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Impact of Immunization Strategies on the Dynamics of Social Contagions
Joint Authors
Peng, Hao
Peng, Wangxin
Zhao, Dandan
Hu, Zhaolong
Han, Jianmin
Zheng, Zhonglong
Source
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Issue
Vol. 2020, Issue 2020 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2020-08-01
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Immunization strategies on complex networks are effective methods to control the spreading dynamics on complex networks, which change the topology and connectivity of the underlying network, thereby affecting the dynamics process of propagation.
Here, we use a non-Markovian threshold model to study the impact of immunization strategies on social contagions, in which the immune index greater than (or equal to) 0 corresponds to targeted (random) immunization, and when the immune index is less than 0, the probability of an individual being immunized is inversely related to the degree of the individual.
A generalized edge-based compartmental theory is developed to analyze the dynamics of social contagions under immunization, and theoretical predictions are very consistent with simulation results.
We find that increasing the immune index or increasing the immune ratio will reduce the final adoption size and increase the outbreak threshold, in other words, make the residual network after immunization not conducive to social contagions.
Interestingly, enhancing the network heterogeneity is proved to help improve the immune efficiency of targeted immunization.
Besides, the dependence of the outbreak threshold on the network heterogeneity is correlated with the immune ratio and immune index.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Peng, Hao& Peng, Wangxin& Zhao, Dandan& Hu, Zhaolong& Han, Jianmin& Zheng, Zhonglong. 2020. Impact of Immunization Strategies on the Dynamics of Social Contagions. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1153142
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Peng, Hao…[et al.]. Impact of Immunization Strategies on the Dynamics of Social Contagions. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1153142
American Medical Association (AMA)
Peng, Hao& Peng, Wangxin& Zhao, Dandan& Hu, Zhaolong& Han, Jianmin& Zheng, Zhonglong. Impact of Immunization Strategies on the Dynamics of Social Contagions. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1153142
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1153142