id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-024742-hc443akd Liu, Quan-Hui Epidemic spreading on time-varying multiplex networks 2018-12-03 .txt text/plain 7335 488 55 We found that higher values of multiplexity significantly reduce the epidemic threshold especially when the temporal activation patterns of nodes present on multiple layers are positively correlated. In such a scenario the epidemic threshold is not affected by the multiplexity, its value is equivalent to the case of a monoplex, and the coupling affects only the layer featuring the smaller average connectivity. In particular, the study of a wide range of real systems shows a complex and case dependent phenomenology in which the topological features (i.e., static connectivity patterns) of coupling nodes can be either positively or negatively correlated [9] . To account for such observations and explore their effects on spreading processes, we consider three simple prototypical cases in which the activities of coupling nodes in the two layers are (i) uncorrelated, or (ii) positively and (iii) negatively correlated. ./cache/cord-024742-hc443akd.txt ./txt/cord-024742-hc443akd.txt