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This paper gives a fresh look at network synchronization. Here we no longer analyze it from the view of mathematics, such as graph theory, while we probe into one from control theory. First, we analyze the synchronization region using the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Jilie Zhang

The control of complex systems and network-coupled dynamical systems is a topic of vital theoretical importance in mathematics and physics with a wide range of applications in engineering and various other sciences. Motivated by recent…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-08-24 Per Sebastian Skardal , Alex Arenas

In this Letter we propose a method to control a set of arbitrary nodes in a directed network such that they follow a synchronous trajectory which is, in general, not shared by the other units of the network. The problem is inspired to those…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-19 Bruno Ursino , Lucia Valentina Gambuzza , Vito Latora , Mattia Frasca

Pinning control on complex dynamical networks has emerged as a very important topic in recent trends of control theory due to the extensive study of collective coupled behaviors and their role in physics, engineering and biology. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Stephane Chretien , Sebastien Darses

Realistic networks display not only a complex topological structure, but also a heterogeneous distribution of weights in the connection strengths. Here we study synchronization in weighted complex networks and show that the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Changsong Zhou , Adilson E. Motter , Jurgen Kurths

Symmetries are an essential feature of complex networks as they regulate how the graph collective dynamics organizes into clustered states. We here show how to control network symmetries, and how to enforce patterned states of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-24 L. V. Gambuzza , M. Frasca , F. Sorrentino , L. M. Pecora , S. Boccaletti

We investigate the synchronization features of a network of spiking neurons under a distance-dependent coupling following a power-law model. The interplay between topology and coupling strength leads to the existence of different…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-11 R. C. Budzinski , K. L. Rossi , B. R. R. Boaretto , T. L. Prado , S. R. Lopes

This paper studies the problem of controlling complex networks, that is, the joint problem of selecting a set of control nodes and of designing a control input to steer a network to a target state. For this problem (i) we propose a metric…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Fabio Pasqualetti , Sandro Zampieri , Francesco Bullo

Controlling the behavior of nonlinear systems on networks is a paramount task in control theory, in particular the control of synchronization, given its vast applicability. In this work, we focus on pinning control and we examine two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Riccardo Muolo , Yuzuru Kato

In this paper, the investigation is first motivated by showing two examples of simple regular symmetrical graphs, which have the same structural parameters, such as average distance, degree distribution and node betweenness centrality, but…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-06-21 Zhisheng Duan , Guanrong Chen , Lin Huang

The aim of this paper is to shed light on the problem of controlling a complex network with minimal control energy. We show first that the control energy depends on the time constant of the modes of the network, and that the closer the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Gustav Lindmark , Claudio Altafini

In this paper, we discuss distributive synchronization of complex networks in finite time, with a single nonlinear pinning controller. The results apply to heterogeneous dynamic networks, too. Different from many models, which assume the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-05-25 Tianping Chen , Wenlian Lu , Xiwei lIu

The minimum number of inputs needed to control a network is frequently used to quantify its controllability. Control of linear dynamics through a minimum set of inputs, however, often has prohibitively large energy requirements and there is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Samie Alizadeh , Márton Pósfai , Abdorasoul Ghasemi

This brief paper further investigates the locally and globally adaptive synchronization of an uncertain complex dynamical network. Several network synchronization criteria are deduced. Especially, our hypotheses and designed adaptive…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-11-17 Jin Zhou , Junan Lu , Jinhu Lu

Synchronization in networks with delayed coupling are ubiquitous in nature and play a key role in almost all fields of science including physics, biology, ecology, climatology and sociology. In general, the published works on network…

We study synchronization and consensus in a group of dynamical systems coupled via multiple directed networks. We show that even though the coupling in a single network may not be sufficient to synchronize the systems, combination of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Chai Wah Wu

To promote the implementation of realistic control over various complex networks, recent work has been focusing on analyzing energy cost. Indeed, the energy cost quantifies how much effort is required to drive the system from one state to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Gaopeng Duan , Aming Li , Tao Meng , Long Wang

Synchronization control in networked dynamical systems requires regulating not only whether coherence is achieved, but also when and to what extent it emerges. We propose a physics-informed neural network (PINN) framework for…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-05 Kaiming Luo

In this paper, the complete synchronization problem of linearly coupled neural networks with reaction-diffusion terms and time-varying delays via aperiodically intermittent pinning control is investigated. The coupling matrix for the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Xiwei Liu , Zhang Chen , Lingjun Zhou

The study of network synchronization has attracted increasing attention recently. In this paper, we strictly define a class of networks, namely effective networks, which are synchronizable and orientable networks. We can prove that all the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-04 Tao Zhou , Ming Zhao , Changsong Zhou