Efficient local strategies for vaccination and network attack Export

@misc{VaccinationStrategies_Holme.07, abstract = {We study how a fraction of a population should be vaccinated to most efficiently top epidemics. We argue that only local information (about the neighborhood of specific vertices) is usable in practice, and hence we consider only local vaccination strategies. The efficiency of the vaccination strategies is investigated with both static and dynamical measures. Among other things we find that the most efficient strategy for many real-world situations is to iteratively vaccinate the neighbor of the previous vaccinee that has most links out of the neighborhood.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Holme, Petter}, citeulike-article-id = {2824396}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0403021v1}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/q-bio/0403021v1}, day = {16}, eprint = {q-bio/0403021v1}, keywords = {blockers, local, networks, spread, vaccination}, month = {Mar}, posted-at = {2008-05-23 04:56:20}, priority = {2}, title = {Efficient local strategies for vaccination and network attack}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0403021v1}, year = {2004} }

TY - ELEC ID - VaccinationStrategies_Holme.07 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2824396 N2 - We study how a fraction of a population should be vaccinated to most efficiently top epidemics. We argue that only local information (about the neighborhood of specific vertices) is usable in practice, and hence we consider only local vaccination strategies. The efficiency of the vaccination strategies is investigated with both static and dynamical measures. Among other things we find that the most efficient strategy for many real-world situations is to iteratively vaccinate the neighbor of the previous vaccinee that has most links out of the neighborhood. TI - Efficient local strategies for vaccination and network attack KW - blockers KW - local KW - networks KW - spread KW - vaccination AU - Holme, Petter PY - 2004/Mar/16/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0403021v1 ER -