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This quantity is the complaints of the symposium held on the collage of Wyoming in August, 1985, to honor Gail younger on his 70th birthday (which truly happened on October three, 1985) and at the social gathering of his retirement. not anything can look extra common to a mathematician during this state than to honor Gail younger. Gail embodies the entire traits mathematician may still own. he's an lively and powerful study mathematician, having written over sixty pa­ pers in topology, n-dimensional research, advanced variables, and "miscellanea." he's an exceptional expositor, as his fantastic e-book Topology, written with J. G. Hocking (Addison Wesley, 1961), amply demonstrates. He has a superlative checklist in public workplace of exceptional, unstinting carrier to the mathematical group and to the reason for schooling. yet what makes Gail detailed and precise is that all through all facets of his exceptional occupation, he has emphasised human values in every little thing he has performed. In touching the lives of such a lot of folks, he has complex the whole occupation. Deservedly, he has innumerable associates within the mathematical group, the educational neighborhood, and beyond.

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J. Astrom, J. Anton and K. E. Arzen, "Expert control," Automatica, 22(1986), to appear. [14] G. Saridis and J. H. Graham, "Linguistic decision schemata for intelligent robots," Robotics Automation Lab. Report 6, 1982. [15] A. DeRochers, "Intelligent adaptive control strategies for hot steel rolling mills," Proc. Yale Workshop on Applic. of Adaptive Syst. Theory, 1981, 125-131. [16] C. I. Byrnes and A. Isidori, "A frequency domain philosophy for nonlinear systems, with application to stabilization and to adaptive control," Proc.

1 if X I- e, so Ker Ax is a countable discrete subset of IR. Since countable, the complement of U{ker Ax I X E C, C is X =1= e} is dense in R, so we can find to > 0 so that X(gto) I- 1 for all non-trivial X E C. This means that the discrete time system T generated by gt o is ergodic, and so is observed in forward time by every function in R. But a function that observes this discrete time system certainly observes the continuous time system. The authors would like to thank Professor Samelson for pointing out the reference to [7].

1) in real-time to adjust itself to a parameter value koo, koo > alb, which a control engineer would have chosen on the basis of classical automatic control, cf. 2). 3) can be interpreted as a knowledge-directed search through a space, viz. R+, of classical compensators. ), it is shown quite forcefully that the general stabilization 22 problem can be solved using such a search. 2. 3). 2 (Intelligent Critical Damping of a DC Motor). We consider a linear DC motor actuating a rigid planar joint, with input torque T and output the deflection () of the joint from the x-axis.

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