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Validated Numerics

Author : Warwick Tucker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069124765X
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Validated Numerics written by Warwick Tucker and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, self-contained primer on validated numerics This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of validated numerics, an emerging new field that combines the strengths of scientific computing and pure mathematics. In numerous fields ranging from pharmaceutics and engineering to weather prediction and robotics, fast and precise computations are essential. Based on the theory of set-valued analysis, a new suite of numerical methods is developed, producing efficient and reliable solvers for numerous problems in nonlinear analysis. Validated numerics yields rigorous computations that can find all possible solutions to a problem while taking into account all possible sources of error—fast, and with guaranteed accuracy. Validated Numerics offers a self-contained primer on the subject, guiding readers from the basics to more advanced concepts and techniques. This book is an essential resource for those entering this fast-developing field, and it is also the ideal textbook for graduate students and advanced undergraduates needing an accessible introduction to the subject. Validated Numerics features many examples, exercises, and computer labs using MATLAB/C++, as well as detailed appendixes and an extensive bibliography for further reading. Provides a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to validated numerics Requires no advanced mathematics or programming skills Features many examples, exercises, and computer labs Includes code snippets that illustrate implementation Suitable as a textbook for graduate students and advanced undergraduates

Scientific Computing, Validated Numerics, Interval Methods

Author : Walter Krämer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475764847
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Book Synopsis Scientific Computing, Validated Numerics, Interval Methods by : Walter Krämer

Download or read book Scientific Computing, Validated Numerics, Interval Methods written by Walter Krämer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scan 2000, the GAMM - IMACS International Symposium on Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and Validated Numerics and Interval 2000, the International Conference on Interval Methods in Science and Engineering were jointly held in Karlsruhe, September 19-22, 2000. The joint conference continued the series of 7 previous Scan-symposia under the joint sponsorship of GAMM and IMACS. These conferences have traditionally covered the numerical and algorithmic aspects of scientific computing, with a strong emphasis on validation and verification of computed results as well as on arithmetic, programming, and algorithmic tools for this purpose. The conference further continued the series of 4 former Interval conferences focusing on interval methods and their application in science and engineering. The objectives are to propagate current applications and research as well as to promote a greater understanding and increased awareness of the subject matters. The symposium was held in Karlsruhe the European cradle of interval arithmetic and self-validating numerics and attracted 193 researchers from 33 countries. 12 invited and 153 contributed talks were given. But not only the quantity was overwhelming we were deeply impressed by the emerging maturity of our discipline. There were many talks discussing a wide variety of serious applications stretching all parts of mathematical modelling. New efficient, publicly available or even commercial tools were proposed or presented, and also foundations of the theory of intervals and reliable computations were considerably strengthened.

Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and Validated Numerics

Author : Marco Nehmeier
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319317695
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Book Synopsis Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and Validated Numerics by : Marco Nehmeier

Download or read book Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and Validated Numerics written by Marco Nehmeier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 16th International Symposium, SCAN 2014, held in Würzburg, Germany, in September 2014. The 22 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The main concerns of research addressed by SCAN conferences are validation, verification or reliable assertions of numerical computations. Interval arithmetic and other treatments of uncertainty are developed as appropriate tools.

Scientific Computing and Validated Numerics

Author : G. Alefeld
Publisher : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Scientific Computing and Validated Numerics by : G. Alefeld

Download or read book Scientific Computing and Validated Numerics written by G. Alefeld and published by De Gruyter Akademie Forschung. This book was released on 1996 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Symposium on Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic and Validated Numerics SCAN is held biannually, the fourth conference took place in Wuppertal 1995. This volume contains contributions from outstanding research specialists based on their presentations at SCAN-95. It covers all aspects of scientific computing with validation, starting with the latest developments in the design of floating point units together with algorithms for floating point operations and elementary function evaluations with maximum accuracy. The book continues by treating scientific computing methods for many areas of applied mathematics such as numerical linear algebra, nonlinear equations, global optimization, ordinary and partial differential equations and dynamical systems. Some computer science aspects like complexity are also considered as are examples where validation methods have successfully be used in applications from the engineering sciences.

Numerical Validation in Current Hardware Architectures

Author : Annie A.M. Cuyt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642015913
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Numerical Validation in Current Hardware Architectures by : Annie A.M. Cuyt

Download or read book Numerical Validation in Current Hardware Architectures written by Annie A.M. Cuyt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Dagstuhl Seminar 08021 on Numerical Validation in Current Hardware Architectures held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in January 2008. The 16 revised full papers presented were selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvements. The papers are organized in topical sections on languages, software systems and tools, new verification techniques based on interval arithmetic, applications in science and engineering, and novel approaches to verification.

