In recent years the research community has accumulated overwhelming evidence for the
emergence of complex and heterogeneous connectivity patterns in a wide range of …

In the past years, network theory has successfully characterized the interaction among the
constituents of a variety of complex systems, ranging from biological to technological, and …

Topics These lecture notes are intended primarily for graduate students interested in
network systems, distributed algorithms, and cooperative control. The objective is to answer …

Over the past decade, the use of networks has led to a new modelling paradigm combining
several branches of science, including physics, mathematics, biology and social sciences …

This article reviews and presents various solved and open problems in the development,
analysis, and control of epidemic models. The proper modeling and analysis of spreading …

The COVID-19 epidemic hit Italy particularly hard, yielding the implementation of strict
national lockdown rules. Previous modelling studies at the national level overlooked the fact …

Historically, infectious diseases caused considerable damage to human societies, and they
continue to do so today. To help reduce their impact, mathematical models of disease …

This concise and self-contained introduction builds up the spectral theory of graphs from
scratch, with linear algebra and the theory of polynomials developed in the later parts. The …

This paper studies the problem of controlling complex networks, ie, the joint problem of
selecting a set of control nodes and of designing a control input to steer a network to a target …

The ongoing rapid expansion of the Word Wide Web (WWW) greatly increases the
information of effective transmission from heterogeneous individuals to various systems …