• Corpus ID: 44347672

Direct, physically motivated derivation of triggering probabilities for spreading processes on generalized random networks

@article{Harris2011DirectPM,
  title={Direct, physically motivated derivation of triggering probabilities for spreading processes on generalized random networks},
  author={Kameron Decker Harris and Joshua L. Payne and Peter Sheridan Dodds},
  journal={arXiv: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks},
  year={2011}
}

• K. Harris, Joshua L. Payne, P. Dodds
• Published 26 August 2011
• Computer Science
• arXiv: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Computational Genetics Laboratory, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755(Dated: August 30, 2011)We derive a general expression for the probability of global spreading starting from asingle infectedseed for contagion processes acting on generalized, correlated random networks. We employ a simpleprobabilistic argument that encodes the spreading mechanism in an intuitive, physical fashion.We use our approach to directly and systematically obtain triggering probabilities for contagionprocesses acting on a series of interrelated random network families.