Publications

Available drafts

On the accuracy of message-passing approaches to percolation in complex networks
Antoine Allard and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
arXiv.org
The unintended consequences of inconsistent pandemic control policies
B. M. Althouse, B. Wallace, B. Case, S. V. Scarpino, A. Allard, A. Berdahl, E. R. White, and L. Hébert-Dufresne
medRxiv.org
The network epidemiology of an Ebola epidemic
L. Hébert-Dufresne, J.-G. Young, J. Bedson, L. A. Skrip, D. Pedi, M. F. Jalloh, B. Raulier, O. Lapointe-Gagné, A. Jambai, A. Allard, and B. M. Althouse
arXiv.org
Hierarchical team structure and multidimensional localization (or siloing) on networks
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Guillaume St-Onge, John Meluso, James Bagrow, and Antoine Allard
arXiv.org
Network Onion Divergence: Network representation and comparison using nested configuration models with fixed connectivity, correlation and centrality patterns
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Jean-Gabriel Young, Alexander Daniels, and Antoine Allard
arXiv.org
A network compression approach for quantifying the importance of temporal contact chronology
Andrea J. Allen, Cristopher Moore, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
arXiv.org
TRACE-Omicron: Policy Counterfactuals to Inform Mitigation of COVID-19 Spread in the United States
D. O’Gara, S. F. Rosenblatt, L. Hébert-Dufresne, R. Purcell, M. Kasman, and R. A. Hammond
arXiv.org
Temporal and probabilistic forecasts of epidemic interventions
Mariah C. Boudreau, Andrea J. Allen, Nicholas J. Roberts, Antoine Allard, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
arXiv.org
Indirect social learning through collective performance favors decentralization
John Meluso and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
arXiv.org
Accurately summarizing an outbreak using epidemiological models takes time
B. K. M. Case, Jean-Gabriel Young, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
arXiv.org
Diverse Misinformation: Impacts of Human Biases on Detection of Deepfakes on Networks
J. Lovato, L. Hébert-Dufresne, J. St-Onge, R. Harp, G. Salazar Lopez, S. P. Rogers, I. Ul Haq, and J. Onaolapo
arXiv.org

Published papers

Immunity-induced criticality of the genotype network of influenza A (H3N2) hemagglutinin
Blake J.M. Williams, C. Brandon Ogbunugafor, Benjamin M. Althouse, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
PNAS Nexus 1(4), pgac143 (2022)
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Limits of Individual Consent and Models of Distributed Consent in Online Social Networks
Juniper Lovato, Antoine Allard, Randall Harp, Jeremiah Onaolapo, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2251–2262 (2022)
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The penumbra of open source: projects outside of centralized platforms are longer maintained, more academic and more collaborative
Milo Z. Trujillo, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, and James Bagrow
EPJ Data Science 11, 31 (2022)
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Spatial epidemiology and adaptive targeted sampling to manage the Chagas disease vector Triatoma dimidiata
B. K. M. Case, Jean-Gabriel Young, Daniel Penados, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, and Lori Stevens
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 16(6): e0010436 (2022)
Full text | arXiv.org
A Review & Framework for Modeling Complex Engineered System Development Processes
John Meluso, Jesse Austin-Breneman, James Bagrow, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (2022)
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Distinguishing In-Groups and Onlookers by Language Use
J.R. Minot, M.Z. Trujillo, S.F. Rosenblatt, G. de Anda Jáuregui, E. Moog, L. Hébert-Dufresne, and A.M. Roth
12th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (2022)
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The role of directionality, heterogeneity and correlations in epidemic risk and spread
Antoine Allard, Cristopher Moore, Samuel V. Scarpino, Benjamin M. Althouse, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
SIAM Review (in press)
arXiv.org
Masculinity Contest Cultures and Inclusive Cultures: Insights From an Agent-Based Model of Organizational Socialization and Promotion
John Meluso, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, James P. Bagrow, and Rob Razzante
Research on Social Issues in Management (2022)
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The OCEAN mailing list data set: Network analysis spanning mailing lists and code repositories
M. Warrick, S. F. Rosenblatt, J.-G. Young, A. Casari, L. Hébert-Dufresne, and J. Bagrow
2022 Mining Software Repositories Conference (2022)
arXiv.org
Source-sink behavioral dynamics limit institutional evolution in a group-structured society
L. Hébert-Dufresne, T. M. Waring, G. St-Onge, M. T. Niles, L. K. Corlew, M. P. Dube, S. J. Miller, N. Gotelli and B. J. McGill
Royal Society Open Science 9, 211743 (2022)
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Predicting the diversity of early epidemic spread on networks
