Journal of Bacteriology & Parasitology

Department of Mathematics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Biography

Thomas Hurd has extended his valuable service for many years and has been a recipient of many award and grants. His international experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study.  His research interests reflect in his wide range of publications in various national and international journals.

Publications

• Short Communication   
  Analytics of Contagion in Inhomogeneous Random Social Networks
  Author(s): Hurd TR*
  
  The inhomogeneous random social network (IRSN) framework, designed to model the spread of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, follows Einstein's dictum “that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.'' It adopts an agent-based perspective with a sample population of size N of individuals classified into an arbitrary number of types, capturing features such as age, profession etc. An individual may become infected by their social contacts via a dose-response mechanism, whereupon they themselves can infect others. The simplicity of the framework arises because of exchangeability: the individuals of each type are modelled as agents with identically distributed random characteristics. .. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2155-9597.21.12.391

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