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Changing Opinions in a Changing World: a New Perspective in Sociophysics
A. Pluchino, V. Latora, A. Rapisarda
We propose a new model of opinion formation, the Opinion Changing Rate (OCR) model. Instead of investigating the conditions that allow consensus in a world of agents with different…
Modeling Cascading Failures in the North American Power Grid
Ryan Kinney, Paolo Crucitti, Reka Albert +1
The North American power grid is one of the most complex technological networks, and its interconnectivity allows both for long-distance power transmission and for the propagation…
Vulnerability and Protection of Critical Infrastructures
Vito Latora, Massimo Marchiori
Critical infrastructure networks are a key ingredient of modern society. We discuss a general method to spot the critical components of a critical infrastructure network, i.e. the…
A measure of centrality based on the network efficiency
Vito Latora, Massimo Marchiori
We introduce a new measure of centrality, the information centrality C^I, based on the concept of efficient propagation of information over the network. C^I is defined for both val…