Analysis and control of epidemics: A survey of spreading processes on complex networks

C Nowzari, VM Preciado… - IEEE Control Systems …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reviews and presents various solved and open problems in the development,
analysis, and control of epidemic models. The proper modeling and analysis of spreading …

Analysis, prediction, and control of epidemics: A survey from scalar to dynamic network models

L Zino, M Cao - IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

The N-intertwined SIS epidemic network model

P Van Mieghem - Computing, 2011 - Springer
Serious epidemics, both in cyber space as well as in our real world, are expected to occur
with high probability, which justifies investigations in virus spread models in (contact) …

Optimal resource allocation for network protection against spreading processes

VM Preciado, M Zargham, C Enyioha… - … on Control of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the problem of containing spreading processes in arbitrary directed networks by
distributing protection resources throughout the nodes of the network. We consider that two …

Optimal vaccine allocation to control epidemic outbreaks in arbitrary networks

VM Preciado, M Zargham, C Enyioha… - … IEEE conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of controlling the propagation of an epidemic outbreak in an
arbitrary contact network by distributing vaccination resources throughout the network. We …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal epidemic suppression under an ICU constraint: An analytical solution

L Miclo, D Spiro, J Weibull - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
How much and when should we limit economic and social activity to ensure that the health-
care system is not overwhelmed during an epidemic? We study a setting where ICU …

Containing epidemic outbreaks by message-passing techniques

F Altarelli, A Braunstein, L Dall'Asta, JR Wakeling… - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
The problem of targeted network immunization can be defined as the one of finding a subset
of nodes in a network to immunize or vaccinate in order to minimize a tradeoff between the …

An efficient curing policy for epidemics on graphs

K Drakopoulos, A Ozdaglar… - 53rd IEEE Conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper provides an implementable dynamic policy for the rapid containment of a
contagious process modeled as an SIS epidemic. We show that for graphs with low …

Centrality-based epidemic control in complex social networks

M Doostmohammadian, HR Rabiee… - Social Network Analysis …, 2020 - Springer
Recent progress in the areas of network science and control has shown a significant
promise in understanding and analyzing epidemic processes. A well-known model to study …

Decentralized protection strategies against SIS epidemics in networks

S Trajanovski, Y Hayel, E Altman… - … on Control of …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Defining an optimal protection strategy against viruses, spam propagation, or any other kind
of contamination process is an important feature for designing new networks and …