Optimal control of a rumor model with group propagation over complex networks

Kalaiselvi Myilsamy, Muthukrishnan Senthil Kumar () and Athira Satheesh Kumar ()
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Kalaiselvi Myilsamy: Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore - 641004, Tamil Nadu, India
Muthukrishnan Senthil Kumar: Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore - 641004, Tamil Nadu, India
Athira Satheesh Kumar: Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2021, vol. 32, issue 03, 1-27

Abstract: Rumor is an unauthenticated statement that gives significant changes in the social life of the people, financial markets (stocks and trades), etc. By incorporating the dissemination of rumor through groups in social, mobile networks and by considering the people’s cognitive factor (hesitate and forget), a new model on the rumor spreading process is presented in this paper. The spreading dynamics of rumor in homogeneous and heterogeneous networks is analyzed by using mean-field theory. The reproduction number is obtained by using the next-generation matrix. The global stability of the rumor-free equilibrium for the homogeneous and heterogeneous model is proved elaborately. An optimal control problem is developed to minimize the hesitators and infected persons and the existence of optimality is shown using Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle. The hesitating and forgetting mechanism has a great impact on the model and is similar to the real-life. Further, the control parameters work superior in controlling the spreading of rumors. Finally, the numerical results are verified by the analytical results.

Keywords: Rumor; compartmental model; complex networks; stability; optimal control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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