The MoBS laboratory is home to research projects aiming at developing innovative mathematical models and computational tools to better understand, anticipate and control large-scale complex networks and systems.
The laboratory, directed by Alessandro Vespignani, has joint affiliations with the Department of Physics, the Department of Health Sciences and the College of Computer and Information Sciences at Northeastern University.
The laboratory, directed by Alessandro Vespignani, has joint affiliations with the Department of Physics, the Department of Health Sciences and the College of Computer and Information Sciences at Northeastern University.
Latest news
New visualization: Epidemic Rapid Transit Map (Epi-Rail)
The Epidemic Rapid Transit Map shows a hypothetical pandemic scenario starting in Hanoi, Vietnam. This visualization is part of “The Art of Networks II” exhibition that will be on display between March 26 - May 31, 2015 at the New York Hall of Science... Read More → |
Assessing the international spreading risk associated with the 2014WA EVD
The 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak is the largest and deadliest recorded in history. We have developed a modeling approach aimed at assessing the epidemic's progression in West Africa and its international spread. Our results have been published in PLOS Currents Outbreaks... Read More → |
New paper: Controlling contagion processes in time-varying networks
In a paper recently published in Physical Review Letters we study the effect of different immunization strategies for contagion processes taking place on time-varying networks. We provide analytical predictions for the epidemic threshold considering synthetic activity driven networks. Read More → |
Visualizations |
Recent publicationsGlobal epidemic invasion thresholds in directed subpopulation networks having source, sink, and transit nodes, Journal of Theoretical Biology 367, 203-221, (2015) [VIEW]
Collective attention in the age of (mis)information, Computers in Human Behaviors, (2015) [VIEW] |
The laboratory |