Difference Equations, Discrete Dynamical Systems and Applications

Part I General Theory of Difference Equations, A. Linero Bas and Daniel N. Roldan, Families of 6-cycles of third order.- Inese Bula and Agnese Sile, About a System of Piecewise Linear Difference Equations with Many Periodic Solutions.- Zachary A. Kudlak and R. Patrick Vernon, Boundedness of Solutions of  and of   with Non-constant Coefficients.- D. Andrica and O. Bagdasar, On the Dynamic Geometry of Kasner Polygons with Complex Parameter.- Svetlin G. Georgiev and S. Kryzhevich, Linear Time-Varying Dynamic-Algebraic Equations of Index One on Time Scales.- Part II. Discrete Dynamical Systems, P. Glendinning and David J.W. Simpson, Differentiable conjugacies for one-dimensional maps.- M. Misiurewicz and Hong-Kun Zhang, Topological Entropy Of Generalized Bunimovich Stadium Billiards.- J. Hannam, B. Krauskopf, and H. M. Osinga, Global manifolds of saddle periodic orbits parametrised by isochrons.- R. Boruga, On uniform dichotomies for the growth rates of linear discrete-time dynamical systems in Banach spaces.- Erik I. Verriest, Stability and Realization of Difference Equations over Z and R.- Part III. Discrete-time models applied to engineering, biology and economics, G. I. Bischi, Discrete dynamical systems in economics: two seminal models and their developments.- V. Rasvan, On a class of applications for difference equations in continuous time.- Azmy S. Ackleh and Amy Veprauskas, The Interplay Between Dispersal and Allee Effects in a Two-Patch Discrete-Time Model.- M. Saburov and K. Saburov, Krause Mean Processes Generated by Off-Diagonally Uniformly Positive Nonautonomous Stochastic Hyper-Matrices.- Part IV. Control design techniques and numerical methods in relationship with discrete-time models, D. Normand-Cyrot, S. Monaco, M. Mattioni, and A. Moreschini, Passivity techniques and Hamiltonian structures in discrete time.- S. S. Mihai, F. Stoican, and B. D. Ciubotaru, Explicit MPC solution using Hasse diagrams: construction, storage and retrieval.- S. Diaconescu, F. Stoican, and B. D. Ciubotaru, Tube Model Predictive Control for Flexible Satellite Dynamics.- N. Pop, T. Sireteanu, L. Vladareanu, M. Iliescu, Ana-Maria Mitu, and V. Marius Maxim, Numerical modeling and some optimal control problems of dynamic systems describing contact problems with friction in elasticity.- M. Assal and S. Belhaj, A Particular Solution for Higher Order Non-Homogeneous Discrete Cauchy-Euler Equations.