Recent Developments in Variable Structure Systems, Economics and Biology : Proceedings of US-Italy Seminar, Taormina, Sicily, August 29 - September 2, 1977

A Topological Space of Systems and a Dense Subset -- On Quickest Detection of System Structure Variation -- Stochastic Partial Differential Equations in Optical Communication Problems -- A Bounded Rate Model for Mass Action Multiple Binding Processes: Stability Analysis -- Expectations and Dynamic Stability in Economic Models -- Optimal Control of Information Structures -- Mathematical Models of Blood Coagulation Kinetics -- Stability Problems in 2-D Systems -- On Mathusian Models of Migration and Population Growth -- Minimal Realizations of Linear and Affine Time-Varying Systems -- Continuous Linear Programming and Piecewise Bilinear Systems -- Optimal Bilinear Control Theory Applied to Pest Management -- Linear Descriptor Variable Systems -- Genericity and Singularities in Vector Optimization -- Variable Metric Methods and Filtering Theory -- Overview of Recent BLS Research and Immunology -- Innovations Informational Equivalence in the Independent Gaussian Case -- Structure and Realization of Decomposable Biaffine Systems -- Bilinear Models in Ecology -- Applications of Optimal Control Theory to Immunology -- On the Internal Structure of Finite-State Stochastic Processes -- Public Information Activities: Evaluation with Variable Coefficient Models -- Time Reversibility in Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamical Systems.