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Engages the imagination to illustrate the power of mathematical modelling. This book brings together a highly skilled team of contributors to fend off a zombie uprising. It helps you to learn how modelling can advise government policy, and how theoretical results can be communicated to a nonmathemat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smith?, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1972- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ottawa [Ontario] : University of Ottawa Press, 2014.
Temas:
Zombies > Mathematical models.
Zombies > Modèles mathématiques.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword: I Ran with a Zombie / Andrew Cartmel
  • Introduction: What can zombies teach us about mathematics / Robert Smith
  • The Viral Spread of a Zombie Media Story / Robert Smith
  • The Undead: A Plague on Humanity or a Powerful New Tool for Epidemiological Research? / Jane M. Heffernan and Derek J. Wilson
  • When Zombies Attack! Alternate Ending / Phil Munz
  • When Humans Strike Back! Adaptive Strategies for Zombie Attacks Bard Ermentrout and Kyle Ermentrout
  • Increasing Survivability in a Zombie Epidemic / Ben Tippett
  • How Long Can We Survive? / Thomas E. Woolley, Ruth E. Baker, Eamonn A. Gaffney and Philip K. Maini
  • Demographics of Zombies in the United States / Daniel Zelterman
  • Is It Safe to Go Out Yet? Statistical Inference in a Zombie Outbreak Model / Ben Calderhead, Mark Girolami and Desmond J. Higham
  • The Social Zombie: Modelling Undead Outbreaks on Social Networks / Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Vincent Marceau, Pierre-André e Noël, Antoine Allard and Louis J. Dubé
  • Zombie Infection Warning System Based on Fuzzy Decision-Making / Micael S. Couceiro, Carlos M. Figueiredo, J. Miguel A. Luz and Michael J. Delorme
  • Zombies in the City: A NetLogo Model / Jennifer Badham and Judy-anne Osborn
  • An Evolvable Linear Representation for Simulating Policy in Zombie Outbreaks / Daniel Ashlock, Joseph Alexander Brown and Clinton Innes
  • Baneling Dynamics in Legend of the Seeker / Gergely Röst
  • The Zombie Swarm: Epidemics in the Presence of Social Attraction and Repulsion / Evelyn Sander and Chad M. Topaz
  • Conclusion / Robert Smith
  • Afterword / Robert Smith.

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