Title :
Infectious Agents in Heterogeneous Systems: When Friends Matter
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Math. & Stat., Univ. of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
fDate :
Firstquarter 2014
Abstract :
Many real world diseases are transmitted through close personal contact. An accurate model of such transmission depends on an accurate model of the complex web of close personal interactions in the community. We review recent work in this area, argue that it is important to take this structure into account and demonstrate several examples where doing so yields nontrivial results for the prediction and control of disease transmission.
Keywords :
complex networks; differential equations; diseases; physiological models; complex network topologies; disease transmission; heterogeneous systems; infectious agents; low-dimensional differential equations; Communities; Diseases; Human factors; Infectious diseases; Medical services; Prediction methods; Social factors;
Journal_Title :
Circuits and Systems Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MCAS.2013.2296418
