CHAOS IN AN ADAPTIVE NETWORK WITH REWIRING.

An epidemic spreading through an adaptive network, where the susceptible are able to avoid contact with the infective by rewiring their network connections, with random and regular contacts is considered. This paper uses a new mathematical model obtained by pair approximation to explore the effect of rewiring of the epidemic dynamics. We show that chaotic behavior can emerge while considering rewiring. The obtained results show that rewiring plays an very important role on the dynamical behavior of the epidemic model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]