Word-of-mouth communication has been shown to play a key role in a variety of environments such as viral marketing and virus spreading. A family of algorithms, generally known as ...
Instant messaging (IM) systems have gained a lot of popularity in recent years. The increasing number of IM users has lured malware authors to develop more worms and viruses that ...
Due to the rapid advancement of mobile communication technology, mobile devices nowadays can support a variety of data services that are not traditionally available. With the growi...
This paper describes a novel approach for preventative protection from both known and previously unknown malicious software. It does not rely on screening the code for signatures ...
Douglas H. Summerville, Victor A. Skormin, Alexand...
Diffusion processes taking place in social networks are used to model a number of phenomena, such as the spread of human or computer viruses, and the adoption of products in `vira...