Table 3.

Transition network-control methods. These methods are designed to identify the key “control” nodes in a network which are responsible for the transition from one state to another.

Software	Network Type	Year	Ref.
Maximum matching sets (MMS)	Directed-Network, Linear	2011	Liu et al. [55]
Minimum dominating sets (MDS)	Undirected-Network, Linear	2012	Nacher and Akutsu [56]
Directed Feedback Vertex Set (DFVS)	Directed-Network, Non-Linear	2017	Zanudo et al. [57]
Nonlinear control of undirected networks algorithm (NCUA)	Undirected-Network, Non-Linear	2019	Guo et al. [54]