Overview
- Brings together research in consensus formation and synchronization in communication networks
- Edited and authored by leading researchers in the field
- Suitable as introduction to nonspecialists
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Understanding Complex Systems (UCS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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About this book
In networks of dynamic systems (or agents), consensus means to reach an agreement regarding a certain quantity of interest that depends on the state of all dynamical systems (agents). Consensus problems have a long history in control theory and computer sciences, and form the foundation of the field of distributed computing. Synchronization, which defines correlated-in-time behavior between different processes and roots going back to Huygens to the least, is now a highly popular, exciting and rapidly developing topic, with applications ranging from biological networks to mathematical epidemiology, and from processing information in the brain to engineering of communications devices.
The book reviews recent finding in both fields and describes novel approaches to consensus formation, where consensus is realized as an instance of the nonlinear dynamics paradigm of chaos synchronization. The chapters are written by world-known experts in both fields and cover topics ranging from fundaments to various applications of consensus and synchronization.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This book contains ten papers that discuss different aspects of consensus and synchronization problems in complex networks. … The book is targeted to an audience that works on synchronization problems. The editor and authors have tried to introduce this audience to existing work on consensus problems. It is certainly suitable for such an audience.” (Burkhard Englert, Computing Reviews, June, 2013)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Consensus and Synchronization in Complex Networks
Editors: Ljupco Kocarev
Series Title: Understanding Complex Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33359-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-33358-3Published: 16 January 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42646-9Published: 26 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-33359-0Published: 18 January 2013
Series ISSN: 1860-0832
Series E-ISSN: 1860-0840
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 275
Topics: Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks, Simulation and Modeling, Computational Intelligence, Control and Systems Theory, Complexity