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The problem of optimal control of power distribution systems is becoming increasingly compelling due to the progressive penetration of distributed energy resources in this specific layer of the electrical infrastructure. Distribution…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Konstantina Christakou , Jean-Yves Le Boudec , Mario Paolone , Dan-Cristian Tomozei

Unveiling the underlying control principles of complex networks is one of the ultimate goals of network science. We introduce a novel concept, control hub, to reveal a cornerstone of the control structure of a network. The control hubs of a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Xizhe Zhang , Chunyu Pan , Weixiong Zhang

Predicting links in complex networks has been one of the essential topics within the realm of data mining and science discovery over the past few years. This problem remains an attempt to identify future, deleted, and redundant links using…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Kamal Berahmand , Elahe Nasiri , Saman Forouzandeh , Yuefeng Li

Selective control in a population is the ability to control a member of the population while leaving the other members relatively unaffected. The concept of selective control is developed using cell death or apoptosis in heterogeneous cell…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-07-29 Diego Calzolari , Giovanni Paternostro , Patrick L. Harrington , Carlo Piermarocchi , Phillip M. Duxbury

In this paper, we consider the problem of assessing local clustering in complex networks. Various definitions for this measure have been proposed for the cases of networks having weighted edges, but less attention has been paid to both…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-12-21 Gian Paolo Clemente , Rosanna Grassi

Influence maximization is the problem of finding the set of nodes of a network that maximizes the size of the outbreak of a spreading process occurring on the network. Solutions to this problem are important for strategic decisions in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-23 Sirag Erkol , Claudio Castellano , Filippo Radicchi

This paper presents a new approach to Model Predictive Control for environments where essential, discrete variables are partially observed. Under this assumption, the belief state is a probability distribution over a finite number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Camille Phiquepal , Marc Toussaint

The increasing complexity and interconnectedness of systems across various fields have led to a growing interest in studying complex networks, particularly Scale-Free (SF) networks, which best model real-world systems. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Hamid R. Rabiee

Influence Maximization(IM) aims to identify highly influential nodes to maximize influence spread in a network. Previous research on the IM problem has mainly concentrated on single-layer networks, disregarding the comprehension of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-16 Su-Su Zhang , Ming Xie , Chuang Liu , Xiu-Xiu Zhan

Identifying influential node groups in complex networks is crucial for optimizing information dissemination, epidemic control, and viral marketing. However, traditional centrality-based methods often focus on individual nodes, resulting in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Wenxin Zheng , Wenfeng Shi , Tianlong Fan , Linyuan Lü

The control and risk assessment in complex information systems require to take into account extremes arising from nodes with large node degrees. Various sampling techniques like a Page Rank random walk, a Metropolis-Hastings Markov chain…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-18 Natalia Markovich

A widely studied process of influence diffusion in social networks posits that the dynamics of influence diffusion evolves as follows: Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, representing the network, initially \emph{only} the members of a given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Gennaro Cordasco , Luisa Gargano , Adele A. Rescigno , Ugo Vaccaro

Traditional metrics of node influence such as degree or betweenness identify highly influential nodes, but are rarely usefully accurate in quantifying the spreading power of nodes which are not. Such nodes are the vast majority of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-10-01 Glenn Lawyer

Centrality descriptors are widely used to rank nodes according to specific concept(s) of importance. Despite the large number of centrality measures available nowadays, it is still poorly understood how to identify the node which can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-13 Giulia Bertagnolli , Claudio Agostinelli , Manlio De Domenico

Yang, Wang, and Motter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 258701 (2012)] analyzed a model for network observability transitions in which a sensor placed on a node makes the node and the adjacent nodes observable. The size of the connected components…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-10-17 Takehisa Hasegawa , Taro Takaguchi , Naoki Masuda

As the speed and the dynamic range of computer networks evolve, the issue of efficient traffic management becomes increasingly important. This work describes an approach to traffic management using explicit rate information provided to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 A. Charny , D. Clark , R. Jain

A network's transmission capacity is the maximal rate of traffic inflow that the network can handle without causing congestion. Here we study how to enhance this quantity by redistributing the capability of individual nodes while preserving…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-10-14 Guoqing Zhang , Shi Zhou , Di Wang , Gang Yan , Guoqiang Zhang

The numerical controllability transition makes the success of control can be achieved by increasing the number of driver nodes to a certain point. Motivated by the fact that the degree correlation has vast role in the dynamics on networks,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-11-12 Sen Nie , Xuwen Wang , Binghong Wang

We develop elements of a theory of cooperation and coordination in networks. Rather than considering a communication network as a means of distributing information, or of reconstructing random processes at remote nodes, we ask what…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-04 Paul Cuff , Haim Permuter , Thomas Cover

Controlling complex networked systems to a desired state is a key research goal in contemporary science. Despite recent advances in studying the impact of network topology on controllability, a comprehensive understanding of the synergistic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-04 Chen Zhao , Wen-Xu Wang , Yang-Yu Liu , Jean-Jacques Slotine