Malware Diffusion Models for Modern Complex Networks

9.2. Dynamics of Information Dissemination

9.2.1. Introduction to Information Dissemination

Information dissemination (diffusion) has been a key social process, but especially in modern information-centric societies, it has become one of the most critical ones [46–48,59]. Furthermore, it can be observed that most of the commercial communication infrastructures have been initially developed in the last thirty years mainly to allow transferring diverse types of information. There are different types of information disseminating in human societies and especially through the computer and communications networks available. These different types range in scope (e.g. academic, educational, healthcare, gossip, financial, and military to name a few), criticality ...