Yan Song – författare

Over five decades, successive editions of Urban Land Use Planning have reflected and shaped the planning profession, guiding practitioners as they respond to changing social, economic, and environmental challenges. The sixth edition addresses the complex and pressing equity, sustainability, and resilience issues of today and looks ahead to emerging tools and technologies that will influence the field's future evolution.The book is organized into three parts. The first establishes an intellectual foundation by linking the values, theories, and tools that define contemporary land use planning practice. The second equips planners with analytical methods and information systems needed to build a strong factual basis for effective land use planning, incorporating advances in digital data and interactive technologies. The third explains the concepts and sequential tasks involved in preparing and implementing plans.The first new edition since 2006, Urban Land Use Planning, Sixth Edition updates and revises one of the most enduring and influential works in American planning history.

Model Predictive Control (MPC) has advanced as a robust method for managing complex dynamic systems, surpassing traditional control strategies in performance and constraint handling. This book explores MPC theory and applications, focusing on robust MPC (RMPC) for systems with uncertainties. It examines three system types: networked systems, stochastic switching systems, and nonlinear hybrid systems. It addresses challenges in networked interventions, Markovian jump systems, and nonlinear systems under communication constraints.• Integrates model predictive control, network-induced constraints, cyber-security issues, and advanced communication protocols• Covers control and state estimation with a focus on dynamic network systems with complex sampling• Considers and models network-induced complexities• Employs several analysis techniques to overcome the recent mathematical/computational difficulties for discrete-time systems• Deals with practical engineering problems for complex dynamic systems with different kinds of scenario-induced complexities or frame-work-induced complexitiesThis book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in networks, signal processing, controls, and dynamic complex systems.

The coalbed methane (CBM) reserve in China ranks third in the world with a total resource of 36.8×1012 m3. Therefore, in 2002, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China set up a national 973 program to study CBM system and resolve problems of CBM exploration and exploitation in China.