E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing ISSUE No. 75, November 1, 1994 E-mail: eletter-request@win.tue.nl Editors: Anton A. Stoorvogel Dept. of Mathematics & Computing Science Eindhoven University of Technology P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven the Netherlands Fax +31-40-465995 Siep Weiland Dept. of Electrical Engineering Eindhoven University of Technology P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven the Netherlands Fax +31-40-434582 Contents 1. Editorial 2. Personals 3. General announcements 3.1 AACC Awards Nominations due December 1, 1994 3.2 IEEE Fellow Nominations 3.3 Update on SCAD Database 3.4 Neural Adaptive Control Technology (NACT) World-Wide Web and FTP Servers 4. Positions 4.1 Applied Probability Position at NCSU 4.2 Chair Dept. of Electrical Eng., University of Maryland 4.3 Research Opportunities at the US Army Research Laboratory 4.4 Fellowships European Research Network System Identification 4.5 Research Assistent Department EE, Queen's University Belfast 4.6 Position university of Westminster, UK 5. Books 5.1 Virtual Reality Technology 5.2 Adaptive Signal Processing Algorithms: Stability and Performance 6. Journals 6.1 Change of Editor in Chief System and Control Letters 6.2 Applied Mathematics and Computer Science 6.3 Mechatronics, Special Issue on ``Developments in Intelligent Mechatronic Systems'' 6.4 IEEE JSAC, Special Issue on Optical Networks 6.5 Journal of Real-time Systems 6.6 Mechatronics 6.7 Table of Contents Lin. Algebra Appl. Vol. 212/213 6.8 Table of Contents Automatica 7. Conferences 7.1 Int. Workshop on Parallel Applications in Statistics and Economics 7.2 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design 7.3 14th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control 7.4 1995 IEEE Workshop on Information Theory, Multiple Access and Queueing 7.5 Int. Conference on Image Processing 7.6 Int. Conference on Control and Information 7.7 13th World Congress Int. Federation of Automatic Control ****************************************** * * * Editorial * * * ****************************************** Welcome to E-letter number 75 !!! We plan to send out the E-letter monthly. The next issue of E-letter will appear December 1. Please send contributions before this date. Contributions tend to get increasingly long while part of the provided information is not always relevant to include in the E-letter. In order to keep the E-letter a reasonably sized medium we encourage contributors to provide essential information only. 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Present were doctoral and masters graduates spanning a period of more than 20 years. The birthday cake featured a commutative diagram and the inscription `Persistence of Thought' as well apposite phrases in Murray's other languages: Greek, Latin, Spanish and Chinese. A good time was enjoyed by all. Many of you may want to join us in wishing Murray Wonham a happy 60th birthday. ****************************************** * * * General announcements * * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Michael G. Safonov AACC AWARDS NOMINATIONS DUE DECEMBER 1, 1994 Nominations for the four AACC awards for 1995 are now being solicited. The awards consist of a certificate and an honorarium, and they will be presented at the 1995 American Control Conference in Seattle. Nomination packages should be prepared in accordance with the AACC Award Nomination Form (which can be obtained from the AACC Secretariat, Abraham Haddad) and include the following: biographical information, a statement identifying and evaluating the accomplishments on which the nomination is based, a minimum of three and a maximum of five reference letters, a current list of publications and patents, and any additional supporting material that could have bearing on the award. The nomination package is due by December 1, 1994 and should be sent to: Professor Abraham Haddad Department of EECS Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208-3118 (708) 491-3641 Fax (708) 491-4455 Email ahaddad@eecs.nwu.edu The awards are described as follows. RICHARD E. BELLMAN CONTROL HERITAGE AWARD: For distinguished career contributions to the theory or applications of automatic control. The nominee is to have spent a significant part of his or her career in the United States. Posthumous nominations are not allowed. DONALD P. ECKMAN AWARD: For outstanding accomplishments by a young engineer in the field of automatic control. Nominees must be younger than 35 years at the time of the award. The award is based on contributions made while the nominee was a resident of the United States. EDUCATION AWARD: For outstanding contributions to automatic control education in any form. The awardee normally is a teacher, but there is no formal requirement that nominees be members of a university faculty. O. HUGO SCHUCK BEST PAPER AWARD: For each of the best two papers presented at the previous year's American Control Conference. The award winning papers must have been presented by the author or a co-author at the conference. Selection criteria include quality of the written and oral presentation, technical contribution, timeliness, and practicality, with one award emphasizing contributions to theory and the other emphasizing significant or innovative applications. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Frank L. Lewis 1995 IEEE FELLOW NOMINATIONS Recognition by peers is a vital function of IEEE, with election to the grade of IEEE Fellow one of the most visible mechanisms for acknowledgment. The nomination of highly qualified individuals for Fellow status is one of the most important services one can render to the Control Systems Society. Nominations for IEEE Fellow are due at IEEE Headquarters by 15 April 1995, so that the first steps must be taken well prior to that date. Fellow nominees must be active IEEE Senior members, and have been an IEEE member for at least 5 years in any grade. A successful nomination requires a qualified candidate and a well-prepared nomination package. A key preliminary is a careful reading of the IEEE Guide for Fellow Grade Nominations, which contains the nomination forms and can be obtained from the IEEE Fellow Committee, 445 Hoes Lane, POB 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, tel. 908-562-3844, fax 908-981-9019. Five references are required for the nomination; they must be IEEE Fellows. A list of Fellows is contained in the IEEE Membership Directory and the Feb. 1987 issue of the Control Systems Magazine. More recently elected Fellows are listed in the June issues of the Magazine since then. If you plan to make an IEEE Fellow nomination, please contact Frank L. Lewis, Chairman, Control Systems Society Fellow Nomination Committee, Automation and Robotics Research Institute, The University of Texas at Arlington, 7300 Jack Newell Blvd. S, Ft. Worth, Texas 76118-7115; tel 817-794-5972, fax 817-794-5952, email flewis@arrirs03.uta.edu. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Raimund J. Ober Xu Huang UPDATE ON SCAD DATABASE -- October 1994 ******************************************************************************* #### #### ## ##### # # # # # # # #### # # # # # # # ###### # # # # # # # # # # #### #### # # ##### Systems and Control Archive at Dallas ftp address: ftp.utdallas.edu IP number: 129.110.10.14 queries: scad@utdallas.edu ****************************************************************************** New contents: ============= eletters: ========= - eletter issues: 74 New activities: =============== We are trying to make SCAD more user friendly, by extracting information from the eletters and collecting it in different subdirectories. In addition to the new subdirectories books, jobs and journalcontents which were discussed in the last SCAD update the subdirectory 'conferences' has now been updated. conferences: ============ This subdirectory contains information about conferences. At the moment most of the information that is provided is collected from past issues of the eletter. Currently there is information about more than 25 future conferences in this subdirectory. We also welcome any information about conferences that is directly submitted to SCAD (scad@utdallas.edu). ************ Remember to send your tech reports and other material! ********* How to access scad: =================== you can obtain details about how to access SCAD by sending an (empty) email message to eletter@win.tue.nl with subject 'info' to obtain information about the eletter which also contains information on how to access SCAD. Alternatively send an email request to: scad@utdallas.edu After accessing SCAD you can find a README file in /pub/scad which contains more info on how to submit material to SCAD. