Global attractiveness of discrete-time epidemic outbreak in networks

International Journal of Biomathematics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Wu, Qingchu ^a   Fu, Xinchu ^b   Zhu, Guanghu ^b  

^a JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Complex network; discrete model; epidemic dynamics; nonlinear contagion scheme

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857612230     PISSN: 17935245     EISSN: 17937159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1793524511001441     Document Type: Article

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