From the preface: "These proceedings contain 73 contributed papers selected from among those presented at the 13th IFIP Conference System Modelling and Optimization, Tokyo, Japan, August 31 - September 4, 1987, as well as 4 papers for the plenary sessions of the Conference. The aim of the conference was to discuss recent advances in the mathematical representation of engineering, sociotechnical, socioeconomic systems as well as in the optimization of their performances."

This research monograph gives a complete discussion of the theory of the discrete-time hyperbolic map. Both scalar and matrix representations are considered. The dynamics of the map are analyzed and discussions of stability, quasiperiodicity, and chaos are included. Several applications are discusssed, the most important being the discrete-time linear time-invariant quadratic regulator. The results obtained from this analysis are then extended to the continuous-time linear regulator. A discussion of the linear quadratic regulator with negative state weighting provides some important insights...

The main objectives of this book are a) to provide a refe- rence book for teaching graduate and undergraduate students in control systems, distributedAI, computer integrated ma- nufacturing, AI in engineering applications and computer science, b) to help professional research staff to trace the up-to-date technology developed in above areas; and c) to provide a self-instruction tutoring book for retraining en- gineers in industry. In order to accomplish the above objec- tives this book provides the following special features: 1. fundamental knowledge about intelligent control and integra- ted...

These lecture notes focus on the synthesis of robust con- trollers for feedback systems, in the presence of unstruc- tured perturbations. It is assumed, as a prerequisites, that the reader is familiar with the basic linear system and au- tomatic control concepts. In part I interpolation theory is used to solve various single-input-single-output (SISO) ro- bust control problems. While the interpolation approach is awkward for multivariable systems, it provides a very natu- ral and simple approach for SISO systems. In particular the interpolation approach requires only elementary knowledge of...

The book is concerned with the problems of dynamic systems control in conditions of uncertainty caused by the lack of adequate a priori data on control objects' properties. Its special feature is the use of a priori estimates of indeter- mined quantities on the form of sets. A unique method of ad- aptive control systems construction is described. A con- structional algorithm for solving parametric identification problems is suggested which allows guaranteed estimate to be received in the form of some set. The application of game approach tothe statement and solution of control synthesis...

The working conference dealt with recent developments in the field of modelling and optimization and with knowledge based decision support systems. This contributed to the realiza- tion of the aims of the working group 7.6 which are: - to promote theoretical research in the field of optimization including mathematical programming and optimal control; -to encourage the development of sophisticated knowledge based systems in which refined optimization models and algorithms are used; - to contribute to the exchange and dissemination of information and collective experience among the inter-...

This volume consists of 24 papers submitted for publication by the invited speakers of the IFIP International Conference on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and their Ap- plications. Most of them are research papers, however, a few surveys written by world renowed experts are also included. The aim of the conference was to bring together mathematici- ans, physicists and engineers representing academic as well as industrial fields, interested in the theory and applica- tions of SPDE's. The field of SPDE's is one of the most dy- namically developing areas at the cross roads of...

Electrophotography and Development Physics focuses on the complicated and increasingly important technology found in photocopiers and laser printers. An introduction chapter acquaints the reader with the technical history of electrophotography, its current and projected markets, and also alternative related copying and printing technologies. A concise descriptionof the physics of the complete electrophotgraphic process is followed by an in-depth treatment of static electricity. The three types of developmentsystems (two component, monocomponent, and liquid), and their associated charging...

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.

This book provides, in a unified framework, an updated and rather comprehensive treatment contered on the theory of ot- pimal control with quadratic cost functional for abstract linear systems with application to boundary/point control problems for partial differential equations (distributed pa- rameter systems). The book culminates with the analysisof differential and algebraic Riccati equations which arise in the pointwisefe- edback synthesis of the optimal pair. It incorporates the critical topics of optimal irregularity of solutions to mi- xed problems for partial differential equations,...