Epidemic spreading in scale-free networks.

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Summary

A dynamical model for the spreading of infections on scale-free networks is defined, finding the absence of an epidemic threshold and its associated critical behavior and this new epidemiological framework rationalizes data of computer viruses and could help in the understanding of other spreading phenomena on communication and social networks.

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Published
2000-10-20
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Keywords

Scale-free network, Computer science, The Internet, Computer virus, Scale (ratio)

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