Massimo Achterberg

I'm a PhD student in the Network, Architectures and Services group since November 2019. I am working on various projects related to the spread of infectious processes on networks. I am primarily interested in exact or approximate mathematical treatments of the Susceptible-Infected-Suceptible (SIS) model on static and adaptive networks, both for Markovian (stochastic) models and mean-field (deterministic) models.

Journal papers

1. Minimizing the effective graph resistance by adding links is NP-hard, R. E. Kooij and M. A. Achterberg, Operations Research Letters 51:6, Nov 2023. (DOI)
2. A minimal model for adaptive SIS epidemics, M. A. Achterberg and M. Sensi, Nonlinear Dynamics 111, 12657-12670, Jul 2023. (DOI)
3. Moment closure approximations of susceptible-infected-susceptible epidemics on adaptive networks, M. A. Achterberg and P. Van Mieghem, Physical Review E 106, 014308, Jul 2022. (DOI)
4. Analysis of continuous-time Markovian ε-SIS epidemics on networks, M. A. Achterberg, B. Prasse and P. Van Mieghem, Physical Review E 105, 054305, May 2022. (DOI)
5. Accuracy of predicting epidemic outbreaks, B. Prasse, M. A. Achterberg and P. Van Mieghem, Physical Review E 105, 014302, Jan 2022. (DOI)
6. Comparing the accuracy of several network-based COVID-19 prediction algorithms, M. A. Achterberg, B. Prasse, L. Ma, S. Trajanovski, M. Kitsak and P. Van Mieghem, International Journal of Forecasting 38:2, Apr-Jun 2022. (DOI)
7. Network-inference-based prediction of the COVID-19 epidemic outbreak in the Chinese province Hubei, B. Prasse, M. A. Achterberg, L. Ma and P. Van Mieghem, Applied Network Science 5:35, Jul 2020. (DOI)
8. Classification of link-breaking and link-creation updating rules in susceptible-infected-susceptible epidemics on adaptive networks, M. A. Achterberg, J. L. A. Dubbeldam, C. J. Stam and P. Van Mieghem, Physical Review E 101, 052302, May 2020. (DOI)

Conference papers

1. Non-Consensus Opinion Model with Byzantine Nodes, X. Liu, M. A. Achterberg and R. E. Kooij, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling, 19 - 21 September 2022, Compiègne, France. (Proceedings, DOI)
2. Markov Modulated Process to model human mobility, B. Chang, L. Yang, M. Sensi, M. A. Achterberg, F. Wang, M. Rinaldi and P. Van Mieghem, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, Complex Networks 2021, 30 November - 2 December 2021, Madrid, Spain. (Proceedings)

Pre-prints

1. Analytic solution of Markovian epidemics without re-infections on heterogeneous networks, M. A. Achterberg and P. Van Mieghem, ArXiv preprint 2311.16721, Nov 2023.
2. Non-Consensus Opinion Models with Malicious Nodes, X. Liu, R. E. Kooij and M. A. Achterberg, SSRN preprint 4421897, Apr 2023.

Awards

1. Award for Best Contributed Talk at the SIAM Virtual Workshop on Network Science, 2022 on the Mean-field approximations of SIS epidemics on adaptive networks (journal paper 6).

Other articles

1. Tackling the COVID-19 Pandemic, published in Maxwell (23.4), magazine from the Electrotechnische Vereeniging, TU Delft, Jul 2020.

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