On the time complexity of computer viruses

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2962-2966

  Zuo, Zhi Hong ^a   Zhu, Qing Xin ^a   Zhou, Ming Tian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Computational complexity; Computer viruses; Detection; Infection; Time complexity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ERROR DETECTION; POLYNOMIALS; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; SECURITY OF DATA; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING;

INFECTING PROCEDURE; LINEAR TIME COMPLEXITY; POLYNOMIAL TIME COMPLEXITY; TIME COMPLEXITY;

COMPUTER VIRUSES;

EID: 23844438042     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2005.851780     Document Type: Article

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