A. Buscarino et al 2008 EPL 82 38002 doi:10.1209/0295-5075/82/38002
A. Buscarino1, L. Fortuna1, M. Frasca1 and V. Latora2
Show affiliationsWe study the effect of motion on disease spreading in a system of random walkers which additionally perform long-distance jumps. A small percentage of jumps in the agent motion is sufficient to destroy the local correlations and to produce a large drop in the epidemic threshold, that we explain in terms of a mean-field approximation. This effect is similar to the crossover found in static small-world networks, and can be furthermore linked to the structural properties of the dynamical network of agent interactions.
Issue 3 (May 2008)
Received 10 December 2007, accepted for publication 8 March 2008
Published 16 April 2008
A. Buscarino et al 2008 EPL 82 38002
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