System Theory: Modeling, Analysis and Control contains thirty-three
scientific papers covering a wide range of topics in systems and
control. These papers have been contributed to a symposium organized to
celebrate Sanjoy K. Mitter's 65th birthday. The following research
topics are addressed: distributed parameter systems, stochastic control,
filtering and estimation, optimization and optimal control, image
processing and vision, hierarchical systems and hybrid control,
nonlinear systems, and linear systems. Also included are three survey
papers on optimization, nonlinear filtering, and nonlinear systems.
Recent advances are reported on the behavioral approach to systems, the
relationship between differential games and robust control, estimation
of diffusion processes, Markov processes, optimal control, hybrid
control, stochastic control, spectral estimation, nonconvex quadratic
programming, robust control, control algorithms and quantized linear
systems. Innovative explorations are carried out on quantum systems from
a control theory perspective, option valuation and hedging,
three-dimensional medical visualization, computational structure biology
image processing, and hierarchical approaches to complex systems, flow
control, scheduling and force feedback in fluid mechanics. The contents
reflect on past research accomplishments, current research activity, and
future research directions in systems and control theory.