TY - JOUR T1 - Achieving unanimous opinions in signed social networks Y1 - 2014 A1 - Claudio Altafini A1 - Gabriele Lini AB - Being able to predict the outcome of an opinion forming process is an important problem in social network theory. However, even for linear dynamics, this becomes a difficult task as soon as non-cooperative interactions are taken into account. Such interactions are naturally modeled as negative weights on the adjacency matrix of the social network. In this paper we show how the Perron-Frobenius theorem can be used for this task also beyond its standard formulation for cooperative systems. In particular we show how it is possible to associate the achievement of unanimous opinions with the existence of invariant cones properly contained in the positive orthant. These cases correspond to signed adjacency matrices having the eventual positivity property, i.e., such that in sufficiently high powers all negative entries have disappeared. More generally, we show how for social networks the achievement of a, possibily non-unanimous, opinion can be associated to the existence of an invariant cone fully contained in one of the orthants of n. PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34935 U1 - 35137 U2 - Mathematics U4 - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Adaptation as a genome-wide autoregulatory principle in the stress response of yeast. JF - IET systems biology. 2011 Jul; 5(4):269-79 Y1 - 2011 A1 - F Eduati A1 - B Di Camillo A1 - G Toffolo A1 - Claudio Altafini A1 - Giovanna De Palo A1 - Mattia Zampieri AB - The gene expression response of yeast to various types of stresses/perturbations shows a common functional and dynamical pattern for the vast majority of genes, characterised by a quick transient peak (affecting primarily short genes) followed by a return to the pre-stimulus level. Kinetically, this process of adaptation following the transient excursion can be modelled using a genome-wide autoregulatory mechanism by means of which yeast aims at maintaining a preferential concentration in its mRNA levels. The resulting feedback system explains well the different time constants observable in the transient response, while being in agreement with all the known experimental dynamical features. For example, it suggests that a very rapid transient can be induced also by a slowly varying concentration of the gene products. PB - The Institution of Engineering and Technology UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/5106 U1 - 4922 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications U4 - -1 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Almost Global Stochastic Feedback Stabilization of Conditional Quantum Dynamics Y1 - 2006 A1 - Claudio Altafini A1 - Francesco Ticozzi AB - We propose several parametrization-free solutions to the problem of quantum state reduction control by means of continuous measurement and smooth quantum feedback. In particular, we design a feedback law for which almost global stochastic feedback stabilization can be proved analytically by means of Lyapunov techinques. This synthesis arises very naturally from the physics of the problem, as it relies on the variance associated with the quantum filtering process. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1727 U1 - 2424 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER -