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In many epidemiological and ecological contexts, there is a trade-off between infections and interactions. This arises because the links between individuals capable of spreading infections are also often associated with beneficial…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-04 Bunlang Thatchai , Christopher E. Overton , Thomas House

Network-based models of epidemic spread have become increasingly popular in recent decades. Despite a rich foundation of such models, few low-dimensional systems for modeling SIS-type diseases have been proposed that manage to capture the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Carl Corcoran , Alan Hastings

To control infection spreading on networks, we investigate the effect of observer nodes that recognize infection in a neighboring node and make the rest of the neighbor nodes immune. We numerically show that random placement of observer…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-07-15 Taro Takaguchi , Takehisa Hasegawa , Yuichi Yoshida

Complex systems are challenging to control because the system responds to the controller in a nonlinear fashion, often incorporating feedback mechanisms. Interdependence of systems poses additional difficulties, as cross-system connections…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-04-07 Malgorzata Turalska , Ananthram Swami

We study spreading on networks where the contact dynamics between the nodes is governed by a random process and where the inter-contact time distribution may differ from the exponential. We consider a process of imperfect spreading, where…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-07 Martin Gueuning , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Renaud Lambiotte

We study the problem of controlling a general complex network towards an assigned synchronous evolution, by means of a pinning control strategy. We define the pinning-controllability of the network in terms of the spectral properties of an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Sorrentino , Mario di Bernardo , Franco Garofalo , Guanrong Chen

The inverse problem of finding the optimal network structure for a specific type of dynamical process stands out as one of the most challenging problems in network science. Focusing on the susceptible-infected-susceptible type of dynamics…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-03 Liming Pan , Wei Wang , Lixin Tian , Ying-Cheng Lai

We review the behavior of epidemic spreading on complex networks in which there are explicit correlations among the degrees of connected vertices.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Marian Boguna , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras , Alessandro Vespignani

In this paper we introduce the optimal control of a kinetic model describing agents who migrate on a graph and interact within its nodes exchanging a physical quantity. As a prototype model, we consider the spread of an infectious disease…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Jonathan Franceschi , Nadia Loy

Recently, motivated by the pioneer works that reveal the small-world effect and scale-free property of various real-life networks, many scientists devote themselves into studying complex networks. One of the ultimate goals is to understand…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Tao Zhou , Zhong-Qian Fu , Bing-Hong Wang

Recent research has identified interactions between networks as crucial for the outcome of evolutionary games taking place on them. While the consensus is that interdependence does promote cooperation by means of organizational complexity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-23 Zhen Wang , Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

The links between optimal control of dynamical systems and neural networks have proved beneficial both from a theoretical and from a practical point of view. Several researchers have exploited these links to investigate the stability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Panos Parpas , Corey Muir

Defining an optimal protection strategy against viruses, spam propagation or any other kind of contamination process is an important feature for designing new networks and architectures. In this work, we consider decentralized optimal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Stojan Trajanovski , Yezekael Hayel , Eitan Altman , Huijuan Wang , Piet Van Mieghem

Pathogen introduction in plant communities can cause serious impact and biodiversity losses that may take long time to manage and restore. Effective control of epidemic spreading in the wild is a problem of paramount importance, because of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-15 Ignacio Taguas , José A. Capitán , Juan C. Nuño

When an unprecedented infectious disease with high mortality and transmissibility emerges, immediate usage of vaccines or medicines is hardly available. Thus, many health authorities rely on non-pharmaceutical interventions through…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-21 Minsuk Kim , Soon-Hyung Yook

We consider the problem of identifying the source of an epidemic, spreading through a network, from a complete observation of the infected nodes in a snapshot of the network. Previous work on the problem has often employed geometric,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-13 S. Jalil Kazemitabar , Arash A. Amini

We study vaccine control for disease spread on an adaptive network modeling disease avoidance behavior. Control is implemented by adding Poisson distributed vaccination of susceptibles. We show that vaccine control is much more effective in…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 Leah B. Shaw , Ira B. Schwartz

The science of networks has revolutionised research into the dynamics of interacting elements. It could be argued that epidemiology in particular has embraced the potential of network theory more than any other discipline. Here we review…

Epidemic risk assessment poses inherent challenges, with traditional approaches often failing to balance health outcomes and economic constraints. This paper presents a data-driven decision support tool that models epidemiological dynamics…

Applications · Statistics 2025-11-24 Chang Zhai , Ping Chen , Zhuo Jin , David Pitt

We propose a deterministic compartmental model of infectious disease which considers the test-kits as an important ingredient for the suppression and mitigation of epidemics. A rigorous simulation (with analytical argument) is provided to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-28 Subrata Ghosh , Abhishek Senapati , Joydev Chattopadhyay , Chittaranjan Hens , Dibakar Ghosh