| Article ID: | iaor199395 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 43 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 353 |
| End Page Number: | 357 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1992 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Williams T.M. |
| Keywords: | networks: path |
The common definition of ‘criticality’ in stochastic networks is insufficiently general, and often counter-intuitive. An alternative metric, ‘cruciality’ has been proposed. The combination of the common criticality metric and cruciality is shown to provide information about the ‘uncertainty impact’ and ‘controllable benefit’ in the network.