This paper investigates robust and fast consensus of multi-agent systems subject to external attacks. The strategy of connecting neighbor set is proposed to recover the connectivity of the resulting interconnected network, to improve the robustness against next external attacks, and to guarantee...

Infrastructure systems such as power and water supplies make up the cornerstone of modern society which is essential for the functioning of a society and its economy. They become more and more interconnected and interdependent with the development of scientific technology and social economy....

Urban rail transit networks (URTNs) have experienced rapid development and have been receiving much attention recently. In this paper, we comprehensively analyze the topological characteristics of urban rail transit networks, and we find that the average degrees of nodes of urban rail transit...

We proposed a method to find the community structure in a complex network by density-based clustering. Physical topological distance is introduced in density-based clustering for determining a distance function of specific influence functions. According to the distribution of the data, the...

This paper asks whether government investment "crowds out" or "crowds in" private investment in China. We divide government capital expenditures into two types: (1) investment that serves to provide public goods and infrastructure, and (2) investment in private industry and commerce. The results...

We investigate an evolutionary prisoner’s dilemma game among self-driven agents, where collective motion of biological flocks is imitated through averaging directions of neighbors. Depending on the temptation to defect and the velocity at which agents move, we find that cooperation can not...