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physics.soc-ph2010★ 532 cited

Robustness of interdependent networks under targeted attack

Xuqing Huang, Jianxi Gao, Sergey V. Buldyrev +2

When an initial failure of nodes occurs in interdependent networks, a cascade of failure between the networks occurs. Earlier studies focused on random initial failures. Here we st…

physics.soc-ph2010★ 77 cited

Quarantine generated phase transition in epidemic spreading

C. Lagorio, M. Dickison, F. Vazquez +5

We study the critical effect of quarantine on the propagation of epidemics on an adaptive network of social contacts. For this purpose, we analyze the susceptible-infected-recovere…

physics.soc-ph2010★ 149 cited

Worldwide spreading of economic crisis

Antonios Garas, Panos Argyrakis, Celine Rozenblat +2

We model the spreading of a crisis by constructing a global economic network and applying the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemic model with a variable probability of inf…

physics.soc-ph2010★ 15 cited

Communication activity in social networks: growth and correlations

Diego Rybski, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin +2

We investigate the timing of messages sent in two online communities with respect to growth fluctuations and long-term correlations. We find that the timing of sending and receivin…

physics.soc-ph2010★ 3.3k cited

Identification of influential spreaders in complex networks

Maksim Kitsak, Lazaros K. Gallos, Shlomo Havlin +4

Networks portray a multitude of interactions through which people meet, ideas are spread, and infectious diseases propagate within a society. Identifying the most efficient "spread…