Viral disease spreading in grouped population

Spreading of disease in heterogeneous population

Chikungunya: an emerging and spreading arthropod-borne viral disease.

The virus causing Chikungunya disease was identified over 50 years ago; however, because the disease appeared only in developing countries, little research on it has been done. Research interest in the disease increased after an important epidemiological outbreak occurred in 2005 on the French metropolitan island of La Reunion located in the south-eastern part of the Indian Ocean. In 2007, a sm...

hepatitis: a rapidly spreading viral infection in pakistan

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A Viral Spreading Model in Signed Networks

In a business network, a company may be encouraged to utilise a new technique when either its cooperators or its competitors have made their adoption. Nevertheless, its willingness can be reduced as more of its competitors start applying the new technique. Inspired by the this scenario, in this thesis we proposed a viral spreading model in signed networks, in which each link is allocated with a...

Branching Dynamics of Viral Information Spreading

Despite its importance for rumors or innovations propagation, peer-to-peer collaboration, social networking, or marketing, the dynamics of information spreading is not well understood. Since the diffusion depends on the heterogeneous patterns of human behavior and is driven by the participants' decisions, its propagation dynamics shows surprising properties not explained by traditional epidemic...