Advances in Control, Communication Networks, and Transportation Systems

Preface Acknowledgments Publications of Pravin Varaiya List of Contributors and Speakers Part I. Hybrid Systems Polytopic Approximations of Reachable Sets Applied to Linear Dynamic Games and a Class of Nonlinear Systems / I. Hwang, D.M. Stipanovic and C.J. Tomlin On the Problem of Measurement Feedback Control: Ellipsoidal Techniques / A.B. Kurzhanski Stability of Hybrid Systems and Related Questions from Systems Biology / C. Piazza and B. Mishra Part II. System Theory and Design Martingale Representation and All That / M.H.A. Davis Engineering Education: A Focus on Systems / E.A. Lee New Directions in System Design Automation / A.R. Deshpande Part III. Networks Causal Coding and Feedback in Gaussian Sensor Networks / M. Gastpar Cross-layer Design of Control over Wireless Networks / X. Liu and A. Goldsmith Network Pricing for QoS: A ‘Regulation’ Approach / D. Garg, V.S. Borkar and D. Manjunath Achieving Fairness in a Distributed Ad-Hoc MAC / R. Gupta and J. Walrand Cooperation, Trust and Games in Wireless Networks / J.S. Baras and T. Jiang A Game Theoretic View of Efficiency Loss in Resource Allocation / R. Johari and J.N. Tsitsiklis Decentralized Resource Allocation Mechanisms in Networks: Realization and Implementation / T.M. Stoenescu and D. Teneketzis Part IV. Transportation Automated Highway Systems Research: The Influence of Pravin Varaiya / S.E. Shladover The Traffic Amelioration Potential of Freeway Network Ramp Metering Control / A. Kotsialos and M. Papageorgiou Transportation System Intelligence: Performance Measurement and Real-Time Traffic Estimation and Prediction in a Day-to-Day Learning Framework / H.S. Mahmassani and X. Zhou Modeling, Estimation, and Control of Freeway Traffic / R. Horowitz, L. Muñoz and X. Sun