The purpose of this work is to give a contribution to the understanding of the COVID-19
contagion in Italy. To this end, we developed a modified Susceptible-Infected-Recovered …

The use of social and contact networks to answer basic and applied questions about
infectious disease transmission in wildlife and livestock is receiving increased attention …

We address the diffusion of information about the COVID-19 with a massive data analysis on
Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and Gab. We analyze engagement and interest in the …

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 basic reproduction number is one of the conceptual cornerstones of mathematical
epidemiology. Its classical definition as the number of secondary cases generated by a …

During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, mathematical models of epidemic spreading have
emerged as powerful tools to produce valuable predictions of the evolution of the pandemic …

Covering the major topics of evolutionary game theory, Game-Theoretical Models in Biology,
Second Edition presents both abstract and practical mathematical models of real biological …

Background: The World Health Organization has declared the novel coronavirus disease
(COVID-19) to be a public health emergency; at present, India is facing a major threat of …

Traditionally, the spread of infectious diseases in human populations has been modelled
with static parameters. These parameters, however, can change when individuals change …

ABSTRACT A hallmark assumption of traditional approaches to disease modelling is that
individuals within a given population mix uniformly and at random. However, this …