Effects of Resource Limitations and Cost Influences on Computer Virus Epidemic Dynamics and Tipping Points

Table 2

Network parameters.

Parameter	Default value	Description
NetworkType	SFN	According to network type, a complex network for our proposed epidemic model can be built in the same manner as Watts and Strogatz’s [1] small-world homogeneous network and Barabási and Albert’s [2] scale-free network. If NetworkType = SWN, a small-world network is built; if NetworkType = SFN, a scale-free network is built
𝑁		Node set of a complex network
𝐸		Link set of a complex network
𝑛		𝑛=|𝑁| represents total number of nodes (agents) in a complex network
𝑚		𝑚=|𝐸| represents total number of links in a complex network
Rewiring rate	0.01	Specific parameter for Watts and Strogatz’s (1998) [1] small-world network. Generating such a network begins with a 1-dimensional regular network with periodic boundary conditions. Each link is randomly rewired to a new node according to a rewiring rate probability