Perspectives in Mathematical System Theory, Control, and Signal Processing

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 Padé Approximants.- On the Use of Functional Models in Model Reduction.- Quadratic Performance Verification for Boundary Value Systems.- Lyapunov Stability Analysis of Higher-Order 2-D Systems.- From Lifting to System Transformation.- Contractive Systems with Inputs.- Dissipativity and Stability Analysis Using Rational Quadratic Differential Forms.- On Behavioral Equivalence of Rational Representations.- Modeling.- Modeling and Stability Analysis of Controlled Passive Walking.- An Optimization Approach to Weak Approximation of Lévy-Driven Stochastic Differential Equations.- Compound Control: Capturing Multivariable Nature of Biological Control.- Law of Large Numbers, Heavy-Tailed Distributions, and the Recent Financial Crisis.- Signal Processing.- Markov Models for Coherent Signals: Extrapolation in the Frequency Domain.- Digital Signal Processing and the YY Filter.- Sparse Blind Source Separation via ?1-Norm Optimization.- YY Filter - A Paradigm of Digital Signal Processing.- System