System Theory category: 437 books
Linear Stochastic Systems
A Geometric Approach to Modeling, Estimation and Identification
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This book presents a treatise on the theory and modeling of second-order stationary processes, including an exposition on selected application areas that are important in the engineering and applied sciences. The foundational issues regarding stationary processes dealt with in the beginning of the...
Control of Partial Differential Equations
Cetraro, Italy 2010, Editors: Piermarco Cannarsa, Jean-Michel Coron
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
The term “control theory” refers to the body of results - theoretical, numerical and algorithmic - which have been developed to influence the evolution of the state of a given system in order to meet a prescribed performance criterion. Systems of interest to control theory may be of very different...
Physiological Control Systems
Analysis, Simulation, and Estimation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
A guide to common control principles and how they are used to characterize a variety of physiological mechanisms
The second edition of Physiological Control Systems offers an updated and comprehensive resource that reviews the fundamental concepts of classical control theory and how engineering...
by Shaoyuan Li, Yi Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A comprehensive examination of DMPC theory and its technological applications
• A comprehensive examination of DMPC theory and its technological applications from basic through to advanced level
• A systematic introduction to DMPC technology providing classic DMPC coordination strategies,...
by René Vidal, Yi Ma, Shankar Sastry
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the latest advances in the mathematical theory and computational tools for modeling high-dimensional data drawn from one or multiple low-dimensional subspaces (or manifolds) and potentially corrupted by noise, gross errors, or outliers. This challenging...
The Innovation Butterfly
Managing Emergent Opportunities and Risks During Distributed Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Product and service innovations are the result of mutually interacting creative and coordination tasks within a system that has to balance technical decisions, marketplace taste, personnel management, and stakeholder commitment. The constituent elements of such systems are often scattered across multiple...
The Physics of Stocks and Flows of Energy Systems
Applications in Energy Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Using a system dynamics approach, this book illustrates the physics of fundamental accumulation processes (stocks and flows) across the demand and supply sectors of energy systems. Examples of system dynamics simulation models are presented where these accumulation processes are driving the behavior...
by Mirza Tariq Hamayun, Christopher Edwards, Halim Alwi
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The key attribute of a Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) system is its ability to maintain overall system stability and acceptable performance in the face of faults and failures within the feedback system. In this book Integral Sliding Mode (ISM) Control Allocation (CA) schemes for FTC are described,...
Recent Advancements in System Modelling Applications
Proceedings of National Systems Conference 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The book is a collection of peer-reviewed scientific papers submitted by active researchers in the 36th National System Conference (NSC 2012). NSC is an annual event of the Systems Society of India (SSI), primarily oriented to strengthen the systems movement and its applications for the welfare of...
The Green Marble
Earth System Science and Global Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Humans have difficulty thinking at the global scale. Yet as we come to understand our planet as a single, interconnected, complex system and encounter compelling evidence of human impact on Earth’s climate and biosphere, the need for a truly global effort is increasingly urgent. In this concise...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
A real-time system is a complex system which is an integral part of an industrial or experimental system, a vehicle or a construction machine. The peculiarity of these systems is that they are driven by real-time targets in distributed environments.
Command-control for Real-time Systems presents the...
by Andrzej Świerniak, Marek Kimmel, Jaroslaw Smieja
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
This book focuses on the analysis of cancer dynamics and the mathematically based synthesis of anticancer therapy. It summarizes the current state-of-the-art in this field and clarifies common misconceptions about mathematical modeling in cancer. Additionally, it encourages closer cooperation between...
Grammar of Complexity
From Mathematics to a Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
The book is an introduction, for both graduate students and newcomers to the field of the modern theory of mesoscopic complex systems, time series, hypergraphs and graphs, scaled random walks, and modern information theory. As these are applied for the exploration and characterization of complex systems....
by Harry G. Kwatny, Karen Miu-Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Whereas power systems have traditionally been designed with a focus on protecting them from routine component failures and atypical user demand, we now also confront the fact that deliberate attack intended to cause maximum disruption is a real possibility. In response to this changing environment,...