TY - GEN
T1 - Imitation and memory-based self-organizing behaviors under voluntary vaccination
AU - Liu, Guangliang
AU - Qiu, Hongjun
AU - SHI, Benyun
AU - Wang, Zhen
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the funding support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 81402760, 81573261), and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (Grant No. BK20161563) , the Scientific Research Foundation of Hangzhou Dianzi University (No. KYS215611048) for the research work being presented in this article. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
PY - 2018/2/27
Y1 - 2018/2/27
N2 - Understanding human voluntary vaccinating behaviors plays essential roles in designing incentive-based vaccination programs for public health authorities to eliminate or eradicate an vaccine-preventable disease. Usually, individuals make vaccinating decisions by weighing the cost of vaccination and infection, which can be perceived based on their vaccinating experiences. However, in reality, an individual's decision can also be influenced by others. Along this line, in this paper, we present an imitation and memory-based self-organization mechanism to investigate human voluntary vaccinating behaviors, which takes into consideration both individuals' historical experiences and the impact of social influence. Through carrying out simulations on flu-like seasonal diseases, we evaluate the combined effects of both imitation and memory on the final vaccine coverage level with respect to different relative cost of vaccination and infection. Simulation results show that the imitation-based behavior has a greater impact on public vaccine coverage level than the memory-based rational behavior under voluntary vaccination, which emphasizes the importance of social guidance in disease intervention and control.
AB - Understanding human voluntary vaccinating behaviors plays essential roles in designing incentive-based vaccination programs for public health authorities to eliminate or eradicate an vaccine-preventable disease. Usually, individuals make vaccinating decisions by weighing the cost of vaccination and infection, which can be perceived based on their vaccinating experiences. However, in reality, an individual's decision can also be influenced by others. Along this line, in this paper, we present an imitation and memory-based self-organization mechanism to investigate human voluntary vaccinating behaviors, which takes into consideration both individuals' historical experiences and the impact of social influence. Through carrying out simulations on flu-like seasonal diseases, we evaluate the combined effects of both imitation and memory on the final vaccine coverage level with respect to different relative cost of vaccination and infection. Simulation results show that the imitation-based behavior has a greater impact on public vaccine coverage level than the memory-based rational behavior under voluntary vaccination, which emphasizes the importance of social guidance in disease intervention and control.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85050627127&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SPAC.2017.8304328
DO - 10.1109/SPAC.2017.8304328
M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85050627127
T3 - 2017 International Conference on Security, Pattern Analysis, and Cybernetics, SPAC 2017
SP - 491
EP - 496
BT - 2017 International Conference on Security, Pattern Analysis, and Cybernetics, SPAC 2017
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2017 International Conference on Security, Pattern Analysis, and Cybernetics, SPAC 2017
Y2 - 15 December 2017 through 17 December 2017
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