Research Interest

New article in Journal of Theoretical Biology

Epidemic modeling in metapopulation systems with heterogeneous coupling pattern: Theory and simulations
V. Colizza and A. Vespignani,
Journal of Theoretical Biology 251, 450-467 (2008)

New article in Networks and Heterogeneous Media

K-core decomposition of Internet graphs: hierarchies, self-similarity and measurement biases
J. I. Alvarez-Hamelin, L. Dall'Asta, A. Barrat and A. Vespignani ,
Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 3, 395-411 (2008)

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Recent Papers

• Ranking Web Sites with Real User Traffic,
  Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Web Search & Data Mining, Palo Alto, California, USA, Feb 11-12, 2008 (Pages 65-75),
  M.R. Meiss, F. Menczer, S. Fortunato, A. Flammini, A. Vespignani

• Predictability and epidemic pathways in global outbreaks of infectious diseases: the SARS case study,
  BMC Medicine 5, 34(2007),
  V. Colizza, A. Barrat, M. Barthelemy and A. Vespignani

• Invasion Threshold in Heterogeneous Metapopulation Networks,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 148701(2007),
  V. Colizza and A. Vespignani

• Patterns of dominant flows in the world trade web,
  Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination 2, 111-124 (2007),
  M.D. Serrano, M. Bogunya, A. Vespignani

• Reaction-diffusion processes and metapopulation models in heterogeneous networks,
  Nature Physics 3, 276-282 (2007),
  V.Colizza, R. Pastor-Satorras and A. Vespignani

• Modeling the Worldwide Spread of Pandemic Influenza: Baseline Case and Containment Interventions,
  PLoS Medicine 4, e-13 (2007),
  V.Colizza, A. Barrat, M. Barthelemy, A.-J. Valleron and A. Vespignani

• The Modeling of Global Epidemics: Stochastic Dynamics and predictability,
  Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 68, 1893-1921 (2006),
  V.Colizza, A. Barrat, M. Barthelemy and A. Vespignani

• Topical interests and the mitigation of search engine bias,
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 12684-12689 (2006),
  S. Fortunato, A.Flammini, F. Menczer and A. Vespignani

• Detecting rich-club ordering in complex networks,
  Nature Physics 2, 110-115 (2006),
  V.Colizza, A.Flammini, M.A.Serrano and A. Vespignani

• Prediction and predictability of global epidemics: the role of the airline transportation network
  Proc.Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 2015-2020 (2006),
  V.Colizza, A.Barrat, M. Barthelemy and A. Vespignani

• Exploring networks with traceroute-like probes: theory and simulations
  Theoretical Computer Science 355, 6-24 (2006)
  L. Dall'Asta, I. Alvarez-Hamelin, A. Barrat, A. Vazquez and A.Vespignani