Computer Aided Systems Theory -- EUROCAST 2013

1. Front Matter

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2. Modelling Biological Systems

   1. A Note on Some Past and Present Advances in Neuroscience: A Personal Perspective

      • K. N. Leibovic

      Pages 1-11

   2. Solving Towers of Hanoi and Related Puzzles

      • Paul Cull, Leanne Merrill, Tony Van, Celeste Burkhardt, Tommy Pitts

      Pages 12-19

   3. Some Remarks on the First-Crossing Area of a Diffusion Process with Jumps over a Constant Barrier

      • Marco Abundo, Mario Abundo

      Pages 20-27

   4. On a Bilateral Linear Birth and Death Process in the Presence of Catastrophes

      • Virginia Giorno, Amelia G. Nobile

      Pages 28-35

   5. On the Dynamics of a Couple of Mutually Interacting Neurons

      • A. Buonocore, L. Caputo, M. F. Carfora, E. Pirozzi

      Pages 36-44

   6. Soft Control of Self-organized Locally Interacting Brownian Planar Agents

      • Guillaume Sartoretti, Max-Olivier Hongler

      Pages 45-52

   7. Some Results on Brownian Motion Perturbed by Alternating Jumps in Biological Modeling

      • Antonio Di Crescenzo, Antonella Iuliano, Barbara Martinucci

      Pages 53-60

   8. A Stochastic Gompertz Model with Jumps for an Intermittent Treatment in Cancer Growth

      • Virginia Giorno, Serena Spina

      Pages 61-68

   9. A New Diffusion Process to Epidemic Data

      • Desire Romero, Nuria Rico, Maribel G-Arenas

      Pages 69-76

   10. Physical Activity Classification Using Resilient Backpropagation (RPROP) with Multiple Outputs

       • Mustapha Maarouf, Blas J. Galván González

       Pages 77-83

   11. On the Relevance of Discrepancy Norm for Similarity-Based Clustering of Delta-Event Sequences

       • B. Moser, F. Eibensteiner, J. Kogler, Gernot Stübl

       Pages 84-91

3. Systems Theory and Applications

   1. Escaping the Linearity Trap: Better Simulation Models for Management Support

      • Markus Schwaninger, Stefan N. Groesser

      Pages 92-101

   2. A Contribution to the Study of Classification and Regression Trees Using Multivalued Array Algebra

      • Margaret Miró-Julià, Monica J. Ruiz-Miró

      Pages 102-109

   3. Modelling of Collective Animal Behavior Using Relations and Set Theory

      • Jan Nikodem

      Pages 110-117

   4. Design of Decimation-Based Sequence Generators over Extended Fields

      • A. Fúster-Sabater, O. Delgado-Mohatar

      Pages 118-125

   5. Control and Command Systems Concepts from Early Work on a Mars Rover

      • Gabriel de Blasio, Arminda Moreno-Díaz, Roberto Moreno-Díaz

      Pages 126-133

   6. Transaction-Level Modeling and Refinement Using State Charts

      • Rainer Findenig, Thomas Leitner, Wolfgang Ecker

      Pages 134-141

   7. Analysis of the New Standard Hash Function

      • F. Martín-Fernández, P. Caballero-Gil

      Pages 142-149

   8. Simulating Energy Efficiency of Routing and Link-Layer Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

      • Mariusz Słabicki, Bartosz Wojciechowski

      Pages 150-157

The two-volume set LNCS 8111 and LNCS 8112 constitute the papers presented at the 14th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST 2013, held in February 2013 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. The total of 131 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the books. The contributions are organized in topical sections on modelling biological systems; systems theory and applications; intelligent information processing; theory and applications of metaheuristic algorithms; model-based system design, verification and simulation; process modeling simulation and system optimization; mobile and autonomous transportation systems; computer vision, sensing, image processing and medical applications; computer-based methods and virtual reality for clinical and academic medicine; digital signal processing methods and applications; mechatronic systems, robotics and marine robots; mobile computing platforms and technologies; systems applications.

• embedded systems
• functional testing
• genetic algorithms
• parallel computing
• swarm intelligence

• Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Cibernéticas, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

  Roberto Moreno-Díaz, Alexis Quesada-Arencibia

• Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Linz, Austria

  Franz Pichler

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