Influence blocking maximization on networks: Models, methods and applications

BL Chen, WX Jiang, YX Chen, L Chen, RJ Wang… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the continuous emergence of various social and trade networks, network influence
analysis has aroused great interest of the researchers. Based on different influence …

Making smarter decisions faster: systems engineering to improve the global public health response to HIV

AD Wagner, J Crocker, S Liu, P Cherutich… - Current HIV/AIDS …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This review offers an operational definition of systems
engineering (SE) as applied to public health, reviews applications of SE in the field of HIV …

Methods for removing links in a network to minimize the spread of infections

AK Nandi, HR Medal - Computers & Operations Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Minimizing the spread of infections is a challenging problem, and it is the subject matter in
many different fields such as epidemiology and cyber-security. In this paper, we investigate …

Implementation science to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic

AR Means, AD Wagner, E Kern, LP Newman… - Frontiers in public …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to expand globally, requiring massive public health
responses from national and local governments. These bodies have taken heterogeneous …

Characteristics of cases with repeated sexually transmitted infections, Massachusetts, 2014–2016

KK Hsu, LE Molotnikov, KA Roosevelt… - Clinical Infectious …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Persons with prior sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are at high risk for
reinfection. No recent studies have examined frequency with which persons are diagnosed …

Link prediction potentials for biological networks

S Sulaimany, M Khansari… - International Journal of …, 2018 - inderscienceonline.com
Improvement of biological networks reconstructed from high-throughput expression data is
an important challenge in systems biology. Link prediction is a problem of interest in many …

Abrupt epidemic outbreak could be well tackled by multiple pre-emptive provisions-A game approach considering structured and unstructured populations

M Alam, Y Ida, J Tanimoto - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2021 - Elsevier
Forecasting the dynamics of flu epidemics could be vital for policy-making concerning the
allocation of public health resources. Reliable predictions about disease transmission …

Reversibility of link prediction and its application to epidemic mitigation

S Sulaimany, A Mafakheri - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Current link prediction strategies are about finding new probable strong relations to
establish or weak ones to remove. An interesting strategy is utilizing link prediction to …

[HTML][HTML] Moving the epidemic tipping point through topologically targeted social distancing

S Ansari, M Anvari, O Pfeffer, N Molkenthin… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
The epidemic threshold of a social system is the ratio of infection and recovery rate above
which a disease spreading in it becomes an epidemic. In the absence of pharmaceutical …

A control measure for epidemic spread based on SIS model

JX Yang, H Wang, X Li, Y Tan, Y Ma, M Zeng - BioSystems, 2024 - Elsevier
When an epidemic occurs in a network, finding the important links and cutting them off is an
effective measure for preventing the spread of the epidemic. Traditional methods that …