3 papers
q-bio.PE2025
Sensitivity analysis of epidemic forecasting and spreading on networks with probability generating functions
Mariah C. Boudreau, William H. W. Thompson, Christopher M. Danforth +2
Epidemic forecasting tools embrace the stochasticity and heterogeneity of disease spread to predict the growth and size of outbreaks. Conceptually, stochasticity and heterogeneity…
physics.soc-ph2025
One pathogen does not an epidemic make: A review of interacting contagions, diseases, beliefs, and stories
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Antoine Allard +15
From pathogens and computer viruses to genes and memes, contagion models have found widespread utility across the natural and social sciences. Despite their success and breadth of…
physics.soc-ph2024
Governance as a complex, networked, democratic, satisfiability problem
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Nicholas W. Landry, Juniper Lovato +6
Democratic governments comprise a subset of a population whose goal is to produce coherent decisions, solving societal challenges while respecting the will of the people. New gover…