1. Preface

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 1

2. Nearly time-optimal paths for a ground vehicle

   • David A. Anisi
   • Johan Hamberg
   • Xiaoming Hu

   Regular Paper Pages: 2 - 8

3. What can routh table offer in addition to stability?

   • Li Qiu

   Regular Paper Pages: 9 - 16

4. Outliers, inliers and the generalized least trimmed squares estimator in system identification

   • Erwei Bai

   Regular Paper Pages: 17 - 27

5. H∞ controller synthesis of piecewise discrete time linear systems

   • Gang Feng

   Regular Paper Pages: 28 - 34

6. High-gain adaptive regulator for a string equation with uncertain harmonic disturbance under boundary output feedback control

   • Baozhu Guo
   • Wei Guo

   Regular Paper Pages: 35 - 42

7. Discretization behavior analysis of a switching control system from a unified mathematical approach

   • Xinghuo Yu
   • Ling Yang
   • Guanrong Chen

   Regular Paper Pages: 43 - 52

8. Detecting and diagnosing faults in dynamic stochastic distributions using a rational B-splines approximation to output PDFs

   • Hong Wang
   • Hong Yue

   Regular Paper Pages: 53 - 58

9. Two parametric approaches for eigenstructure assignment in second-order linear systems

   • Guangren Duan

   Regular Paper Pages: 59 - 64

10. Stability criteria for linear systems with multiple time-varying delays

    • Bugong Xu

    Regular Paper Pages: 65 - 69

11. Improved LMI representations for delay-independent and delay-dependent stability conditions

    • Yingmin Jia
    • Hideki Kokame

    Regular Paper Pages: 70 - 76

12. Self-organized motion in anisotropic swarms

    • Tianguang Chu
    • Long Wang
    • Tongwen Chen

    Brief Paper Pages: 77 - 81

13. Intelligent predicting approach of peritoneal fluid absorption rate based-on neural network

    • Mei Zhang
    • Yueming Hu
    • Tao Wang

    Brief Paper Pages: 82 - 85

14. Stability analysis of particle swarm optimization without Lipschitz constraint

    • Jie Chen
    • Feng Pan
    • Xuyan Tu

    Brief Paper Pages: 86 - 90

15. Robust distributed controller design of rotational single-link smart materials beam

    • Jianqin Gong
    • Shuzhi Sam Ge
    • Baiwu Wan

    Brief Paper Pages: 91 - 96

16. Delay-dependent criteria for the robust stability of systems with time-varying delay

    • Min Wu
    • Yong He
    • Jinhua She

    Brief Paper Pages: 97 - 100

17. Delay-dependent observer-based stabilizing controller design for linear multiple state-delayed systems

    • Dejin Wang

    Brief Paper Pages: 101 - 104