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Cyber resilience is the ability of a system to recover from an attack with minimal impact on system operations. However, characterizing a network's resilience under a cyber attack is challenging, as there are no formal definitions of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Xavier Cadet , Simona Boboila , Edward Koh , Peter Chin , Alina Oprea

Building resilience into today's complex infrastructures is critical to the daily functioning of society and its ability to withstand and recover from natural disasters, epidemics, and cyber-threats. This study proposes quantitative…

Resilience denotes the capacity of a system to withstand shocks and its ability to recover from them. We develop a framework to quantify the resilience of highly volatile, non-equilibrium social organizations, such as collectives or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Frank Schweitzer , Georges Andres , Giona Casiraghi , Christoph Gote , Ramona Roller , Ingo Scholtes , Giacomo Vaccario , Christian Zingg

Comparable to the traditional notion of stability in system dynamics, resilience is typically measured in a way that assesses the quality of a system's response, for example the speed of its recovery. We present a broadly applicable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-26 Samuel Bien , Paul Schultz , Jobst Heitzig , Jonathan F. Donges

The objective of this study is to propose a system-level framework with quantitative measures to assess the resilience of road networks. The framework proposed in this paper can help transportation agencies incorporate resilience…

Context: Software quality is a complex concept. Therefore, assessing and predicting it is still challenging in practice as well as in research. Activity-based quality models break down this complex concept into concrete definitions, more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Stefan Wagner

Network controllability robustness reflects how well a networked dynamical system can maintain its controllability against destructive attacks. This paper investigates the network controllability robustness from the perspective of a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-03-09 Yang Lou , Lin Wang , Guanrong Chen

Changes in the timescales at which complex systems evolve are essential to predicting critical transitions and catastrophic failures. Disentangling the timescales of the dynamics governing complex systems remains a key challenge. With this…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-11 Giona Casiraghi , Georges Andres

Our society nowadays is governed by complex networks, examples being the power grids, telecommunication networks, biological networks, and social networks. It has become of paramount importance to understand and characterize the dynamic…

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 as a herd of animals relies on its robust social structure to survive in the wild, similarly robustness is a crucial characteristic for the survival of a complex network under attack. The capacity to measure robustness in complex…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-11-27 Ali Sydney , Caterina Scoglio , Phillip Schumm , Robert Kooij

Resilience is a system's ability to maintain its function when perturbations and errors occur. Whilst we understand low-dimensional networked systems' behavior well, our understanding of systems consisting of a large number of components is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Giannis Moutsinas , Mengbang Zou , Weisi Guo

The structure, interdependence, and fragility of systems ranging from power grids and transportation to ecology, climate, biology and even human communities and the Internet, have been examined through network science. While the response to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-17 Udit Bhatia , Devashish Kumar , Evan Kodra , Auroop R. Ganguly

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

This comprehensive review paper explores power system resilience, emphasizing its evolution, comparison with reliability, and conducting a thorough analysis of the definition and characteristics of resilience. The paper presents the…

Complex networks are an important paradigm of modern complex systems sciences which allows quantitatively assessing the structural properties of systems composed of different interacting entities. During the last years, intensive efforts…

Robustness estimation is critical for the design and maintenance of resilient networks, one of the global challenges of the 21st century. Existing studies exploit network metrics to generate attack strategies, which simulate intentional…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Sebastian Wandelt , Xiaoqian Sun

Resiliency has garnered attention in the management of critical infrastructure as a metric of system performance, but there are significant roadblocks to its implementation in a realistic decision-making framework. Contrasted to risk and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Vincent P. Paglioni , Graeme Troxell , Aaron Brown , Steve Conrad , Mazdak Arabi

Differential Networks (DNs), tools that encapsulate interactions within intricate systems, are brought under the Bayesian lens in this research. A novel na{\i}ve Bayesian adaptive graphical elastic net (BAE) prior is introduced to estimate…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-27 J. Smith , A. Bekker , M. Arashi

This paper studies network resilience against structured additive perturbations to its topology. We consider dynamic networks modeled as linear time-invariant systems subject to perturbations of bounded energy satisfying specific sparsity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Shenyu Liu , Sonia Martinez , Jorge Cortes