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Susan Stepney.
Critical Critical Systems.

In Ali E. Abdallah, Peter Ryan, Steve Schenider, editors. Formal Aspects of Security: FASec 2002, Royal Holloway, London, UK, December 2002 . Volume 2629 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp 62--70. Springer, 2003

[ Invited talk ]

Abstract:

I discuss the view of communication networks as self-organised critical systems, the mathematical models that may be needed to describe the emergent properties of such networks, and how certain security hygiene schemes may push a network into a super-critical state, potentially leading to large scale security disasters.

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