ESE 635: Distributed Dynamical SystemsDepartment of Electrical and Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania |
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Spring 2007 |
Date | Lecture | Reading | Contents and presenter |
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January 9 | Lecture 1 | overview slides | Introduction, course overview |
January 11 | Lecture 2 | more overview | Course organization and topic assignment |
January 16 | Lecture 3 | Chapter 8 of Matrix Analysis by C. Meyer | Nonnegative matrices and Perron Frobenius Theory, by Alireza Tahbaz Salehi |
January 18 | Lecture 4 | Dan Spielman's first 2 lectures on spectral graph theory and Survey paper by Mohar | Graph Laplacians and Spectral graph theory, by Goran Lynch |
January 23 | Lecture 5 | survey paper by Olfati et al. , paper by Jadbabaie et al. | Consensus, agreement and synchronization in networked systems, Michael Zavlanos |
January 25 | Lecture 6 | Xiao, Boyd and Lall, A scheme for robust
distributed sensor fusion based on average consensus Yang, Freeman and Lynch, multiagent coordination by decentralized estimation and control |
Distributed estimation in networked multiagent systems, by Savvas Loizou |
January 30 | Lecture 7 | Strogatz papers on Kuramoto model S. H. Strogatz, Exploring complex networks S. Strogatz, From Kuramoto to Crawford: exploring the onset of synchronization in populations of coupled oscillators |
Synchronization in complex networks: The Kuramoto model, by Subhrajit |
February 1 | Lecture 8 | Watts and Strogatz paper on small world networks Kleinberg's algorithmic perspective on small world networks |
Small world networks, by Nima Moshtagh |
February 6 | Lecture 9 | Barabasi and Albert Emergence of scaling in random networks Barabasi, Albert, and Jiang, Scale-free characteristics of random networ ks |
Powerlaw networks and preferential attachment models by Jonathan Fink |
February 8 | Lecture 10 | Papers by Mung Chiang, and Stephen Low | Congestion control and theory of dual decomposition for network utility maximization by Abubakr Muhammad (POSTPONED) |
February 13 | Lecture 11 | Durret's book, and survey paper by Newman | Random graphs by Alireza Tahbaz Salehi |
February 15 | Lecture 12 | J. C. Dittmer, Consensus formation under bounded
confidence
R. Hegselman and U. Krauss, Opinion dynamics and bounded confidence models, analysis and ssimulation G Mckeown and N. Sheehy, Mass Media and Polarisation Processes in the Bounded Confidence Model of Opinion Dynamics |
Social networks by Bill Mather |
Fabruary 20 | Lecture 13 | papers by Feinberg | Metabolic networks and reaction-rate equations by Mahmut Salman |
February 22 | Lecture 14 | Ogren, Fiorelli, and Leonard,
Cooperative control of mobile sensor networks Tanner, Jadbabaie, and Pappas, Flocking in fixed and switching networks , full version |
Flocking and formation control by Spring Berman |
March 13 | Lecture 15 | C. Meyer and A. Langville, Deeper inside PageRank | Inside Google's Page Rank by Goran Lynch |
March 15 | Lecture 16 | Rao et al., Geographic
routing without location information A. Jadbabaie, On geographic routing without location information |
location-free geographic routing by Eric |
March 20, March 22 | Lecture 18,19 | L. Saul et al., Spectral methods for dimensionality
reduction C. Burghes, Geometric methods for feature extraction and dimensionality reduction: A guided Tour | Survey of dimensionality reduction methods in machine learning, by Throng | March 27 | Lecture 20 | N. Motee and A. Jadbabaie, optimal control of Spatially Distributed Systems | Distributed Optimal Control, by Nader Motee |
March 29 | Lecture 21 | M. Zavlanos, and G. Pappas, A dynamical systems approach to graph matching M. Zavlanos, and G. Pappas, Dynamic assignment in distributed motion planning with limited information |
multirobot assignment problems and graph matching by Michael Zavlanos | April 3 | Lecture 22 | N. Motee and A. Jadbabaie, optimal control of Spatially Distributed Systems | Distributed Optimal Control, by Nader Motee (continued from lecture 20) |
April 5 | Lecture 23 | J. Cortes et al., Coverage control in mobile
sensing networks J. Cortes, S. Martinez and F. Bullo, Robust rendezvous for mobile autonomous agents via proximity graphs in arbitrary dimensions |
Coverge and rendezvous problems in mobile sensor networks by Nima Moshtagh |
April 10 | Lecture 23 | R. Durrett, Random graph dynamics | Mathematics of Random graphs, by Alireza Tahbaz Salehi |
April 12 | Lecture 25 | TBD | TBD |
April 17 | Lecture 26 | TBD | TBD |
April 19 | Lecture 27 | TBD | TBD |