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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,…

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The state of many physical, biological and socio-technical systems evolves by combining smooth local transitions and abrupt resetting events to a set of reference values. The inclusion of the resetting mechanism not only provides the…

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This paper deals with controllability of dynamical networks. It is often unfeasible or unnecessary to fully control large-scale networks, which motivates the control of a prescribed subset of agents of the network. This specific form of…

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We discuss recent work in the study of a simple model for the collective behaviour of diverse speculative agents in an idealized stockmarket, considered from the perspective of the statistical physics of many-body systems. The only…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Garrahan , E. Moro , D. Sherrington

In this paper, we study robust distributed sub-optimal coordination of linear agents subject to input nonlinearities. Inspired by the robust agreement literature, we formulate a bounded distributed sub-optimal coordination problem, in which…

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The existing results on controllability of multi-agents networks are mostly based on homogeneous nodes. This paper focuses on controllability of heterogeneous multi-agent networks, where the agents are modeled as two types. One type is that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Bin Zhao , Michael Z. Q. Chen , Yongqiang Guan , Long Wang

In spite of the recent interest and advances in linear controllability of complex networks, controlling nonlinear network dynamics remains to be an outstanding problem. We develop an experimentally feasible control framework for nonlinear…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-09-24 Le-Zhi Wang , Ri-Qi Su , Zi-Gang Huang , Xiao Wang , Wenxu Wang , Celso Grebogi , Ying-Cheng Lai

Brains and artificial neural networks compute with continuous variables such as object position or stimulus orientation. However, the complex variability in neural responses makes it difficult to link internal representational structure to…

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Temporal networks are such networks where nodes and interactions may appear and disappear at various time scales. With the evidence of ubiquity of temporal networks in our economy, nature and society, it's urgent and significant to focus on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Yujian Pan , Xiang Li

Cortical neurons emit seemingly erratic trains of action potentials or "spikes," and neural network dynamics emerge from the coordinated spiking activity within neural circuits. These rich dynamics manifest themselves in a variety of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-01 Braden A. W. Brinkman , Han Yan , Arianna Maffei , Il Memming Park , Alfredo Fontanini , Jin Wang , Giancarlo La Camera

Characterizing the capacity region for a network can be extremely difficult. Even with independent sources, determining the capacity region can be as hard as the open problem of characterizing all information inequalities. The majority of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-09 Satyajit Thakor , Terence Chan , Alex Grant

Effective control of biological systems can often be achieved through the control of a surprisingly small number of distinct variables. We bring clarity to such results using the formalism of Boolean dynamical networks, analyzing the…

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Network control theory has recently emerged as a promising approach for understanding brain function and dynamics. By operationalizing notions of control theory for brain networks, it offers a fundamental explanation for how brain dynamics…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-20 Shikuang Deng , Shi Gu

We use mean field theory to study the response properties of a simple randomly-connected model cortical network of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons with balanced excitation and inhibition. The formulation permits arbitrary temporal…

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The article sets and solves the task to control an error of the artificial neural network with variable signal conductivity. This kind of neural networks was especially developed to construct timetables. Behavior of such a neural network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-17 Alexander Ignatenkov , Alexey Olshansky

In this paper it is established that any jointly controllable, jointly observable, multi-channel, discrete or continuous time linear system with a strongly connected neighbor (communication) graph can be exponentially stabilized with any…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Fengjiao Liu , Lili Wang , Daniel Fullmer , A. Stephen Morse

Complex systems are often modeled as Boolean networks in attempts to capture their logical structure and reveal its dynamical consequences. Approximating the dynamics of continuous variables by discrete values and Boolean logic gates may,…

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In this work, we consider a multi-population system where the dynamics of each agent evolve according to a system of stochastic differential equations in a general functional setup, determined by the global state of the system. Each agent…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Giuseppe D'Onofrio , Anderson Melchor Hernandez

Recent research has provided a wealth of evidence highlighting the pivotal role of high-order interdependencies in supporting the information-processing capabilities of distributed complex systems. These findings may suggest that high-order…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-05-24 Patricio Orio , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Fernando E. Rosas

The paper studies the problem of steering multi-dimensional opinion in a social network. Assuming the society of desire consists of stubborn and regular agents, stubborn agents are considered as leaders who specify the desired opinion…

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