Title: An overview of modeling on-line disease

Speaker: Prof. George Kesidis, CSE and EE Depts, Penn State University

Abstract:
We begin by giving an overview of epidemics in living populations, focusing on
the deterministic SIR model and its many variants, in particular those that
include inoculation dynamics. Graphical models of epidemics targeting social networks
are then discussed. We then focus on the peculiarities of on-line disease including techniques
of disease spread via "social engineering" (e.g., email borne virus and Facebook eggs)
or by automated means (e.g., scanning worms and the recent Twitter worm leveraging
automated retweets).