A new perspective of epidemic controlling: immunization therapy strategy in weighted complex network
Year: 2018
Journal of Information and Computing Science, Vol. 13 (2018), Iss. 2 : pp. 141–150
Abstract
The immunization strategy towards the epidemic spreading problem has attracted widespread attention of scientists from many different fields. However, the traditional immune behavior is achieved by deleting the edges in the network, which can lead to variations in the network structure and furthermore, seriously damage the efficien- cy of the network. In this paper, we studied a new type of immune strategy applied to weighted networks– immunization therapy strategy, which is to maintain the necessary network efficiency by lowering the weight of edges to suppress the spread of epidemic. It is similar to the inflammation around the infected parts of our body, which can either prevent epidemic from further spreading or do no harm to the function of the body. Thus, we name this novel strategy as "immunization therapy strategy". We first let the rate of transmission be proportional to the edge weight according to the
Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/2024-JICS-22456
Journal of Information and Computing Science, Vol. 13 (2018), Iss. 2 : pp. 141–150
Published online: 2018-01
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Pages: 10