To explore the structural characteristics and vulnerability of multimodal transport networks,this study identifies the structural characteristics of a multimodal transport network on the basis of the complex network t...To explore the structural characteristics and vulnerability of multimodal transport networks,this study identifies the structural characteristics of a multimodal transport network on the basis of the complex network theory.Key nodes are clarified from the analysis of the structural characteristics.The characteristic path length and percentage of the largest subgraph are applied to analyze the vulnerability of the multimodal transport network after random and intentional attacks on the nodes.The network of a multimodal transport company is taken as an example in the empirical analysis.Results show that with more than ten nodes under a random attack,the percentage of the largest subgraph is less than 20%,and the characteristic path length is less than 2.The same performance is observed for more than seven nodes under an intentional attack.The multimodal transport network is more vulnerable under an international attack against key nodes.The results of the topology and node failure under random or intentional attacks would support the management of the multimodal transport network.Suggestions for the emergency transportation organization of enterprises under attacks are proposed accordingly.These suggestions should help improve network invulnerability and recovery from node failure.展开更多
Refinery system, a typical example of process systems, is presented as complex network in this paper. The topology of this system is described by task-resource network and modeled as directed and weighted graph, in wh...Refinery system, a typical example of process systems, is presented as complex network in this paper. The topology of this system is described by task-resource network and modeled as directed and weighted graph, in which nodes represent various tasks and edges denote the resources exchanged among tasks. Using the properties of node degree distribution, strength distribution and other weighted quantities, we demonstrate the heterogeneity of the network and point out the relation between structural characters of vertices and the functionality of correspond- ing tasks. The above phenomena indicate that the design requirements and principles of production process contrib- ute to the heterogeneous features of the network. Besides, betweenness centrality of nodes can be used as an impor- tance indicator to provide additional information for decision making. The correlations between structure and weighted properties are investigated to further address the influence brought by production schemes in system con- nectivity patterns. Cascading failures model is employed to analyze the robustness of the network when targeted at- tack happens. Two capacity assignment strategies are compared in order to improve the robustness of the network at certain cost. The refinery system displays more reliable behavior when the protecting strategy considers heteroge- neous properties. This phenomenon further implies the structure-activity relationship of the refinery system and provides insightful suggestions for process system design. The results also indicate that robustness analysis is a _promising applicat!on of methodologies from complex networks to process system engineering..展开更多
Nodes play different roles or have different functions in many natural and social networks.In this paper,a simple model with different types of nodes and deterministic selective linking rule is proposed.The structural...Nodes play different roles or have different functions in many natural and social networks.In this paper,a simple model with different types of nodes and deterministic selective linking rule is proposed.The structural properties by theoretical predictions are investigated that the given model exhibits a power-law distribution.展开更多
We introduce the notion of entropy generating sequence for infinite words and define its dimension when it exists. We construct an entropy generating sequence for each symbolic example constructed by Cassaigne such th...We introduce the notion of entropy generating sequence for infinite words and define its dimension when it exists. We construct an entropy generating sequence for each symbolic example constructed by Cassaigne such that the dimension of the sequence is the same as its topological entropy dimension. Hence the complexity can be measured via the dimension of an entropy generating sequence. Moreover, we construct a weakly mixing example with subexponential growth rate.展开更多
The dynamical system on T^2 which is a group extension over an irrational rotation on T^1 is investigated. The criterion when the extension is minimal, a system of order 2 and when the maximal equicontinuous factor is...The dynamical system on T^2 which is a group extension over an irrational rotation on T^1 is investigated. The criterion when the extension is minimal, a system of order 2 and when the maximal equicontinuous factor is the irrational rotation is given. The topological complexity of the extension is computed, and a negative answer to the latter part of an open question raised by Host et al.(2014) is obtained.展开更多
基金The Science and Technology Demonstration Project of Multimodal Freight Transport in Jiangsu Province(No.2018Y02).
文摘To explore the structural characteristics and vulnerability of multimodal transport networks,this study identifies the structural characteristics of a multimodal transport network on the basis of the complex network theory.Key nodes are clarified from the analysis of the structural characteristics.The characteristic path length and percentage of the largest subgraph are applied to analyze the vulnerability of the multimodal transport network after random and intentional attacks on the nodes.The network of a multimodal transport company is taken as an example in the empirical analysis.Results show that with more than ten nodes under a random attack,the percentage of the largest subgraph is less than 20%,and the characteristic path length is less than 2.The same performance is observed for more than seven nodes under an intentional attack.The multimodal transport network is more vulnerable under an international attack against key nodes.The results of the topology and node failure under random or intentional attacks would support the management of the multimodal transport network.Suggestions for the emergency transportation organization of enterprises under attacks are proposed accordingly.These suggestions should help improve network invulnerability and recovery from node failure.
基金Supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2012AA041102)the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (2012CB720500)
文摘Refinery system, a typical example of process systems, is presented as complex network in this paper. The topology of this system is described by task-resource network and modeled as directed and weighted graph, in which nodes represent various tasks and edges denote the resources exchanged among tasks. Using the properties of node degree distribution, strength distribution and other weighted quantities, we demonstrate the heterogeneity of the network and point out the relation between structural characters of vertices and the functionality of correspond- ing tasks. The above phenomena indicate that the design requirements and principles of production process contrib- ute to the heterogeneous features of the network. Besides, betweenness centrality of nodes can be used as an impor- tance indicator to provide additional information for decision making. The correlations between structure and weighted properties are investigated to further address the influence brought by production schemes in system con- nectivity patterns. Cascading failures model is employed to analyze the robustness of the network when targeted at- tack happens. Two capacity assignment strategies are compared in order to improve the robustness of the network at certain cost. The refinery system displays more reliable behavior when the protecting strategy considers heteroge- neous properties. This phenomenon further implies the structure-activity relationship of the refinery system and provides insightful suggestions for process system design. The results also indicate that robustness analysis is a _promising applicat!on of methodologies from complex networks to process system engineering..
文摘Nodes play different roles or have different functions in many natural and social networks.In this paper,a simple model with different types of nodes and deterministic selective linking rule is proposed.The structural properties by theoretical predictions are investigated that the given model exhibits a power-law distribution.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (GrantNo. 10901080)supported in part by KRF (Grant No. 2010-0020946)
文摘We introduce the notion of entropy generating sequence for infinite words and define its dimension when it exists. We construct an entropy generating sequence for each symbolic example constructed by Cassaigne such that the dimension of the sequence is the same as its topological entropy dimension. Hence the complexity can be measured via the dimension of an entropy generating sequence. Moreover, we construct a weakly mixing example with subexponential growth rate.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11225105 and 11371339)
文摘The dynamical system on T^2 which is a group extension over an irrational rotation on T^1 is investigated. The criterion when the extension is minimal, a system of order 2 and when the maximal equicontinuous factor is the irrational rotation is given. The topological complexity of the extension is computed, and a negative answer to the latter part of an open question raised by Host et al.(2014) is obtained.