Di Meglio, Anna
(2020)
Modeling, analysis, and control of complex networks in the presence of temporality and coevolution.
[Tesi di dottorato]
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Tesi di dottorato
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Lingua: |
English |
Titolo: |
Modeling, analysis, and control of complex networks in the presence of temporality and coevolution |
Autori: |
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Di Meglio, Anna | anna.dimeglio@unina.it |
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Data: |
1 Ottobre 2020 |
Numero di pagine: |
154 |
Istituzione: |
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
Dipartimento: |
Ingegneria Elettrica e delle Tecnologie dell'Informazione |
Dottorato: |
Information technology and electrical engineering |
Ciclo di dottorato: |
32 |
Coordinatore del Corso di dottorato: |
nome | email |
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Riccio, Daniele | daniele.riccio@unina.it |
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Tutor: |
nome | email |
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Garofalo, Francesco | [non definito] |
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Data: |
1 Ottobre 2020 |
Numero di pagine: |
154 |
Parole chiave: |
control of complex networks, temporal networks, coevolving networks |
Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: |
Area 09 - Ingegneria industriale e dell'informazione > ING-INF/04 - Automatica |
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Informazioni aggiuntive: |
Ho inserito il numero di pagine totali del documento che sono 154, mentre il numero di pagine della tesi sono 144 |
Depositato il: |
04 Ott 2020 20:56 |
Ultima modifica: |
28 Ott 2021 12:21 |
URI: |
http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/13263 |
Abstract
In the last decades, complex dynamical networks have attracted the attention of a highly
heterogeneous community. Indeed, they are a suitable tool to study the emergence of
collective behaviors in ensembles of coupled dynamical systems. Under simplifying and
standard assumptions on the individual dynamics and on the static interaction topology,
the control of such collective behaviors is now quite assessed. However, a deeper
understanding is required when the structures of the interconnections change with time.
Spurred by the belief that achieving insights on the interplay between the node dynamics
and the time-varying topology could be beneficial from a control perspective, in this
thesis, we focus on modeling and control of what we called evolving networks. In the
first part of the thesis, we deal with the so-called temporal networks, i.e., networks whose
structure changes in time, and show how their optimal control can be challenging in
a realistic scenario in which only a probabilistic, instead of deterministic, knowledge
of the topology is available. Indeed, controlling a large static network, while keeping
the control energy limited, has always been a chimera. Recent results suggested that
deterministic knowledge of network temporality can be exploited to substantially reduce
the energy required to control the network. In a more realistic scenario, we illustrate that
the temporality can be exploited to our advantage only provided that the variability of
the network structure matches the intrinsic time scales of the nodes we aim to control.
Considering a time-varying law is not the only way to account for the evolution of network
structure. In the second part of the thesis, we introduce the more general concept of
coevolving networks, in which both the nodes and the structure dynamically evolve in
an interdependent fashion. We exploit the potential of this modeling framework in a
socio-economic context and then show how the laws governing the coevolution of the
network topology and of the node dynamics can be properly tuned to achieve specific
control goals. In line with the idea of relaxing standard assumptions, and verifying if we
can still gain advantage from the networked nature of complex networks, in the third part
of the thesis, we focus on special static networks (networks endowed with symmetries and
networks whose structures can be negatively weighted) that can provide further challenges
and opportunities for control design.
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