This unified volume is a collection of invited articles on topics presented at the Symposium on Systems, Control, and Networks, held in Berkeley June 57, 2005, in honor of Pravin Varaiya on his 65th birthday. Varaiya is an eminent faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley, widely known for his seminal contributions in areas as diverse as stochastic systems, nonlinear and hybrid systems, distributed systems, communication networks, transportation systems, power networks, economics, optimization, and systems education. The book will serve as an excellent resource for practicing and research engineers, applied mathematicians, and graduate students working in such areas as communication networks, sensor networks, transportation systems, control theory, hybrid systems, and applications.

Comprises invited contributions from first-rate researchers in the fields of systems, control, and networks Accessible to a broad audience of practicing and research engineers, applied mathematicians, and graduate students working in such areas as communication networks, sensor networks, transportation systems, control theory, hybrid systems, and applications Unified, self-contained work, which may be used as a supplementary text in various graduate courses and seminars Wide range of topics covered, including hybrid and stochastic systems, system engineering education and design, automated highway systems and transportation science, and various aspects of networks Presents a number of real-world applications

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Hybrid Systems.- Polytopic Approximations of Reachable Sets Applied to Linear Dynamic Games and a Class of Nonlinear Systems.- On the Problem of Measurement Feedback Control: Ellipsoidal Techniques.- Stability of Hybrid Systems and Related Questions from Systems Biology.- System Theory and Design.- Martingale Representation and All That.- Engineering Education: A Focus on Systems.- New Directions in System Design Automation.- Networks.- Causal Coding and Feedback in Gaussian Sensor Networks.- Cross-layer Design of Control over Wireless Networks.- Network Pricing for QoS: A 'Regulation' Approach.- Achieving Fairness in a Distributed Ad-Hoc MAC.- Cooperation, Trust and Games in Wireless Networks.- A Game Theoretic View of Efficiency Loss in Resource Allocation.- Decentralized Resource Allocation Mechanisms in Networks: Realization and Implementation.- Transportation.- Automated Highway Systems Research: The Influence of Pravin Varaiya.- The Traffic Amelioration Potential of Freeway Network Ramp Metering Control.- Transportation System Intelligence: Performance Measurement and Real-Time Traffic Estimation and Prediction in a Day-to-Day Learning Framework.- Modeling, Estimation, and Control of Freeway Traffic.