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Vulnerability Analysis of High Dimensional Complex Systems

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Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2010)

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Complex systems experience dramatic changes in behavior and can undergo transitions from functional to dysfunctional states. An unstable system is prone to dysfunctional collective cascades that result from self-reinforcing behaviors within the system. Because many human and technological civilian and military systems today are complex systems, understanding their susceptibility to collective failure is a critical problem. Understanding vulnerability in complex systems requires an approach that characterizes the coupled behaviors at multiple scales of cascading failures. We used neuromorphic methods, which are modeled on the pattern-recognition circuitry of the brain and can find patterns in high-dimensional data at multiple scales, to develop a procedure for identifying the vulnerabilities of complex systems. This procedure was tested on microdynamic Internet2 network data. The result was a generic pipeline for identifying extreme events in high dimensional datasets.

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  1. New England Complex Systems Institute, USA

    Vedant Misra, Dion Harmon & Yaneer Bar-Yam

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel

    Shlomi Dolev

  2. Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, TX 75083-0688, Richardson, USA

    Jorge Cobb

  3. Department of Computer Science, Yale University, 51 Prospect Street, CT 06511, New Haven, USA

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  4. Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, 10027, New York, NY, USA

    Moti Yung

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Misra, V., Harmon, D., Bar-Yam, Y. (2010). Vulnerability Analysis of High Dimensional Complex Systems. In: Dolev, S., Cobb, J., Fischer, M., Yung, M. (eds) Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems. SSS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6366. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16023-3_43

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