A new industrial revolution is undergoing, based on a number of technological paradigms.
The will to foster and guide this phenomenon has been summarized in the expression …

Today's businesses increasingly rely on cloud computing, which brings both great
opportunities and challenges. One of the critical challenges is resiliency: disruptions due to …

As the Internet becomes increasingly important to all aspects of society, the consequences
of disruption become increasingly severe. Thus it is critical to increase the resilience and …

Recent natural disasters have revealed that emergency networks presently cannot
disseminate the necessary disaster information, making it difficult to deploy and coordinate …

Telecommunications networks, and in particular optical WDM networks, are vulnerable to
large-scale failures in their physical infrastructure, resulting from physical attacks (such as …

We consider line outages in the transmission network of the power grid, and specifically
those caused by natural disasters or large-scale physical attacks. In such networks, an …

Many real world complex systems such as critical infrastructure networks are embedded in
space and their components may depend on one another to function. They are also …

Survivability against disasters—both natural and deliberate attacks, and spanning large
geographical areas—is becoming a major challenge in communication networks. Cloud …

With the frequent occurrences of natural disasters damaging large portions of
communication networks and the rising risk of intentional attacks, network vulnerability to …

Different from the direct contact in epidemics spread, overload failures propagate through
hidden functional dependencies. Many studies focused on the critical conditions and …