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Many real-world systems are composed of many individual components that interact with one another in a complex pattern to produce diverse behaviors. Understanding how to intervene in these systems to guide behaviors is critically important…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-04 Elena Wu-Yan , Richard F. Betzel , Evelyn Tang , Shi Gu , Fabio Pasqualetti , Danielle S. Bassett

Random boolean networks are a model of genetic regulatory networks that has proven able to describe experimental data in biology. They not only reproduce important phenomena in cell dynamics, but they are also extremely interesting from a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-02-26 Marco Villani , Davide Campioli , Chiara Damiani , Andrea Roli , Alessandro Filisetti , Roberto Serra

Effective control of biological systems can often be achieved through the control of a surprisingly small number of distinct variables. We bring clarity to such results using the formalism of Boolean dynamical networks, analyzing the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-13 Enrico Borriello , Bryan C. Daniels

Controlling the global statuses of a network by its local dynamic parameters is an important issue, and it is difficult to obtain the direct solution for. The transformation method, which is originally used to control physical field by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-12-01 Xiangyang Lu , Jin Hu , Ran Tao , Yue Wang

The problem of controllability of the dynamical state of a network is central in network theory and has wide applications ranging from network medicine to financial markets. The driver nodes of the network are the nodes that can bring the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Giulia Menichetti , Luca Dall'Asta , Ginestra Bianconi

Feedback control is an effective strategy for stabilizing a desired state and has been widely adopted in maintaining the stability of systems such as flying birds and power grids. By default, this framework requires continuous control input…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-10-14 Yuanzhao Zhang , Sean P. Cornelius

Many systems on our planet are known to shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state to another when they are forced across a "tipping point," such as mass extinctions in ecological networks, cascading failures in infrastructure systems,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-23 Xueming Liu , Daqing Li , Manqing Ma , Boleslaw K. Szymanski , H Eugene Stanley , Jianxi Gao

A dynamical system is controllable if by imposing appropriate external signals on a subset of its nodes, it can be driven from any initial state to any desired state in finite time. Here we study the impact of various network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-16 Márton Pósfai , Yang-Yu Liu , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Albert-László Barabási

The study of network structural controllability focuses on the minimum number of driver nodes needed to control a whole network. Despite intensive studies on this topic, most of them consider static networks only. It is well-known, however,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-27 Rui Zhang , Xiaomeng Wang , Ming Cheng , Tao Jia

Dynamical networks are important models for the behaviour of complex systems, modelling physical, biological and societal systems, including the brain, food webs, epidemic disease in populations, power grids and many other. Such dynamical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-27 Deniz Eroglu , Jeroen Lamb , Tiago Pereira

Controlling a complex network towards a desired state is of great importance in many applications. A network can be controlled by inputting suitable external signals into some selected nodes, which are called driver nodes. Previous works…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Xizhe Zhang , Yuyan Zhu , Yongkang Zhao

Complex networks describe a wide range of systems in nature and society, much quoted examples including the cell, a network of chemicals linked by chemical reactions, or the Internet, a network of routers and computers connected by physical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Reka Albert , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

The study of network structure has uncovered signatures of the organization of complex systems. However, there is also a need to understand how to control them; for example, identifying strategies to revert a diseased cell to a healthy…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-04-19 Alexander J. Gates , Luis M. Rocha

We study cyber security issues in networked control of a linear dynamical system. Specifically, the dynamical system and the controller are assumed to be connected through a communication channel that face malicious attacks as well as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Ahmet Cetinkaya , Hideaki Ishii , Tomohisa Hayakawa

The stability of complex networks, from power grids to biological systems, is crucial for their proper functioning. It is thus important to control such systems to maintain or restore their stability. Traditional approaches rely on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Yuzhen Qin , Fabio Pasqualetti , Danielle S. Bassett , Marcel van Gerven

In a recent paper, it has been suggested that the controllability of a diffusively coupled complex network, subject to localized feedback loops at some of its vertices, can be assessed by means of a Master Stability Function approach, where…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-08-09 Francesco Sorrentino

The identification of the limiting factors in the dynamical behavior of complex systems is an important interdisciplinary problem which often can be traced to the spectral properties of an underlying network. By deriving a general relation…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-07-03 Adilson E. Motter

The field of optimal control typically requires the assumption of perfect knowledge of the system one desires to control, which is an unrealistic assumption for biological systems, or networks, typically affected by high levels of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Isaac Klickstein , Francesco Sorrentino

We live in a modern world supported by large, complex networks. Examples range from financial markets to communication and transportation systems. In many realistic situations the flow of physical quantities in the network, as characterized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Adilson E. Motter , Ying-Cheng Lai

Real-world network systems are inherently dynamic, with network topologies undergoing continuous changes over time. Previous works often focus on static networks or rely on complete prior knowledge of evolving topologies, whereas real-world…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Chunyu Pan , Xizhe Zhang , Haoyu Zheng , Zhao Su , Changsheng Zhang , Weixiong Zhang