Modularity Q has been broadly used as a valid measure for community detection in complex networks. Fortunato and Barthélemy later proposed that modularity contains an intrinsic scale that depends on the total number of links in the network. But some extra restrictions on some parameters are needed for their analysis. In this paper we further study this problem. Here we give general analysis and...

We study the problem of stabilizing exponentially unstable linear systems with saturating actuators. The study begins with planar systems with both poles exponentially unstable. For such a system, we show that the boundary of the domain of attraction under a saturated stabilizing linear state feedback is the unique stable limit cycle of its time-reversed system. A saturated linear state feedbac...

Inspired by the oscillatory nature of cerebral cortex activity, we recently proposed and studied self-organizing maps (SOMs) based on limit cycle neural activity in an attempt to improve the information efficiency and robustness of conventional single-node, single-pattern representations. Here we explore for the first time the use of limit cycle SOMs to build a neural architecture that controls...

A biochemical oscillator model, describing developmental stage of myxobacteria, is analyzed mathematically. Observations from numerical simulations show that in a certain range parameters, the corresponding system ordinary differential equations displays stable and robust oscillations. In this work, we use geometric singular perturbation theory blow-up method to prove existence strongly attract...

Cell cycle control is fundamental in eukaryotic development. Several modeling efforts have been used to integrate the complex network of interacting molecular components involved in cell cycle dynamics. In this paper, we aimed at recovering the regulatory logic upstream of previously known components of cell cycle control, with the aim of understanding the mechanisms underlying the emergence of...

We consider the class of polynomial differential equation x = 2 ( , ) ( , ) ( , ) n n m n m P x y P x y P x y + + + + , 2 ( , ) ( , ) ( , ) n n m n m y Q x y Q x y Q x y + + = + + . For , 1 m n ≥ where i P and i Q are homogeneous polynomials of degree i. Inside this class of polynomial differential equation we consider a subclass of Darboux integrable systems. Moreover, under additional conditi...