A Robust Hybrid Framework Combining Deductive Temporal Logic and Machine Learning for Fault and Cyber-Attack Detection in the Tennessee Eastman Process

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Abstract

Industrial control systems (ICS) face both physical faults and stealthy cyber-attacks, yet existing detection methods rarely address both threats comprehensively. Model-based monitors—such as temporal-logic rules—provide interpretable alarms but falter in high-dimensional settings and against novel anomalies, while data-driven approaches—like Random Forest classifiers or autoencoders—adapt to complex patterns but often obscure decision rationale and miss unseen threats such as replay attacks. Alarms are fused using a graded, source-attributed strategy, and a class-balanced Random Forest learns nonlinear fusion, outperforming simple logical-OR baselines. On the Tennessee Eastman Process benchmark, our framework delivers near-perfect F1 scores on process faults (F1≈0.99) with only seven false alarms over 24h, and boosts replay-attack detection from F1<0.10 to 0.70 (precision 0.64, recall 0.78, AUC 0.99). These results demonstrate that combining symbolic logic, statistical learning, and temporal similarity detection yields a scalable, interpretable, and resilient solution for comprehensive ICS monitoring.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAvailability, Reliability and Security - ARES 2025 International Workshops, Proceedings
EditorsBart Coppens, Bruno Volckaert, Bjorn De Sutter, Vincent Naessens
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages172-190
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)9783032006295
DOIs
StatePublished - 2025
EventInternational Workshops on Availability, Reliability and Security, held under the umbrella of the 20th International conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2025 - Ghent, Belgium
Duration: 11 Aug 202514 Aug 2025

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume15994 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Workshops on Availability, Reliability and Security, held under the umbrella of the 20th International conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2025
Country/TerritoryBelgium
CityGhent
Period11/08/2514/08/25

Keywords

  • Deductive Temporal Logic (DTL)
  • Hybrid Anomaly Detection
  • Industrial Control Systems

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