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Viral Conductance
Viral Conductance VC is metric to assess the robustness of networks with respect to the spread of epidemics. It reflects the conductivity of a network to the spread of epidemics. Viral conductance can be extended to any type of epidemics. Usually, the spread of epidemics process is mathematically described through the basic compartmental biological models such as susceptible/infected/susceptible (SIS) and susceptible/infected/recovered (SIR) models.

Viral conductance advances the network science field since it combines the effect of both the network structure and the epidemic dynamical process in assessing the robustness of networks. In addition to the existing network properties that exist in the literature, viral conductance is considered as a network property when the epidemic model is specified.