Fractional Dynamics and Control in Multi-Agent Systems and Networks
A special issue of Fractal and Fractional (ISSN 2504-3110). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 141
Special Issue Editors
Interests: complex networks; neural networks; multi-agent systems
Interests: nonlinear complex systems; fractional-order system theory and application; neural networks dynamics and control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As an extension of integer order calculus, fractional-order calculus has good advantages in memory and genetic properties. Therefore, it can be used to model complex systems, like multi-agent systems (MASs) and complex networks (CNs), and can also represent the dynamic behavior of complex real-world phenomena more accurately. MASs and CNs have many potential applications, as with, for example, satellite formation, distributed optimization, multi-robot collaboration, traffic networks, and information science, amongst others. Thus, in recent years, more and more scholars have focused on studying the dynamic behavior and control problems of fractional-order MASs or CNs, such as consensus, path-tracking, and attitude control issues of MASs, and the synchronization, topology identification, and passivity issues of CNs. However, in engineering applications, these systems are often subject to the effects of malicious attacks, external interference, or actuator failures. Therefore, further research on fractional-order MASs and CNs in various complex external environments is of both theoretical and practical significance.
The focus of this Special Issue is to advance research on topics relating to modeling, dynamic analysis, and the control and application of fractional-order MASs or CNs, including their theory, design, implementation, and application. Topics that are invited for submission include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Theory and implementation of fractional-order MASs and CNs;
- Dynamics analysis of fractional-order MASs and CNs;
- Distributed cooperative control of fractional-order MASs and CNs;
- Distributed optimization of fractional-order MASs and CNs;
- Secure consensus or synchronization of fractional-order MASs or CNs under cyber attacks;
- Applications of fractional-order MASs and CNs.
Prof. Dr. Huaiqin Wu
Prof. Dr. Cheng Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- system model
- fractional-order dynamics
- MASs and CNs
- stability analysis
- nonlinear control
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