Small-world effect in epidemics using cellular automata

Mathematical Population Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 79-90

  Gagliardi, Henrique Fabricio ^a   Alves, Domingos ^b  

^a Laboratório para Inovação em Computacao e Engenharia LINCE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Automata cellular; Epidemic spreading; SIR; SIRS; Small world; Transmission rules

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; DISEASE SPREAD; EPIDEMIC; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MODEL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 77951679616     PISSN: 08898480     EISSN: 1547724X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08898481003689486     Document Type: Article

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