The impact of awareness on epidemic spreading in networks

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Title:	The impact of awareness on epidemic spreading in networks
Authors:	Wu, Q Fu, X Small, M Xu, XJ
Issue Date:	Mar-2012
Source:	Chaos, Mar. 2012, v. 22, no. 1, 013101, p. 1-8
Abstract:	We explore the impact of awareness on epidemic spreading through a population represented by a scale-free network. Using a network mean-field approach, a mathematical model for epidemic spreading with awareness reactions is proposed and analyzed. We focus on the role of three forms of awareness including local, global, and contact awareness. By theoretical analysis and simulation, we show that the global awareness cannot decrease the likelihood of an epidemic outbreak while both the local awareness and the contact awareness can. Also, the influence degree of the local awareness on disease dynamics is closely related with the contact awareness.
Keywords:	Complex networks Diseases Epidemics Nonlinear dynamical systems
Publisher:	American Institute of Physics
Journal:	Chaos
ISSN:	1054-1500
EISSN:	1089-7682
DOI:	10.1063/1.3673573
Rights:	© 2012 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Qingchu Wu et al., Chaos: an interdisciplinary journal of nonlinear science 22, 013101 (2012) and may be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?cha/22/013101
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