The basic concepts of system Engineering are briefly described. The general problem is outlined as that of a `particle' moving in a phase space of states and time. It is shown that this general view leads to a transport equation underlying the behavior of systems. The transport equation is...

This paper is concerned with robust guaranteed cost control of uncertain linear time-delay systems using dynamic output feedback. The uncertain systems tackled in this paper involve uncertainty in quadratic constrained form which includes the well-known norm-bounded time-varying uncertainty as a...

Relations between Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods are analysed from both theoretical and practical points of view with special emphasis on high-dimensional integration.

A new adaptive technique for Monte Carlo (MC) integration is proposed and studied. An error analysis is given. It is shown that the error of the numerical integration depends on the smoothness of the integrand. A superconvergent adaptive method is presented. The method combines the idea of...

In this paper, a non-analog Monte Carlo methodology is applied to the transport of radionuclide chains in a geological medium. A Monte Carlo simulation is first constructed from an integral equation for the concentration of one radionuclide. This integral equation depends on the solution of an...

Probabilistic dynamics studies the behavior of a system constituted of components and physical variables interacting together. Monte Carlo simulation is one way to solve the associated mathematical problem for a realistic system; however, Monte Carlo simulations are inefficient and biasing...

This paper deals with the stability, the stability domains estimation, and the asymptotic behaviours analysis for a class of nonlinear neutral systems. The notion of degenerate comparison system is defined. It leads to stability conditions in the form of two separate conditions that are to be...

Weak controllability concept is analysed for linear neutral delay-differential systems, according to an algebraic approach (ring theory). A geometric interpretation in terms of state trajectories is given, based on the definition of controllability indices.

Investigations were conducted to explore the feasibility of a prototype charge simulation retina machine vision system to identify shape and size, when different three-dimensional objects were arbitrarily located in the vision field of the retina. The system consisted of a light source, light...

Two methods of calculating reactivity effects due to small changes in reactor configurations have been implemented in MCNP4A. The pseudo-correlated sampling method makes use of the correlation of particle tracks in problems with well localized perturbations. The true correlated sampling method...