Large-Scale Networks in Engineering and Life Sciences

Prof. Dr. Peter Benner is a professor of Mathematics and head of research unit Computational Methods in Systems and Control Theory at the Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg/Germany. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Findeisen is a professor of Mathematics and Chair for Systems Theory and Automatic Control at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Institute for Automation Engineering. Prof. Dr. Dietrich Flockerzi is a professor of Mathematics and a Member of the organizational unit: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems and Systems and Control Theory. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Udo Reichl has held the Chair of Bioprocess Engineering at the University of Magdeburg, and he was appointed Director at the MPI for the Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in 2000. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai Sundmacher is head of Research Group "Physical and Chemical Process Engineering", Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg and a professor for Process Systems Engineering at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg. He is also a director and scientific member at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg.

Preface.- 1 Introduction to the Geometric Theory of ODEs with Applications to Chemical Processes, Dietrich Flockerzi.- 2 Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Nonlinear Time-Invariant RLC Circuits, Timo Reis.- 3 Interacting with Networks of Mobile Agents, Magnus Egerstedt, Jean-Pierre de la Croix, Hiroaki Kawashima, and Peter Kingston.- 4 Combinatorial optimization: the interplay of graph theory, linear and integer programming illustrated on network flow, Annegret K. Wagler.- 5 Stoichiometric and Constraint-based Analysis of Biochemical Reaction Networks, Steffen Klamt, Oliver Hädicke and Axel von Kamp.- 6 A Petri Net based Framework for Biomodel Engineering, Mary Ann Blätke, Christian Rohr, Monika Heiner and Wolfgang Marwan.- 7 Hybrid Modeling for Systems Biology: Theory and Practice, Moritz von Stosch, Nuno Carinhas and Rui Oliveira.