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A study shows that controlling link dynamics on a network is distinctly different from controlling the dynamics of its nodes. This development illustrates how ideas from control-systems engineering can help us better understand the organization of complex systems.

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  1. Jean-Jacques Slotine is in the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory and in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA,

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  2. Yang-Yu Liu is at the Center for Complex Network Research and in the Departments of Physics, Computer Science and Biology at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA, and at the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA,

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