An approach for choosing pinning nodes in pinning control

Previous studies show that there are two major schemes to choose pinning nodes, one is random pinning control, the other is special pining control (according to the degree of the node), also show that the performance of special pinning control better than random pinning control. These pinning schemes only consider network features, and neglect the impact from single original node, although the impact is here and there in really world. Hence, in this study, we investigate how to choose pinning control nodes, and propose a general approach to select pinning nodes, name it node energy index. Numerical experiments show this approach is efficient and practical.