Tag: complex web
topological robustness
Complex network is vulnerable because it’s strong interconnectivity. It might be one of the biggest characteristic and one of its best features; however, it becomes a vulnerable point where the network can be easily attacked. Robustness means how a cell survives and function under different external conditions and internal errors. In order to achieve robustness, it is essential to learn from interconnectivity. The tolerance shown in a cell is the range of error it processes. Basically, under the theory of topological robustness, removing only a few nodes will do very little impact on the whole network. Only if the number of removed nodes reaches certain critical point the system would start corrupting.
Basically if we think like a terrorist, we would understand that there’s no point of having 100 anonymous citizens as hostage to negotiate any deal with the government. The …
Topology, Network Mapping, The Internet
An Atlas of cyberspaces – topology Maps is a great website that gives a lot of information on network mapping and the topology of the web. It’s really worth a look at.
Lumeta Internet Mapping Project is the one that was started at the Bell Labs in 1998. It is the most well-known internet mapping project so far.
netCrunch is not entirely an Internet mapping program; however, it is a network monitoring and management program. It maps out the routers that connect to the web in different areas. I think in a way this kind of network mapping programs help users to visualize the hubs of connection.
grokker is a web search software that visualize everything into an visualization representation.
the opte project provides static and dynamic images of the maps of internet.
I am currently playing around with kaon (however, I think the site …
continents/islands/central core/tendrils
Why do we say the web is fragmented? We have to understand that all directed networks break into the same four continents. The continents include central core, IN, OUT, tendrils and islands. (What? That was 5 of them! Tendrils and islands are considered as one group.) The web is fragmented like this due to several different reasons. First off it’s because the development of search engines. More then half of the web is not detected or linked by a search engine. The world wide web is a scale-free network, dominated by hubs and nodes with a very large number of links? (Barabasi, 2001)
