Positive Systems: Theory and Applications: Proceedings of the First Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Positive Systems: Theory and Applications (POSTA 2003), Rome, Italy Book

	Positive Random Systems with Application to Investment	1
	Rational Positive Systems for Reaction Networks	3
	Min-plus and Max-plus System Theory Applied to Communication Networks	7
	Reachability and Invariance Problems in Max-plus Algebra	15
	Modelling of Urban Bus Networks in Dioids Algebra	23
	Modal Logic and Dioids	31
	Monotone Linear Dynamical Systems over Dioids	39
	Optimal Control for (max,+)-linear Systems in the Presence of Disturbances	47
	Unforced Continuous Petri Nets and Positive Systems	55
	Reachability Graph for Autonomous Continuous Petri Nets	63
	Modeling Hybrid Positive Systems with Hybrid Petri Nets	71
	Simulation and Control of a Bottling Plant using First-order Hybrid Petri Nets	79
	Parameter Identifiability of Nonlinear Biological Systems	87
	Towards Whole Cell "in Silico" Models for Cellular Systems: Model Set-up and Model Validation	95
	Guaranteed Parameter Estimation for Cooperative Models	103
	Modeling and Simulation of Genetic Regulatory Networks	111
	Qualitative Analysis of Regulatory Graphs: A Computational Tool Based on a Discrete Formal Framework	119
	A Reconstruction Algorithm for Gene Regulatory Sparse Networks using Positive Systems	127
	The Basic Reproduction Number in a Multi-city Compartmental Epidemic Model	135
	Stability Analysis of a Metabolic Model with Sequential Feedback Inhibition	143
	Differential Systems with Positive Variables	151
	Positivity and Invariance Properties of Nonisothermal Tubular Reactor Nonlinear Models	159
	A Feedback Perspective for Chemostat Models with Crowding Effects	167
	Positive Control for a Class of Nonlinear Positive Systems	175
	Competitive and Cooperative Systems: A Mini-review	183
	Small-gain Theorems for Predator-prey Systems	191
	Positive Particle Interaction	199
	Stability of Linear Systems and Positive Semigroups of Symmetric Matrices	207
	Digraph-based Conditioning for Markov Chains	215
	Paths and Cycles in the Totally Positive Completion Problem	217
	Completion Problems for Positive Matrices with Minimal Rank	225
	Some Problems about Structural Properties of Positive Descriptor Systems	233
	Positive Linear Systems Reachability Criterion in Digraph Form	241
	A Characterization of Reachable Positive Periodic Descriptor Systems	249
	A PLDS Model of Pollution in Connected Water Reservoirs	257
	Positivity for Matrix Systems: A Case Study from Quantum Mechanics	265
	A Simple Food Chain Model with Delay	273
	Linear Positive Systems and Phase-type Representations	281
	Blending Positive Matrix Pencils with Economic Models	289
	On the Positive Reachability of 2D Positive Systems	297
	On Nonnegative Realizations	305
	Estimation and Strong Approximation of Hidden Markov Models	313
	A Paradigm for Derivatives of Positive Systems	321
	Nonlinear Positive 2D Systems and Optimal Control	329
	State Feedback Set Stabilization for a Class of Nonlinear Systems	337
	Some Recent Developments in Positive 2D Systems	345
	Nonnegative Infinite Hankel Matrices having a Finite Rank	353
	The Character of an Idempotent-analytic Nonlinear Small Gain Theorem	361
	Positive Systems with Nondecreasing Controls, Existence and Well-posedness	369
	Reachability and Controllability of Positive Linear Discrete-time Systems with Time-delays	377
	Countercurrent Double-pipe Heat Exchangers are a Special Type of Positive Systems	385
	Note on Structural Properties and Sizes of Eigenspaces of Min-max Functions	393
	Author Index	401