Andrea J. Allen, Mariah C. Boudreau, Nicholas J. Roberts, Antoine Allard and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Phys. Rev. Research 4, 013123 (2022)
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Impact and dynamics of hate and counter speech online
Joshua Garland, Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi, Jean-Gabriel Young, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, and Mirta Galesic
EPJ Data Science 11, 3 (2022)
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Influential groups for seeding and sustaining hypergraph contagions
G. St-Onge, I. Iacopini, V. Latora, A. Barrat, G. Petri, A. Allard and L. Hébert-Dufresne
Communication Physics 5, 25 (2022)
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Coordinated support for local action: A modeling study of strategies to facilitate behavior adoption in urban poor communities of Liberia for sustained COVID-19 suppression
Laura Skrip, Mosoka P Fallah, Jamie Bedson, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and Benjamin M. Althouse
Epidemics 37, 100529 (2021)
Full text | medRxiv.org
Universal nonlinear infection kernel from heterogeneous exposure on higher-order networks
Guillaume St-Onge, Hanlin Sun, Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, and Ginestra Bianconi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 158301 (2021)
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Adaptive staffing can mitigate essential worker disease and absenteeism in an emerging epidemic
E. Aguilar, N.J. Roberts, I. Uluturk, P. Kaminski, J.W. Barlow, A.G. Zori, L. Hébert-Dufresne, and B.D. Zusman
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 118:34 (2021)
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Flowers as dirty doorknobs: Demonstration of a virus transmission mechanism between Apis mellifera and Bombus impatiens
P. Burnham, S. Alger, B. K. M. Case, H. Boncristiani, L. Hébert-Dufresne and A. Brody
Journal of Applied Ecology 58:10 2065-2074 (2021)
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When the echo chamber shatters: Examining the use of community-specific language post-subreddit ban
M.Z. Trujillo, S.F. Rosenblatt, G. de Anda Jáuregui, E. Moog, L. Hébert-Dufresne, and A.M. Roth
ACL Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (2021)
Full text | arXiv.org
A review and agenda for integrated disease models including social and behavioral factors
J. Bedson, L. A. Skrip, et al., L. Hébert-Dufresne, and B. M. Althouse
Nature Human Behaviour 5, 834-846 (2021)
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Which contributions count? Analysis of attribution in open source
J.-G. Young, A. Casari, K. McLaughlin, M.Z. Trujillo, L. Hébert-Dufresne and J.P. Bagrow
2021 Mining Software Repositories Conference (2021)
Full text | arXiv.org
Seeding COVID-19 across Sub-Saharan Africa: An Analysis of Reported Importation Events across 49 Countries
L. Skrip, P. Selvaraj, et al., L. Hébert-Dufresne, S.V Scarpino, and B.M. Althouse
Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 104(5): 1694-1702 (2021)
Full text | medRxiv.org
Social confinement and mesoscopic localization of epidemics on networks
Guillaume St-Onge, Vincent Thibeault, Antoine Allard, Louis J. Dubé, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 098301 (2021)
Full text | arXiv.org
Master equation analysis of mesoscopic localization in contagion dynamics on higher-order networks
Guillaume St-Onge, Vincent Thibeault, Antoine Allard, Louis J. Dubé, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Phys. Rev. E 103, 032301 (2021)
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The effectiveness of backward contact tracing in networks
Sadamori Kojaku, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Enys Mones, Sune Lehmann, and Yong-Yeol Ahn
Nature Physics 17, 652-658 (2021)
Full text | arXiv.org | News and Views
Localization, epidemic transitions, and unpredictability of multistrain epidemics with an underlying genotype network
Blake J. M. Williams, Guillaume St-Onge, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
PLoS Comput Biol 17(2): e1008606 (2021)
Full text | arXiv.org
Open-source ecosystems need equitable credit across contributions
A. Casari, K. McLaughlin, M.Z. Trujillo, J.-G. Young, J.P. Bagrow, and L. Hébert-Dufresne
Nature Computational Science 1, 2 (2021)
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Containing future epidemics with trustworthy federated systems for ubiquitous warning and response
D. Carrillo, L. D. Nguyen, P. H. J. Nardelli, E. Pournaras, P. Morita, D. Z. Rodríguez, M. Dzaferagic, H. Siljak, A Jung, L. Hébert-Dufresne, I. Macaluso, M. Ullah, G. Fraidenraich, and P. Popovski
Front. Comms. Net. 2:621264 (2021)
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Countering hate on social media: Large scale classification of hate and counter speech
Joshua Garland, Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi, Jean-Gabriel Young, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, and Mirta Galesic
ACL Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms 102-112 (2020)
