Anticipating vulnerabilities on networks carrying the flow of information, energy, and materials
Infrastructures are networks of dynamically interacting systems designed for the flow of information, energy, and materials. Under certain circumstances, disturbances from a targeted attack or natural disasters can cause cascading failures within and between infrastructures that result in significant service losses and long recovery times.
Modeling capabilities are needed to evaluate the robustness of various systems and to identify factors that control the scale and duration of disruption. The capability described here lays the foundation for developing advanced system security solutions that encompass both external shocks and internal dynamics.
Reports/Symposia Papers
The Crossover Point: Comparing Policies to Mitigate Disruptions, 2nd International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications, December 2012, Santa Fe, NM [PDF]
Behaviors of Actors in a Resource-Exchange Model of Geopolitics, 2nd International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications, December 2012, Santa Fe, NM [PDF]
A Policy of Strategic Petroleum Market Reserves, 2nd International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications, December 2012, Santa Fe, NM [PDF]
To Trade or Not to Trade: Analyzing how Perturbations Travel in Sparsely Connected Networks, 2nd International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications (COMPLEX 2012), December 2012, Santa Fe, NM [PDF]
Help from Hoarders: How Storage Can Dampen Perturbations in Critical Markets, 2nd International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications, December 2012, Santa Fe, NM [PDF]
Creating Interaction Environments: Defining a two-sided market model of the development and dominance of platforms, December 2011 [PDF]
Sizing Strategies in Scarce Environments, 2012 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction, April 2012, College Park, MD [PDF]
The Impact of Network Structure on the Perturbation Dynamics of a Multi-agent Economic Model, 2012 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction, April 2012, College Park, MD [PDF]
Complex Adaptive Systems of Systems (CASoS) Engineering and Foundations for Global Design, Sandia National Laboratories report, January 2012 [PDF]
A General Model of Resource Production and Exchange in Systems of Interdependent Specialists, Sandia National Laboratories report, November 2011 [PDF]
Modeling Systems of Interacting Specialists, 8th International Conference on Complex Systems, July 2011, Quincy, MA [PDF]
Presentations
The Crossover Point: Comparing Policies to Mitigate Disruptions, 2nd International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications, December 2012, Santa Fe, NM
A Policy of Strategic Petroleum Market Reserves, 2nd International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications, December 2012, Santa Fe, NM
To Trade or Not to Trade: Analyzing how Perturbations Travel in Sparsely Connected Networks, 2nd International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications (COMPLEX 2012), December 2012, Santa Fe, NM
Help from Hoarders: How Storage Can Dampen Perturbations in Critical Markets, 2012 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction, April 2012, College Park, MD
Modeling Systems of Interacting Specialists, 8th International Conference on Complex Systems, July 2011, Quincy, MA [PDF]
Effect of Learning and Market Structure on Price Level and Volatility in a Simple Market. International Society of Dynamic Games Workshop, Rabat, Morocco, September 2007