Dynamics Analysis of a Delayed Rumor Propagation Model in an Emergency-Affected Environment

Rumors influence people’s decisions in an emergency-affected environment. How to describe the spreading mechanism is significant. In this paper, we propose a delayed rumor propagation model in emergencies. By taking the delay as the bifurcation parameter, the local stability of the boundary equilibr...

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Main Authors: Chunru Li, Zujun Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/269561
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Summary:Rumors influence people’s decisions in an emergency-affected environment. How to describe the spreading mechanism is significant. In this paper, we propose a delayed rumor propagation model in emergencies. By taking the delay as the bifurcation parameter, the local stability of the boundary equilibrium point and the positive equilibrium point is investigated and the conditions of Hopf bifurcation are obtained. Furthermore, formulas for determining the direction of Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the bifurcating periodic solutions are derived by applying the normal form method and center manifold theorem. Finally, some numerical simulations are also given to illustrate our theoretical results.
ISSN:1026-0226
1607-887X