Everything about Controllability

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ControllabilityA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Biophysical neurons, energy, and synapse controllability: a reviewInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The GiverThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Principal component analysis in linear systems: Controllability, observability, and model reductionCited 4,315 times
5. Go sideways: State-transition matrixA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: State-space representationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Principal component analysis in linear systems: Controllability, observability, and model reduction

  B. Moore · 1981 · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 4,315 citations

• Controllability of complex networks

  Yang-Yu Liu, Jean-Jacques Slotine, Albert-László Barabási · 2011 · Nature · 2,865 citations

• Nonlinear controllability and observability

  R. Hermann, A. Krener · 1977 · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 2,039 citations

• Structural controllability

  Ching-Tai Lin · 1974 · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 1,018 citations

• Exact Controllability, Stabilization and Perturbations for Distributed Systems

  J. L. Lions · 1988 · SIAM Review · 935 citations

• Achieving Controllability of Electric Loads

  D S Callaway, I A Hiskens · 2011 · Proceedings of the IEEE · 915 citations

• Controllability, stabilizability, and continuous-time Markovian jump linear quadratic control

  Y. Ji, H.J. Chizeck · 1990 · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 864 citations

• Controllability of structural brain networks

  Shi Gu, Fabio Pasqualetti, Matthew Cieslak · 2015 · Nature Communications · 860 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Biophysical neurons, energy, and synapse controllability: a review

  Jun Ma · 2022 · Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A · 224 citations

• How do people react to AI failure? Automation bias, algorithmic aversion, and perceived controllability

  S Mo Jones-Jang, Yong Jin Park · 2022 · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication · 160 citations

• Thermodynamic and kinetic understanding for managing the controllability of interfacial polymerization

  Chang Liu, Cheng-Ye Zhu, Chao Zhang · 2024 · Progress in Polymer Science · 139 citations

• Leading Cruise Control in Mixed Traffic Flow: System Modeling, Controllability, and String Stability

  Jiawei Wang, Yang Zheng, Chaoyi Chen · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems · 128 citations

• Strong Structural Controllability of Boolean Networks: Polynomial-Time Criteria, Minimal Node Control, and Distributed Pinning Strategies

  Shiyong Zhu, Jianquan Lu, Shun-ichi Azuma · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 112 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The GiverLois Lowry · 1993
• Silent SpringRachel Carson · 1962
• The 48 Laws of PowerRobert Greene · 1998
• The Art of SeductionRobert Greene · 2001
• Chantaje Emocional/Emotional BlackmailSusan Forward, Donna Frazier · 1996
• Quality controlDale H. Besterfield · 1979
• The 33 Strategies of WarRobert Greene, Don Leslie · 1998
• Guide to quality controlKaoru Ishikawa · 1972

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