Papers and Links

Note: The web sites for many of the participants are linked on the "Participants" page. If you would like to add any papers or links, mail that information to Lora Billings (billingsl@mail.montclair.edu).
  1. A review paper by R. Albert and A. Barabasi that is quite recent on the statistical mechanics of networks. Mostly statistics on topology. "Statistical mechanics of complex networks" (2002).
  2. Link to work by Chess, Kephart, and White from IBM research on Computer Viruses (http://www.research.ibm.com/antivirus/SciPapers.htm). Two interesting papers:
    1. "Open Problems in Computer Virus Research"
    2. "Computer Viruses: A Global Perspective" (1995).
  3. Relevant publications to Joan Aron's presentation:
    1. Aron, O'Leary, Gove, Azadegan, and Schneider, "The benefits of a notification process in addressing the worsening computer virus problem: Results of a survey and a simulation model" (2002).
    2. The website for the climate and health research network (http://chiex.net)
    3. The website for Dr. Aron's book, "Ecosystem Change and Public Health: A Global Perspective".
  4. Paper by Rafail Ostrovsky: "How to Withstand Mobile Virus Attacks" (1991).
  5. Papers by Lora Billings, Ira Schwartz, and Erik Bollt:
    1. Erik Bollt's website (http://mathweb.mathsci.usna.edu/faculty/bolltem/)
    2. Lora Billings' website (http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~billings/research/research.html)
  6. Link to Ludwig Arnold's site and his work in stochastic bifurcations.
  7. A paper by Zoltan Dezso and A. Barabasi concluding that biased treatment policies towards the hubs are more successful and cost-effective than random immunization. "Halting viruses in scale-free networks" (2002).
  8. A paper summarizing the conference Alfred Steinberg spoke about: "Mathematical Modeling of the Spread of Selected Bioterrorism Agents" (2002).
  9. The paper Donald Burke presented: "Putting more genetics into genetic algorithms" (1998).
  10. This paper by X. F. Wang reviews some important results in the field of complex networks, with emphasis on the relationship between their dynamics and topology. Main network models are introduced, including regular, random, small-world and scale-free models. The robustness of connectivity and the epidemic dynamics in complex networks are also evaluated. "Complex Networks: Topology, Dynamics and Synchronization" (2002).
  11. A paper by Yamir Moreno Vega, et al. that analyzes the SIR model on complex heterogeneous networks as well as several immunization strategies that can be developed in order to fight and/or reduce virus incidence in these complex networks. "Epidemic outbreaks in complex heterogeneous networks" (2002).
  12. Two papers contributed by Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Alessandro Vespignani about their work on scale-free networks:
    1. "Immunization of complex networks" (2002).
    2. "Epidemic Spreading on Scale-Free Networks" (2001).
  13. A paper by M. Newman, S. Forrest, and J. Balthrop that analyzes the structure of computer networks as social networks defined by their users' email address books. "Email networks and the spread of computer viruses" Physical Review E (in press).