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Abstract: The Nelder-Mead simplex method is a well-known algorithm enabling the minimization of functions that are not available in closed-form and that need not be differentiable or convex.

Abstract: Network reliability and robustness are important to understand and design resilient networks. While in the state-of-the-art models, independent failures at the links are assumed, we present ...