Outbreaks source: A new mathematical approach to identify their possible location

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 4736-4762

  Buscema, Massimo ^a   Grossi, Enzo ^b   Breda, Marco ^a   Jefferson, Tom ^c  

^a Semeion centro ricerche di scienze della communicazione   (Italy)

^b Bracco SpA   (Italy)

^c Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections Group ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Evolutionary algorithm; Geographic profiling; Multidimensional scaling; Outbreak source; Probabilistic density function; Theory of location

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; LOCATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC PROFILING; INFECTIOUS DISEASE OUTBREAKS; MATHEMATICAL TOPOLOGIES; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; OUTBREAK SOURCE; PROBABILISTIC DENSITY FUNCTION;

DISEASES;

EID: 69549135104     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.07.034     Document Type: Article

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