An acquaintance network is a social structure made up of a set of actors and the ties between them. These ties change dynamically as a consequence of incessant interactions between the actors. In this paper we introduce a social network model called the Interaction-Based (IB) model that involves well-known sociological principles. The connections between the actors and the strength of the conne...

Aeromonas salmonicida is the oldest known infectious agent to be linked to fish disease and constitutes a major bacterial pathogen of fish, in particular of salmonids. This bacterium can be found almost worldwide in both marine and freshwater environments and has been divided into several sub-species. In this review, we present the most recent developments concerning our understanding of this p...

Abstract Optimal and efficient immunization of large networks remains a challenging task. Many theories approaches have been suggested, however most them require complete knowledge the underlying network structure. Here, we study targeted strategy that incorporates fact there is often limited on Previous work has suggested ‘acquaintance’ immunization, where rather than selecting random individu...