Fluctuating epidemics on adaptive networks Export

@misc{citeulike:2204436, abstract = {A model for epidemics on an adaptive network is considered. Nodes follow an SIRS (susceptible-infective-recovered-susceptible) pattern. Connections are rewired to break links from non-infected nodes to infected nodes and are reformed to connect to other non-infected nodes, as the nodes that are not infected try to avoid the infection. Monte Carlo simulation and numerical solution of a mean field model are employed. The introduction of rewiring affects both the network structure and the epidemic dynamics. Degree distributions are altered, and the average distance from a node to the nearest infective increases. The rewiring leads to regions of bistability where either an endemic or a disease-free steady state can exist. Fluctuations around the endemic state and the lifetime of the endemic state are considered. The fluctuations are found to exhibit power law behavior.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Shaw, Leah B. and Schwartz, Ira B.}, citeulike-article-id = {2204436}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0606}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0801.0606}, day = {3}, eprint = {0801.0606}, month = {Jan}, posted-at = {2008-01-14 13:29:10}, priority = {2}, title = {Fluctuating epidemics on adaptive networks}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0606}, year = {2008} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:2204436 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2204436 N2 - A model for epidemics on an adaptive network is considered. Nodes follow an SIRS (susceptible-infective-recovered-susceptible) pattern. Connections are rewired to break links from non-infected nodes to infected nodes and are reformed to connect to other non-infected nodes, as the nodes that are not infected try to avoid the infection. Monte Carlo simulation and numerical solution of a mean field model are employed. The introduction of rewiring affects both the network structure and the epidemic dynamics. Degree distributions are altered, and the average distance from a node to the nearest infective increases. The rewiring leads to regions of bistability where either an endemic or a disease-free steady state can exist. Fluctuations around the endemic state and the lifetime of the endemic state are considered. The fluctuations are found to exhibit power law behavior. TI - Fluctuating epidemics on adaptive networks AU - Shaw, Leah AU - Schwartz, Ira PY - 2008/Jan/03/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0606 ER -