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Rafal W Zbikowski Neural Adaptive Control Technology (NACT) World-Wide Web and FTP Servers The ESPRIT III Basic Research project Neural Adaptive Control Technology (NACT) is a joint undertaking of Daimler-Benz (Berlin, Germany), Coordinating Partner, and Glasgow University (Glasgow, Scotland, UK). It is a three-year project, which started in April 1994, and is funded by the Commission of the European Communities. Project overview ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The Project aims at a synergy of adaptive control and neural networks. Similarities of both technologies on an abstract conceptual level constitute a basis for fundamental, engineering orientated research. Basic aspects of the fusion of technologies are investigated in the context of multiple computing agents and industrial automation environments. The focus is on delivery of transparent, constructive and engineering orientated design methods resulting from the consistent and consolidated theory of Neural Adaptive Control Technology (NACT). Emphasis is put on dynamic nonlinear plants and adaptive feedback through neural networks. World-Wide Web server ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ http://www.mech.gla.ac.uk/~nactftp/nact.html FTP server ^^^^^^^^^^ anonymous FTP to: ftp.mech.gla.ac.uk (130.209.12.14) directory: nact WWW server provides a link to the FTP server. The latter currently hosts two files in /nact directory: README basic info nact_tp1.ps PostScript version of the first NACT technical report: "A Review of Advances in Neural Adaptive Control Systems" (June 1994) ****************************************** * * * Positions * * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Kazufumi Ito (kito@crsc1.math.ncsu.edu) Applied Probability Position at NCSU The Department of Mathematics expects to make a tenure-track faculty appointment in applied probability, subject to budgetary approval. Strong preference will be given to candidates whose interests lie in financial or biological applications of stochastic differential equations and control. The appointment will be at the rank of assistant professor or above, and will begin on July 1, 1995. Applicants should have substantial experience beyond the Ph. D. (i.e., tangible records of significant research contributions and outstanding teaching in postdoctoral appointments). The Department of Mathematics has an outstanding group of applied mathematicians, with interests in numerical analysis, control and optimization, differential equations, and probability and stochastic processes. Research in probability at NCSU is highly interdisciplinary, encompassing the work of members of the Mathematics, Statistics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Industrial Engineering Departments, as well as members of the interdisciplinary Programs in Operations Research and Biomathematics. The successful candidate will be expected to interact with applied probability researchers across the campus, and to participate in innovative instructional programs such as the Applied and Industrial Mathematics Seminar, in which students solve ``real world'' problems posed by scientists and engineers from industry and government labs. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to become a member of the Center for Research in Scientific Computation, which facilitates interdisciplinary graduate education and research collaboration among applied mathematicians, scientists, and engineers from academics, industry and government labs. Applicants should send a vita and have three letters of recommendation sent to Ben G. Fitzpatrick, Department of Mathematics, Box 8205, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8205; 919-515-7552; crsc@math.ncsu.edu. The selection of candidates from the pool of completed applications will begin February 1, 1995. North Carolina State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. In its commitment to diversity and equity, NCSU seeks applications from women, minorities, and the disabled. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: K.J. Ray Liu CHAIRPERSON DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AT COLLEGE PARK Applications and nominations are invited for the position of Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Electrical Engineering. The University of Maryland is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer. Women and minority candidates are particularly encouraged to apply. Candidates should have an earned doctorate in electrical engineering or a closely related field, strong leadership ability, a proven research record, and a commitment to electrical engineering education. The Department of Electrical Engineering consists of 61 full time faculty and a number of research associates and lecturers. The faculty includes 32 Fellows of the IEEE and the American Physical Society and 11 Presidential Young Investigator Award recipients. The Department awards approximately 45 Ph.D., 70 M.S. and 200 B.S. degrees annually. The research expenditures by the department are in excess of $14M per year in areas including communication and signal processing, computers, controls, electrophysics and microelectronics. The department plays a major role in the Institute for Systems Research, a NASA Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communication Network, the Institute for Plasma Research and the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. Applications should include a complete curriculum vitae and names of references. Applications and nominations should be sent to: Professor Aris Christou Chair, E.E. Department Chair Search Committee Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742-2115 For best consideration, applications should be received prior to January 15, 1995. THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Brint Cooper INFORMATION THEORY AND COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AT THE US ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY Research opportunities described below are available on the campus of the US Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. We are interested in offering one appointment for one year to a recent awardee of the PhD and one to a senior research associate, typically a faculty member on sabbatical leave. In the past, it has been possible to renew such appointments for a second year. Research Description Research is needed in all aspects of digital communications that address the timely, reliable, and secure electronic transmission of information over battlefield computer networks. Such networks operate in an environment of hostile and self-jamming; consist entirely of mobile nodes; exhibit time-varying topologies; and possess links of insufficient bandwidth to move expected volumes of traffic easily. Noise and interference typically are non-Gaussian and often unknown in any precise manner. Research problems can address any relevant topic. Examples include: coding and modulation for noisy channels; network protocols; network flow and congestion control; routing in mobile nets; communication and information theory; multipath; spread spectrum (CDMA). The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is the Army's premier research activity. ARL scientists enjoy access to many massively parallel and high performance computers as well as state of the art workstations on each desk. Facilities are available to obtain any scholarly reference, and assistance with publication chores can be provided. Aberdeen Proving Ground is located near the mouth of the Susquehanna River where it flows into the Chesapeake Bay, about 25 miles northeast of Baltimore, Maryland. The area is rich in cultural events, and opportunities abound for outdoor recreational activity. For further information, please contact the undersigned. Preliminary enquiries by electronic mail are encouraged. Dr A Brinton Cooper III US Army Research Laboratory ATTN: AMSRL-CI-CC Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5067 Ofc: 410-278-6883 FAX: 410-278-2934 INTERNET: abc@arl.mil *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Jan H. van Schuppen (j.h.van.schuppen@cwi.nl) FOURTH CALL FOR FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS, issued by the EUROPEAN RESEARCH NETWORK SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION (ERNSI) Applications are invited for two post-doctoral fellowships at research teams of the European Research Network System Identification. Please show this call to potential applicants. FELLOWSHIPS The Commission of the European Communities has made funds available for the Program Human Capital and Mobility (HCM). The aim of this program is to invest in the scientists and researchers of European countries. The European Research Network System Identification (ERNSI) has a contract with the Commission that through the HCM program provides financial support for post-doctoral Research Training Fellowships. