Chapter 1:general introduction

1 CHAPTER 1 : Introduction

Chapter One Introduction

In this chapter we provide an introduction to the basic concept of feedback and the related engineering discipline of control. We focus on both historical and current examples, with the intention of providing the context for current tools in feedback and control. Much of the material in this chapter is adapted from [Mur03], and the authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Roger Brock...

Chapter I Introduction

Carbohydrates are naturally occurring and well distributed, and are the most important building blocks of the biosphere. These evolutionary and biologically important organic compounds are present on Earth in different forms. Traditionally, on the basis of the number of sugar units, carbohydrates are classified into three groups: monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides. The natur...

Chapter One Introduction

In this chapter we provide an introduction to the basic concept of feedback and the related engineering discipline of control. We focus on both historical and current examples, with the intention of providing the context for current tools in feedback and control. Much of the material in this chapter is adopted from [Mur03] and the authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Roger Brocke...

Chapter 14 Introduction

More and more real-time systems are complex and distributed systems consisting of many sub-systems that must cooperate. In other words, those sub-systems must communicate with each other and to do this, still fulfilling the overall system specification, real-time communication must be supported. Moreover, real-time communication is also becoming widely needed in networks like the Internet, span...