Continuous/Discrete-Time Fractional Systems: Modelling, Design and Estimation, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Fractal and Fractional (ISSN 2504-3110). This special issue belongs to the section "General Mathematics, Analysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2026 | Viewed by 1321
Special Issue Editors
Interests: operational calculus; fractional calculus; fractional systems
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Interests: fractional calculus; signal processing; fractional signals and systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last thirty years, Fractional Calculus has become an integral part of all scientific fields. Although not all the formulations are suitable for being used in applications, several tools constitute true generalizations of classic operators and are suitable for describing real phenomena. In fact, many systems can be classified as either shift-invariant or scale-invariant, and have fractional characteristics in either time or frequency/scale. This means that some of the known fractional operators, namely those described by ARMA-type equations, are very useful in many areas, such as diffusion, viscoelasticity, fluid mechanics, bioengineering, dynamics of mechanical, electronic, and biological systems, signal processing, control, and economics.
The focus of this Special Issue is to continue to advance research on topics such as modeling, design, and estimation relating to fractional order systems. Manuscripts addressing novel theoretical issues, as well as those on more specific applications, are welcome.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Fractional order systems modeling and identification;
- Shift-invariant fractional ARMA linear systems, continuous-time, and discrete-time;
- System analysis and design;
- Scale invariant systems;
- Fractional differential or difference equations;
- Mathematical and numerical methods with emphasis on fractional order systems;
- Fractional Gaussian noise, fractional Brownian motion, and other stochastic processes;
- Applications.
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Bengochea
Dr. Manuel Duarte Ortigueira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- autoregressive-moving average (ARMA)
- shift-invariant
- scale-invariant
- fBm
- Liouville
- Liouville–Caputo
- Hadamard
- Riemann–Liouville
- Dzherbashian–Caputo
- Grunwald–Letnikov
- two-sided Riesz–Feller derivatives
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