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CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
How Did You Get to Know That? A Traceable Word-of-Mouth Algorithm
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 ...
Manuel Cebrián, Enrique Frías-Mart&i...
NSDI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Catching Instant Messaging Worms with Change-Point Detection Techniques
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 ...
Guanhua Yan, Zhen Xiao, Stephan Eidenbenz
RAID
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
VirusMeter: Preventing Your Cellphone from Spies
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...
Lei Liu, Guanhua Yan, Xinwen Zhang, Songqing Chen
MMMACNS
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Prevention of Information Attacks by Run-Time Detection of Self-replication in Computer Codes
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...
AAAI
2010
13 years 9 months ago
The Genetic Algorithm as a General Diffusion Model for Social Networks
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...
Mayank Lahiri, Manuel Cebrián