Scope and Motivation 

     The explosive growth of Internet, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence prompts human society to step into the network age, and the network science showing highly complex characteristics is being integrated into the fields of the daily life and productive activities in human society. The communication of the complex network has rapidly become an interdisciplinary subject that runs through many fields. The related theories deployed to many fields involving natural science, social science, management science, engineering technology are created to describe interconnected complex systems and networks. Besides, the complex network control aims to control complex network to achieve the expected goal through appropriate control methods. It is the frontier issue of complexity science and the ultimate goal in the research of complex network.

      Currently, the issues of propagation and control for complex dynamical networks have already attracted the widespread concern of scholars in different fields, and many important related achievements have been acquired. However, some problems and mysteries including evolution mechanisms of complex networks and the function for controlling complex networks are still in existence and worth further researches. Concurrently, the research on the complex network control cannot fully attain the actual requirements for the rapid development of real networks. There are still many burning issues of theory and application, such as optimal controller design, minimum control energy, controlled node selection and so on. Consequently, we solicit excellent papers in the field of complex network propagation and network control from experts and scholars at home and abroad. Your latest research achievements will be shared to promote the development of propagation and control for complex dynamical networks.

Topics

        In this special issue, we propose the fundamental theme on Propagation and Control for Complex Dynamical Networks, which aims to attract the researches focusing on the theories, technologies and engineering methods for propagation and control of complex dynamical networks. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to：

1. Modeling, structure and function analysis on the complex networks;  

2. Link prediction and recommendation algorithm on the complex networks;  

3. Dynamics on complex networks: synchronization, propagation, game, etc.  

4. Network analysis on the actual complex dynamical systems;  

5. Basic theories and applications on the network security;  

6. Complex networks and big data analysis, artificial intelligence computing, the machine learning of graph networks;

7. Fault detection, state estimation and topology identification of complex dynamical networks;

8. Analysis on controllability, observability and stability of complex dynamical networks;

9. Synchronization and control of complex dynamical networks;

10. Control technologies of network systems in actual networks;

11. Control and optimization on the propagation of complex networks;

12. Control and stability on multi-agent systems.

Submission

This special issue of Propagation and Control for Complex Dynamical Networks welcomes submissions of high-quality, novel research results. All submissions will be anonymously peer reviewed and will be evaluated on the basis of their technical content. Papers should be submitted online through the manuscript submission system of The Journal of China Universities of Posts and telecommunications. Remember to select “Special Issue on Propagation and Control for Complex Dynamical Networks” as your manuscript type when submitting; otherwise, it might be considered as a regular paper. Information and guidelines on preparation of manuscript are available on the journal website: https://jcupt.bupt.edu.cn.

Team

Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Jiang Guo-Ping(蒋国平),  Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Guest Editor-in-Chief

Chen Guanrong(陈关荣),  City University of Hong Kong

Guest Editors

Wang Xiaofan(汪小帆),  Shanghai University

Lü Jinhu(吕金虎),  Beihang University

Lu Jun-An(陆君安),  Wuhan University

Li Xiang(李翔),  Tongji University

Di Zengru(狄增如),  Beijing Normal University

Cao Jinde(曹进德),  Southeast University

Lin Wei(林伟),  Fudan University

Duan Zhisheng(段志生),  Peking University

Feng Jianwen(丰建文),  Shenzhen University

Lü Linyuan(吕琳媛),  University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2023

Acknowledgement and comments: September 15, 2023

Final Decision: September 25, 2023

Final Manuscript Submission: September 30, 2023

Publication Date: December 30, 2023