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Annealed and mean-field formulations of disease dynamics on static and adaptive networks

Beniamino Guerra and Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes
Phys. Rev. E 82, 035101(R) – Published 13 September 2010

Abstract

We use the annealed formulation of complex networks to study the dynamical behavior of disease spreading on both static and adaptive networked systems. This unifying approach relies on the annealed adjacency matrix, representing one network ensemble, and allows to solve the dynamical evolution of the whole network ensemble all at once. Our results accurately reproduce those obtained by extensive numerical simulations showing a large improvement with respect to the usual heterogeneous mean-field formulation. Moreover, by means of the annealed formulation we derive a new heterogeneous mean-field formulation that correctly reproduces the epidemic dynamics.

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  • Received 8 March 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.82.035101

©2010 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Beniamino Guerra1,2 and Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes2,3,*

  • 1Laboratorio sui Sistemi Complessi, Scuola Superiore di Catania, Università di Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy
  • 2Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (ESCET), 28933 Móstoles, Madrid, Spain
  • 3Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI), University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain

  • *gardenes@gmail.com

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Vol. 82, Iss. 3 — September 2010

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