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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Applied Mathematics Volume 2012, Article ID 927609, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2012/927609 Research Article Synchronization of Coupled Networks with Mixed Delays by Intermittent Control Kun Yuan,1 Jinde Cao,2 and Shumin Fei1 1 School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China 2 Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China Correspondence should be addressed to Kun Yuan, kyuan@ Received 3 May 2012; Revised 26 June 2012; Accepted 26 June 2012 Academic Editor: Zhiwei Gao Copyright q 2012 Kun Yuan 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. The synchronization of coupled networks with mixed delays is investigated by employing Lyapunov functional method and intermittent control. A sufficient condition is derived to ensure the global synchronization of coupled networks, which is controlled by the designed intermittent controller. Finally, a numerical simulation is constructed to justify the theoretical analysis. 1. Introduction Various large-scale and complicated systems can be modelled by complex networks, such as the Internet, genetic networks, ecosystems, electrical power grids, and the social networks. A complex network is a large set of interconnected nodes, which can be described by the graph with the nodes representing individuals in the graph and the edges representing the connections among them. The most remarkable recent advances in study of complex networks are the developments of the small-world network model 1 and scale-free network model 2, which have been shown to be very closer to most real-w