Publications

• P. Schumm, C. Scoglio, Q. Zhang, D. Balcan. Global epidemic invasion thresholds in directed subpopulation networks having source, sink, and transit nodes, Under review.
  
• D. Mocanu, A. Baronchelli, N. Perra, B. Gonçalves, Q. Zhang, A. Vespignani, The Twitter of Babel: Mapping World Languages through Microblogging Platforms, PLoS ONE 8, e61981 April 2013 [LINK] [Supplementary website] 
  
• Q. Zhang, N. Perra, B. Gonçalves, F. Ciulla, A. Vespignani, Characterizing scientific production and consumption in Physics, Nature Scientific Reports 3, 1640 April 2013 [LINK] [Media coverage: Wired, The Atlantic Cities, El Definido (in Spanish)] 
  
• Q. Zhang and N. D. Osgood, Summary Function Elasticity Analysis for an Individual-based System Dynamics Model, The Proceedings of 2010 Winter Simulation Conference (invited paper), Baltimore, MD. December 2010.
  
• D. M. Vickers, Q. Zhang and N. D. Osgood, Immunobiological Outcomes of Repeated Chlamydial Infection from Two Models of Within-Host Population Dynamics. PLoS ONE 4(9): e6886. September 2009 [LINK]
  
• Q. Zhang, and N. D. Osgood, Local Analysis of Individual-based Viral Dynamic Models with Eigenspace and Eigenvalue Elasticity Analysis. The Proceedings of the 27th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society. Albuquerque, NM. July, 2009 [LINK]
  
• Q. Zhang, Y. Zhang and S. Qin, Modeling and Analysis for Obstacle Avoidance of a Behavior-Based Robot with Objected Oriented Methods. Journal of Computers. 4(4), April 2009 [LINK]
  
• Q. Zhang, Y. Zhang and S. Qin, The object oriented analysis and modeling for obstacle avoidance of a behavior-based robot, The Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on System, Man and Cybernetics 2007, 1545-1550, Montreal, Canada, October, 2007 
  
• T. Gong, Q. Zhang and H. Wu, Music Evolution in a Complex System of Interacting Agents. The Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2005. Edinburgh, Scotland. September, 2005
  

MSc Thesis

Q. Zhang, Application and evaluation of local and global analysis for dynamic models of infectious disease spread. Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK. Canada, December 2008. [LINK]