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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 791052, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2011/791052 Research Article Collective Coordination of High-Order Dynamic Multiagent Systems Guided by Multiple Leaders Xin-Lei Feng, Ting-Zhu Huang, and Jin-Liang Shao School of Mathematical Sciences/Institute of Computational Science, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Sichuan, Chengdu 611731, China Correspondence should be addressed to Xin-Lei Feng, xinleifeng@ Received 6 December 2010; Revised 20 March 2011; Accepted 17 April 2011 Academic Editor: John Burns Copyright q 2011 Xin-Lei Feng et al. 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. For second-order and high-order dynamic multiagent systems with multiple leaders, the coordination schemes that all the follower agents flock to the polytope region formed by multiple leaders are considered. Necessary and sufficient conditions which the follower agents can enter the polytope region by the leaders are obtained. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate our theoretical results. 1. Introduction Recently, collective coordinations of multiagent systems have received significant attention due to their potential impact in numerous civilian, homeland security, and military applications, and so forth. For example, Wei et al. 1 described a multiagent recommender system in which the agents form a marketplace and compete to provide the best recommendation for a given user. De Meo et al. 2 presented an XML-based multiagent system for supporting e-recruitment services, in