The topics of control engineering and signal processing continue to flourish and develop. In common with general scientific investigation, new ideas, concepts, and interpretations emerge quite spontaneously and these are then discussed, used, discarded, or subsumed into the prevailing subject paradigm. Sometimes, these innovative concepts coalesce into a new subdiscipline within the broad s…
Calculus thrives on continuity. At its core is the assumption that things change smoothly, that everything is only infinitesimally different from what it was a moment before. Like a movie, calculus reimagines reality as a series of snapshots, and then recombines them, instant by instant, frame by frame, the succession of imperceptible changes creating an illusion of seamless flow. This way …
Many problems of growing interest in science, engineering, biology, and medicine are modeled with systems of differential equations involving delay terms. In general, the presence of the delay in a model increases its reliability in describing the relevant real phenomena and predicting its behavior. Besides, the introduction of history in the evolution law of a system also augments its compl…
The main purpose of this book is to present some of the old and recent results on homomorphisms and derivations in Banach algebras, quasi-Banach algebras, C-algebras, C-ternary algebras, non-Archimedean Banach algebras, and multinormed algebras. In 1940, S. M. Ulam [321] proposed a stability problem on group homomorphisms in metric groups. In 1941, D. H. Hyers [133] proved the stability of a…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT 2015, held in Larnaca, Cyprus, in November 2015. The 33 full papers and 13 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The main theme of CONTEXT 2015 was "Back to the roots", focusing on the importance of interdisciplinary c…
In the analysis and synthesis of contemporary systems, engineers and scientists are frequently confronted with increasingly complex models that may simultaneously include components whose states evolve along continuous time (continuous dynamics) and discrete instants (discrete dynamics); components whose descriptions may exhibit hysteresis nonlinearities, time lags or transportation delays, …
Why are international fi nancial systems unstable? To understand this, one must use a proper model for a fi nancial market—a model which is not just normative but empirically valid. The traditional market model of price-equilibrium, while valid for commodity markets, is not empirically valid for fi nancial markets. Instead, fi nancial markets must be understood in a price-disequilibrium m…
This contributed volume collects insights from industry professionals, policy makers and researchers on new and profitable business models in the field of electric vehicles (EV) for the mass market. This book includes approaches that address the optimization of total cost of ownership. Moreover, it presents alternative models of ownership, financing and leasing. The editors present state-of-the…
The series “Studies in Systems, Decision and Control” (SSDC) covers both new developments and advances, as well as the state of the art, in the various areas of broadly perceived systems, decision making and control- quickly, up to date and with a high quality. The intent is to cover the theory, applications, and perspectives on the state of the art and future developments relevant to s…
This unique volume covers the most compelling areas of advance in electric power engineering, from distributed generation and dispatch to power quality improvement and energy storage. The authors particularly highlight the seminal contributions of Dr. Gerald T. Heydt in the development and teaching of these technological advances, which have impacted the power industry and academia over the las…