Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
973060 Mathematical Social Sciences 2007 18 Pages PDF
Abstract

We consider the problem of forming a network as an information flow under the requirement that the whole network be connected and remain connected after the destruction of some nodes. We introduce the CqCq-stability and the CqCq-efficiency of a network which, roughly speaking, require connectivity in addition to stability and efficiency even after any q   nodes are destroyed. We mainly examine the relation between efficiency and stability. With the connectivity requirement, the efficient network is always stable, but the CqCq-efficient network is not necessarily CqCq-stable for q ≥ 1. We provide sufficient conditions for a CqCq-efficient network to be CqCq-stable.

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