Many innovative techniques and policy measures have been introduced to reduce energy consumption. Despite the high ambitions and societal pressures, the adoption rate of energy measures in office buildings is still low. Using adoption theories this paper provides a framework to analyse the adoption process of energy saving techniques in building processes. This framework is used to analyse the ...

This paper discusses the interplay between networks and control systems. As we gain more understanding about the structure and dynamics of physical networks, their effects on the performance of closed-loop control systems, as well as the ability to control such networks, provide fertile areas of research. The paper reviews such research with special emphasis on the connectivity and delays in th...

In this paper, the synchronizability problem of dynamical networks is addressed, where better synchronizability means faster network synchronization with lower vibration. The L2 norm of the error vector e is taken as a performance index to measure this kind of synchronizability. For the equilibrium synchronization case, it is shown that there is a close relationship between the L2 norm of the e...

This paper provides an expository introduction to monotone and near-monotone biochemical network structures. Monotone systems respond in a predictable fashion to perturbations, and have very robust dynamical characteristics. This makes them reliable components of more complex networks, and suggests that natural biological systems may have evolved to be, if not monotone, at least close to monoto...

Spreading is a ubiquitous process in the social, biological and technological systems. Therefore, identifying influential spreaders, which is important to prevent epidemic spreading and to establish effective vaccination strategies, is full of theoretical and practical significance. In this paper, a weighted h-index centrality based on virtual nodes extension is proposed to quantify the spreadi...

Based on complex networks and resilience theory, the structural characteristics post-disaster performance recovery process of urban metro network are studied to determine best repair strategy for under different scenarios. Specifically: (1) The space-L method is used model Hangzhou network, MATLAB software calculate characteristic parameter values structure; (2) A was constructed, efficiency as...

The graph entropies inspired by Shannon’s entropy concept become the information-theoretic quantities for measuring the structural information of graphs and complex networks. In this paper, we continue studying some new properties of the graph entropies based on information functionals involving vertex degrees. We prove the monotonicity of the graph entropies with respect to the power exponent....