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WiFi Epidemiology: Can Your Neighbors' Router Make Yours Sick?
Hao Hu, Steven Myers, Vittoria Colizza +1
In densely populated urban areas WiFi routers form a tightly interconnected proximity network that can be exploited as a substrate for the spreading of malware able to launch massi…
Epidemic modeling in metapopulation systems with heterogeneous coupling pattern: theory and simulations
Vittoria Colizza, Alessandro Vespignani
The spatial structure of populations is a key element in the understanding of the large scale spreading of epidemics. Motivated by the recent empirical evidence on the heterogeneou…
Patterns of dominant flows in the world trade web
M. Angeles Serrano, Marian Boguna, Alessandro Vespignani
The large-scale organization of the world economies is exhibiting increasingly levels of local heterogeneity and global interdependency. Understanding the relation between local an…
Reaction-diffusion processes and metapopulation models in heterogeneous networks
V. Colizza, R. Pastor-Satorras, A. Vespignani
Dynamical reaction-diffusion processes and meta-population models are standard modeling approaches for a wide variety of phenomena in which local quantities - such as density, pote…
Modeling the Worldwide Spread of Pandemic Influenza: Baseline Case and Containment Interventions
Vittoria Colizza, Alain Barrat, Marc Barthelemy +2
We present a study of the worldwide spread of a pandemic influenza and its possible containment at a global level taking into account all available information on air travel. We st…