%0 Journal Article
%T Burstiness and spreading on temporal networks
%A Renaud Lambiotte
%A Lionel Tabourier
%A Jean-Charles Delvenne
%J Computer Science
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%R 10.1140/epjb/e2013-40456-9
%X We discuss how spreading processes on temporal networks are impacted by the shape of their inter-event time distributions. Through simple mathematical arguments and toy examples, we find that the key factor is the ordering in which events take place, a property that tends to be affected by the bulk of the distributions and not only by their tail, as usually considered in the literature. We show that a detailed modeling of the temporal patterns observed in complex networks can change dramatically the properties of a spreading process, such as the ergodicity of a random walk process or the persistence of an epidemic.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0543v1