Table of Contents

Singular perturbation techniques in control theory.- Singular perturbations for deterministic control problems.- Singular perturbations in shastic control.- Singular perturbation of Markov chains.- Optimal control of perturbed Markov chains.- Time scale modeling of dynamic networks with sparse and weak connections.- Stability analysis of singularly perturbed systems.- New stability theorems for averaging and their application to the convergence analysis of adaptive identification and control schemes.