The purpose of this article is to serve as a light-weight introduction into the mysteries of analog and hybrid computing models from a dynamical systems and programming languages perspective. Hybrid systems are the dynamical systems that combine both models of computation, i.e., have interacting discrete and continuous dynamics. They have found widespread application as models for embedded comp...

Operational semantics of hybrid systems p. 25 SOS methods for semi-algebraic games and optimization p. 54 The discrete time behavior of lazy linear hybrid automata p. 55 Perturbed timed automata p. 70 A homology theory for hybrid systems : hybrid homology p. 86 Observability of switched linear systems in continuous time p. 103 Controller synthesis on non-uniform and uncertain discrete-time doma...

In this paper we present a framework for carrying out counterexample guided abstraction-refinement (CEGAR) for systems modelled as hybrid automata. The main difference, between our approach and previous proposals for CEGAR for hybrid automata, is that we consider the abstractions to be hybrid automata as well. We present a counterexample guided abstraction refinement method for systems modelled...

Hybrid fuzzy expert systems are one of the most practical intelligent paradigm of soft computing techniques with the high potential for managing uncertainty associated to the medical diagnosis. The potential of genetic algorithm (GA) by inspiring from natural evolution as a learning and optimization technique has been vastly concentrated for improving fuzzy expert systems. In this paper, the GA...

Hybrid systems are dynamical systems exhibiting both continuous and discrete behavior. Having states that can evolve continuously or discretely, hybrid dynamical systems permit modeling and simulation of systems in a wide range of applications including robotics, automotive systems, power systems, biological systems, to just list a few. Key motivation for studying hybrid systems comes from the ...

this paper provides a comparison of the maximum inter-story drifts and tip acceleration of both a 16 and 30 stories building each with different structural systems; hybrid r.c moment frame with shear walls and hybrid steel frame with shear walls and x bracing which are equipped by passive dampers. each of the building models were analyzed as fully non-linear structures for variety of dampers pl...