Analysis, Identification, and Validation of Discrete-Time Epidemic Processes

arXiv1710.11149MaRDI QIDQ6293258FDOQ6293258

Barret E. Kirwan, Philip E. Paré, Tamer Başar, Carolyn L. Beck, Ji Liu

Publication date: 30 October 2017

Abstract: Models of spread processes over non-trivial networks are commonly motivated by modeling and analysis of biological networks, computer networks, and human contact networks. However, identification of such models has not yet been explored in detail, and the models have not been validated by real data. In this paper, we present several different spread models from the literature and explore their relationships to each other; for one of these processes, we present a sufficient condition for asymptotic stability of the healthy equilibrium, show that the condition is necessary and sufficient for uniqueness of the healthy equilibrium, and present necessary and sufficient conditions for learning the spread parameters. Finally, we employ two real datasets, one from John Snow's seminal work on cholera epidemics in London in the 1850's and the other one from the United States Department of Agriculture, to validate an approximation of a well-studied network-dependent susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) model.

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