Print Email Facebook Twitter Characterization of complex networks: Application to robustness analysis Title Characterization of complex networks: Application to robustness analysis Author Jamakovic, A. Contributor Van Mieghem, P.F.A. (promotor) Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Date 2008-10-09 Abstract This thesis focuses on the topological characterization of complex networks. It specifically focuses on those elementary graph measures that are of interest when quantifying topology-related aspects of the robustness of complex networks. This thesis makes the following contributions to the field of complex networks. Firstly, the thesis analyses the relationships among a variety of graph measures and proposes a definite set, capable of expressing the most relevant topological properties of complex networks. Secondly, the thesis relies on spectral measures to initiate a classification of the qualitative topological properties that characterize specific classes of complex networks. Thirdly, the thesis illustrates the use of spectral measures in a quantitative characterization of topology-related aspects of the network robustness. Finally, this thesis demonstrates the use of spectral measures in a quantitative characterization of the extent to which the robustness to different types of failures manifests itself in the underlying complex networks structure. Subject complex networksnetwork topologygraph and spectral measuresnetwork robustness To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1ad87d96-5c2d-4463-957e-e104495b05cb Publisher Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation ISBN 978-90-79787-01-2 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2008 Jamakovic, A. Files PDF jamakovic_20081009.pdf 1.06 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:1ad87d96-5c2d-4463-957e-e104495b05cb/datastream/OBJ/view