作者: Jan C. Willems

System and Control theory is one of the most exciting areas of contemporary engineering mathematics. From the analysis of Watt’s steam engine governor – which enabled the Industrial Revolution – to t …

This book contains the text of the plenary lectures and the mini-courses of the European Control Conference (ECC’93) held in Groningen, the Netherlands, June 2S-July 1, 1993. However, the book is not …

This Festschrift, published on the occasion of the sixtieth birthday of Yutaka – mamoto (‘YY’ as he is occasionally casually referred to), contains a collection of articles by friends, colleagues, an …

Conceived by Count Jacopo Francesco Riccati more than a quarter of a millennium ago, the Riccati equation has been widely studied in the subsequent centuries. Since its introduction in control theory …

The problem of obtaining dynamical models directly from an observed time-series occurs in many fields of application. There are a number of possible approaches to this problem. In this volume a numbe …