Suppressing disease spreading by using information diffusion on multiplex networks.

ABSTRACT: Although there is always an interplay between the dynamics of information diffusion and disease spreading, the empirical research on the systemic coevolution mechanisms connecting these two spreading dynamics is still lacking. Here we investigate the coevolution mechanisms and dynamics between information and disease spreading by utilizing real data and a proposed spreading model on multiplex network. Our empirical analysis finds asymmetrical interactions between the information and disease spreading dynamics. Our results obtained from both the theoretical framework and extensive stochastic numerical simulations suggest that an information outbreak can be triggered in a communication network by its own spreading dynamics or by a disease outbreak on a contact network, but that the disease t

SUBMITTER: Wang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4933956 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature