Special Issue Dedicated To Prof. Alexander L. Fradkov

Emails: emilia@ eng. tau. ac. il; liberzon@ uiuc. edu; pakshin@ apingtu. edu. ru; anton. p. 1982@ ieee. org without exaggeration, built the bridge between Russian and international research communities working in the fields of systems, control and cybernetics. Alexander Fradkov started his research career at the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) State University where he was working under supervision of Prof. Vladimir A. Yakubovich, one of the founders of St. Petersburg scientific school on systems and control. In his master thesis defended in 1971, Alexander Fradkov obtained important results on duality in non-convex quadratic optimization problems. In 1972-1989, Alexander Fradkov was staying with Leningrad Mechanical Institute (now Baltic State Technical University named after DF Ustinov), where he went the way from a Ph. D. student to full professor. In his Ph …