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Link failures in supply networks can have catastrophic consequences that can lead to a complete collapse of the network. Strategies to prevent failure spreading are thus heavily sought after. Here, we make use of a spanning tree formulation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-09 Franz Kaiser , Dirk Witthaut

Citation networks can reveal many important information regarding the development of science and the relationship between different areas of knowledge. Thus, many studies have analyzed the topological properties of such networks.…

We adopt the statistical framework on robustness proposed by Watson and Holmes in 2016 and then tackle the practical challenges that hinder its applicability to network models. The goal is to evaluate how the quality of an inference for a…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-08 Marios Papamichalis , Simon Lunagomez , Patrick J. Wolfe

The network topology can be described by the number of nodes and the interconnections among them. The degree of a node in a network is the number of connections it has to other nodes and the degree distribution is the probability…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-09-19 Bin Zhou , Bing-Hong Wang , He Zhe

Deep neural networks give us a powerful method to model the training dataset's relationship between input and output. We can regard that as a complex adaptive system consisting of many artificial neurons that work as an adaptive memory as a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-08 Kenichi Nakazato

The importance of studying properties of networks is manifest in diverse fields ranging from biology, engineering, physics, chemistry, neuroscience, and medicine. The functionality of networks with regard to performance, throughput,…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-27 Allen Tannenbaum , Chris Sander , Liangjia Zhu , Romeil Sandhu , Ivan Kolesov , Eduard Reznik , Yasin Senbabaoglu , Tryphon Georgiou

Percolation theory characterizing the robustness of a network has applications ranging from biology, to epidemic spreading, and complex infrastructures. Percolation theory, however, only concern the typical response of a infinite network to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-28 Ginestra Bianconi

Many networks are characterized by highly heterogeneous distributions of links, which are called scale-free networks and the degree distributions follow $p(k)\sim ck^{-\alpha}$. We study the robustness of scale-free networks to random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Bing Wang , Huanwen Tang , Chonghui Guo , Zhilong Xiu

From transportation networks to complex infrastructures, and to social and economic networks, a large variety of systems can be described in terms of multiplex networks formed by a set of nodes interacting through different network layers.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Dawei Zhao , Lianhai Wang , Zhen Wang

The need to build a link between the structure of a complex network and the dynamical properties of the corresponding complex system (comprised of multiple low dimensional systems) has recently become apparent. Several attempts to tackle…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-18 Michael Small , Kevin Judd , Thomas Stemler

Robustness is a critical measure of the resilience of large networked systems, such as transportation and communication networks. Most prior works focus on the global robustness of a given graph at large, e.g., by measuring its overall…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Hau Chan , Shuchu Han , Leman Akoglu

The topology of a sensor network changes very frequently due to node failures because of power constraints or physical destruction. Robustness to topology changes is one of the important design factors of wireless sensor networks which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Sateeshkrishna Dhuli , Yatindra Nath Singh

Network robustness against attacks has been widely studied in fields as diverse as the Internet, power grids and human societies. Typically, in these studies, robustness is assessed only in terms of the connectivity of the nodes unaffected…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-17 Alejandro Tejedor , Anthony Longjas , Ilya Zaliapin , Samuel Ambroj , Efi Foufoula-Georgiou

Networks are important representations in computer science to communicate structural aspects of a given system of interacting components. The evolution of a network has several topological properties that can provide us information on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Joao Pita Costa , Tihana Galinac Grbac

Resilience is meant as the capability of a networked infrastructure to provide its service even if some components fail: in this paper we focus on how resilience depends both on net-wide measures of connectivity and the role of a single…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Antonio Candelieri , Ilaria Giordani , Andrea Ponti , Francesco Archetti

Just like power, water and transportation systems, wireless networks are a crucial societal infrastructure. As natural and human-induced disruptions continue to grow, wireless networks must be resilient to unforeseen events, able to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Mehdi Bennis

Cascading failures and epidemic dynamics, as two successful application realms of network science, are usually investigated separately. How do they affect each other is still one open, interesting problem. In this letter, we couple both…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Dawei Zhao , Zhen Wang , Gaoxi Xiao , Bo Gao , Lianhai Wang

Network controllability robustness reflects how well a networked system can maintain its controllability against destructive attacks. Its measure is quantified by a sequence of values that record the remaining controllability of the network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-14 Yang Lou , Yaodong He , Lin Wang , Kim Fung Tsang , Guanrong Chen

Many complex networks display remarkable resilience under external perturbations, internal failures and environmental changes, yet they can swiftly deteriorate into dysfunction upon the removal of a few keystone nodes. Discovering theories…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-15 Yu Zheng , Jingtao Ding , Depeng Jin , Jianxi Gao , Yong Li

In safety-critical deep learning applications, robustness measures the ability of neural models that handle imperceptible perturbations in input data, which may lead to potential safety hazards. Existing pre-deployment robustness assessment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Wenchuan Mu , Kwan Hui Lim