constructing social contact networks

Network Dynamics and Simulation Science

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Cyberinfrastructure for Social Networksand Network Analysis

Network Dynamics and Simulation Science LaboratoryVirginia Bioinformatics Institute

Virginia Tech

Christopher BarrettKarla Atkins, Richard Beckman, Keith Bisset,

Stephen Eubank, Achla Marathe, Madhav Marathe, Henning Mortveit, Paula Stretz, Anil Vullikanti

Constructing Social Contact Networks

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Time Slices Define a Social Network

Decreasing fidelity, but invariant degree distribution, in social networks (above) affects disease dynamics (below)

Degree distributionof the (temporal)people-ppl. graph

Basic Structural Properties of Portland Social Network *

Degree distributions of the bipartite graph

Clustering Coefficient

* Nature, 13 May 2004

Scaling Laws for Structural Measures*

Degree Distribution Cumulative point overlapratios

Shattering by high degreepeople

* ACM SIAM SODA 2004 and DIMACS Issue on Epidemiology

Network robustness

Shattering the giantcomponent of people by:

Vaccinating (quarantining)high-degree people

Closing downhigh-degree locations

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Estimating a social network

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Grid-based Web Service Cyberinfrastructure for Social Sciences