Coupling effects on turning points of infectious diseases epidemics in scale-free networks

Abstract Background Pandemic is a typical spreading phenomenon that can be observed in the human society and is dependent on the structure of the social network. The Susceptible-Infective-Recovered (SIR) model describes spreading phenomena using two spreading factors; contagiousness (β) and recovery...

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Main Authors: Kiseong Kim, Sangyeon Lee, Doheon Lee, Kwang Hyung Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-05-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-017-1643-7