Decentralized Control of Complex Systems

Complexsystemsrequirefastcontrolactioninresponsetolocalinput，andperturbationsdictatetheuseofdecentralizedinformationandcontrolstructures.Thismuch-citedreferencebookexplorestheapproachestosynthesizingcontrollawsunderdecentralizedinformationstructureconstraints.
Startingwithagraph-theoreticframeworkforstructuralmodelingofcomplexsystems，thetextpresentsresultsrelatedtorobuststabilizationviadecentralizedstatefeedback.Subsequentchaptersexploreoptimization，outputfeedback，themanipulativepowerofgraphs，overlappingdecompositionsandtheunderlyinginclusionprinciple，andreliabilitydesign.Notesandreferencessupplementeachchapter，andtheappendixprovidesahelpfulrangeofefficientgraphalgorithms.