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How a butterfly's wing can bring down Goliath: chaos theories calculate the vulnerability of megasystems

"The massive power failure on the East Coast illustrates the risk of building ever-larger power networks to transmit electricity, experts said Thursday. When a system becomes extremely complex, a normally survivable event ... can trigger what scientists call a devastating domino effect" (1...

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Autor principal: Davidson, K
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2003
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/717853