Publications

A reduction method for Boolean networks proven to conserve attractors. By Assieh Saadatpour, Reka Albert, and Timothy Reluga.
submitted, December, 2012.
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The systems theory of community health and infectious disease. By Jing Li, Darla V. Lindberg, Rachel A. Smith, and Timothy C. Reluga.
submitted, 2013.
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Solutions of an epidemic game with linear social distancing cost. By T. Reluga.
submitted, June 2012.
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Games of age-dependent prevention of chronic infections by social distancing. By T. Reluga and J. Li.
Journal of Mathematical Biology, 2012.
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A general approach to population games with application to vaccination. By T. Reluga and A. Galvani.
Mathematical Biosciences, 230 (2): 67-78, April, 2011.
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Erratic flu vaccination emerges from short-sighted behaviour in contact networks. By D. M. Cornforth, T. C. Reluga, E. Shim, C. T. Bauch, A. P. Galvani, , and L. A. Meyers.
PLOS Computational Biology, 7 (1): e1001062, 2011.
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Game theory of social distancing in response to an epidemic. By T. Reluga.
PLOS Computational Biology, 6 (5): e1000793, 2010.
The papers used differential game theory to find the equilibrium behavior during an epidemic.
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Branching processes and non-commuting random variables in population biology. By T. Reluga.
Canadian Applied Math Quarterly, 17 (2): 387, 2009.
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An SIS epidemiology game with two subpopulations. By T. Reluga.
Journal of Biological Dynamics, 3 (5): 515-531, 2009.
See Cressman, 2003 for some earlier discussion of related stability ideas.
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The discounted reproductive number for epidemiology. By T. Reluga, J. Medlock, and A. Galvani.
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 6 (2): 377-393, 2009.
This paper uses M-matrix theory, non-negative matrices, and Perron-Frobenius theory to establish some useful results regarding next-generation matrixes for population biology.
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Analysis of hepatitis C virus infection models with hepatocyte homeostasis. By T. Reluga, H. Dahari, and A. S. Perelson.
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 69 (4): 999-1023, 2009.
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Backward bifurcations and multiple equilibria in epidemic models with structured immunity. By T. Reluga, J. Medlock, and A. Perelson.
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 252 (1): 155-165, 2008.
One of the issues that bugged me when first learning mathematical epidemiology was that it completely ignored the internal state of the hosts changed because of immune responses. How did we know that theories which ignored the complexities of the immune response within individuals were adequate to explain population-scale dynamics? This paper is a step forward in resolving this by constructing some specific hypotheses and conditions. (update 2012-08: Our results are nicely complementary to those in an earlier paper by Hethcode, Yi, and Jing, 1999, which we were un-aware of in 2008.)
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Optimal timing of disease transmission in an age-structured population. By T. Reluga, J. Medlock, E. Poolman, and A. Galvani.
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 69 (8): 2711-2722, 2007.
This paper studies how age-dependent virulence can lead to a a social-distancing game with two different Nash equilibria - one that maximizes transmission and one that minimizes transmission. This is closely related to the concept of ``endemic stability'' from veterinary science. Polio is used as an illustrative example.
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Reservoir interactions and disease emergence. By T. Reluga, D. B. Walton, R. Meza, and A. Galvani.
Theoretical Population Biology, 72 (3): 400-408, 2007.
This paper provides a modelling framework for the study of disease-emergence pathways. This is a concrete approach to risk-assessment associated with emergence patterns like those proposed by Wolfe et al.. This paper contains some useful discussions of reducible branching processes and the multivariable form of L'Hopital's rule. L'Hopital's rule is particularly useful for multivariable generating functions because critical processes are sure to have a double root.
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Long-standing influenza vaccination policy is in accord with individual self-interest but not with the utilitarian optimum. By A. Galvani, T. Reluga, and G. Chapman.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104 (13): 5692-5697, March 27 2007.
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Resistance mechanisms matter in SIRS models. By T. Reluga and J. Medlock.
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 4 (3): 553-563, July 2007.
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Evolving public perceptions and stability in vaccine uptake. By T. Reluga, C. Bauch, and A. Galvani.
Mathematical Biosciences, 204: 185-198, 2006.
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A model of spatial epidemic spread when individuals move within overlapping home ranges. By T. Reluga, J. Medlock, and A. Galvani.
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 68 (2): 401-416, February 2006.
This paper uses an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process to describe spatial movement and obtains some asymptotic results for the speed of spatial spread of an epidemic. C++/Linux Code.
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On antibiotic cycling and optimal heterogeneity. By T. Reluga.
Mathematical Medicine and Biology, June 2005.
This paper studies generalizations of the Meissner equation to show how changes in antibiotic use may increase or decrease resistance prevalence.
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Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of a nonlinear biochemical switch in a cellular signaling process. By H. Qian and T. Reluga.
Physical Review Letters, 94: 028101, January 2005.
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Simulated evolution of selfish herd behavior. By T. Reluga and S. Viscido.
Journal of Theoretical Biololgy, 234 (2): 213-225, 2005.
C++/Linux Code.
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Stochasticity, invasions, and branching random walks. By M. Kot, J. Medlock, T. Reluga, and D. B. Walton.
Theoretical Population Biology, 66 (3): 175-184, 2004.
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A two-phase epidemic driven by diffusion. By T. Reluga.
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 229 (2): 249-261, July 21 2004.
This paper shows how a double-epidemic might emerge from a bioterrorism attack.
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Analysis of periodic growth-disturbance models. By T. Reluga.
Theoretical Population Biology, 66 (2): 151-161, September 2004.
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