Controlling complex networks: How much energy is needed?
Physics and Society
2012-05-30 v2 Social and Information Networks
Systems and Control
Abstract
The outstanding problem of controlling complex networks is relevant to many areas of science and engineering, and has the potential to generate technological breakthroughs as well. We address the physically important issue of the energy required for achieving control by deriving and validating scaling laws for the lower and upper energy bounds. These bounds represent a reasonable estimate of the energy cost associated with control, and provide a step forward from the current research on controllability toward ultimate control of complex networked dynamical systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1204.2401,
title = {Controlling complex networks: How much energy is needed?},
author = {Gang Yan and Jie Ren and Ying-Cheng Lai and Choy-Heng Lai and Baowen Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.2401},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
4 pages paper + 5 pages supplement. accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters; http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.218703