Dynamics of rumor propagation on small-world networks
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- 28 March 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 65 (4) , 041908
Abstract
We study the dynamics of an epidemiclike model for the spread of a rumor on a small-world network. It has been shown that this model exhibits a transition between regimes of localization and propagation at a finite value of the network randomness. Here, by numerical means, we perform a quantitative characterization of the evolution in the two regimes. The variant of dynamic small worlds, where the quenched disorder of small-world networks is replaced by randomly changing connections between individuals, is also analyzed in detail and compared with a mean-field approximation.Keywords
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