Cybernetics and systems theory

This monograph contains an in-depth analysis of the dynamics given by a linear Hamiltonian system of general dimension with nonautonomous bounded and uniformly continuous coefficients, without other initial assumptions on time-recurrence.

This book gives a wide-ranging description of the many facets of complex dynamic networks and systems within an infrastructure provided by integrated control and supervision: envisioning, design, experimental exploration, and implementation.

This book focuses on the basic control and filtering synthesis problems for discrete-time switched linear systems under time-dependent switching signals.

The book addresses the control issues such as stability analysis, control synthesis and filter design of Markov jump systems with the above three types of TPs, and thus is mainly divided into three parts.

This book brings together 12 chapters on a new stream of research examining complex phenomena in nonlinear systems-including engineering, physics, and social science.

Providing an elementary introduction to analytic continuation and monodromy, the first part of this volume applies these notions to the local and global study of complex linear differential equations, their formal solutions at singular points, their monodromy and their differential Galois groups.

With contributions from a number of pioneeringresearchers in the field, this collection is aimed not only at researchers andscientists in nonlinear dynamics but also at a broader audience interested inunderstanding and exploring how modern chaos theory has developed since thedays of Poincare.

This short primer offers non-specialist readers a concise, yetcomprehensive introduction to the field of classical fluids providing bothfundamental information and a number of selected topics to bridge the gapbetween the basics and ongoing research.

This book examines the theoretical and practical aspects of tribological process using synergy, fractal and multifractal methods, and the fractal and multifractal models of self-similar tribosystems developed on their basis.

Using the theory of impulsive differential equations, this book focuses on mathematical models which reflect current research in biology, population dynamics, neural networks and economics.

This book focuses on the analysis of cancer dynamics and the mathematically based synthesis of anticancer therapy.

The book summarizes the state-of-the-art of research on control of self-organizing nonlinear systems with contributions from leading international experts in the field.

This thesis proposes a novel Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategy, which modifies the usual MPC cost function in order to achieve a desirable sparse actuation.

This volume is devoted to the study of the Navier-Stokes equations, providing a comprehensive reference for a range of applications: from advanced undergraduate students to engineers and professional mathematicians involved in research on fluid mechanics, dynamical systems, and mathematical modeling.

This monograph presents a tactical planning approach for service network design in metropolitan areas.

This text is an introduction to the spectral theory of the Laplacian on compact or finite area hyperbolic surfaces.

This proceedings volume contains talks and poster presentations from the International Symposium "e;Self-Organization in Complex Systems: The Past, Present, and Future of Synergetics"e;, which took place at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, an Institute of Advanced Studies, in Delmenhorst, Germany, during the period November 13 - 16, 2012.

This book presents atheory as well as methods to understand and to purposively influence complexsystems.

The book discusses new algorithms capable ofsearching for, tracking, mapping and providing a visualization of invisiblesubstances.

This book presents a systematic overview of cutting-edge research in the field of parametric modeling of personal income and wealth distribution, which allows one to represent how income/wealth is distributed within a given population.

This book is a concise navigator across the history of cybernetics, its state-of-the-art and prospects.

This fascinating, colourful  book offers in-depth insights and first-hand working experiences in the production of art works, using simple computational models with rich morphological behaviour, at the edge of mathematics, computer science, physics and biology.

The book investigates stability theory in terms of two different measure, exhibiting the advantage of employing families of Lyapunov functions and treats the theory of a variety of inequalities, clearly bringing out the underlying theme.

This thesis both broadens and deepens our understanding of the Brownian world.

This atlas leads the reader through the adult autopsy process, and its common variations, with a large number of high-quality macroscopic photographs and concise accompanying text.

In this book, the authors propose efficient characterizations of the non-convex regions that appear in many control problems, such as those involving collision/obstacle avoidance and, in a broader sense, in the description of feasible sets for optimization-based control design involving contradictory objectives.

This book presents a framework for the control of networked systems utilizing submodular optimization techniques.

This book is the offspring of a summer school school "e;Macroscopic andlarge scalephenomena: coarse graining, mean field limits and ergodicity , which washeld in 2012 at the University of Twente, the Netherlands.

Thisbook describes the struggle to introduce a mechanism that enablesnext-generation information systems to maintain themselves.

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This book mostly results from a selection of papers presented during the 11th IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, which took place in Grenoble, France, February 4 - 6, 2013.

This book contains all refereed papers that were accepted to the sixth edition of the Complex Systems Design & Management Paris (CSD&M Paris 2015) international conference which took place in Paris (France) on November 23-25, 2015.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the modelling of operational risk using possibility theory.

In this monograph the authors present Newton-type, Newton-like and other numerical methods, which involve fractional derivatives and fractional integral operators, for the first time studied in the literature.

This book unifies a large part of the vast body of Husserlian phenomenology using a relatively simple set of dynamical laws.

This book introduces a newset of orthogonal hybrid functions (HF) which approximates time functions in apiecewise linear manner which is very suitable for practical applications.

This book deals with optimization methods as tools for decision making and control in the presence of model uncertainty.

This volume is a tutorial for the study of dynamical systems on networks.

This book is devoted to Slime mould Physarum polycephalum, which is a large single cell capable for distributed sensing, concurrent information processing, parallel computation and decentralized actuation.

The book covers nonlinear physical problems and mathematical modeling, including molecular biology, genetics, neurosciences, artificial intelligence with classical problems in mechanics and astronomy and physics.

This book explores event-based estimation problems.

This new edition provides an up-to-date coverage of important theoretical models in the scheduling literature as well as  significant scheduling problems that occur in the real world.

This book covers the modelling of human behaviour in the education and labour markets, which due to their interdependency are viewed as one system.

This book introduces and reviews recent advances inthe field in a comprehensive and non-technical way by focusing on the potentialof emerging citizen-science and social-computation frameworks, coupled with thelatest theoretical and modeling tools developed by physicists, mathematicians,computer and social scientists to analyse, interpret and visualize complex datasets.

This research aims to achieve a fundamental understanding of synchronization and its interplay with the topology of complex networks.

This book presents a collection of authoritative contributions on the concept of time in early twentieth-century philosophy.

This introductory text presents the basic aspects and most important features of various types of resonances and anti-resonances in dynamical systems.

This self-contained text develops a Markov chain approach that makes the rigorous analysis of a class of microscopic models that specify the dynamics of complex systems at the individual level possible.

This book presents recent advances, new ideas and novel techniques related to the field of nonlinear dynamics, including localized pattern formation, self-organization and chaos.

For the first time, a textbook that brings together classical predictive control with treatment of up-to-date robust and stochastic techniques.