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In many real networks, the information or energy flow often communicates through the shortest paths between pairs of nodes, whereby the betweenness centrality may play an important role in the robustness problems against cascading failures. In this paper, a betweenness-based node weighting strategy is proposed to explore the robustness of weighted heterogeneous networks against cascades of overload failures. The optimal weighting parameter obtained by the betweenness-based strategy is almost the same as that of the degree-based strategy. However, with the optimal weighting parameter, the betweenness-based strategy makes the networks more robust. This manifests in the more significantly reduced possibility of the occurrence of cascading failure and the size of the cascade in case of occurrence.
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Ding, L., Zhang, SY. (2013). Robustness of Complex Heterogeneous Networks Under Node Weighting Strategies Against Cascading Failures. In: Du, W. (eds) Informatics and Management Science III. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 206. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4790-9_43
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