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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Decision Sciences Volume 2010, Article ID 809481, 19 pages doi:10.1155/2010/809481 Research Article Input and Output Passivity of Complex Dynamical Networks with General Topology Jinliang Wang Chongqing Key Lab of Operations Research and System, Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 400047, China Correspondence should be addressed to Jinliang Wang, wangjinliang1984@ Received 17 August 2009; Accepted 28 December 2009 Academic Editor: Stefanka Chukova Copyright q 2010 Jinliang Wang. 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 input passivity and output passivity are investigated for a generalized complex dynamical network, in which the coupling may be nonlinear, time-varying, and nonsymmetric. By constructing some suitable Lyapunov functionals, some input and output passivity criteria are derived in form of linear matrix inequalities LMIs for complex dynamical network. Finally, a numerical example and its simulation are given to illustrate the efficiency of the derived results. 1. Introduction In the past few decades, the passivity theory provides a nice tool for analyzing the stability of systems and has found applications in diverse areas such as stability, complexity, signal processing, chaos control and synchronization, and fuzzy control. Many interesting results in linear and nonlinear systems have been derived see 1–21. Especially, the passivity of neural networks 5, 7, 11–13, 21 and fuzzy systems 6, 10, 16, 19 have been extensively investigated because of their great significance for both practical and the