The study of the security and stability of complex networks plays a central role in reducing the risk and consequences of attacks or disfunctions of any type. The concept of vulnerability helps to measure the response of complex networks subjected to attacks on vertices and edges and it allows to spot the critical component of a network in order to improve its security. We introduce an accurate...

Iterated line digraphs have some good properties in relation to the design of interconnection networks. The diameter vulnerability of a digraph is the maximum diameter of the subdigraphs obtained by deleting a ,xed number of vertices or arcs. This parameter is related to the fault-tolerance of interconnection networks. In this work, we introduce some new parameters in order to ,nd new bounds fo...

introduction water is the most important parameter in the development of human societies. one of the pillars in the development of water resources is the investigation of environmental conditions and environmental compatibility of the project. identification of the areas vulnerable to pollution can play a major role in development strategies. in most areas of iran, located in the arid and semi-...

Overutilization of groundwater resources can put their quality under stress. It could be base on rapid declination in groundwater level leading to salt water intrusion in the coastal aquifers. The objective of this study was to map the vulnerability of salt water intrusion of the Urmia Lake, Iran to nearby coastal aquifer (Azarshahr) using GALDIT method. The GALDIT index based on six parameters...

Many graph theoretical parameters have been used to describe the vulnerability of communication networks, including toughness, binding number, rate of disruption, neighbor-connectivity, integrity, mean integrity, edgeconnectivity vector, l-connectivity and tenacity. In this paper we discuss Integrity and its properties in vulnerability calculation. The integrity of a graph G, I(G), is defined t...

Sarcheshmeh copper mine, with the final reserves of 828 million tons of sulfur ore and average grade of 0.74%, is known to be the largest open pit of Iran and most probably the second largest copper mine in the world. This mine is located in the seismotectonic zone of Central-Iran, and 23 Km away from the 150 Km long Rafsanjan active fault.In this study the vulnerability of the west wall of the...