Mathematical models are being pressed into service in the global war on bioterrorism. In their intro...
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Mathematical models are being pressed into service in the global war on bioterrorism. In their introduction to ten chapters developed from a 2002 SIAM meeting, Banks (North Carolina State U.) and Castillo-Chavez (Cornell U.) note that these efforts to simulate or detect epidemics and other worse-case scenarios integrate methods from epidemiology, discrete mathematics, and theoretical computer science. Contributors discuss challenges to biosurveillance and such relevant aspects from these diverse fields as cluster analysis, social network models, game theory, and biological and chemical sensing. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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