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Disease spreading on fitness-rewired complex networks

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  • Yoo, Jaewan
  • Lee, J.S.
  • Kahng, B.

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As people travel, human contact networks may change topologically from time to time. In this paper, we study the problem of epidemic spreading on this kind of dynamic network, specifically the one in which the rewiring dynamics of edges are carried out to preserve the degree of each node (called fitness rewiring). We also consider the adaptive rewiring of edges, which encourages disconnections from and discourages connections to infected nodes and eventually leads to the isolation of the infected from the susceptible with only a small number of links between them. We find that while the threshold of epidemic spreading remains unchanged and prevalence increases in the fitness rewiring dynamics, meeting of the epidemic threshold is delayed and prevalence is reduced (if adaptive dynamics are included). To understand these different behaviors, we introduce a new measure called the “mean change of effective links” and find that creation and deletion of pathways for pathogen transmission are the dominant factors in fitness and adaptive rewiring dynamics, respectively.

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  • Yoo, Jaewan & Lee, J.S. & Kahng, B., 2011. "Disease spreading on fitness-rewired complex networks," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 390(23), pages 4571-4576.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:390:y:2011:i:23:p:4571-4576
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.06.047
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    1. Shen, Yi, 2014. "The similarity of weights on edges and discovering of community structure," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 393(C), pages 560-570.
    2. Wei, Xiaodan & Xu, Gaochao & Zhou, Wenshu, 2018. "Global stability of endemic equilibrium for a SIQRS epidemic model on complex networks," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 512(C), pages 203-214.
    3. Sanders, Johnathan & Noble, Benjamin & Van Gorder, Robert A. & Riggs, Cortney, 2012. "Mobility matrix evolution for an SIS epidemic patch model," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 391(24), pages 6256-6267.

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