Large Scale Automated Forecasting for Monitoring Network Safety and Security

As outlined in [1], leveraging big data and real time analytics constitute two main research venues for OR/MS in the analytics age. Information and communication technologies (ICT) have experienced an exponential growth in the last few decades and most human activities, businesses and devices strongly depend on ICT [2]. With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), this interrelation will become even more evident and change dramatically the way in which different components of business and service systems interact. In parallel, risks concerning the security of ICT systems are also growing, as pointed out e.g. in [3].