Online Social Network Emergency Public Event Information Propagation and Nonlinear Mathematical Modeling

• Main Authors: Xiaoyang Liu, Chao Liu, Xiaoping Zeng
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi-Wiley 2017-01-01
• Series: Complexity
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5857372

Emergency public event arises everyday on social network. The information propagation of emergency public event (favorable and harmful) is researched. The dynamics of a susceptible-infected-susceptible and susceptible-infected-removed epidemic models incorporated with information propagation of emergency public event are studied. In particular, we investigate the propagation model and the infection spreading pattern using nonlinear dynamic method and results obtained through extensive numerical simulations. We further generalize the model for any arbitrary number of infective network nodes to mimic existing scenarios in online social network. The simulation results reveal that the inclusion of multiple infective node achieved stability and equilibrium in the proposed information propagation model.