Revisiting node-based SIR models in complex networks with degree correlations
Autor: | Abdullah Eqal Al-Mazrooei, Ahmed M. Elaiw, Yi Wang, Abdulaziz Alofi, Jinde Cao |
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Rok vydání: | 2015 |
Předmět: |
Statistics and Probability
education.field_of_study Degree (graph theory) Node (networking) Population Complex network Condensed Matter Physics Degree distribution Upper and lower bounds Stochastic simulation Statistics Quantitative Biology::Populations and Evolution Epidemic model education Mathematics |
Zdroj: | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 437:75-88 |
ISSN: | 0378-4371 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.physa.2015.05.103 |
Popis: | In this paper, we consider two growing networks which will lead to the degree-degree correlations between two nearest neighbors in the network. When the network grows to some certain size, we introduce an SIR-like disease such as pandemic influenza H1N1/09 to the population. Due to its rapid spread, the population size changes slowly, and thus the disease spreads on correlated networks with approximately fixed size. To predict the disease evolution on correlated networks, we first review two node-based SIR models incorporating degree correlations and an edge-based SIR model without considering degree correlation, and then compare the predictions of these models with stochastic SIR simulations, respectively. We find that the edge-based model, even without considering degree correlations, agrees much better than the node-based models incorporating degree correlations with stochastic SIR simulations in many respects. Moreover, simulation results show that for networks with positive correlation, the edge-based model provides a better upper bound of the cumulative incidence than the node-based SIR models, whereas for networks with negative correlation, it provides a lower bound of the cumulative incidence. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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