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In this paper we study the interplay between epidemic spreading and risk perception on multiplex networks. The basic idea is that the effective infection probability is affected by the perception of the risk of being infected, which we assume to be related to the number of infected neighbours. We re-derive previous results using a self-organized method, that automatically gives the percolation threshold in just one simulation. We then extend the model to multiplex networks considering that people get infected by contacts in real life but often gather information from an information networks, that may be quite different from the real ones. The similarity between the real and information networks determine the possibility of stopping the infection for a sufficiently high precaution level: if the networks are too different there is no mean of avoiding the epidemics.
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Bagnoli, F., Massaro, E. (2015). Risk Perception and Epidemic Spreading in Multiplex Networks. In: Sanayei, A., E. Rössler, O., Zelinka, I. (eds) ISCS 2014: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems. Emergence, Complexity and Computation, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10759-2_33
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