Perspectives in Mathematical System Theory, Control, and Signal Processing: A Festschrift in Honor of Yutaka Yamamoto on the Occasion of his 60th Birt [Paperback]

This Festschrift, published on the occasion of the sixtieth birthday of Yutaka - mamoto (YY as he is occasionally casually referred to), contains a collection of articles by friends, colleagues, and former Ph.D. students of YY. They are a tribute to his friendship and his scienti?c vision and oeuvre, which has been a source of inspiration to the authors. Yutaka Yamamoto was born in Kyoto, Japan, on March 29, 1950. He studied applied mathematics and general engineering science at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics of Kyoto University, obtaining the B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in 1972 and 1974. His M.Sc. work was done under the supervision of Professor Yoshikazu Sawaragi. In 1974, he went to the Center for Mathematical System T- ory of the University of Florida in Gainesville. He obtained the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Mathematics, in 1976 and 1978, under the direction of Professor Rudolf Kalman.Circuit Theory.- Old and New Directions of Research in System Theory.- Regular Positive-Real Functions and the Classification of Transformerless Series-Parallel Networks.- Ports and Terminals.- Control.- On the Sample Complexity of Probabilistic Analysis and Design Methods.- A Constant Factor Approximation Algorithm for Event-Based Sampling.- A Unified Approach to Decentralized Cooperative Control for Large-Scale Networked Dynamical Systems.- Control and Stabilization of Linear Equation Solvers.- Nonlinear Output Regulation: A Unified Design Philosophy.- An Estimated General Cross Validation Function for Periodic Control Theoretic Smoothing Splines.- Stable Controller Design for Systems with Time Delays.- Dynamic Quantization for Control.- Graphs and Networks.- Convergence of Periodic Gossiping Algorithms.- Distributed PageRank Computation with Link Failures.- Predicting Synchrony in a Simple Neuronal Network.- Mathematical System Theory.- On the Stability and Instability of Pad? Approximants.- On the Use of Functional Models in Model Reduction.- QuadratlóH