In complex products, maintaining subsystem consistency throughout the design process is often a time-consuming process of document exchange among cooperating functions. This paper describes a conflict management approach that lead to the computer-aided management of the product specification conflicts that happen due to the integration of subsystems. In order to define a framework, a systematic...

This paper generalizes the Lasalle-Yoshizawa Theorem to switched nonsmooth systems. It is established that Filippov (Krasovskii) regularization of a switched system is contained within the convex hull of the Filippov (Krasovskii) regularizations of the subsystems. A common candidate Lyapunov function that has a negative semidefinite derivative along the trajectories of the subsystems is shown t...

The problem of pth mean exponential stability and stabilizability of a class of stochastic nonlinear and bilinear hybrid systems with unstable and stable subsystems is considered. Sufficient conditions for the pth mean exponential stability and stabilizability under a feedback control and stabilizing switching rules are derived. A method for the construction of stabilizing switching rules based...

To address various types of delays including the neutral-type arising in dynamical networks, this paper deals with coupled delay differential and continuous-time difference equations and develops stability and robustness criteria. Subsystems described by differential equations are not required to be input-to-state stable. No assumptions on network topology are made. To tackle networks in such a...

A new framework for consciousness is introduced based upon traditional artificial neural network models. This framework reflects explicit connections between two parts of the brain: one global working memory and distributed modular cerebral networks relating to specific brain functions. Accordingly this framework is composed of three layers, physical mnemonic layer and abstract thinking layer, ...

This paper is concerned with a class of singularly perturbed systems of two conservation laws. A small perturbation parameter is introduced in the dynamics and the boundary conditions. By setting the perturbation parameter to zero, the singularly perturbed system of conservation laws can be treated as two subsystems of one conservation law: the reduced system and the boundary-layer system. The ...

This paper generalizes the Lasalle-Yoshizawa Theorem to switched nonsmooth systems. It is established that Filippov (Krasovskii) regularization of a switched system is contained within the convex hull of the Filippov (Krasovskii) regularizations of the subsystems. A common candidate Lyapunov function that has a negative semidefinite derivative along the trajectories of the subsystems is shown t...

This paper presents results for stability and robustness of hybrid systems consisting of nonlinear subsystems. Present stability results that are extensions of classical Lyapunov theory are restricted to certain kinds of hybrid systems. For example, it is required that all subsystems have the same equilibrium point. In this paper, existing results are generalized; but more importantly, it is sh...

The stability properties of linear switched systems consisting of both Hurwitz stable and unstable subsystems are investigated by using piecewise Lyapunov functions incorporated with an average dwell time approach. It is shown that if the average dwell time is chosen sufficiently large and the total activation time ratio between Hurwitz stable and unstable subsystems is not smaller than a speci...

The embedded and mobile computing market with its wide range of innovations is expected to remain growing in the foreseeable future. Recent developments in the embedded computing technology offer more performance thereby facilitating applications of unprecedented utility. Open systems, such as Linux, provide access to a huge software base. Nevertheless, these systems have to coexist with critic...