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Epidemics in Interconnected Small-World Networks

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  • Meng Liu
  • Daqing Li
  • Pengju Qin
  • Chaoran Liu
  • Huijuan Wang
  • Feilong Wang

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Networks can be used to describe the interconnections among individuals, which play an important role in the spread of disease. Although the small-world effect has been found to have a significant impact on epidemics in single networks, the small-world effect on epidemics in interconnected networks has rarely been considered. Here, we study the susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) model of epidemic spreading in a system comprising two interconnected small-world networks. We find that the epidemic threshold in such networks decreases when the rewiring probability of the component small-world networks increases. When the infection rate is low, the rewiring probability affects the global steady-state infection density, whereas when the infection rate is high, the infection density is insensitive to the rewiring probability. Moreover, epidemics in interconnected small-world networks are found to spread at different velocities that depend on the rewiring probability.

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  • Meng Liu & Daqing Li & Pengju Qin & Chaoran Liu & Huijuan Wang & Feilong Wang, 2015. "Epidemics in Interconnected Small-World Networks," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(3), pages 1-9, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0120701
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120701
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