Slides from recent talks on Complexity and Robustness
1. Overview of robustness (SFI robustness workshop) (ppt)
2.
Design degree of freedom (ppt)
3.
NAS symposium on self-organizing systems (ppt)
4.
SFI networking workshop (ppt)
5.
ITP biology talk (ppt)
6.
Notes on feedback (ppt)
7.
IMA talk (Doyle) (ppt)
8.
IMA talk (Low) (ppt)
Note: there is a large
overlap in material in the above slides
Selected references:
Power laws, Highly Optimized Tolerance and generalized source coding, Doyle and Carlson, PRL, Abstract (text), Paper (postscript)
Highly Optimized Tolerance: A
Mechanism for Power Laws in Designed Systems, Carlson and Doyle, PRE, Abstract
(text), Paper
(postscript)
Robust perfect adaptation in bacterial chemotaxis through integral
feedback control, Yi, Huang, Simon, and Doyle, PNAS, (Link or PDF)
Heavy tails, generalized coding, and optimal web layout, Zhu, Yu, and Doyle, Infocomm, PS
Scalable laws for stable network congestion control, Paganini, Doyle, and Low, submitted to CDC, PS
Theoretical Foundations for Ubiquitous, Networked Control, Communications, and Computing, working paper, PS
Multiscale networking, robustness, and rigor, informal essay, HTML
Structured semidefinite programs and semialgebraic geometry methods in robustness and optimization, Pablo Parrilo, PhD Thesis, Control and Dynamical Systems, Caltech, (Gzipped postscript)
For more introductory papers on HOT, see: http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~carlson
A course in Robust Control Theory: A Convex Approach, Dullerud and Paganini, Springer
Essentials of Robust Control, Zhou, Prentice-Hall
Cells, Embryos, and Evolution, Gerhart and Kirschner
Some old slides from a physics seminar: Powerpoint slides
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