My "thinking out loud" response would be that classical control theory may not be very well suited to CS-type problems, which often can't even be approximated by linear systems. Cybernetic feedback control, a la Weiner, is IIRC mostly about systems with a few continuous variables, while our problems more often involve large numbers of discrete variables. But, there's certainly quite a bit more to control theory than I'm aware of.
Wolfram MathWorld recommends Zabczyk: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0817636455 There are plenty of other, smaller, less comprehensive intro texts out there too... sorry I can't recommend one first-hand. -- Max On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:49 PM, John Zabroski <[email protected]>wrote: > Folks, > > Lately I've been learning about control theory from research papers. I > started off with the classical Witsenhausen counterexample paper, and have > been reading a lot of papers about just that counterexample. I'm really > interested in control theory problems that overlap with information theory, > which is just the sort of problem Witsenhausen focused upon. > > I'm also wondering if any computer scientists have applied control theory > to any computational problems. I'm a little stunned that I can't find > anything relating things like the Actor Model to ideas from control theory. > > Just thinking out loud, but also welcoming suggestions! > > Cheers, > Z-Bo > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > >
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