Xia, YongxiangFan, JinHill, David2015-12-100378-4371http://hdl.handle.net/1885/61704In this paper, we study the cascading failure in Watts-Strogatz small-world networks. We find that this network model has a heterogeneous betweenness distribution, although its degree distribution is homogeneous. Further study shows that this small-worldKeywords: Betweenness; Cascading failures; Complex networks; Degree distributions; Homogeneous network; Intentional Attacks; Network degree distributions; Network models; Random attacks; Random graphs; Scale free networks; Small world networks; Watts-Strogatz small Betweenness; Cascading failure; Complex networks; Small-world networks201010.1016/j.physa.2009.11.0372016-02-24