Thursday, January 5, 2012

Epidemic spread in adaptive networks with multitype agents

by Wang2011
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 44 (2011) 035101 (9pp)

Adds rewiring probability to SIR formulation. rewiring allows a susceptible person to break off contact with an infected, thus reducing the transmission probability from I to S.

Rewiring slows disease transmission.

I don't understand if they have an actual network or only a mean-field approximation. I suspect it is only MF. But they claim that rewiring can create susceptible clusters with large variance in degree distribution, to explain the bistability of their results.

This is one possible journal for the zombie paper (except impact factor is 1.64)

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