Suggestion: read paper 2 -> 7 -> 5.

• 7、*Jing Han, Lin Wang. Nondestructive Intervention to Multi-agent Systems Through an Intelligent Agent. PLoS ONE 8(5): e61542. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0061542. May, 2013. (this paper introduces a complete strategy for an intelligent shill to synchronize a group based on the Vicsek's model. full version)
  
  
• 6、What strategies can induce cooperation between heterogeneous players? Xin Wang; Yifen Mu; *Jing Han. Proceeding of the 31st Chinese Control Conference, p.1153-p.1157, July 25-27, Hefei, China. 2012.? (EI)
  
  
• 5、Special Agents Can Promote Cooperation in the Population. Xin Wang,*Jing Han, Huawei Han. PLoS ONE 6(12): e29182. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone. 0029182, Dec.2011.
(this paper uses the idea of soft-control on a multi-person game model to induce cooperation, full version)


• 4、Special Agents can Promote Cooperation. Xin Wang, *Jing Han. Proceedings of the 30th Chinese Control Conference, p5764-5768, 2011, China.
(this paper uses the idea of soft-control on a multi-person game model to induce cooperation, conference version)


• 3、New Strategy of the Shill:’Consistent Moving’. *Jing Han, Lin Wang. Proceedings of the 29th Chinese Control Conference, p4459-4464, 2010, China. (This paper improve the shill strategy described in papers below. So the shill strategy for synchronization is much better here)
  
  
• 2、Soft Control on Collective Behavior of a Group of Autonomous Agents by a Shill Agent.*Jing HAN, Ming LI, Lei GUO. Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, 19(1), pp54-62, 2006.(this paper gives the complete idea of soft-control by a case study based on the Vicsek's model, to induce synchronization of the group)
  
  
• 1、Guiding a Group of Locally Interacting Autonomous Mobile Agents. *Han Jing, Guo Lei, Li Ming. Proceedings of the 24th Chinese Control Conference. South China University of Technology Press, Guangzhou, 184-187, July, 2005.
(this is the first paper on Soft-control, based on the Vicsek's model, to induce synchronization)