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Real-world network systems are inherently dynamic, with network topologies undergoing continuous changes over time. Previous works often focus on static networks or rely on complete prior knowledge of evolving topologies, whereas real-world…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Chunyu Pan , Xizhe Zhang , Haoyu Zheng , Zhao Su , Changsheng Zhang , Weixiong Zhang

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

Network science has experienced unprecedented rapid development in the past two decades. The network perspective has also been widely applied to explore various complex systems in great depth. In the first decade, fundamental…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-01-13 Aming Li , Yang-Yu Liu

The topology of a network directly influences the behaviour and controllability of dynamical processes on that network. Therefore, the design of network topologies is an important area of research when examining the control of distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Mehran Mesbahi

In this paper we consider the problem of controlling a limited number of target nodes of a network. Equivalently, we can see this problem as controlling the target variables of a structured system, where the state variables of the system…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Christian Commault , Jacob van der Woude , Paolo Frasca

This paper studies the controllability backbone problem in dynamical networks defined over graphs. The main idea of the controllability backbone is to identify a small subset of edges in a given network such that any subnetwork containing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-07 Obaid Ullah Ahmad , Waseem Abbas , Mudassir Shabbir

The minimum number of inputs needed to control a network is frequently used to quantify its controllability. Control of linear dynamics through a minimum set of inputs, however, often has prohibitively large energy requirements and there is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Samie Alizadeh , Márton Pósfai , Abdorasoul Ghasemi

A reflection of our ultimate understanding of a complex system is our ability to control its behavior. Typically, control has multiple prerequisites: It requires an accurate map of the network that governs the interactions between the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Yang-Yu Liu , Albert-Laszló Barabási

This paper investigates the robustness of strong structural controllability for linear time-invariant and linear time-varying directed networks with respect to structural perturbations, including edge deletions and additions. In this…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Shima Sadat Mousavi , Mohammad Haeri , Mehran Mesbahi

Over the past decades, network systems have surged in significance, driven by merging technological advancements. These systems play pivotal roles in diverse applications ranging from autonomous driving to smart grids, yet they confront…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Gang Wang , Wenjie Liu , Yifei Li , Xin Wang , Jian Sun , Jie Chen

Predicting how the brain can be driven to specific states by means of internal or external control requires a fundamental understanding of the relationship between neural connectivity and activity. Network control theory is a powerful tool…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-12 Teresa M. Karrer , Jason Z. Kim , Jennifer Stiso , Ari E. Kahn , Fabio Pasqualetti , Ute Habel , Danielle S. Bassett

The control of complex systems is an ongoing challenge of complexity research. Recent advances using concepts of structural control deduce a wide range of control related properties from the network representation of complex systems. Here,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-31 Márton Pósfai , Philipp Hövel

Pinning control on complex dynamical networks has emerged as a very important topic in recent trends of control theory due to the extensive study of collective coupled behaviors and their role in physics, engineering and biology. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Stephane Chretien , Sebastien Darses

Controlling real-world networked systems, including ecological, biomedical, and engineered networks that exhibit higher-order interactions, remains challenging due to inherent nonlinearities and large system scales. Despite extensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Joshua Pickard , Xin Mao , Can Chen

Network controllability measures how well a networked system can be controlled to a target state, and its robustness reflects how well the system can maintain the controllability against malicious attacks by means of node-removals or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Yang Lou , Yaodong He , Lin Wang , Guanrong Chen

A common goal in the control of a large network is to minimize the number of driver nodes or control inputs. Yet, the physical determination of control signals and the properties of the resulting control trajectories remain widely…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-28 Jie Sun , Adilson E. Motter

Networks are fundamental building blocks for representing data, and computations. Remarkable progress in learning in structurally defined (shallow or deep) networks has recently been achieved. Here we introduce evolutionary exploratory…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Rise Ooi , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Pin-Yu Chen , Vìctor Eguìluz , Narsis Kiani , Hector Zenil , David Gomez-Cabrero , Jesper Tegnèr

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

There has been tremendous development of linear controllability of complex networks. Real-world systems are fundamentally nonlinear. Is linear controllability relevant to nonlinear dynamical networks? We identify a common trait underlying…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Junjie Jiang , Ying-Cheng Lai

In this work we challenge the main conclusions of Gu et al work (Controllability of structural brain networks. Nature communications 6, 8414, doi:10.1038/ncomms9414, 2015) on brain controllability. Using the same methods and analyses on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-10 Chengyi Tu , Rodrigo P. Rocha , Maurizio Corbetta , Sandro Zampieri , Marzo Zorzi , Samir Suweis