Spatio-temporal mining of software adoption and penetration

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 878-885

  Papalexakis, Evangelos E ^a   Dumitras, Tudor ^b   Chau, Duen Horng ^c   Prakash, B Aditya ^d   Faloutsos, Christos ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYMANTEC RESEARCH LABS   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Internet security; Malware propagation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EXECUTABLE FILES; INTERNET SECURITY; MALWARE PROPAGATION; PROPAGATION PATTERN; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SOFTWARE ADOPTIONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL MININGS; TEMPORAL PROPAGATION;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

EID: 84893242447     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2492517.2500244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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