Bursty Communication Patterns Facilitate Spreading in a Threshold-Based Epidemic Dynamics
2013 (English)In: PLOS ONE, E-ISSN 1932-6203, Vol. 8, no 7, article id e68629Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Records of social interactions provide us with new sources of data for understanding how interaction patterns affect collective dynamics. Such human activity patterns are often bursty, i.e., they consist of short periods of intense activity followed by long periods of silence. This burstiness has been shown to affect spreading phenomena; it accelerates epidemic spreading in some cases and slows it down in other cases. We investigate a model of history-dependent contagion. In our model, repeated interactions between susceptible and infected individuals in a short period of time is needed for a susceptible individual to contract infection. We carry out numerical simulations on real temporal network data to find that bursty activity patterns facilitate epidemic spreading in our model.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2013. Vol. 8, no 7, article id e68629
Keywords [en]
Network analysis, Infectious diseases, Pathogen, Verbal communication, Communication equipment, Simulation and modeling, Social communication, Social epidemiology
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-93578DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068629ISI: 000322391400017OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-93578DiVA, id: diva2:647403
Note
AuthorCount:3;
Funding Agencies:
Aihara Project;
FIRST program from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS);
Council for Science and Technology Policy;
JSPS, Japan 10J06281
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan 23681033;
Swedish Research Council;
WCU program through the National Research Foundation of Korea;
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology R31-2008-10029-0
2013-09-112013-09-102022-03-23Bibliographically approved