The postmodern short story : forms and issues / edited by Farhat Iftekharrudin ... [et. al.] under the auspices of the Society for the Study of the Short Story

• Record Nr.: UNISA990003454410203316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westport, CT : Praeger, 2003
• ISBN: 0-313-32375-5
• Descrizione fisica: VII, 282 p. ; 24 cm
• Collana: Contributions to the study of world literature ; 124
• Disciplina: 809.31
• Soggetti: Novelle e racconti - Storia e critica
• Collocazione: II.8.E.2
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Semi-Autonomous Networks : Effective Control of Networked Systems through Protocols, Design, and Modeling / / by Airlie Chapman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910300431503321
• Autore: Chapman Airlie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-319-15010-3
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 p.)
• Collana: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5053
• Disciplina: 629.895630151563
• Soggetti: Physics; Automatic control; Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks; Control and Systems Theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Doctoral Thesis accepted by University of Washington."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Nomenclature -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- Supervisor's Foreword -- Introduction -- Preliminaries -- Notation -- Network Topology -- Consensus Dynamics -- Advection on Graphs -- Beyond Linear Protocols -- Measures and Rewiring -- Distributed Online Topology Design for Disturbance Rejection -- Network Topology Design for UAV Swarming with Wind Gusts -- Cartesian Products of Z-Matrix Networks: Factorization and Interval Analysis -- On the Controllability and Observability of Cartesian Product Networks -- Strong Structural Controllability of Networked Dynamics -- Security and Infiltration of Networks: A Structural Controllability and Observability Perspective -- Conclusion and Future Work -- Appendix -- Single Anchor State Measures.
• Sommario/riassunto: This thesis analyzes and explores the design of controlled networked dynamic systems - dubbed semi-autonomous networks. The work approaches the problem of effective control of semi-autonomous networks from three fronts: protocols which are run on individual agents in the network; the network interconnection topology design; and efficient modeling of these often large-scale networks. The author ; extended the popular consensus protocol to advection and nonlinear consensus. The network redesign algorithms are supported by a game-theoretic and an online learning regret analysis.