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Most real-world networks are not isolated. In order to function fully, they are interconnected with other networks, and this interconnection influences their dynamic processes. For example, when the spread of a disease involves two species,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-09 Huijuan Wang , Qian Li , Gregorio D'Agostino , Shlomo Havlin , H. Eugene Stanley , Piet Van Mieghem

In epidemic modeling, the term infection strength indicates the ratio of infection rate and cure rate. If the infection strength is higher than a certain threshold -- which we define as the epidemic threshold - then the epidemic spreads…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-12-19 Faryad Darabi Sahneh , Caterina Scoglio , Fahmida N. Chowdhury

The robustness of human social networks against epidemic propagation relies on the propensity for physical contact adaptation. During the early phase of infection, asymptomatic carriers exhibit the same activity level as susceptible…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Masoumeh Moradian , Aresh Dadlani , Rasul Kairgeldin , Ahmad Khonsari

Most real complex networks -- such as protein interactions, social contacts, the internet -- are only partially known and available to us. While the process of exploring such networks in many cases resembles a random walk, it becomes a key…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-09-19 Luciano da Fontoura Costa

To simplify mathematical models of disease spread, we often assume equal contact rates among hosts, but real-world scenarios differ. Network-based frameworks help capture these complexities and structural variations in actual systems. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Saswata Das , Mohammad Hossein Samaei , Caterina Scoglio

We study a spatial network model with exponentially distributed link-lengths on an underlying grid of points, undergoing a structural crossover from a random, Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi graph to a $2D$ lattice at the characteristic interaction…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-28 Ivan Bonamassa , Bnaya Gross , Michael M. Danziger , Shlomo Havlin

In this paper we study the small-world network model of Watts and Strogatz, which mimics some aspects of the structure of networks of social interactions. We argue that there is one non-trivial length-scale in the model, analogous to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. J. Newman , D. J. Watts

We introduce a Reed-Frost epidemic model with recursive contact tracing and asymptomatic transmission. This generalizes the branching-process model introduced by the authors in a previous work [arxiv:2004.07237] to finite populations and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-18 Saumya Shivam , Vir B. Bulchandani , S. L. Sondhi

Higher order interactions are increasingly recognised as a fundamental aspect of complex systems ranging from the brain to social contact networks. Hypergraph as well as simplicial complexes capture the higher-order interactions of complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-23 Hanlin Sun , Ginestra Bianconi

Multigraphs are graphs in which multiple links between pairs of nodes are allowed, whereas they are forbidden in simple graphs, the latter being widely used in network science. Simple graphs generated by the configuration model have served…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-29 Paulo H. Lorenzoni , Wesley Cota , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Silvio C. Ferreira

Human contact networks are constituted by a multitude of individuals and pairwise contacts among them. However, the dynamic nature, which generates the evolution of human contact networks, of contact patterns is not known yet. Here, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-22 Cong Li , Jing Li , Xiang Li

The most frequent infectious diseases in humans - and those with the highest potential for rapid pandemic spread - are usually transmitted via droplets during close proximity interactions (CPIs). Despite the importance of this transmission…

In the present work the spread of epidemic is studied over complex networks which are characterized by power law degree distribution of links and heterogeneous rate of disease transmission. The random allocation of epidemic transmission…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-19 Vikram Sagar , Yi Zhao

We study the phase diagram and critical behavior of the one-dimensional pair contact process (PCP) with a particle source using cluster approximations and extensive simulations. The source creates isolated particles only, not pairs, and so…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ronald Dickman , Wilson R. M. Rabelo , Geza Odor

The observation of critical-like behavior in cortical networks represents a major step forward in elucidating how the brain manages information. Understanding the origin and functionality of critical-like dynamics, as well as their…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-22 Paula Villa Martín , Paolo Moretti , Miguel A. Muñoz

The dynamics of competing opinions in social network play an important role in society, with many applications in diverse social contexts as consensus, elections, morality and so on. Here we study a model of interacting agents connected in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-29 Antonio Mihara , Anderson A. Ferreira , André C. R. Martins , Fernando F. Ferreira

A proof is provided of a strong law of large numbers for a one-dimensional random walk in a dynamic random environment given by a supercritical contact process in equilibrium. The proof is based on a coupling argument that traces the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Frank den Hollander , Renato dos Santos

Many real-world networks exhibit scale-free feature, have a small diameter and a high clustering tendency. We have studied the properties of a growing network, which has all these features, in which an incoming node is connected to its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Parongama Sen , S. S. Manna

Non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as contact tracing and social distancing, are critical for controlling epidemic outbreaks, yet their dynamic interactions remain underexplored. We introduce a probabilistic framework to analyze the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-11 Jinghui Wang , Yutian Zeng , Cong Xu , Xiyun Zhang , Zhanwei Du , Jiarong Xie , Jiu Zhang , Sen Pei , Zijian Feng , Yanqing Hu

It is generally accepted that scale-free networks is prone to epidemic spreading allowing the onset of large epidemics whatever the spreading rate of the infection. In the paper, we show that disease propagation may be suppressed in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-03-05 Zhongzhi Zhang , Shuigeng Zhou , Tao Zou , Jihong Guan