Evaluation of strategies to mitigate contagion spread using social network characteristics

Social Networks

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-88

  Ventresca, Mario ^a   Aleman, Dionne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contact network; Critical node detection; Pandemic mitigation; Vaccination strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875591009     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2013.01.002     Document Type: Article

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