With the rise of the resilience concept, scholars and practitioners have paid increasing
attention to resilient city, which has become a new means of co** with hazards. As the …

Many systems on our planet shift abruptly and irreversibly from the desired state to an
undesired state when forced across a “tip** point”. Some examples are mass extinctions …

In most natural and engineered systems, a set of entities interact with each other in
complicated patterns that can encompass multiple types of relationships, change in time and …

Network robustness is critical for various industrial and social networks against malicious
attacks, which has various meanings in different research contexts and here it refers to the …

This paper presents a framework that integrates network theory methods into infrastructure
network assessment in order to investigate transportation network robustness from a …

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 …

We present a systematic study of the energy spectra of graphene quantum rings having
different geometries and edge types in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field …

Chemical facilities may be targets of deliberate acts of interference triggering major
accidents (fires, explosion, toxic dispersions) in process and storage units. Standard …

A supply network is considered robust when it can maintain operations and connectedness
despite disruptions, and building robust supply networks is one of the challenges in supply …

Vulnerability analysis is the premise of operational risk management and control for the
large‐scale and complex urban rail transit network (URTN) under the operation interruption …