The Radiation-Transmission-Reception (RTR) model of propagation: Implications for the effectiveness of network interventions.

ABSTRACT: Propagating phenomena in networks have received significant amount of attention within various domains, ranging from contagion in epidemiology, to diffusion of innovations and social influence on behavior and communication. Often these studies attempt to model propagation processes in networks to create interventions that steer propagation dynamics towards desired or away from undesired outcomes. Traditionally, studies have used relatively simple models of the propagation mechanism. In most propagation models this mechanism is described as a monolithic process and a single parameter for the infection rate. Such a description of the propagation mechanism is a severe simplification of mechanisms described in various theoretical exchange theories and phenomena found in real world settings, an

SUBMITTER: Vermeer W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6281238 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature