Recent Advances on Hybrid Complex Networks: Analysis and Control

Submission Deadline: 31 October 2020

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Recent Advances on Hybrid Complex Networks: Analysis and Control.

Due to varied complexities such as network dynamics complexity, statistical complexity and so on, some complex networks involve more than one discipline. Among network dynamics, both  impulsive effects and logical dynamics have attracted increasing attention recently. It is of interest and importance to study the complex networks with impulsive effects and logical dynamics. Note that these networks are called hybrid complex networks, which widely exist in cells, ecology, social systems and communication engineering.

In hybrid complex networks, many nodes are coupled together through networks, and their properties lead to very complex dynamic behaviors, including discrete and continuous dynamic behaviors, with both the time and state space taking finite values. The continuous parts of systems are often described by differential equations, while the discrete parts can be described by difference equations. The logical networks are usually used to model the systems where time and state space take finite values. Although interesting work has been reported on hybrid complex networks, there is some conservativeness on both the analysis method and relevant results. To be specific, conservative impulsive delay inequalities were used in some literatures and corresponding stability or synchronization criteria seem hard to check. Therefore, it is necessary to find effective approaches to break some conservativeness on both the analysis method and relevant results of hybrid complex networks.

Our proposed Special Section will provide a valuable and timely platform for the exchange of the latest advances in hybrid complex networks.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Analysis of hybrid complex networks: stability/ synchronization/ consensus/ robustness/ complexity analysis/ controllability/ observability/ nonsingularity
• Synthesis of hybrid complex networks: stabilization/ disturbances decoupling problem/ functions perturbations/ attacks/ optimization

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Associate Editor:  Jianquan Lu, Southeast University, China

Guest Editors:

1. 1. Daniel W. C. Ho, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
   2. Tingwen Huang, Texas A&M University, Qatar
   3. Jürgen Kurths, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
   4. Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

1. Complex Networks Analysis and Engineering in 5G and beyond towards 6G
2. Body Area Networks
3. Internet-of-Things Attacks and Defenses: Recent Advances and Challenges

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief:  Prof. Derek Abbott, University of Adelaide

Article submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: jqluma@seu.edu.cn.

Analysis and Synthesis of Time-delay Systems

Submission Deadline: 18 September 2017

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Analysis and Synthesis of Time-delay Systems.

Time-delay, which often represents a source of instability and oscillation. is unavoidable in many practical systems such as networked control systems, communication networks, manufacturing and biology. Moreover, the appearance of delay can have a stabilizing effect and delayed feedback control can be used to stabilize some unstable systems. Due to its theoretical and practical importance, increasing attention has been focused on the analysis and synthesis of time-delay systems and various new approaches have been proposed to reduce their conservatism. The aim of reducing the conservatism of delay-dependent stability criteria is to establish new stability criteria to provide a maximal allowable delay as large as possible. Among different techniques, the reduced conservatism is mainly obtained by constructing an improved Lyapunov functional and employing a tighter bound on some weighted cross products. A great number of effective methods have been provided such as delay partitioning method, convex combination method and Wirtinger-based inequality. However, how to further reduce the conservatism and how to apply the obtained theoretical results to practical systems are challenging and hot topics.

Many practical engineering systems can be modeled by time-delay systems. Various analysis and synthesis problems of time-delay systems are challenging and fascinating tasks in modern systems and control theory as well as in academic and industrial applications. The purpose of this Special Section in IEEE Access is to highlight recent significant developments on various analysis and synthesis of time-delay systems and new approaches in mathematical modeling real-world time-delay systems.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Stability and stabilization criteria
• State estimation and filtering
• Reachable set estimation and synthesis
• Sampled-data control and self/event-triggered control
• Reliability/dissipativity and corresponding feedback control
• Fault diagnosis, fault isolation and fault tolerant control
• Applications in different mechanical systems, communication networks and industries

We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles.

Associate Editor:  Zhiguang Feng, Victoria University, Australia

Guest Editors:

1. Zhengguang Wu, Zhejiang University, China
2. Baoyong Zhang, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
3. Kun Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
4. MyeongJin Park, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
5. Le Van Hien Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam
6. Christophe Fiter, Université de Lille 1 / CRIStAL , France
7. Xiangyu Meng, Boston University, USA

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

1. Analysis and Synthesis of Large-scale Systems
2. Recent Developments in Consensus Problems for Complex Networked Systems
3. Resource Management in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks: Energy Management, Communication Protocol and Future Applications

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: specialsections@ieee.org