Relevance of temporal cores for epidemic spread in temporal networks.

ABSTRACT: Temporal networks are widely used to represent a vast diversity of systems, including in particular social interactions, and the spreading processes unfolding on top of them. The identification of structures playing important roles in such processes remains largely an open question, despite recent progresses in the case of static networks. Here, we consider as candidate structures the recently introduced concept of span-cores: the span-cores decompose a temporal network into subgraphs of controlled duration and increasing connectivity, generalizing the core-decomposition of static graphs. To assess the relevance of such structures, we explore the effectiveness of strategies aimed either at containing or maximizing the impact of a spread, based respectively on removing span-cores of high co

SUBMITTER: Ciaperoni M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7385111 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature