IEEE Trans Cybern
November 2024
Despite various measures across different engineering and social systems, network robustness remains crucial for resisting random faults and malicious attacks. In this study, robustness refers to the ability of a network to maintain its functionality after a part of the network has failed. Existing methods assess network robustness using attack simulations, spectral measures, or deep neural networks (DNNs), which return a single metric as a result.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe No Free Lunch Theorem tells us that no algorithm can beat other algorithms on all types of problems. The algorithm selection structure is proposed to select the most suitable algorithm from a set of algorithms for an unknown optimization problem. This paper introduces an innovative algorithm selection approach called the CNN-HT, which is a two-stage algorithm selection framework.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFrom the perspective of network attackers, finding attack sequences that can cause significant damage to network controllability is an important task, which also helps defenders improve robustness during network constructions. Therefore, developing effective attack strategies is a key aspect of research on network controllability and its robustness. In this paper, we propose a Leaf Node Neighbor-based Attack (LNNA) strategy that can effectively disrupt the controllability of undirected networks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIEEE Trans Neural Netw Learn Syst
October 2024
Network robustness refers to the ability of a network to continue its functioning against malicious attacks, which is critical for various natural and industrial networks. Network robustness can be quantitatively measured by a sequence of values that record the remaining functionality after a sequential node- or edge-removal attacks. Robustness evaluations are traditionally determined by attack simulations, which are computationally very time-consuming and sometimes practically infeasible.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPermanent magnetic structures with controlled dimension and architecture (labyrinthine, hexagonal, or dispersed columnar) are formed in a partially miscible ferrofluid-nonferrofluid mixture under the influence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The origin of the permanent structures, which have characteristic lateral dimensions ranging from 1 to 10 μm, is the repartitioning of the ferrofluid carrier solvent into the nonferrofluid polymeric phase. This polymer-solvent phase separation under a magnetic field leads to departures from the expected final dimension of the magnetically stabilized ferrofluid droplet sizes.
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