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Epidemic spreading in modular time-varying networks.


ABSTRACT: We investigate the effects of modular and temporal connectivity patterns on epidemic spreading. To this end, we introduce and analytically characterise a model of time-varying networks with tunable modularity. Within this framework, we study the epidemic size of Susceptible-Infected-Recovered, SIR, models and the epidemic threshold of Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible, SIS, models. Interestingly, we find that while the presence of tightly connected clusters inhibits SIR processes, it speeds up SIS phenomena. In this case, we observe that modular structures induce a reduction of the threshold with respect to time-varying networks without communities. We confirm the theoretical results by means of extensive numerical simulations both on synthetic graphs as well as on a real modular and temporal network.

SUBMITTER: Nadini M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5799280 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Epidemic spreading in modular time-varying networks.

Nadini Matthieu M   Sun Kaiyuan K   Ubaldi Enrico E   Starnini Michele M   Rizzo Alessandro A   Perra Nicola N  

Scientific reports 20180205 1


We investigate the effects of modular and temporal connectivity patterns on epidemic spreading. To this end, we introduce and analytically characterise a model of time-varying networks with tunable modularity. Within this framework, we study the epidemic size of Susceptible-Infected-Recovered, SIR, models and the epidemic threshold of Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible, SIS, models. Interestingly, we find that while the presence of tightly connected clusters inhibits SIR processes, it speeds up SI  ...[more]

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