Resilience of Networked Systems under Connectivity-Based and Load-Based Failures

Technical Presentation: Resilience refers to the ability of a system to cope with fatal threats and bounce back (fully or partially) from high-impact disruptions. From economic systems and organizations to various engineering systems, many sectors of modern society consider resilience as an essential requirement and/or a major design objective. Networks have been widely used as a model of numerous complex systems such as power grids, financial transaction networks, communication networks such as the Internet, command and control systems, etc. Therefore, a better understanding of the resilience of networks will be fundamental to the improved designs and/or smoother operations of a wide range of real-world systems from critical infrastructure to humanitarian aid. Dr. Al Aqqad will present a general modeling and simulation framework that he developed to quantitatively evaluate the resilience of networked systems under two types of failures: connectivity- and load-based. Co-sponsored by: STB03231 – West Virginia Inst Of Tech Speaker(s): , Dr. Waseem Al Aqqad Bldg: WVU Tech Library,, 512 South Kanawha Street , Beckley, West Virginia, United States, 25801