Investigating the spread of stress on the work floor with the failure-recovery model: bistability, critical transitions and robustness.

Abstract

In the failure-recovery model individuals switch between the active, internally failed and externally failed state. We use the effective degree approach to study the qualitative behavior in the system for regular networks: we obtain stable, bistable and oscillatory behavior. Next, we use exact stochastic simulation to investigate the robustness of different networks. Also, we study the influence of the local characteristics of the networks on their robustness.