Variable Structure Systems with Application to Economics and Biology : Proceedings of the Second US-Italy Seminar on Variable Structure Systems, May 1974

Stochastic Bilinear Partial Differential Equations -- Time-Varying Bilinear Systems -- On the Reachable Set for Bilinear Systems -- Algebraic Realization Theory of Two-Dimensional Filters -- Controllability of Bilinear Systems -- Periodic Control of Singularly Perturbed Systems -- Estimation for Bilinear Stochastic Systems -- A Probabilistic Approach to Identifiability -- Some Examples of Dynamic Bilinear Models in Economics -- Bilinearity and Sensitivity in Macroeconomy -- Variable Parameter Structures in Technology Assessment and Land Use -- An Optimization Study of the Pollution Subsystem of the World Dynamics Model -- A Basis for Variable Structure Models in Human Biology -- The Immune Response as a Variable Structure System -- Nonlinear Systems in Models for Enzyme Cascades -- Mathematical Model of the Peripheral Nervous Acoustical System: Applications to Diagnosis and Prostheses -- A Systems Analysis of Cerebral Dehydration.