System crash as dynamics of complex networks

• Main Authors: Yu, Yi, Xiao, Gaoxi, Zhou, Jie, Wang, Yubo, Wang, Zhen, Kurths, Jürgen, Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Complex systems; System crash
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93211; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43470
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Complex systems, from animal herds to human nations, sometimes crash drastically. Although the growth and evolution of systems have been extensively studied, our understanding of how systems crash is still limited. It remains rather puzzling why some systems, appearing to be doomed to fail, manage t...