The coevolution of contagion and behavior with increasing and decreasing awareness.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the effects of individual awareness on epidemic phenomena is important to comprehend the coevolving system dynamic, to improve forecasting, and to better evaluate the outcome of possible interventions. In previous models of epidemics on social networks, individual awareness has often been approximated as a generic personal trait that depends on social reinforcement, and used to introduce variability in state transition probabilities. A novelty of this work is to assume that individual awareness is a function of several contributing factors pooled together, different by nature and dynamics, and to study it for different epidemic categories. This way, our model still has awareness as the core attribute that may change state transition probabilities. Another contribution is to s

SUBMITTER: Maghool S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6890210 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature