Directions in Large-Scale Systems

1. The Linguistic Approach and Its Application to Decision Analysis

   • L. A. Zadeh

   Pages 339-370

2. Fuzzy Core and Equilibria of Games Defined in Strategic Form

   • Jean-Pierre Aubin

   Pages 371-388

3. Stabilization and Optimal Control of Nonlinear Systems Homogeneous-in-the-Input

   • D. H. Jacobson

   Pages 389-399

4. Stability of Large Scale Interconnected Systems

   • Jan C. Willems

   Pages 401-410

5. Large-Scale Systems: Optimality vs. Reliability

   • D. D. Siljak, S. K. Sundareshan

   Pages 411-425

6. Back Matter

   Pages 427-434

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This book is the record of papers presented at the Conference on Directions in Decentralized Control, Many-Person Optimization, and Large-Scale Systems held at the Colonial Hilton Inn, Wakefield, Massachusetts from September 1-3, 1975. Our motivation for organizing such a conference was two fold. Firstly, the last few years have seen a great deal of activity in the field of Large-Scale Systems Theory and it has been certainly one of the dominant themes of research in the disciplines of Systems and Control Theory. It therefore seemed appropriate to try and take stock of what had been accomplished and also try to "invent"l the future directions of research in this field. Secondly, the 6th World IFAC Conference was being held in Cambridge, Massachusetts the week earlier and it provided an ideal opportunity for taking advantage of the presence of a large number of specialists from all parts of the world to organize a small conference where a free exchange of ideas could take place. It is left to the readers of this volume to judge to what extent we have been successful in our above­ mentioned goals. There is no accepted definition of what constitutes a "large­ scale system" nor what large-scale system theory is. While this diversity does suggest that the field {whatever it may turn out to be} is in a state of flux, it does not necessarily imply chaos.

• control
• control theory
• modeling
• nonlinear system
• optimal control
• optimization
• research
• stability
• stabilization
• system
• systems theory

• Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

  Y. C. Ho

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

  S. K. Mitter

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