Editor's note: As the following article is a chapter (Chapter 8) from David Koenig's book, Practical Control Engineering: Guide for Engineers, Managers, and Practitioners (MATLAB Examples) (McGraw ...

We introduce a class of discrete-time stochastic processes generated by interacting systems of reinforced urns. We show that such processes are asymptotically partially exchangeable and we prove a ...

Various discrete-time stochastic processes have some kind of recursive or regenerative structure that can be exploited in the study of their properties. Examples include branching processes, ...

Physicists have shown that Markov processes, widely used to model complex systems, must unfold over a larger space than previously assumed. Scientists believe that time is continuous, not discrete -- ...