Advances in control, communication networks and transportation systems : in honor of Pravin Varaiya

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. Munoz and X. Sun