The purpose of this annual series Applied and Computational Control Signals and Circuits is
to keep abreast of the fast-paced developments in computational mathematics and scientific
computing and their increasing use by researchers and engineers in control signals and
circuits. The series is dedicated to fostering effective communication between mathematicians
computer scientists computational scientists software engineers theorists and practicing
engineers. This interdisciplinary scope is meant to blend areas of mathematics (such as linear
algebra operator theory and certain branches of analysis) and computational mathematics
(numerical linear algebra numerical differential equations large scale and parallel matrix
computations numerical optimization) with control and systems theory signal and image
processing and circuit analysis and design. The disciplines mentioned above have long enjoyed
a natural synergy. There are distinguished journals in the fields of control and systems the
ory as well as signal processing and circuit theory which publish high quality papers on
mathematical and engineering aspects of these areas however articles on their computational
and applications aspects appear only sporadically. At the same time there has been tremendous
recent growth and development of computational mathematics scientific comput ing and
mathematical software and the resulting sophisticated techniques are being gradually adapted
by engineers software designers and other scientists to the needs of those applied
disciplines.
