Granular Modeling for the Realization of Fundamentals of Control, Systems Analysis, and Decision Making -- Power Laws Spanning Controls of Living Systems Growth and Development -- Optimal Synchronizability of Complex Networks -- Double Disappointment and Double Solution: Dialectical Systems Theory and Model of Sustainable Socially Responsible Society -- Activity's Resources Models: Cooperation and Competition -- Leader-following Output Consensus of Discrete-time Heterogeneous Systems with Saturation -- Distributed Composite Optimization for Multi-agent Systems with Asynchrony.

This book, dedicated to Professor Georgi M. Dimirovski on his anniversary, contains new research directions, challenges, and many relevant applications related to many aspects within the broadly perceived areas of systems and control, including signal analysis and intelligent systems. The project comprises two volumes with papers written by well known and very active researchers and practitioners. The first volume is focused on more foundational aspects related to general issues in systems science and mathematical systems, various problems in control and automation, and the use of computational and artificial intelligence in the context of systems modeling and control. The second volume is concerned with a presentation of relevant applications, notably in robotics, computer networks, telecommunication, fault detection/diagnosis, as well as in biology and medicine, and economic, financial, and social systems too.