Scaling in Biological and Social Networks - Abstract - Barthelemy
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Epidemiology and transportation research
Abstract:
In our modern societies, individuals can easily travel by different means and over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. The structure and the different complexity levels of the transportation network are therefore particularly relevant for understanding the heterogeneous and seemingly erratic outbreak patterns observed in the propagation of diseases such as the SARS or the seasonal Influenza. I will first discuss briefly how the structure of transportation networks affects the spatio-temporal pattern of disease spread and we will see that a particularly important problem is the existence of a dominant network at a certain scale. This discussion will allow me to identify some important challenges and open problems both in epidemiology and in transportation research.