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Brain functions require both segregated processing of information in specialized circuits, as well as integration across circuits to perform high-level information processing. One possible way to implement these seemingly opposing demands…

Cluster synchronization in multilayer networks of phase oscillators with phase-lag poses significant challenges due to the destabilizing effects of delayed interactions. Leveraging the Sakaguchi-Kuramoto model, this study addresses these…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-12 Abhijit Mondal , Pitambar Khanra , Subrata Ghosh , Prosenjit Kundu , Chittaranjan Hens , Pinaki Pal

We study the synchronization of chaotic units connected through time-delayed fluctuating interactions. We focus on small-world networks of Bernoulli and Logistic units with a fixed chiral backbone. Comparing the synchronization properties…

Group synchronization arises when two or more synchronization patterns coexist in a network formed of oscillators of different types, with the systems in each group synchronizing on the same time-evolution, but systems in different groups…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-21 Shirin Panahi , Francesco Sorrentino

Over the last years, a great deal of attention has been focused on complex networked systems, characterized by intricate structure and dynamics. The latter has been often represented in terms of overall statistics (e.g. average and standard…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-09-15 Cesar H. Comin , João B. Bunoro , Matheus P. Viana , Luciano da F. Costa

Brain networks typically exhibit characteristic synchronization patterns where several synchronized clusters coexist. On the other hand, neurological disorders are considered to be related to pathological synchronization such as excessive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Ryota Kokubo , Rui Kato , Hideaki Ishii

Modularity has been widely studied as a mechanism to improve the capabilities of neural networks through various techniques such as hand-crafted modular architectures and automatic approaches. While these methods have sometimes shown…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Humphrey Munn , Marcus Gallagher

We study the relationship between synchronization and the rate with which information is exchanged between nodes in a spatio-temporal network that describes the dynamics of classical particles under a substrate Remoissenet-Peyrard…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. M. Moukam Kakmeni , M. S. Baptista

We propose a concept to generate and stabilize diverse partial synchronization patterns (phase clusters) in adaptive networks which are widespread in neuro- and social sciences, as well as biology, engineering, and other disciplines. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-03-04 Rico Berner , Jakub Sawicki , Eckehard Schöll

The problem of synchronization in heterogeneous networks of linear systems with nonlinear delayed diffusive coupling is considered. The network is presented in new coordinates mean-field dynamics and synchronization errors. Thus the problem…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-05-11 Sergei A. Plotnikov

In this letter we discuss a method for generating synchrony-optimized coupling architectures of Kuramoto oscillators with a heterogeneous distribution of native frequencies. The method allows us to relate the properties of the coupling…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Markus Brede

Synchronization, in which individual dynamical units keep in pace with each other in a decentralized fashion, depends both on the dynamical units and on the properties of the interaction network. Yet, the role played by the network has…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-06-15 Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

We investigate the synchronization features of a network of spiking neurons under a distance-dependent coupling following a power-law model. The interplay between topology and coupling strength leads to the existence of different…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-11 R. C. Budzinski , K. L. Rossi , B. R. R. Boaretto , T. L. Prado , S. R. Lopes

We study systems of identical coupled oscillators introducing a distribution of delay times in the coupling. For arbitrary network topologies, we show that the frequency and stability of the fully synchronized states depend only on the mean…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-04 Lucas Wetzel , Luis G. Morelli , Andrew C. Oates , Frank Julicher , Saul Ares

To find interesting structure in networks, community detection algorithms have to take into account not only the network topology, but also dynamics of interactions between nodes. We investigate this claim using the paradigm of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Rumi Ghosh , Kristina Lerman

In this letter, we perform a sensitivity analysis on the master stability function approach for the synchronization of networks of coupled dynamical systems. More specifically, we analyze the linear stability of a nearly synchronized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-27 Francesco Sorrentino , Maurizio Porfiri

Synchronization is an essential property of engineered and natural networked dynamical systems. The Kuramoto model of nonlinear synchronization has been widely studied in applications including entrainment of clock cells in brain networks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-01 Dinuka Sahabandu , Andrew Clark , Linda Bushnell , Radha Poovendran

Correlations between intrinsic dynamics and local topology have become a new trend in the study of synchronization in complex networks. In this paper, we investigate in this paradigm the influence of topology on dynamics of networks made up…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Peng Ji , Thomas K. DM. Peron , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Jürgen Kurths

Chimera states, namely the coexistence of coherent and incoherent behavior, were previously analyzed in complex networks. However, they have not been extensively studied in modular networks. Here, we consider the neural network of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-01-28 Johanne Hizanidis , Nikos E. Kouvaris , Gorka Zamora-López , Albert Díaz-Guilera , Chris G. Antonopoulos

By means of numerical analysis conducted with the aid of the computer, the collective synchronization of coupled phase oscillators in the Kuramoto model in the connected regime of random networks of various sizes is studied. The oscillators…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Agostino Funel