Complex systems widely exist in nature and human society. There are complex interactions
between system elements in a complex system, and systems show complex features at the …

In recent years, some game models were proposed to protect critical infrastructure networks.
But they mainly focused on the protection of key nodes, and there are rarely models to …

A significant amount of society's infrastructure can be modeled using graph structures, from
electric and communication grids, to traffic networks, to social networks. Each of these …

Our increasing dependence on infrastructure networks leads to growing concerns over the
protection of these networks. Many methods have been proposed to select protective …

An important node identification algorithm based on an improved structural hole and K-shell
decomposition algorithm is proposed to identify important nodes that affect security in …

Active Directory (AD) is the default security management system for Windows domain
networks. An AD environment can be described as a cyber-attack graph, with nodes …

Due to our increasing dependence on infrastructure networks, the attack and defense game
in these networks has draw great concerns from security agencies. Moreover, when it comes …

This paper analyzes the optimal strategies for an attacker and a defender in an attack-
defense game on a network consisting of interdependent subnetworks. The defender moves …

Network attack and defence games are gradually becoming a new approach through which
to study the protection of infrastructure networks such as power grids and transportation …

The importance of social network alignment (SNA) for various downstream applications,
such as social network information fusion and e-commerce recommendation, has prompted …