**Meet the editor**

Magdi Sadek Mahmoud is a Distinguished University Professor at KFUPM, Saudi Arabia. He worked at different universities world-wide including Egypt, Kuwait, UAE, UK, USA, Singapore and Australia. He lectured in Venezuela, Germany, UK, USA, Canada and China. He has been actively engaged in teaching and research in the development of modern methodologies to distrib-

uted control, switched time-delay systems, fault-tolerant systems and information technology. He is the principal author of thirty books, inclusive book-chapters and the author/co-author of more than 490 peer-reviewed papers. He is the recipient of two national, one regional and two university prizes for outstanding research in engineering. He is a fellow of the IEE, a senior member of the IEEE, the CEI (UK), and a registered consultant engineer of information engineering and systems (Egypt).

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Stochastic Mixed LQR/H∞ Control for Linear Discrete-Time Systems 3**

**Systems with Delays 29**

Chapter 2 **Robust Control Design of Uncertain Discrete-Time Descriptor**

Jun Yoneyama, Yuzu Uchida and Ryutaro Takada

Chapter 3 **Delay-Dependent Generalized H2 Control for Discrete-Time Fuzzy Systems with Infinite-Distributed Delays 53**

Li Dai, Yuanqing Xia, Mengyin Fu and Magdi S. Mahmoud

Mario A. Jordan, Jorge L. Bustamante and Carlos E. Berger

**Systems with Large Dead-Times - Theory and a Case Study 117**

Chapter 5 **Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Adaptive Control**

Chapter 6 **Adaptive Step-Size Orthogonal Gradient-Based Per-Tone Equalisation in Discrete Multitone Systems 137**

Jun-min Li, Jiang-rong Li and Zhi-le Xia

Chapter 4 **Discrete-Time Model Predictive Control 77**

Suchada Sitjongsataporn

**Section 1 Robust Control 1**

Xiaojie Xu

**Section 2 Nonlinear Systems 75**
