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Temporal networks are such networks where nodes and interactions may appear and disappear at various time scales. With the evidence of ubiquity of temporal networks in our economy, nature and society, it's urgent and significant to focus on…

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Complex dynamical systems are often modeled as networks, with nodes representing dynamical units which interact through the network's links. Gene regulatory networks, responsible for the production of proteins inside a cell, are an example…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-30 Zoran Levnajić

A fundamental premise of statistical physics is that the particles in a physical system are interchangeable, and hence the state of each specific component is representative of the system as a whole. This assumption breaks down for complex…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-16 Neil G. MacLaren , Baruch Barzel , Naoki Masuda

The rapidly developing theory of complex networks indicates that real networks are not random, but have a highly robust large-scale architecture, governed by strict organizational principles. Here, we focus on the properties of biological…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 E. Almaas , A. -L. Barabasi

The ability to control a complex network towards a desired behavior relies on our understanding of the complex nature of these social and technological networks. The existence of numerous control schemes in a network promotes us to wonder:…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Xizhe Zhang , Tianyang Lv , Yuanyuan Pu

Biological networks have been recently found to exhibit many topological properties of the so-called complex networks. It has been reported that they are, in general, both highly skewed and directed. In this paper, we report on the dynamics…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Yamir Moreno , Luis M. Floria

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

In this paper we propose a novel control approach for opinion dynamics on evolving networks. The controls modify the strength of connections in the network, rather than influencing opinions directly, with the overall goal of steering the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-16 Andrew Nugent , Susana N. Gomes , Marie-Therese Wolfram

Recent studies have investigated various dynamic processes characterizing collective behaviors in real-world systems. However, these dynamics have been studied individually in specific contexts. In this article, we present a holistic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Ming Xie , Shibo He , Aming Li , Zike Zhang , Youxian Sun , Jiming Chen

Control is essential to the functioning of any neural system. Indeed, under healthy conditions the brain must be able to continuously maintain a tight functional control between the system's inputs and outputs. One may therefore hypothesise…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-29 Emma K. Towlson , Petra E. Vertes , Gang Yan , Yee Lian Chew , Denise S. Walker , William R. Schafer , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

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

Dynamics of arbitrary communication system is analysed as unreduced interaction process. The applied generalised, universally nonperturbative method of effective potential reveals the phenomenon of dynamic multivaluedness of competing…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei P. Kirilyuk

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

The brain is a complex organ characterized by heterogeneous patterns of structural connections supporting unparalleled feats of cognition and a wide range of behaviors. New noninvasive imaging techniques now allow these patterns to be…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-03 Christopher W. Lynn , Danielle S. Bassett

Biological systems perform an astonishing array of dynamical processes -- including development and repair, regulation, behavior and motor control, sensing and signaling, and adaptation, among others. Powered by the transduction of stored…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-04 James Clarke , Jake McGrath , Colin Johnson , José Alvarado

A variety of physical, social and biological systems generate complex fluctuations with correlations across multiple time scales. In physiologic systems, these long-range correlations are altered with disease and aging. Such correlated…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 Luis A. N. Amaral , Albert Diaz-Guilera , Andre A. Moreira , Ary L. Goldberger , Lewis A. Lipsitz

The abundance of process operating data in modern industries, along with the rapid advancement of learning techniques, has led to a paradigm shift towards data-centric analysis and control. However, integrating machine learning with control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Yitao Yan , Yu Tong , Jie Bao , Wei Wang

Modeling human dynamics responsible for the formation and evolution of the so-called social networks - structures comprised of individuals or organizations and indicating connectivities existing in a community - is a topic recently…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Victor V. Kryssanov , Frank J. Rinaldo , Evgeny L. Kuleshov , Hitoshi Ogawa

This paper presents new results and reinterpretation of existing conditions for strong structural controllability in a structured network determined by the zero/non-zero patterns of edges. For diffusively-coupled networks with self-loops,…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Nam-Jin Park , Seong-Ho Kwon , Yoo-Bin Bae , Byeong-Yeon Kim , Kevin L. Moore , Hyo-Sung Ahn

We investigate to what extent the degree sequence of a directed network constrains the number of driver nodes. We develop a pair of algorithms that take a directed degree sequence as input and aim to output a network with the maximum or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-24 Abdorasoul Ghasemi , Márton Pósfai , Raissa M. D'Souza