Effect of individual behavior on the interplay between awareness and disease spreading in multiplex networks

Chong-jun Fan, Yang Jin, Liang-an Huo, Chen Liu, Yun-peng Yang and Ya-qiong Wang

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, vol. 461, issue C, 523-530

Abstract: In this paper, we studied the two interacting processes of information awareness and disease spreading on the same individual who has different behavior status on multiplex networks. We achieved this topology scenario by two factors, one is information awareness that can change interplay between different layers of networks, and the other is behavior nodes that can change their own interaction patterns in each layer. According to the mean-field theory, we analyzed the dynamic evolution of the system and derived the epidemic thresholds on uncorrelated heterogeneous networks. Finally, we validated the theoretical analysis by numerical simulations on scale-free networks and discussed the final size of epidemic spreading under the different conditions. Our results indicate the essential relationship between information awareness and individual behavior influence on the epidemic spreading.

Keywords: Individual behavior; Information awareness; Disease spreading; Multiplex networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2016.06.050

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