Mathematical systems theory in biology, communications, computation, and finance. Papers presented at the 15th international symposium on mathematical theory of networks and systems (MTNS), Notre Dame, IN, USA, August 12--16, 2002 (Q1413046)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. The preceding symposium has been reviewed (see Zbl 0988.00073, Zbl 0969.00099). Indexed articles: \textit{Alber, Mark S.; Kiskowski, Maria A.; Glazier, James A.; Jiang, Yi}, On cellular automaton approaches to modeling biological cells, 1-39 [Zbl 1131.92304] \textit{Ben Arous, Gérard; Tannenbaum, Allen; Zeitouni, Ofer}, Crystalline stochastic systems and curvature driven flows, 41-61 [Zbl 1048.93087] \textit{Ball, Joseph A.; Vinnikov, Victor}, Overdetermined multidimensional systems: state space and frequency domain methods, 63-119 [Zbl 1050.93044] \textit{Bloch, Anthony M.}, Dissipative dynamics in classical and quantum conservative systems, 121-155 [Zbl 1162.70322] \textit{D'Andrea, Raffaello; Langbort, Cedric; Chandra, Ramu}, A state space approach to control of interconnected systems, 157-182 [Zbl 1162.93354] \textit{Friedland, Shmuel}, Multi-dimensional capacity, pressure and Hausdorff dimension, 183-222 [Zbl 1041.94005] \textit{Helmke, Uwe; Jordan, Jens}, Numerics versus control, 223-236 [Zbl 1043.93018] \textit{Helton, J. William}, Manipulating matrix inequalities automatically, 237-256 [Zbl 1050.15021] \textit{Hüper, Knut}, A dynamical system approach to matrix eigenvalue algorithms, 257-274 [Zbl 1048.93032] \textit{McEliece, Robert J.; Yildirim, Muhammed}, Belief propagation on partially ordered sets, 275-299 [Zbl 1067.68142] \textit{Persson, Per-Olof; Strang, Gilbert}, Smoothing by Savitzky-Golay and Legendre filters, 301-315 [Zbl 1049.93083] \textit{Runggaldier, Wolfgang J.}, On stochastic control in finance, 317-344 [Zbl 1156.93408] \textit{Schumacher, J. M.}, Control and financial engineering, 345-374 [Zbl 1156.91382] \textit{Staffans, Olof J.}, Passive and conservative infinite-dimensional impedance and scattering systems (from a personal point of view), 375-413 [Zbl 1156.93326] \textit{Verduyn Lunel, Sjoerd M.}, Spectral theory for neutral delay equations with applications to control and stabilization, 415-467 [Zbl 1059.93062] \textit{Vontobel, Pascal O.; Loeliger, Hans-Andrea}, On factor graphs and electrical networks, 469-492 [Zbl 1053.93007] \textit{Willems, Jan C.; Pillai, Harish K.}, Dissipative distributed systems, 493-504 [Zbl 1051.93053]