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Post-doctoral researchers are invited to apply to the network for a fellowship. Applications from post-doc researchers living in the less- favoured regions of the European Community are particularly welcome. Fellowships are available at this time only with the research teams at: - the Institute IRISA in Rennes, France with Prof. J.-J. Fuchs, - the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-a-Neuve, Belgium with Prof. M. Gevers. An appointment can start in the summer of 1995 at the earliest and the duration is at most 8 months. An appointment should end at the latest by the end of April 1996. Eligible is any national of a member state of the European Community, or of a country treated as a member state, or a resident in the European Community (see the Information Package mentioned below for the precise rules). Not eligible are persons living in Eastern Europe, Finland, Norway, or Sweden. For an applicant to visit a research team it is necessary that he or she is a national of a country other than that in which the research team is established. HOW TO APPLY? The Call for Fellowship Applications with information on the application procedure and an Information Package for fellowship applications to selected host institutes, may be requested from the coordinator of the network, see below for the address. Applications must be submitted to the coordinator. For an application to be considered in the next selection round it must reach the coordinator by November 17, 1994. SELECTION PROCEDURE The council of project managers of the network will make a selection of the applications. EUROPEAN RESEARCH NETWORK SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION Several research groups in system identification have formed the research network. This network comprises nine research teams in seven European countries. The aim of the network is to stimulate cooperation between the research teams in the research area of system identification. COORDINATOR The coordinator of the network is Prof. J.H. van Schuppen. Address: CWI - Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, P.O. Box 94079, 1090 GB Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Tel. +31-20-5924085 (office), +31-20-5924189 (secretary), +31-20-5929333 (switchboard), Fax +31-20-5924199, email schuppen@cwi.nl. RESEARCH TEAMS OF THE NETWORK WITH FELLOWSHIP OPENINGS Research team of the Laboratoire d'Automatique, Dynamique et Analyse des Systemes, Universite Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve. Team leader is Prof. M. Gevers. Tel. +32.10.472590, Email gevers@auto.ucl.ac.be Research team of the Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systemes Aleatoires (IRISA), Universite de Rennes, France. Team leader is Prof. J.-J. Fuchs. Tel. +33.99847223, Email fuchs@irisa.fr *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: s.shaw@ee.qub.ac.uk RESEARCH ASSISTANT Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The Queen's University of Belfast This post funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is available from 1 January 1995 for up to three years and will explore innovative methods of planning and control of robotic systems. The research will involve development of environments, planning, theory and controllers for multi-arm robotic systems engaged on manufacturing and other tasks. Applicants must have at least a 2:1 Honours degree or equivalent in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Control Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or equivalent. A Ph.D. in a relevant area is desirable. The successful candidate must also have demonstratable knowledge/experience of robotics, control or appropriate experience of task and movement planning methods. Experience of large software systems, real-time systems, visualisation and virtual reality will also be desirable. Salary range: U.K. Pounds 13,941-19,326 per annum, initial placing depending on age experience and qualifications. Applicants quoting Ref. 94/ , may obtain further particulars from the Personnel Officer, The Queen's University of Belfast, BT7 1NN. Closing date: 9th December 1994. The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. The University reserves the right to interview only those applicants who appear from the information available, to be the most suitable in terms of experience, qualifications and other requirements of the post. ----------------------------------------------- Stephen Shaw Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Room 8.12A, Ashby Building Stranmillis Road The Queen's University of Belfast Belfast BT9 5AH N. Ireland. voice: +44 (0)232 245133 Ext 4480 fax: +44 (0)232 667023 E-mail: s.shaw@ee.qub.ac.uk *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Duncan McFarlane RESEARCHER IN MODELLING AND CONTROL APPLIED TO TRANSPORT STUDIES ---------------------------------------------------------------- U N I V E R S I T Y O F W E S T M I N S T E R Position Description: As part of its interdisciplinary research project : Intelligent Modelling and Control applied to Scientific and Technical Systems, the Faculty of Engineering and Science will make the appointment of a researcher in Modelling and Control applied to Transport Studies. A well-qualified researcher with experience in data interpretation, modelling and control is required to work closely with Control Systems and Transport Studies specialists to undertake initial research that is expected to lead to the establishment of further interdisciplinary research projects. The appointment is initially for one year with the strong possibility of continued employment in the further research projects that are expected to become available. Background: The successful candidate is likely to have control-related qualifications to Masters level together with four years of relevant application-orientated research experience. Previous involvement in applications to transport is not necessary. Salary: UK 12,204 to 17,730 pounds (dependent on experience and qualifications). For an application form and further details please apply to the Recruitment Section, Personnel Department, University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish St, London, England, W1M 8JS. Alternatively, informal enquiries can be made to Professor Ron Leigh or Dr Duncan McFarlane via fax or email: c/o Industrial Control Centre University of Westminster FAX: +44 71 9115150 EMAIL: mcfarld@westminster.ac.uk Closing Date for Applications: 1 December 1994 The University of Westminster is an equal opportunities employer and operates a "No Smoking" policy which limits smoking to designated areas. ****************************************** * * * Books * * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: burdea@telerobo.rutgers.edu VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY Grigore Burdea and Philippe Coiffet John Wiley & Sons, 400 pp, 23 color plates, 212 drawings and tables, ISBN 0-471-08632-0 (Cloth) June 17 1994. Call: 1-800-225-5945 or 1-212-850-6418 FAX: 1-212-850-6088 1-800-263-1590 (Canada) T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S 1. INTRODUCTION. 2. VIRTUAL REALITY TOOLS. Position Sensors. Sensing Gloves. Stereo Viewing Devices. 3-D Sound Generators; 3. TOUCH AND FORCE FEEDBACK. Touch Feedback Is Different From Force Feedback. Requirements. Touch Feedback. Force Feedback. Combining Force And Touch Feedback. 4. COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES. Frame Rate Vs. Computational Load. Graphics Graphics Performance Vs. Scene Complexity. PC-Based VR Engine. Workstation-Based Architectures. Distributed VR. Supercomputer-Based Systems; 5. MODELING. Geometric Modeling. Collision Detection; Object Hierarchies; Physical Modeling. Object Behavior. Model Segmentation. 6. PROGRAMMING IN VR. The VR Editor. Event Scheduling. Real-time Distributed Simulation. Task Decomposition; Graphical Programming. Non-Commercial VR Toolkits. 