Positive Systems [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the third Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Positive Systems: Theory and Applications (POSTA 2009) Valencia, Spain, September 2-4, 2009 / edited by Rafael Bru, Sergio Romero-Viv.

Plenary Talks -- Reputation Systems and Nonnegativity -- Lyapunov Exponents and Uniform Weak Normally Repelling Invariant Sets -- Reachability Analysis for Different Classes of Positive Systems -- Invited Sessions -- On the Positive LQ-Problem for Linear Discrete Time Systems -- The Importance of Being Positive: Admissible Dynamics for Positive Systems -- Detectability, Observability, and Asymptotic Reconstructability of Positive Systems -- Stability Radii of Interconnected Positive Systems with Uncertain Couplings -- Linear Operators Preserving the Set of Positive (Nonnegative) Polynomials -- Convergence to Consensus by General Averaging -- Stability and D-stability for Switched Positive Systems -- On Positivity and Stability of Linear Volterra-Stieltjes Differential Systems -- Eigenvalue Localization for Totally Positive Matrices -- Positivity Preserving Model Reduction -- The Minimum Energy Problem for Positive Discrete-Time Linear Systems with Fixed Final State -- A Rollout Algorithm for Multichain Markov Decision Processes with Average Cost -- Analysis of Degenerate Chemical Reaction Networks -- k-Switching Reachability Sets of Continuous-Time Positive Switched Systems -- Contributed Papers -- Inverse-Positive Matrices with Checkerboard Pattern -- Some Remarks on Links between Positive Invariance, Monotonicity, Strong Lumpability and Coherency in Max-Plus Algebra -- Stability Analysis and Synthesis for Linear Positive Systems with Time-Varying Delays -- Linear Programming Approach for 2-D Stabilization and Positivity -- An Algorithmic Approach to Orders of Magnitude in a Biochemical System -- Structural Identifiability of Linear Singular Dynamic Systems -- On Positivity of Discrete-Time Singular Systems and the Realization Problem -- Multi-Point Iterative Methods for Systems of Nonlinear Equations -- Identifiability of Nonaccessible Nonlinear Systems -- Trajectory Tracking Control of a Timed Event Graph with Specifications Defined by a P-time Event Graph -- Tropical Scaling of Polynomial Matrices -- Scrutinizing Changes in the Water Demand Behavior -- Characterization of Matrices with Nonnegative Group-Projector -- Robust Design of Water Supply Systems through Evolutionary Optimization -- Applications of Linear Co-positive Lyapunov Functions for Switched Linear Positive Systems -- A Problem in Positive Systems Stability Arising in Topology Control -- Control of Uncertain (min,+)-Linear Systems -- On a Class of Stochastic Models of Cell Biology: Periodicity and Controllability -- Implementation of 2D Strongly Autonomous Behaviors by Full and Partial Interconnections -- Ordering of Matrices for Iterative Aggregation - Disaggregation Methods -- The Positive Servomechanism Problem under LQcR Control.

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