What's in a crowd? Analysis of face-to-face behavioral networks

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DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2010.11.033zbMATH Open1405.92255arXiv1006.1260OpenAlexW2154656661WikidataQ33763066 ScholiaQ33763066MaRDI QIDQ1670595FDOQ1670595


Authors: Lorenzo Isella, Juliette Stehlé, Alain Barrat, C. Cattuto, Jean-François Pinton, Wouter Van den Broeck Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 6 September 2018

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The availability of new data sources on human mobility is opening new avenues for investigating the interplay of social networks, human mobility and dynamical processes such as epidemic spreading. Here we analyze data on the time-resolved face-to-face proximity of individuals in large-scale real-world scenarios. We compare two settings with very different properties, a scientific conference and a long-running museum exhibition. We track the behavioral networks of face-to-face proximity, and characterize them from both a static and a dynamic point of view, exposing important differences as well as striking similarities. We use our data to investigate the dynamics of a susceptible-infected model for epidemic spreading that unfolds on the dynamical networks of human proximity. The spreading patterns are markedly different for the conference and the museum case, and they are strongly impacted by the causal structure of the network data. A deeper study of the spreading paths shows that the mere knowledge of static aggregated networks would lead to erroneous conclusions about the transmission paths on the dynamical networks.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1260




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