{"617125":{"#nid":"617125","#data":{"type":"event","title":"DCL Seminar Series:Jorge Cort\u00e9s","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EToday we rely on a myriad of natural and engineered\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\ninterconnected systems in our everyday life. Networks have become a\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nparadigmatic way of representing complex systems across diverse\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nscientific disciplines and application domains, where the interaction\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nstructure is itself intricate and may evolve along with the system\u0026#39;s\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\ndynamics. \u0026nbsp;From a systems and control perspective, this reality poses\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nformidable research challenges and opportunities in order to guarantee\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nthe reliable, efficient, and safe operation of network systems. \u0026nbsp;This\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\ntalk describes our progress on understanding the mechanisms that make\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\ncomplex networks function they way they do and on engineering networks\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nwith predictable behavior. \u0026nbsp;We focus on scenarios where information is\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\ndistributed across multiple layers and only partially available to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nindividual agents. \u0026nbsp;We study the role played in the overall system\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nperformance by the structure of intra- and inter-connections among\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nnetwork layers, the coordination of decisions to optimize aggregate\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nnetwork performance, and the synthesis of resource-aware strategies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nfor the efficient use of the available resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENetwork Control for Engineered and Natural Systems\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Network Control for Engineered and Natural Systems"}],"uid":"34578","created_gmt":"2019-01-31 19:30:35","changed_gmt":"2019-02-01 14:28:39","author":"awatson46","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-02-08T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2019-02-08T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-02-08T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-02-08 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-02-08 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-02-08 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"66191","name":"Decision and Control Lab (DCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"84901","name":"grad students"},{"id":"179403","name":"DCL Seminar Series"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}