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Homeostasis is widely observed in biological systems and refers to their ability to maintain an output quantity approximately constant despite variations in external disturbances. Mathematically, homeostasis can be formulated through an…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-11 Xinni Lin , Fernando Antoneli , Yangyang Wang

In engineering applications, one of the major challenges today is to develop reliable and robust control algorithms for complex networked systems. Controllability and observability of such systems play a crucial role in the design process.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-14 Michael Dellnitz , Stefan Klus

The robustness of synchronization is typically characterized by scalar, per-node stability indices whose dependence on topology is studied via network science or graph neural networks (GNNs). We propose a novel upstream task, learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Christian Nauck , Junyou Zhu , Michael Lindner , Frank Hellmann

Symmetries are ubiquitous in network systems and have profound impacts on the observable dynamics. At the most fundamental level, many synchronization patterns are induced by underlying network symmetry, and a high degree of symmetry is…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-02-18 Joseph D. Hart , Yuanzhao Zhang , Rajarshi Roy , Adilson E. Motter

This paper provides the analysis for structural and functional approaches of complex network systems research. In order to study the behavior of these systems the flow adjacency matrices were introduced, and local and global dynamic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-18 Olexandr Polishchuk

Random matrix theory allows for the deduction of stability criteria for complex systems using only a summary knowledge of the statistics of the interactions between components. As such, results like the well-known elliptical law are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-11-06 Lyle Poley , Tobias Galla , Joseph W. Baron

Random matrix theory allows one to deduce the eigenvalue spectrum of a large matrix given only statistical information about its elements. Such results provide insight into what factors contribute to the stability of complex dynamical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-30 Joseph W. Baron , Thomas Jun Jewell , Christopher Ryder , Tobias Galla

There has been a long-standing and at times fractious debate whether complex and large systems can be stable. In ecology, the so-called `diversity-stability debate' arose because mathematical analyses of ecosystem stability were either…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Paul Kirk , Delphine M. Y. Rolando , Adam L. MacLean , Michael P. H. Stumpf

Multidimensional systems coupled via complex networks are widespread in nature and thus frequently invoked for a large plethora of interesting applications. From ecology to physics, individual entities in mutual interactions are grouped in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-11-21 Giulia Cencetti , Franco Bagnoli , Giorgio Battistelli , Luigi Chisci , Duccio Fanelli

The goal of this work is to identify steady-state solutions to dynamical systems defined on large, random families of networks. We do so by passing to a continuum limit where the adjacency matrix is replaced by a non-local operator with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Jason J. Bramburger , Matt Holzer , Jackson Williams

The collective dynamics of interacting dynamical units on a network crucially depends on the properties of the network structure. Rather than considering large but finite graphs to capture the network, one often resorts to graph limits and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Christian Bick , Davide Sclosa

The behavior of the network and its stability are governed by both dynamics of individual nodes as well as their topological interconnections. Attention mechanism as an integral part of neural network models was initially designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Nooshin Bahador , Milad Lankarany

A reflection of our ultimate understanding of a complex system is our ability to control its behavior. Typically, control has multiple prerequisites: It requires an accurate map of the network that governs the interactions between the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Yang-Yu Liu , Albert-Laszló Barabási

We propose a graphical notation by which certain spectral properties of complex systems can be rewritten concisely and interpreted topologically. Applying this notation to analyze the stability of a class of networks of coupled dynamical…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-05-16 Anne-Ly Do , Stefano Boccaletti , Thilo Gross

Networks are useful descriptions of the structure of many complex systems. Unsurprisingly, it is thus important to analyze the robustness of networks in many scientific disciplines. In applications in communication, logistics, finance,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-16 Alice C. Schwarze , Jessica Jiang , Jonny Wray , Mason A. Porter

Models of complex networks often incorporate node-intrinsic properties abstracted as hidden variables. The probability of connections in the network is then a function of these variables. Real-world networks evolve over time, and many…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-19 Harrison Hartle , Fragkiskos Papadopoulos , Dmitri Krioukov

In real-world networks the interactions between network elements are inherently time-delayed. These time-delays can not only slow the network but can have a destabilizing effect on the network's dynamics leading to poor performance. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-23 David Reber , Benjamin Webb

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

We consider a Gaussian statistical model whose parameter space is given by the variances of random variables. Underlying this model we identify networks by interpreting random variables as sitting on vertices and their correlations as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Domenico Felice , Stefano Mancini , Marco Pettini

Network coherence generally refers to the emergence of simple aggregated dynamical behaviours, despite heterogeneity in the dynamics of the subsystems that constitute the network. In this paper, we develop a general frequency domain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Hancheng Min , Richard Pates , Enrique Mallada