Bioterrorism
Subtitle: mathematical modeling applications in homeland security
By: edited by H.T. Banks, Carlos Castillo-Chavez.
Contributors: Banks, H. Thomas.; Castillo-Chávez, Carlos.
Series: Frontiers in applied mathematics -- 28.
Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780898715491
Subjects: Biological warfare -- Mathematical models; Bioterrorism -- Mathematical models; Civil defense -- United States -- Mathematical models; United States -- Defenses -- Mathematical models
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Challenges for discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science in the defense against bioterrorism / Fred S. Roberts; title: Worst-case scenarios and epidemics / Gerardo Chowell and Carlos Castillo-Chavez; title: Chemical and biological sensing : modeling and analysis from the real world / Ira B. Schwartz ... [et al.]; title: The distribution of interpoint distances / Marco Bonetti ... [et al.]; title: Epidemiologic information for modeling foot-and-mouth disease / Thomas W. Bates, Mark C. Thurmond, and Tim E. Carpenter; title: Modeling and imaging techniques with potential for application in bioterrorism / H.T. Banks ... [et al.]; title: Models for the transmission dynamics of fanatic behaviors / Carlos Castillo-Chavez and Baojun Song; title: An epidemic model with virtual mass transportation : the case of smallpox in a large city / Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Baojun Song, and Juan Zhang; title: The role of migration and contact distributions in epidemic spread / K.P. Hadeler; title: Modeling the spread of influenza among cities / James M. Hyman and Tara LaForce.