Blockchain challenges and opportunities: A survey

Z Zheng, S Xie, HN Dai, X Chen… - International journal of …, 2018 - inderscienceonline.com
Blockchain has numerous benefits such as decentralisation, persistency, anonymity and
auditability. There is a wide spectrum of blockchain applications ranging from …

Analysis and control of epidemics: A survey of spreading processes on complex networks

C Nowzari, VM Preciado… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reviews and presents various solved and open problems in the development,
analysis, and control of epidemic models. The proper modeling and analysis of spreading …

Virus spread in networks

P Van Mieghem, J Omic, R Kooij - IEEE/ACM Transactions On …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The influence of the network characteristics on the virus spread is analyzed in a new-the N-
intertwined Markov chain-model, whose only approximation lies in the application of mean …

The N-intertwined SIS epidemic network model

P Van Mieghem - Computing, 2011 - Springer
Serious epidemics, both in cyber space as well as in our real world, are expected to occur
with high probability, which justifies investigations in virus spread models in (contact) …

Optimal resource allocation for network protection against spreading processes

VM Preciado, M Zargham, C Enyioha… - … on Control of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the problem of containing spreading processes in arbitrary directed networks by
distributing protection resources throughout the nodes of the network. We consider that two …

Optimal vaccine allocation to control epidemic outbreaks in arbitrary networks

VM Preciado, M Zargham, C Enyioha… - … IEEE conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of controlling the propagation of an epidemic outbreak in an
arbitrary contact network by distributing vaccination resources throughout the network. We …

Optimal resource allocation for control of networked epidemic models

C Nowzari, VM Preciado… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes and analyzes a generalized epidemic model over arbitrary directed
graphs with heterogeneous nodes. The proposed model, called the generalized-susceptible …

Bitav: Fast anti-malware by distributed blockchain consensus and feedforward scanning

C Noyes - arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.01405, 2016 - arxiv.org
I present the design and implementation of a novel anti-malware environment called BitAV.
BitAV allows for the decentralization of the update and maintenance mechanisms of the …

[PDF][PDF] Simulation for cybersecurity: state of the art and future directions

H Kavak, JJ Padilla, D Vernon-Bido… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In this article, we provide an introduction to simulation for cybersecurity and focus on three
themes:(1) an overview of the cybersecurity domain;(2) a summary of notable simulation …

Stability of spreading processes over time-varying large-scale networks

M Ogura, VM Preciado - IEEE Transactions on Network …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of spreading processes taking place over time-
varying networks. A common approach to model time-varying networks is via Markovian …