7. HUMAN FACTORS IN VR. VR Evaluation Methodology. Vision And Graphics Feedback; Audio Feedback; Force And Tactile (Haptic) Feedback; Simulation Sickness. VR And The Society. 8. APPLICATIONS. Medicine and Rehabilitation. Entertainment, Arts and Education. Military and Aerospace. Business Applications. Robotics and Manufacturing. 9. THE FUTURE. BIBLIOGRAPHY. LIST OF COMPANIES AND RESEARCH LABORATORIES. INDEX. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Xuan Kong (kong@ceet.niu.edu) NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: TITLE: Adaptive Signal Processing Algorithms: Stability and Performance AUTHORS: Victor Solo and Xuan Kong ISBN: 0-13-501263-5 PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall (in the Information and System Sciences Series edited by Thomas Kailath) To order directly from publisher: Prentice Hall customer service within the USA: 1800-922-0579 International customer service within the USA: +201-767-5185 For international customer service for Europe (Based in England) phone: +442-881900 +442-257115 (FAX) To obtain a copy of preface and table of contents, email to kong@ceet.niu.edu SUMMARY: This book is chiefly concerned with the analysis of the behavior (i.e., stability and performance) of adaptive signal processing (ASP) algorithms. The book is intended for use as a graduate text while providing a bridge to and overlapping with more advanced research monographs. More generally the book should be of interest to practitioners and researchers in signal processing, communication, and control. The book is divided into three parts: The first part of the book introduces ASP through its applications, shows how to construct ASP algorithms, and gives a detailed global stability and performance analysis in both deterministic and stochastic settings. The stochastic analysis is done under very restrictive assumptions but requires little background and enables a whole range of issues to be investigated. Further, the conclusions of the stochastic analysis turn out to have wider applicability. An important feature of the discussion is that time varying parameters are explicitly treated. The second part turns to deterministic stability analysis by means of averaging methods, which are necessary to handle more complicated algorithms. Averaging is capable of providing a stability analysis of just about any adaptive algorithm that can be constructed and is certainly robust enough to allow a full treatment of time varying parameters. Furthermore, it has not been well appreciated that averaging also is capable of providing global stability results. The third part treats stochastic stability and performance by averaging methods. Some continuity is provided here with the second part because the arguments used are stochastic versions of the deterministic ones. In this way we hope to make a step towards bringing the deterministic viewpoint (prevalent in the control community) and the stochastic viewpoint (prevalent in the communication and signal processing communities) closer together. Two important adaptive signal processing application examples, channel equalization and time delay estimation, are used throughout the book to illustrate the averaging analysis methods Each chapter is ended by a set of notes that direct the reader to additional references. A carefully selected set of exercises are also provided at the end of each chapter. CHAPTER AND SECTION HEADINGS: Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Motivating Adaptive Algorithms 1.2 Application Examples 1.3 Basic Features of Adaptive Algorithms 1.4 Notes Chapter 2 OFFLINE ANALYSIS 2.1 Utility of Offline Calculations 2.2 One-Sided FIR Filter 2.3 Two-Sided FIR Filter: Channel Equalization 2.4 Time Delay Estimation 2.5 Two-Sided FIR Filter: Interference Cancelling 2.6 IIR Filters 2.7 Notes Chapter 3 ITERATIVE MINIMIZATION 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Quadratic Error Surface 3.3 Nonquadratic Error Surface 3.4 Notes Chapter 4 ALGORITHM CONSTRUCTION 4.1 Algorithm Classification 4.2 Filter Structure 4.3 FIR Filters and Single Time Scale LMS 4.4 IIR Filters 4.5 General Adaptive Steepest Descent Algorithms 4.6 Improvements to Adaptive Steepest Descent 4.7 Newton's Method Algorithms 4.8 Generalizations 4.9 Notes Chapter 5 ALGORITHM ANALYSIS: GAUSSIAN WHITE NOISE SETTING 5.1 Gaussian White Noise Assumptions 5.2 LMS with Time Invariant Parameters 5.3 LMS with Time Varying Parameters 5.4 Notes Chapter 6 ALGORITHM ANALYSIS: DETERMINISTIC GLOBAL THEORY 6.1 Single Time Scale LMS and Persistent Excitation 6.2 Mixed Time Scale LMS and the Positive Real Condition 6.3 Notes Chapter 7 DETERMINISTIC AVERAGING: SINGLE TIME SCALE 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Finite Time Averaging --- Time Invariant Parameters 7.3 Finite Time Averaging --- Time Varying Parameters 7.4 Infinite Time Averaging --- Preliminaries 7.5 Infinite Time Averaging --- Hovering Theorem 7.6 Infinite Time Averaging --- Stability via Perturbed Lyapunov Function 7.7 Infinite Time Averaging --- Stability with Time Invariant Parameters 7.8 Infinite Time Averaging --- Time Variant Parameters 7.9 The ``ode'' Method 7.10 Notes Chapter 8 DETERMINISTIC AVERAGING: MIXED TIME SCALE 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Finite Time Averaging --- Time Invariant Parameters 8.3 Finite Time Averaging --- Time Variant Parameters 8.4 Infinite Time Averaging --- Hovering Theorem 8.5 Infinite Time Averaging --- Stability via Perturbed Lyapunov Function 8.6 Infinite Time Averaging --- Time Invariant Parameters 8.7 Notes Chapter 9 STOCHASTIC AVERAGING: SINGLE TIME SCALE 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Finite Time Averaging: Time Invariant Parameters 9.3 Finite Time Averaging: Time Variant Parameters 9.4 Infinite Time Averaging: Hovering Theorem 9.5 Infinite Time Averaging --- Stability 9.6 Steady State --- Preliminaries 9.7 Steady State Analysis --- Time Invariant Parameters 9.8 Steady State Analysis --- Time Varying Parameters 9.9 Notes Chapter 10 STOCHASTIC AVERAGING: MIXED TIME SCALE 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Finite Time Averaging --- Time Invariant Parameters 10.3 Notes Appendix A MATRIX ANALYSIS REVIEW Appendix B STOCHASTIC SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS REVIEW Appendix C DETERMINISTIC SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS REVIEW Appendix D MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS REVIEW Appendix E PROBABILITY REVIEW ****************************************** * * * Journals * * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Thanos Antoulas and Iven Mareels Systems & Control Letters Announcement of Change of Editors-in-Chief ------------------------------------------ Jan C. Willems who co-founded Systems & Control Letters in 1982 together with Roger W. Brockett has served as its Editor-in-Chief continuously since then. He will now be stepping down. Starting January 1, 1995 he will be succeeded by Thanos C. Antoulas and Iven M. Y. Mareels. The editorial and review policy of SCL will remain unchanged. Timely and concise papers covering the whole area of system and control theory and engineering are solicited. Papers of a tutorial nature and papers reporting practical applications of novel control ideas are within the scope of the journal. Furthermore, submission of papers by e-mail is encouraged. E-mail submissions should comply with the instructions given below. Starting January 1, 1995, papers should be mailed by regular mail (3 copies) or e-mail (see below), to one of the Editors-in-Chief according to areas as follows: Prof. A.C. Antoulas (Area: linear systems) Systems and Control Letters Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rice University Houston, Texas 77251-1892, USA e-mail: scletters@rice.edu fax: +1-713-524-5237 Dr. I.M.Y. Mareels (Area: non-linear systems) Systems and Control Letters Department of Engineering Australian National University ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA e-mail: scletters@anu.edu.au fax: +61-6-249 0506 E-mail submission ----------------- The LaTeX files of papers submitted for possible publication in SCL may be sent to the Editors by e-mail. The articles should be encoded in Elsevier-LaTeX, standard LaTeX, or AMS-LaTeX (in document style ``article''). The Elsevier-LaTeX package, together with instructions on how to prepare a file, is available from the Publisher. This package can also be obtained through the Elsevier WWW home page (http://www.elsevier.nl/), or using anonymous FTP from the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN). The host-names are: ftp.dante.de, ftp.tex.ac.uk, ftp.shsu.edu; the CTAN directories are: /pub/tex/macros/latex209/contrib/elsevier, /pub/archive/macros/latex209/contrib/elsevier, /tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/elsevier, respectively. If the file is sent by e-mail, the name Systems & Control, followed by the title should be mentioned in the ``subject field'' of the message to identify the paper. Authors should include an ASCII table (available from the Publisher) in their files to enable the detection of transmission errors. