Smartphone technologies for social network data generation and infectious disease modeling

Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 235-244

  Benavides, Julian ^a   Demianyk, Bryan C P ^a   Mukhi, Shamir N ^a   Laskowski, Marek ^a   Friesen, Marcia ^a   McLeod, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Bluetooth; Contact graph; Infection spread modeling; Smartphone wireless sensor network; Social network

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODEL; AS DISTRIBUTION; BLUETOOTH CONNECTIVITY; CONTACT NETWORKS; CONTACT PATTERN; DATA COLLECTION; DATA STORAGE; DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MODELING AND SIMULATION; PARETO DISTRIBUTIONS; PILOT TESTING; POWER LAW EXPONENT; PRELIMINARY DATA; RESPIRATORY ILLNESS; SMALL COMMUNITY; SOCIAL NETWORKS; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

BLUETOOTH; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE MODEL; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MOBILE PHONE; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 84867421380     PISSN: 16090985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5405/jmbe.974     Document Type: Article

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