Coordination Control of Distributed Systems

The book is an edited collection. The background of the authors of the book includes:



control engineering, control theory, mathematics, communication networks, informatics, marine engineering, traffic engineering, engineering of automated vehicles, control of printers, etc. Jan H. van Schuppen is affiliated as professor emeritus with the Department of Mathematics of Delft University of Technology in Delft, The Netherlands where he still teaches and advises and is further active with his consulting company Van Schuppen Control Research in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, since his retirement in October 2012.

His research interests include: control of decentralized and distributed systems, control of hybrid systems, control of discrete-event systems, realization, system identification, control of motorway networks and modeling and identification of biochemical reaction networks.



He is Advising Editor of the journal Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems and in the period 2008--2011 was coordinator of the project Control for coordination of distributed systems which was financially supported by the European Commission.