Circuit Theory -- Old and New Directions of Research in System Theory -- Regular Positive-Real Functions and the Classification of Transformerless Series-Parallel Networks -- Ports and Terminals -- Control -- On the Sample Complexity of Probabilistic Analysis and Design Methods -- A Constant Factor Approximation Algorithm for Event-Based Sampling -- A Unified Approach to Decentralized Cooperative Control for Large-Scale Networked Dynamical Systems -- Control and Stabilization of Linear Equation Solvers -- Nonlinear Output Regulation: A Unified Design Philosophy -- An Estimated General Cross Validation Function for Periodic Control Theoretic Smoothing Splines -- Stable Controller Design for Systems with Time Delays -- Dynamic Quantization for Control -- Graphs and Networks -- Convergence of Periodic Gossiping Algorithms -- Distributed PageRank Computation with Link Failures -- Predicting Synchrony in a Simple Neuronal Network -- Mathematical System Theory -- On the Stability and Instability of Padé Approximants -- On the Use of Functional Models in Model Reduction -- Quadratic Performance Verification for Boundary Value Systems -- Lyapunov Stability Analysis of Higher-Order 2-D Systems -- From Lifting to System Transformation -- Contractive Systems with Inputs -- Dissipativity and Stability Analysis Using Rational Quadratic Differential Forms -- On Behavioral Equivalence of Rational Representations -- Modeling -- Modeling and Stability Analysis of Controlled Passive Walking -- An Optimization Approach to Weak Approximation of Lévy-Driven Stochastic Differential Equations -- Compound Control: Capturing Multivariable Nature of Biological Control -- Law of Large Numbers, Heavy-Tailed Distributions, and the Recent Financial Crisis -- Signal Processing -- Markov Models for Coherent Signals: Extrapolation in the Frequency Domain -- Digital Signal Processing and the YY Filter -- Sparse Blind Source Separation via ?1-Norm Optimization -- YY Filter — A Paradigm of Digital Signal Processing -- System Identification -- How to Sample Linear Mechanical Systems -- A Note on LQ Decomposition in Stochastic Subspace Identification -- Modeling Systems Based on Noisy Frequency and Time Domain Measurements -- Blind Identification of Polynomial Matrix Fraction with Applications.

This volume contains articles by invited speakers for the symposium on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of Yutaka Yamamoto in Kyoto University on March 29–31, 2010.