Improvement of all nodes and links is the only way to prevent "cascading failures" of the electrical grid, unless we are willing to cut the connections, according to a editorial, on page A25 of the NY Times August 16 edition, by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi. He is the author of The New Science of Networks (2002). Cascading failures are common in most complex networks, Barabasi wrote, but cutting the links would cripple the networks. Barabasi is Professor of Physics and director of the Study of Self-Organized Networks at Notre Dame at which site one can read Chapter One of the book online and examine other scholarly work and some fascinating graphics on the science of networks.
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