evolving models have found applications in many real world systems. in this paper, potentials of the evolving linear models (elms) in tracking control design for nonlinear variable structure systems are introduced. at first, an elm is introduced as a dynamic single input, single output (siso) linear model whose parameters as well as dynamic orders of input and output signals can change through ...

in this paper, the problem of decentralized model reference adaptive control (mrac) for a class of large scale systems with time varying delay in interconnected term and input and state delays is studied. to compensate the effect of input delay indirectly, a smith predictor built on. to handle the effects of the time delays in input, the adaptive controller part includes two auxiliary dynamic f...

An available bit rate (ABR) service allows applications to access a time-varying network capacity. In a basic ABR service, the available network capacity is divided \fairly" amongst active connections, without regard to the utility that each application derives from the bandwidth allocation. The goal of this paper is to improve both the global and individual utility obtained by applications usi...

In this paper, the relation between synchronization and control of chaotic nodes connected through a time–varying network is discussed. In particular, the effects of pinning control on a set of moving chaotic agents are investigated showing that the role of system parameters, like agent density, is critical in order to reach the synchronous behavior and also to control the whole network by pinn...

In this thesis we contribute to the understanding of the pivotal role of the temporal dimension in networked social systems, previously neglected and now uncovered by the data revolution recently blossomed in this field. To this aim, we first introduce the time-varying networks formalism and analyze some empirical data of social dynamics, extensively used in the rest of the thesis. We discuss t...

Consensus problems in time-varying networks are studied in this paper. We consider two cases. In the first case, the networks are basically connected and the conditions for reaching consensus are described by means of the algebraic properties of connectivity for network graph. In the second case, the networks are possibly disconnected all time. A concept called integral connectivity of networks...