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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 978612, 15 pages doi:10.1155/2011/978612 Research Article Generalized Synchronization between Two Complex Dynamical Networks with Time-Varying Delay and Nonlinear Coupling Qiuxiang Bian1, 2 and Hongxing Yao1 1 Faculty of Science, Jiangsu University, Jiangsu, Zhenjiang, 212013, China 2 Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Jiangsu, Zhenjiang, 212003, China Correspondence should be addressed to Qiuxiang Bian, bianqx 1@163.com Received 30 August 2010; Revised 26 March 2011; Accepted 17 May 2011 Academic Editor: E. E. N. Macau Copyright q 2011 Q. Bian and H. Yao. 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. The generalized synchronization between two complex networks with nonlinear coupling and time-varying delay is investigated in this paper. The novel adaptive schemes of constructing controller response network are proposed to realize generalized synchronization with the drive network to a given mapping. Two specific examples show and verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. 1. Introduction Over the past decade, complex networks have gained a lot of attention in various fields, such as sociology, biology, physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering 1–5. A complex network is a large number of interconnected nodes, in which each node represents a unit or element with certain dynamical system and edge represents the relationship or connection between two units or elements. Synchronization is one of the most important