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

by Eyad H. Abed (Editor)

Overview

This volume was prepared in conjunction with a Symposium held in Berkeley June 5–7, 2005, as a tribute to Professor Pravin Varaiya. The contributions represent most of the lectures given at the meeting. The Symposium brought together former students, collaborators and friends from throughout the world to celebrate Pravin’s career as he approached the memorable occasion of his 65th birthday. The authors, speakers, organizers, supporters and attendees of the Symposium are very pleased to dedicate this work to Pravin, to congratulate him on his many seminal contributions, and to thank him for his leadership in the fields of systems, control and networks over the past four decades. Pravin Varaiya was born on October 29, 1940 in Bombay, India. He earned the B. E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bombay in 1960, and then began his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. The early 1960s was an exciting time during which the foundations of systems and control were developed, and Berkeley contributed to this development through the research of Professors Arthur Bergen, Charles Desoer, Mac Hopkin, Eli Jury, Elijah Polak, Otto Smith, and Loti Zadeh. Professor Eugene Wong joined the faculty in 1963 and c- tributed to the understanding of shastic systems. Berkeley attracted outstanding visiting faculty, including Moshe Zakai and Bill Root. The faculty trained and m- tored a strong group of graduate students, including Mike Athans, Dick Mortensen, Jack Wing, Jim Eaton, Cesare Galtieri, Barry Whalen, and Pravin Varaiya.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817643850
Publisher:	Birkhäuser Boston
Publication date:	07/15/2005
Series:	Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	358
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Hybrid Systems.- Polytopic Approximations of Reachable Sets Applied to Linear Dynamic Games and a Class of Nonlinear Systems.- On the Problem of Measurement Feedback Control: Ellipsoidal Techniques.- Stability of Hybrid Systems and Related Questions from Systems Biology.- System Theory and Design.- Martingale Representation and All That.- Engineering Education: A Focus on Systems.- New Directions in System Design Automation.- Networks.- Causal Coding and Feedback in Gaussian Sensor Networks.- Cross-layer Design of Control over Wireless Networks.- Network Pricing for QoS: A ‘Regulation’ Approach.- Achieving Fairness in a Distributed Ad-Hoc MAC.- Cooperation, Trust and Games in Wireless Networks.- A Game Theoretic View of Efficiency Loss in Resource Allocation.- Decentralized Resource Allocation Mechanisms in Networks: Realization and Implementation.- Transportation.- Automated Highway Systems Research: The Influence of Pravin Varaiya.- The Traffic Amelioration Potential of Freeway Network Ramp Metering Control.- Transportation System Intelligence: Performance Measurement and Real-Time Traffic Estimation and Prediction in a Day-to-Day Learning Framework.- Modeling, Estimation, and Control of Freeway Traffic.