Efficient local strategies for vaccination and network attack

@article{Holme2004EfficientLS,
  title={Efficient local strategies for vaccination and network attack},
  author={Petter Holme},
  journal={EPL},
  year={2004},
  volume={68},
  pages={908-914}
}
  • P. Holme
  • Published 16 March 2004
  • Mathematics
  • EPL
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 usa ... 
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