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Modeling and predicting human infectious diseases

Social Phenomena: From Data Analysis to Models, Page: 59-83
2015
  • 17
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 29
    Captures
  • 0
    Mentions
  • 2
    Social Media
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  • Citations
    17
    • Citation Indexes
      16
    • Patent Family Citations
      1
      • Patent Families
        1
  • Captures
    29
  • Social Media
    2
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      2
      • Facebook
        2

Book Chapter Description

The spreading of infectious diseases has dramatically shaped our history and society. The quest to understand and prevent their spreading dates more than two centuries. Over the years, advances in Medicine, Biology, Mathematics, Physics, Network Science, Computer Science, and Technology in general contributed to the development of modern epidemiology. In this chapter, we present a summary of different mathematical and computational approaches aimed at describing, modeling, and forecasting the diffusion of viruses. We start from the basic concepts and models in an unstructured population and gradually increase the realism by adding the effects of realistic contact structures within a population as well as the effects of human mobility coupling different subpopulations. Building on these concepts we present two realistic data-driven epidemiological models able to forecast the spreading of infectious diseases at different geographical granularities.We conclude by introducing some recent developments in diseases modeling rooted in the bigdata revolution.

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