复杂网络的同步：理论、方法、应用与展望

SYNCHRONIZATION OF COMPLEX NETWORKS:THEORIES,APPROACHES,APPLICATIONS AND PROSPECTS

复杂网络随处可见,如互联网、电力网络、商业网络、生物神经网络、社会关系网等.这些复杂网络与我们的生活息息相关,对它们的深入研究不但会促进许多重要科学分支的发展而且可能引起人类社会生活方式的根本变革.同步是自然界中广泛仔在的一类非常重要的非线性现象,复杂网络展示了丰富多彩的网络同步现象.在过去10年里,不同研究领域的学者从不同的角度广泛而深入地开展了复杂网络同步的研究.本文简要的回顾国内外过去10年在复杂网络同步领域的主要研究进展,包括理论、方法、应用与展望,试图推进国内复杂网络同步的研究.

Complex networks are everywhere in the real world, e.g. the Internet, power grids, business networks, biological neural networks, social networks etc., and all such complex networks have close relationships with our daily life. A further investigation of these complex networks may not only help develop many important science disciplines but also bring on profound transformations of our life styles. Synchronization is a very important type of nonlinear phenomena existing ubiquitously in nature, and there are abundant cases of synchronization in various complex networks. Over the past ten years, scientists from different fields have further explored the synchronization of complex networks from different points of view, and main advances in related studies, including theories, approaches, applications and prospects, are briefly reviewed in the present paper in an attempt to further promote the current research on the synchronization of complex networks.