Re: [spam score 3/10 -pobox] Looking for the unusual?

"Matt Duggan" <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I am new to the list and have recently acquired an interest in
> A.I. with Perl.  I would like, as an initial dip into the water so to
> speak, to know what your thoughts on solving the following problem
> are? (how would you solve and and using what?)
> 
> Basically, I am interested in monitoring the throughput of an
> interface on my computer via MRTG / RRDtool (or _maybe_ even 'raw'
> data in a MySQL/Oracle db) and would like to be able to do the
> following:-
> 
> 1. Assume that my usage curve is a curve of some type, with the X-axis
> of a particular graph being time and the Y axis is interface
> throughput. I want the system to be able to 'learn' my usage pattern
> and determine what 'normal' is for a given hour, day, week, month.
> 
> 2. I want to be able to be alerted when usage strays away from 'normal'.
> 
> What are your thoughts on how to achieve this?  Would a neural network
> with some appropriate training data be able to recognise a normal
> pattern and, more importantly, any deviations from that pattern?

This is probably a non AI problem. Before you investigate AI I
would like to advise you to try to solve this problem with maths
or lets say just the usuall  statistics. IMHO, the chance that 
"learning" as defined in a AI context won't be neccessary is pretty 
high.

HTH,

Andreas