Fuzzy Logic -- Knowledge and Fuzzy Control -- Control of the Service Activities -- Control of the Queue Discipline -- Control of the Admission of Customers -- Coordinating Multiple Control Policies -- Applications of Fuzzy Queuing Control to the Internet -- Closure.Every day we experience the annoyance of having to queue. The phenomenon is becoming more prevalent in our increasingly congested a…
Preliminaries -- Perturbations of Linear Systems -- Linear Systems with Slowly Varying Coefficients -- Linear Dissipative and Piecewise Constant Systems -- Nonlinear Systems with Autonomous Linear Parts -- The Aizerman Problem -- Nonlinear Systems with Time-Variant Linear Parts -- Essentially Nonlinear Systems -- The Lur'e Type Systems -- The Aizerman Type Problem for Nonautonomous Systems -- I…
Evolvable Robots -- Learning for Cooperative Transportation by Autonomous Humanoid Robots -- Evolution, Robustness and Adaptation of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Snake-like Robot -- Evolution of Khepera Robotic Controllers with Hierarchical Genetic Programming Techniques -- Evolving Controllers for Miniature Robots -- Evolvable Hardware Synthesis -- Evolutionary Synthesis of Synchronous …
Dielectric Properties of Water and Moist Substances -- Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Water and Aqueous Solutions -- Water in Polymers and Biopolymers Studied by Dielectric Techniques -- Thermal and Geometrical Effects on Bulk Permittivity of Porous Mixtures Containing Bound Water -- Model Systems for Materials with High Dielectric Losses in Aquametry -- Moisture Measurement in Multi-La…
Bases of Petri Nets -- Properties of Petri Nets -- Non-Autonomous Petri Nets -- Autonomous Continuous and Hybrid Petri Nets -- Timed Continuous Petri Nets -- Timed Hybrid Petri Nets -- Hybrid Petri Nets with Speeds Depending on the C-Marking.This monograph presents a well written and clearly organized introduction in the standard methods of discrete, continuous and hybrid Petri Nets. Starting f…
Foundation -- Applications and Tools -- Image Representation -- Random Variables and Fields -- Neighborhood Operations -- Multiscale Representation -- Image Formation and Preprocessing -- Quantitative Visualization -- Image Formation -- 3-D Imaging -- Digitization, Sampling, Quantization -- Pixel Processing -- Feature Extraction -- Averaging -- Edges -- Simple Neighborhoods -- Motion -- Texture…
The drug discovery process -- Imaging modalities: principles and information content -- Magnetic resonance and fluorescence based molecular imaging technologies -- Studying molecular and cellular processes in the intact organism -- Disease phenotyping: structural and functional readouts -- Evaluation of drug candidates: Efficacy readouts during lead optimization -- Risk identification and manag…
General Information About Measurements -- Measuring Instruments and Their Properties -- Prerequisites for the Analysis of the Inaccuracy of Measurements and for Synthesis of Their Components -- Statistical Methods for Experimental Data Processing -- Direct Measurements -- Indirect Measurements -- Examples of Measurements and Measurement Data Processing -- Combined Measurements -- Combining the …
The Geometry of Sensor Information Utilization in Nonlinear Feedback Control of Vehicle Formations -- Determining Environmental Boundaries: Asynchronous Communication and Physical Scales -- Adaptive and Distributed Coordination Algorithms for Mobile Sensing Networks -- Optimization-Based Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems -- Modeling and Analysis of Cooperative Control Systems for Uninhabited Aut…
Basic Principles -- Foundation of Control Systems Design -- Computational Methods (with Numerical Examples) -- Matching Conditions for Transient Inputs -- Matching to Environment Generating Persistent Disturbances -- LMI-based Design -- Design of a Sampled-data Control System -- Search Methods (with Numerical Tests) -- A Numerical Evaluation of the Node Array Method -- A Simulated Annealing Ine…