1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787964103321

Autore

Chen Hanfu

Titolo

Recursive identification and parameter estimation / / Han-Fu Chen, Wenxiao Zhao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : Taylor & Francis, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-429-08883-3

1-138-03428-2

1-4665-6884-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 p.)

Classificazione

MAT003000MAT029010TEC007000

Disciplina

620/.004201519536

Soggetti

Recursive functions

Parameter estimation

Systems engineering - Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; 1. Dependent Random Vectors; 2. Recursive Parameter Estimation; 3. Recursive Identification for ARMAX Systems; 4. Recursive Identification for Nonlinear Systems; 5. Other Problems Reducible to Parameter Estimation; Appendix A: Proof of Some Theorems in Chapter 1; Appendix B: Nonnegative Matrices; References

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes the recursive approach to solving problems from system identification, parameter estimation, adaptive control problems, and more. Special attention is paid to how to transform the problems suitable to a recursive solution. Recursive solutions are given for identification of ARMAX systems without imposing restrictive conditions; for identification of typical nonlinear systems; for optimal adaptive tracking, iterative learning control of nonlinear systems, the consensus of multi-agents systems, and others; for some other related problems such as principal component analysis, the distributed randomized PageRank computation, and more. --



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960839603321

Autore

Notarbartolo di Villarosa Francesco <1960->

Titolo

Information, management and participation : a new approach from public health in Brazil / / Francesco Notarbartolo di Villarosa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or., : Frank Cass, 1998

ISBN

1-280-15042-4

9786610150427

0-203-98863-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 p.)

Disciplina

362.1/0981

Soggetti

Public health - Research - Brazil - El Salvador - Methodology

Public health - Brazil - El Salvador - Data processing

Public health - Brazil - El Salvador - Decision making

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the author's thesis (DPhil--Institute of Development, University of Sussex).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-138) and index.

Nota di contenuto

INFORMATION, MANAGEMENT AND PARTICIPATION A new approach from public health in Brazil; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 People-oriented Activities: From Blueprint and Process to Specificity and Flexibility; 1.1 Management and Administration in LDCs; 1.2 Blueprint and Process; 1.3 Integrating Blueprint and Process; 1.4 Specificity and People-oriented Activities; 1.5 Conclusions: Integrating Specificity and Flexibility

2 Knowledge-Building, Decision-Making and Information-Handling: An Introduction to the Case-study of Pau da Lima2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Knowledge-Building and Decision-Making in Complex Organisations; 2.3 Information-Handling for Knowledge-Building and Decision-Making; 2.4 Information-Handling in Pau da Lima; 3 The Pilot Project of Pau da Lima: Its Context and Characteristics; 3.1 Introduction: the Reform of the National Health System in Brazil; 3.2 The Health District Strategy: Two Different Approaches; 3.3 A Pilot Health District Project in Salvador, Bahia

3.4 The Evolution of the Context of the Pau da Lima Project4 Knowledge-Building in Pau da Lima: Data Collection; 4.1 Introduction



to Knowledge-Building; 4.2 Information-Handling at the Beginning of the Project; 4.3 Primary Data Collection; 4.4 Secondary Data Collection; 4.5 Discussion: Flexibility and Specificity in Needs Expression; 4.6 Conclusions; 5 Knowledge-Building in Pau da Lima: Data Processing; 5.1 Introduction to Data Processing; 5.2 Primary Data Processing; 5.3 Secondary Data Processing; 5.4 Data Computerisation; 5.5 Discussion: Flexibility and Specificity in Data Processing

5.6 Conclusions6 Data Use for Decision-Making; 6.1 Introduction to Data Use; 6.2 Decision-Making before Use of the Information System; 6.3 Data Use and Decision-Making; 6.4 Discussion: Flexibility and Specificity in Decision-Making; 6.5 Conclusions; Conclusion; Technical Appendix A Data Collection; Technical Appendix B Data Processing; Technical Appendix C Data Use; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In order to alleviate poverty, people-oriented projects (those dealing with activities such as institutional development, health, family planning, education, and rural development) must be well-targeted towards the most vulnerable groups. However, official 'top-down' information is incapable of identifying, prioritising and 'marking out' these groups at a local level, and the result is too often an unfair, inefficient and ineffective allocation and use of the resources of social programmes. The author argues that a 'process approach' is often necessary to geneate relevant knowledge about local