Author, as appears in the article.: Granell, Clara; Gomez, Sergio; Arenas, Alex
Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
URV's Author/s: Arenas Moreno, Alejandro / Gómez Jiménez, Sergio / Granell Martorell, Clara
Keywords: Wide spectrum Transmission Theoretical model Probability Multiplexing Multiplex networks Multi-layered Models, theoretical Mass medium Mass media Markov chains Information awareness Immunization Humans Human Epidemiology Epidemics Critical properties Competition effects Competing process Communicable diseases
Abstract: Epidemiclike spreading processes on top of multilayered interconnected complex networks reveal a rich phase diagram of intertwined competition effects. A recent study by the authors [C. Granell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 128701 (2013).PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.111.128701] presented an analysis of the interrelation between two processes accounting for the spreading of an epidemic, and the spreading of information awareness to prevent infection, on top of multiplex networks. The results in the case in which awareness implies total immunization to the disease revealed the existence of a metacritical point at which the critical onset of the epidemics starts, depending on completion of the awareness process. Here we present a full analysis of these critical properties in the more general scenario where the awareness spreading does not imply total immunization, and where infection does not imply immediate awareness of it. We find the critical relation between the two competing processes for a wide spectrum of parameters representing the interaction between them. We also analyze the consequences of a massive broadcast of awareness (mass media) on the final outcome of the epidemic incidence. Importantly enough, the mass media make the metacritical point disappear. The results reveal that the main finding, i.e., existence of a metacritical point, is rooted in the competition principle and holds for a large set of scenarios. © 2014 American Physical Society.
Thematic Areas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros Statistics and probability Statistical and nonlinear physics Saúde coletiva Química Physics, mathematical Physics, fluids & plasmas Odontología Medicina ii Medicina i Materiais Matemática / probabilidade e estatística Interdisciplinar Geociências General medicine Farmacia Engenharias iv Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Educação física Educação Economia Condensed matter physics Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência da computação Biotecnología Biodiversidade Astronomia / física
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: clara.granell@urv.cat sergio.gomez@urv.cat alexandre.arenas@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0003-1820-0062 0000-0003-0937-0334
Record's date: 2024-09-28
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
Link to the original source: https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.90.012808
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Physical Review e. 90 (1): 012808-
APA: Granell, Clara; Gomez, Sergio; Arenas, Alex (2014). Competing spreading processes on multiplex networks: Awareness and epidemics. Physical Review e, 90(1), 012808-. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.90.012808
Article's DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.90.012808
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2014
Publication Type: Journal Publications