Rigorous Numerics in Dynamics

Author : Jan Bouwe van den Berg
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1470428148
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Rigorous Numerics in Dynamics by : Jan Bouwe van den Berg

Download or read book Rigorous Numerics in Dynamics written by Jan Bouwe van den Berg and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is based on lectures delivered at the 2016 AMS Short Course “Rigorous Numerics in Dynamics”, held January 4–5, 2016, in Seattle, Washington. Nonlinear dynamics shapes the world around us, from the harmonious movements of celestial bodies, via the swirling motions in fluid flows, to the complicated biochemistry in the living cell. Mathematically these phenomena are modeled by nonlinear dynamical systems, in the form of ODEs, PDEs and delay equations. The presence of nonlinearities complicates the analysis, and the difficulties are even greater for PDEs and delay equations, which are naturally defined on infinite dimensional function spaces. With the availability of powerful computers and sophisticated software, numerical simulations have quickly become the primary tool to study the models. However, while the pace of progress increases, one may ask: just how reliable are our computations? Even for finite dimensional ODEs, this question naturally arises if the system under study is chaotic, as small differences in initial conditions (such as those due to rounding errors in numerical computations) yield wildly diverging outcomes. These issues have motivated the development of the field of rigorous numerics in dynamics, which draws inspiration from ideas in scientific computing, numerical analysis and approximation theory. The articles included in this volume present novel techniques for the rigorous study of the dynamics of maps via the Conley-index theory; periodic orbits of delay differential equations via continuation methods; invariant manifolds and connecting orbits; the dynamics of models with unknown nonlinearities; and bifurcations diagrams.

Numerical Verification Methods and Computer-Assisted Proofs for Partial Differential Equations

Author : Mitsuhiro T. Nakao
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811376697
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Book Synopsis Numerical Verification Methods and Computer-Assisted Proofs for Partial Differential Equations by : Mitsuhiro T. Nakao

Download or read book Numerical Verification Methods and Computer-Assisted Proofs for Partial Differential Equations written by Mitsuhiro T. Nakao and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decades, various mathematical problems have been solved by computer-assisted proofs, among them the Kepler conjecture, the existence of chaos, the existence of the Lorenz attractor, the famous four-color problem, and more. In many cases, computer-assisted proofs have the remarkable advantage (compared with a “theoretical” proof) of additionally providing accurate quantitative information. The authors have been working more than a quarter century to establish methods for the verified computation of solutions for partial differential equations, mainly for nonlinear elliptic problems of the form -∆u=f(x,u,∇u) with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Here, by “verified computation” is meant a computer-assisted numerical approach for proving the existence of a solution in a close and explicit neighborhood of an approximate solution. The quantitative information provided by these techniques is also significant from the viewpoint of a posteriori error estimates for approximate solutions of the concerned partial differential equations in a mathematically rigorous sense. In this monograph, the authors give a detailed description of the verified computations and computer-assisted proofs for partial differential equations that they developed. In Part I, the methods mainly studied by the authors Nakao and Watanabe are presented. These methods are based on a finite dimensional projection and constructive a priori error estimates for finite element approximations of the Poisson equation. In Part II, the computer-assisted approaches via eigenvalue bounds developed by the author Plum are explained in detail. The main task of this method consists of establishing eigenvalue bounds for the linearization of the corresponding nonlinear problem at the computed approximate solution. Some brief remarks on other approaches are also given in Part III. Each method in Parts I and II is accompanied by appropriate numerical examples that confirm the actual usefulness of the authors’ methods. Also in some examples practical computer algorithms are supplied so that readers can easily implement the verification programs by themselves.

Numerical Software with Result Verification

Author : René Alt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540247386
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Numerical Software with Result Verification written by René Alt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reliable computing techniques are essential if the validity of the output of a - merical algorithm is to be guaranteed to be correct. Our society relies more and more on computer systems. Usually, our systems appear to work successfully, but there are sometimes serious, and often minor, errors. Validated computing is one essential technology to achieve increased software reliability. Formal - gor in the de?nition of data types, the computer arithmetic, in algorithm design, and in program execution allows us to guarantee that the stated problem has (or does not have) a solution in an enclosing interval we compute. If the enclosure is narrow, we are certain that the result can be used. Otherwise, we have a clear warning that the uncertainty of input values might be large and the algorithm and the model have to be improved. The use of interval data types and al- rithms with controlled rounding and result veri?cation capture uncertainty in modeling and problem formulation, in model parameter estimation, in algorithm truncation, in operation round-o?, and in model interpretation. The techniques of validated computing have proven their merits in many scienti?c and engineering applications. They are based on solid and interesting theoretical studies in mathematics and computer science. Contributions from ?elds including real, complex and functional analysis, semigroups, probability, statistics,fuzzyintervalanalysis,fuzzylogic,automaticdi?erentiation,computer hardware, operating systems, compiler construction, programming languages, object-oriented modeling, parallel processing, and software engineering are all essential.

