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  • Front Cover; Delay and Functional Differential Equations and Their Applications; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PARTICIPANTS; PREFACE; PART I:INVITED PAPERS; CHAPTER 1. CONTROL OF FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH FUNCTION SPACE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; Introduction; Controllability; Existence of Optimal Controls; Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Optimality; References; CHAPTER 2. NUMERICAL METHODS FOR FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; Introduction; PART 1: INITIAL-VALUE PROBLEMS FOR FUNCTIONAL ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; 1.1 Ordinary Differential Equations
  • 1.2 Retarded and Neutral Differential Equations 1.3 Volterra Integro-differential Equations; 1.4 Functional Differential Equations of Retarded Type; PART 2: BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEMS FOR FUNCTIONAL ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; 2.1 Shooting Methods; 2.2 Finite-difference Methods; 2.3 Other Work; PART 3: FUNCTIONAL PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; 3.1 Radiative Transfer; 3.2 Other Problems; References; CHAPTER 3. SOME HARMLESS DELAYS; References; CHAPTER 4. PATTERN LEARNING BY FUNCTIONAL-DIFFERENTIAL NEURAL NETWORKS WITH ARBITRARY PATH WEIGHTS; Introduction; Derivation of Some Networks
  • Psychophysiological Interpretation Local Symmetry Axes; References; CHAPTER 5. DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS IN PHYSIOLOGY AND HOW TO FIND THEM; Introduction; A Model of the Concentrating Action of the Medulla of the Kidney; Differential-Difference Equations; References; CHAPTER 6. BASIC FREQUENCY PERIODIC MOTIONS IN NONCCMPACT DYNAMICAL PROCESSES; References; CHAPTER 7. ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR OF SOLUTIONS OF THE FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; Introduction; Preliminaries; References; CHAPTER 8. OSCILLATIONS OF HIGHER-ORDER RETARDED DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS GENERATED BY THE RETARDED ARGUMENT; Introduction
  • Oscillation of Bounded Solutions Classification of Solutions; Existence of Oscillatory Solutions; References; CHAPTER 9. REMARKS ON A VOLTERRA EQUATION; Introduction; Proof of Lemma 1; Proof of Lemma 2; Proof of Lemma 3; Proof of Corollary 4; References; CHAPTER 10. ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY AND PERTURBATIONS FOR LINEAR VOLTERRA INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL SYSTEMS; Introduction; Preliminaries; Condition (D); Perturbations of (L); References; CHAPTER 11. THE INFINITE TIME QUADRATIC COST PROBLEM FOR CERTAIN CLASSES OF INFINITE DIMENSIONAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; Introduction; Problem Formulation
  • Optimal Control of Linear Hereditary Differential Systems with a Quadratic Cost: The Finite-Time Case References; CHAPTER 12.A DETERMINISTIC MODEL OF THE SPREAD OF AN INFECTION BETWEEN TWO POPULATIONS; Introduction; The Model; Main Results; References; PART II:CONTRIBUTED PAPERS; CHAPTER 13. INHOMOGENEOUS FUNCTIONAL AND OPERATIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; Introduction; Main Results; References; CHAPTER 14. ON ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS OF NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH TIME LAG; References