Cybernetics and systems theory

In this book, the reader is introduced to a variety of problem statements in classical optimal control, in optimal control problems with non-scalar performance criteria, and in optimal estimation and filtering.

This pages include the results derived during last ten years about both suppression and synchronization of chaotic -continuous time- systems.

Over the past decades a considerable interest has been concentrated on problems involving signals and systems that depend on more than one variable.

The study of the magnetic fields of the Earth and Sun, as well as those of other planets, stars, and galaxies, has a long history and a rich and varied literature, including in recent years a number of review articles and books dedicated to the dynamo theories of these fields.

Four previous editions of this book were published in 1989, 1992, 1999, and 2001.

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Superconductors have been known about since the turn ofthe century.

"e;Neural Networks Theory is a major contribution to the neural networks literature.

Ongoing advances in science and engineering enable mankind to design and operate increasingly sophisticated systems.

This book originated from a course given at the Univcrsidad Aut6noma of Madrid in the Spring of 1994 and in the Universidad Complutense of Madrid in 1995.

The ideas of uncertain variables based on uncertain logics have been introduced and developed for a wide class of uncertain systems.

Suspensions of magnetic nanoparticles or ferrofluids can be effectively controlled by magnetic fields, which opens up a fascinating field for basic research into fluid dynamics as well as a host of applications in engineering and medicine.

This monography is, in the first place, a commented guide that invites the reader to plunge into the thrilling world ofzeta functions and their appli- cations in physics.

Many applications of acoustic signal processing, such as teleconferencing and surveillance systems, require an estimate of several parameters present in the observed acoustic wavefield.

Though PID control has a long history as much as its life force since Ziegler and Nichols published the empirical tuning rules in 1942, surprisingly, it has never been changed in the structure itself.

The fourth edition contains again various revisions and updates throughout the whole book.

Thismonographisconcernedwithdescriptionanddesignfortwo-dimensional and three-dimensional images; it will be of special interest to researchers and graduate students who specialized in image processing and system theory.

It has been suggested that the big questions of science are answered - that science has entered a "e;twilight age"e; where all the important knowledge is known and only the details need mopping up.

The well known transport laws of Navier-Stokes and Fourier fail for the simulation of processes on lengthscales in the order of the mean free path of a particle that is when the Knudsen number is not small enough.

How can our societies be stabilized in a crisis?

With increasing demands for efficiency and product quality and progressing integration of automatic control systems in high-cost mechatronic and safety-critical processes, the field of supervision (or monitoring), fault detection and fault diagnosis plays an important role.

The main aim of this book is to present a unified, systematic description of basic and advanced problems, methods and algorithms of the modern c- trol theory considered as a foundation for the design of computer control and management systems.

Thermodynamics is an important tool to interpreting the conditions at which natural geomaterial equilibrate.

A macroscopic system consists of a tremendous number of microscopic atoms and molecules.

Significant, and usually unwelcome, surprises, such as floods, financial crisis, epileptic seizures, or material rupture, are the topics of Extreme Events in Nature and Society.

This monograph presents new model-based design methods for trajectory planning, feedback stabilization, state estimation, and tracking control of distributed-parameter systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs).

This thesis presents a novel coarse-grained model of DNA, in which bases are represented as rigid nucleotides.

This book comprises a selection of the presentations made at the "e;Workshop on Dynamics and Control of Micro and Nanoscale Systems"e; held at IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland, on the 10th and 11th of December 2009.

This volume describes mesoscopic systems with classically chaotic dynamics using semiclassical methods which combine elements of classical dynamics and quantum interference effects.

"e;Discontinuous Dynamical Systems"e; presents a theory of dynamics and flow switchability in discontinuous dynamical systems, which can be as the mathematical foundation for a new dynamics of dynamical system networks.

The above examples should make clear the necessity of understanding the mechanism of vibrations and waves in order to control them in an optimal way.

This work addresses time-delay in complex nonlinear systems and, in particular, its applications in complex networks; its role in control theory and nonlinear optics are also investigated.

Predicting thermodynamic quantities for chemically realistic systems on the basis of atomistic calculations is still, even today, a nontrivial task.

This text presents the practical application of queueing theory results for the design and analysis of manufacturing and production systems.

We are living in an ever more complex world, an epoch where human actions can accordingly acquire far-reaching potentialities.

The major goal of the book is to create an environment for matching different d- ciplinary approaches to studying economic growth.

Control of multivariable industrial plants and processes has been a challenging and fascinating task for researchers in this field.

Papers in this collection partly represent the set of talks that were presented at Texas Tech University on the occasion of Daya's memorial workshop in the year 2007.

Dealing with Uncertainties is an innovative monograph that lays special emphasis on the deductive approach to uncertainties and on the shape of uncertainty distributions.

In today's world, smart cards play an increasingly important role in everyday life.

This book consists of two parts, the first dealing with dissipative structures and the second with the structure and physics of chaos.

Computational Intelligence: Principles, Techniques and Applications presents both theories and applications of computational intelligence in a clear, precise and highly comprehensive style.

Discrete H Optimization is concerned with the study of H optimization for digital signal processing and discrete-time control systems.

The tracking/rejection of periodic signals constitutes a wide field of research in the control theory and applications area.

This monograph deals with control problems of discrete-time dynamical systems, which include linear and nonlinear input/output relations.