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Applications of Network Science and Systems Thinking

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As our last collection of cases, Chap. 9 includes brief demonstrations of how network science may be utilized to explore elements of a system’s resilience. Through the modeling of systems as a series of interconnected nodes and linkages, network science provides a more quantitative assessment that many stakeholders in transportation systems, cybersecurity, or epidemiology would require to assist with decision-making. As with Chap. 8, each case includes a brief introduction of the case and the potential role for resilience, and includes a notation of how a network science approach might be constructed for cases ranging from transportation systems to epidemiological modeling.

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Linkov, I., Trump, B.D. (2019). Applications of Network Science and Systems Thinking. In: The Science and Practice of Resilience. Risk, Systems and Decisions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04565-4_9

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