This study investigates the consensus problem of second-order multi-agent systems subject to timevarying interval-like delays. The notion of consensus is extended to networks containing antagonistic interactions modeled by negative weights on the communication graph. A unified framework is establish...

Topology design of artificial neural networks (ANNs) is an important problem for large scale applications. This paper describes a new efficient pruning method, the multi-weight optimal brain surgeon (MWOBS) method, to optimize neural network topologies. The advantages and disadvantages of the OBS an...

Many cyber physical networks will involve ad hoc deployments utilizing peer-to-peer communications. Examples include transportation systems where a group of moving cars communicate in order to avoid collisions, teams of robotic agents that work together in support of disaster recovery, and sensor ne...

In networks, the stable path problem (SPP) usually results in oscillations in interdomain systems and may cause systems to become unstable. With the rapid development of internet technology, the occurrence of SPPs in interdomain systems has quite recently become a significant focus of research. A fr...

As a new-style stochastic algorithm, the electromagnetism-like mechanism (EM) method gains more and more attention from many researchers in recent years. A novel model based on EM (NMEM) for multiobjective optimization problems is proposed, which regards the charge of all particles as the constraint...