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Ewaryst Rafaj\lowicz APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE (AMCS) Aims and Scope AMCS strives to meet the demand for presentation of interdisciplinary research concerned with applications of mathematical methods to computer science and engineering. The journal publishes high quality original research results in the following areas: * mathematical methods in computer science and engineering, * modern control theory and applications, * artificial intelligence techniques, * applied mathematics and mathematical optimization techniques. Editor--in--Chief: J\'o zef Korbicz Department of Robotics and Software Engineering Technical University of Zielona G\'o ra, Poland ELECTRONIC VERSION Electronic version of AMCS is now available in LaTeX (*.tex files and *.dvi) and PostScript. At present abstracts of four issues of 1993 volume are accessible. Readers can read or copy files in one the following way: 1) using Mosaic (X Windows terminals only) type: Mosaic ftp://ldhpux.immt.pwr.wroc.pl/www/appl1993/appl1993.html or using lynx lynx ftp://ldhpux.immt.pwr.wroc.pl/www/appl1993/appl1993.html or open URL: gopher://ldhpux.immt.pwr.wroc.pl:70/11/periodicals/appl 2) by ftp, type: ftp ldhpux.immt.pwr.wroc.pl login as anonymous and give your return address as password, then change to directory periodicals/appl . In case of any difficulties in access to e-version contact please: Professor Ewaryst Rafajlowicz, Associate Editor for Electronic Version e-mail raf@ldhpux.immt.pwr.wroc.pl fax: (48 71) 20 34 08 AMCS 1994 Volume 4 Number 1 ISSN 0867--857X Contents Lasiecka I., Lukes D. and Pandolfi L. A FEEDBACK SYNTHESIS OF BOUNDARY CONTROL PROBLEM FOR A PLATE EQUATION WITH STRUCTURAL DAMPING 1 Kowalewski A. and Krakowiak A. TIME--OPTIMAL CONTROL OF PARABOLIC TIME LAG SYSTEM 19 Siwczy\'nski M. and Pasko M. MINIMIZATION OF ENERGY LOSSES ON THE TRANSMISSION LINE 29 Korbicz J., Podladchikov V. and Bidyuk P. INTEGRATION OF MULTISENSOR MEASUREMENTS USING MODIFIED KALMAN FILTER 39 Nied\'zwiecki M. ON STATISTICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF VECTOR RANDOM FIELDS 53 Kaczorek T. GENERAL RESPONSE FORMULA FOR 2--D BILINEAR SYSTEMS 79 Szkodny T. LINKS AND ACTUATORS KINEMATICS OF IR b--6 MANIPULATOR 87 Grzech A. and Kasprzak A. STATIC AND QUASI--STATIC ROUTING IN INTEGRATED SERVICES DIGITAL NETWORKS 107 Luba T. and Lasocki R. DECOMPOSITION OF MULTIPLE--VALUED BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS 125 Aghdasi F. AUTOMATIC SYNTHESIS OF SELF--CLOCKED ASYNCHRONOUS STATE MACHINES AND PARALLEL CONTROLLERS 139 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: T.H.Lee CALL FOR PAPERS Mechatronics Journal (Pergamon Press, U.K.) SPECIAL ISSUE on ``DEVELOPMENTS IN INTELLIGENT MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS'' Papers are solicited for a special issue of Mechatronics Journal covering the multidisciplinary area of Developments in Intelligent Mechatronic Systems to be published in October 1995. The special issue will cover all aspects of intelligent mechatronic systems, and papers concerned with new developments in the area which are supported by both theoretical analyses and real-time experimental results are particularly encouraged. Topics of special interest include, but are not limited to, the following: *Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Expert Systems in Mechatronics; *Adaptation and Learning in Mechatronic Systems; *Intelligent Sensors and Actuators; *Intelligent Motion and Motor Drive Systems; *Other related topics in emerging paradigms and technologies applicable to intelligent mechatronic systems. To be considered for the Special Issue, prospective authors should submit four copies of their complete manuscript by 15 January 1995 to the Guest Editor: Dr. T. H. Lee Guest Editor, Mechatronics Special Issue on Developments in Intelligent Mechatronic Systems Department of Electrical Engineering National University of Singapore 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 0511 SINGAPORE Please refer to a regular issue of the journal for a copy of the Instructions for Authors. Prospective authors should note these instructions. For the Special Issue however, the submissions should be sent directly to the Guest Editor. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Galen H. Sasaki CALL FOR PAPERS for a Special Joint Issue of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology Recent advances in photonic technology have brought us to the reality of economical networks, which deliver large bandwidths to each of a very large number of geographically dispersed users. Although such large scale, high speed networks have become technologically feasible, economic impediments remain. The development of network architectures that exploit the capabilities of cutting-edge photonic and electronic technology is vital to reduce costs. Clearly, this will require a synthesis of principles from diverse disciplines. The purpose of this issue is to bring together these principles in the context of MAN/WAN and telecommunications network architectures. This is a companion issue to the special joint issue "Multiwavelength Optical Technology and Networks" of the Journal of Lightwave Technology and the Journal on Selected Areas in Communications which will be published in late 1995. Topics of particular interest include: * Reports of field and laboratory demonstrations of fiber optic networks and discussion of key system problems which arise in large scale high speed optical networks * Identification of key system problems and solutions to deploy large high speed optical networks at reasonable cost. * Application of optical networking techniques to future network infrastructure * Scalable optical wide area network architectures (TDM, CDMA, WDM) * Local Access * Network Management and Control * Fault location and supervisory subsystems * Novel exploitation of optical and electro-optical devices for the delivery of high speed network services * Photonic Packet Switching * Theoretical Limits of Optical Networks Prospective authors should submit five double-spaced copies to one of the Guest Editors listed below according to the following timetable: Submission Deadline: March 15, 1995 Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 1995 Final Manuscript Due: August 1, 1995 Publicaton: Second Quarter 1996 Rene L. Cruz Goff Hill Dept of Elec & Computer Engr BT Laboratories Univ of California, San Diego Martlesham Heath La Jolla, CA 92093-0407, USA Ipswich cruz@ece.ucsd.edu Suffolk IP5 7RE, England hill_g_r@bt-web.bt.co.uk Albert L. Kellner Rajiv Ramaswami Dept of Elec & Computer Engr IBM Research, Room H3-D52 Univ of California, San Diego P.O. Box 704 La Jolla, CA 92093-0407, USA Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA akellner@bragi,ucsd.edu rajiv@watson.ibm.com Galen H. Sasaki Yoshiaki Yamabayashi Dept of Elect Engr NTT Optical Network Systems Labs Univ of Hawaii at Manoa 1-2356 Take 2540 Dole St, Holmes Hall 483 Yokosuka 238-03, Japan Honolulu, HI 96822, USA yama@ntttsd.ntt.jp sasaki@spectra.eng.hawaii.edu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: s.shaw@ee.qub.ac.uk JOURNAL OF REAL-TIME SYSTEMS Special Issue: Engineering of Complex Real-time Computer Control Systems Complex computer control systems are applied in many fields like aerospace, manufacturing, robotics, environmental, chemical, electric power and economic systems. The complexity arises from the engineering requirement to integrate computers, actuators and sensors for control, signal processing and data networks, visualisation and display with the technology of the application domain. Further, real-time control systems, employing embedded and distributed computing, as opposed to centralised supervisory computers, have the added difficulty of correct task computation to time deadlines and associated reliability specifications. Papers are solicited for a Special Issue of the Journal of Real-Time Systems on the Engineering of Complex Real-time Computer Control Systems. The aim is to provide a state-of-the-art Special Issue devoted to this important and rapidly changing research field which will be of mutual interest and benefit to researchers in both the control systems engineering and real-time computing disciplines. