Author Description

This volume presents lectures delivered at a workshop held at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Bejing). The following articles are included: Nonlinear Systems Control by R. Brockett, Adaptive Control of Discrete-Time Nonlinear Systems with Structural Uncertainties by L.-L. Xie and L. Guo, Networks and Learning by P.R. Kumar, Mathematical Aspects of the Power Control Problem in Mobile Communication Systems by C.W. Sung and W.S. Wong, and Brockett's Problem on Nonlinear Filtering Theory by S.S.-T. Yau. Basic concepts and current research are both presented in the book. The volume offers a comprehensive and easy-to-follow account of many fundamental issues in this diverse field. It should be a suitable text for a graduate course on wireless communication. interested in operations research and mathematical programming.