By Brian D. O. Anderson (auth.), Giorgio Picci, David S. Gilliam (eds.)
This ebook is a set of essays dedicated partly to new examine direc tions in structures, networks, and keep watch over conception, and partly to the becoming interplay of those disciplines with new sectors of engineering and technologies like coding, desktop imaginative and prescient, and hybrid platforms. those are new parts of swift progress and of accelerating value in smooth expertise. The essays, written through world-leading specialists within the box, reproduce and extend the plenary and minicoursejminisymposia invited lectures which have been introduced on the Mathematical idea of Networks and platforms Sym posium (MTNS-98), held in Padova, Italy, on July 6-10, 1998. structures, regulate, and networks concept has permeated the advance of a lot of today's know-how. The impression has been noticeable some time past fifty years during the dramatic growth and achievements of the aerospace and avionics undefined, via approach keep an eye on and manufacturing unit au tomation, robotics, communique signs research and synthesis, and, extra lately, even finance, to call simply the main noticeable purposes. the speculation has built from the early section of its background whilst the ba sic instruments have been hassle-free complicated research, Laplace rework, and linear differential equations, to provide day, the place the math levels broadly from sensible research, PDE's, summary algebra, stochastic techniques and differential geometry. without reference to the actual instruments, besides the fact that, the ba sic unifying paradigms of suggestions, balance, optimum keep watch over, and recursive filtering, have remained the majority of the sector and stay the elemental motivation for the speculation, coming from the true world.