3 papers
cs.NI2005
A dissemination strategy for immunizing scale-free networks
Alexandre O. Stauffer, Valmir C. Barbosa
We consider the problem of distributing a vaccine for immunizing a scale-free network against a given virus or worm. We introduce a new method, based on vaccine dissemination, that…
cs.NI2004
Local heuristics and the emergence of spanning subgraphs in complex networks
A. O. Stauffer, V. C. Barbosa
We study the use of local heuristics to determine spanning subgraphs for use in the dissemination of information in complex networks. We introduce two different heuristics and anal…
cs.NI2004
Probabilistic heuristics for disseminating information in networks
A. O. Stauffer, V. C. Barbosa
We study the problem of disseminating a piece of information through all the nodes of a network, given that it is known originally only to a single node. In the absence of any stru…