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * industrial applications and mature case studies * distributed and embedded computer control systems * architectures and algorithmic engineering for real-time control * heterogeneous and parallel processing * fault tolerance, fault diagnosis and safety critical systems * standards, specifications and verification * tools Authors are invited to submit their complete contributions to the Guest Editor: Prof. George Irwin Control Engineering Research Group Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The Queen's University of Belfast Belfast BT9 5AH U.K. Tel: +1232 335439 (direct) +1232 245133 ext 4058 Fax: +1232 663992 email: G.Irwin@ee.qub.ac.uk Deadline for Submission of Papers: 1st April 1995 Notification of Referees Decisions: 1st November 1995 Expected Publication Date: late 1996 Latex instructions are available from the publisher Robert Holland email: rhkluwer@world.std.com *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: T.H.Lee Mechatronics, Pergamon Press Vol.4, No. 6, 1994 Contents: "Study on optimization of mechanical and electronic synthesis for the antenna structural system." by B.Y.Duan, Y.H.Qi, H.Xu and W.T.Wang "A self-tuning adaptive feed-forward control for a retrofit milling machine." by S.-J.Huang and C.-C.Chen "Kinematic analysis of a three-degrees-of-freedom spherical wrist actuator." by K.-M.Lee, J.Pei and R.Roth "An expert system to control the humidity and temperature of a laboratory scale greenhouse." by O.S.Turkay "Hydraulic compliance identification using a parallel genetic algorithm." by N.Sepehri, F.L.K.Wan, P.D.Lawrence and G.A.M.Dumont "Catresian trajectory control of a flexible manipulator using sliding mode." by W. Yim The purpose of Mechatronics journal is to provide rapid publication of topical papers featuring practical developments in mechatronics. It will cover a wide range of applications areas including consumer product design, instrumentation, manufacturing methods, computer integration and process and device control, and will attract a readership from across the industrial and academic spectrum. Particular importance will be attached to aspects of innovation in mechatronics design philosophy which will illustrate the benefits obtainable by an a priori integration of functionality with embedded microprocessor control. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Richard Brualdi LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS Contents Volumes 212/213 Special Issue: Proceedings of the 3rd ILAS Conference Preface 1 Nicholas J. Higham (Manchester, England) The Matrix Sign Decomposition and Its Relation to the Polar Decomposition 3 Jean Dazord (Villeurbanne Cedex, France) On the C-Numerical Range of a Matrix 21 Thomas H. Pate (Auburn, Alabama) Inequalities Involving Immanants 31 Tomaz Kosir (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) Finite-Dimensional Multiparameter Spectral Theory: The Nonderogatory Case 45 Chi-Kwong Li (Williamsburg, Virginia) Some Aspects of the Theory of Norms 71 Zhongshan Li, Frank Hall, and Carolyn Eschenbach (Atlanta, Georgia) On the Period and Base of a Sign Pattern Matrix 101 Wasin So (Huntsville, Texas) Commutativity and Spectra of Hermitian Matrices 121 Paul Van Dooren and J. Sreedhar (Urbana, Illinois) When is a Periodic Discrete-Time System Equivalent to a Time-Invariant One? 131 Dianne P. O'Leary (College Park, Maryland) and A. Yeremin (Moscow, Russia) The Linear Algebra of Block Quasi-Newton Algorithms 153 A. C. M. Ran and D. Temme (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Dissipative Matrices and Invariant Maximal Semidefinite Subspaces 169 Peter Kunkel (Oldenburg, Germany) and Volker Mehrmann (Chemnitz, Germany) A New Look at Pencils of Matrix Valued Functions 215 Robert M. Guralnick (Los Angeles, California) Invertible Preservers and Algebraic Groups 249 n'Ekwunife Muoneke (Prairie View, Texas) Doubly Stochastic Powers of Nonnegative Irreducible Matrices 259 Mark Krupnik (Haifa, Israel) and Leiba Rodman (Williamsburg, Virginia) Completions of Partial Jordan and Hessenberg Matrices 267 Jerrold W. Grossman (Rochester, Michigan), Devadatta M. Kulkarni (Prune, India), and Irwin E. Schochetman (Rochester, Michigan) Algebraic Graph Theory Without Orientation 289 Daniel Hershkowitz (Haifa, Israel) Paths in Directed Graphs and Spectral Properties of Matrices 309 Scott H. Hochwald (Jacksonville, Florida) Multiplicative Maps on Matrices That Preserve the Spectrum 339 R. B. Bapat (New Delhi, India) Konig's Theorem and Bimatroids 353 J. A. Dias Da Silva (Lisboa, Portugal), Daniel Hershkowitz (Haifa, Israel), and Hans Schneider (Madison, Wisconsin) Existence of Matrices With Prescribed Off-Diagonal Block Element Maxima 367 LeRoy B. Beasley (Logan, Utah), Gwang-Yeon Lee (Seosan, Korea), and Sang-Gu Lee (Suwon, Korea) Linear Transformations That Preserve the Assignment 387 Jeffrey L. Stuart (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) and James R. Weaver (Pensacola, Florida) Diagonally Scaled Permutations and Circulant Matrices 397 Riaz A. Usmani (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) Inversion of a Tridiagonal Jacobi Matrix 413 Charles R. Johnson, David P. Stanford (Williamsburg, Virginia), D. Dale Olesky, and P. van den Driessche (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) Dominant Eigenvalues Under Trace-Preserving Diagonal Perturbations 415 Eugene M. Russakovskii (Kharkov, Ukraine) The Theory of V-Bezoutians and Its Applications 437 Ion Zaballa (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain) Similarity and Block Similarity 461 J. Ding (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) and L. J. Huang (Rockford, Illinois) On the Perturbation of the Least Squares Solutions in Hilbert Spaces 487 Javad Faghih-Habibi (New Concord, Ohio) The Spherical Gap of the Graph of a Linear Transformation 501 A. V. Pesterev and G. A. Tavrizov (Moscow, Russia) On Inversion of Some Meromorphic Matrices 505 Mei-Qin Chen (Charleston, South Carolina) and Chichia Chiu (East Lansing, Michigan) Region-Dependent Optimal m-Stage Runge-Kutta Schemes for Solving a Class of Nonsymmetric Linear Systems 523 Conference Report 547 Author Index 553 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Huibert Kwakernaak AUTOMATICA Table of Contents Volume 30, No 11 November, 1994 REGULAR PAPERS E. Ono, K. Takanami, N. Iwama, Vehicle Integrated Control for Y. Hayashi, et al. Steering and Traction Systems by Mu-Synthesis M. Lundh, K.J. Astroem Automatic Initialization of a Ro- bust Self-Tuning Controller S. Kotob, M. Badran, I. Al-Atiqi, Analysis and Applications of Self- M. Juraidan Tuning Controls in a Refining Pro- cess: Case Study F. Badano, M. Betemps, D. Thomasset Control of a Planar Fine Positioner Actuated by Metal Bellows L. Christian, J.S. Freudenberg Limits on Achievable Robustness Against Coprime Factor Uncertainty M. Krstic, I. Kanellakopoulos, Passivity and Parametric Robustness P.V. Kokotovic of a New Class of Adaptive Systems M. Yamashita, K. Fujimori, Application of H-infinity Control K. Hayakawa, H. Kimura to Active Suspension Systems L. Pronzato, E. Walter Minimum-Volume Ellipsoids Contain- ing Compact sets. Application to Parameter Bounding. Chun-Hsiung Fang, L. Lee, F.R. Chang Robust Control Analysis and Design for Discrete-Time Singular Systems BRIEF PAPERS A. Malmgren, K. Nordstroem Optimal State Feedback Control with a Prescribed Contraction Property J.C. Gille, S. Wegrzyn, P. Vidal On Developmental Systems: Multile- vel and Parallel Development J. Ackermann Robust Decoupling, Ideal Steering Dynamics, and Yaw Stabilization of 4WS Cars P.P. Wang, Ching-Yu Tyan Fuzzy Dynamic System and Fuzzy Lin- guistic Controller Classification V.Z. Filipovic, B. Kovacevic On Robust AML Identification Algo- rithms Y.W. Wang, D.S. Bernstein H-2 Suboptimal Stable Stabilization Y.Z. Tsypkin, D.J. Hill, A Frequency Domain Robust Instabi- A.J. Isaksson lity Criterion for Time-Varying and Non-Linear Systems O. Morgul A Dynamic Control Law for the Wave Equation Ming Hou, P.C. Mueller Design of Decentralized Linear State Function Observers Jaehong Park, G. Rizzoni, On the Representation of Sensor W.B. Ribbens Faults in Fault Detection Filters BOOK REVIEWS J. van Amerongen R.J. Leigh: Applied Digital Control - Theory, Design and Implementation I. Troch