Stochastic modeling and control of biological systems: The lactose regulation system of escherichia coli

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 53, Issue SPECIAL ISSUE, 2008, Pages 51-65

  Julius, A Agung ^a   Halász, Ádám ^a   Sakar, M Selman ^a   Rubin, Harvey ^b   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Pappas, George J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Biological control systems; Simulation; Stochastic hybrid system; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTINUOUS TIME MARKOV CHAIN; CONTROLLER DESIGNS; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; E. COLI; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; GLOBAL QUANTITIES; MARKOV CHAIN; MODEL ABSTRACTION; MODEL YIELDS; OUTPUT FEEDBACK; STOCHASTIC HYBRID MODELS; STOCHASTIC HYBRID SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC MODELING; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TWO-STATE; LACTOSE REGULATION SYSTEM; STOCHASTIC HYBRID SYSTEM;

ABSTRACTING; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; CYBERNETICS; DESIGN; ELECTRIC GROUNDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYBRID COMPUTERS; HYBRID SENSORS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SUGARS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CONTROLLERS; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 40049087189     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2007.911346     Document Type: Article

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