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Zusammenfassung
Provides an introduction to the properties of functional differential equations and their applications in diverse fields such as immunology, nuclear power generation, heat transfer, signal processing, medicine and economics. This book deals with problems and methods relating to systems having a memory (hereditary systems).

Inhalt

1. Models.- 1. Formal prerequisites.- 2. Aftereffect in mechanics.- 3. Hereditary phenomena in physics.- 4. Models with delays in technical problems.- 5. Aftereffect in biology.- 6. Aftereffect in medicine.- 7. Aftereffect in economy and other sciences.- 2. General theory.- 1. Introduction. Method of steps.- 2. Cauchy problem for RDEs.- 3. Cauchy problem for NDEs.- 4. Differential inclusions of retarded type (RDIs).- 5. General linear equations with aftereffect.- 6. Linear autonomous equations.- 7. Hopf bifurcation.- 8. Stocnastic retarded differential equations (SRDEs).- 3. Stability of retarded differential equations.- 1. Liapunov's direct method.- 2. Linear autonomous equations.- 4. Stability of neutral type functional differential equations.- 1. Direct Liapunov's method.- 2. Stability of linear autonomous equations.- 5. Stability of stochastic functional differential equations.- 1. Statement of the problem.- 2. Liapunov's direct method.- 3. Boundedness of moments of solutions.- 6. Problems of control for deterministic FDEs.- 1. The dynamic programming method for deterministic equations. Bellman's equation.- 2. Linear quadratic problems.- 3. Optimal control of bilinear hereditary systems.- 4. Control problems with phase constraint formula.- 5. Necessary optimality conditions.- 7. Optimal control of stochastic delay systems.- 1. Dynamic programming method for controlled stochastic hereditary processes.- 2. The linear quadratic problem.- 3. Approximate optimal control for systems with small parameters.- 4. Another approach to the problem of optimal synthesis control.- 8. State estimates of stochastic systems with delay.- 1. Filtering of Gaussian processes.- 2. Filtering of solutions of Itô equations with delay.