New Trends in Systems Theory

Control Problems and Other Structured Nonlinear Programs.- Worst-Case H? Performance Under Structured Perturbations with Known Bounds.- L-Q-R Approach to a Class of Non Well Posed Parabolic Systems.- Some Results on Attractivity Properties for Nonautonomous Nonlinear Systems.- A Transformation for Solving a Discrete Time Singular State Estimation Problem.- Continuous Output Dead-Beat Control of Multivariable Multirate Sampled-Data Systems.- Robust Linear Multivariable Regulators Under Perturbations of Physical Parameters.- Interconnected Zero Dynamics in Nonlinear Systems and their Role in Dynamic Noninteracting Control with Stability.- A New Methodology for Adaptive pH Control.- Some Results About Nonlinear Systems Equivalence for the Observer Synthesis.- On Systems Equivalence and Observer Synthesis.- Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Adaptive Stabilization.- Adaptive Synchronization of Interconnected Linear Systems.- On the PLS Criterion for Order Estimation of ARMA Processes with AML and a Posteriori Prediction Error.- Strongly Consistent Estimation of the Order of Stochastic Control Systems with Correlated Noise.- Stabilization via Optimization.- The Orbit Closure Problem for Matrix Pencils: Necessary Conditions and an Application to High Gain Feedback.- On the Robustness of Stable Discrete Time Linear Systems.- Evaluation Transform and its Implementation in MACSYMA.- The Use of Model Reduction via Balanced Realizations in the Description of Ship Motion.- Asymptotic Tracking with Stability in The Large for a Planar Nonlinear System.- A Unified Study of the Fixed Modes of Systems Decoupled via Regular Static State Feedback.- Stability of Asynchronous Systems and Nonsymmetric Neural Networks.- Solving Initial and Two-Point Boundary Non-Monic Second Order Difference Matrix Problems Without Increasing the Data Dimension.- Equivalence and Similarity for Singular 2-D Linear Systems.- Imposition of Kinematic Constraints for Robotic Stability and Support.- Homogeneous Feedback Stabilization.- Distributed Computing for Basis Weight Control in Paper Production.- A Note on Hankel Operators for Infinite Dimensional Systems.- Boundary Control of Parabolic Delay System.- New Approximants for Nonlinear Functional Expansions.- Split Stability-Test Algorithms: A Comparative Analysis.- Nash and Stackelberg Equilibrium Points in Constrained Minimization and Games.- Bernstein Polynomials for Robustness Analysis of Perturbed Control Systems.- Innovative Technical Applications and Experiences in Ansaldo Ricerche-New Technology Division of Ansaldo Group.- Control of Robots by Dynamic Position Feedback.- Bilinear Models in Parameter Estimation and Control of Flexible Robot Arms.- On Global Stabilization of Cascaded Nonlinear Systems.- Feedback Control and Hierarchical Modeling of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems.- On the Optimal Control, Relaxation and Variational Stability of Nonlinear Distributed Parameter Systems.- A Nonlinear Adaptive Control Algorithm Based on System Flow Approximations.- The Disturbance Decoupling Problem for Systems over a Principal Ideal Domain.- A Method of Centers Based on Barrier Functions for Solving Optimal Control Problems with Continuum State and Control Constraints.- Partial Differential Control Theory and Causality.- Optimal Impulsive Controls with a Constraint on the Total Variation.- Minimal Testing Sets: A Generalization of Kharitonov's Theorem.- Almost Input-Output Decoupling with Stability.- Representation of Noncausal 2D Systems.- Dependence on Time Derivatives of the Input in the Nonlinear Controller Canonical Form.- ELSAG's Research on Innovative Elements for the Automation of Complex Systems.- Module Theoretic Results for Feedback System Matrices.- 2-D Kalman-Bucy Filtering Problem: 2-D Polynomial Approach.- Controllability and Graphs.- On Sampled Control with Distributed Processing.- Input/Output and State-Space Stability.- Completion of the Squares in the Finite Horizon H? Control Problem by Measurement Feedback.- Further Results on the State and Output Stabilization.- Dissipative Dynamical Systems: A Behavioral Approach.- Global Observability Indices: A Provisional Study.