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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 621623, 11 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/621623
Research Article

Delay-Distribution-Dependent Consensus for Second-Order Leader-Follower Nonlinear Multiagent Systems via Pinning Control

Hongjie Li, Ming Chen, Shigen Shen, and Lin Li

College of Mathematics, Physics and Information Engineering, Jiaxing University, Zhejiang 314001, China

Received 25 June 2013; Revised 27 August 2013; Accepted 27 August 2013

Academic Editor: Hamid Reza Karimi

Copyright © 2013 Hongjie Li et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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