Michal Dvořák ; Dušan Knop ; Šimon Schierreich - On the Complexity of Target Set Selection in Simple Geometric Networks

dmtcs:11591 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, August 21, 2024, vol. 26:2 - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.11591
On the Complexity of Target Set Selection in Simple Geometric NetworksArticle

Authors: Michal Dvořák ; Dušan Knop ; Šimon Schierreich

    We study the following model of disease spread in a social network. At first, all individuals are either infected or healthy. Next, in discrete rounds, the disease spreads in the network from infected to healthy individuals such that a healthy individual gets infected if and only if a sufficient number of its direct neighbors are already infected. We represent the social network as a graph. Inspired by the real-world restrictions in the current epidemic, especially by social and physical distancing requirements, we restrict ourselves to networks that can be represented as geometric intersection graphs. We show that finding a minimal vertex set of initially infected individuals to spread the disease in the whole network is computationally hard, already on unit disk graphs. Hence, to provide some algorithmic results, we focus ourselves on simpler geometric graph classes, such as interval graphs and grid graphs.


    Volume: vol. 26:2
    Section: Discrete Algorithms
    Published on: August 21, 2024
    Accepted on: June 27, 2024
    Submitted on: July 17, 2023
    Keywords: Computer Science - Computational Complexity

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