The PRC was established on 1 Oct, 1949 as a communist country. Mao Zedong became the Chairman of the Central People’s Government Council and officially announced the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. He was the first leader of the PRC. After the Cultural Revolution, Deng Xiaoping resumed all his duties and his influence continued to grow in the following 20 years. He gradually be...

Organizational decision making often involves two decision levels. When the leader at the upper level attempts to optimize hislher objective, the follower at the lower level tries to find an optimized strategy according to each of possible decisions made by the leader. Furthermore, such bilevel decision making may involve uncertain parameters which appear either in the objective functions or co...

This paper presents a leader-based approach to routing in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSN). Using local information from neighbour nodes, a leader election mechanism maintains a spanning tree in order to provide the necessary adaptations for efficient routing upon the connectivity changes resulting from the mobility of sensors or sink nodes. We present two protocols following the leader e...

The paper considers the consensus problem in a partially synchronous system with Byzantine faults. It turns out that, in the partially synchronous system, all deterministic algorithms that solve consensus with Byzantine faults are leader-based. This is not the case of benign faults, which raises the following fundamental question: is it possible to design a deterministic Byzantine consensus alg...

Significant strides have been made during the past 20 years in our understanding of protein secretion across the bacterial inner membrane. Specialized chaperones select secretory polypeptide chains and usher them to a membrane-embedded preprotein translocase. This unique molecular machine envelops the polymeric substrate and migrates along its length in defined, energy-dependent steps. Conseque...

In this paper, a leader-following problem is considered for a group of autonomous agents when a second-order multi-agent system is used to describe the network dynamics. Both the dynamics of the leader and the followers are subjected to unknown disturbances, which are represented by linearly parameterized models. The relative position measurements and the relative velocity measurements are util...