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This article offers a survey of the recent research advances in pinning control and pinning synchronization on complex dynamical networks. The emphasis is on research ideas and theoretical developments. Some technical details, if deemed necessary for clarity, will be outlined as well.

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This work was supported by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council under the GRF Grant CityU1109/12.

Guanrong Chen received his M.S. degree in Computer Science from Sun Yatsen (Zhongshan) University, China in 1981 and his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Texas A&M University, USA in 1987. Currently he is a Chair Professor and the Founding Director of the Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks at the City University of Hong Kong, prior to which he was a tenured Full Professor in the University of Houston, Texas, USA. Prof. Chen is a Fellow of the IEEE since January 1997. He is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering as well as in Physics, with non-self-cited H_index 79. He served and is serving as Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine and the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. He received five best journal paper awards in the past, along with 2008 and 2012 State Natural Science Awards of China, and the 2011 Euler Gold Medal from the Euler Foundation, Russia. He was conferred Honorary Doctorate by the Saint Petersburg State University, Russia in 2011, and is Honorary Professor at different ranks in some thirty universities worldwide.

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Chen, G. Pinning control and synchronization on complex dynamical networks. Int. J. Control Autom. Syst. 12, 221–230 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-014-9001-2

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