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From: Stephen Boyd <boyd@ISL.Stanford.EDU>
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biswa,

i have some ideas for volumes, and also some specific articles.

one possible theme is: convex optimization in engineering
(which just happens to be my main area of interest right now).
possible contributors:

**Steven Wright (computational optimal control/ model predictive
control)

**My group...  here we could provide anywhere between one and several
articles, although that might look bad.  but the fact is we have
several papers in the works that certainly fit DIRECTLY in the
description of computational control, signals, and circuits.


another possible volume:  computational methods in circuit
analysis.  here we emphasize advanced new methods of analysis of 
large scale circuits, such as krylov subspace methods, moment
methods, etc.

and of course, there is your area:  large scale control computation.

stephen