The Hidden Geometry of Complex, Network-Driven Contagion Phenomena

The global spread of epidemics, rumors, opinions, and innovations are complex, network-driven dynamic processes. The combined multiscale nature and intrinsic heterogeneity of the underlying networks make it difficult to develop an intuitive understanding of these processes, to distinguish relevant f...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2013-12, Vol.342 (6164), p.1337-1342
Main Authors: Brockmann, Dirk, Helbing, Dirk
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Communicable Diseases
Communicable Diseases, Emerging - epidemiology
Computer Simulation
Computerized, statistical medical data processing and models in biomedicine
Disease models
Disease outbreaks
Disease Outbreaks - statistics & numerical data
Disease spread
Disease transmission
E coli
Emerging diseases
enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Escherichia coli
General aspects
Geometry
Germany
H1N1 subtype influenza A virus
Heterogeneity
Human infectious diseases. Experimental studies and models
Human Migration - statistics & numerical data
Human viral diseases
Humans
Infectious diseases
Influenza
Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype
Influenza, Human - epidemiology
Links
Medical sciences
Modeling
Models and simulation
Models, Biological
Outbreaks
pandemic
Pandemics
Pandemics - statistics & numerical data
Population Density
prediction
Prognosis
Public health
RESEARCH ARTICLE
SARS
SARS Virus
Severe acute respiratory syndrome
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - epidemiology
Simulations
Spatio-Temporal Analysis
Spreads
Viral diseases
Viral diseases of the respiratory system and ent viral diseases
Wave propagation
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