Protective Resource Allocation on Critical Road Segments: The case of Mali and the fight against terrorism

The Sahel region has become a focal point of concern due to the alarming escalation of terrorism, culminating in devastating attacks that have claimed numerous lives and disrupted regional stability. Mali, in particular, has experienced a significant surge in terrorist activity. This thesis presents a novel approach of using criticality measures...

Including service information in a topological comparison of metro networks worldwide: A comparison of 51 metro networks worldwide using GTFS static data

Public transport (PT) plays a vital role in commuting billions of travellers in cities all over the world, providing a mode that is both sustainable and accessible. Metro networks are especially apt at this considering their high-capacity and high-speed operation in urban environments. Comparing different metro networks to one another is a...

Spreading Processes over Adaptive Networks

The spreading process of diseases has been an important research topic for many years. It has profound effects on the development of human social behaviors. The underlying social network structure may change when individuals change their connection with other individuals in response to the epidemic. The classic susceptible-infected-susceptible ...

An improved approach for on-board distribution system robustness estimation in early-stage ship design

Distribution system robustness estimation is crucial in performing a substantiated trade-off in early-stage ship design. To improve the current robustness estimation, a maritime robustness approach (de Vos, 2018) is compared to and verified by a general network robustness approach (Van Mieghem, 2010). The first studied approach is verified by...

The Criticality of the European Multimodal Transportation Network: Multifaceted Investigation of the European Hinterland Transportation Network based on Its Network Structure

A nation’s main port is a crucial component that contributes to the economic development of a country. Therefore, the role of the port becomes more critical nowadays. However, due to the existing hub-and-spoke structure of the European multimodal transportation network, polarisation and regionalisation are visible in the network. The increasing...

Modelling Markovian epidemic and information diffusion over adaptive networks

Modelling the spread of contagious diseases among people has been a research topic for over a hundred years. However, the increase in computation power in the recent years allows for more advanced scientific models. The well-known susceptible-infected-susceptible model is used to describe the spreading of a disease among a group of people. This...

The Cut-size Property of Networks and Epidemics Processes

This master thesis focuses on the particular problem about the cut-size property of different networks. The scope of networks is from trivial network models (e.g., random graph) to real networks (e.g., Power grid network and Facebook network). The Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible (SIS) epidemic model can describe the spreading processes of...