Full text | arXiv.org
Superspreading events in the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2: opportunities for interventions and control
B.M. Althouse, E.A. Wenger, J.C. Miller, S.V. Scarpino, A. Allard, L. Hébert-Dufresne, and H. Hu
PLoS Biology 18(11): e3000897 (2020)
Full text | arXiv.org
Modeling the Impact of School Reopening on SARS-CoV-2 Transmission
Benjamin Lee, John P. Hanley, Sarah Nowak, Jason H.T. Bates, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
BMC Public Health 20, 1713 (2020)
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Beyond R0: Heterogeneity in secondary infections and probabilistic epidemic forecasting
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Benjamin M. Althouse, Samuel V. Scarpino, and Antoine Allard
J. R. Soc. Interface 17, 172 (2020)
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Network comparison and the within-ensemble graph distance
H. Hartle, B. Klein, S. McCabe, A. Daniels, G. St-Onge, C. Murphy, and L. Hébert-Dufresne
Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 476, 2243 (2020)
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State-level variation of initial COVID-19 dynamics in the United States
Easton R. White and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
PLoS ONE 15(10): e0240648 (2020)
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Spread of infectious disease and social awareness as parasitic contagions on clustered networks
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Dina Mistry, and Benjamin M. Althouse
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033306 (2020)
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Community Engagement during outbreak response: standards, approaches, and lessons from the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone
J. Bedson, M.F. Jalloh, D. Pedi, et al., L.A. Skrip, B.M. Althouse, and L. Hébert-Dufresne
BMJ Global Health 5:e002145 (2020)
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Immunization strategies in networks with missing data
Samuel F. Rosenblatt, Jeffrey A. Smith, G. Robin Gauthier, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
PLoS Comput. Biol. 16(7): e1007897 (2020)
Full text | arXiv.org
Macroscopic patterns of interacting contagions are indistinguishable from social reinforcement
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Samuel V. Scarpino and Jean-Gabriel Young
Nature Physics 16, 426–431 (2020)
Full text | arXiv.org | News and Views
Unmet needs and behaviour during the Ebola response in Sierra Leone: a retrospective, mixed-methods analysis of community feedback from the Social Mobilization Action Consortium
L.A. Skrip, J. Bedson, S. Abramowitz, et al., L. Hébert-Dufresne, and B.M. Althouse
Lancet Planetary Health 4(2): e74-e85 (2020)
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Connected graphs with a given degree sequence: Efficient sampling, correlations, community detection and robustness
John H. Ring IV, Jean-Gabriel Young and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Proceedings of NetSci-X 2020, Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham (2020)
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Effective Implementation of Energy Aware Polarization Diversity for IoT Networks Using Eigenvector Centrality
Sakil Chowdhury, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and Jeff Frolik
Proceedings of NetSci-X 2020, Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham (2020)
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Phase transition in the recoverability of network history
Jean-Gabriel Young, Guillaume St-Onge, Edward Laurence, Charles Murphy, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and Patrick Desrosiers
Phys. Rev. X 9, 041056 (2019)
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Dynamics of beneficial epidemics
Santa Fe Institute Postdocs: 72 Hours of Science event
Scientific Reports 9, 15093 (2019)
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Smeared phase transitions in percolation on real complex networks
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and Antoine Allard
Phys. Rev. Research 1, 013009 (2019)
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Syntrophy emerges spontaneously in complex metabolic systems
Eric Libby, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Sayed-Rzgar Hosseini and Andreas Wagner
PLoS Comput. Biol. 15(7): e1007169 (2019)
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Efficient sampling of spreading processes on complex networks using a composition and rejection algorithm
Guillaume St-Onge, Jean-Gabriel Young, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and Louis J. Dubé
Comput. Phys. Commun. 240:30-37 (2019)
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Percolation and the effective structure of complex networks
Antoine Allard and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Phys. Rev. X 9, 011023 (2019)
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The Symptoms at the Center: Examining the Comorbidity of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Depression with Network Analysis.
