In recent years the research community has accumulated overwhelming evidence for the
emergence of complex and heterogeneous connectivity patterns in a wide range of …

There is a long tradition of using mathematical models to generate insights into the
transmission dynamics of infectious diseases and assess the potential impact of different …

Background The dynamics of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 are complicated by age-
dependent factors, changing levels of infection, and the relaxation of non-pharmaceutical …

The COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted our vulnerability to novel infections. Faced with this
threat and no effective treatment, in line with many other countries, the UK adopted enforced …

Over the past decade, the use of networks has led to a new modelling paradigm combining
several branches of science, including physics, mathematics, biology and social sciences …

The ongoing rapid expansion of the Word Wide Web (WWW) greatly increases the
information of effective transmission from heterogeneous individuals to various systems …

Coordination among social animals requires rapid and efficient transfer of information
among individuals, which may depend crucially on the underlying structure of the …

For epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and health-care professionals, real-time and
predictive modeling of infectious disease is of growing importance. This book provides a …

Over the last years, an intensive worldwide effort is speeding up the developments in the
establishment of a global surveillance network for combating pandemics of emergent and re …

The study of networks pervades all of science, from neurobiology to statistical physics. The
most basic issues are structural: how does one characterize the wiring diagram of a food …