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Competing spreading processes on multiplex networks: Awareness and epidemics

  • Datos identificativos

    Identificador: PC:925
    Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/PC925
    Autores:
    Granell, C., Gómez, S., Arenas, A.
    Resumen:
    10.1103/PhysRevE.90.012808

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    Autor según el artículo: Granell, C., Gómez, S., Arenas, A.
    Departamento: Medicina i Cirurgia
    e-ISSN: 1550-2376
    Resumen: 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.
    Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    ISSN: 1539-3755
    Volumen de revista: 90
    Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Enlace a la fuente original: http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.90.012808
    URL Documento de licencia: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    DOI del artículo: 10.1103/PhysRevE.90.012808
    Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili.
    Año de publicación de la revista: 2014