Control & Chaos

The articles in this "Control & Chaos" volume are an outgrowth of a US-Australia workshop held in Hawaii in 1995. Experts in dynamical systems theory and control theory from the US and Australia, as well as England and Japan, focused on the problem of controlling nonlinear and potentially chaotic systems using limited control effort. The formal contributions take into account the discussions and commentaries of the participants and are reflected at the end of each article. Part I contains papers dealing with modeling, behavior, reconstruction, prediction and numerics. Part II deals with controlling complex systems by means of embedding unstable periodic orbits, targeting, filtering, optimization and adaptive methods. Part III contains four applications papers including the control of a bouncing ball, evolutionary stability, chaos in ecosystems, and neural networks.