Discrete-Time and Discrete-Space Dynamical Systems

Introduction.- Preliminaries.- Introduction to Different Types of Discrete-Time and Discrete-Space Dynamical Systems.- Invertibility and Nonsingularity of Boolean Control Networks.- Observability of Boolean Control Networks.- Detectability of Boolean Control Networks.- Observability and Detectability of Large-Scale Boolean Control Networks.- Observability of Nondeterministic Finite-Transition Systems.- Detectability of Nondeterministic Finite-Transition Systems.- Detectability of Finite-State Automata.- Detectability of Labelled Petri Nets.- Generalized Reversibility of Topological Dynamical Systems and Cellular Automata.- Generalized Reversibility of Variant Cellular Automata.- Solutions.- Index.

Kuize Zhang received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics and Systems Engineering from Harbin Engineering University, China, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. Since April 2015, he has been an associate professor with the College of Automation, Harbin Engineering University. He held visiting positions at University of Turku, Finland (September 2012-September 2013), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (January-October 2015). He was a project officer of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (October 2013-October 2014), postdoc at Chinese Academy of Sciences (November 2015-November 2017), and postdoc at Technical University of Munich (September 2016-August 2017). He is currently a postdoc at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His current research interests include formal methods, Boolean networks, discrete event systems, etc. Dr. Zhang is a Senior Member of IEEE, and received the 2016 Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Nomination Award and the Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2019.

Lijun Zhang received the Ph.D. degree in Systems Theory from Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, in 2003. From August 2003 to July 2005, he held a postdoc position at Tsinghua University, China. From March 2004 to November 2004, he worked as a visiting scholar at National University of Singapore. From October 2006 to January 2007, he worked as a visiting scholar at City University of Hong Kong. From August 2005 to November 2011, he was a professor of Harbin Engineering University. Since 2012, he has been with the College of Marine Science and Technology of Northwestern Polytechnical University, where he is currently a professor. He has been a reviewer of Mathematical Reviews since 2008. His research interests include nonlinear systems control and identification, logic dynamic systems theory, adaptive signal processing, etc. He was a recipient of New Century Excellent Talents in University of Ministry of Education of