Mathematical approaches to infectious disease prediction and control

NB Dimitrov, LA Meyers - Risk and optimization in an …, 2010 - pubsonline.informs.org
Mathematics has long been an important tool for understanding and controlling the spread
of infectious diseases. Here, we begin with an overview of compartmental models, the …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing tactics for use of the US antiviral strategic national stockpile for pandemic influenza

NB Dimitrov, S Goll, N Hupert, B Pourbohloul… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
In 2009, public health agencies across the globe worked to mitigate the impact of the swine-origin
influenza A (pH1N1) virus. These efforts included intensified surveillance, social …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing real-time Zika risk in the United States

…, SJ Fox, X Chen, K Liu, SE Bellan, NB Dimitrov… - BMC infectious …, 2017 - Springer
Background Confirmed local transmission of Zika Virus (ZIKV) in Texas and Florida have
heightened the need for early and accurate indicators of self-sustaining transmission in high …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing provider recruitment for influenza surveillance networks

SV Scarpino, NB Dimitrov… - PLoS computational …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The increasingly complex and rapid transmission dynamics of many infectious diseases
necessitates the use of new, more advanced methods for surveillance, early detection, and …

Competitive weighted matching in transversal matroids

NB Dimitrov, CG Plaxton - Algorithmica, 2012 - Springer
Consider a bipartite graph with a set of left-vertices and a set of right-vertices. All the edges
adjacent to the same left-vertex have the same weight. We present an algorithm that, given …

Stochastic optimization for discrete overcurrent relay tripping characteristics and coordination

M Lwin, J Guo, NB Dimitrov… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dimitrov received the BS degree in mathematics and computer science from the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2002 and the Ph.D. degree in theoretical computer …

Network deployment of radiation detectors with physics-based detection probability calculations

NB Dimitrov, DP Michalopoulos, DP Morton… - Annals of Operations …, 2011 - Springer
We describe a model for deploying radiation detectors on a transportation network consisting
of two adversaries: a nuclear-material smuggler and an interdictor. The interdictor first …

Competitive weighted matching in transversal matroids

NB Dimitrov, CG Plaxton - International Colloquium on Automata …, 2008 - Springer
Consider a bipartite graph with a set of left-vertices and a set of right-vertices. All the edges
adjacent to the same left-vertex have the same weight. We present an algorithm that, given …

[HTML][HTML] Uncertainty analysis of species distribution models

X Chen, NB Dimitrov, LA Meyers - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The maximum entropy model, a commonly used species distribution model (SDM) normally
combines observations of the species occurrence with environmental information to predict …

[HTML][HTML] Socioeconomic bias in influenza surveillance

…, RM Eggo, B Clements, NB Dimitrov… - PLoS Computational …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Individuals in low socioeconomic brackets are considered at-risk for developing influenza-related
complications and often exhibit higher than average influenza-related hospitalization …