Modification Propagation in Complex Networks

MARY LUZ MOURONTE; MARIA LUISA VARGAS; LUIS G. MOYANO; FRANCISCO JAVIER GARCIA ALGARRA; LUIS SALVADOR DEL POZO

Shanghai

Conferencia; The First International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications - Complex 2009; 2009

ICST

To keep up with rapidly changing conditions, business systems and their associated networks are growing increasingly intricate as never before. By doing this, network management and operation costs not only rise, but are difficult even to measure. This fact must be regarded as a major constraint to system optimization initiatives, as well as a setback to derived economic benefits. In this work we introduce a simple model in order to estimate the relative cost associated to modification propagation in complex architectures. Our model can be used to anticipate costs caused by network evolution, as well as for planning and evaluating future architecture development while providing benefit optimization.