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View SchemaWhere To Go and How To Go: a Theoretical Study of Different Leader Roles in Networked Systems
| Authors | Wei Wang, Jean-Jacques E. Slotine |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0407121 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0407121 |
Abstract
This letter studies synchronization conditions for distributed dynamic networks with different types of leaders. The role of a leader specifying a desired global state trajectory through local interactions (the power leader) has long been recognized and modeled. This paper introduces the complementary notion of a knowledge leader holding information on the target dynamics, which is propagated to the entire network through local adaptation mechanisms. Knowledge-based leader-followers networks have many analogs in biology, e.g., in evolutionary processes and disease propagation. Different types of leaders can co-exist in the same network.
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