Positive Systems: Proceedings of the third Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Positive Systems: Theory and Applications (POSTA 2009) Valencia, Spain, September 2-4, 2009

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Reputation Systems and Nonnegativity....Pages 3-16
Lyapunov Exponents and Uniform Weak Normally Repelling Invariant Sets....Pages 17-27
Reachability Analysis for Different Classes of Positive Systems....Pages 29-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
On the Positive LQ-Problem for Linear Discrete Time Systems....Pages 45-53
The Importance of Being Positive: Admissible Dynamics for Positive Systems....Pages 55-62
Detectability, Observability, and Asymptotic Reconstructability of Positive Systems....Pages 63-70
Stability Radii of Interconnected Positive Systems with Uncertain Couplings....Pages 71-81
Linear Operators Preserving the Set of Positive (Nonnegative) Polynomials....Pages 83-90
Convergence to Consensus by General Averaging....Pages 91-99
Stability and D-stability for Switched Positive Systems....Pages 101-109
On Positivity and Stability of Linear Volterra-Stieltjes Differential Systems....Pages 111-121
Eigenvalue Localization for Totally Positive Matrices....Pages 123-130
Positivity Preserving Model Reduction....Pages 131-139
The Minimum Energy Problem for Positive Discrete-Time Linear Systems with Fixed Final State....Pages 141-149
A Rollout Algorithm for Multichain Markov Decision Processes with Average Cost....Pages 151-162
Analysis of Degenerate Chemical Reaction Networks....Pages 163-171
 k -Switching Reachability Sets of Continuous-Time Positive Switched Systems....Pages 173-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Inverse-Positive Matrices with Checkerboard Pattern....Pages 185-194
Some Remarks on Links between Positive Invariance, Monotonicity, Strong Lumpability and Coherency in Max-Plus Algebra....Pages 195-204
Stability Analysis and Synthesis for Linear Positive Systems with Time-Varying Delays....Pages 205-215
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Linear Programming Approach for 2-D Stabilization and Positivity....Pages 217-232
An Algorithmic Approach to Orders of Magnitude in a Biochemical System....Pages 233-241
Structural Identifiability of Linear Singular Dynamic Systems....Pages 243-249
On Positivity of Discrete-Time Singular Systems and the Realization Problem....Pages 251-258
Multi-Point Iterative Methods for Systems of Nonlinear Equations....Pages 259-267
Identifiability of Nonaccessible Nonlinear Systems....Pages 269-277
Trajectory Tracking Control of a Timed Event Graph with Specifications Defined by a P-time Event Graph....Pages 279-290
Tropical Scaling of Polynomial Matrices....Pages 291-303
Scrutinizing Changes in the Water Demand Behavior....Pages 305-313
Characterization of Matrices with Nonnegative Group-Projector....Pages 315-320
Robust Design of Water Supply Systems through Evolutionary Optimization....Pages 321-330
Applications of Linear Co-positive Lyapunov Functions for Switched Linear Positive Systems....Pages 331-338
A Problem in Positive Systems Stability Arising in Topology Control....Pages 339-347
Control of Uncertain (min,+)-Linear Systems....Pages 349-357
On a Class of Stochastic Models of Cell Biology: Periodicity and Controllability....Pages 359-367
Implementation of 2D Strongly Autonomous Behaviors by Full and Partial Interconnections....Pages 369-378
Ordering of Matrices for Iterative Aggregation - Disaggregation Methods....Pages 379-385
The Positive Servomechanism Problem under LQcR Control....Pages 387-395
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