User based fault detection, vulnerability discovery and patching: An interdisciplinary research

The merging of optimization and information technologies has seen an exponential growth in the last two decades. Amongst those, the field of interdisciplinary research has received unmatched attention from both academicians and practitioners. Interdisciplinary research focuses on some of the most relevant approaches that have been developed for the purpose of analyzing various engineering and business problems through interdisciplinary work. In this talk, we present the applications of interdisciplinary work primarily in the areas of innovation diffusion in marketing and software security assessment. The idea is to present readers with the understanding of how different areas of research can contribute immensely in solving real world problems related to different areas. In this talk we firstly described two well-known model having same expression with different interpretation in two different disciplines. Secondly we described dis-adoption process and similar modeling in software security to model vulnerability patch modelling. Finally we described a user dependent software reliability growth model and using the similar modeling developed user based software vulnerability model. Here we examined the vulnerability discovery rate on the lines of potential users of commercial software and propose an interdisciplinary model that comprises of the nature of software engineering and marketing that highlights the relationship between the vulnerability intensity and the number of users of the software.