Modeling, estimation and control : Festschrift in honor of Giorgio Picci on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday

Front Matter....Pages I-XXVI
Coefficients of Variations in Analysis of Macro-policy Effects: An Example of Two-Parameter Poisson-Dirichlet Distributions....Pages 1-4
How Many Experiments Are Needed to Adapt?....Pages 5-14
A Mutual Information Based Distance for Multivariate Gaussian Processes....Pages 15-33
Differential Forms and Dynamical Systems....Pages 35-44
An Algebraic Framework for Bayes Nets of Time Series....Pages 45-57
A Birds Eye View on System Identification....Pages 59-71
Further Results on the Byrnes-Georgiou-Lindquist Generalized Moment Problem....Pages 73-83
Factor Analysis and Alternating Minimization....Pages 85-96
Tensored Polynomial Models....Pages 97-112
Distances Between Time-Series and Their Autocorrelation Statistics....Pages 113-122
Global Identifiability of Complex Models, Constructed from Simple Submodels....Pages 123-133
Identification of Hidden Markov Models - Uniform LLN-s....Pages 135-150
Identifiability and Informative Experiments in Open and Closed-Loop Identification....Pages 151-170
On Interpolation and the Kimura-Georgiou Parametrization....Pages 171-182
The Control of Error in Numerical Methods....Pages 183-192
Contour Reconstruction and Matching Using Recursive Smoothing Splines....Pages 193-206
Role of LQ Decomposition in Subspace Identification Methods....Pages 207-220
Canonical Operators on Graphs....Pages 221-237
Prediction-Error Approximation by Convex Optimization....Pages 239-249
Patchy Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Partial Differential Equations....Pages 251-270
A Geometric Assignment Problem for Robotic Networks....Pages 271-284
On the Distance Between Non-stationary Time Series....Pages 285-299
Stochastic Realization for Stochastic Control with Partial Observations....Pages 301-314
Experiences from Subspace System Identification - Comments from Process Industry Users and Researchers....Pages 315-327
Recursive Computation of the MPUM....Pages 329-344
New Development of Digital Signal Processing Via Sampled-Data Control Theory....Pages 345-355
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