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Table 1 Overview of CIDM parameters

From: A model for the co-evolution of dynamic social networks and infectious disease dynamics

Parameter

Admissible

Used

I. Utilities

 I.I. Social benefits (\(B_{i}\))

  Benefit of direct ties

\(\alpha \in \mathbb {R}\)

\(\alpha = 10\)

  Discount of infected direct ties

\(0 \le \kappa \le 1\)

\(\kappa = 1.0\)

  Benefit of indirect ties

\(\beta \in \mathbb {R}\)

\(\beta \in \{2, 8\}\)

  Discount of infected indirect ties

\(0 \le \lambda \le 1\)

\(\lambda = 1.0\)

 I.II. Social maintenance costs (\(C_{i}\))

  Costs to maintain direct ties

\(c \in \mathbb {R}\)

\(c = 9\)

  Cost increase for infected direct ties

\(\mu \ge 1\)

\(\mu \in \{1.0, 1.5\}\)

 I.III. Potential harm of infections (\(D_{i}\))

  Disease severity

\(\sigma > 1\)

\(\sigma \in \{2, 10, 50\}\)

  Probability of getting infected per contact

\(0 \le \gamma \le 1\)

\(\gamma = 0.1\)

  Risk perception (disease severity)

\(0 \le r_{\sigma } \le 2\)

\(r_{\sigma } = r_{\pi } = r \in \{0.5, 1.0, 1.5\}\)

  Risk perception (probability of infection)

\(0 \le r_{\pi } \le 2\)

  Recovery time

\(\tau > 0\)

\(\tau = 10\)

II. Network

 Network size

\(N > 1\)

\(N \in \{10, 15, 20, 25, 50\}\)

 Initial network structure

\(\iota \in \{\text {empty}, \text {full}\}\)

\(\iota \in \{\text {empty}, \text {full}\}\)

 Proportion of ties to evaluate per time step

\(0 < \phi \le 1\)

\(\phi = 0.4\)