Matthew Price, Alison C. Legrand, Zoe M.F. Brier, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Journal of Psychiatric Research 109: 52-58 (2019)
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Edge fires drive the shape and stability of tropical forests
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Adam F.A. Pellegrini, Uttam Bhat, Sidney Redner, Stephen W. Pacala and Andrew Berdahl
Ecology Letters 21: 794–803 (2018)
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The risk of sustained sexual transmission of Zika is underestimated
Antoine Allard, Benjamin M. Althouse, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and Samuel V. Scarpino
PLoS Pathog 13(9): e1006633 (2017)
Full text | bioRxiv.org
Asymmetric percolation drives a double transition in sexual contact networks
Antoine Allard, Benjamin M. Althouse, Samuel V. Scarpino and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 114:34 (2017)
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Strategic tradeoffs in competitor dynamics on adaptive networks
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Antoine Allard, Pierre-André Noël, Jean-Gabriel Young and Eric Libby
Scientific Reports 7 7576 (2017)
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Finite size analysis of the detectability limit of the stochastic block model
Jean-Gabriel Young, Patrick Desrosiers, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Edward Laurence and Louis J. Dubé
Phys. Rev. E 95, 062304 (2017)
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Exotic phase transitions of k-cores in clustered networks
Uttam Bhat, Munik Shrestha and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Phys. Rev. E 95, 012314 (2017)
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Growing networks of overlapping communities with internal structure
Jean-Gabriel Young, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Antoine Allard and Louis J. Dubé
Phys. Rev. E 94, 022317 (2016)
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Network structure at multiple scales via a new network statistic: the onion decomposition
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Joshua A. Grochow and Antoine Allard
Scientific Reports 6 31708 (2016)
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The effect of a prudent adaptive behaviour on disease transmission
Samuel V. Scarpino, Antoine Allard and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Nature Physics 12, 1042-1046 (2016)
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On the constrained growth of complex scale-independent systems
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Antoine Allard, Jean-Gabriel Young and Louis J. Dubé
Phys. Rev. E 93, 032304 (2016)
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Complex networks as an emerging property of hierarchical preferential attachment
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Edward Laurence, Antoine Allard, Jean-Gabriel Young and Louis J. Dubé
Phys. Rev. E 92, 062809 (2015)
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General and exact approach to percolation on random graphs
Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Jean-Gabriel Young and Louis J. Dubé
Phys. Rev. E 92, 062807 (2015)
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A Shadowing Problem in the Detection of Overlapping Communities: Lifting the Resolution Limit through a Cascading Procedure
Jean-Gabriel Young, Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and Louis J. Dubé
PLoS ONE 10(10), e0140133 (2015)
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Enhancing disease surveillance with novel data streams: challenges and opportunities
B.M. Althouse, S.V. Scarpino, …, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne et al.
