Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder, which is particularly harmful to children as it may lead to learning deficits, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and growth...

The air transportation system has a critical impact on the global economy. While the system reliability is essential for the operational management of air traffic, it remains challenging to...

Network endurance can be regarded as the upper limit of survival time before the system's complete breakdown, which is highly related to system resilience. Although network endurance against...

While abrupt regime shifts between different metastable states have occurred in natural systems from many areas including ecology, biology, and climate, evidence for this phenomenon in...

Social media can be a double-edged sword for society, either as a convenient channel exchanging ideas or as an unexpected conduit circulating fake news through a large population. While existing...

Operating systems (OS) are critical infrastructures for information system. To design a highly reliable software, it is essential to understand the architecture feature of operating systems, which...

Percolation transition is widely observed in networks ranging from biology to engineering. While much attention has been paid to network topologies, studies rarely focus on critical percolation...

The concept of resilience can be realized in natural and engineering systems, representing the ability of a system to adapt and recover from various disturbances. Although resilience is a critical...

Many networks are physically or logically interdependent with each other, such as smart power grid, city traffic network and communication systems, where cascading overload failure becomes a major...

Operating systems are critical infrastructures for the information systems. Malfunction of certain function component can induce unexpected risks and countless damage for the computing service...

Rumor spreading on online social media is presenting a significant threat to society of post-truth epoch. Extensive efforts have been devoted to rumor identification and debunking, assuming that a...

Search is a universal behavior related to many types of intelligent individuals. While most studies have focused on search in two or infinite-dimensional space, it is still missing how search can...

Extreme weather, such as torrential rain, could lead to severe damage to transportation. Many studies have been proposed focusing on the influence of extreme weather on the traffic flow properties...

As the lifeline system for city, transportation systems may be degraded for various reasons leading to the uncertainty on the reliability of traffic operation. While different reliability measures...

Social media can be a double-edged sword for society, either as a convenient channel exchanging ideas or as an unexpected conduit circulating fake news through a large population. While existing...

Networks are designed to satisfy given objectives under specific requirements. While the static connectivity of networks is normally analyzed and corresponding design principles for static...

Percolation transition is widely observed in networks ranging from biology to engineering. While much attention has been paid to network topologies, studies rarely focus on critical percolation...

Since the first reported traffic jam about a century ago, traffic congestion has been intensively studied with various methods ranging from macroscopic to microscopic viewpoint. However, due to the...

The robustness of complex networks with dependency links has been studied in recent years. However, previous studies focused mostly on the robustness of networks with dependency relations having...

Recently, the dynamic modeling of complex networks has become an important means for the analysis of epidemic propagation. However, in the field of epidemiology, most studies of epidemic spreading mai

Strengthening or destroying a network is a very important issue in designing resilient networks or in planning attacks against networks including planning strategies to immunize a network against...

Exploring cascading failure mitigation strategies to protect the complex networked systems is of both research interest and engineering significance. Progress on defense strategies such as removing...

The formation process of global traffic flow from isolated local traffic flows can be considered as a percolation process. During this transition, the critical traffic bottleneck plays an important...

The participation of individuals in multi-layer networks allows for feedback between network layers, opening new possibilities to mitigate epidemic spreading. For instance, the spread of a...

Existing studies have developed different indices based on various approaches including network connectivity, delay time and flow capacity, estimating the traffic reliability states from different...

Despite the wide use of networks as a versatile tool for exploring complex social systems, little is known about how to detect and forecast abrupt changes in social systems. In this report, we...

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

Nowadays, networks exist everywhere. In the recent decade, complex networks have been widely investigated partly due to their wide applications in biological neural networks, ecosystems, metabolic...

Epidemic propagation on complex networks has been widely investigated, mostly with invariant parameters. However, the process of epidemic propagation is not always constant. Epidemics can be...

Network reliability analysis has drawn much attention recently due to the risks of catastrophic damage in networked infrastructures. These infrastructures are dependent on each other as a result of...

A network is considered observable if its current state can be determined in finite time from knowledge of the observed states. The observability transitions in networks based on random or...

Recently, with the availability of various traffic datasets, human mobility has been studied in different contexts. Researchers attempt to understand the collective behaviors of human movement with...

Many complex systems in the real world can be modeled as complex networks, which has captured in recent years enormous attention from researchers of diverse fields ranging from natural sciences to...

