Extractions: Part 6 of The Family Dynamics of Victorian Fiction critic informed by the family systems theory derived from the treatment of chemical dependence can add many insights to standard crticism of Wuthering Heights . He or she would emphasize that as soon as Lockwood asks that he be told their stories by Nellie, the novel becomes the histories of several family systems and all the characters in the systems, male as well as female, living and dead. Focusing on the family as a unit at Wuthering Heights we discover one of the best illustrations of a closed system in literature. They are not merely extremely isolated from others, they are actively hostile: instead of welcoming the protoreader, Lockwood, they refuse to come to his aid as six dogs attack him inside the house. Even the reader is excluded from some of the activity at the Heights, for at times it is presented in a dialect almost unintelligible to all but those raised in the neighborhood. Even members of the family at times find Joseph's "speech difficult to understand" when he got excited and "his jaws worked like those of a cow chewing its cud." When Lockwood does manage to get past some of the rigid boundaries, Hareton Earnshaw is instantly angry at him and "Mrs. Heathcliff" at first won't even speak to him. Many readers no doubt identify with Lockwood's sarcastic understatement, "I began to feel unmistakably out of place in that pleasant family circle." When Lockwood tries to escape from the system, a dog prevents him, as in the Leary household. In his case, two dogs attack and pin him to the ground and a servant asks, "Are we going to murder folk on our very door-stones?" The family motto, "Every man's hand was against his neighbor," appears to Lockwood in a dream and he adopts it has his own. When one of the ancestors, a recently dead family member. comes to him as a child in the dream, crying "Let me in .... I'm come home," Lockwood, already imitating the others, slashes her wrists on the broken window and replies, as the blood stains his bed, "I'll never let you in."
Analysis Of Feedback Systems: Theory And Computation JC Willems Dissipative dynamical systems Part I General theory Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis Volume 45, pages 321-351, 1972. http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/systems/grad04/iqc.htm
Extractions: J.-C. Willems (KULeuven) The aim of the course is to cover the main developments of the theory of feedback systems within the unifying framework of Integral Quadratic Constraints. The emphasis of the course will be on the cross-fertilization of input-output and state-space approaches in the development of the theory. The course will also emphasize how the theory has led to computationally tractable stability criteria for systems that include multivariable components, nonlinearities, and time-varying uncertainties.
Shandelle M. Henson's Homepage Andrews University. Dynamical systems and bifurcation theory, with applications to population biology and ecology. http://www.andrews.edu/~henson
NIPS : Conferences : 2004 2004, December 1318, Vancouver, Canada. Neural computation, learning theory, algorithms and architectures, neuroscience, vision, speech, control and diverse applications. Submission deadline TBA. http://www.nips.cc/Conferences/2004/
Extractions: NIPS Conferences Eighteenth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems You are invited to participate in the Eighteenth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems , which is the premier scientific meeting on neural computation. The NIPS Conference features a singletrack program, with contributions from a large number of intellectual communities. Presentation topics include: Algorithms and Architectures; Applications; Brain Imaging; Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence; Control and Reinforcement Learning; Emerging Technologies; Learning Theory; Neuroscience; Speech and Signal Processing; and Visual Processing. All papers are rigorously reviewed. The Conference begins on Monday, December 13, with Poster and Demo Sessions and an opening night buffet (see details in Schedule of Events below). A one-day Tutorial Program will be provided on Monday, December 13, prior to the opening of the Conference. The program will offer a choice of six two-hour tutorials by leading scientists. The topics span a wide range of subjects including neuroscience, learning algorithms and theory, bioinformatics, image processing, and data mining. The Demonstrations are an important component of the Conference.
