1. Introduction; 2. Enzymatic adaptation; 3. Early development of cybernetic models; 4. Revisiting cybernetic laws via optimal control theory; 5. Towards modeling of metabolic networks; 6. The hybrid cybernetic model (HCM); 7. The lumped hybrid cybernetic model (L-HCM); 8. Predicting dynamic behavior of mutant strains with L-HCM; 9. Nonlinear analysis of cybernetic models; 10. Metabolic modeling landscape; References; Index.