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Self-Repair Networks as an Epidemic Model

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This chapter focuses on propagation and spreading state caused by self-repairing or by infection. We proposed a self-repair network where nodes are capable of repairing neighbor nodes by mutual copying, and investigated a critical point at which faulty nodes can be eliminated. This chapter further studies the dynamics of eradicating abnormal nodes by comparing the self-repair network with mathematical epidemic models such as SIS models. It is shown that the self-repair network, which is a probabilistic cellular automaton, can be regarded as an epidemic model in some restricted situations. Since the self-repair network is related to the epidemic models by corresponding parameters, this chapter also serves to explain the calculus of how the network cleaning threshold is derived by the mean field approximation.

Some results of this chapter are presented in Aoki and Ishida (2008).

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Ishida, Y. (2015). Self-Repair Networks as an Epidemic Model. In: Self-Repair Networks. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 101. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26447-9_10

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