A dynamical network (consisting of a time-evolving wiring of interactions among a group of random walkers) is introduced to model the spread of an infectious disease in a population of mobile individuals. We investigate the main properties of this model, and show that peculiar features arise when individuals are allowed to perform long-distance jumps. Such peculiarities are captured and conveniently quantified by a series of appropriate parameters able to highlight the structural differences emerging in the networks when long-distance jumps are combined with local random walk processes.

Dynamical Network Model of Infective Mobile Agents / Frasca, M; Buscarino, A; Rizzo, Alessandro; Fortuna, L; Boccaletti, S.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS. - ISSN 1539-3755. - 74:3(2006). [10.1103/PhysRevE.74.036110]

Dynamical Network Model of Infective Mobile Agents

RIZZO, Alessandro;
2006-01-01

Abstract

A dynamical network (consisting of a time-evolving wiring of interactions among a group of random walkers) is introduced to model the spread of an infectious disease in a population of mobile individuals. We investigate the main properties of this model, and show that peculiar features arise when individuals are allowed to perform long-distance jumps. Such peculiarities are captured and conveniently quantified by a series of appropriate parameters able to highlight the structural differences emerging in the networks when long-distance jumps are combined with local random walk processes.
2006
Dynamical Network Model of Infective Mobile Agents / Frasca, M; Buscarino, A; Rizzo, Alessandro; Fortuna, L; Boccaletti, S.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS. - ISSN 1539-3755. - 74:3(2006). [10.1103/PhysRevE.74.036110]
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