Modeling and Control of Complex Dynamic Systems 2014

Nowadays, practical dynamic systems have become more and more complex, which may be characterized by a model subjected to environmental uncertainties, communication time delays, stochastic perturbations, hybrid dynamics, distributed dynamics, chaotic dynamics, collective behaviours, and so forth [1, 2]. As a result, modeling and control of a complex system either from the viewpoint of mathematical theoretical methods or the view of real-time application point have been an interesting but challenging research topic. This is the third-year special issue from which one may see some recent research progresses in this research field. The special issue received 63 submissions, and 6 papers are selected after a peer-review procedure, indicating an acceptance rate of less than 10%.