Modeling the effects of timing parameters on virus propagation

WORM'03 - Proceedings of the 2003 ACM Workshop on Rapid Malcode

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 61-66

  Wang, Yang ^a   Wang, Chenxi ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti virus; Computer Virus; Epidemiology; Security

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORMS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SECURITY OF DATA; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ANTI-VIRUS; COMPUTER VIRUS PROPAGATION; SUSCEP-TIBLE-INFECTED-REMOVED (SIR) MODELS; SUSCEPTIBLE-INFECTED-SUSCEPTIBLE (SIS) MODELS;

COMPUTER VIRUSES;

EID: 4544275741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/948187.948198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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