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Positive Systems: Theory and Applications

Proceedings of the First Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Positive Systems: Theory and Applications (POSTA 2003), Rome, Italy, August 28-30, 2003.

  • Proceedings of a multidisciplinary symposium on Positive Systems held in Rome, Italy, August 2003

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences (LNCIS, volume 294)

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Table of contents (52 papers)

  1. Stability Analysis of a Metabolic Model with Sequential Feedback Inhibition

    • Yacine Chitour, Frédéric Grognard, Georges Bastin
    Pages 143-150
  2. Differential Systems with Positive Variables

    • Jean-Luc Gouzé
    Pages 151-158
  3. Positivity and Invariance Properties of Nonisothermal Tubular Reactor Nonlinear Models

    • Mohamed Laabissi, Mohamed E. Achhab, Joseph J. Winkin, Denis Dochain
    Pages 159-166
  4. A Feedback Perspective for Chemostat Models with Crowding Effects

    • Patrick De Leenheer, David Angeli, Eduardo D. Sontag
    Pages 167-174
  5. Competitive and Cooperative Systems: A Mini-review

    • Morris W. Hirsch, Hal L. Smith
    Pages 183-190
  6. Small-gain Theorems for Predator-prey Systems

    • Patrick De Leenheer, David Angeli, Eduardo D. Sontag
    Pages 191-198
  7. Positive Particle Interaction

    • Ulrich Krause
    Pages 199-206
  8. Digraph-based Conditioning for Markov Chains

    • Stephen J. Kirkland
    Pages 215-216
  9. Paths and Cycles in the Totally Positive Completion Problem

    • Cristina Jordán, Juan R. Torregrosa
    Pages 217-224
  10. Completion Problems for Positive Matrices with Minimal Rank

    • Rafael Cantó, Ana M. Urbano
    Pages 225-232
  11. Some Problems about Structural Properties of Positive Descriptor Systems

    • Rafael Bru, Carmen Coll, Sergio Romero-Vivo, Elena Sánchez
    Pages 233-240
  12. A Characterization of Reachable Positive Periodic Descriptor Systems

    • Begoña Cantó, Carmen Coll, Elena Sánchez
    Pages 249-255
  13. A Simple Food Chain Model with Delay

    • Mario Cavani, Sael Romero
    Pages 273-280

About this book

This book contains the proceedings of the First Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Positive Systems Theory and Applications (POSTA 2003) held in Rome, Italy, on August 28-30, 2003.  Positive Systems are systems in which the relevant variables assume nonnegative values. These systems are quite common in applications where variables represent positive quantities such as populations, goods, money, time, data packets flowing in a network, densities of chemical species, probabilities etc. The aim of the symposium was to join together researchers working in the different areas related to positive systems such as telecommunications, economy, biomedicine, chemistry and physics in order to provide a multidisciplinary forum where they have the opportunity to exchange ideas and compare results in a unifying framework.

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