Human Initiated Cascading Failures in Societal Infrastructures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Barrett, Chris ^a,b   Channakeshava, Karthik ^c   Huang, Fei ^d   Kim, Junwhan ^a,b   Marathe, Achla ^a,e   Marathe, Madhav V ^a,b   Pei, Guanhong ^a,b   Saha, Sudip ^a,b   Subbiah, Balaaji S P ^f   Vullikanti, Anil Kumar S ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

^c ERICSSON RESEARCH   (United States)

^d MICROSOFT   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Network Appliance Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CROWDING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; PLUME; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PROCESS MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA;

CELLULAR PHONE; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; SOCIAL NETWORKING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84868300036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045406     Document Type: Article

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