Dynamics of cascades on burstiness-controlled temporal networks.

ABSTRACT: Burstiness, the tendency of interaction events to be heterogeneously distributed in time, is critical to information diffusion in physical and social systems. However, an analytical framework capturing the effect of burstiness on generic dynamics is lacking. Here we develop a master equation formalism to study cascades on temporal networks with burstiness modelled by renewal processes. Supported by numerical and data-driven simulations, we describe the interplay between heterogeneous temporal interactions and models of threshold-driven and epidemic spreading. We find that increasing interevent time variance can both accelerate and decelerate spreading for threshold models, but can only decelerate epidemic spreading. When accounting for the skewness of different interevent time distribution

SUBMITTER: Unicomb S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7794342 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature