Three Decades of Progress in Control Sciences: Dedicated to Chris Byrnes and Anders Lindquist

Front Matter....Pages I-XXII
Information Acquisition in the Exploration of Random Fields....Pages 1-17
A Computational Comparison of Alternatives to Including Uncertainty in Structured Population Models , ....Pages 19-33
Sorting: The Gauss Thermostat, the Toda Lattice and Double Bracket Equations , ....Pages 35-48
Rational Functions and Flows with Periodic Solutions....Pages 49-57
Dynamic Programming or Direct Comparison? , ....Pages 59-76
A Maximum Entropy Solution of the Covariance Selection Problem for Reciprocal Processes....Pages 77-93
Cumulative Distribution Estimation via Control Theoretic Smoothing Splines....Pages 95-104
Global Output Regulation with Uncertain Exosystems....Pages 105-119
A Survey on Boolean Control Networks: A State Space Approach....Pages 121-139
Nonlinear Output Regulation: Exploring Non-minimum Phase Systems....Pages 141-152
Application of a Global Inverse Function Theorem of Byrnes and Lindquist to a Multivariable Moment Problem with Complexity Constraint....Pages 153-167
Unimodular Equivalence of Polynomial Matrices....Pages 169-185
Sparse Blind Source Deconvolution with Application to High Resolution Frequency Analysis....Pages 187-201
Sequential Bayesian Filtering via Minimum Distortion Quantization....Pages 203-213
Pole Placement with Fields of Positive Characteristic....Pages 215-231
High-Speed Model Predictive Control: An Approximate Explicit Approach....Pages 233-248
Reflex-Type Regulation of Biped Robots....Pages 249-264
Principal Tangent Sytem Reduction , ....Pages 265-274
The Contraction Coefficient of a Complete Gossip Sequence , ....Pages 275-289
Covariance Extension Approach to Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation: Kimura-Georgiou Parameterization and Regular Solutions of Sylvester Equations....Pages 291-311
A New Class of Control Systems Based on Non-equilibrium Games....Pages 313-326
Rational Systems – Realization and Identification....Pages 327-341
Semi-supervised Regression and System Identification , ....Pages 343-360
Path Integrals and Bézoutians for a Class of Infinite-Dimensional Systems....Pages 361-374