Coupled biological and chemical systems, neural networks, social interacting species, the
Internet and the World Wide Web, are only a few examples of systems composed by a large …

Economists not only failed to anticipate the financial crisis; they may have contributed to it—
with risk and derivatives models that, through spurious precision and untested theoretical …

With the rise of global trade, maritime transportation networks have become an
indispensable element of logistics networks. Approximately 80% of the global trade volume …

In the last years, studies on the vulnerability of public transport networks attract a growing
attention because of the repercussions that incidents can have on the day-to-day functioning …

The economics profession appears to have been unaware of the long build-up to the current
worldwide financial crisis and to have significantly underestimated its dimensions once it …

In this article, we model electric power delivery networks as graphs, and conduct studies of
two power transmission grids, ie, the Nordic and the western states (US) transmission grid …

Graph theoretical analysis has played a key role in characterizing global features of the
topology of complex networks, describing diverse systems such as protein interactions, food …

Resilience has become the new imperative of industrial symbiosis research, since its
recognition as a fundamental factor in the development of sustainable Industrial Symbiosis …

Approximating ideal program outputs is a common technique for solving computationally
difficult problems, for adhering to processing or timing constraints, and for performance …

Research on the robustness of networks, and in particular the Internet, has gained critical
importance in recent decades because more and more individuals, societies and firms rely …