Nonlinear Systems and Models for Intelligent Transportation and Communication

Dear Colleagues,

The recent developments in science and technology call for advanced instruments for a robust systems engineering and/or analysis, especially regarding modeling, simulation, control/optimization, forecasting and communication under particularly hard system-theoretical challenges as well as hard practical constraints and requirements. This is particularly challenging whenever one has to cope with complexly behaving complex systems. Transportation and communication systems are a typical/good examples of complex and complexly behaving systems. This complexity inherently manifests itself through traffic scenarios and phenomena described by traffic flow data (which are generally noisy, stochastic with non-trivial content), traffic flow models (which generally display uncomfortable attributes such as strong nonlinearity, stochasticity, time-varying behavior, instability, chaoticity, etc.) and related computational challenges of the resulting traffic flow models (e.g., robustness, scalability, cost and energy effectiveness, precision and accuracy, and high speeding-ups) for the enabling of real-time computational engineering. Also, the flexible implementability over various MOSFETs technologies, hardware and/or software target platforms is an issue of interest in this special issue as this could lead to a concrete practical implementation of a particularly robust and powerful computational systems’ science (e.g., the design of new computational paradigms and concepts for intelligent transportation and communication) characterized by both cost and energy effectiveness.

In this Special Issue, we invite submissions exploring the development of methods, conceps and algorithms for analysing traffic flow in transportation and communication engineering. The main focus is on Modeling, simulation, Control/optimization, forecasting and communication. Contributions can focus on Mathematical methods, Numerical simulations, Analog computing, MOSFETs technology, Oscillatory theory, Synchronization and Self-organization, Stability and Bifurcation analysis, Chaos theory, Sensors, Hardware, Algorithms, Graph theory, or Integrated monitoring and prediction systems for communication. Survey papers and reviews are also welcomed.

Prof. Dr. Jean Chamberlain Chedjou
Guest Editor

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• traffic modeling
• intelligent transportation
• communication systems