Epidemic Incidence in Correlated Complex Networks

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19 September 2003

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0309462

Abstract

We introduce a numerical method to solve epidemic models on the underlying topology of complex networks. The approach exploits the mean-field like rate equations describing the system and allows to work with very large system sizes, where Monte Carlo simulations are useless due to memory needs. We then study the SIR epidemiological model on assortative networks, providing numerical evidence of the absence of epidemic thresholds. Besides, the time profiles of the populations are analyzed. Finally, we stress that the present method would allow to solve arbitrary epidemic-like models provided that they can be described by mean-field rate equations.

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Published version: Physical Review E, 68 (3), 035103.

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