This chapter describes widespread methods of model-based fuzzy control systems. The subject of this chapter is a systematic framework for the stability and design of nonlinear fuzzy control systems. We are trying to build a bridge between conventional fuzzy control and classic control theory. By building this bridge, the strong well developed tools of classic control could be used in model-base...

The objective of this systematic review was to evaluate the impact of pharmacists' interventions on clinical asthma outcomes on adult patients and to identify the outcome indicators used.PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and Scielo were searched. Studies addressing pharmacists' interventions on adult asthma patients reporting clinical asthma outcomes were incorporated.11 clinical outcomes were ide...

This paper proposes a systematic method to design hierarchical, decentralized, stabilizing controllers for homogeneous hierarchical dynamical networks. Based on LQR approach with a properly chosen performance index including global and local objectives with control input penalty, an obtained optimal LQR feedback gain gives the closed-loop system a prescribed desirable hierarchical structure. In...

Nonlinear Integrated Plant Thidarat Tosukhowong and Jay H. Lee An integrated plant with large material and energy recycle loops is known to exhibit a multiple timescale phenomena, in which the fast dynamics arise from the change in the unit operations and the slow dynamics are induced by interactions from the recycle streams. When the recycle-to-feed ratio is very large, the system becomes extr...

Since access control systems codify many of the power structures that govern everyday life, the design of such systems has direct rami®cations w.r.t. moral values held by the system’s designers, users, or operators. As an alternative to a design process based solely on functional or economical requirements, avalue-sensitive design” has been proposed as a structured approach to produce systems t...

In this paper, a novel control scheme is proposed on the basis of the well-known Smith predictor for the control of integrating processes with long time delay. It can provide one and half degree-of-freedom for the closed loop system tuning. Systematic design procedure is developed by employing optimal control theory, and simple and efficient tuning rules are derived analytically. It is shown th...

This paper reports on a systematic review of the evidence into the impacts of social network site usage on individual workplace outcomes. Twenty-seven studies met the inclusion criteria. SNS use in the workplace has been found to be positively associated with job satisfaction, job performance, innova-tive behaviour, employee engagement, and knowledge sharing, with knowledge sharing the most sup...

The operations number was evaluated for different design strategies to select the optimal or quasioptimal strategy that has the minimal computer time. The general methodology for the system design was elaborated by means of the optimal control theory approach. The problem of the time-optimal system design has been formulated as the classical problem of the optimal control for the some functiona...

This paper presents a systematic approach to distillation column control. The main emphasis is on the steps which precede the actual controller design, namely the modelling of the column and the selection of the control con guration. By control con guration in this context we mean the two independent variables used for composition control (for example, L and V;D and V , or L D and V B ). The st...