Cybernetics and systems theory

This standard text gives a unified treatment of passivity and L2-gain theory for nonlinear state space systems, preceded by a compact treatment of classical passivity and small-gain theorems for nonlinear input-output maps.

This volume presents recent advances in the field of matrix analysis based on contributions at the MAT-TRIAD 2015 conference.

The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on finance, with a special focus on stock markets.

This book provides an introduction to the ergodic theory and topological dynamics of actions of countable groups.

This book is based on lectures from a one-year course at the Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok, Russia) as well as on workshops on optimal control offered to students at various mathematical departments at the university level.

This book contains all refereed papers that were accepted to the seventh edition of the international conference  Complex Systems Design & Management Paris (CSD&M Paris 2016) which took place in Paris (France) on the December 13-14, 2016 These proceedings cover the most recent trends in the emerging field of complex systems sciences & practices from an industrial and academic perspective, including the main industrial domains (aeronautic & aerospace, defense & security, electronics & robotics, energy & environment, healthcare & welfare services, software & e-services, transportation), scientific & technical topics (systems fundamentals, systems architecture & engineering, systems metrics & quality, system is modeling tools) and system types (artificial ecosystems, embedded systems, software & information systems, systems of systems, transportation systems).

This book systematizes recent research work on variable-structure control.

This book gathers the carefully reviewed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Systems Science, presenting recent research findings in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Communication/Networking and Information Technology, Control Theory, Decision Support, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Optimization Techniques, Pattern Recognition, Robotics, Service Science, Web-based Services, Uncertain Systems and Transportation Systems.

This book introduces a number of recent advances regarding periodic feedback stabilization for linear and time periodic evolution equations.

This book explores discrete-time dynamic optimization and provides a detailed introduction to both deterministic and stochastic models.

This book provides an overview of the main approaches used to analyze the dynamics of cellular automata.

This monograph presents controllability and stabilization methods in control theory that solve parabolic boundary value problems.

One of the most important routes to chaos is the chaotic intermittency.

This book collects contributions to the XXIII international conference "e;Nonlinear dynamics of electronic systems"e;.

The classical theory of random walks describes the asymptotic behavior of sums of independent identically distributed random real variables.

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 presents up-to-date research developments and novel methodologies on semi-Markovian jump systems (S-MJS).

This book is based on EU-funded project PLANTFOODSEC, covering intentional and unintentional threats to plant biosecurity and to food safety areas.

This brief presents several aspects of flight dynamics, which are usually omitted or briefly mentioned in textbooks, in a concise, self-contained, and rigorous manner.

This volume spans a wide range of technical disciplines and technologies, including complex systems, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, energy, telecommunications, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, and computer science.

Revised and updated, this concise new edition of the pioneering book on multidimensional signal processing is ideal for a new generation of students.

The present volume comprises survey articles on various fields of Differential-Algebraic Equations (DAEs) which have widespread applications in controlled dynamical systems, especially in mechanical and electrical engineering and a strong relation to (ordinary) differential equations.

This thesis discusses the random Euclidean bipartite matching problem, i.

By establishing an alternative foundation of control theory, this thesis represents a significant advance in the theory of control systems, of interest to a broad range of scientists and engineers.

This monograph presents urban simulation methods that help in better understanding urban dynamics.

Developments in the connected fields of solid state physics, bioengineering, mechatronics and nanometrology have had a profound effect on the emergence of modern technologies and their influence on our lives.

This book develops an innovative system, in the form of an "e;app"e;, that harnesses the power of the internet to predict which sorts of people will prefer which policy in ANY planning situation.

This book is dedicated to Professor Selim G.

This book addresses recent technological progress that has led to an increased complexity in many natural and artificial systems.

This book offers readers a thorough and rigorous introduction to nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) for discrete-time and sampled-data systems.

This book develops applications of novel generalizations of fuzzy information measures in the field of pattern recognition, medical diagnosis, multi-criteria and multi-attribute decision making and suitability in linguistic variables.

This book constitutes the first treatment of C.

This book contains the proceedings as well as invited papers for the first annual conference of the UNESCO Unitwin Complex System Digital Campus (CSDC), which is an international initiative gathering 120 Universities on four continents, and structured in ten E-Departments.

This monograph is a gateway for researchers and graduate students to explore the profound, yet subtle, world of long-range dependence (also known as long memory).

This book collects papers from the 8th Conference on Non-Integer Order Calculus and Its Applications that have been held on September 20-21, 2016 in Zakopane, Poland.

This textbook is a comprehensive treatment of ordinary differential equations, concisely presenting basic and essential results in a rigorous manner.

This book presents a new approach that can be applied to complex, integrated individual and social human processes.

This book presents a multi-disciplinary investigation into extortion rackets with a particular focus on the structures of criminal organisations and their collapse, societal processes in which extortion rackets strive and fail and the impacts of bottom-up and top-down ways of fighting extortion racketeering.

This book provides an introduction to the topological classification of smooth structurally stable diffeomorphisms on closed orientable 2- and  3-manifolds.

This book offers its readers a detailed overview of the synthesis of switched systems, with a focus on switching stabilization and intelligent control.

This book spotlights how women leaders behave in chaotic environments and features examples of women who have been key figures in determining complex socio-economic outcomes throughout history.

This book is an introduction to the theory, practice, and implementation of the Lattice Boltzmann (LB) method, a powerful computational fluid dynamics method that is steadily gaining attention due to its simplicity, scalability, extensibility, and simple handling of complex geometries.

This undergraduate text explores a variety of large-scale phenomena - global warming, ice ages, water, poverty - and uses these case studies as a motivation to explore nonlinear dynamics, power-law statistics, and complex systems.

This book, provides a general introduction to the ideas and methods of statistical mechanics with the principal aim of meeting the needs of Master's students in chemical, mechanical, and materials science engineering.

This book discusses recent advances in the estimation and control of networked systems with unacknowledged packet losses: systems usually known as user-datagram-protocol-like.

Our world is composed of systems within systems-the machines we build, the information we share, the organizations we form, and elements of nature that surround us.

Systems are everywhere and we are surrounded by them.

This volume results from the "e;Second International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters"e; held in Kalamata, Greece, June 29-July 2, 2015.

This first monograph of its kind introduces the reader to fundamental definitions, key concepts and case studies addressing the following issues of rapidly growing relevance for online communities: What are emotions?

This monograph investigates violations of statistical stability of physical events, variables, and processes and develops a new physical-mathematical theory taking into consideration such violations - the theory of hyper-random phenomena.