Effective approach to epidemic containment using link equations in complex networks.

ABSTRACT: Epidemic containment is a major concern when confronting large-scale infections in complex networks. Many studies have been devoted to analytically understand how to restructure the network to minimize the impact of major outbreaks of infections at large scale. In many cases, the strategies are based on isolating certain nodes, while less attention has been paid to interventions on the links. In epidemic spreading, links inform about the probability of carrying the contagion of the disease from infected to susceptible individuals. Note that these states depend on the full structure of the network, and its determination is not straightforward from the knowledge of nodes' states. Here, we confront this challenge and propose a set of discrete-time governing equations that can be closed and an

SUBMITTER: Matamalas JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6281434 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature