The simplest epidemiologic model composed by mutually exclusive compartments SIR
(susceptible-infected-susceptible) is presented to describe a reality. From health concerns to …

Abstract Crowdsourcing and Internet of Things (IoT) are gaining more and more attention
both in industry and academia in order to explore their effects on disaster relief. The current …

Modeling epidemic spread with spike-based models Page 1 Modeling epidemic spread with
spike-based models Kathleen Hamilton Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge …

Subway emergency may lead to passengers' panic, especially under self‐organizing
circumstance, which will spread rapidly and have an adverse impact on the society. This …

In this article, we present a susceptible–infected–recovered (SIR) model with individuals
wearing facial masks and individuals who do not. The disease transmission rates, the …

The criminal nature of narcotics complicates the direct assessment of a drug community,
while having a good understanding of the type of people drawn or currently using drugs is …

Although an influence network is a crucial factor affecting diffusion processes, it is generally
fixed or assumed to follow some typical topologies in traditional diffusion research. The …

Pattern formation is a ubiquitous phenomenon that describes the generation of orderly
outcomes by self-organization. In both physical society and online social media, patterns …

Understanding the spread of information on complex networks is a key issue from a
theoretical and applied perspective. Despite the effort in developing theoretical models for …

Peer-to-peer systems have driven a lot of attention in the past decade as they have become
a major source of Internet traffic. The amount of data flowing through the peer-to-peer …