Contact tracing and epidemics control in social networks

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 4-

  Huerta, Ramon ^a,b   Tsimring, Lev S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMICS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SUSCEPTIBLE-INFECTIOUS-REMOVED (SIR) MODEL; VACCINATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DISEASE CONTROL;

ARTICLE;

EID: 33646986376     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.056115     Document Type: Article

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