Epidemic spreading

Epidemic spreading survey

Lots of real word problems can be motivated and modeled as spreads of epidemics through a network. Prominent examples include the spread of worms and email viruses over the Internet, the spread of disease among the population, and the spread of harmful gossip or panic in a social network. We want to protect computer networks from viruses, prevent disease spreads, and control the leakage of sens...

Controllability and epidemic spreading

In this paper, we explore control theory as a solution to stop epidemic outbreaks in networks. Control theory deals with the behavior of dynamical systems, specifically networks in this case. We investigate the process of finding sets of nodes required to control a network, and applying an input to these nodes in order to drive the system from a given state to another. We explore the task of mi...

Rewiring through epidemic spreading

Structure and properties of networks, such as metabolic networks, human relations, and the Internet, have been attracting research interests in various research fields. Some common features have been found in those networks. The origins of such structure have been investigated. Dynamics in networks also have been studied so far. Preferential rewiring processes have been reported for generating ...

Epidemic spreading in evolving networks.

A model for epidemic spreading on rewiring networks is introduced and analyzed for the case of scale free steady state networks. It is found that contrary to what one would have naively expected, the rewiring process typically tends to suppress epidemic spreading. In particular it is found, that as in static networks under a mean-field approximation, rewiring networks with degree distribution e...

Epidemic Spreading and Complex Networks