2014/04/30 by Vitor H. P. Louzada, V. H. P. Louzada, N. A. M. Araújo +8 · 11 citations
Decision Sciences · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Biology #Business #Combinatorics #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #Complex network #Computer network #Computer science #Game Theory and Applications #Mathematics #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence #Robustness (evolution) #Spatial network #Swap (finance) #cond-mat.stat-mech #nlin.AO #physics.soc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118635
published in PLoS ONE 10(3), e0118635 (Public Library of Science)
openalex publication_date 2015/03/20 · arxiv created 2015/03/24 · arxiv updated 2015/03/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
A robust worldwide air-transportation network (WAN) is one that minimizes the number of stranded passengers under a sequence of airport closures. Building on top of this realistic example, here we address how spatial network robustness can profit from cooperation between local actors. We swap a series of links within a certain distance, a cooperation range, while following typical constraints of spatially embedded networks. We find that the network robustness is only improved above a critical cooperation range. Such improvement can be described in the framework of a continuum transition, where the critical exponents depend on the spatial correlation of connected nodes. For the WAN we show that, except for Australia, all continental networks fall into the same universality class. Practical implications of this result are also discussed.