Abstract: A system and method for masking the complexity of developing software for a heterogeneous target execution environment may be established by configuring an integrated development environment to perform certain masking mechanisms. For example, the integrated development environment used to develop a background process may be used to create a background process-file on the target execution environment. The integrated development environment may further be configured to synchronously connect with an agent on the target execution environment, allowing the agent to initiate the background process using the integrated development environment user credentials. Additionally, the integrated development environment may be configured to monitor completion of the background process execution on the target execution environment, and to return the output from the background process after completion to the integrated development environment user.

Abstract: A method of anomaly detection applicable to telecommunications or retail fraud or software vulnerabilities uses inductive logic programming to develop anomaly characterisation rules from relevant background knowledge and a training data set, which includes positive anomaly samples of data covered by rules. Data samples include 1 or 0 indicating association or otherwise with anomalies. An anomaly is detected by a rule having condition set which the anomaly fu,lfils. Rules are developed by addition of conditions and unification of variables, and are filtered to remove duplicates, equivalents, symmetric rules and unnecessary conditions. Overfitting of noisy data is avoided by an encoding cost criterion. Termination of rule construction involves criteria of rule length, absence of negative examples, rule significance and accuracy, and absence of recent refinement.