This volum includes 23 articles of those pre sented as plenary addresses, invited addresses and miuisymposia at the 12th International Syrnposimn on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, held in St. Louis. Missouri,USA, June 24-28, 1996. They were written by leading researchers, on the vanguard of the development of systems, control and estimation for the next century. They were concerned with the application of new methodologies to distributed parameter systems, linear/nonlinear systems and stochastic systems for solving problems in areas such as aircraft design, circuit simulation, imaging, speech synthesis and visionics.
edited by Christopher I. Byrnes, Biswa N. Datta. David S. Gilliam and Clyde F. Martin