Impact of directionality and correlation on contagion

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 4814 - 8
• Main Authors: Xu, Xin-Jian, Li, Jia-Yan, Fu, Xinchu, Zhang, Li-Jie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Nature Publishing Group 19.03.2018; Nature Publishing Group UK
• Subjects: Connectivity; Eigenvalues; Embedded systems; Infections; Propagation; Random variables; Seeds; Social organization

The threshold model has been widely adopted for modelling contagion processes on social networks, where individuals are assumed to be in one of two states: inactive or active. This paper studies the model on directed networks where nodal inand out-degrees may be correlated. To understand how directi...