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Emergence of bimodality in controlling complex networks

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Jia, Tao, Liu, Yang-Yu, Csóka, Endre, Pósfai, Márton, Slotine, Jean-Jacques, Barabási, Albert-László·2013·Nature Communications

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Our ability to control complex systems is a fundamental challenge of contemporary science. Recently introduced tools to identify the driver nodes, nodes through which we can achieve full control, predict the existence of multiple control configurations, prompting us to classify each node in a network based on their role in control. Accordingly a node is critical, intermittent or redundant if it acts as a driver node in all, some or none of the control configurations. Here we develop an analytical framework to identify the category of each node, leading to the discovery of two distinct control modes in complex systems: centralized versus distributed control. We predict the control mode for an arbitrary network and show that one can alter it through small structural perturbations. The uncovered bimodality has implications from network security to organizational research and offers new insights into the dynamics and control of complex systems. The control of a complex network can be achieved by different combinations of relatively few driver nodes. Tao Jia and colleagues show that this can lead to two distinct control modes—centralized or distributed—that determine the number of nodes that can act as driver node.

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Authors
Jia, T., Liu, Y.-Y., Csóka, E., Pósfai, M., Slotine, J.-J., & Barabási, A.-L.
Venue
Nature Communications
Published
2013-06-18
Volume
4
Issue
1
Pages
2002-2002
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
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W2082019892
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220
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8
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19.61
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journal article
Language
en
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