Journal papers

• Performance of leader-follower multi-agent systems in directed networks
  F. Lin, submitted, ANL/MCS-P6018-0616, 2016.
  

• A Two-Level Approach to Large Mixed-Integer Programs with Application to Cogeneration in Energy-Efficient Buildings
  F. Lin, S. Leyffer, and T. Munson
  Computational Optimization and Applications, pages 1–46, 2016
  DOI: 10.1007/s10589-016-9842-0 (AMPL codes) (Slides).

• Design of optimal sparse interconnection graphs for synchronization of oscillator networks
  M. Fardad, F. Lin, and M. R. Jovanovic
  IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, Vol. 59, No. 9, pages 2457-2462, 2014. (Matlab codes)
  

• Algorithms for leader selection in stochastically forced consensus networks
  F. Lin, M. Fardad, and M. R. Jovanovic
  IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, Vol. 59, No. 7, pages 1789-1802, 2014. (Matlab codes)
  

• Design of optimal sparse feedback gains via the alternating direction method of multipliers
  F. Lin, M. Fardad, and M. R. Jovanovic
  IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, Vol. 58, No. 9, pages 2426-2431, 2013.
  

• Optimal control of vehicular platoons with nearest neighbor interactions
  F. Lin, M. Fardad, and M. R. Jovanovic
  IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, Vol. 57, No. 9, pages 2203-2218, 2012.
  

• Augmented Lagrangian approach to design of structured optimal state feedback gains
  F. Lin, M. Fardad, and M. R. Jovanovic
  IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, Vol. 56, No. 12, pages 2923-2929, 2011. (Matlab codes)
  

• Least-squares approximation of structured covariances
  F. Lin and M. R. Jovanovic
  IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, Vol. 54, No. 7, pages 1643-1648, 2009.

Conference papers

• A multiscale approach to a class of semidefinite programs
  F. Lin, Z. Di, and S. Leyffer
  To appear in Proceedings of the 2016 American Control Conference, 2016.
  

• Optimal load shedding in electric power grids
  F. Lin and C. Chen
  To appear in Proceedings of the 2016 American Control Conference, 2016.
  

• Oscillation mitigation in electric power grids via semidefinite programming
  F. Lin and S. Leyffer
  Preprint ANL/MCS-P5345-0515, submitted, 2015.
  

• On the properties of optimal weak links in social networks
  M. Fardad, X. Zhang, F. Lin, M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, CA, pages 2124-2129, 2014.
  

• Sparsity-promoting optimal control of spatially-invariant systems
  D. M. Zoltowski, N. Dhingra, F. Lin, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 2014 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, pages 1255-1260, 2014.
  

• On optimal link creation for facilitation of consensus in social networks
  M. Fardad, F. Lin, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 2014 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, pages 3790-3795, 2014.
  

• Algorithms for matrix completion of partially known state covariances
  F. Lin, M. R. Jovanovic, and T. T. Georgiou
  in Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, pages 684-1689, 2013.
  

• Sparse quadratic regulator
  M. R. Jovanovic and F. Lin
  in Proceedings of the 12th European Control Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, pages 1047-1052, 2013.
  

• On new characterizations of social influence in social networks
  M. Fardad, F. Lin, X. Zhang, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 2013 American Control Conference, Washington DC, pages 4784-4789, 2013.
  

• Performance of leader-follower consensus algorithms in directed trees and lattices
  F. Lin, M. Fardad, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pages 734-739, 2012.
  

• On the optimal dissemination of information in social networks
  M. Fardad, X. Zhang, F. Lin, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, HI, pages 2539-2544, 2012.
  

• Identification of sparse communication graphs in consensus networks
  F. Lin, M. Fardad, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2012.
  

• On identifying sparse representations of consensus networks
  N. Dhingra, F. Lin, M. Fardad, and M. R. Jovanovic
  In 3rd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Santa Barbara, CA, 2012
  

• Sparse feedback synthesis via the alternating direction method of multipliers
  F. Lin, M. Fardad, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 2012 American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, pages 4765-4770, 2012.
  

• On the optimal synchronization of oscillator networks via sparse interconnection graphs
  M. Fardad, F. Lin, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 2012 American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, pages 4777-4782, 2012.
  

• Algorithms for Leader Selection in Large Dynamical Networks: Noise-corrupted Leaders
  F. Lin, M. Fardad, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, FL, pages 2932-2937, 2011.
  

• Algorithms for Leader Selection in Large Dynamical Networks: Noise-free Leaders
  M. Fardad, F. Lin, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, FL, pages 7188-7193, 2011.
  

• Sparsity-promoting optimal control for a class of distributed systems
  M. Fardad, F. Lin, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 2011 American Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, pages 2050-2055, 2011.
  

• On the optimal localized feedback design for multi-vehicle systems
  F. Lin, M. Fardad, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, pages 5744-5749, 2010.
  

• On the dual decomposition of linear quadratic optimal control problems for vehicular formations
  M. Fardad, F. Lin, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, pages 6287-6292, 2010.
  

• On the optimal localized feedback design for vehicular platoons
  F. Lin, M. Fardad, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, pages 4622-4627, 2010.
  

• On the optimal design of structured feedback gains for interconnected systems
  M. Fardad, F. Lin, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, pages 978-983, 2009.
  

• Synthesis of H2 optimal static structured controllers: primal and dual formulations
  F. Lin, M. Fardad, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, pages 340-346, 2009.
  

• Energy amplification in a parallel Blasius boundary layer flow subject to free-stream turbulence
  F. Lin and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, pages 3070-3075, 2008.
  

• On the least-squares approximation of structured covariances
  F. Lin and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, New York City, pages 2648-2653, 2007.