Design of evolutionary finite difference solver for numerical treatment of computer virus propagation with countermeasures model

Abstract

In the present study, a novel application of integrated evolutionary computing paradigm is presented for the analysis of nonlinear systems of differential equations representing the dynamics of virus propagation model in computer networks by exploiting the discretization strength of finite difference procedure, global search efficacy of genetic algorithms (GAs) aided with interior-point method (IPM) as efficient local search mechanism. Residual error based cost function is constructed by utilizing the effectiveness of approximation in mean square error sense and combined strength of GA-IPM is used as a viable optimization mechanism to find the solution of the problem. The proposed scheme is implemented for dynamical analysis of the model in terms of susceptible–infected and protected computer nodes by varying the probabilities of infections, countermeasures, curing and immunity while keeping connected and disconnected rates fixed. The statistical performance evaluated by means of deviations from reference Adams numerical results are practiced viably through performance metrics of accuracy and computational complexity to demonstrate the worth of integrated stochastic solver.