Adaptive Network Dynamics - Modeling and Control of Time-Dependent Social Contacts

Abstract

Real networks consisting of social contacts do not possess static connections. That is, social connections may be time dependent due to a variety of individual behavioral decisions based on current network connections. Examples of adaptive networks occur in epidemics, where information about infectious individuals may change the rewiring of healthy people, or in the recruitment of individuals to a cause or fad, where rewiring may optimize recruitment of susceptible individuals. In this paper, we will review some of the dynamical properties of adaptive networks, and show how they predict novel phenomena as well as yield insight into new controls. The applications will be control of epidemic outbreaks and terrorist recruitment modeling.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA565931

Entities

People

  • Ira B. Schwartz
  • Leah B. Shaw
  • Maxim S. Shkarayev

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Data Analysis
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Dynamics
  • Epidemics
  • Equations
  • Extinction
  • Fixed Contacts
  • Human Behavior
  • Infection
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Military Research
  • Models
  • Simulations
  • Social Networks
  • Societies
  • Terrorists
  • Wound Infections

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