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Critical Critical Systems

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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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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK

    Susan Stepney

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  1. Faculty of BCIM, Institute for Computing Research, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, SE1 0AA, London, UK

    Ali E. Abdallah

  2. University of Newcastle, UK

    Peter Ryan

  3. Department of Computing, University of Surrey,  

    Steve Schneider

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Stepney, S. (2003). Critical Critical Systems. In: Abdallah, A.E., Ryan, P., Schneider, S. (eds) Formal Aspects of Security. FASec 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2629. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-40981-6_7

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