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Networked dynamical systems are common throughout science in engineering; e.g., biological networks, reaction networks, power systems, and the like. For many such systems, nonlinearity drives populations of identical (or near-identical)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-02-10 James Koch , Zhao Chen , Aaron Tuor , Jan Drgona , Draguna Vrabie

The graph identification problem consists of discovering the interactions among nodes in a network given their state/feature trajectories. This problem is challenging because the behavior of a node is coupled to all the other nodes by the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Eduardo Sebastian , Thai Duong , Nikolay Atanasov , Eduardo Montijano , Carlos Sagues

The behaviour of many real-world phenomena can be modelled by nonlinear dynamical systems whereby a latent system state is observed through a filter. We are interested in interacting subsystems of this form, which we model by a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Oliver M. Cliff , Mikhail Prokopenko , Robert Fitch

In this paper we study the controllability of networked systems with static network topologies using tools from algebraic graph theory. Each agent in the network acts in a decentralized fashion by updating its state in accordance with a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-02-12 Ahmet Yasin Yazicioglu , Waseem Abbas , Magnus Egerstedt

This paper investigates causal influences between agents linked by a social graph and interacting over time. In particular, the work examines the dynamics of social learning models and distributed decision-making protocols, and derives…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mert Kayaalp , Ali H. Sayed

In a complex system, the interactions between individual agents often lead to emergent collective behavior like spontaneous synchronization, swarming, and pattern formation. The topology of the network of interactions can have a dramatic…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-07-25 Mark J Panaggio , Maria-Veronica Ciocanel , Lauren Lazarus , Chad M Topaz , Bin Xu

Topology inference is a powerful tool to better understand the behaviours of network systems (NSs). Different from most of prior works, this paper is dedicated to inferring the directed topology of NSs from noisy observations, where the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Qing Jiao , Yushan Li , Jianping He

A social choice procedure is modeled as a repeated Nash game between the social agents, who are communicating with each other through a social communication network modeled by an undirected graph. The agents' criteria for this game are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Athanasios-Rafail Lagos , George P. Papavassilopoulos

This paper addresses the problem of identifying the graph structure of a dynamical network using measured input/output data. This problem is known as topology identification and has received considerable attention in recent literature. Most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-08 Henk J. van Waarde , Pietro Tesi , M. Kanat Camlibel

This article studies the problem of reconstructing the topology of a network of interacting agents via observations of the state-evolution of the agents. We focus on the large-scale network setting with the additional constraint of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Augusto Santos , Vincenzo Matta , Ali H. Sayed

We consider the problem of identifying the topology of a weighted, undirected network $\mathcal G$ from observing snapshots of multiple independent consensus dynamics. Specifically, we observe the opinion profiles of a group of agents for a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Santiago Segarra , Michael T. Schaub , Ali Jadbabaie

Social learning algorithms provide models for the formation of opinions over social networks resulting from local reasoning and peer-to-peer exchanges. Interactions occur over an underlying graph topology, which describes the flow of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Valentina Shumovskaia , Konstantinos Ntemos , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

In many complex systems, states and interaction structure coevolve towards a dynamic equilibrium. For the adaptive contact process, we obtain approximate expressions for the degree distributions that characterize the interaction network in…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-07-01 Stefan Wieland , Ana Nunes

In this paper, we consider a multi-agent system consisting of mobile agents with second-order dynamics. The communication network is determined by the so-called topological interaction rule: agents interact with a fixed number of their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Samuel Martin

In complex systems, information propagation can be defined as diffused or delocalized, weakly localized, and strongly localized. This study investigates the application of graph neural network models to learn the behavior of a linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Priodyuti Pradhan , Amit Reza

Accurately identifying the underlying graph structures of multi-agent systems remains a difficult challenge. Our work introduces a novel machine learning-based solution that leverages the attention mechanism to predict future states of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Akshay Kolli , Reza Azadeh , Kshitj Jerath

What can we learn from the collective dynamics of a complex network about its interaction topology? Taking the perspective from nonlinear dynamics, we briefly review recent progress on how to infer structural connectivity (direct…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-08-14 Marc Timme , Jose Casadiego

We study the effect of learning dynamics on network topology. A network of discrete dynamical systems is considered for this purpose and the coupling strengths are made to evolve according to a temporal learning rule that is based on the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juergen Jost , Kiran M. Kolwankar

An analytical approach to network dynamics is used to show that when agents copy their state randomly the network arrives to a stationary status in which the distribution of states is independent of the agents degree. The effects of network…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Cesar A. Hidalgo , Francisco Claro , Pablo A. Marquet

We propose an adaptive control protocol for identifying the topology of dynamical networks interconnected over undirected graphs with cooperative and antagonistic interactions. The signed network is modeled using a repelling Laplacian.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Pelin Sekercioglu , Nana Wang , Angela Fontan , Dimos V. Dimarogonas