Linear State/Signal Systems

Damir Z. Arov is Professor in Mathematics at South-Ukrainian National Pedagogical University in Odessa. He introduced the notion of ε-entropy (predating the Kolmogorov–Sinai entropy), is one of the authors behind the Adamyan–Arov–Krein theory used in H∞ control, and developed passive systems theory and the theory of J-contractive matrix-valued functions. He has written approximately 200 journal articles and co-authored three monographs with Professor Harry Dym. Professor Arov, is an honorary doctor from Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and has received the Krein prize from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

Olof J. Staffans is Professor Emeritus in Mathematics at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. He is the author of Well-Posed Linear Systems (Cambridge, 2005) and a co-author of Volterra Integral and Functional Equations (Cambridge, 1990), and has published more than 100 journal articles. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters from which he received the E. J. Nyström award.