Epidemic Spread in Adaptive Social Networks with Community Structure

Leah Shaw; Ilker Tunc

Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems. 5th International ICST Conference, BIONETICS 2010, Boston, USA, December 1-3, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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Epidemic Spread in Adaptive Social Networks with Community Structure

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-32615-8_49,
    author={Leah Shaw and Ilker Tunc},
    title={Epidemic Spread in Adaptive Social Networks with Community Structure},
    proceedings={Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems. 5th International ICST Conference, BIONETICS 2010, Boston, USA, December 1-3, 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={BIONETICS},
    year={2012},
    month={10},
    keywords={adaptive networks community structure epidemics},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-32615-8_49}
}

Leah Shaw
Ilker Tunc
Year: 2012
Epidemic Spread in Adaptive Social Networks with Community Structure
BIONETICS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32615-8_49

Leah Shaw¹^,*, Ilker Tunc¹

1: College of William and Mary

*Contact email: lbshaw@wm.edu

Abstract

When an epidemic spreads in a population, individuals may adaptively change the structure of their social contact network in response. We study the spread of epidemics in an adaptive network with community structure. Community structure is a characteristic of social networks that has been neglected in previous adaptive network epidemic models. We model the effect of heterogeneous communities on infection levels. We also show how an epidemic can alter the community structure.

Keywords: adaptive networks community structure epidemics

Published: 2012-10-18

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32615-8_49