Product Description: This volume deals with controllability and observability properties of nonlinear systems, as well as various ways to obtain input-output representations. The emphasis is on fundamental notions as (controlled) invariant distributions and submanifolds, together with algorithms to compute the required feedbacks...read more

Product Description: Overview This book is written is such a way that the level of mathematical sophistication builds up from chapter to chapter. It has been reorganized into four parts: basic analysis, analysis of feedback systems, advanced analysis, and nonlinear feedback control...read more

Product Description: This is one of the first books presenting stabilizability of nonlinear systems in a well-organized and detailed way, the problem, its motivation, features and results. Control systems defined by ordinary differential equations are dealt with...read more

Product Description: The interdisciplinary field of nonlinear modeling has grown rapidly over the last decade due to the increasing availability of computer resources, which allows for the collection of increasingly large data sets and the analysis of the data sets with numerically intensive algorithms...read more

Product Description: Comprises the proceedings of the workshop on Optimization and Nonlinear Analysis held at the Technion in March 1990, organized by the Binational US-Israel Scientific Research Fund and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Mathematics at the Technion.

Product Description: This book, which is concerned with algorithms for solving large-scale non-linear optimization problems, is the only complete source of documentation for the software package LANCELOT and will mainly be used as a manual in conjunction with the software package...read more

Product Description: The main contents and character of the monograph did not change with respect to the first edition. However, within most chapters we incorporated quite a number of modifications which take into account the recent development of the field, the very valuable suggestions and comments that we received from numerous colleagues and students as well as our own experience while using the book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book discusses theoretical approaches to the study of optimal control problems governed by non-linear evolutions - including semi-linear equations, variational inequalities and systems with phase transitions. It also provides algorithms for solving non-linear parabolic systems and multiphase Stefan-like systems...read more

Product Description: Techniques of optimization are applied in many problems in economics, automatic control, engineering, etc. and a wealth of literature is devoted to this subject. The first computer applications involved linear programming problems with simple structure and comparatively uncomplicated nonlinear problems: These could be solved readily with the computational power of existing machines, more than 20 years ago...read more

Product Description: Written for specialists working in optimization, mathematical programming, or control theory. The general theory of path-following and potential reduction interior point polynomial time methods, interior point methods, interior point methods for linear and quadratic programming, polynomial time methods for nonlinear convex programming, efficient computation methods for control problems and variational inequalities, and acceleration of path-following methods are covered...read more

Product Description: The focus of these books is upon the new achievements in mathematical programming, modeling and their implications for optimization technology. The emphasis is on the practical value of optimization methods. Examples in the following areas are presented and discussed: production, distribution and transportation scheduling; product and process design; financial investment and resource allocation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Centring on abnormal psychology, this edition features new coverage of eating disorders, multi-cultural concerns, substance abuse and addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder. It also includes a major study on suicide and case studies.

Product Description: This monograph gives a quantitative theory of nonlinear systems for the investigation of large-scale systems with interconnected finite - dimensional subsystems. The comparison principle, established by the author, is used to give some algorithms for deriving theorems concerning different dynamical properties of nonlinear systems, so that there is a possibility of obtaining hundreds of new theorems and generalizations by computer...read more

Product Description: This volume gives an overview of the recent ideas in studies of nonlinear waves and pattern formation in physical, chemical and biological active media. The papers deal with spatio-temporal growth of bacterial colonies, pattern formation and pattern recognition, pattern selection in Benard-Marangoni convection, chemical turbulence and parametric resonance of vortices in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, oscillatory electrodissolution of metals, discretely-coupled electronic arrays, optical space-time complexity, spiral waves in nematic liquid crystals and several approaches to control chaos...read more

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Product Description: This text deals with a series of topics on the cutting edge of nonlinear science, striking a balance between theory and experiment. It consists of two introductory presentations on dynamical systems and fluid dynamics and six chapters on advanced research...read more

Adopting an intuitive, yet rigorous approach, this work provides extensive coverage of nonlinear systems and control theory. Student-friendly language, an abundance of detailed, worked examples, and progressively more sophisticated mathematics make the text appropriate and accessible to a range of student interests and levels. This edition extends coverage of input-output stability, feedback linearization and small-theorem, and adds coverage of passivity approach, back stepping control design, sliding mode control, numerical construction of phase portraits, comparison principle, comparison method, input-output linearization, differential geometric approach, extended linearization and over 100 new problems. (view table of contents)

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