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Network Biology, 2016, 6(3): 65-74
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Decentralized control of ecological and biological networks through Evolutionary Network Control

Alessandro Ferrarini
Department of Evolutionary and Functional Biology, University of Parma, Via G. Saragat 4, I-43100 Parma, Italy

Received 22 April 2016;Accepted 30 May 2016;Published online 1 September 2016
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Abstract
Evolutionary Network Control (ENC) has been recently introduced to allow the control of any kind of ecological and biological networks, with an arbitrary number of nodes and links, acting from inside and/or outside. To date, ENC has been applied using a centralized approach where an arbitrary number of network nodes and links could be tamed. This approach has shown to be effective in the control of ecological and biological networks. However a decentralized control, where only one node and the correspondent input/output links are controlled, could be more economic from a computational viewpoint, in particular when the network is very large (i.e. big data). In this view, ENC is upgraded here to realize the decentralized control of ecological and biological nets.

Keywords centralized control;decentralized control;dynamical networks;genetic algorithms;Evolutionary Network Control;edge control;node control;network optimization;system dynamics.



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