Spreading dynamics following bursty human activity patterns
- Authors
- Min, Byungjoon; Goh, K-I; Vazquez, Alexei
- Issue Date
- 7-3월-2011
- Publisher
- AMER PHYSICAL SOC
- Citation
- PHYSICAL REVIEW E, v.83, no.3
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- PHYSICAL REVIEW E
- Volume
- 83
- Number
- 3
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/112858
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.036102
- ISSN
- 1539-3755
- Abstract
- We study the susceptible-infected model with power-law waiting time distributions P(tau) similar to tau(-alpha), as a model of spreading dynamics under heterogeneous human activity patterns. We found that the average number of new infections n(t) at time t decays as a power law in the long-time limit, n(t) similar to t(-beta), leading to extremely slow prevalence decay. We also found that the exponent in the spreading dynamics beta is related to that in the waiting time distribution a in a way depending on the interactions between agents but insensitive to the network topology. These observations are well supported by both the theoretical predictions and the long prevalence decay time in real social spreading phenomena. Our results unify individual activity patterns with macroscopic collective dynamics at the network level.
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