical objects, there are several attempts to create such datasets; however, their completeness and validity are questionable. This paper reviews existing approaches to attack and anomaly detection in CPS, with a particular focus on datasets and evaluation metrics used to assess the efficiency of the proposed solutions. The analysis revealed that only two of the three selected datasets are suitable for solving intrusion detection tasks as soon as they are generated using real test beds; in addition, only one of the selected datasets contains both network and sensor data, making it preferable for intrusion detection. Moreover, there are different approaches to evaluate the efficiency of the machine learning techniques, that require more analysis and research. Thus, in future research, the authors aim to develop an approach to anomaly detection for CPS using the selected datasets and to conduct experiments to select the performance metrics.

26 February 2024 in Big Data and Cognitive Computing
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Maxim KolomeetsMaxim Kolomeets
Maxim Kolomeets
OTOlga Tushkanova
Olga Tushkanova
Vasily DesnitskyVasily Desnitsky
Vasily Desnitsky
LVLidia Andreevna Vitkova
Lidia Andreevna Vitkova
Andrey ChechulinAndrey Chechulin
Andrey Chechulin
This paper aims to test the hypothesis that the quality of social media bot detection systems based on supervised machine learning may not be as accurate as researchers claim, given that bots have become increasingly sophisticated, making it difficult for human annotators to detect them better than random selection. As a result, obtaining a ground-truth dataset with human annotation is not possible, which leads to supervised machine-learning models inheriting annotation errors. To test this hypothesis, we conducted an experiment where humans were tasked with recognizing malicious bots on the VKontakte social network. We then compared the “human” answers with the “ground-truth” bot labels (‘a bot’/‘not a bot’). Based on the experiment, we evaluated the bot detection efficiency of annotators in three scenarios typical for cybersecurity but differing in their detection difficulty as follows: (1) detection among random accounts, (2) detection among accounts of a social network ‘community’, and (3) detection among verified accounts. The study showed that humans could only detect simple bots in all three scenarios but could not detect more sophisticated ones (p-value = 0.05). The study also evaluates the limits of hypothetical and existing bot detection systems that leverage non-expert-labelled datasets as follows: the balanced accuracy of such systems can drop to 0.5 and lower, depending on bot complexity and detection scenario. The paper also describes the experiment design, collected datasets, statistical evaluation, and machine learning accuracy measures applied to support the results. In the discussion, we raise the question of using human labelling in bot detection systems and its potential cybersecurity issues. We also provide open access to the datasets used, experiment results, and software code for evaluating statistical and machine learning accuracy metrics used in this paper on GitHub.

14 July 2023 in International Journal of Information Security
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Dmitry LevshunDmitry Levshun
Dmitry Levshun
OTOlga Tushkanova
Olga Tushkanova
Andrey ChechulinAndrey Chechulin
Andrey Chechulin

1 December 2019 in Scientific and Technical Information Processing
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VGV. I. Gorodetsky
V. I. Gorodetsky
OTOlga Tushkanova
Olga Tushkanova
This paper discusses the basic aspects of the modern understanding of semantic computations, semantic technologies, and semantic applications in the field


15 February 2015 in SPIIRAS Proceedings
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OTOlga Tushkanova
Olga Tushkanova
VGVladimir Ivanovich Gorodetski
Vladimir Ivanovich Gorodetski
В работе описаны основные результаты, модели и методы, разработанные в области ассоциативной классификации, ориентированные на обработку данных большого объема. В работе дается постановка задачи ассоциативной классификации, вводится необходимая терминология и формальные обозначения, используемые в ассоциативной классификации. Приводится описание и сравнительный анализ ранних подходов, методов и конкретных алгоритмов ассоциативной классификации. Дается оценка вклада первых работ, посвящённых ассоциативной классификации, в развитие этого направления.