The epidemic spreading on the multi-relationships network

Fuzhong Nian and Shuanglong Yao

Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2018, vol. 339, issue C, 866-873

Abstract: Different from traditional multi-community, the paper proposes a new multi-relationship network which is constructed to assess the effect of interlaced complex interpersonal relationships on the epidemic spreading process. Besides, an innovative MR-SIS epidemic model is proposed and analyzed in this paper. Empirically, we simulate MR-SIS spreading process on a multi-relationship network. The experiment results show that immunizing the nodes in overlapping sub-networks inhibits the epidemic spreading. Moreover, when considering the multi-relationship network structure and the above conclusion, this paper proposes a novel immunization to overcome the limitations of traditional immunization strategy, which has been proven a satisfying desirable performance on controlling disease transmission.

Keywords: Epidemic; Community networks; Multi-relationships networks; MR-SIS; Immunization strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2018.07.030

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