Braess proposed one of the classical traffic paradoxes in 1968, which states that adding a
link in a transportation network may increase the travel cost for all travelers in the network …

This book discusses the study and analysis of the physical aspects of social systems and
models, inspired by the analogy with familiar models of physical systems and possible …

Robust synchronization is essential to ensure the stable operation of many complex
networked systems such as electric power grids. Increasing energy demands and more …

Uncoordinated individuals in human society pursuing their personally optimal strategies do
not always achieve the social optimum, the most beneficial state to the society as a whole …

The Braess paradox and its variants have been studied under the perfectly rational behavior
assumption. However, when the perfect rationality assumption is relaxed to bounded …

Multilayer networks describe well many real interconnected communication and
transportation systems, ranging from computer networks to multimodal mobility …

The ever increasing demand for air travel is likely to induce air traffic congestion which will
elicit great economic losses. In the presence of limited airspace capacity as well as the …

We consider a largely untapped potential for the improvement of traffic networks that is
rooted in the inherent uncertainty of travel times. Travel times are subject to stochastic …

Many challenging tasks such as managing traffic systems, electricity grids, or supply chains
involve complex decision-making processes that must balance multiple conflicting …

How do local topological changes affect the global operation and stability of complex supply
networks? Studying supply networks on various levels of abstraction, we demonstrate that …