Worms are a common phenomenon in today’s Internet and cause tens of billions of dollars in damages to businesses around the world each year. This article first presents various concepts related to worms, and then classifies the existing worms into four types– Internet worms, P2P worms, email worms and IM (Instant Messaging) worms, based on the space in which a worm finds a victim target. The In...

In the past few years, computer worms are seen as one of significant challenges of cloud computing. Worms are rapidly changing and getting more sophisticated to evade detection. One major issue to defend against computer worms is collecting worms’ payloads to generate their signature and study their behavior. To collect worms’ payloads, we identified challenges for detecting and collecting worm...

In [LLT] Lascoux, Leclerc and Thibon introduced symmetric functions Gλ which are spin and weight generating functions for ribbon tableaux. This article is aimed at studying these functions in analogy with Schur functions. In particular we will describe: • a Pieri and dual-Pieri formula for ribbon functions, • a ribbon Murnaghan-Nakayama formula, • ribbon Cauchy and dual Cauchy identities, • and...

A closer look at an example introduced by Livingston & Melvin and later studied by Miyazaki shows that a plumbing of two fibered ribbon knots (along their fiber surfaces) may be algebraically slice yet not ribbon. Trivially, the connected sum (i.e., 2-gonal Murasugi sum) of ribbon knots is ribbon. Non-trivially [6, 1], any Murasugi sum of fibered knots (along their fiber surfaces) is fibered. I...