Minyu Feng PhD

Publications (Click to download)

Complex Network Modelling and Dynamics

Pi, B., Deng, L. J., Feng, M., Perc, M., & Kurths, J. (2025). Dynamic Evolution of Complex Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Approach Applying Evolutionary Games to Community Structure. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 47(10), 8563 - 8582.

Zeng, Z., Feng, M., Perc, M., & Kurths, J. (2025). Bursty switching dynamics promotes the collapse of network topologies. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 481(2310), 20240936.

Zeng, Z., Feng, M., Liu, P., & Kurths, J. (2025). Complex Network Modeling With Power-Law Activating Patterns and Its Evolutionary Dynamics. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 55(4), 2546-2559.

Feng, M., Zeng, Z., Li, Q., Perc, M., & Kurths, J. (2024). Information Dynamics in Evolving Networks Based on the Birth-Death Process: Random Drift and Natural Selection Perspective. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 54(8), 5123-5136.

Zeng, Z., Feng, M., & Kurths, J. (2023). Temporal network modeling with online and hidden vertices based on the birth and death process. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 122, 151-166. 

Li, Y., Feng, M., & Kurths, J. (2023). Evolving network modeling driven by the degree increase and decrease mechanism. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 53(9), 5369-5380. 

Feng, M., Li, Y., Chen, F., & Kurths, J. (2022). Heritable deleting strategies for birth and death evolving networks from a queueing system perspective. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 52(10), 6662-6673. 

Feng, M., Deng, L. J., Chen, F., Perc, M., & Kurths, J. (2020). The accumulative law and its probability model: an extension of the Pareto distribution and the log-normal distribution. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 476(2237), 20200019. 

Liu, M., Chang, W., Li, C., Ji, Y., Li, R., & Feng, M. (2020). Discrete interactions in decentralized multiagent coordination: A probabilistic perspective. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 13(4), 1010-1022. 

Feng, M., Deng, L., & Kurths, J. (2018). Evolving networks based on birth and death process regarding the scale stationarity. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 28(8). 

Feng, M., Qu, H., Yi, Z., & Kurths, J. (2017). Subnormal distribution derived from evolving networks with variable elements. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 48(9), 2556-2568. 

Feng, M., Qu, H., Yi, Z., Xie, X., & Kurths, J. (2015). Evolving scale-free networks by Poisson process: Modeling and degree distribution. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 46(5), 1144-1155. 

Feng, M., Qu, H., & Yi, Z. (2014). Highest degree likelihood search algorithm using a state transition matrix for complex networks. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 61(10), 2941-2950. 

Evolutionary Game Theory

Zeng, Z., Feng, M., & Szolnoki, A. (2025). Evolutionary Dynamics with Self-Interaction Learning in Networked Systems. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. (In Press)

Yue, H., Xiong, X., Feng, M. and Szolnoki, A., 2025. Dynamic evolution of cooperation based on adaptive reputation threshold and game transition. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 199, p.116693.

Zhang, G., Xiong, X., Pi, B., Feng, M., & Perc, M. (2025). Spatial public goods games with queueing and reputation. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 505, 129533.

Benko, T. P., Pi, B., Li, Q., Feng, M., Perc, M., & Vošner, H. B. (2025). Evolutionary games for cooperation in open data management. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 496, 129364.

Zhang, G. Yao, Y., Zeng, Z., Feng, M., & Chica, M. (2025). The evolution of cooperation in spatial public goods game with tolerant punishment based on reputation threshold. Chaos, 35 (1): 013104.

Ling, T., Li, Z., Feng, M., & Szolnoki, A. (2025). Supervised cooperation on interdependent public goods games. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 492,129249.

Yue, H., Xiong, X., Feng, M., & Szolnoki, A. (2025). Coevolution of relationship-driven cooperation under recommendation protocol on multiplex networks. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals,190,115753.

Xiong, X., Yao, Y., Feng, M., & Chica, M. (2024). Adaptive payoff-driven interaction in networked snowdrift games. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 185, 115187.

