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Table 1 Terminology and abbreviations used in the paper

From: Modeling self-propagating malware with epidemiological models

Notation

Meaning

S

Number of susceptible individuals

I

Number of infected individuals

\(I_D\)

Number of infected dormant individuals

R

Number of recovered individuals

SPM

Self-propagating malware

ODE

Ordinary differential equation

AIC

Akaike information criterion

ABC

Approximate Bayesian computation

ABC-SMC (SMC)

Sequential Monte-Carlo approach

ABC-SMC-MNN (SMC)

SMC when covariance matrix is calculated

 

using M nearest neighbors of the particle

SI

Susceptible-infected model

SIS

Susceptible-infected-susceptible model

SIR

Susceptible-infected-recovered model

SEIR

Susceptible-exposed-infected-recovered model

SIIDR

Susceptible-infected-infected dormant-recovered model