Graph Powering and Spectral Robustness

Network Robustness and Graph Topology

Two important recent trends in military and civilian communications have been the increasing tendency to base operations around an internal network, and the increasing threats to communications infrastructure. This combination of factors makes it important to study the robustness of network topologies. We use graph-theoretic concepts of connectivity to do this, and argue that node connectivity ...

Graph measures and network robustness

Network robustness research aims at finding a measure to quantify network robustness. Once such a measure has been established, we will be able to compare networks, to improve existing networks and to design new networks that are able to continue to perform well when it is subject to failures or attacks. In this paper we survey a large amount of robustness measures on simple, undirected and unw...

Spectral graph theory

With every graph (or digraph) one can associate several different matrices. We have already seen the vertex-edge incidence matrix, the Laplacian and the adjacency matrix of a graph. Here we shall concentrate mainly on the adjacency matrix of (undirected) graphs, and also discuss briefly the Laplacian. We shall show that spectral properies (the eigenvalues and eigenvectors) of these matrices pro...

Spectral graph theory

Spectral graph theory

Spectral graph theory is a fast developing field in modern discrete mathematics with important applications in computer science, chemistry and operational research. By merging combinatorial techniques with algebraic and analytical methods it creates new approaches to hard discrete problems and gives new insights in classical Linear Algebra. The proposed minisymposium will bring together leading...