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A PHYSIOLOGICAL DECOMPOSITION OF VIRUS AND
WORM PROGRAMS
A Thesis
Presented to the
Graduate Faculty of the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
Master of Science
Prabhat Kumar Singh
Spring 2002
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2002
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A PHYSIOLOGICAL DECOMPOSITION OF VIRUS
AND WORM PROGRAMS
Prabhat Kumar Singh
APPROVED
:
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Arun Lakhotia, Chair
Gunasekaran Seetharaman
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Associate Professor of Computer Science
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William R. Edwards, Jr.
C. E. Palmer
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Director, Graduate School
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 Acknowledgements
This work would have not been possible without the active cooperation, patience
and encouragement of my wife Neelam and son Harshvardhan. Both shared all my joys
and disappointments of the graduate experience. I will always be grateful to my parents
for their blessings on my pursuing a graduate degree.
Coming back to graduate school, after a six-year career in industry, was a tough
decision for me. I would like to thank Dr. Arun Lakhotia who not only guided me
successfully in my research work but also provided an environment that made the
industry-to-school transition a smooth and bearable one. My praise for him cannot be
expressed in a page. I am grateful to Dr. Gunasekaran Seetharaman for giving me
algorithmic tips whenever I landed in a theoretical problem. Thanks to Dr. William
Edwards, Jr. for giving me valuable comments that improved the quality of my thesis.
I would like to thank Mukul Arora for reading the thesis draft and providing
constructive comments. I thank Yun Yang and Junwei Li of Software Research
Laboratory and Puneet Wahi for discussing my research work during the writing stage.
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