EPJ Data Science 4:17 (2015)
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Complex dynamics of synergistic coinfections on realistically clustered networks
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and Benjamin M. Althouse
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112:33 (2015)
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Spreading dynamics on complex networks: a general stochastic approach
Pierre-André Noël, Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Vincent Marceau and Louis J. Dubé
J Math Biol 69, 1627 (2014)
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Epidemic Cycles Driven by Host Behavior
Benjamin M. Althouse and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
J. R. Soc. Interface 11 20140575 (2014)
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Coexistence of phases and the observability of random graphs
Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Jean-Gabriel Young and Louis J. Dubé
Phys. Rev. E 89, 022801 (2014)
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Percolation on random networks with arbitrary k-core structure
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Antoine Allard, Jean-Gabriel Young and Louis J. Dubé
Phys. Rev. E 88, 062820 (2013)
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Global efficiency of local immunization on complex networks
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Antoine Allard, Jean-Gabriel Young and Louis J. Dubé
Scientific Reports 3, 2171 (2013)
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Optimizing treatment regimes to hinder antiviral resistance in influenza across time scales
Oscar Patterson-Lomba, Benjamin M. Althouse, Georg M. Goerg and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
PLOS ONE 8(3): e59529 (2013)
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Pathogen mutation modeled by competition between site and bond percolation
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Oscar Patterson-Lomba, Georg M. Goerg and Benjamin M. Althouse
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 108103 (2013)
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Targeting and timing of treatment influences the emergence of influenza resistance in structured populations
Benjamin M. Althouse, Oscar Patterson-Lomba, Georg M. Goerg and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
PLOS Comput Biol 9(2): e1002912 (2013)
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Bond percolation on a class of correlated and clustered random graphs
Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Pierre-André Noël, Vincent Marceau and Louis J. Dubé
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 45405005 (2012)
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Exact solution of bond percolation on small arbitrary graphs
Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Pierre-André Noël, Vincent Marceau and Louis J. Dubé
EPL 98, 16001 (2012)
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Propagation on networks: an exact alternative perspective
Pierre-André Noël, Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Vincent Marceau and Louis J. Dubé
Phys. Rev. E 85, 031118 (2012)
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Structural preferential attachment: Stochastic process for the growth of scale-free, modular and self-similar systems
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Antoine Allard, Vincent Marceau, Pierre-André Noël and Louis J. Dubé
Phys. Rev. E 85, 026108 (2012)
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Structural Preferential Attachment: Network Organization beyond the Link
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Antoine Allard, Vincent Marceau, Pierre-André Noël and Louis J. Dubé
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 158702 (2011)
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Modeling the dynamical interaction between epidemics on overlay networks
Vincent Marceau, Pierre-André Noël,Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Antoine Allard and Louis J. Dubé
Phys. Rev. E 84, 026105 (2011)
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Adaptive networks: Coevolution of disease and topology
Vincent Marceau, Pierre-André Noël, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Antoine Allard and Louis J. Dubé
Phys. Rev. E 82, 036116 (2010)
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Propagation dynamics on networks featuring complex topologies
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Pierre-André Noël, Vincent Marceau, Antoine Allard and Louis J. Dubé
Phys. Rev. E 82, 036115 (2010)
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Other edited works

Dossier: Bifurcation
Co-edited by Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and Jean-Marc Fontan
Magazine de l’ACFAS (2020)
ACFAS
The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life
Josh Bongard, Juniper Lovato, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Radhakrishna Dasari, and Lisa Soros
ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life, pp. i–782, MIT Press (2020)
MIT Press Journals
The Social Zombie: Modelling undead outbreaks on social networks
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Vincent Marceau, Pierre-André Noël, Antoine Allard and Louis J. Dubé
Mathematical Modelling of Zombies, Robert Smith? (Ed.), University of Ottawa Press (2014)
University of Ottawa Press | amazon.com
On the growth and structure of social systems following preferential attachment
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Ph.D. Thesis, Université Laval (2014)
Available at: dynamicalab.github.io
La structure communautaire comme paradigme d’organisation des réseaux complexes (in French)
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
M.Sc. Thesis, Université Laval (2011)
Available at: dynamicalab.github.io