Understanding the Fundamental Principles Underlying the Survival and Efficient Recovery of Multi-Scale Techno-Social Networks Following a WMD Event (A)

Abstract

Understanding the fundamental principles underlying the robustness of Techno-Social Networks (TSN-s) is a tall, but inevitable challenge. As the society becomes increasingly dependent on infrastructure networks, the implications of large-scale events (such as WMD), become increasingly important as illustrated by the recent Ebola and Zika outbreaks. Such events serve as warnings about the vulnerabilities lying in strongly interconnected systems. The performed work addressed directly several of the announced call's objectives, by developing an understanding for the fundamentals of networks in order to help develop methods that optimize the robustness of these systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1011657

Entities

People

  • Alessandro Vespignani
  • Zoltán Toroczkai

Organizations

  • University of Notre Dame

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bayesian Networks
  • Complex Systems
  • Computational Science
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Demography
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Geography
  • Health Services
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Information Science
  • Mobile Phones
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Network Science
  • Quarantine
  • Social Networks
  • Virus Diseases

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Systems Analysis and Design