Title
Campus Units
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Journal or Book Title
Chaos
Volume
24
Issue
2
First Page
023104-1
Last Page
023104-7
DOI
10.1063/1.4868393
Abstract
Failures of the complex infrastructures society depends on having enormous human and economic cost that poses the question: Are there ways to optimize these systems to reduce the risks of failure? A dynamic model of one such system, the power transmission grid, is used to investigate the risk from failure as a function of the system size. It is found that there appears to be optimal sizes for such networks where the risk of failure is balanced by the benefit given by the size.
Rights
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Copyright Owner
American Institute of Physics
Copyright Date
2014
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Carreras, B. A.; Newman, D. E.; and Dobson, Ian, "Does size matter?" (2014). Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications. 101.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ece_pubs/101
Comments
The following article appeared in Chaos 24 (2014): 023104 and may be found at doi: 10.1063/1.4868393.