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A power constrained sensor network that consists of multiple sensor nodes and a fusion center (FC) is considered, where the goal is to estimate a random parameter of interest. In contrast to the distributed framework, the sensor nodes may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Swarnendu Kar , Pramod K. Varshney

Online feedback optimization is a controller design paradigm for optimizing the steady-state behavior of a dynamical system. It employs an optimization algorithm as a dynamic feedback controller and utilizes real-time measurements to bypass…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Wenbin Wang , Zhiyu He , Giuseppe Belgioioso , Saverio Bolognani , Florian Dörfler

We consider the problem of tracking the state of a process that evolves over time in a distributed setting, with multiple observers each observing parts of the state, which is a fundamental information processing problem with a wide range…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Albin Severinson , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

The standard approach to modeling the human brain as a complex system is with a network, where the basic unit of interaction is a pairwise link between two brain regions. While powerful, this approach is limited by the inability to assess…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-16 Thomas F Varley , Maria Pope , Maria Grazia Puxeddu , Joshua Faskowitz , Olaf Sporns

The paper deals with decentralized state estimation for spatially distributed systems described by linear partial differential equations from discrete in-space-and-time noisy measurements provided by sensors deployed over the spatial domain…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Giorgio Battistelli , Luigi Chisci , Nicola Forti , Stefano Selleri , Giuseppe Pelosi

Learning how complex dynamical systems evolve over time is a key challenge in system identification. For safety critical systems, it is often crucial that the learned model is guaranteed to converge to some equilibrium point. To this end,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Andreas Schlaginhaufen , Philippe Wenk , Andreas Krause , Florian Dörfler

The modeling of complicated time-evolving physical dynamics from partial observations is a long-standing challenge. Particularly, observations can be sparsely distributed in a seemingly random or unstructured manner, making it difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Fan Xu , Hao Wu , Nan Wang , Lilan Peng , Kun Wang , Wei Gong , Xibin Zhao

Opacity is an important information-flow security property in the analysis of cyber-physical systems. It captures the plausible deniability of the system's secret behavior in the presence of an intruder that may access the information flow.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Xiang Yin , Majid Zamani

As an information-flow privacy property, opacity characterizes whether a malicious external observer (referred to as an intruder) is able to infer the secret behavior of a system. This paper addresses the problem of opacity enforcement…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Wei Duan , Ruotian Liu , Maria Pia Fanti , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Zhiwu Li

Observations collected by agents in a network may be unreliable due to observation noise or interference. This paper proposes a distributed algorithm that allows each node to improve the reliability of its own observation by relying solely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Roula Nassif , Virginia Bordignon , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

Coupled oscillator-based networks are an attractive approach for implementing hardware neural networks based on emerging nanotechnologies. However, the readout of the state of a coupled oscillator network is a difficult challenge in…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Damir Vodenicarevic , Nicolas Locatelli , Julie Grollier , Damien Querlioz

Sequential estimation of a vector of linear regression coefficients is considered under both centralized and decentralized setups. In sequential estimation, the number of observations used for estimation is determined by the observed…

Applications · Statistics 2014-12-18 Yasin Yilmaz , George V. Moustakides , Xiaodong Wang

Recent weakly supervised video anomaly detection methods have achieved significant advances by employing unified frameworks for joint optimization. However, this paradigm is limited by a fundamental sensitivity-stability trade-off, as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Hantao Zheng , Ning Han , Yawen Zeng , Hao Chen

A "chimera state" is a dynamical pattern that occurs in a network of coupled identical oscillators when the symmetry of the oscillator population is broken into synchronous and asynchronous parts. We report the experimental observation of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-17 Joseph D. Hart , Kanika Bansal , Thomas E. Murphy , Rajarshi Roy

We introduce an interleaving operational semantics for describing the client-observable behaviour of atomic transactions on distributed key-value stores. Our semantics builds on abstract states comprising centralised, global key-value…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Shale Xiong , Andrea Cerone , Azalea Raad , Philippa Gardner

We explore the interplay of network structure, topology, and dynamic interactions between nodes using the paradigm of distributed synchronization in a network of coupled oscillators. As the network evolves to a global steady state,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-04 Kristina Lerman , Rumi Ghosh

This paper considers the problem of decentralized analysis and control synthesis to verify and ensure properties like stability and dissipativity of a large-scale networked system comprised of linear subsystems interconnected in an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Shirantha Welikala , Hai Lin , Panos Antsaklis

We study the self-triggered stabilization of discrete-time linear systems with quantized state measurements. In the networked control system we consider, sensors may be spatially distributed and be connected to a self-triggering mechanism…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Masashi Wakaiki

For linear control systems, the usual state feedback stabilizability has two components: one is a continuous observation mode (i.e., to observe solutions continuously in time), and the other is a class of feedback laws (which is usually the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Hanbing Liu , Gengsheng Wang , Huaiqiang Yu

In this paper, we address the problem of distributed state estimation for a discrete-time, linear time-invariant system. Building on the framework proposed in [2], we exploit the Jordan canonical form of the system matrix to develop a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Giulio Fattore , Maria Elena Valcher , Rui Gao , Guang-Hong Yang