Big cities: Shelters for contagious diseases

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 197, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 258-262

  Monteiro, L H A ^a,b   Chimara, H D B ^a   Berlinck, J G Chaui ^b  

^a MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cellular automaton; Dynamical system; Epidemiology; SIR model

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; DYNAMICAL SYSTEM; SIR MODEL;

DISEASES;

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; DISEASE SPREAD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNITY; MEASLES; MEGACITY;

EID: 33746748216     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.02.042     Document Type: Article

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