Localization and Spreading of Diseases in Complex Networks

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2012

Authors

A. V. Goltsev (Author) Other; S. N. Dorogovtsev (Author) Other; J. G. Oliveira (Author) FEUP; J. F. F. Mendes (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Physical Review Letters

Vol. 109 No. 12

Initial page: 128702

ISSN: 0031-9007

Publisher: American Physical Society

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FOS: Natural sciences > Physical sciences

CORDIS: Physical sciences > Physics > Biophysics ; Physical sciences > Physics > Statistical physics ; Social sciences > Sociology > Societal behaviour

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DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.128702

Abstract (EN): Using the SIS model on unweighted and weighted networks, we consider the disease localization phenomenon. In contrast to the well-recognized point of view that diseases infect a finite fraction of vertices right above the epidemic threshold, we show that diseases can be localized on a finite number of vertices, where hubs and edges with large weights are centers of localization. Our results follow from the analysis of standard models of networks and empirical data for real-world networks.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific