Understanding the Fundamental Principles Underlying the Survival and Efficient Recovery of Multi-Scale Techno-Social Networks Following a WMD Event (A)

Abstract : Understanding the fundamental principles underlying the robustness of Techno-Social Networks (TSN-s) is a tall, but inevitable challenge. As the society becomes increasingly dependent on infrastructure networks, the implications of large-scale events (such as WMD), become increasingly important as illustrated by the recent Ebola and Zika outbreaks. Such events serve as warnings about the vulnerabilities lying in strongly interconnected systems. The performed work addressed directly several of the announced call's objectives, by developing an understanding for the fundamentals of networks in order to help develop methods that optimize the robustness of these systems.