86315 20200716101531.0 doi 10.1103/PhysRevE.100.032313 sideral 114956 ART-2019-114956 eng Ventura Da Silva, Paulo César Epidemic spreading with awareness and different timescales in multiplex networks 2019 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted One of the major issues in theoretical modeling of epidemic spreading is the development of methods to control the transmission of an infectious agent. Human behavior plays a fundamental role in the spreading dynamics and can be used to stop a disease from spreading or to reduce its burden, as individuals aware of the presence of a disease can take measures to reduce their exposure to contagion. In this paper, we propose a mathematical model for the spread of diseases with awareness in complex networks. Unlike previous models, the information is propagated following a generalized Maki-Thompson rumor model. Flexibility on the timescale between information and disease spreading is also included. We verify that the velocity characterizing the diffusion of information awareness greatly influences the disease prevalence. We also show that a reduction in the fraction of unaware individuals does not always imply a decrease of the prevalence, as the relative timescale between disease and awareness spreading plays a crucial role in the systems'' dynamics. This result is shown to be independent of the network topology. We finally calculate the epidemic threshold of our model, and show that it does not depend on the relative timescale. Our results provide a new view on how information influence disease spreading and can be used for the development of more efficient methods for disease control. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E36-17R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FIS2017-87519-P info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 2.296 2019 PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL 9 / 55 = 0.164 2019 Q1 T1 PHYSICS, FLUIDS & PLASMAS 13 / 34 = 0.382 2019 Q2 T2 0.958 2019 Condensed Matter Physics 2019 Q1 Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 2019 Q1 Statistics and Probability 2019 Q2 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Velásquez-Rojas, Fátima Connaughton, Colm Vazquez, Federico (orcid)0000-0002-0895-1893 Moreno, Yamir Universidad de Zaragoza Rodrigues, Francisco A. 2004 405 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Física Teórica Área Física Teórica 100, 3 (2019), 032313 1-11 Phys. rev., E PHYSICAL REVIEW E 2470-0045 847728 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/86315/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 17892 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/86315/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:86315 articulos driver 2020-07-16-09:33:48 ARTICLE