Many networks interact with one another by forming multilayer networks, but these structures can lead to large cascading failures. The secret that guarantees the robustness of multilayer networks seems to be in their correlations.
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Bianconi, G. Dangerous liaisons?. Nature Phys 10, 712–714 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3097
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