Bond Graphs for Engineers: Selected and Revised Papers from the Imacs 13th World Congress, Dublin, Ireland, July 1991, and the Imacs Conference on M

One of the contributors to this book is the inventor of bond graphs, Henry M. Paynter, who sketches a picture of the prehistory of bond graphs. The book is dedicated to him, because without his insight, knowledge and challenging attitude, bond graphs, and consequently this book, would not exist. Most of the pioneers in this research area, as well as young researchers, have also submitted papers. Engineers reading this book should get the flavour of what the "bond graph way of thinking" can do for them: not as some alternative or even competitive method but as a knowledge representation which allows the integration and extension of existing methods and approaches.