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This paper is an extensive survey of literature on complex network communities and clustering. Complex networks describe a widespread variety of systems in nature and society especially systems composed by a large number of highly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Biswajit Saha , Amitabha Mandal , Soumendu Bikas Tripathy , Debaprasad Mukherjee

An increasing number of complex systems are now modeled as networks of coupled dynamical entities. Nonlinearity and high-dimensionality are hallmarks of the dynamics of such networks but have generally been regarded as obstacles to control.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-12-07 Adilson E. Motter

Controlling complex networks is of paramount importance in science and engineering. Despite the recent development of structural-controllability theory, we continue to lack a framework to control undirected complex networks, especially…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-10-23 Zhengzhong Yuan , Chen Zhao , Zengru Di , Wen-Xu Wang , Ying-Cheng Lai

In this paper, we investigate the herdability property, namely the capability of a system to be driven towards the (interior of the) positive orthant, for linear time-invariant state-space models. Herdability of certain matrix pairs (A,B),…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-20 Giulia De Pasquale , Maria Elena Valcher

We present preliminary results on the problem of driving the dynamics of a group of agents, the herders, so as to steer the collective behaviour of another group of agents, the targets, interacting with them. We define this problem as the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Andrea Lama , Mario Di Bernardo

Structural controllability has been proposed as an analytical framework for making predictions regarding the control of complex networks across myriad disciplines in the physical and life sciences (Liu et al., Nature:473(7346):167-173,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-28 Noah J. Cowan , Erick J. Chastain , Daril A. Vilhena , James S. Freudenberg , Carl T. Bergstrom

While the majority of approaches to the characterization of complex networks has relied on measurements considering only the immediate neighborhood of each network node, valuable information about the network topological properties can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Filipi Nascimento Silva

This paper deals with controllability of dynamical networks. It is often unfeasible or unnecessary to fully control large-scale networks, which motivates the control of a prescribed subset of agents of the network. This specific form of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Henk J. van Waarde , M. Kanat Camlibel , Harry L. Trentelman

Collective behavior of the complex socio-economic systems is heavily influenced by the herding, group, behavior of individuals. The importance of the herding behavior may enable the control of the collective behavior of the individuals. In…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-04-03 Aleksejus Kononovicius , Vygintas Gontis

The representation of complex systems as networks is inappropriate for the study of certain problems. We show several examples of social, biological, ecological and technological systems where the use of complex networks gives very limited…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-02 Ernesto Estrada , Juan A. Rodriguez-Velazquez

The controllability of a network is a theoretical problem of relevance in a variety of contexts ranging from financial markets to the brain. Until now, network controllability has been characterized only on isolated networks, while the vast…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-17 Giulia Menichetti , Luca Dall'Asta , Ginestra Bianconi

Complex networks are frequently employed to model physical or virtual complex systems. When certain entities exist across multiple systems simultaneously, unveiling their corresponding relationships across the networks becomes crucial. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-16 Rui Tang , Ziyun Yong , Shuyu Jiang , Xingshu Chen , Yaofang Liu , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Gui-Quan Sun , Wei Wang

The interaction of distinct units in physical, social, biological and technological systems naturally gives rise to complex network structures. Networks have constantly been in the focus of research for the last decade, with considerable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-08-20 Tamás Nepusz , Tamás Vicsek

In this paper, we consider a population of individuals who have actions and opinions, which coevolve, mutually influencing one another on a complex network structure. In particular, we formulate a control problem for this social network, in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Roberta Raineri , Mengbin Ye , Lorenzo Zino

We introduce the concept of control centrality to quantify the ability of a single node to control a directed weighted network. We calculate the distribution of control centrality for several real networks and find that it is mainly…

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

This paper deals with strong structural controllability of structured networks. A structured network is a family of structured systems (called node systems) that are interconnected by means of a structured interconnection law. The node…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-17 J. Jia , B. M. Shali , H. J. van Waarde , M. K. Camlibel , H. L. Trentelman

Resource allocation takes place in various types of real-world complex systems such as urban traf- fic, social services institutions, economical and ecosystems. Mathematically, the dynamical process of complex resource allocation can be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-05 Ji-Qiang Zhang , Zi-Gang Huang , Zhi-Xi Wu , Riqi Su , Ying-Cheng Lai

Much has been said about observability in system theory and control; however, it has been recently that observability in complex networks has seriously attracted the attention of researchers. This paper examines the state-of-the-art and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Mehdi Fatemi , Peyman Setoodeh , Simon Haykin

Several networks occurring in real life have modular structures that are arranged in an hierarchical fashion. In this paper, we have proposed a model for such networks, using a stochastic generation method. Using this model we show that,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-12 Raj Kumar Pan , Sitabhra Sinha

In the past decade, we have witnessed the rise of deep learning to dominate the field of artificial intelligence. Advances in artificial neural networks alongside corresponding advances in hardware accelerators with large memory capacity,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-11 David Ha , Yujin Tang