Cybernetics and systems theory

This volume provides a unique collection of mathematical tools and industrial case studies in digital manufacturing.

This contributed volume provides an extensive account of research and expository papers in a broad domain of mathematical analysis and its various applications to a multitude of fields.

This thesis reports on novel methods for gain-scheduling and fault tolerant control (FTC).

This book reflects the latest developments in variable structure systems (VSS) and sliding mode control (SMC), highlighting advances in various branches of the VSS/SMC field, e.

This book offers a comprehensive presentation of optimization and polyoptimization methods.

This edited monograph contains research contributions on a wide range of topics such as stochastic control systems, adaptive control, sliding mode control and parameter identification methods.

This book provides a self-contained presentation on the structure of a large class of stable processes, known as self-similar mixed moving averages.

This book targets the critical issue of decision making in uncertain conditions and situations.

This work focuses on the preservation of attractors and saddle points of ordinary differential equations under discretisation.

As scholars have by now long contended, global neoliberalism and the violence associated with state restructuring provide key frameworks for understanding flows of people across national boundaries and, eventually, into the treacherous terrains of the United States borderlands.

This textbook, now in its second edition, provides a broad introduction to the theory and practice of both continuous and discrete dynamical systems with the aid of the Mathematica software suite.

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to multi-agent, multi-choice repetitive games, such as the Kolkata Restaurant Problem and the Minority Game.

This book presents a concise introduction to piecewise deterministic Markov processes (PDMPs), with particular emphasis on their applications to biological models.

Focusing on applications to science and engineering, this book presents the results of the ITN-FP7 SADCO network's innovative research in optimization and control in the following interconnected topics: optimality conditions in optimal control, dynamic programming approaches to optimal feedback synthesis and reachability analysis, and computational developments in model predictive control.

This book presents a concise study of controllability theory of partial differential equations when they are equipped with actuators and/or sensors that are finite dimensional at every moment of time.

This book presents a snapshot of the state-of-art in the field of turbulence modeling, with an emphasis on numerical methods.

This book presents the theory and practical applications of the Master equation approach, which provides a powerful general framework for model building in a variety of disciplines.

This book addresses the impacts of various types of services such as infrastructure, platforms, software, and business processes that cloud computing and Big Data have introduced into business.

Exploring the Riemann Zeta Function: 190 years from Riemann's Birth presents a collection of chapters contributed by eminent experts devoted to the Riemann Zeta Function, its generalizations, and their various applications to several scientific disciplines, including Analytic Number Theory, Harmonic Analysis, Complex Analysis, Probability Theory, and related subjects.

Here, the authors present modern methods of analysis for nonlinear systems which may occur in fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, or economics.

This book presents the proceedings from ECONOPHYS-2015,an international workshop held in New Delhi, India, on the interrelated fieldsof econophysics and sociophysics , which have emerged from the applicationof statistical physics to economics and sociology.

This book provides a comprehensive overview on emergent bursty patterns in the dynamics of human behaviour.

Simulating for a crisis is far more than creating a simulation of a crisis situation.

High dimensional reference architectures presented here allows confronting and prevailing over the growing complexity of polytopic projects implementations.

Written by leading experts in an emerging field, this book offers a unique view of the theory of stochastic partial differential equations, with lectures on the stationary KPZ equation, fully nonlinear SPDEs, and random data wave equations.

This book introduces readers to essential tools for the measurement and analysis of information loss in signal processing systems.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 2017 DepCoS-RELCOMEX, an annual conference series that has been organized by the Department of Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Electronics, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, since 2006.

Written in honor of Victor Havin (1933-2015), this volume presents a collection of surveys and original papers on harmonic and complex analysis, function spaces and related topics, authored by internationally recognized experts in the fields.

This book focuses on modelling and simulation, control and optimization, signal processing, and forecasting in selected nonlinear dynamical systems, presenting both literature reviews and novel concepts.

Advances in Nonlinear Geosciences is a set of contributions from the participants of "e;30 Years of Nonlinear Dynamics"e; held July 3-8, 2016 in Rhodes, Greece as part of the Aegean Conferences, as well as from several other experts in the field who could not attend the meeting.

This textbook provides a careful treatment of functional analysis and some of its applications in analysis, number theory, and ergodic theory.

This book presents recent developments in nonlinear dynamics and physics with an emphasis on complex systems.

This volume collects the edited and reviewed contribution presented in the 7th iTi Conference in Bertinoro, covering fundamental and applied aspects in turbulence.

This contributed volume provides readers with an overview of the most recent developments in the mathematical fields related to fractals, including both original research contributions, as well as surveys from many of the leading experts on modern fractal theory and applications.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 11th Italian Workshop on Advances in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation and Systems Chemistry, WIVACE 2016, held at Fisciano, Italy, in October 2016.

The book outlines selected projects conducted under the supervision of the author.

This monograph aims to lay the groundwork for the design of a unified mathematical approach to the modeling and analysis of large, complex systems composed of interacting living things.

This book provides an outline of theoretical concepts and their experimental verification in studies of self-organization phenomena in chemical systems, as they emerged in the mid-20th century and have evolved since.

The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "e;Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid"e;.

This work is motivated by the ongoing open question of how information in the outside world is represented and processed by the brain.

This book provides an accessible introduction to the variational formulation of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, with a novel emphasis on global descriptions of the dynamics, which is a significant conceptual departure from more traditional approaches based on the use of local coordinates on the configuration manifold.

This book addresses the processes of stochastic structure formation in two-dimensional geophysical fluid dynamics based on statistical analysis of Gaussian random fields, as well as stochastic structure formation in dynamic systems with parametric excitation of positive random fields f(r,t) described by partial differential equations.

The book provides a comprehensive introduction and a novel mathematical foundation of the field of information geometry with complete proofs and detailed background material on measure theory, Riemannian geometry and Banach space theory.

This research monograph provides an introduction to the theory of nonautonomous semiflows with applications to population dynamics.

This textbook provides readers with a good working knowledge of adaptive control theory through applications.

"e;This book is a comprehensive text for the design of safety critical, hard real-time embedded systems.

This book thoroughly investigates the underlying theoretical basis of membrane computing models, and reveals their latest applications.

This book presents the latest in decision-making tools, techniques, and solutions for policy makers to utilize in overcoming the challenges faced by healthcare systems.

This volume contains extended abstracts outlining selected talks and other selected presentations given by participants throughout the "e;Intensive Research Program on Advances in Nonsmooth Dynamics 2016"e;, held at the Centre de Recerca Matematica (CRM) in Barcelona from February 1st to April 29th, 2016.

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch enthält eine kompakte, in Vorlesungen erprobte Einführung in diese moderne Sichtweise der GDGn, wobei der klassische Stoff nicht vernachlässigt wird.