Modelling Spreading Process Induced by Agent Mobility in Complex Networks

Spreading dynamics in complex networks

Searching for influential spreaders in complex networks is an issue of great significance for applications across various domains, ranging from the epidemic control, innovation diffusion, viral marketing, social movement to idea propagation. In this paper, we first display some of the most important theoretical models that describe spreading processes, and then discuss the problem of locating b...

On Modelling Agent Mobility in Multiagent Methodologies

1. PROBLEM STATEMENT – METHODOLOGICAL SUPPORT FOR SYSTEMS WITH AGENT MOBILITY? A property of agents is the ability to move from one host to another to perform computations. While not all agents require such a property, agent mobility has been recognized as beneficial in a number of applications and a sizable number of mobile agent toolkits have been developed for mobile multiagent applications....

Epidemic spreading induced by diversity of agents' mobility.

In this paper, we study the impact of the preference of an individual for public transport on the spread of infectious disease, through a quantity known as the public mobility. Our theoretical and numerical results based on a constructed model reveal that if the average public mobility of the agents is fixed, an increase in the diversity of the agents' public mobility reduces the epidemic thres...

Epidemic Spreading and Complex Networks

Information mobility in complex networks.

The concept of information mobility in complex networks is introduced on the basis of a stochastic process taking place in the network. The transition matrix for this process represents the probability that the information arising at a given node is transferred to a target one. We use the fractional powers of this transition matrix to investigate the stochastic process at fractional time interv...