Creating some links between control feedback and biology modeling communities based on similarities in modeling, observing and perceiving alive structures, and analyzing interconnections between biological structures and subsystems was the main objective of this volume.

In this context, biology systems need appropriate analysis tools due to their structure and hierarchy, complexity and environment interference, and we believe that these aspects may generate interesting research topics in control area. Indeed, several works, raising the potential impact of control developments to bring some beginning of answers in the context of biological systems, have been published in the recent years.

The idea of this book was conceived in the context mentioned above with the objective to help in claiming many of the problems for control researchers, starting discussions and opening interactive debates between the control and biology communities, and, finally, to alert graduate students to the many interesting ideas at the frontier between control feedback theory and biology.

Hot topic of current interest in a variety of research communities Outcome of a workshop CNRS-NSF on biology and control theory, bringing together a small number of key researchers from biology and the control community

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Isabelle Queinnec and Sophie Tarbouriech are Researchers at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France.

Germain Garcia is Professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at INSA and Researcher at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France.

Inhalt
Model Selection.- Mini-Transplants for Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia: A Modeling Perspective.- Modeling of the HIV/AIDS Infection: An Aid for an Early Diagnosis of Patients.- A Multiscale Model for the Selection Control of Ovulatory Follicles.- Robotics Insights for the Modeling of Visually Guided Hand Movements in Primates.- Models for System Analysis.- Monotone and Near-Monotone Systems.- System and Control Theory Furthers the Understanding of Biological Signal Transduction.- Piecewise-Linear Models of Genetic Regulatory Networks: Theory and Example.- Modelling and Analysis of Cell Death Signalling.- A Petri Net Approach to Persistence Analysis in Chemical Reaction Networks.- Geometric Ideas in the Stability Analysis of Delay Models in Biosciences.- Analysis and Control Aspects.- Modeling and Control of Anesthetic Pharmacodynamics.- Direct Adaptive Control of Nonnegative and Compartmental Dynamical Systems with Time Delay.- Analysis and Control of Dynamical Biological Systems in Presence of Limitations.