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ECE Research Brochure featuring EPICENTER


K-State Laboratory for Complex Network Approach to Epidemiological, Biological and Sociological Modeling and Simulation (EPICENTER) provides resources to analyze, build and simulate mathematical models for spreading phenomena in complex networks.


One of the main goals of EPICENTER is to provide policy makers with real-time flexible tools to curtail epidemiological outbreaks; whether such an outbreak occurs in humans, animals, plants or computers. Very little disrupts society and causes economic loss as severely as an out-of-control epidemic. Such an epidemic may result in human deaths, disposal of herds, destruction of crops, inability to communicate over the Internet, or significant economic losses, and be the result of terrorist attacks or natural causes. As a matter of fact, more deaths are due to infectious diseases worldwide than those caused by any other threat, such as famine, war, terrorism, etc. EPICENTER members are developing mathematical models, algorithms, and software for network simulation and topology analysis with mobile agents that allow dynamic environmental inputs. Our goal is to design efficient, realistic simulations for real-time implementation of many diverse epidemics.


The faculty of EPICENTER is comprised of researchers from different disciplines, namely agriculture, veterinary, biology, medicine, social sciences, and engineering. These researchers have a common interest in applying complex network approaches to different spreading and diffusion phenomena in many diverse contexts, combining biological applications with core mathematical competencies. 



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