Local and global control of ecological and biological networks
Recently, I introduced a methodological framework so that ecological and biological networks can be controlled both from inside and outside by coupling network dynamics and evolutionary modelling. The endogenous control requires the network to be optimized at the beginning of its dynamics (by acting...
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International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences
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| description | Recently, I introduced a methodological framework so that ecological and biological networks can be controlled both from inside and outside by coupling network dynamics and evolutionary modelling. The endogenous control requires the network to be optimized at the beginning of its dynamics (by acting upon nodes, edges or both) so that it will then go inertially to the desired state. Instead, the exogenous control requires that exogenous controllers act upon the network at each time step. By the way, all my previous works dealt with the goal of the global optimization of ecological and biological networks, i.e. how to drive them to a desired final state. Here I face another pivotal question: how can we locally (step-by-step) drive ecological and biological networks, so that also intermediate steps (not only the final state) are under our strict control? The ratio behind this question is that intermediate dynamics could potentially go below or above critical ecological-biological thresholds, hence invalidating the final global control. To this purpose, I introduce here a modelling solution to the complete control of ecological and biological networks that couples local and global control. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-86b0c23c83ba4157ab11c1ffc3ef1e162022-12-21T19:40:13ZengInternational Academy of Ecology and Environmental SciencesNetwork Biology2220-88792220-88792014-03-01412130Local and global control of ecological and biological networksAlessandro Ferrarini 0Department of Evolutionary and Functional Biology, University of Parma, Via G. Saragat 4, I-43100 Parma, ItalyRecently, I introduced a methodological framework so that ecological and biological networks can be controlled both from inside and outside by coupling network dynamics and evolutionary modelling. The endogenous control requires the network to be optimized at the beginning of its dynamics (by acting upon nodes, edges or both) so that it will then go inertially to the desired state. Instead, the exogenous control requires that exogenous controllers act upon the network at each time step. By the way, all my previous works dealt with the goal of the global optimization of ecological and biological networks, i.e. how to drive them to a desired final state. Here I face another pivotal question: how can we locally (step-by-step) drive ecological and biological networks, so that also intermediate steps (not only the final state) are under our strict control? The ratio behind this question is that intermediate dynamics could potentially go below or above critical ecological-biological thresholds, hence invalidating the final global control. To this purpose, I introduce here a modelling solution to the complete control of ecological and biological networks that couples local and global control.http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/nb/articles/2014-4(1)/local-and-global-control-of-ecological-and-biological-networks.pdfedges controlgenetic algorithmsglobal dynamicslocal dynamicsnetwork controlnodes control |
| spellingShingle | Alessandro Ferrarini Local and global control of ecological and biological networks Network Biology edges control genetic algorithms global dynamics local dynamics network control nodes control |
| title | Local and global control of ecological and biological networks |
| title_full | Local and global control of ecological and biological networks |
| title_fullStr | Local and global control of ecological and biological networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Local and global control of ecological and biological networks |
| title_short | Local and global control of ecological and biological networks |
| title_sort | local and global control of ecological and biological networks |
| topic | edges control genetic algorithms global dynamics local dynamics network control nodes control |
| url | http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/nb/articles/2014-4(1)/local-and-global-control-of-ecological-and-biological-networks.pdf |
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