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Control theory of dynamical systems offers a powerful framework for tackling challenges in deep neural networks and other machine learning architectures. We show that concepts such as simultaneous and ensemble controllability offer new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Enrique Zuazua

Networks have attracted a burst of attention in the last decade, with applications to natural, social, and technological systems. While networks provide a powerful abstraction for investigating relationships and interactions, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-04-09 Michael J. Barber , Manfred Paier , Thomas Scherngell

The success of new scientific areas can be assessed by their potential for contributing to new theoretical approaches and in applications to real-world problems. Complex networks have fared extremely well in both of these aspects, with…

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of controlling collective behavior in complex systems comprising large ensembles of interacting dynamical agents. Building upon traditional control theory's foundation in individual systems, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Marco Coraggio , Davide Salzano , Mario di Bernardo

We review the recent fast progress in statistical physics of evolving networks. Interest has focused mainly on the structural properties of random complex networks in communications, biology, social sciences and economics. A number of giant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. N. Dorogovtsev , J. F. F. Mendes

A network is a typical expressive form of representing complex systems in terms of vertices and links, in which the pattern of interactions amongst components of the network is intricate. The network can be static that does not change over…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Hayat Dino Bedru , Shuo Yu , Xinru Xiao , Da Zhang , Liangtian Wan , He Guo , Feng Xia

This thesis is a compendium of research which brings together ideas from the fields of Complex Networks and Computational Neuroscience to address two questions regarding neural systems: 1) How the activity of neurons, via synaptic changes,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-02-19 Samuel Johnson

Network theory has unveiled the underlying structure of complex systems such as the Internet or the biological networks in the cell. It has identified universal properties of complex networks, and the interplay between their structure and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-21 Ginestra Bianconi

Complex systems are characterized by many interacting units that give rise to emergent behavior. A particularly advantageous way to study these systems is through the analysis of the networks that encode the interactions among the system's…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-21 Alberto Aleta , Yamir Moreno

Complex systems and relational data are often abstracted as dynamical processes on networks. To understand, predict and control their behavior, a crucial step is to extract reduced descriptions of such networks. Inspired by notions from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Michael T. Schaub , Jean-Charles Delvenne , Renaud Lambiotte , Mauricio Barahona

Over the past decade network theory has turned out to be a powerful methodology to investigate complex systems of various sorts. Through data analysis, modeling, and simulation quite an unparalleled insight into their structure, function,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-07-16 Kimmo Kaski

Complex networks are the subject of fundamental interest from the scientific community at large. Several metrics have been introduced to characterize the structure of these networks, such as the degree distribution, degree correlation, path…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-14 Francesco Sorrentino , Abu Bakar Siddique , Louis M. Pecora

Prediction and control of the dynamics of complex networks is a central problem in network science. Structural and dynamical similarities of different real networks suggest that some universal laws might accurately describe the dynamics of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-28 Dmitri Krioukov , Maksim Kitsak , Robert S. Sinkovits , David Rideout , David Meyer , Marian Boguna

In the last two decades, network science has blossomed and influenced various fields, such as statistical physics, computer science, biology and sociology, from the perspective of the heterogeneous interaction patterns of components…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-20 Ming Li , Run-Ran Liu , Linyuan Lü , Mao-Bin Hu , Shuqi Xu , Yi-Cheng Zhang

The recent surge in the network modeling of complex systems has set the stage for a new era in the study of fundamental and applied aspects of optimization in collective behavior. This Focus Issue presents an extended view of the state of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-07-10 Adilson E. Motter , Zoltan Toroczkai

Complex networks has been a hot topic of research over the past several years over crossing many disciplines, starting from mathematics and computer science and ending by the social and biological sciences. Random graphs were studied to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Alaa Eddin Alchalabi

The mutual influence of dynamics and structure is a central issue in complex systems. In this paper we study by simulation slow evolution of network under the feedback of a local-majority-rule opinion process. If performance-enhancing local…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhen Shao , Haijun Zhou

For decades, complex networks, such as social networks, biological networks, chemical networks, technological networks, have been used to study the evolution and dynamics of different kinds of complex systems. These complex systems can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Akrati Saxena

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

Adaptive networks appear in many biological applications. They combine topological evolution of the network with dynamics in the network nodes. Recently, the dynamics of adaptive networks has been investigated in a number of parallel…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-01-23 Thilo Gross , Bernd Blasius