Inferring realistic intra-hospital contact networks using link prediction and computer logins

Proceedings - 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom/PASSAT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 572-578

  Herman, Ted ^a   Monsalve, Mauricio ^a   Pemmaraju, Sriram ^b   Polgreen, Phillip ^a   Segre, Alberto Maria ^a   Sharma, Deepti ^c   Thomas, Geb ^c  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

contact networks; link prediction; network epidemiology

Indexed keywords

COMPLETION PROBLEM; CONTACT NETWORKS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DISEASE SPREAD; HEALTH CARE WORKERS; HOSPITAL SETTINGS; LINK PREDICTION; SENSOR DATA; TWO SOURCES; UNIVERSITY OF IOWA;

DATA INTEGRATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PROBLEM SOLVING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 84872184993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialCom-PASSAT.2012.113     Document Type: Conference Paper

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