On Controllability of Delayed Boolean Control Networks

This paper is devoted to studying the trajectory and state controllability of Boolean control networks (BCNs) with time delay. In contrast to BCNs without time delay, the dynamics of delayed BCNs are determined by a sequence of initial states, named here trajectories. Trajectory controllability means that there exists a control signal steering a system from an initial trajectory to a desired trajectory, while state controllability means that there exists a control signal steering an initial state to a given state. Here, both trajectory controllability and state controllability will be studied. It should be noted that in this paper, trajectory controllability does not mean tracking or following a given trajectory. In fact it means to control BCNs to a destination trajectory…