Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zhou, Shenyu
• Shi, Shuyang
• Wang, Lin

Titel

Immunizations of Interacting Diseases

Ist Teil von

• 2018 37th Chinese Control Conference (CCC), 2018, p.9686-9691

Ort / Verlag

Technical Committee on Control Theory, Chinese Association of Automation

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

IEEE Electronic Library (IEL)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Immunization strategies for epidemics spreading on complex networks have been studied widely for a long time. However, most previous studies only pay attention to the single disease scenarios and little effort is devoted to the circumstances where more than one disease exist. In this article, we propose a propagation model of two interacting SIR-type epidemics spreading simultaneously on a two-layer network, and investigate the performance of different immunization strategies under different disease interaction scenarios. Specifically, we introduce two metrics, the spreading scale and the maximum spreading speed, to characterize the performance of acquaintance immunization and targeted immunization strategies. Under different interaction circumstances where the two diseases are mutually enhanced, impaired or not affected with each other, those immunization strategies perform differently. Moreover, immunization of one disease can dramatically influence the propagation of the other disease, which illustrate the necessity to consider the interaction effects between diseases in the design of immunization strategies.