Archive for the ‘Publications’ Category

High-Resolution Measurements of Face-to-Face Contact Patterns in a Primary School.

in: PLoS ONE 6(8): e23176. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023176, August 2011.

authors: Juliette Stehlé, Nicolas Voirin, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Lorenzo Isella, Jean-François Pinton, Marco Quaggiotto, Wouter Van den Broeck, Corinne Régis, Bruno Lina and Philippe Vanhems.

Simulation of an SEIR infectious disease model on the dynamic contact network of conference attendees.

in: BMC Medicine, 9(87), July 2011.

authors: Juliette Stehlé, Nicolas Voirin, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Vittoria Colizza, Lorenzo Isella, Corinne Régis, Jean-François Pinton, Nagham Khanafer, Wouter Van den Broeck, and Philippe Vanhems.

On the Dynamics of Human Proximity for Data Diffusion in Ad-Hoc Networks.

in: Ad Hoc Networks, doi: 10.1016/ j.adhoc.2011.06.003, june 2011.

authors: André Panisson, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Wouter Van den Broeck, Giancarlo Ruffo, and Rossano Schifanella.

Close Encounters in a Pediatric Ward: Measuring Face-to-Face Proximity and Mixing Patterns with Wearable Sensors.

in: PLoS ONE 6(2): e17144. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017144, March 2011.

authors: Lorenzo Isella, Mariateresa Romano, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Vittoria Colizza, Wouter Van den Broeck, Francesco Gesualdo, Elisabetta Pandolfi, Lucilla Ravà, Caterina Rizzo, Alberto Eugenio Tozzi.

The GLEaMviz computational tool, a publicly available software to explore realistic epidemic spreading scenarios at the global scale

in: BMC Infectious Diseases

authors: Wouter Van den Broeck, Corrado Gioannini, Bruno Goncalves, Marco Quaggiotto, Vittoria Colizza, Alessandro Vespignani.

This paper discusses the objectives and functionalities offered by the GLEaMviz Simulator system, comparing these with similar publicly available software tools. A detailed description of the implementation of both the client-side and server-side components that comprise the complete system are given, and a realistic simulation example and its results are discussed.

What’s in a crowd? Analysis of face-to-face behavioral networks

in: Journal of Theoretical Biology

authors: Lorenzo Isella, Juliette Stehlé, Alain Barrat, Ciro Cattuto, Jean-François Pinton, and Wouter Van den Broeck.

This paper presents some interesting analysis of the face-to-face contact data collected with the SocioPatterns sensing platform, compare two settings with very different properties: a scientific conference and a long-running museum exhibition.

Our principal SocioPatterns paper has been published on PLoS ONE:

• Dynamics of Person-to-Person Interactions from Distributed RFID Sensor Networks.

We also recently published two papers on the Live Social Semantics experiment in which the SocioPatterns platform was used:

• Semantics, sensors, and the social web: The live social semantics experiments.

• The Live Social Semantics application: a platform for integrating face-to-face presence with on-line social networking.

• Estimate of Novel Influenza A/H1N1 cases in Mexico at the early stage of the pandemic with a spatially structured epidemic model
  V Colizza, A Vespignani, N Perra, C Poletto, B Gonçalves, H Hu, D Balcan, D Paolotti, W Van den Broeck, M Tizzoni, P Bajardi, JJ Ramasco. PLoS Currents: Influenza. 2009 Nov 11:RRN1129.
• Modeling vaccination campaigns and the Fall/Winter 2009 activity of the new A(H1N1) influenza in the Northern Hemisphere. Paulo Bajardi, Chiara Poletto, Duygu Balcan, Hao Hu, Bruno Goncalves, Jose Ramasco, Daniela Paolotti, Nicola Perra, Michele Tizzoni, Wouter Van den Broeck, Vittoria Colizza and Alessandro Vespignani. Emerging Health Threats Journal 2009, 2:e11. doi: 10.3134/ehtj.09.011

Two new papers I’m involved in, one published recently, the other about to be published:

• H. Alani, M. Szomsor, C. Cattuto, W. Van den Broeck, G. Correndo, A. Barrat. Live Social Semantics, 8th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC2009.
• Duygu Balcan , Hao Hu , Bruno Gonçalves , Paolo Bajardi , Chiara Poletto , Jose J Ramasco , Daniela Paolotti , Nicola Perra , Michele Tizzoni , Wouter Van den Broeck , Vittoria Colizza and Alessandro Vespignani. Seasonal transmission potential and activity peaks of the new influenza A(H1N1): a Monte Carlo likelihood analysis based on human mobility. BMC Medicine 2009, 7:45.