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Advances in Control, Communication Networks, and Transportation Systems: In Honor of Pravin Varaiya

E. H. Adeb, editor
Publisher: 
Birkhäuser
Publication Date: 
2005
Number of Pages: 
358
Format: 
Hardcover
Series: 
Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications
Price: 
84.95
ISBN: 
0-8176-4385-0
Category: 
Festschrift
We do not plan to review this book.

 

Preface

Acknowledgments

Publications of Pravin Varaiya

List of Contributors and Speakers

Part I. Hybrid Systems

Polytopic Approximations of Reachable Sets Applied to Linear Dynamic Games and a Class of Nonlinear Systems / I. Hwang, D.M. Stipanovic and C.J. Tomlin

On the Problem of Measurement Feedback Control: Ellipsoidal Techniques / A.B. Kurzhanski

Stability of Hybrid Systems and Related Questions from Systems Biology / C. Piazza and B. Mishra

Part II. System Theory and Design

Martingale Representation and All That / M.H.A. Davis

Engineering Education: A Focus on Systems / E.A. Lee

New Directions in System Design Automation / A.R. Deshpande

Part III. Networks

Causal Coding and Feedback in Gaussian Sensor Networks / M. Gastpar

Cross-layer Design of Control over Wireless Networks / X. Liu and A. Goldsmith

Network Pricing for QoS: A ‘Regulation’ Approach / D. Garg, V.S. Borkar and D. Manjunath

Achieving Fairness in a Distributed Ad-Hoc MAC / R. Gupta and J. Walrand

Cooperation, Trust and Games in Wireless Networks / J.S. Baras and T. Jiang

A Game Theoretic View of Efficiency Loss in Resource Allocation / R. Johari and J.N. Tsitsiklis

Decentralized Resource Allocation Mechanisms in Networks: Realization and Implementation / T.M. Stoenescu and D. Teneketzis

Part IV. Transportation

Automated Highway Systems Research: The Influence of Pravin Varaiya / S.E. Shladover

The Traffic Amelioration Potential of Freeway Network Ramp Metering Control / A. Kotsialos and M. Papageorgiou

Transportation System Intelligence: Performance Measurement and Real-Time Traffic Estimation and Prediction in a Day-to-Day Learning Framework / H.S. Mahmassani and X. Zhou

Modeling, Estimation, and Control of Freeway Traffic / R. Horowitz, L. Muñoz and X. Sun