Table of contents : Title page......Page 2 Preface......Page 5 Organization......Page 6 Table of Contents......Page 7 Introduction......Page 8 Need for Network-Centric Control......Page 10 An Excursion to Nature - Cellular Signaling Pathways......Page 11 Data-Centric Operation......Page 13 Specific Reaction on Received Data......Page 14 Case Studies......Page 15 Discussion......Page 17 Conclusion......Page 18 References......Page 19 Introduction......Page 21 Related Works......Page 23 Analytical Model: Ligand-Protein Docking......Page 24 Rotation of the Ligand Axis with Respect to Protein A......Page 26 Finding $\theta_{avg}$......Page 27 Computing $\theta_{avg}$ Using a 3-D Coordinate System......Page 32 Calculating $pb$......Page 33 Time Taken for the Ligand to Collide with the Binding Site of the Protein Molecule with Enough Activation Energy for Successful Docking......Page 36 Finding the Average Time for Rotation of Ligand Axis......Page 37 Problems in Validation of Our Model......Page 39 Numerical Results......Page 40 Limitations of Our Model......Page 44 Biological Implications......Page 45 References......Page 46 Introduction......Page 49 A Conceptual Framework: Internet as an Ecosystem Analogy......Page 51 Internet Ecology......Page 52 Types of Population Interactions......Page 53 Evaluation Parameters......Page 55 Predator-Prey Approach: Congestion Control Using Predator-Prey Model......Page 56 Illustrative Example......Page 57 Hybrid Approach: Congestion Control Using Combination of Competition and Predator-Prey Models......Page 61 Illustrative Example......Page 62 Implementation Issues......Page 65 How Does System Biology Benefit from This Contribution?......Page 66 References......Page 67 Introduction......Page 70 Abstracting Biological Systems......Page 72 The $beta$ Workbench......Page 76 Potentials......Page 80 Conclusions......Page 81 Introduction......Page 84 Data Management......Page 85 Software Engineering Tools......Page 86 Model Repositories......Page 87 Architecture Description......Page 88 Web Tools......Page 89 Model Run Manager......Page 90 Model Service......Page 92 Parameter Service......Page 93 Model Execution......Page 94 Composite Modelling......Page 95 Modelling Use Cases......Page 96 References......Page 97 Introduction......Page 99 Preliminaries......Page 101 Stability Under Projection......Page 102 Disjoint Stable Subspaces and Positive Circuits......Page 104 Dynamic Cycles and Negative Circuits......Page 106 References......Page 107 Author Index......Page 109