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COMPLEX
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Designing Capital-Intensive Systems with Architectural and Operational Flexibility Using a Screening Model
: Development of capital intensive systems, such as offshore oil platforms or other industrial infrastructure, generally requires a significant amount of capital investment under v...
Jijun Lin, Olivier de Weck, Richard de Neufville, ...
COMPLEX
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Preliminary Study on the Effects of Fear Factors in Disease Propagation
Upon an outbreak of a dangerous infectious disease, people generally tend to reduce their contacts with others in fear of getting infected. Such typical actions apparently help to ...
Yubo Wang, Jie Hu, Gaoxi Xiao, Limsoon Wong, Stefa...
COMPLEX
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Epidemic Self-synchronization in Complex Networks
In this article we evaluate an epidemic algorithm for the synchronization of coupled Kuramoto oscillators in complex Peer-to-Peer topologies. The algorithm requires a periodic coup...
Ingo Scholtes, Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Peter Stur...
COMPLEX
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Exploring and Understanding Scientific Metrics in Citation Networks
This paper explores scientific metrics in citation networks in scientific communities, how they differ in ranking papers and authors, and why. In particular we focus on network eff...
Mikalai Krapivin, Maurizio Marchese, Fabio Casati
COMPLEX
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Complex Phenomena in Orchestras - Metaphors for Leadership and Enterprise
This paper recognises that comparisons have been made between the role of the conductor of an orchestra and leaders of enterprises, but that little note has been taken of how the c...
Patrick Beautement, Christine Brönner
COMPLEX
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Composing Music with Complex Networks
—In this paper we study the network structure in music and attempt to compose music artificially. Networks are constructed with nodes and edges corresponding to musical notes an...
Xiaofan Liu, Chi Kong Tse, Michael Small
COMPLEX
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Differential Forms: A New Tool in Economics
Investors would like to calculate profits in advance, “ex ante”, like the path of a flying ball. But income can only be given “ex post”, after the money is earned. The pro...
Jürgen Mimkes
COMPLEX
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Evolution of the Internet AS-Level Ecosystem
— We seek a simple model that describes how market forces acting on rational players result in the evolution of the multi-faceted topology of the Internet that we see today. We m...
Srinivas Shakkottai, Marina Fomenkov, Ryan Koga, D...