Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: We study how a fraction of a population should be vaccinated to most efficiently stop epidemics. Our starting point is that only local information—about the neighborhood of specific vertices—is usable in practice. For this reason we consider only local vaccination strategies. The efficiency of the vaccination strategies is investigated with both static and dynamic measures. We test the strategies on real-world networks and model networks with real-world characteristics. 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 the most links out of the neighborhood.
Source: Europhysics Letters (EPL)
Author: P Holme
Institutions: University of Michigan, Umeå University
Language: English
Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: Vetenskapsrådet
OpenAlex ID: W2090687169