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Parametrizations in Control, Estimation and Filtering Problems: Accuracy Aspects

By: Michel Gevers,Gang Li

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Parametrizations in Control, Estimation and Filtering Problems: Accuracy Aspects

By: Michel Gevers,Gang Li

This book is all about finite wordlength errors in digital filters, con trollers and estimators, and how to minimize the deleterious effects of these errors on the performance of these devices. This does by no means imply that all about finite wordlength errors in filters, controllers and estimators is to be found in this book. We first ventured into the world of finite wordlength effects in 1987 when Gang Li began his PhD thesis in this area. Our more experienced readers might well say 'This shows', but we believe that the extent of our new contributions largely offsets our relative inexperience about the subject that might surface here and there in the book. Our naive view on the subject of finite wordlength errors in 1987 could probably be summarized as follows: • numerical errors due to finite wordlength encoding and roundoff are something that one has to live with, and there is probably not much that can be done about them except to increase the wordlength by improvements on the hardware; • these errors are as old as finite arithmetic and numerical analysis and they must therefore be well understood by now; • thus, if something can be done to minimize their effects, it must have been analysed and put into practice a long time ago. It is almost fair to say that we were wrong on all counts.

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Child of the Enlightenment

Revolutionary Europe Reflected in a Boyhood Diary

By: Arianne Baggerman,Rudolf Michel Dekker

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Child of the Enlightenment

Revolutionary Europe Reflected in a Boyhood Diary

By: Arianne Baggerman,Rudolf Michel Dekker

A diary kept by a boy in the 1790s sheds new light on the rise of autobiographical writing in the 19th century and sketches a panoramic view of Europe in the Age of Enlightenment. The French Revolution and the Batavian Revolution in the Netherlands provide the backdrop to this study, which ranges from changing perceptions of time, space and nature to the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and its influence on such far-flung fields as education, landscape gardening and politics. The book describes the high expectations people had of science and medicine, and their disappointment at the failure of these new branches of learning to cure the world of its ills.

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BRILL

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9004172696

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9789004172692

Data-Driven Identification of Networks of Dynamic Systems

By: Michel Verhaegen,Chengpu Yu,Baptiste Sinquin

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Data-Driven Identification of Networks of Dynamic Systems

By: Michel Verhaegen,Chengpu Yu,Baptiste Sinquin

This comprehensive text provides an excellent introduction to the state of the art in the identification of network-connected systems. It covers models and methods in detail, includes a case study showing how many of these methods are applied in adaptive optics and addresses open research questions. Specific models covered include generic modelling for MIMO LTI systems, signal flow models of dynamic networks and models of networks of local LTI systems. A variety of different identification methods are discussed, including identification of signal flow dynamics networks, subspace-like identification of multi-dimensional systems and subspace identification of local systems in an NDS. Researchers working in system identification and/or networked systems will appreciate the comprehensive overview provided, and the emphasis on algorithm design will interest those wishing to test the theory on real-life applications. This is the ideal text for researchers and graduate students interested in system identification for networked systems.

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288

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Cambridge University Press

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100902809X

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9781009028097

Filtering and System Identification

A Least Squares Approach

By: Michel Verhaegen,Vincent Verdult

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Filtering and System Identification

A Least Squares Approach

By: Michel Verhaegen,Vincent Verdult

Filtering and system identification are powerful techniques for building models of complex systems. This 2007 book discusses the design of reliable numerical methods to retrieve missing information in models derived using these techniques. Emphasis is on the least squares approach as applied to the linear state-space model, and problems of increasing complexity are analyzed and solved within this framework, starting with the Kalman filter and concluding with the estimation of a full model, noise statistics and state estimator directly from the data. Key background topics, including linear matrix algebra and linear system theory, are covered, followed by different estimation and identification methods in the state-space model. With end-of-chapter exercises, MATLAB simulations and numerous illustrations, this book will appeal to graduate students and researchers in electrical, mechanical and aerospace engineering. It is also useful for practitioners. Additional resources for this title, including solutions for instructors, are available online at www.cambridge.org/9780521875127.

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395

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Cambridge University Press

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1139465023

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Sources for the Mutual History of Ghana and the Netherlands

An Annotated Guide to the Dutch Archives Relating to Ghana and West Africa in the Nationaal Archief, 1593-1960s

By: Michel René Doortmont,Jinna Smit

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Sources for the Mutual History of Ghana and the Netherlands

An Annotated Guide to the Dutch Archives Relating to Ghana and West Africa in the Nationaal Archief, 1593-1960s

By: Michel René Doortmont,Jinna Smit

Annotated guide to the Dutch archives on Ghana and West Africa in the "Nationaal Archief" offering a comprehensive overview of available sources. Part I: description of archival materials. Part II: historical overview of the Dutch in Ghana and selected themes from Ghana's history. With bibliography and index.

