Structural Methods in the Study of Complex Systems

Part I: Structure of Complex Dynamical Systems.- Chapter 1. Complex Systems and Control: The Paradigms of Structure Evolving Systems and System of Systems.- Chapter 2. Stability and the Kleinian View of Geometry.- Chapter 3. Strong Structural Controllability and Zero Forcing.- Part II: Control and Observation of Complex Dynamical Systems.- Chapter 4. Output Regulation of Hybrid Linear Systems: Solvability Conditions and Structural Implications.- Chapter 5. A Stratified Geometric Approach to the Disturbance Decoupling Problem with Stability for Switched Systems over Digraphs.- Chapter 6. Unknown-Input Observers for Hybrid Dynamical Structures.- Chapter 7. Advances of Implicit Description Techniques in Modelling and Control of Switched Systems.- Part III: Applications of Complex Dynamical Systems.- Chapter 8. Huygens Synchronization over Distributed Media - Structure versus Complex Behavior.

Elena Zattoni received the Laurea degree cum laude in Electronics Engineering in 1995 and the Ph.D. in Systems Engineering in 1999 from the University of Bologna, Italy. Since 2001, she has been with the University of Bologna as an Assistant Professor. She qualified as an Associate Professor in 2014 and in 2017. She has been a Visiting Professor at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Aalto University, University of Michigan, Institut de Recherche en Communications et Cybernétique de Nantes, and Brown University. Her research interests are focused on geometric and structural approaches to control and observation of dynamical systems, including hybrid systems, switched systems, and time-delay systems, with applications to the synthesis of enhanced-reliability control systems. She has authored about forty journal articles and more than one hundred between contributed chapters and conference papers. She serves as an Associate Editor of the IFAC journal "Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems". She is a member of the IFAC Technical Committee 2.2 "Linear Control Systems". She is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has served in the "Member Activity Board" of the IEEE Control Systems Society. She is the General Chair of the "15th European Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis". She is a Member of the Scientific Board of "Collegio Superiore", the School of Excellence of the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna.
Anna Maria Perdon received the Laurea in Mathematics from the University of Padua, Italy, in 1972. Since 2000, she has been Professor of Automation at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy. She has authored or co-authored more than two hundred publications in journals, conference proceedings and books. She has edited five books and co-authored the research monograph Algebraic Methods for Nonlinear Control Systems. Theory and Applications (Springer 2007) translated into Chinese and Slovak. Her research interests include hybrid systems;