Recent years have witnessed an explosion of extensive geolocated datasets related to
human movement, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective …

Systems engineering is an ubiquitous discipline of Engineering overlapping industrial,
chemical, mechanical, manufacturing, control, software, electrical, and civil engineering. It …

The comprehensive effect of multi-source factors changes the landscape structure and
reduces the quality of landscape ecology in large-scale opencast coal mine area, resulting …

This paper encapsulates the Chinese Airline Network (CAN) into multi-layer infrastructures
via the “k-core decomposition” method. The network is divided into three layers: Core layer …

The study of network robustness is a critical tool in the characterization and sense making of
complex interconnected systems such as infrastructure, communication and social networks …

This paper presents a methodology for the detection of critical airports (those whose
isolation would cause the largest losses in network connectivity) in the global air transport …

This paper studies the vulnerability of the worldwide air transportation network (WATN)
during a global catastrophe such as COVID-19. Considering the WATN as a weighted …

This paper studies the evolution of global air transport network over the period 2006–2016.
A Global Airport Connectivity Index (GACI) is proposed, combining degree, closeness and …

This paper proposes a novel efficiency metric for weighted air transport networks (ATNs),
where the weight represents the connection strength between two airports concerning the …

This paper proposes a new data-driven impact area vulnerability analysis approach that
considers both the probability of impact of incidents and their resulting effects on an impact …