Network Formation in the Presence of Contagious Risk
Abstract
There are a number of domains where agents must collectively form a network in the face of the following trade-off: each agent receives benefits from the direct links it forms to others, but these links expose it to the risk of being hit by a cascading failure that might spread over multistep paths. Financial contagion, epidemic disease, the exposure of covert organizations to discovery, and electrical power networks are all settings in which such issues have been articulated.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2013
- Source ID
- 10.1145/2465769.2465771
Entities
People
- David Easley
- Jon Kleinberg
- Lawrence Blume
- Robert Kleinberg
- Éva Tardos
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Cornell University
- Division of Computing and Communication Foundations
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Office of Naval Research
- Vienna Science and Technology Fund