Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Energy scaling of targeted optimal control of complex networks

  • Isaac Klickstein,
  • Afroza Shirin,
  • Francesco Sorrentino

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15145
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The energy required to control a dynamical complex network can be prohibitively large when there are only a few control inputs. Here the authors demonstrate that if only a subset of the network is targeted the energy requirements decrease exponentially.