Modeling Risk Perception in Networks with Community Structure
Abstract
We study the influence of global, local and community-level risk perception on the extinction probability of a disease in several models of social networks. In particular, we study the infection progression as a susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) model on several modular networks, formed by a certain number of random and scale-free communities. We find that in the scale-free networks the progression is faster than in random ones with the same average connectivity degree. For what concerns the role of perception, we find that the knowledge of the infection level in one's own neighborhood is the most effective property in stopping the spreading of a disease, but at the same time the more expensive one in terms of the quantity of required information, thus the cost/effectiveness optimum is a tradeoff between several parameters.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1212.0657,
title = {Modeling Risk Perception in Networks with Community Structure},
author = {Franco Bagnoli and Daniel Borkmann and Andrea Guazzini and Emanuele Massaro and Stefan Rudolph},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.0657},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Accepted to the 7th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems, BIONETICS2012