On the interplay between disease and awareness spreading in multiplex networks

Here it’s presented a model with the aim of integrating, using the multiplex networks environment, the behavior of individuals in case of an emergence of an infectious disease within a population. Aware people are assumed to do as lower contacts between each others as possible, so that they decrease their probability of getting infected. The position of the critical point is investigated both theoretically and numerically using mean-field approximations and Monte Carlo simulations.