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Minimal input/output selection is investigated in this paper for each subsystem of a networked system. Some novel sufficient conditions are derived respectively for the controllability and observability of a networked system, as well as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Tong Zhou

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

This paper investigates observability/controllability of a networked dynamic system (NDS) in which system matrices of its subsystems are expressed through linear fractional transformations (LFT). Some relations have been obtained between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Tong Zhou , Yuyu Zhou

Inferring network topology from dynamical observations is a fundamental problem pervading research on complex systems. Here, we present a simple, direct method to infer the structural connection topology of a network, given an observation…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 Srinivas Gorur Shandilya , Marc Timme

Network reconstruction is the first step towards understanding, diagnosing and controlling the dynamics of complex networked systems. It allows us to infer properties of the interaction matrix, which characterizes how nodes in a system…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Marco Tulio Angulo , Jaime A. Moreno , Albert-László Barabási , Yang-Yu Liu

Network analysis is currently used in a myriad of contexts: from identifying potential drug targets to predicting the spread of epidemics and designing vaccination strategies, and from finding friends to uncovering criminal activity.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-04-28 R. Guimera , M. Sales-Pardo

Dynamic networks are interconnected dynamic systems with measured node signals and dynamic modules reflecting the links between the nodes. We address the problem of \red{identifying a dynamic network with known topology, on the basis of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Harm H. M. Weerts , Paul M. J. Van den Hof , Arne G. Dankers

Network reconstruction is fundamental to understanding the dynamical behaviors of the networked systems. Many systems, modeled by multiplex networks with various types of interactions, display an entirely different dynamical behavior…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-01-28 Mincheng Wu , Jiming Chen , Shibo He , Youxian Sun , Shlomo Havlin , Jianxi Gao

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

Consider an n-dimensional linear system where it is known that there are at most k<n non-zero components in the initial state. The observability problem, that is the recovery of the initial state, for such a system is considered. We obtain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Wei Dai , Serdar Yüksel

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

The approach for a network behavior description in terms of numerical time-dependant functions of the protocol parameters is suggested. This provides a basis for application of methods of mathematical and theoretical physics for information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vladimir Gudkov , Joseph E. Johnson

Network scientists often use complex dynamic processes to describe network contagions, but tools for fitting contagion models typically assume simple dynamics. Here, we address this gap by developing a nonparametric method to reconstruct a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nicholas W. Landry , William Thompson , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , Jean-Gabriel Young

In an increasingly connected world, the resilience of networked dynamical systems is important in the fields of ecology, economics, critical infrastructures, and organizational behaviour. Whilst we understand small-scale resilience well,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-08-21 Giannis Moutsinas , Weisi Guo

Recent interest has developed around the problem of dynamic compressed sensing, or the recovery of time-varying, sparse signals from limited observations. In this paper, we study how the dynamics of recurrent networks, formulated as general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-09 MohammadMehdi Kafashan , Anirban Nandi , ShiNung Ching

Time-series analysis is fundamental for modeling and predicting dynamical behaviors from time-ordered data, with applications in many disciplines such as physics, biology, finance, and engineering. Measured time-series data, however, are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-11 Arthur N. Montanari , Leandro Freitas , Daniele Proverbio , Jorge Gonçalves

We consider the problem of reconstructing the state of a network of nonlinear dynamical systems in the presence of directed higher-order interactions. Grounded on analytical convergence results, we propose an algorithmic observer design…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Roberto Rizzello , Davide Salzano , Stefano Boccaletti , Pietro De Lellis

A crucial challenge in network theory is the study of the robustness of a network after facing a sequence of failures. In this work, we propose a dynamical definition of network's robustness based on Information Theory, that considers…

This work studies the limitations of uniquely identifying the structure (i.e., topology) of a networked linear system from partial measurements of its nodal dynamics. In general, many networks can be consistent with these measurements; this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Jaidev Gill , Jing Shuang Li

Network reliability is a well-studied problem that requires to measure the probability that a target node is reachable from a source node in a probabilistic (or uncertain) graph, i.e., a graph where every edge is assigned a probability of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Arijit Khan , Francesco Bonchi , Francesco Gullo , Andreas Nufer