Failure to success conversion

ASTUTE was presented in SIGCOMM 2010. What struck me about their paper is that from their introduction, it looks like they were trying to compete with Kalman filter-based and Wavelet anomaly detection. They seemed to fail to compete with them directly, but they turned their failure to detect as much as Kalman into a success by observing that ASTUTE detects different anomalous behavior than Kalman, and that working in tandem, they are more successful. The lesson to be learned is that research doesn't have to reach the conclusions hoped for to be useful.