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In this paper we study synchronized motions in complex networks in which there are distinct groups of nodes where the dynamical systems on each node within a group are the same but are different for nodes in different groups. Both…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Francesco Sorrentino , Edward Ott

The characterization of the "most connected" nodes in static or slowly evolving complex networks has helped in understanding and predicting the behavior of social, biological, and technological networked systems, including their robustness…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-10-21 Scott A. Hill , Dan Braha

We study a network of coupled logistic maps whose interactions occur with a certain distribution of delay times. The local dynamics is chaotic in the absence of coupling and thus the network is a paradigm of a complex system. There are two…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-02-03 Marcelo Ponce , C. Masoller , Arturo C. Marti

Synchronization, in which individual dynamical units keep in pace with each other in a decentralized fashion, depends both on the dynamical units and on the properties of the interaction network. Yet, the role played by the network has…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-06-15 Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

Synchronization of coupled dynamical systems is a widespread phenomenon in both biological and engineered networks, and understanding this behavior is crucial for controlling such systems. Considerable research has been dedicated to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-04 Fatou K. Ndow , Zahra Aminzare

Identifying an optimal set of driver nodes to achieve synchronization via pinning control is a fundamental challenge in complex network science, limited by computational intractability and the lack of general theory. Here, leveraging a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Qingyang Liu , Tianlong Fan , Liming Pan , Linyuan Lü

To understand how certain dynamical behaviors can or cannot persist as the underlying network grows is a problem of increasing importance in complex dynamical systems as well as sustainability science and engineering. We address the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-01-07 Yafeng Wang , Huawei Fan , Ying-Cheng Lai , Xingang Wang

Most complex systems are nonlinear, relying on emergent behavior from interacting subsystems, often characterized by oscillatory dynamics. Collective oscillatory behavior is essential for the proper functioning of many real world systems.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-07-03 Soumen Majhi , Biswambhar Rakshit , Amit Sharma , Jürgen Kurths , Dibakar Ghosh

We study the mechanism of formation of synchronized clusters in coupled maps on networks with various connection architectures. The nodes in a cluster are self- synchronized or driven-synchronized, based on the coupling strength and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-15 Aradhana Singh , Sarika Jalan

Synchronization is a fundamental dynamical state of interacting oscillators, observed in natural biological rhythms and in the brain. Global synchronization which occurs when non-linear or chaotic oscillators placed on the nodes of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-22 Timoteo Carletti , Lorenzo Giambagli , Riccardo Muolo , Ginestra Bianconi

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

Networks are universally considered as complex structures of interactions of large multi-component systems. In order to determine the role that each node has inside a complex network, several centrality measures have been developed. Such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-20 Malbor Asllani , Bruno Requiao da Cunha , Ernesto Estrada , James P. Gleeson

We study the synchronization of coupled maps on a variety of networks including regular one and two dimensional networks, scale free networks, small world networks, tree networks, and random networks. For small coupling strengths nodes show…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sarika Jalan , R. E. Amritkar

This work addresses synchronization in transient, non-linear stochastic dynamics corresponding to accesses performed by self-avoiding walks originating at each node of a complex network. More specifically, the synchronizability of accesses…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-01-17 Luciano da Fontoura Costa

We propose that negative degree correlation among nodes in a network of nonlinear oscillators, often detected in real world networks, is motivated by its positive effects on synchronizability. In so doing, we use a novel methodology to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-12-08 Mario di Bernardo , Franco Garofalo , Francesco Sorrentino

Recent studies have shown how spiking networks can learn complex functionality through error-correcting plasticity, but the resulting structures and dynamics remain poorly studied. To elucidate how these models may link to observed dynamics…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-19 Jonas Oberste-Frielinghaus , Anno C. Kurth , Julian Göltz , Laura Kriener , Junji Ito , Mihai A. Petrovici , Sonja Grün

Dynamic networks are structured interconnections of dynamical systems (modules) driven by external excitation and disturbance signals. In order to identify their dynamical properties and/or their topology consistently from measured data, we…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Harm H. M. Weerts , Paul M. J. Van den Hof , Arne G. Dankers

Synchrony is one of the most common dynamical states emerging on networks. The speed of convergence towards synchrony provides a fundamental collective time scale for synchronizing systems. Here we study the asymptotic synchronization times…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-30 Carsten Grabow , Stefan Grosskinsky , Marc Timme

To find interesting structure in networks, community detection algorithms have to take into account not only the network topology, but also dynamics of interactions between nodes. We investigate this claim using the paradigm of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Rumi Ghosh , Kristina Lerman

We study synchronization and consensus in a group of dynamical systems coupled via multiple directed networks. We show that even though the coupling in a single network may not be sufficient to synchronize the systems, combination of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Chai Wah Wu