Dealing with bio- and ecological complexity: Challenges and opportunities

Annual Reviews in Control

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-101

  Carson, Ewart ^a   Feng, David Dagan ^b   Pons, Marie Noëlle ^c   Soncini Sessa, Rodolfo ^d   van Straten, Gerrit ^e  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^d POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Biomedical systems; Biotechnology; Control systems; Ecology; Environmental systems; Modelling

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS; ECOLOGICAL DOMAINS; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846200475     PISSN: 13675788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arcontrol.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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