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SQJ
2002
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Critical Analysis of the PIE Testability Technique
Abstract. The work of Voas and colleagues has introduced, refined and applied the propagation, infection and execution (PIE) analysis technique for measuring testability of program...
Zuhoor A. Al-Khanjari, Martin R. Woodward, Haider ...
JCSS
2008
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Analysing distributed Internet worm attacks using continuous state-space approximation of process algebra models
Internet worms are classically described using SIR models and simulations, to capture the massive dynamics of the system. Here we are able to generate a differential equation-base...
Jeremy T. Bradley, Stephen T. Gilmore, Jane Hillst...
CORR
2010
Springer
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Selfish Response to Epidemic Propagation
An epidemic spreading in a network calls for a decision on the part of the network members: They should decide whether to protect themselves or not. Their decision depends on the ...
George Theodorakopoulos, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, John...
BMCBI
2010
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Estimating time since infection in early homogeneous HIV-1 samples using a poisson model
Background: The occurrence of a genetic bottleneck in HIV sexual or mother-to-infant transmission has been well documented. This results in a majority of new infections being homo...
Elena E. Giorgi, Bob Funkhouser, Gayathri Athreya,...
BMCBI
2010
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Formal reasoning on qualitative models of coinfection of HIV and Tuberculosis and HAART therapy
Background: Several diseases, many of which nowadays pandemic, consist of multifactorial pathologies. Paradigmatic examples come from the immune response to pathogens, in which ca...
Anil Sorathiya, Andrea Bracciali, Pietro Liò...
ACSAC
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
On Computer Viral Infection and the Effect of Immunization
Viruses remain a significant threat to modern networked computer systems. Despite the best efforts of those who develop anti-virus systems, new viruses and new types of virus that...
Chenxi Wang, John C. Knight, Matthew C. Elder