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As a quantification of the main bottleneck to flow over a graph, the network property of conductance plays an important role in the process of synchronization of network-coupled dynamical systems. Diffusive coupling terms serve not only to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-29 C. Tyler Diggans

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

This paper addresses the distributed consensus problem for a linear multi-agent system with switching directed communication topologies. By appropriately introducing a linear transformation, the consensus problem is equivalently converted…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-09-22 Guanghui Wen , Valery Ugrinovskii

In this paper, cluster consensus of multi-agent systems is studied via inter-cluster nonidentical inputs. Here, we consider general graph topologies, which might be time-varying. The cluster consensus is defined by two aspects: the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Yujuan Han , Wenlian Lu , Tianping Chen

This paper considers a resilient high-dimensional constrained consensus problem and studies a resilient distributed algorithm for complete graphs. For convex constrained sets with a singleton intersection, a sufficient condition on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Jingxuan Zhu , Yixuan Lin , Alvaro Velasquez , Ji Liu

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

One of the most important and well-studied settings for network design is edge-connectivity requirements. This encompasses uniform demands such as the Minimum $k$-Edge-Connected Spanning Subgraph problem ($k$-ECSS), as well as nonuniform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Michael Dinitz , Ama Koranteng , Guy Kortsarz

This paper addresses the problem of positive consensus of directed multi-agent systems with observer-type output-feedback protocols. More specifically, directed graph is used to model the communication topology of the multi-agent system and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Nachuan Yang , Yonghua Yin , Jinrong Liu

This two-part paper discusses robustification methodologies for linear-iterative distributed algorithms for consensus and coordination problems in multicomponent systems, in which unreliable communication links may drop packets. We consider…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-30 Alejandro D. Dominguez-Garcia , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Nitin H. Vaidya

This paper examines the consensus problem on time-varying matrix-weighed undirected networks. First, we introduce the matrix-weighted integral network for the analysis of such networks. Under mild assumptions on the switching pattern of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-31 Lulu Pan , Haibin Shao , Mehran Mesbahi , Yugeng Xi , Dewei Li

This paper investigates the non-trivial consensus problem on directed signed matrix-weighted networks\textemdash a novel convergence state that has remained largely unexplored despite prior studies on bipartite consensus and trivial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Tianmu Niu , Bing Mao , Xiaoqun Wu , Tingwen Huang

In this paper, a class of convex feasibility problems (CFPs) are studied for multi-agent systems through local interactions. The objective is to search a feasible solution to the convex inequalities with some set constraints in a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Kaihong Lu , Gangshan Jing , Long Wang

The study of how diseases spread has greatly benefited from advances in network modeling. Recently, a class of networks known as multilayer graphs has been shown to describe more accurately many real systems, making it possible to address…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-04-16 Xiangrong Wang , Alberto Aleta , Dan Lu , Yamir Moreno

Graph matching consists of aligning the vertices of two unlabeled graphs in order to maximize the shared structure across networks; when the graphs are unipartite, this is commonly formulated as minimizing their edge disagreements. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-13 Jesús Arroyo , Carey E. Priebe , Vince Lyzinski

Elements of networks interact in many ways, so modeling them with graphs requires multiple types of edges (or network layers). Here we show that such multiplex networks are generically more vulnerable to global cascades than simplex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-05-01 Charles D. Brummitt , Kyu-Min Lee , K. -I. Goh

This paper considers a kind of generalized measure $\lambda_s^{(h)}$ of fault tolerance in a hypercube-like graph $G_n$ which contain several well-known interconnection networks such as hypercubes, varietal hypercubes, twisted cubes,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-21 Xiang-Jun Li , Jun-Ming Xu

Algorithms to solve fault-tolerant consensus in asynchronous systems often rely on primitives such as crusader agreement, adopt-commit, and graded broadcast, which provide weaker agreement properties than consensus. Although these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Hagit Attiya , Jennifer L. Welch

Switching between finitely many continuous-time autonomous steepest descent dynamics for convex functions is considered. Convergence of complete solutions to common minimizers of the convex functions, if such minimizers exist, is shown. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-06 Rafal Goebel , Ricardo Sanfelice

The protocols of distributed consensus normally aim to tolerate different types of faults including crash faults and byzantine faults that occur in the distributed systems. However, the dynamic network topology and stochastic wireless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Dachao Yu , Jiayuan Ma , Hao Xu

In complex networks, the failure of one or very few nodes may cause cascading failures. When this dynamical process stops in steady state, the size of the giant component formed by remaining un-failed nodes can be used to measure the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Junbiao Liu , Xinyu Jin , Lurong Jiang , Yongxiang Xia , Bo Ouyang , Fang Dong , Yicong Lang , Wenping Zhang