Systems, Models and Feedback: Theory and Applications: Proceedings of a U.S.-Italy Workshop in honor of Professor Antonio Ruberti, Capri, 15-17, June 1992

It is a great honor and privilege to have this opportunity of celebrating the 65th birthday of Professor Antonio Ruberti by holding an International Conference on Systems, Models and Feedback. The conference, and this volume which contains its proceedings, is a tribute to Professor Ruberti in acknowledgement of his major contributions to System Theory, at a time in which this area was emerging and consolidat­ ing as an independent discipline, his role as a leader of the Italian academic com...