2002/05/13 by Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Alessandro Vespignani
Physics and Astronomy · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #cond-mat.stat-mech #q-bio
published as Contribution to "Handbook of Graphs and Networks: From the Genome to the Internet" eds. S. Bornholdt and H.G. Schuster (Wiley-VCH, Berlin, 2002)
arxiv created 2002/05/13 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
In this chapter we want to provide a review of the main results obtained in the modeling of epidemic spreading in scale-free networks. In particular, we want to show the different epidemiological framework originated by the lack of any epidemic threshold and how this feature is rooted in the extreme heterogeneity of the scale-free networks' connectivity pattern.