Spreading of epidemics on scale-free networks with nonlinear infectivity

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3273-3278

  Zhang, Haifeng ^a   Fu, Xinchu ^b  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Complex network; Epidemic threshold; Nonlinear infectivity; Scale free network

Indexed keywords

SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

COMPLEX NETWORK; EPIDEMIC THRESHOLD; NETWORK SIZES; NEW RESULTS; NONLINEAR INFECTIVITY; RECOVERY RATES; SCALE-FREE NETWORK; SIS MODELS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 61349124265     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2008.04.031     Document Type: Article

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