Jeffrey Kephart, Gregory Sorkin, David Chess, Steve White
Scientific American
ISSN 0036-8733
November 1997
Download PDF (129.28Kb) (You need to be registered on forum)Building on decades of research by mathematical epidemiologists, we have obtained some understanding of the factors that govern how quickly viruses spread. Our efforts to find efficient methods of detecting viruses and the relations among them owe much to pattern-matching techniques developed by computational biologists.