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Predictive protocol of flocks with small-world connection pattern

Zhang, Hai-Tao ; Chen, Michael Z. Q. ; Zhou, Tao

In: Physical Review E, 2009, vol. 79, no. 01, p. 016113

By introducing a predictive mechanism with small-world connections, we propose a new motion protocol for self-driven flocks. The small-world connections are implemented by randomly adding long-range interactions from the leader to a few distant agents, namely, pseudoleaders. The leader can directly affect the pseudoleaders, thereby influencing all the other agents through them efficiently....

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Enhanced synchronizability via age-based coupling

Lu, Yu-Feng ; Zhao, Ming ; Zhou, Tao ; Wang, Bing-Hong

In: Physical Review E, 2007, vol. 76, p. 057103

In this Brief Report, we study the synchronization of growing scale-free networks. An asymmetrical age-based coupling method is proposed with only one free parameter α. Although the coupling matrix is asymmetric, our coupling method could guarantee that all the eigenvalues are non-negative reals. The eigenratio R will approach 1 in the large limit of α