The past twenty years have witnessed the emergence of internet conglomerates fueled by acquisitions. We build a simple model network formation to study this. Following resource-based view competitive advantage from management literature we endow firms with capabilities which drive their competitiveness across markets. Firms can merge combine capabilities, spin-off new partitioning or procure un...

The Braess paradox describes the counterintuitive situation that addition of new roads to road networks can lead higher travel times for all network users. Recently we could show user optima leading exist in microscopic transport models. We derived phase diagrams two kinds route choice strategies were externally tuned and applied by Here address question whether these are still realized if inte...

This is a condensed version of this article originally prepared for the USNA McMullen Naval History Symposium in 2017 and collaboration between David Boslaugh, Peter Marland, John Vardalas (Stevens Institute Technology) who have previously written about postwar development naval digital systems their respective countries.