Greedy immunization strategy in weighted scale-free networks. Issue 8 (28th October 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Meen, Teen-Hang; D. Prior, Steven; Donald Kin-Tak Lam, Artde; Liu, Zhang-Hui; Chen, Guo-Long; Wang, Ning-Ning; Song, Biao
• Is Part Of: Engineering computations. Volume 31:Issue 8(2014)
• Page Start: 1627
• Page End: 1634
• Publication Date: 2014-10-28
• Subjects: Computer-aided engineering -- Periodicals; Computer graphics -- Periodicals; 620.00285
• DOI: 10.1108/EC-11-2012-0285
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0264-4401

Abstract

<abstract> <title> <x content-type="archive" xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Purpose</title> <p> – The purpose of this paper is to present a new immunization strategy for effectively solving the control of the spread of the virus. </p> </sec> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Design/methodology/approach</title> <p> – Inspired by the idea of network partition, taking two optimization targets which are the scale of sub-network and the sum of the strengths of the sub-network's nodes into account at the same time, a new immunization strategy based on greedy algorithm in the scale-free network is presented. After specifying the number of nodes through the immunization, the network is divided into the scale of sub-network and the sum of the strength of the sub-network's nodes as small as possible. </p> </sec> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Findings</title> <p> – The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has the better performance than targeted immunization which is supposed to be highly efficient at present. </p> </sec> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Originality/value</title> <p> – This paper proposes a new immunization strategy based on greedy algorithm in the scale-free network for effectively solving the control of the spread of the virus.</p> </sec> </abstract>