A critical phenomenon is an intrinsic feature of traffic dynamics, during which transition between isolated local flows and global flows occurs. However, very little attention has been given to the...

As a dynamical complex system, traffic is characterized by a transition from free flow to congestions, which is mostly studied in highways. However, despite its importance in developing congestion...

In this paper, we propose a new way of looking at the reliability of a network using percolation theory. In this new view, a network failure can be regarded as a percolation process and the...

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 susceptible to...

Networks can be used to describe the interconnections among individuals, which play an important role in the spread of disease. Although the small-world effect has been found to have a significant...

Cascading failures have become major threats to network robustness due to their potential catastrophic consequences, where local perturbations can induce global propagation of failures. Unlike...

The robustness of complex networks with dependencies has been studied in recent years. However, previous studies focused on the robustness of networks composed of dependency links without network...

For the problem of service dynamic composition in the reliability assessment of SOA architecture software system, this paper propose a reliability assessment method based on complex networks...

The development of online prognostic and fast-recovery technology promotes the realization of self-healing techniques. Considering the cascading overload failures as one of the major failure modes...

Complex systems are known to show emergent, unexpected failure behaviors due to their inherent interdependency and interaction, including Internet, power grid, transportation systems and even...

In this paper, a fault propagation model (FPM) of mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is proposed based on random walk model. We adopt the random walk model to describe the movement behavior of the nodes...

Epidemic remains one of the major threats to human society,which has attracted much attention for decades.Since real-world systems usually depend on each other,epidemics on interconnected networks...

1. Smart Power Systems and Smart Grids 2. Cloud Robotics and Automation 3. Challenges and Opportunities of Connected Vehicle Safety 4. Information Analysis and Natural Presentation based on...

System restoration from cascading failures is an integral part of the overall defense against catastrophic breakdown in networked critical infrastructures. From the outbreak of cascading failures...

The modern world is built on the robustness of interdependent infrastructures, which can be characterized as complex networks. Recently, a framework for the analysis of interdependent networks has...

Modern world builds on the resilience of interdependent infrastructures characterized as complex networks. Recently, a framework for analysis of interdependent networks has been developed to...

Many real world complex systems such as infrastructure, communication and transportation networks are embedded in space, where entities of one system may depend on entities of other systems. These...

A briefly review about the interdependent networks is given in this article. The concept and models of interdependent networks are introduced. The failure of nodes in one network may trigger...

The efficiency of complex technological systems requires the guarantee on their reliability against underlying catastrophes. The complexity encoded in their structure and functions makes cascading...

Many complex systems have functional interdependency between each other and can be modeled as interdependent networks.The failure of a small fraction of nodes in interdependent networks may lead to...

Many real networks are embedded in space, where in some of them the links length decay as a power law distribution with distance. Indications that such systems can be characterized by the concept...

Protein interaction networks have become a tool to study biological processes, either for predicting molecular functions or for designing proper new drugs to regulate the main biological...

The small-world phenomenon is one of the most important properties found in social networks. It includes both short path lengths and efficient navigation between two individuals. It is found by...

We study how spatial constraints are reflected in the percolation properties of networks embedded in one-dimensional chains and two-dimensional lattices. We assume longrange connections between...

The dimension of a system is one of the most fundamental quantities to characterize its structure and basic physical properties. Diffusion and vibrational excitations, for example, as well as the...

While most of the works on functional annotation of proteins via their network of interactions are exclusively based in topological measurements from the properties of the protein interaction...

In addition to the well known common properties such as small world and community structures, recent empirical investigations suggest a universal scaling law for the spatial structure of social...

Modularity is a fundamental feature of real networks, being intimately bounded to their functionality, i.e., to their capability of performing parallel tasks in a coordinated way. Although the...

The response of a random and modular network to the simultaneous presence of two frequencies is considered. The competition for controlling the dynamics of the network results in different...

We show that a complex network of phase oscillators may display interfaces between domains (clusters) of synchronized oscillations. The emergence and dynamics of these interfaces are studied in...

The concept of edge weight provides additional depth for describing and adjusting the properties of networks. Redistribution of edge weight can effectively change the properties of networks even...

In weighted networks, redistribution of link weights can effectively change the properties of networks, even though the corresponding binary topology remains unchanged. In this paper, the effects...

Link weight is crucial in weighted complex networks. It provides additional dimension for describing and adjusting the properties of networks. The topological role of weight is studied by the...