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: Topology Topological structure Statistical model Multiplexing Multiplex networks Models, statistical Models, biological Markov processes Markov chains Markov chain approaches Markov chain Information dissemination Information awareness Infections Infection Humans Human Epidemiology Epidemiologic methods Epidemics Epidemic threshold Epidemic spreading Epidemic process Epidemic Diffusive process Biological model
Abstract: We present the analysis of the interrelation between two processes accounting for the spreading of an epidemic, and the information awareness to prevent its infection, on top of multiplex networks. This scenario is representative of an epidemic process spreading on a network of persistent real contacts, and a cyclic information awareness process diffusing in the network of virtual social contacts between the same individuals. The topology corresponds to a multiplex network where two diffusive processes are interacting affecting each other. The analysis using a microscopic Markov chain approach reveals the phase diagram of the incidence of the epidemics and allows us to capture the evolution of the epidemic threshold depending on the topological structure of the multiplex and the interrelation with the awareness process. Interestingly, the critical point for the onset of the epidemics has a critical value (metacritical point) defined by the awareness dynamics and the topology of the virtual network, from which the onset increases and the epidemics incidence decreases. © 2013 American Physical Society.
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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: 2024-10-26
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.128701
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Physical Review Letters. 111 (12): 128701-
APA: Granell, Clara; Gomez, Sergio; Arenas, Alex (2013). Dynamical interplay between awareness and epidemic spreading in multiplex networks. Physical Review Letters, 111(12), 128701-. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.128701
Article's DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.128701
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2013
Publication Type: Journal Publications