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In this work, we study a class of stationary mean-field games of singular stochastic control under model uncertainty. The representative agent adjusts the dynamics of an It\^o diffusion via one-sided singular stochastic control, aiming to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Giorgio Ferrari , Ioannis Tzouanas

The structure of many real-world systems is best captured by networks consisting of several interaction layers. Understanding how a multi-layered structure of connections affects the synchronization properties of dynamical systems evolving…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-17 Charo I. del Genio , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Ivan Bonamassa , Stefano Boccaletti

We introduce the concept of {\it mean-field optimal control} which is the rigorous limit process connecting finite dimensional optimal control problems with ODE constraints modeling multi-agent interactions to an infinite dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Massimo Fornasier , Francesco Solombrino

We consider deterministic mean field games where the dynamics of a typical agent is non-linear with respect to the state variable and affine with respect to the control variable. Particular instances of the problem considered here are mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Justina Gianatti , Francisco J. Silva

We study binary state dynamics on a network where each node acts in response to the average state of its neighborhood. Allowing varying amounts of stochasticity in both the network and node responses, we find different outcomes in random…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-07-09 Kameron Decker Harris , Christopher M. Danforth , Peter Sheridan Dodds

This paper considers decentralized control and optimization methodologies for large populations of systems, consisting of several agents with different individual behaviors, constraints and interests, and affected by the aggregate behavior…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Sergio Grammatico , Francesca Parise , Marcello Colombino , John Lygeros

Synchronization is an important behavior that characterizes many natural and human made systems composed by several interacting units. It can be found in a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from neuroscience to power-grids, to mention…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-10-22 Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti , James P. Gleeson , Malbor Asllani

Collective behavior is studied in globally coupled maps with distributed nonlinearity. It is shown that the heterogeneity enhances regularity in the collective dynamics. Low-dimensional quasiperiodic motion is often found for the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Tatsuo Shibata , Kunihiko Kaneko

We formulate a stochastic game of mean field type where the agents solve optimal stopping problems and interact through the proportion of players that have already stopped. Working with a continuum of agents, typical equilibria become…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Marcel Nutz

Research on synchronization of coupled oscillators has helped explain how uniform behavior emerges in populations of non-uniform systems. But explaining how uniform populations engage in sustainable non-uniform synchronization may prove to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-03-15 Adilson E. Motter

In this paper we briefly report some recent developments on generalized synchronization. We discuss different methods of detecting generalized synchronization. We first consider two unidirectionally coupled systems and then two mutually…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-01 Suman Acharyya , R. E. Amritkar

This review examines the roles of adaptation and synchronization in music performance, drawing on concepts from complex systems theory to understand the dynamic interactions between musicians, music, and listeners. Adaptation is explored…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-08 Jakub Sawicki

Synchronization is ubiquitous in nature, which is mathematically described by coupled oscillators. Synchronization strongly depends on the interaction network, and the network plays a crucial role in controlling the dynamics. To understand…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-08-19 Akari Matsuki , Hiroshi Kori , Ryota Kobayashi

The objective of this paper is to provide an equivalent of the theory developed in P.~Cardaliaguet, F.~Delarue, J.M.~Lasry, P.L.~Lions \cite{CDLL}, following the approach of control on Hilbert spaces introduced by the authors in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Alain Bensoussan , P. Jameson Graber , Phillip Yam

In a class of heterogeneous random networks, where each node dynamics is a random dynamical system, interacting with neighbor nodes via a random coupling function, we characterize the hub behavior as the mean-field, subject to statistically…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Zheng Bian , Jeroen S. W. Lamb , Tiago Pereira

This paper focuses on a model for opinion dynamics, where the influence weights of agents evolve in time. We formulate a control problem of consensus type, in which the objective is to drive all agents to a final target point under suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Nastassia Duteil , Benedetto Piccoli

Spontaneous synchronization is a remarkable collective effect observed in nature, whereby a population of oscillating units, which have diverse natural frequencies and are in weak interaction with one another, evolves to spontaneously…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-08-23 Stefano Gherardini , Shamik Gupta , Stefano Ruffo

Synchronization is an omnipresent collective phenomenon in nature and technology, whose understanding is in particular for real-world systems still elusive. We study the synchronization transition in a phase oscillator system with two…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-08-02 Rico Berner , Annie Lu , Igor M. Sokolov

In this work we discuss an Mean Field Games approach to traffic management on multi-lane roads. Such approach is particularly indicated to model self driven vehicles with perfect information of the domain. The mathematical interest of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Adriano Festa , Simone Göttlich

This article provides a self-contained comprehensive review of the phenomenon of synchronization in dynamical systems, with a particular focus on chaotic systems in both continuous-time and discrete-time contexts. Synchronization, initially…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-31 Rosario D. Laureano , Diana A. Mendes , Manuel Alberto M. Ferreira