The Role of Node Heterogeneity in the Coupled Spreading of Epidemics and Awareness.

ABSTRACT: Exploring the interplay between information spreading and epidemic spreading is a topic that has been receiving increasing attention. As an efficient means of depicting the spreading of information, which manifests as a cascade phenomenon, awareness cascading is utilized to investigate this coupled transmission. Because in reality, different individuals facing the same epidemic will exhibit distinct behaviors according to their own experiences and attributes, it is important for us to consider the heterogeneity of individuals. Consequently, we propose a heterogeneous spreading model. To describe the heterogeneity, two of the most important but radically different methods for this purpose, the degree and k-core measures, are studied in this paper through three models based on different assu

SUBMITTER: Guo Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4982672 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature