Product Description: The 11th International Federation of Automatic Control Symposium on System Identification (SYSID '97) was held from 8th to 11th July 1997 at Kitakyushu International Conference Center, Fukuoka, Japan.278 papers are included in these proceedings, covering various methods of different backgrounds, their target systems and applications: subspace methods, control-relevant identification and adaptive control, closed loop issues, neural network-based and fuzzy theory-based methods, application of signal processing to system identification; nonlinear, time-varying and continuous time systems as target systems; and many applications...read more

Product Description: In the past, technological as well as economic forces dominated the evolution of industrial structures: these factors have been treated extensively in numerous studies. However, another major factor which has begun to have a decisive influ­ ence on the performance of the chemical industry is technological risk and public and environmental health considerations, in particular those related to toxic and hazardous substances used in industrial production processes...read more

Product Description: These proceedings include papers presented at the VII-th Internatio­ nal Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making which was held in Kyoto/Japan on August 18-22, 1986. Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) has been a greatly import­ ant subject in many practical fields, for example, in planning, design, control and management in both private and public sectors...read more