Coupled Dynamic Model of Resource Diffusion and Epidemic Spreading in Time-Varying Multiplex Networks

Figure 5

The heat maps of as a function of a pair of and (a) and and (b). The longitudinal curve in Figures 5(a) and 5(b) indicates the theoretical outbreak thresholds of obtained by solving equation (13), which is the same as those in Figure 7. And, the transverse curve in Figure 5(b) indicates the simulated outbreak thresholds of obtained by the variability measurement, which affects the outbreak of epidemic. It trivially fluctuates only when is less than 0.2. These two subfigures clearly show that and affect the outbreak thresholds of each other and effectively affect the outbreak of the epidemic, which suggests that resource diffusion can play an important role in the control of epidemic spreading. The other fixed parameters are for (a), for (b), .

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