The impact of information dissemination strategies to epidemic spreading on complex networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 536 ◽  
pp. 120920 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonglei Lu ◽  
Jing Liu
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. eaau4212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan T. Matamalas ◽  
Alex Arenas ◽  
Sergio Gómez

Epidemic containment is a major concern when confronting large-scale infections in complex networks. Many studies have been devoted to analytically understand how to restructure the network to minimize the impact of major outbreaks of infections at large scale. In many cases, the strategies are based on isolating certain nodes, while less attention has been paid to interventions on the links. In epidemic spreading, links inform about the probability of carrying the contagion of the disease from infected to susceptible individuals. Note that these states depend on the full structure of the network, and its determination is not straightforward from the knowledge of nodes’ states. Here, we confront this challenge and propose a set of discrete-time governing equations that can be closed and analyzed, assessing the contribution of links to spreading processes in complex networks. Our approach allows a scheme for the containment of epidemics based on deactivating the most important links in transmitting the disease. The model is validated in synthetic and real networks, yielding an accurate determination of epidemic incidence and critical thresholds. Epidemic containment based on link deactivation promises to be an effective tool to maintain functionality of networks while controlling the spread of diseases, such as disease spread through air transportation networks.


Author(s):  
Tianqiao Zhang ◽  
Ruijie Wang ◽  
Yang Zhang ◽  
Junliang Chen ◽  
Xuzhen Zhu

We study the impact of seeds on cooperate epidemic spreading on complex networks. A cooperative spreading model is proposed, in which two diseases are spreading simultaneously. Once the nodes are infected by one disease, they will have a larger probability of being infected by the other. Besides, we adopt five different selection strategies to choose the seeds, and the set size of seeds is fixed at five nodes. Through extensive Monte Carlo simulations, we find that the final fraction of nodes that have been infected by one or both diseases display continuous phase transition on both synthetic networks and real-world networks, and the selection strategy does not alter the transition type. Besides, we find that the eigenvector centrality promotes the cooperative spreading on the artificial network, and the degree centrality promotes the spreading of the two cooperative diseases on the real-world networks. The results of this study are of great significance for the development of the targeted strategies of disease control.


Author(s):  
Shao Chun Han ◽  
Yun Liu ◽  
Hui Ling Chen ◽  
Zhen Jiang Zhang

Quantitative analysis on human behavior, especially mining and modeling temporal and spatial regularities, is a common focus of statistical physics and complexity sciences. The in-depth understanding of human behavior helps in explaining many complex socioeconomic phenomena, and in finding applications in public opinion monitoring, disease control, transportation system design, calling center services, information recommendation. In this paper,we study the impact of human activity patterns on information diffusion. Using SIR propagation model and empirical data, conduct quantitative research on the impact of user behavior on information dissemination. It is found that when the exponent is small, user behavioral characteristics have features of many new dissemination nodes, fast information dissemination, but information continued propagation time is short, with limited influence; when the exponent is big, there are fewer new dissemination nodes, but will expand the scope of information dissemination and extend information dissemination duration; it is also found that for group behaviors, the power-law characteristic a greater impact on the speed of information dissemination than individual behaviors. This study provides a reference to better understand influence of social networking user behavior characteristics on information dissemination and kinetic effect.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyndsay Roach

The study of networks has been propelled by improvements in computing power, enabling our ability to mine and store large amounts of network data. Moreover, the ubiquity of the internet has afforded us access to records of interactions that have previously been invisible. We are now able to study complex networks with anywhere from hundreds to billions of nodes; however, it is difficult to visualize large networks in a meaningful way. We explore the process of visualizing real-world networks. We first discuss the properties of complex networks and the mechanisms used in the network visualizing software Gephi. Then we provide examples of voting, trade, and linguistic networks using data extracted from on-line sources. We investigate the impact of hidden community structures on the analysis of these real-world networks.


IEEE Access ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 32687-32699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoying Gan ◽  
Zhida Qin ◽  
Luoyi Fu ◽  
Xinbing Wang

Energy Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 158 ◽  
pp. 112573
Author(s):  
Di Wang ◽  
Zhiyuan Zhang ◽  
Xiaodi Yang ◽  
Yanfang Zhang ◽  
Yuman Li ◽  
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