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Given any complex directed network, a set of acyclic subgraphs - the hierarchical backbone of the network - can be extracted that will provide valuable information about its hierarchical structure. The current paper presents how the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Anomaly detection in complex domains poses significant challenges due to the need for extensive labeled data and the inherently imbalanced nature of anomalous versus benign samples. Graph-based machine learning models have emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yifan Wei , Anwar Said , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

The question of controllability of natural and man-made network systems has recently received considerable attention. In the context of the human brain, the study of controllability may not only shed light into the organization and function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Tommaso Menara , Shi Gu , Danielle S. Bassett , Fabio Pasqualetti

We present a methodology to extract the backbone of complex networks based on the weight and direction of links, as well as on nontopological properties of nodes. We show how the methodology can be applied in general to networks in which…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2010-06-23 J. B. Glattfelder , S. Battiston

In recent years, data-driven approaches have become increasingly pervasive across all areas of control engineering. However, the applications of data-based techniques to Boolean control networks (BCNs) are still very limited. In this paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Giorgia Disarò , Maria Elena Valcher

Cognition is supported by neurophysiological processes that occur both in local anatomical neighborhoods and in distributed large-scale circuits. Recent evidence from network control theory suggests that white matter pathways linking…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-06-30 John D. Medaglia , Shi Gu , Fabio Pasqualetti , Rebecca L. Ashare , Caryn Lerman , Joseph Kable , Danielle S. Bassett

We introduce the concept of control centrality to quantify the ability of a single node to control a directed weighted network. We calculate the distribution of control centrality for several real networks and find that it is mainly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-01-01 Yang-Yu Liu , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Albert-László Barabási

We introduce a new computational problem, the BackboneDiscovery problem, which encapsulates both functional and structural aspects of network analysis. While the topology of a typical road network has been available for a long time (e.g.,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Sanjay Chawla , Kiran Garimella , Aristides Gionis , Dominic Tsang

Influence diagram is a graphical representation of belief networks with uncertainty. This article studies the structural properties of a probabilistic model in an influence diagram. In particular, structural controllability theorems and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Brian Y. Chan , Ross D. Shachter

A new complex network model, called q-snapback network, is introduced. Basic topological characteristics of the network, such as degree distribution, average path length, clustering coefficient and Pearson correlation coefficient, are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Yang Lou , Lin Wang , Guanrong Chen

The controllability and observability of Boolean control network(BCN) are two fundamental properties. But the verification of latter is much harder than the former. This paper considers the observability of BCN via controllability. First,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Daizhan Cheng , Changxi Li , Fenghua He

Exact controllability is proven on a graph with cycle. The controls can be a mix of controls applied at the boundary and interior vertices. The method of proof first uses a dynamical argument to prove shape controllability and velocity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Sergei Avdonin , Julian Edward , Yuanyuan Zhao

Backward reachability (also termed controllability) has been extensively studied in control theory, and tools for a wide class of systems have been developed. Nevertheless, assessing a backward reachability analysis or synthesis remains…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Davide Liuzza , Paolo Falcone , Massimo Tipaldi , Luigi Glielmo

Constructing a connected dominating set as the virtual backbone plays an important role in wireless networks. In this paper, we propose two novel approximate algorithms for dominating set and connected dominating set in wireless networks,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Congcong Chen , Jiguo Yu , Xiujuan Zhang

This letter deals with the controllability issue of complex networks. An index is chosen to quantitatively measure the extent of controllability of given network. The effect of this index is analyzed based on empirical studies on various…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Ning Cai

Many real-world systems are composed of many individual components that interact with one another in a complex pattern to produce diverse behaviors. Understanding how to intervene in these systems to guide behaviors is critically important…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-04 Elena Wu-Yan , Richard F. Betzel , Evelyn Tang , Shi Gu , Fabio Pasqualetti , Danielle S. Bassett

In this paper, we examine the controllability of Laplacian dynamic networks on cographs. Cographs appear in modeling a wide range of networks and include as special instances, the threshold graphs. In this work, we present necessary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Shima Sadat Mousavi , Mohammad Haeri , Mehran Mesbahi

We study the minimum dominating set problem as a representative combinatorial optimization challenge with a global topological constraint. The requirement that the backbone induced by the vertices of a dominating set should be a connected…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-10-25 Yusupjan Habibulla , Hai-Jun Zhou

A large number of complex systems find a natural abstraction in the form of weighted networks whose nodes represent the elements of the system and the weighted edges identify the presence of an interaction and its relative strength. In…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-04-23 M. Angeles Serrano , Marian Boguna , Alessandro Vespignani

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