Retraction notice to “Hybrid Layered Architecture forDetection and Analysis of Network Based Zero-day Attack” (Computer Communications (2017) 106 (100–106), (S0140366416305497) (10.1016/j.comcom.2017.01.019))

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal) The authors have plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared in [IJCNIS, Vol. 7, No. 9, August 2015 page 19–31, http://dx.doi.org/10.5815/ijcnis.2015.09.03. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.