Robust Control (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, #183)
The aim of this workshop was to provide an opportunity for the discussion ofthe latest development of research and the exchange of opinions on robust control including H -control, parametric/structured approach to robust control, robust adaptive control, sampled-data control systems, and their applications.
Auxiliary Signal Design in Fault Detection and Diagnosis (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, #134)
by Xue J. Zhang
The object of this book is to present a systematic method for auxiliary signal design in fault detection and diagnosis. It covers systems that can be represented by linear or linearised multiple-input, multiple-output stochastic models. It is very illustrative since each new concept is demonstrated with simple examples and plots. Some fundamental problems in change detection have been investigated. A basic knowledge of probability theory, statistical inference, matrix and control theory is requi...
Thermodynamics Of Quantum Yang-mills Theory, The: Theory And Applications
by Ralf Hofmann
This latest edition enhances the material of the first edition with a derivation of the value of the action for each of the Harrington-Shepard calorons/anticalorons that are relevant for the emergence of the thermal ground state. Also included are discussions of the caloron center versus its periphery, the role of the thermal ground state in U(1) wave propagation, photonic particle-wave duality, and calculational intricacies and book-keeping related to one-loop scattering of massless modes in th...
In the past few decades, there has been a large amount of work on algorithms for linear network flow problems, special classes of network problems such as assignment problems (linear and quadratic), Steiner tree problem, topology network design and nonconvex cost network flow problems.Network optimization problems find numerous applications in transportation, in communication network design, in production and inventory planning, in facilities location and allocation, and in VLSI design.The purpo...
Reliability Engineering (Ispra Courses, #3)
Selbstorganisation in Der Zeit (Wissenschaftliche Taschenbuecher, Reihe Mathematik/Physik, Band 309)
by Werner Ebeling, Harald Engel, and Hanspeter Herzel
Advances in Fractional Calculus
In the last two decades, fractional (or non integer) differentiation has played a very important role in various fields such as mechanics, electricity, chemistry, biology, economics, control theory and signal and image processing. For example, in the last three fields, some important considerations such as modelling, curve fitting, filtering, pattern recognition, edge detection, identification, stability, controllability, observability and robustness are now linked to long-range dependence pheno...
An introductory primer to the field of logistics. In a globalized economy, new strategies, architectures, and technologies organizing flows of resources, goods, persons, and services have been developed, resulting in the development of a new market logic and even a new science. Logistics hasn't just altered our infrastructure and our landscapes, but also standardized labour laws and politics all over the globe. It has grown obvious that the word "logistics" covers more than the mere articulatio...
This book presents an introduction to Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT) which is an emerging field in the area of complex systems attracting the attention of researchers from disparate scientific communities. EGT allows one to represent and study several complex phenomena, such as the emergence of cooperation in social systems, the role of conformity in shaping the equilibrium of a population, and the dynamics in biological and ecological systems.Since EGT models belong to the area of complex syste...
Optimal Control Problems for Partial Differential Equations on Reticulated Domains (Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications)
by Peter I Kogut and G Nter R Leugering
In the development of optimal control, the complexity of the systems to which it is applied has increased significantly, becoming an issue in scientific computing. In order to carry out model-reduction on these systems, the authors of this work have developed a method based on asymptotic analysis. Moving from abstract explanations to examples and applications with a focus on structural network problems, they aim at combining techniques of homogenization and approximation.Optimal Control Problems...
Open Systems Science (Future of Learning, v. 5)
Open systems science is the methodology employed to manage and solve the problems in systems whose operation involves interaction with the outside world, as opposed to being 'closed' and complete within themselves. This new methodology was first announced at the 20th anniversary symposium of Sony CSL in 2008. Falling outside the direct scope of traditional science, an open system usually consists of multiple subsystems with varying numbers, relations and functions. Throughout the last decades, c...
Iron Has Memory, Rocks Breathe Slowly, Crystals Learn
by Keith Q. Owen
Formation Control of Multiple Autonomous Vehicle Systems
by Hugh H. T. Liu and Bo Zhu
This text explores formation control of vehicle systems and introduces three representative systems: space systems, aerial systems and robotic systems Formation Control of Multiple Autonomous Vehicle Systems offers a review of the core concepts of dynamics and control and examines the dynamics and control aspects of formation control in order to study a wide spectrum of dynamic vehicle systems such as spacecraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and robots. The text puts the focus on formation control t...
This book addresses two main problems with interconnections at the chip and package level: crosstalk and simultaneous switching noise. Its orientation is towards giving general information rather than a compilation of practical cases. Each chapter contains a list of references for the topics.
Unkonventionelle Betrachtungsweisen Zur Wirtschaftskrise
by Uwe Petersen
Die Wirtschaftskrisenphanomene erfordern eine unkonventionelle Beurteilung und entsprechend unkonventionelle Loesungsansatze. Denn nach ublicher wirtschaftspolitischer Analyse bleiben die Phanomene unverstandlich und greifen die gangigen wirtschaftspolitischen Massnahmen nur, wenn sie zur Verhinderung wirtschaftlicher Katastrophen - ebenfalls unkonventionell - so massiv zum Einsatz kommen, wie die 750 Mrd. zur Stutzung der gefahrdeten Lander der Eurozone. Die enorm wachsenden Staatsschulden und...
Ever since the discovery of the five platonic solids in ancient times, the study of symmetry and regularity has been one of the most fascinating aspects of mathematics. Quite often the arithmetical regularity properties of an object imply its uniqueness and the existence of many symmetries. This interplay between regularity and symmetry properties of graphs is the theme of this book. Starting from very elementary regularity properties, the concept of a distance-regular graph arises naturally as...
"Analytical System Dynamics: Modeling and Simulation" combines results from analytical mechanics and system dynamics to develop an approach to modeling constrained multidiscipline dynamic systems. This combination yields a modeling technique based on the energy method of Lagrange, which in turn, results in a set of differential-algebraic equations that are suitable for numerical integration. Using the modeling approach presented in this book enables one to model and simulate systems as diverse a...
Schur analysis originated with an 1917 article which associated to a function, which is analytic and contractive in the open unit disk, a sequence, finite or infinite, of numbers in the open unit disk, called Schur coefficients, often named reflection coefficients in signal processing. This volume comprises seven essays dedicated to the analysis of Schur and Caratheodory functions and to the solutions of problems for these classes.
The Advancement of Learning (Renaissance Library) (Everyman's University Paperbacks)
by Francis Bacon
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Design of Survivable Networks (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, #1531)
by Mechthild Stoer
The problem of designing a cost-efficient network that survives the failure of one or more nodes or edges of the network is critical to modern telecommunications engineering. The method developed in this book is designed to solve such problems to optimality. In particular, a cutting plane approach is described, based on polyhedral combinatorics, that is ableto solve real-world problems of this type in short computation time. These results are of interest for practitioners in the...
Following Karmarkar's 1984 linear programming algorithm, numerous interior-point algorithms have been proposed for various mathematical programming problems such as linear programming, convex quadratic programming and convex programming in general. This monograph presents a study of interior-point algorithms for the linear complementarity problem (LCP) which is known as a mathematical model for primal-dual pairs of linear programs and...