Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Part I. Statistical Control
Introduction and Literature Survey of Statistical Control: Going Beyond the Mean / Chang-Hee Won, Ronald W. Diersing, adn Stephen Yurkovich
Cumulant Control Systems: The Cost-Variance, Discrete-Time Case / Luis Cosenza, Michael K. Sain, Ronald W. Diersing, and Chang-Hee Won
Statistical Control of Stochastic Systems Incorporating Integral Feedback: Performance Robustness Analysis / Khanh D. Pham
Multi-Cumulant and Pareto Solutions for Tactics Change Prediction and Performance Analysis in Stochastic Multi-Team Noncooperative Games \ Khanh D. Pham, Stanley R. Liberty, and Gang Jin
A Multiobjective Cumulant Control Problem \ Ronald W. Diersing, Michael K. Sain, and Chang-Hee Won
Part II. Algebraic Systems Theory
Systems over a Semiring: Realization and Decoupling / Ying Shang and Michael K. Sain
Modules of Zeroes for Linear Multivariable Systems / Cheryl B. Schrader and Bostwick F. Wyman
Zeroes in Linear Time-Delay Systems / Giuseppe Conte and Anna Maria Perdon
Part III. Dynamic Systems Characteristics
On the Status of the Stability Theory of Discontinuous Dynamical Systems \ Anthony N. Michel and Ling Hou
Direct Adaptive Optimal Control: Biologically Inspired Feedback Control \ Draguna Vrabie and Frank Lewis
Characterization and Calculation of Approximate Decentralized Fixed Modes (ADFMs) \ Edward J. Davison and Amir G. Aghdam
Some New Nonlinear and Symbol Manipulation Techniques to Mitigate Adverse Effects of High PAPR in OFDM Wireless Communications \ Byung Moo Lee and Rui J. P. de Figueiredo
Homogeneous Domination and the Decentralized Control Problem for Nonlinear System Stabilization \ Jason Polendo, Chunjiang Qian, and Cheryl B. Schrader
Volterra Control Synthesis \ Patrick M. Sain
Part IV. Engineering Education
The First Professional Degree: Master of Engineering? \ Peter Dorato
Theology and Engineering: A Conversation in Two Languages \ Barbara K. Sain
Publications of Michael K. Sain
Index