Ling, T., & Feng, M. (2024, November). An Evolutionary Game with Memory-Based Reputation in Networked Populations. In 2024 China Automation Congress (CAC) (pp. 180-185). IEEE. 

Pan, N., Zeng, Z., Zhang, Y., & Feng, M. (2024). Defined benefit pension plans inhibit the emergence of cooperation in the public goods games. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 477, 128831. 

Feng, K., Han, S., Feng, M., & Szolnoki, A. (2024). An evolutionary game with reputation-based imitation-mutation dynamics. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 472, 128618. 

Li, Q., Pi, B., Feng, M., & Kurths, J. (2024). Open data in the digital economy: An evolutionary game theory perspective. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 11(3), 3780-3791. 

Pi, B., Feng, M., & Deng, L. J. (2024). A memory-based spatial evolutionary game with the dynamic interaction between learners and profiteers. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 34(6). 

Xiong, X., Zeng, Z., Feng, M., & Szolnoki, A. (2024). Coevolution of relationship and interaction in cooperative dynamical multiplex networks. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 34(2). 

Jing, Y., Han, S., Feng, M., & Kurths, J. (2024). Co-evolution of heterogeneous cognition in spatial snowdrift game with asymmetric cost. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 34(2). 

Feng, M., Pi, B., Deng, L. J., & Kurths, J. (2024). An Evolutionary Game With the Game Transitions Based on the Markov Process. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 54(1), 609-621. 

Zhang, Y., Zeng, Z., Pi, B., & Feng, M. (2023). An evolutionary game with revengers and sufferers on complex networks. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 457, 128168. 

Feng, M., Han, S., Li, Q., Wu, J., & Kurths, J. (2023). Harmful strong agents and asymmetric interaction can promote the frequency of cooperation in the snowdrift game. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 175, 114068. 

Yao, Y., Pi, B., Zeng, Z., & Feng, M. (2023). Protection and improvement of indirect identity cognition on the spatial evolution of cooperation. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 620, 128791. 

Yao, Y., Zeng, Z., Pi, B., & Feng, M. (2023). Inhibition and activation of interactions in networked weak prisoner’s dilemma. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 33(6). 

Pi, B., & Feng, M. (2022, July). Evolution of Cooperation in the Memory-based Multigame on Complex Networks. In 2022 IEEE 4th International Conference on Power, Intelligent Computing and Systems (ICPICS) (pp. 542-546). IEEE.

Zeng, Z., Li, Q., & Feng, M. (2022). Spatial evolution of cooperation with variable payoffs. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 32(7). 

Pi, B., Li, Y., & Feng, M. (2022). An evolutionary game with conformists and profiteers regarding the memory mechanism. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 597, 127297. 

Li, Q., Zhao, G., & Feng, M. (2022). Prisoner’s dilemma game with cooperation-defection dominance strategies on correlational multilayer networks. Entropy, 24(6), 822. 

Zeng, Z., Li, Y., & Feng, M. (2022). The spatial inheritance enhances cooperation in weak prisoner’s dilemmas with agents’ exponential lifespan. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 593, 126968. 

Pi, B., Zeng, Z., Feng, M., & Kurths, J. (2022). Evolutionary multigame with conformists and profiteers based on dynamic complex networks. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 32(2). 

Mathematical Epidemiology

Tang, J., Yao, Y., Xie, M., & Feng, M. (2025). SIS Epidemic Modelling on Homogeneous Networked System: General Recovering Process and Mean-Field Perspective. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 116188.

Yuan, X., Yao, Y., Wu, H., & Feng, M. (2025). Impacts of Physical-Layer Information on Epidemic Spreading in Cyber-Physical Networked Systems. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers. （In Press）

Li, Y., Yao, Y., Feng, M., Benko, T. P., Perc, M., & Završnik, J. (2025). Epidemic dynamics in homes and destinations under recurrent mobility patterns. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 195, 116273. 

