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20142026
most citedA Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Solving the Minimal Observability Problem in Conjunctive Boolean Networks

57 citations · 336 across the 51 of their papers we have counts for

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63 papers

math.OC2026

On the gain of entrainment in stable linear control systems with a nonlinear output

Ram Massas, Michael Margaliot

A control system admits a positive gain of entrainment (GOE) if entrainment to a periodic input yields a larger output, on average, than the output generated by the corresponding c…

q-bio.MN2025

Negative feedback and oscillations in a model for mRNA translation

Aliza Ehrman, Thomas Kriecherbauer, Lars Gruene +1

The ribosome flow model (RFM) is a phenomenological model for the unidirectional flow of particles along a 1D chain of sites. The RFM has been extensively used to study the dyn…

math.OC2025

Random attraction in TASEP with time-varying hopping rates

Lars Grüne, Kilian Pioch, Thomas Kriecherbauer +1

The totally asymmetric simple exclusion principle (TASEP) is a fundamental model in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. It describes the stochastic unidirectional movement of par…

cond-mat.stat-mech2024

Model order reduction for the TASEP Master equation

Kilian Pioch, Thomas Kriecherbauer, Michael Margaliot +1

The totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) is a stochastic model for the unidirectional dynamics of interacting particles on a D-lattice that is much used in system…

math.CA2024

Multiplicative and additive compounds via Kronecker products and Kronecker sums

Ron Ofir, Michael Margaliot

Compound matrices play an important role in many fields of mathematics and have recently found new applications in systems and control theory. However, the explicit formulas for th…

eess.SY2023★ 2 cited

-Contraction in a Generalized Lurie System

Ron Ofir, Jean-Jacques Slotine, Michael Margaliot

We derive a sufficient condition for -contraction in a generalized Lurie system~(GLS), that is, the feedback connection of a nonlinear dynamical system and a memoryless nonlinea…

math.DS2023★ 1 cited

On the gain of entrainment in a class of weakly contractive bilinear control systems with applications to the master equation and the ribosome flow model

Rami Katz, Thomas Kriecherbauer, Lars Grüne +1

We consider a class of bilinear weakly contractive systems that entrain to periodic excitations. Entrainment is important in many natural and artificial processes. For example, in…

math.OC2023★ 1 cited

On singularly perturbed systems that are monotone with respect to a matrix cone of rank

Ron Ofir, Pietro Lorenzetti, Michael Margaliot

We derive a sufficient condition guaranteeing that a singularly perturbed linear time-varying system is strongly monotone with respect to a matrix cone of rank . This implie…

eess.SY2022★ 16 cited

Contraction and -contraction in Lurie systems with applications to networked systems

Ron Ofir, Alexander Ovseevich, Michael Margaliot

A Lurie system is the interconnection of a linear time-invariant system and a nonlinear feedback function. We derive a new sufficient condition for -contraction of a Lurie syste…

eess.SY2022

A sufficient condition for -contraction in Lurie systems

Ron Ofir, Alexander Ovseevich, Michael Margaliot

We consider a Lurie system obtained via a connection of a linear time-invariant system and a nonlinear feedback function. Such systems often have more than a single equilibrium and…

math.OC2022★ 2 cited

On the gain of entrainment in the -dimensional ribosome flow model

Ron Ofir, Thomas Kriecherbauer, Lars Grüne +1

The ribosome flow model (RFM) is a phenomenological model for the flow of particles along a 1D chain of sites. It has been extensively used to study ribosome flow along the mRN…

math.DS2022★ 5 cited

Verifying -Contraction without Computing -Compounds

Omri Dalin, Ron Ofir, Eyal Bar Shalom +3

Compound matrices have found applications in many fields of science including systems and control theory. In particular, a sufficient condition for -contraction is that a logari…

math.OC2022★ 2 cited

Compound matrices in systems and control theory: a tutorial

Eyal Bar-Shalom, Omri Dalin, Michael Margaliot

The multiplicative and additive compounds of a matrix play an important role in several fields of mathematics including geometry, multi-linear algebra, combinatorics, and the analy…

math.OC2022

Minimum effort decentralized control design for contracting network systems

Ron Ofir, Francesco Bullo, Michael Margaliot

We consider the problem of making a networked system contracting by designing minimal effort local controllers. Our method combines a hierarchical contraction characterization and…

eess.SY2021★ 2 cited

The -Compound of a Difference-Algebraic System

Ron Ofir, Michael Margaliot

The multiplicative and additive compounds of a matrix have important applications in geometry, linear algebra, and the analysis of dynamical systems. In particular, the -compoun…

math.CA2021

On matrices whose exponential is a P-matrix

Chengshuai Wu, Michael Margaliot

A matrix is called a P-matrix if all its principal minors are positive. P-matrices have found important applications in functional analysis, mathematical programming, and dynamical…

math.DS2021★ 22 cited

A sufficient condition for -contraction of the series connection of two systems

Ron Ofir, Michael Margaliot, Yoash Levron +1

The flow of contracting systems contracts 1-dimensional parallelotopes, i.e., line segments, at an exponential rate. One reason for the usefulness of contracting systems is that ma…

math.DS2021★ 6 cited

Serial interconnections of 1-contracting and 2-contracting systems

Ron Ofir, Michael Margaliot, Yoash Levron +1

The flow of contracting systems contracts 1-dimensional polygons (i.e. lines) at an exponential rate. One reason for the usefulness of contracting systems is that many interconnect…

math.OC2021

Compound matrices in systems and control theory

Eyal Bar-Shalom, Michael Margaliot

The multiplicative and additive compounds of a matrix play an important role in several fields of mathematics including geometry, multi-linear algebra, combinatorics, and the analy…

math.DS2021★ 4 cited

Diagonal Stability of Discrete-time -Positive linear Systems with Applications to Nonlinear Systems

Chengshuai Wu, Michael Margaliot

A linear dynamical system is called -positive if its dynamics maps the set of vectors with up to sign variations to itself. For , this reduces to the important class…

math.DS2021

Behavior of Totally Positive Differential Systems Near a Periodic Solution

Chengshuai Wu, Lars Gruene, Thomas Kriecherbauer +1

A time-varying nonlinear dynamical system is called a totally positive differential system (TPDS) if its Jacobian admits a special sign pattern: it is tri-diagonal with positive en…

math.DS2020★ 6 cited

Generalization of the multiplicative and additive compounds of square matrices and contraction in the Hausdorff dimension

Chengshuai Wu, Raz Pines, Michael Margaliot +1

The multiplicative and additive compounds of a matrix play an important role in geometry, multi-linear algebra, the asymptotic analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems, and…

q-bio.SC2020

Variability in mRNA Translation: A Random Matrix Theory Approach

Michael Margaliot, Wasim Huleihel, Tamir Tuller

The rate of mRNA translation depends on the initiation, elongation, and termination rates of ribosomes along the mRNA. These rates depend on many "local" factors like the abundance…

math.OC2020

k-Contraction: Theory and Applications

Chengshuai Wu, Ilya Kanevskiy, and Michael Margaliot

A dynamical system is called contractive if any two solutions approach one another at an exponential rate. More precisely, the dynamics contracts lines at an exponential rate. This…