Author, as appears in the article.: Burgio, Giulio; Gomez, Sergio; Arenas, Alex
Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
URV's Author/s: Arenas Moreno, Alejandro / Burgio, Giulio / Gómez Jiménez, Sergio
Keywords: Models, theoretical Epidemics
Abstract: In some systems, the behavior of the constituent units can create a contextthat modifies the direct interactions among them. This mechanism of indirect modification inspired us to develop a minimal model of context-dependent spreading. In our model, agents actively impede (favor) or not diffusion during an interaction, depending on the behavior they observe among all the peers in the group within which that interaction occurs. We divide the population into two behavioral types and provide a mean-field theory to parametrize mixing patterns of arbitrary type-assortativity within groups of any size. As an application, we examine an epidemic-spreading model with context-dependent adoption of prophylactic tools such as face masks. By analyzing the distributions of groups' size and type-composition, we uncover a rich phenomenology for the basic reproduction number and the endemic state. We analytically show how changing the group organization of contacts can either facilitate or hinder epidemic spreading, eventually moving the system from the subcritical to the supercritical phase and vice versa, depending mainly on sociological factors, such as whether the prophylactic behavior is hardly or easily induced. More generally, our work provides a theoretical foundation to model higher-order contexts and analyze their dynamical implications, envisioning a broad theory of context-dependent interactions that would allow for a new systematic investigation of a variety of complex systems.
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: 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/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.107.064304
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Physical Review e. 107 (6): 064304-
APA: Burgio, Giulio; Gomez, Sergio; Arenas, Alex (2023). Spreading dynamics in networks under context-dependent behavior. Physical Review e, 107(6), 064304-. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.107.064304
Article's DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.107.064304
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications