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Despite the traditional focus of network science on static networks, most networked systems of scientific interest are characterized by temporal links. By disrupting the paths, link temporality has been shown to frustrate many dynamical…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-02-07 Aming Li , Sean P. Cornelius , Yang-Yu Liu , Long Wang , Albert-László Barabási

How biological networks achieve robust control despite relying on imperfect, local information remains an important open question. Here, we identify thermodynamic constraints that can curtail non-equilibrium steady-state responses so…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-27 Carlos Floyd , Aaron R. Dinner , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

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

Many complex networks are known to exhibit sudden transitions between alternative steady states with contrasting properties. Such a sudden transition demonstrates a network's resilience, which is the ability of a system to persist in the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-02-24 Subhendu Bhandary , Taranjot Kaur , Tanmoy Banerjee , Partha Sharathi Dutta

We report how strategic evolution can stabilize topological states in a network of FitzHugh-Nagumo systems. The evolution follows a repeated process of adding or deleting of links between two nodes that is decided based on a threshold set…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-11 Resmi V. , G. Ambika

This paper introduces a control strategy to simultaneously achieve asymptotic stabilization and transient frequency regulation of power networks. The control command is generated by iteratively solving an open-loop control cost minimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-13 Yifu Zhang , Jorge Cortes

We propose an approach to online model adaptation and control in the challenging case of hybrid and discontinuous dynamics where actions may lead to difficult-to-escape "trap" states, under a given controller. We first learn dynamics for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Sheng Zhong , Zhenyuan Zhang , Nima Fazeli , Dmitry Berenson

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Henk J. van Waarde , M. Kanat Camlibel , Harry L. Trentelman

Despite the significant advances in identifying the driver nodes and energy requiring in network control, a framework that incorporates more complicated dynamics remains challenging. Here, we consider the conformity behavior into network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-26 Zu-Yu Qian , Cheng Yuan , Jie Zhou , Shi-Ming Chen , Sen Nie

A general framework for analyzing the topology of quantum channels of single-particle systems is developed to find a class of genuinely dynamical topological phases that can be realized by means of discrete quantum feedback control. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Masaya Nakagawa , Masahito Ueda

Our ability to manipulate the behavior of complex networks depends on the design of efficient control algorithms and, critically, on the availability of an accurate and tractable model of the network dynamics. While the design of control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-28 Giacomo Baggio , Danielle S. Bassett , Fabio Pasqualetti

The topology transition problem of transmission networks is becoming increasingly crucial with topological flexibility more widely leveraged to promote high renewable penetration. This paper proposes a novel methodology to address this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Tong Han , Yue Song , David J. Hill

In this Letter we propose a method to control a set of arbitrary nodes in a directed network such that they follow a synchronous trajectory which is, in general, not shared by the other units of the network. The problem is inspired to those…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-19 Bruno Ursino , Lucia Valentina Gambuzza , Vito Latora , Mattia Frasca

We consider the problem of a dynamical network whose dynamics is subject to external perturbations (`attacks') locally applied at a subset of the network nodes. We assume that the network has an ability to defend itself against attacks with…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Ishan Kafle , Sudarshan Bartaula , Afroza Shirin , Isaac Klickstein , Pankaz Das , Francesco Sorrentino

In this work, we explore the state-space formulation of a network process to recover, from partial observations, the underlying network topology that drives its dynamics. To do so, we employ subspace techniques borrowed from system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Mario Coutino , Elvin Isufi , Takanori Maehara , Geert Leus

This paper reports a robust scheme for topology identification and control of networks running on linear dynamics. In the proposed method, the unknown network is enforced to asymptotically follow a reference dynamics using the combination…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Mahyar Fazlyab , Victor M. Preciado

Inferring network topology from dynamical observations is a fundamental problem pervading research on complex systems. Here, we present a simple, direct method to infer the structural connection topology of a network, given an observation…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 Srinivas Gorur Shandilya , Marc Timme

The event-triggered control with intermittent output can reduce the communication burden between the controller and plant side over the network. It has been exploited for adaptive output feedback control of uncertain nonlinear systems in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Gewei Zuo , Lijun Zhu

For networked systems, the control law is typically subject to network flaws such as delays and packet dropouts. Hence, the time in between updates of the control law varies unexpectedly. Here, we present a stability theorem for nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-30 Lars Grüne , Jürgen Pannek , Karl Worthmann

Topology inference is a powerful tool to better understand the behaviours of network systems (NSs). Different from most of prior works, this paper is dedicated to inferring the directed topology of NSs from noisy observations, where the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Qing Jiao , Yushan Li , Jianping He