D. Matko, R. Karba, et al.: Simu- lation and Modelling of Continuous Systems - A Case Study Appraoch C.J. Harris H. Tolle and E. Esru: Neurocontrol R.A. Kennedy W.J. Rugh: Linear System Theory AUTOMATICA Table of Contents Volume 30, No 12 December, 1994 REGULAR PAPERS M.V. Kothare, P.J. Campo, M. Morari, A Unified Framework for the Study C.N. Nett of Anti-Windup Designs Jie Chen, Guoxiang Gu, C.N. Nett Worst Case Identification of Con- tinuous Time Systems via Interpo- lation K.D. Mease, M.A. van Buren Geometric Synthesis of Aerospace Plane Ascent Guidance Logic R. Nikoukhah Innovations Generation in the Pre- sence of Unknown Inputs: Applica- tion to Robust Failure Detection H. Krishnan, N.H. McClamroch Tracking in Nonlinear Differential- Algebraic Control Systems with Applications to Constrained Robot Systems P.M. Young The Rank One Mixed mu Problem and Kharitonov-Type Analysis P. Misra, P. van Dooren, A. Varga Computation of Structural In- variants of Generalized State Space Systems A-L. Elshafei, G.A. Dumont, et al. Adaptive GPC Based on Laguerre Fil- ters Modelling BRIEF PAPERS T.S. Schei Automatic Tuning of PID Controllers Based on Transfer Function Estima- tion O.P. Palsson, H. Madsen, Generalized Predictive Control for H.T. Sogaard Non-Stationary Systems M.S. Ahmed State Space Based Dual-Rate Self Tuning TECHNICAL COMMUNIQUES L. Chisci, et al. On the Stabilizing Property of SIORHC Se-Hwa Park, Z. Bien H-infinity Control with Performance Bound for a Class of Uncertain Li- near Systems ****************************************** * * * Conferences * * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Diethelm Wuertz 5th Anniversary First Announcement International Workshop on Parallel Applications in Statistics and Economics >> Non-linear Data Analysis << Trier - Mainz, Germany August 29 - September 2, 1995 ____________________________________________________________________________ PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP: The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in innovative information processing systems and their applications in the areas of statistics, finance and economics. The focus will be on in-depth presentations of state-of-the-art methods and applications as well as on communicating current research topics. This workshop is intended for industrial and academic persons seeking new ways of comprehending the behavior of complex dynamic systems. The PASE'95 workshop is concerned with but not restricted to the following topics: o Applications in finance, economics, and natural science o Statistical tests for finding deterministic and chaotic behavior o Statistical tests for measuring stability and stationarity o Sampling and retrieving techniques for high frequency data o Modeling and analysis of non-linear multivariate time series o Statistical use of neural networks, genetic algorithms and fuzzy systems ____________________________________________________________________________ WORKSHOP SITE: The workshop will be held on a comfortable ship running from Trier to Mainz on the scenic rivers Mosel and Rhine in Germany. The best connection to Trier is to fly to Frankfurt and then to take the train. It will take about 2 1/2 hours. From Mainz there are direct trains to Frankfurt Airport (~ 30 minutes). Detailed traveling possibilities will be announced later. ____________________________________________________________________________ ACCOMMODATION AND REGISTRATION: All participants will be accommodated on the ship. The price of the accommodation in a double room for 4 nights is Sfr 870.- for the main deck (920.- for the upper deck) including breakfasts, lunches and dinners. The welcome and workshop dinner are also included. The service begins on Tuesday afternoon, August 29th, in Trier with registration and ends on Saturday morning, September 2nd in Mainz. Since the facilities of the ship are dedicated to the workshop the price is unique and no reductions can be provided for a shorter participation. Since the number of participants is limited to about 100 persons, early registration is recommended. All applications will be handled on the basis "first come first serve". Registration will only be accepted after a pre-payment of Sfr 300.-. The rest of the accommodation expenses of Sfr 570.- or 620.-, respectively, and the workshop fees must be transferred to our account PASE Workshop - Dr. Diethelm Wuertz Schweizerischer Bankverein, Zurich, Switzerland Number of Account: P0-206066.0 before May 31st 1995. No currencies other than Swiss Francs will be accepted. In the case of a later remittance we cannot guarantee your application. ____________________________________________________________________________ WORKSHOP FEE AND PROCEEDINGS: The workshop fee is Sfr 580.- for profit-making companies and Sfr 230.- for others. It includes the Proceedings, published as a Special Issue of the Journal "Neural Network World - International Journal on Neural and Mass-Parallel computing and Information Systems". ____________________________________________________________________________ WORKSHOP SCHOLARSHIPS: For students and a limited number of participants from "post-communist" European countries some support and scholarships will be available: please contact the organizers. ____________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACTS AND DEADLINES: Regular abstracts of one page (approximately 30 lines with 60 characters) must be submitted before December 1st, 1994. All contributions will be refereed. The deadline for the full papers (about 10 pages) is April 1st, 1995. We cannot guarantee that papers submitted later will be printed in the proceedings. The proceedings will be available at the conference. It is also possible to submit an extended abstract of 4 pages. From these contributions we will select, besides the regular invited speakers, 3 further speakers for an invited talk. The deadlines are the same as in the case of regular abstracts. If you plan a soft- or hardware demonstration please contact the organizers. Please send the abstracts and full papers to: Hynek Beran, ICS Prag Pod vodarenskou vezi 2 FAX: +42 2 858 57 89 182 07 PRAGUE 8, Czech Republic E-mail: pase@uivt.cas.cz ____________________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZATION: The Workshop will be organized by the Interdisciplinary Project Center for Supercomputing (ETH Zurich), Olsen & Associates (Research Institute for Applied Economics, Zurich) and the Institute of Computer Science (Academy of Sciences, Prague) ___________________________________________________________________________ FURTHER INFORMATION: Further information will be available from anonymous ftp "maggia.ethz.ch" (129.132.17.1) or world wide webb "http://www.ips.id.ethz.ch/PASE/pase.html" *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Omer Morgul (morgul@bilkent.edu.tr) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ECCTD 95 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design 27-31 August 1995 Istanbul, TURKEY The 12th European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design will consist of tutorials, regular and special sessions focusing on recent trends and advances on all aspects of : . Circuits . Signals . Systems . Mathematical Methods . Computational Methods European Circuit Society (ECS) Meeting : The European Circuit Society founded during the ECCTD-93 conference in Davos,Switzerland will hold its First General Meeting in Istanbul,Turkey with the occasion of ECCTD-95. Participants will have the opportunity to become a member of ECS for a reduced fee. Best Paper Award: A prize will be awarded by ECS to the best paper presented during the conference. The selection will be done by the council of ECS on the basis of originality and scientific contribution of the paper as well as the quality of the presentation. Submission of Papers : Prospective authors should send 5 copies of their paper by 30 November 1994 to: I.T.U.