Malware Diffusion Models for Modern Complex Networks

3.2. Basic Epidemics Models

Epidemics models have attracted the research attention for many years, due to the increased interest for modeling and studying lethal attacks, thus eventually protecting humans from the spreading and propagating of viruses of various types and severity. Multiple times in the past, the human species have suffered severe diseases, such as the black plague that incurred a death toll of around 60% of Europe’s population in the 1300s. Such cases have motivated scientists, mainly mathematicians, to attempt to describe the diffusion dynamics of the outbreaks, in order to be able to respond properly in future occurrences. Furthermore, observations among dependent species in nature, such as foxes-rabbits, for instance, have ...