Epidemic spreading with time delay in complex networks

Xin-Jian Xu, Hai-Ou Peng, Xiao-Mei Wang and Ying-Hai Wang

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2006, vol. 367, issue C, 525-530

Abstract: We present a modified susceptible–infected–susceptible (SIS) model on complex networks, small-world and scale-free, to study epidemic spreading with the effect of time delay which is introduced to the infected phase. Considering topologies of the networks, both uniform and degree-dependent delays are studied during the contagion process. It is found that the existence of delay will enhance both outbreaks and prevalence of infectious diseases in the networks.

Keywords: Dynamics of social systems; Complex networks; Diseases; Critical point phenomena (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.11.035

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