European Congress of Mathematics

Author : Ari Laptev
Publisher : European Mathematical Society
ISBN 13 : 9783037190098
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book European Congress of Mathematics written by Ari Laptev and published by European Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Congress of Mathematics, held every four years, has established itself as a major international mathematical event. Following those in Paris, 1992, Budapest, 1996, and Barcelona, 2000, the Fourth European Congress of Mathematics took place in Stockholm, Sweden, June 27 to July 2, 2004, with 913 participants from 65 countries. Apart from seven plenary and thirty three invited lectures, there were six Science Lectures covering the most relevant aspects of mathematics in science and technology. Moreover, twelve projects of the EU Research Training Networks in Mathematics and Information Sciences, as well as Programmes from the European Science Foundation in Physical and Engineering Sciences, were presented. Ten EMS Prizes were awarded to young European mathematicians who have made a particular contribution to the progress of mathematics. Five of the prizewinners were independently chosen by the 4ECM Scientific Committee as plenary or invited speakers. The other five prizewinners gave their lectures in parallel sessions. Most of these contributions are now collected in this volume, providing a permanent record of so much that is best in mathematics today.

Granular, Fuzzy, and Soft Computing

Author : Tsau-Young Lin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 1071626280
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (716 download)

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Book Synopsis Granular, Fuzzy, and Soft Computing by : Tsau-Young Lin

Download or read book Granular, Fuzzy, and Soft Computing written by Tsau-Young Lin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-29 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (ECSS, 2009) presented a comprehensive overview of granular computing (GrC) broadly divided into several categories: Granular computing from rough set theory, Granular Computing in Database Theory, Granular Computing in Social Networks, Granular Computing and Fuzzy Set Theory, Grid/Cloud Computing, as well as general issues in granular computing. In 2011, the formal theory of GrC was established, providing an adequate infrastructure to support revolutionary new approaches to computer/data science, including the challenges presented by so-called big data. For this volume of ECSS, Second Edition, many entries have been updated to capture these new developments, together with new chapters on such topics as data clustering, outliers in data mining, qualitative fuzzy sets, and information flow analysis for security applications. Granulations can be seen as a natural and ancient methodology deeply rooted in the human mind. Many daily "things" are routinely granulated into sub "things": The topography of earth is granulated into hills, plateaus, etc., space and time are granulated into infinitesimal granules, and a circle is granulated into polygons of infinitesimal sides. Such granules led to the invention of calculus, topology and non-standard analysis. Formalization of general granulation was difficult but, as shown in this volume, great progress has been made in combing discrete and continuous mathematics under one roof for a broad range of applications in data science.

Reliable Implementation of Real Number Algorithms: Theory and Practice

Author : Peter Hertling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540855211
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)

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Book Synopsis Reliable Implementation of Real Number Algorithms: Theory and Practice by : Peter Hertling

Download or read book Reliable Implementation of Real Number Algorithms: Theory and Practice written by Peter Hertling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large amount of the capacity of today’s computers is used for computations that can be described as computations involving real numbers. In this book, the focus is on a problem arising particularly in real number computations: the problem of veri?edor reliablecomputations. Since real numbersare objects c- taining an in?nite amount of information, they cannot be represented precisely on a computer. This leads to the well-known problems caused by unveri?ed - plementations of real number algorithms using ?nite precision. While this is t- ditionally seen to be a problem in numerical mathematics, there are also several scienti?c communities in computer science that are dealing with this problem. This book is a follow-up of the Dagstuhl Seminar 06021 on “Reliable Imp- mentation of Real Number Algorithms: Theory and Practice,” which took place January 8–13, 2006. It was intended to stimulate an exchange of ideas between the di?erent communities that deal with the problem of reliable implementation of real number algorithms either from a theoretical or from a practical point of view. Forty-eight researchers from many di?erent countries and many di?erent disciplines gathered in the castle of Dagstuhl to exchange views and ideas, in a relaxed atmosphere. The program consisted of 35 talks of 30 minutes each, and of three evening sessions with additional presentations and discussions. There were also lively discussions about di?erent theoretical models and practical - proaches for reliable real number computations.

The Parameterization Method for Invariant Manifolds

Author : Àlex Haro
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319296620
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis The Parameterization Method for Invariant Manifolds by : Àlex Haro

Download or read book The Parameterization Method for Invariant Manifolds written by Àlex Haro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents some theoretical and computational aspects of the parameterization method for invariant manifolds, focusing on the following contexts: invariant manifolds associated with fixed points, invariant tori in quasi-periodically forced systems, invariant tori in Hamiltonian systems and normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds. This book provides algorithms of computation and some practical details of their implementation. The methodology is illustrated with 12 detailed examples, many of them well known in the literature of numerical computation in dynamical systems. A public version of the software used for some of the examples is available online. The book is aimed at mathematicians, scientists and engineers interested in the theory and applications of computational dynamical systems.

Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, Part II

Author : Roman Wyrzykowski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642144039
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Book Synopsis Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, Part II by : Roman Wyrzykowski

Download or read book Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, Part II written by Roman Wyrzykowski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2009, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in September 2009.

Modeling, Design, and Simulation of Systems with Uncertainties

Author : Andreas Rauh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642159567
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Book Synopsis Modeling, Design, and Simulation of Systems with Uncertainties by : Andreas Rauh

Download or read book Modeling, Design, and Simulation of Systems with Uncertainties written by Andreas Rauh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To describe the true behavior of most real-world systems with sufficient accuracy, engineers have to overcome difficulties arising from their lack of knowledge about certain parts of a process or from the impossibility of characterizing it with absolute certainty. Depending on the application at hand, uncertainties in modeling and measurements can be represented in different ways. For example, bounded uncertainties can be described by intervals, affine forms or general polynomial enclosures such as Taylor models, whereas stochastic uncertainties can be characterized in the form of a distribution described, for example, by the mean value, the standard deviation and higher-order moments. The goal of this Special Volume on Modeling, Design, and Simulation of Systems with Uncertainties is to cover modern methods for dealing with the challenges presented by imprecise or unavailable information. All contributions tackle the topic from the point of view of control, state and parameter estimation, optimization and simulation. Thematically, this volume can be divided into two parts. In the first we present works highlighting the theoretic background and current research on algorithmic approaches in the field of uncertainty handling, together with their reliable software implementation. The second part is concerned with real-life application scenarios from various areas including but not limited to mechatronics, robotics, and biomedical engineering.

Computer Arithmetic and Validity

Author : Ulrich Kulisch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110301792
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Computer Arithmetic and Validity by : Ulrich Kulisch

Download or read book Computer Arithmetic and Validity written by Ulrich Kulisch and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the revised and extended second edition of the successful basic book on computer arithmetic. It is consistent with the newest recent standard developments in the field. The book shows how the arithmetic and mathematical capability of the digital computer can be enhanced in a quite natural way. The work is motivated by the desire and the need to improve the accuracy of numerical computing and to control the quality of the computed results (validity). The accuracy requirements for the elementary floating-point operations are extended to the customary product spaces of computations including interval spaces. The mathematical properties of these models are extracted into an axiomatic approach which leads to a general theory of computer arithmetic. Detailed methods and circuits for the implementation of this advanced computer arithmetic on digital computers are developed in part two of the book. Part three then illustrates by a number of sample applications how this extended computer arithmetic can be used to compute highly accurate and mathematically verified results. The book can be used as a high-level undergraduate textbook but also as reference work for research in computer arithmetic and applied mathematics.

Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

Author : Christel Baier
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662466813
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems written by Christel Baier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2015, which took place in London, UK, in April 2015, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2015. The 45 papers included in this volume, consisting of 27 research papers, 2 case-study papers, 7 regular tool papers and 9 tool demonstration papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 164 submissions. In addition, the book contains one invited contribution. The papers have been organized in topical sections on hybrid systems; program analysis; verification and abstraction; tool demonstrations; stochastic models; SAT and SMT; partial order reduction, bisimulation, and fairness; competition on software verification; parameter synthesis; program synthesis; program and runtime verification; temporal logic and automata and model checking.

Advances in the Theory of Control, Signals and Systems with Physical Modeling

Author : Jean Levine
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642161340
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in the Theory of Control, Signals and Systems with Physical Modeling by : Jean Levine

Download or read book Advances in the Theory of Control, Signals and Systems with Physical Modeling written by Jean Levine and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 60's, control, signals and systems had a common linear algebraic background and, according to their evolution, their respective backgrounds have now dramatically differed. Recovering such a common background, especially in the nonlinear context, is currently a fully open question. The role played by physical models, finite or infinite dimensional, in this hypothetical convergence is extensively discussed in this book. The discussion does not only take place on a theoretical basis but also in the light of two wide classes of applications, among the most active in the current industrially oriented researches: - Electrical and Mechatronical systems; - Chemical Processes and systems appearing in Life Sciences. In this perspective, this book is a contribution to the enhancement of the dialogue between theoretical laboratories and more practically oriented ones and industries. This book is a collection of articles that have been presented by leading international experts at a series of three workshops of a Bernoulli program entitled “Advances in the Theory of Control, Signals and Systems, with Physical Modeling” hosted by the Bernoulli Centre of EPFL during the first semester of 2009. It provides researchers, engineers and graduate students with an unprecedented collection of topics and internationally acknowledged top-quality works and surveys.