Modeling, Simulation and Control of Nonlinear Engineering Dynamical Systems

This volume contains the invited papers presented at the 9th International C- ference ¿Dynamical Systems ¿ Theory and Applications¿ held in ?od ¿ z, ¿ Poland, December 17¿20, 2007 dealing with nonlinear dynamical systems. The conf- encegatheredanumerousgroupofscientistsandengineers,whodealwithwidely understoodproblemsofdynamicsmetalsoinengineeringanddailylife. Organizationof the conferencewould nothavebeen possiblewithouta great effortofthestaffoftheDepartmentofAutomaticsandBiomechanicsoftheTech- calUniversityof?od ¿ z. ¿ Thepatronageovertheconferencehasbeentakenbythef- lowingscienti?cinstitutions:MechanicsandMachineDynamicsCommitteesofthe PolishAcademyofSciences,PolishSocietyofTheoreticalandAppliedMech- ics,PolishAssociationforComputationalMechanics,andTechnicalCommitteeof NonlinearOscillationsofIFToMM. The ?nancial support has been given by the Department of Education at the ?¿odz¿ City Hall, Ministry of National Education and the Polish Association for ComputationalMechanics. We welcomednearly100personsfrom13countriesallovertheworld.They decidedto share the results of their researchandmanyyears of experiencein a disciplineofdynamicalsystemsbysubmittingmanyinterestingpapers. TheScienti?cCommitteeincludesthefollowingmembers:IgorV.Andrianov¿ Aachen;JanAwrejcewicz ¿?od ¿ z; ¿ Jose M. Balthazar¿ Rio Claro;Denis Bla- more¿ Newark; Iliya Blekhman ¿ Sankt Petersburg;Roman Bogacz ¿ Warsaw; TadeuszBurczyns ¿ ki¿Gliwice;DickvanCampen¿Eindhoven;Czes?awCempel¿ Poznan¿;LotharGaul¿ Stuttgart;Jozef ¿ Giergiel¿Cracow;Katica Hedrih¿Nis; ? Janusz Kowal ¿ Cracow; Vadim A. Krysko ¿ Saratov; W?odzimierz Kurnik ¿ Warsaw; Claude-Henri Lamarque ¿ Lyon; Nuno M. Maia ¿ Lisbon; Leonid I.