Chin. Phys. Lett.  2005, Vol. 22 Issue (2): 510-513    DOI:
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Epidemic Spread in Weighted Scale-Free Networks
YAN Gang1;ZHOU Tao1,2;WANG Jie1;FU Zhong-Qian1;WANG Bing-Hong2
1Electronic Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026 2Nonlinear Science Centre and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026
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YAN Gang, ZHOU Tao, WANG Jie et al  2005 Chin. Phys. Lett. 22 510-513
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Abstract We investigate the detailed epidemic spreading process in scale-free networks with link weights that denote familiarity between two individuals. It is found that the spreading velocity reaches a peak quickly then decays in a power-law form. Numerical study exhibits that the nodes with larger strength is preferential to be infected, but the hierarchical dynamics are not clearly found, which is different from the well-known result in the unweighed network case. In addition, also by numerical study, we demonstrate that larger dispersion of weight of networks results in slower spreading, which indicates that epidemic spreads more quickly on unweighted scale-free networks than on weighted scale-free networks with the same condition.
Keywords: 89.75.-k      89.75.Hc      87.23.Ge      05.70.Ln     
Published: 01 February 2005
PACS:  89.75.-k (Complex systems)  
  89.75.Hc (Networks and genealogical trees)  
  87.23.Ge (Dynamics of social systems)  
  05.70.Ln (Nonequilibrium and irreversible thermodynamics)  
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