Cybernetics and systems theory

The 22nd International Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER 2024) pushes the boundaries of systems engineering research and responds to new challenges for systems engineering.

This volume presents a timely overview of control theory and related topics, such as the reconstruction problem, the stability of PDEs, and the Calderon problem.

The 22nd International Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER 2024) pushes the boundaries of systems engineering research and responds to new challenges for systems engineering.

This book offers a comprehensive yet approachable introduction to essential mathematical concepts, tailored specifically for undergraduate and first-year graduate students in Economics and Social Sciences.

This book serves as a comprehensive introduction to nonlinear complex systems through the application of machine learning methods.

This book provides an overview of recent developments of complexity theory within the realm of social sciences.

This book provides an overview of software security analysis in a DevOps cycle including requirements formalisation, verification and continuous monitoring.

This book examines the problems of causal determinism and limited completeness in systems theory.

This book delves into the intricacies of transformative processes, focusing particularly on radical and disruptive changes that shape markets, social systems, organizations, cities, and service ecosystems.

This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 16th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC2024), held in Datong, Shanxi, China on Aug.

This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 16th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC2024), held in Datong, Shanxi, China on Aug.

This monograph presents a mathematically rigorous and accessible treatment of the interaction between information, decision, control, and probability in single-agent and multi-agent systems.

This book is a comprehensive guide to methodologies for analyzing reliability and optimizing maintenance in complex systems, spanning from initial design to operational stages.

Complex systems seem to magically emerge from the interactions of their parts.

This book delves deep into the world of low-power Internet of  Things (IoT) node positioning, in an era where IoT is revolutionizing connectivity and communication.

This book presents a comprehensive discussion of the mechanical modelling and control of multicopters, more commonly referred to as drones.

This book presents a comprehensive discussion of the mechanical modelling and control of multicopters, more commonly referred to as drones.

This book provides the dynamics of non-equilibrium dissipative systems with asymmetric interactions (Asymmetric Dissipative System; ADS).

This monograph presents a mathematically rigorous and accessible treatment of the interaction between information, decision, control, and probability in single-agent and multi-agent systems.

This book presents a unique approach to the design and analysis of beneficial nonlinearity, which can take an important and critical role in engineering systems and thus cannot be simply ignored in structural design, dynamic response analysis, and parameter selection.

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For nonlinear dynamical systems, which represent the majority of real devices, any study of stability requires the investigation of the domain of attraction of an equilibrium point, i.

This monograph details basic concepts and tools fundamental for the analysis and synthesis of linear systems subject to actuator saturation and developments in recent research.

After a brief introduction to the main law of physics and fundamental concepts inherent in electromechanical conversion, Vector Control of Induction Machines introduces the standard mathematical models for induction machines - whichever rotor technology is used - as well as several squirrel-cage induction machine vector-control strategies.

Human-in-the-Loop Simulations is a compilation of articles from experts in the design, development, and use of human-in-the-loop simulations.

This book presents an innovative control system design process motivated by renewable energy electric grid integration problems.

Networked and Distributed Predictive Control presents rigorous, yet practical, methods for the design of networked and distributed predictive control systems - the first book to do so.

An extension of different lectures given by the authors, Local Bifurcations, Center Manifolds, and Normal Forms in Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of these topics.

Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks presents a systematic new approach to the investigation of Boolean control networks.

The safe management of the complex distributed systems and critical infrastructures which constitute the backbone of modern industry and society entails identifying and quantifying their vulnerabilities to design adequate protection, mitigation, and emergency action against failure.

Although the problem of nonlinear controller design is as old as that of linear controller design, the systematic design methods framed in response are more sparse.

Adaptive Control (second edition) shows how a desired level of system performance can be maintained automatically and in real time, even when process or disturbance parameters are unknown and variable.

This book details the analysis of continuous- and discrete-time dynamical systems described by differential and difference equations respectively.

Recently, the subject of nonlinear control systems analysis has grown rapidly and this book provides a simple and self-contained presentation of their stability and feedback stabilization which enables the reader to learn and understand major techniques used in mathematical control theory.

Nonlinear Model Predictive Control is a thorough and rigorous introduction to nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) for discrete-time and sampled-data systems.

System Identification shows the student reader how to approach the system identification problem in a systematic fashion.

From power plants to sugar refining, model predictive control (MPC) schemes have established themselves as the preferred control strategies for a wide variety of processes.

The domain of non-extensive thermostatistics has been subject to intensive research over the past twenty years and has matured significantly.

There are plenty of challenging and interesting problems open for investigation in the field of switched systems.

Distributed Coordination of Multi-agent Networks introduces problems, models, and issues such as collective periodic motion coordination, collective tracking with a dynamic leader, and containment control with multiple leaders, and explores ideas for their solution.

Supply Chain Simulation allows readers to practice modeling and simulating a multi-level supply chain.

Stabilization of Navier-Stokes Flows presents recent notable progress in the mathematical theory of stabilization of Newtonian fluid flows.

This book nds its origin in the WIDE PhD School on Networked Control Systems, which we organized in July 2009 in Siena, Italy.

This text is a rigorous introduction to ergodic theory, developing the machinery of conditional measures and expectations, mixing, and recurrence.

Complex systems seem to magically emerge from the interactions of their parts.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2024, held in Aberystwyth, UK, April 3-5, 2024 and co-located with the EvoStar events, EvoCOP, EvoMUSART, and EvoApplications.

This book contains all refereed papers accepted during the 14th International Conference on Complex Systems Design & Management CSD&M 2023 that took place in Beijing, People's Republic of China by the end October 2023.

Starting at the level of graduate students, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field of turbulence.

This book, the fifth of 15 related monographs, presents systematically a theory of product-cubic nonlinear systems with constant and single-variable linear vector fields.