Li, Qi., Li, Y., Feng, M., Bao, H. (2025). Epidemic transmission model based on individual protective behavior and population mobility network. Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice,  45(1): 208-223 

Li, Y., & Feng, M. (2024, November). A Metapopulation Seir Model with Asymptomatic Individuals Based On Human Mobility Patterns. In 2024 China Automation Congress (CAC) (pp. 266-271). IEEE.

Xie, M., Zeng, Z., Li, Y., & Feng, M. (2024). Adherence strategy based on evolutionary games in epidemic spreading. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 186, 115289. 

Li, X., Li, Y., Feng, M., & Kurths, J. (2024). Effect of antibody levels on the spread of disease in multiple infections. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 185, 115063. 

Yuan, X., Yao, Y., Li, X., & Feng, M. (2024). Impact of time-dependent infection rate and self-isolation awareness on networked epidemic propagation. Nonlinear Dynamics, 112, 15653–15669. 

Xie, M., Li, Y., Feng, M., & Kurths, J. (2023). Contact-dependent infection and mobility in the metapopulation SIR model from a birth–death process perspective. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 177, 114299. 

Feng, M., Li, X., Li, Y., & Li, Q. (2023). The impact of nodes of information dissemination on epidemic spreading in dynamic multiplex networks. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 33(4). 

Li, Q., Chen, H., Li, Y., Feng, M., & Kurths, J. (2022). Network spreading among areas: A dynamical complex network modeling approach. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 32(10). 

Zhang, L., Guo, C., & Feng, M. (2022). Effect of local and global information on the dynamical interplay between awareness and epidemic transmission in multiplex networks. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 32(8). 

Li, Y., Pi, B., & Feng, M. (2022). Limited resource network modeling and its opinion diffusion dynamics. Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 32(4). 

Li, Y., Zeng, Z., Feng, M., & Kurths, J. (2021). Protection degree and migration in the stochastic SIRS model: A queueing system perspective. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 69(2), 771-783. 

Full publications can be found at Minyu Feng (0000-0001-6772-3017) - ORCID 

Education and Employment

September 2006 - June 2010

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

Bachelor of Mathematics

September 2010 - June 2013

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

Master of Software Engineering

September 2014 – June 2018

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

Doctor of Computer Science

Humboldt University, Belin, Germany; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany

Joint Training Doctor of Nonlinearity

June 2019 to present

Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Associate Professor 

Professional Activities

Editorial Board Membership

• Subject Editor for Applied Mathematical Modelling

• Editor for Humanities & Social Sciences Communications

• Editor for Scientific Reports

• Editor for International Journal of Mathematics for Industry

Society Membership

• IEEE Senior Member

• IEEE Young Professionals

• ACM Member

• CCF (China Computer Federation) Senior Member

• CAA (Chinese Association of Automation) Senior Member

• Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews of the American Mathematical Society

Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

• IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering

• IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks

• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking

• IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence

• IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica

• IEEE Internet of Things Journal

• IEEE Sensors Journal

• IEEE Signal Processing Letters

• ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

• Chaos

• Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

• Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)

• PLOS Computational Biology

• Chaos, Solitons & Fractals

• Expert Systems With Applications

• Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

• Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

• Applied Mathematics and Computation

• Science China Information Sciences

• Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications

Program Committee

• CSEIT 2025: 12th International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology

• NeCoM 2025: 17th International Conference on Networks & Communications

• SIGML 2025: 6th International Conference on Signal Processing and Machine Learning

• ICA3PP 2024: 24th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing

• ICA3PP 2023: 23rd International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing

• CELL 2023: 6th Asia Conference on Cognitive Engineering and Intelligent Interaction

• MDMA 2022: International Conference on Mechanical Design, Materials and Automation

• ICICIP 2021: 11th International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing

• RICAI 2021: 3rd International Conference on Robotics, Intelligent Control and Artificial Intelligence