Birkhauser

The sliding mode control methodology has proven effective in dealing with complex dynamical systems affected by disturbances, uncertainties and unmodeled dynamics. Robust control technology based on this methodology has been applied to many real-world problems, especially in the areas of aerospace control, electric power systems, electromechanical...

Filling a gap in literature, this self-contained book presents theoretical and application-oriented results that allow for a structural exploration of complex networks. The work focuses not only on classical graph-theoretic methods, but also demonstrates the usefulness of structural graph theory as a tool for solving interdisciplinary problems....

Cylinders, surfaces, bodies and spaces are the four basic elements which constitute the design process: each design, however complex, can be created by transforming them. This text gathers together the results of many years teaching and research and presents them with a wealth of examples. The layout of the book itself facilitates the comparison...

'The aim of this book is to provide a first comprehensive overview of the basic theory of hypercomplex-analytic automorphic forms and functions for arithmetic subgroups of the Vahlen group in higher dimensional spaces. It gives a summary on the research results obtained over the last five years and establishes a new field within the theory of...

"Molecular Toxicology" is the first volume of a three-volume set "Molecular, Clinical and Environmental Toxicology" that offers a comprehensive and in-depth response to the increasing importance and abundance of chemicals in daily life. By providing intriguing insights far down to the molecular level, this work covers the entire range of modern...

In reading Chinese cities, as this volume attempts to do, the focus is not primarily on well-known cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Xi'an but rather on what it is that is essentially Chinese about the Chinese city -- the features and hallmarks that all Chinese cities have more or less in common, their spatial grammar, their syntax, in short: their...