¹ College of Management, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, PR China
² College of Information and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, PR China

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Abstract—In this paper, we investigate the global adaptive synchronization problem for a class of supply chain complex networks that have nonlinearly coupled identical nodes and an asymmetrical coupling matrix. We derive, in particular, a sufficient condition for global synchronization when the coupling strength is not excessively large by applying a suitably chosen adaptive controller and demonstrate the effectiveness of this theory by numerical examples.

Index Terms—Supply chain, complex networks, synchronization, adaptive, nonlinearly coupled, asymmetrical coupling.

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Cite: Xiaobing Gan, Jingyi Wang, " The Synchronization Problem for a Class of Supply Chain Complex Networks," Journal of Computers vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 267-271, 2013.