Spreading of infectious diseases on complex networks with non-symmetric transmission probabilities

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Authors: Britta Daudert, Bai-Lian Li

Publication date: 23 November 2006

Abstract: We model the spread of a SIS infection on Small World and random networks using weighted graphs. The entry

w_{i j}

in the weight matrix W holds information about the transmission probability along the edge joining node

v_{i}

and node

v_{j}

. We use the analogy between the spread of a disease on a network and a random walk performed on this network to derive a master equation describing the dynamics of the process. We find conditions under which an epidemic does not break out and investigate numerically the effect of a non-symmetric weight distribution of the initially infected individual on the dynamics of the disease spread.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli (14J60)

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