By Angel Stanoev, Daniel Smilkov (auth.), Ljupco Kocarev (eds.)

In this publication for the 1st time medical fields - consensus formation and synchronization of communications - are awarded jointly and tested via their interrelational features, of speedily turning out to be significance. either fields have certainly attracted huge, immense learn curiosity in particular in terms of advanced networks.

In networks of dynamic structures (or agents), consensus capability to arrive an contract relating to a certain amount of curiosity that will depend on the nation of all dynamical structures (agents). Consensus difficulties have a protracted heritage up to the mark idea and machine sciences, and shape the basis of the sector of dispensed computing. Synchronization, which defines correlated-in-time habit among assorted procedures and roots going again to Huygens to the least, is now a hugely well known, interesting and quickly constructing subject, with purposes starting from organic networks to mathematical epidemiology, and from processing info within the mind to engineering of communications units.

The ebook studies fresh discovering in either fields and describes novel ways to consensus formation, the place consensus is discovered for instance of the nonlinear dynamics paradigm of chaos synchronization. The chapters are written by means of world-known specialists in either fields and canopy subject matters starting from fundaments to varied purposes of consensus and synchronization.