This article considers a containment control problem for nonlinear multi-agent systems with
nonautonomous leaders under directed topology, where each follower may experience …

Nowadays, human decision-making power and attitude revolutionize over time and change
their viewpoint towards substantial convinced values because of the influence of social …

Lifelong machine learning can learn a sequence of consecutive robotic perception tasks via
transferring previous experiences. However, 1) most existing lifelong learning based …

How to effectively prevent the diffusion of infectious disease has become an intriguing topic
in the field of public hygienics. To be noted that, for the non-periodic infectious diseases …

Community structure exists in most real-world networks, such as social networks, smart
grids, and transportation networks. Established approaches for community detection usually …

There are three types of social network users: ordinary users, opinion leaders, and structural
hole (SH) spanners. Opinion leaders and SH spanners are key circulators of information. SH …

In this paper, a modified version of Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) is proposed for
the optimal energy management of a Microgrid (MG) with Parking Lots (PL) and Distributed …

Modeling and exploring high-order connectivity patterns, also called network motifs, are
essential for understanding the fundamental structures that control and mediate the behavior …

As the world's largest crowdsourcing-based street view platform, Mapillary has received
considerable attention in both research and practical applications. By February 2019, more …

Influential nodes in complex networks play more significant role than other nodes in many
applications such as viral marketing. Identification of the most influential nodes and ranking …