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BRILL

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9004158502

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A Theory of Economic Growth

Dynamics and Policy in Overlapping Generations

By: David de la Croix,Philippe Michel

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A Theory of Economic Growth

Dynamics and Policy in Overlapping Generations

By: David de la Croix,Philippe Michel

This book provides an in-depth treatment of the overlapping generations model in economics incorporating production.

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400

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Cambridge University Press

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0521001153

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9780521001151

Arterial Stiffness in Hypertension

Handbook of Hypertension Series

By: Michel Safar,Michael F. O'Rourke

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Arterial Stiffness in Hypertension

Handbook of Hypertension Series

By: Michel Safar,Michael F. O'Rourke

Main headings: I. Basic concepts of pulsatile arterial hemodynamics. - II. Pathophysiological mechanisms. - III. Arterial stiffness, wave reflections, cardiovascular risk and end-organ damage. - IV. Clinical aspects of arterial stiffness and wave reflections. - V. Therapeutic aspects of arterial stiffness and wave reflections.

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618

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0444517588

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9780444517586

Space and Spatial Cognition

A Multidisciplinary Perspective

By: Michel Denis

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Space and Spatial Cognition

A Multidisciplinary Perspective

By: Michel Denis

All living creatures inscribe their activity in space. Human beings acquire knowledge of this space by traversing it, listening to verbal descriptions, and looking at maps, atlases, and digital media. We memorize routes, compare distances mentally, and retrieve our starting place after a long journey. Space and Spatial Cognition provides an up-to-date introduction to the elements of human navigation and the mental representation of our environment. This book explores the mental capacities which enable us to create shortcuts, imagine new pathways, and thus demonstrate our adaptation to the environment. Using a multidisciplinary approach which draws on psychology, neuroscience, geography, architecture and the visual arts, the author presents answers to a number of questions. Which mental capacities do people mobilize when confronted with space? Which brain functions do they implement? How do digital technologies extend these capacities? By presenting space at the crossroads of a number of disciplines, this volume reveals how each of them enhances our understanding of human behaviour in space. Space and Spatial Cognition provides a unique insight into all facets of spatial cognition, including spatial behaviour, language, and future technologies. It will be the ideal companion for all students and researchers in the field.

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Routledge

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1351596179

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9781351596176

Constructions of Neuroscience in Early Childhood Education

By: Michel Vandenbroeck,Jan De Vos,Wim Fias,Liselott Mariett Olsson,Helen Penn,Dave Wastell,Sue White

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Constructions of Neuroscience in Early Childhood Education

By: Michel Vandenbroeck,Jan De Vos,Wim Fias,Liselott Mariett Olsson,Helen Penn,Dave Wastell,Sue White

What can early childhood scholars learn from neurosciences and its influence on children, education, policy and practice? This book explores and critiques topical debates in educational sciences, philosophy, social work and cognitive neuroscience. It examines constructions of children, parents and the welfare state, in relation to neurosciences and its vocabulary of brain architecture, critical periods and toxic stress.

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109

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Taylor & Francis

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1315445115

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Majority Judgment

Measuring, Ranking, and Electing

By: Michel Balinski,Rida Laraki

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Majority Judgment

Measuring, Ranking, and Electing

By: Michel Balinski,Rida Laraki

An account of a new theory and method of voting, judging and ranking, majority judgment, shown to be superior to all other known methods. In Majority Judgment, Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki argue that the traditional theory of social choice offers no acceptable solution to the problems of how to elect, to judge, or to rank. They find that the traditional model—transforming the "preference lists" of individuals into a "preference list" of society—is fundamentally flawed in both theory and practice. Balinski and Laraki propose a more realistic model. It leads to an entirely new theory and method—majority judgment—proven superior to all known methods. It is at once meaningful, resists strategic manipulation, elicits honesty, and is not subject to the classical paradoxes encountered in practice, notably Condorcet's and Arrow's. They offer theoretical, practical, and experimental evidence—from national elections to figure skating competitions—to support their arguments. Drawing on insights from wine, sports, music, and other competitions, Balinski and Laraki argue that the question should not be how to transform many individual rankings into a single collective ranking, but rather, after defining a common language of grades to measure merit, how to transform the many individual evaluations of each competitor into a single collective evaluation of all competitors. The crux of the matter is a new model in which the traditional paradigm—to compare—is replaced by a new paradigm—to evaluate.

