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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
; 91(3): 032807, 2015 Mar.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25871157
ABSTRACT
This paper explores the effectiveness of network attack when the attacker has imperfect information about the network. For Erdos-Rényi networks, we observe that dynamical importance and betweenness centrality-based attacks are surprisingly robust to the presence of a moderate amount of imperfect information and are more effective compared with simpler degree-based attacks even at moderate levels of network information error. In contrast, for scale-free networks the effectiveness of attack is much less degraded by a moderate level of information error. Furthermore, in the Erdos-Rényi case the effectiveness of network attack is much more degraded by missing links as compared with the same number of false links.