When Is a Network Epidemic Hard to Eliminate?

When Is a Network Epidemic Hard to Eliminate?

We consider the propagation of a contagion process ("epidemic") on a network and study the problem of dynamically allocating a fixed curing budget to the nodes of the graph, at each time instant. For bounded degree graphs, we provide a lower bound on the expected time to extinction under a...

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Main Authors: Drakopoulos, Kimon (Contributor), Koksal, Asuman E. (Contributor), Tsitsiklis, John N (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2017-08-28T18:03:43Z.
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