Stromausfälle in Europa und Nordamerika haben in den letzten Jahren einen nachhaltigen Eindruck von der Verletzbarkeit moderner und hochtechnisierter Gesellschaften vermittelt. Obwohl die Stromversorgung allenfalls eine Woche und lokal begrenzt unterbrochen war, zeigten sich bereits massive Funktions- und Versorgungsstörungen, Gefährdungen der öffentlichen Ordnung sowie Schäden in Milliardenhöhe. Welche Folgen ein langandauernder und großfläch...
In recent years, power blackouts in Europe and North America have given a lasting impression of the vulnerability of modern and high-technology societies. Although these outages did not last longer than a week and were locally limited, they already caused massive functional or supply disruptions, risks to public safety and damages running into billions. This book reveals possible consequences of a prolonged and widespread power outage for soci...
In recent years, statistical physicists have begun to apply their methods to problems stemming from disciplines which are not theirs, such as the dynamic laws governing the growth of the Internet. This monograph is a contribution to the emerging field of complex networks, i.e. the study of the dynamic and statistical properties of systems composed of many nodes connected by links. After reviewing the topological properties shared by many real ...
