Performance Analysis and Synthesis for Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems with Network-Enhanced Complexities

This book aims to provide a unified treatment on the analysis and synthesis for discrete-time stochastic systems with guarantee of certain performances against network-enhanced complexities with applications in sensor networks and mobile robotics.

Derui Ding received both the B.Sc. degree in Industry Engineering in 2004 and the M.Sc. degree in Detection Technology and Automation Equipment in 2007 from Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, China, and the Ph.D. degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering in 2014 from Donghua University, Shanghai, China. Dr. Ding is currently an associate professor with the Department of Control Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China. He is also a senior research fellow with the School of Software and Electrical Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australian. From July 2007 to December 2014, he was a teaching assistant and then a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, China. In January 2015, he, as an associate professor, joined University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China. From June 2012 to September 2012, he was a research assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. From March 2013 to March 2014, he was a visiting scholar in the Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University London, UK. From June 2015 to August 2015, he was a research assistant in the Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His research interests include nonlinear stochastic control and filtering, consensus control of multi-agent systems, as well as distributed filtering of sensor networks. He has published around 50 papers in refereed international journals. He is serving as an Associate Editor for Neurocomputing and has served as a Gest Editor for International Journal of General Systems and Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society.
Zidong Wang is currently Professor of Dynamical Systems and Computing at Brunel University London in the United Kingdom. From January 1997 to December 1998, he was an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow with the Control Engineering Laboratory, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. From January 1999 to February 2001, he was a Lecturer with the Department of Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. From March 2001 to July 2002, he was a University Senior Research Fellow with the School of Mathematical and Information Sciences, Coventry University, U.K. In August 2002, he joined the Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, U.K., as a Lecturer, and was then promoted to a Reader in September 2003 and to a Chair Professor in July 2007. Professor Wang's research interests include dynamical systems, signal processing, bioinformatics, control theory and applications. He has published more than 300 papers in refereed international journals. According to the Web of Science, his publications have received more than 19,636 citations (excluding self-citations) with h-index 87. He was awarded the Humboldt research fellowship in 1996 from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the JSPS Research Fellowship in 1998 from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the William Mong Visiting Research Fellowship in 2002 from the University of Hong Kong. Professor Wang is an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to networked control and complex networks. He has served or is serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part C, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing, Asian Journal of Control, an Action Editor for Neural Networks, an Editorial Board Member for IET Control Theory and Applications, International Journal of Systems Science, Neurocomputing, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, International Journal of General Systems, and an Associate Editor on the Conference Editorial Board for the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a member of program committee for many international conferences, and a very active reviewer for many international journals. He was nominated an appreciated reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in 2006-2008 and 2011, an appreciated reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems in 2008; an outstanding reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control in 2004 and for the journal Automatica in 2000.

Guoliang Wei received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics from Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China, in 1997 and the M.Sc. degree in applied mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in control engineering, both from Donghua University, Shanghai, China, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Control Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China. From March 2010 to May 2011, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in the Institute for Automatic Control and Complex Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. From March 2009 to February 2010, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge, U.K., sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust of the U.K. From June to August 2007, he was a Research Assistant at the University of Hong Kong. From March to May 2008, he was a Research Assistant at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include nonlinear systems, stochastic systems, and bioinformatics. He has published more than 70 papers in refereed international journals. He is a very active reviewer for many international journals.