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431

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MIT Press

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0262545713

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9780262545716

Set Functions, Games and Capacities in Decision Making

By: Michel Grabisch

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Set Functions, Games and Capacities in Decision Making

By: Michel Grabisch

The book provides a thorough treatment of set functions, games and capacities as well as integrals with respect to capacities and games, in a mathematical rigorous presentation and in view of application to decision making. After a short chapter introducing some required basic knowledge (linear programming, polyhedra, ordered sets) and notation, the first part of the book consists of three long chapters developing the mathematical aspects. This part is not related to a particular application field and, by its neutral mathematical style, is useful to the widest audience. It gathers many results and notions which are scattered in the literature of various domains (game theory, decision, combinatorial optimization and operations research). The second part consists of three chapters, applying the previous notions in decision making and modelling: decision under uncertainty, decision with multiple criteria, possibility theory and Dempster-Shafer theory.

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Springer

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3319306901

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A History of Dutch Corruption and Public Morality (1648-1940)

By: Toon Kerkhoff,Ronald Kroeze,Pieter Wagenaar,Michel Hoenderboom

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A History of Dutch Corruption and Public Morality (1648-1940)

By: Toon Kerkhoff,Ronald Kroeze,Pieter Wagenaar,Michel Hoenderboom

This book represents the first extensive discussion of 300 years of change, continuity and diversity in Dutch corruption and public morality between 1648 and 1940. A collection of rich historical case studies on public and political debates surrounding supposedly corrupt acts of administrators and politicians is set against the backdrop of the major political and socio-economic developments of the time. As the book moves from early modern beginnings of the Dutch Republic to the age of Enlightenment and into “modern” politics, it tells the story of how, when and why Dutch political-administrative thought and practice concerning “good” and “bad” government actually evolved. It provides the reader with an understanding of past and present ideas on Dutch corruption and public morality, and places these within a wider European historical context. The book will primarily appeal to those interested in European and Dutch political-administrative history, the history of corruption, anti-corruption, public values, and ethics and integrity.

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384

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527555666

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9781527555662

Design of Analog Fuzzy Logic Controllers in CMOS Technologies

Implementation, Test and Application

By: Carlos Dualibe,Michel Verleysen,P. Jespers

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Design of Analog Fuzzy Logic Controllers in CMOS Technologies

Implementation, Test and Application

By: Carlos Dualibe,Michel Verleysen,P. Jespers

Fuzzy logic is a computational paradigm capable of modelling the own uncertainness of human beings. This wide-ranging book focuses in-depth on the VLSI CMOS implementation and application of programmable analogue Fuzzy Logic Controllers following a mixed-signal philosophy.

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220

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Springer Science & Business Media

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030648014X

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9780306480140

The Second World War

By: Michel Pierre,Annette Wieviorka

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The Second World War

By: Michel Pierre,Annette Wieviorka

An overview account that deals with the causes and principal events of World War II, and ends with Hiroshima.

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Silver Burdett Press

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0382092988

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Parametrizations in Control, Estimation and Filtering Problems: Accuracy Aspects

By: Michel Gevers,Gang Li

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By: Michel Gevers,Gang Li

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Parametrizations in Control, Estimation and Filtering Problems: Accuracy Aspects

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Child of the Enlightenment

Child of the Enlightenment

Data-Driven Identification of Networks of Dynamic Systems

Data-Driven Identification of Networks of Dynamic Systems

Filtering and System Identification

Filtering and System Identification

Sources for the Mutual History of Ghana and the Netherlands

Sources for the Mutual History of Ghana and the Netherlands

A Theory of Economic Growth

A Theory of Economic Growth

Arterial Stiffness in Hypertension

Arterial Stiffness in Hypertension

Space and Spatial Cognition

Space and Spatial Cognition

Constructions of Neuroscience in Early Childhood Education

Constructions of Neuroscience in Early Childhood Education

Majority Judgment

Majority Judgment

Set Functions, Games and Capacities in Decision Making

Set Functions, Games and Capacities in Decision Making

A History of Dutch Corruption and Public Morality (1648-1940)

A History of Dutch Corruption and Public Morality (1648-1940)

Design of Analog Fuzzy Logic Controllers in CMOS Technologies

Design of Analog Fuzzy Logic Controllers in CMOS Technologies

The Second World War

The Second World War

Parametrizations in Control, Estimation and Filtering Problems: Accuracy Aspects

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