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In this book we aim to present, in a unified framework, a broad spectrum of mathematical theory that has grown in connection with the study of problems of optimization, equilibrium, control, and stability of linear and nonlinear systems. The title Variational Analysis reflects this breadth. For a

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multi-input, multi-output feed-back control design for linear systems using the paradigms, theory, and tools of robust con-trol that have arisen during the past two decades. The book is aimed at graduate students and practicing engineers who have a basic knowledge of classical con-trol design and state-space con-trol theory for linear systems. A basic knowledge of matrix theory and linear algebra is required to appreciate and digest the material offered. This edition is a revised and expanded version of the first edition, which was published in 1996. The size of the

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A practical step-by-step guide to wavelet analysis is given, with examples taken from time series of the El Nio-- Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The guide includes a comparison to the windowed Fourier transform, the choice of an appropriate wavelet basis function, edge effects due to finite

Shape Analysis concerns the problem of determining "shape invariants"...

Cluster analysis is the automated search for groups of related observations in a data set. Most clustering done in practice is based largely on heuristic but intuitively reasonable procedures and most clustering methods available in commercial software are also of this type. However

This paper presents a methodology for agent-oriented analysis and design. The methodology is general, in that it is applicable to a wide range of multi-agent systems, and comprehensive, in that it deals with both the macro-level (societal) and the micro-level (agent) aspects of systems

We describe a new method for performing a nonlinear form of Principal Component Analysis. By the use of integral operator kernel functions, we can efficiently compute principal components in high-dimensional feature spaces, related to input space by some nonlinear map; for instance the space of all