Title
Controlling Contagion Processes In Activity Driven Networks
Abstract
The vast majority of strategies aimed at controlling contagion processes on networks consider the connectivity pattern of the system either quenched or annealed. However, in the real world, many networks are highly dynamical and evolve, in time, concurrently with the contagion process. Here, we derive an analytical framework for the study of control strategies specifically devised for a class of time-varying networks, namely activity-driven networks. We develop a block variable mean-field approach that allows the derivation of the equations describing the coevolution of the contagion process and the network dynamic. We derive the critical immunization threshold and assess the effectiveness of three different control strategies. Finally, we validate the theoretical picture by simulating numerically the spreading process and control strategies in both synthetic networks and a large-scale, real-world, mobile telephone call data set.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.118702
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
112
11
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0031-9007
17
0.86
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Suyu Liu1343.56
Nicola Perra241925.82
Márton Karsai342230.42
Alessandro Vespignani41647109.55