Interdependent networks have been shown to be extremely vulnerable based on the percolation model. Parshani et. al further indicated that the more inter-similar networks are, the more robust they are to random failure. Our understanding of how coupling patterns shape and impact the cascading failures of loads in interdependent networks is limited, but is essential for the design and optimizatio...

The International Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Handbook addresses the subject of critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP), a growingly important topic on the security policy agenda. The CIIP Handbook focuses on aspects of CIIP related to security policy and methodology. The security policy perspective evaluates policy efforts for the protection of critical informa...

The purpose of the article is to determine mechanism functioning and increase stability general system corporate security. Thiscreates an abstract conceptual model security system, which described mathematically or functionally serves optimize therelationship between elements levels consequences information component, as a significant factor aimed at improving economicefficiency system. structu...

Abstract Many real-world networks depend on other networks, often in non-trivial ways, to keep their functionality. These interdependent “networks of networks” are often extremely fragile. When a fraction 1− p of nodes in one network randomly fail, the damage propagates to nodes in networks that are interdependent with it and a dynamic failure cascade occurs that affects the entire system. We p...

Past work on tournaments in iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma and the evolution of cooperation spawned by Axelrod has contributed insights about achieving cooperation in social dilemmas, as well as a framework for strategic analysis in such settings. We present a broader, more extensive framework for strategic analysis in general games, which we illustrate in the context of a particular social dilemm...

We study a dynamic mechanism design problem for a network of interdependent strategic agents with coupled dynamics. In contrast to the existing results for static settings, we present a dynamic mechanism that is incentive compatible, individually rational, budget balanced, and social welfare maximizing. We utilize the correlation among agents’ states over time, and determine a set of inference ...