Modeling the competitive diffusions of rumor and knowledge and the impacts on epidemic spreading.

ABSTRACT: The interaction between epidemic spreading and information diffusion is an interdisciplinary research problem. During an epidemic, people tend to take self-protective measures to reduce the infection risk. However, with the diffusion of rumor, people may be difficult to make an appropriate choice. How to reduce the negative impact of rumor and to control epidemic has become a critical issue in the social network. Elaborate mathematical model is instructive to understand such complex dynamics. In this paper, we develop a two-layer network to model the interaction between the spread of epidemic and the competitive diffusions of information. The results show that knowledge diffusion can eradicate both rumor and epidemic, where the penetration intensity of knowledge into rumor plays a vital ro

SUBMITTER: Huang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7382352 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature