Urgent epidemic control mechanism for aviation networks

Peng, Chengbin; Wang, Shengbin; Shi, Meixia; Jin, Xiaogang

Urgent epidemic control mechanism for aviation networks

Type

Conference Paper

Authors

Peng, Chengbin

Wang, Shengbin
Shi, Meixia

Jin, Xiaogang

KAUST Department

Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Computer Science Program

Date

2011

Abstract

In the current century, the highly developed transportation system can not only boost the economy, but also greatly accelerate the spreading of epidemics. While some epidemic diseases may infect quite a number of people ahead of our awareness, the health care resources such as vaccines and the medical staff are usually locally or even globally insufficient. In this research, with the network of major aviation routes as an example, we present a method to determine the optimal locations to allocate the medical service in order to minimize the impact of the infectious disease with limited resources. Specifically, we demonstrate that when the medical resources are insufficient, we should concentrate our efforts on the travelers with the objective of effectively controlling the spreading rate of the epidemic diseases. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Citation

Peng, C., Wang, S., Shi, M., & Jin, X. (2011). Urgent Epidemic Control Mechanism for Aviation Networks. Practical Applications of Intelligent Systems, 355–360. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-25658-5_44