Terrorist attacks on transportation networks have traumatized modern societies. With a
single blast, it has become possible to paralyze airline traffic, electric power supply, ground …

While new forms of attacks are developed every day to compromise essential infrastructures,
service providers are also expected to develop strategies to mitigate the risk of extreme …

The stability of infrastructure network is always a critical issue studied by researchers in
different fields. A lot of works have been devoted to reveal the robustness of the …

The behavior of complex networks under failure or attack depends strongly on the specific
scenario. Of special interest are scale-free networks, which are usually seen as robust under …

In a recent work [Schneider, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 3838 (2011) PNASA6 0027-
8424 10.1073/pnas. 1009440108], the authors proposed a simple measure for network …

Infrastructure systems are a key ingredient of modern society. We discuss a general method
to find the critical components of an infrastructure network, ie, the nodes and the links …

Considering the role of the neighboring nodes of an overload node, we articulate a local
protection strategy to address the problem of the optimal defense in the cascading …

We describe new analytical techniques to help mitigate the disruptions to electric power
grids caused by terrorist attacks. New bilevel mathematical models and algorithms identify …

The Internet has been studied as a typical example of real-world complex networks. In this
brief, we study the traffic performance of the Internet when it encounters a random or …

Researchers have previously looked into the problem of determining whether a given set of
security hardening measures can effectively make a networked system secure. However …