Measuring edge importance to improve immunization performance

He Huang; Zhijun Yan; Yaohui Pan

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2014.09.007

Measuring edge importance to improve immunization performance

He Huang
, Zhijun Yan^*
, Yaohui Pan

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Management

Beijing Institute of Technology

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Abstract

The edge heterogeneity has a remarkable influence on disease spreading, but it has seldom been considered in the disease-controlling policies. Based on the gravity model, we propose the edge importance index to describe the influence of edge heterogeneity on immunization strategies. Then the edge importance and contact weight are combined to calculate the infection rates on the I-S (Infected-Susceptible) edges in the complex network, and the difference of the infection rates on strong and weak ties is analyzed. Simulation results show that edge heterogeneity has a significant influence on the performance of immunization strategies, and better immunization efficiency is derived when the vaccination rate of the nodes in the weak I-S edges is increased.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	532-540
Number of pages	9
Journal	Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume	416
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2014.09.007
Publication status	Published - 15 Dec 2014

Keywords

Disease spreading
Edge importance
Heterogeneity
Immunization strategies

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