Control Engineering Virtual Library Control and Systems theory Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Institute for Systems theory in Engineering, Department of Process http://www-control.eng.cam.ac.uk/extras/Virtual_Library/Control_VL.html
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Evolutionary Ethics The evolution of ethical systems is described in scientific terms using cybernetics as its logical foundation. A plausible theory of the integration of science and ethics. Online book http://www.evolutionaryethics.com/
Extractions: There are web links to other writers on evolution at the bottom of the page The Evolution of Ethics attempts to construct a conceptual bridge between biology and human behavior by examining the cultural and biological feedback system that inspires the evolution of social rules. In theory, at the heart of developing ethical systems is a cybernetic process that arises between the interaction of biology and culture using the informational feedback between the two to further human adaptation and survival. 1 Ethics merges with science in cybernetic ethics . This book presents a credible theory of how the evolution of ethical systems can be linked to science and mathematics. Cybernetics in this context means informational feedback in dynamic systems that sustains or redirects a behavior. Cybernetics is an important building block of biological adaptation and a prior condition to its existence 2. When the subject of ethics arises, reasonable people often ask, "
MTNS 2002 Mathematical Systems theory in Biology, Communications, Computation, Adaptive Control, Algebraic Systems theory, Applications of Algebraic and http://www.nd.edu/~mtns/main.html
MIT Theory Of Distributed Systems Group MIT's theory of Distributed Systems (TDS) research group works on a wide range of problems involving distributed and realtime systems. The work has a theoretical flavor, but is closely tied to practice. Roughly speaking, the research can be classified into Formal Modeling and Verification, Algorithms, Data Structures and Lower Bounds, and Applications. http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/tds/homepage.html
Extractions: The Theory of Distributed Systems Group is part of the Theory of Computation Group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) of MIT MIT's Theory of Distributed Systems (TDS) research group works on a wide range of problems involving distributed and real-time systems. The work has a theoretical flavor, but is closely tied to practice. Roughly speaking, the research can be classified into: Other Important Links... Research Opportunities The TDS group is currently funded in part by the following: Air Force Aerospace Research-OSR NSF NTT Oxygen DARPA For more information please contact the group secretary Joanne Talbot Hanley
Application To Human Organisations Attempt to apply Systems theory to corporate problem solving. http://www.css.edu/users/dswenson/web/Solfocus.htm
Intelligent Systems Focuses on theory of logic and learning, and applied intelligent systems. Methodolgies range from traditional knowledgebased systems and neural networks to machine learning, agents, and evolutionary computation. http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/intelligent_systems/
Home Page For School Of Computer Science And Software Engineering School of Computer Science and Software Engineering. Research areas include artificial intelligence; audiovisual information processing; digital systems hardware; computing education; database systems; distributed, parallel and mobile computing; logic and theory; reasoning under uncertainty; and software engineering. http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/
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Applied Probability Society Of INFORMS A subdivision of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) concerned with the application of probability theory to systems that involve random phenomena. http://appliedprob.society.informs.org/
Mathematical Control Theory Realization theory for Linear Systems Recursion and Partial Realization Rationality and Realizability Abstract Realization theory Notes and Comments http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~sontag/mct.html
Extractions: (Errata, revisions, and extensions are included there. No errata posted since mid 1997.) Math Reviews Publicity Blurb: This textbook introduces the core concepts and results of Control and System Theory. Unique in its emphasis on foundational aspects, it takes a "hybrid" approach in which basic results are derived for discrete and continuous time scales, and discrete and continuous state variables. Primarily geared towards mathematically advanced undergraduate or graduate students, it may also be suitable for a second engineering course in control which goes beyond the classical frequency domain and state-space material. The choice of topics, together with detailed end-of-chapter links to the bibliography, makes it an excellent research reference as well. The Second Edition constitutes a substantial revision and extension of the First Edition, mainly adding or expanding upon advanced material, including: Lie-algebraic accessibility theory, feedback linearization, controllability of neural networks, reachability under input constraints, topics in nonlinear feedback design (such as backstepping, damping, control-Lyapunov functions, and topological obstructions to stabilization), and introductions to the calculus of variations, the maximum principle, numerical optimal control, and linear time-optimal control.
Control Cybernetics This quarterly journal is edited and published in English language since 1972 by the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Its main objective is to stimulate the development of broadly conceived systems theory and analysis. http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/~control/
Integral Institute: The Integral Approach Lower Right systems theory, social systems analysis, technoeconomic modes, A truly Integral approach might draw equally on systems theory and http://integralinstitute.org/approach.htm
Extractions: "Integral" means "inclusive, balanced, comprehensive." The Integral approach may be contrasted to other methodsmythic, rational-scientific, pluralisticwhich, as they themselves announce, exclude other approaches as being inferior. They are thus, by definition, partial and incomplete. These latter methods, although widely accepted and dominant in the world's cultures, tend to generate partial analysis and incomplete solutions to problems. As such, they appear less efficient, less effective, and less balanced than the Integral approach. The easiest way to understand the Integral approach is to remember that it was created by a cross-cultural comparison of most of the known forms of human inquiry. The result was a type of comprehensive map of human capacities . After this map was created (by looking at all the available research and evidence), it was discovered that
Informatica Mathematical simulation and optimization, recognition and control, programming theory and systems, automation systems and elements. Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania. Tables of contents and abstracts from vol.9 (1998), some articles online in PDF. http://www.vtex.lt/Informatica/
Extractions: Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Lithuania The quarterly journal INFORMATICA provides an international forum for high-quality original research and publishes papers on mathematical simulation and optimization, recognition and control, programming theory and systems, automation systems and elements. INFORMATICA provides a multidisciplinary forum for scientists and engineers involved in research and design including experts who implement and manage information systems applications. The aims are: All these aims taken together explain the unique quality of this journal and how it is distinguished from other journals in the rapidly expanding field.
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