title: A new method to realize cluster synchronization in connected chaotic networks.
abstract: In this article, a new method, which constructs a coupling scheme with cooperative and competitive weight-couplings, is used to stabilize arbitrarily selected cluster synchronization patterns with several clusters for connected chaotic networks. By the coupling scheme, a sufficient condition about the global stability of the selected cluster synchronization patterns is derived. That is to say, when the sufficient condition is satisfied, arbitrarily selected cluster synchronization patterns in connected chaotic networks can be achieved via an appropriate coupled scheme. The effectiveness of the method is illustrated by an example.
authors.affiliation: College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China. mzj234402@163.com
authors.forename: Zhongjun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Zengrong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001683:Biological Clocks / Q000502:physiology*; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005246:Feedback / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D015233:Models, Statistical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*