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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme
SOE 14: Networks: From Topology to Dynamics II (with BP, DY)
SOE 14.1: Talk
Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 10:45–11:00, GÖR 226
Stem Diseases: Efficient Immunization Strategies — •Christian M. Schneider1, Tamara Mihaljev1, Shlomo Havlin2, and Hans J. Herrmann1,3 — 1Computational Physics, IfB, ETH Zurich, Schafmattstrasse 6, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland — 2Minerva Center and Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel — 3Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Ceara, 60451-970 Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil
The spreading of diseases in social networks is crucial to the potential danger of the disease. We quantitatively analyze the effect of immunization strategies on the susceptibility to diseases. We introduce a novel immunization strategy and find for all studied networks that the spreading of diseases can be significantly suppressed compared to the known immunization strategies. As an example we show the results for the international airport network.