-ETA Vakfi (ECCTD-95), P.K. 34. Ataturk Havalimani, 34831 Istanbul Turkey. The papers must not have been published elsewhere, and the cover sheet of the manuscript should include 1) Title of the paper, 2) Author's name(s), address, affiliation, 3) Name, e-mail address, telephone and fax number of the author to contact, 4) The technical area of the paper and keywords. Author's Schedule: Submission of full papers 30 November 1994 Notification of acceptance 15 March 1995 Camera ready copy 30 April 1995 Proceedings : The proceedings of ECCTD-95 will be pre-published and distributed at the conference. Tutorials and Special Sessions : The first day of the conference will be devoted to half or full day tutorials. Topics planned will include: Knowledge Based Signal Processing, Application of Artificial Neural Networks, Fractal Techniques for Image Compression, and Capacitive VLSI Techniques for Engineered Intelligence. Participants interested in organizing a special session should contact the Conference Chairman or the Special Sessions Chairman. This conference is being organized in cooperation with the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Post-conference tours to Cappadocia, Ephesus and Antalya, as well as city tours are being planned. Conference Chairman : Prof. Izzet Cem Goknar Istanbul Technical University Electrical and Electronics Eng. Faculty Maslak, 80626, Istanbul, Turkey. Special Sessions and Tutorials Chairman : Prof. Dr. Kemal Inan Middle East Technical University Dept. of Electrical and Electronics. Eng. 06531, Ankara, Turkey. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Bart Motmans ************************************** First Announcement and Call for Papers ************************************** 14th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control March 29-31, 1995, Houthalen, Belgium The next Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control will take place from March 29 to 31, 1995, in the conference center `Hengelhoef' in Houthalen (Limburg). The aim of this meeting is to promote the research activities and the cooperation between researchers in Systems and Control in the Benelux. It is the fourteenth in a series of annual conferences that are held alternately in Belgium and the Netherlands, and are organized under the auspices of the Dutch Research Community in the Mathematics of Operations Research and System Theory (MBST), the Dutch Foundation for Measurement and Control Technology(SMBT), and the Belgian Federation of Automatic Control (BIRA-IBRA). ******* Program ******* The technical program consists of the following items. 1. Main Lectures. -Subspace Algorithms in Systems Identification and Telecommunication Applications by Prof. B. Ottersten (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) -Adaptive Control, have we learned anything yet ? by Dr. R.L. Kosut (Integrated Systems Inc.,Santa Clara, U.S.A. and Stanford University, Stanford, USA) 2. Minicourses: -Convex Optimization and Control by Prof. S. Boyd (Stanford University, Stanford, USA) -Numerical Linear Algebra for Control by Prof. P. Van Dooren (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) 3. Contributed Lectures covering all aspects of systems and control theory and its applications. The language of the technical program is English. *************** Call for Papers *************** Contributions for part 3 of the program are now being solicited. Please send in a title and one page abstract of your talk to the address mentioned below. You may also propose a Special Session consisting of three or four short lectures centered around a specific topic. Decisions on the conference program will be made by the organizing committee. Upon acceptance of their contributions, authors will be asked to send in a one-page summary for inclusion in the `Collection of Summaries' which will be distributed at the conference. New for this year is that the session chairmen will select the best contribution of their session for possible publication in {\em Journal A} (the Benelux Quarterly Journal on Automatic Control). *************** Important dates *************** December 15, 1994 : Deadline for submitting proposals for Special Sessions, and abstracts for short lectures. January 15 , 1995 : Authors are notified regarding acceptance of their contributions. February 15, 1995 : Deadline for submission of one-page summaries, deadline for early registration. March 29, 1995 : Start of the Meeting. ********************** Conference information ********************** The meeting will start with lunch on Wednesday, March 29, 1995, and end on Friday, March 31, 1995, in the afternoon. The participation fee, including registration, preprints, meals, and lodging, will be approx. 14.000,- Bfr.(single room) and approx. 11.000,- Bfr. (twinbedded room). Registration forms will be sent out in January, along with more detailed information. ********************* Organizing committee ********************* A list can be obtained at the workshop secretariat. ********************* Workshop secretariat ******************** B. Motmans Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Dept. ESAT-Elektrotechniek Kardinaal Mercierlaan 94 B-3001 Leuven Belgium Tel. (+32-) (0)16-22.09.31 (after 1/1/95 : 016-32.11.11) Fax. (+32-) (0)16-22.18.55 (after 1/1/95 : 016-32.19.86) Email: Bart.Motmans@esat.kuleuven.ac.be *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Bruce Hajek 1995 IEEE INFORMATION THEORY WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION THEORY, MULTIPLE ACCESS AND QUEUEING Wednesday, April 19--Friday, April 21, 1995 Adam's Mark Hotel, downtown St. Louis, Missouri CONTRIBUTIONS ARE SOUGHT for the session on Open Problems and Recent Results. A limited number of travel grants may be available. For complete information see World Wide Web site, URL: http://ee.wustl.edu/~itw/ or send an e-mail note to itw@ee.wustl.edu FEATURED TALKS Multiaccess Information Theory on Multipath Fading Channels Robert G. Gallager (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Information Theory of Queueing Systems Sergio Verdu (Princeton University) Is Collision Resolution Practical? James L. Massey (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-ZENTRUM) SPECIAL WRAP-UP SESSION Robert J. McEliece (California Institute of Technology) OTHER SPECIAL INVITED TALKS SESSION: Source Coding and Network Interplay Organizer: Ken Zeger (University of Illinois Methods for Matching Compressed Video to ATM Networks Robert Safranek (AT&T Bell Laboratories) Video Coding in Queueing Networks: Source Coding, Buffering Delay and Network Policies Maria Simon (University of Uruguay) Variable-rate Lossy Compression under Delay Constraints David Tse (AT&T Bell Laboratories) Joint Source and Channel Coding for Time-Varying Channels Masoud Khansari and Martin Vetterli (UC Berkeley) Source and Channel Coding Issues for ATM Networks James Modestino (RPI) Applications of Coding in Networks Ender Ayanoglu (AT&T Bell Laboratories) SESSION: Communication Limits and Efficient Design of Networks Organizer: G. Sasaki (University of Hawaii) In Search of Models For New Realities --- From Bits-and-Queues to Bits-in-Space Tony Ephremides (University of Maryland) Fundamental Limits and Practical Designs of Integrated All-Optical Networks Rick Barry (MIT Lincoln Labs) Architectural Issues in Broadband Packet Switching Paul Min (Washington University) Approximate Dynamic Programming in Complex Data Networks Dimitri Bertsekas (MIT) Searching Spider-Webs Nicholas Pippenger (The University of British Columbia) Coding for Distributed Computation Leonard Schulman (The Weizmann Institute of Science) Fault Diagnosis in Communication Networks Steve Low (AT&T Bell Laboratories) SESSION: Multiuser Communication Systems Organizer Behnaam Aazhang (Rice University) Information Theoretic Considerations for Cellular Multiple- Access Channels in the Presence of Fading and Inter-Cell Interference S.Shamai (Technion) On the Bit-Error Rate of MMSE Multiuser Detection H. V. Poor (Princeton University) (Joint with S. Verdu) Interaction of Adaptive Radios in Interference-Limited Channels G. Pottie (UCLA) A New Class of CDMA Systems for Fading Channels G. Wornell (MIT) Near-Far Resistant Acquisition and Demodulation for Direct-Sequence CDMA U. Madhow (University of Illinois) On Complexity Constrained CDMA Receivers M. Varanasi (University of Colorado) SESSION: Open Problems and Recent Results (Based on contributed papers) Organizer J. Hui (Rutgers University) Dinner cruise on the Mississippi River SESSION: Control, Dimensioning and Traffic Models for High Speed Communication Networks Organizer Venkat Anantharam (University of California, Berkeley) Self-Similar Models for High-Speed Network Traffic: Fad or Reality? Walter Willinger (BellCore) Admission and routing control for two-class traffic in ATM networks Jean Walrand (University of California, Berkeley) Entropy, Energy and Effective Bandwidth: Relationships between Queueing Theory, Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics Joy Thomas (IBM) A Thermodynamic Theory of Networks Joe Hui (Rutgers University) Some Recent Advances in the Design and Control of ATM Networks Debasis Mitra (AT&T Bell Laboratories) Making Greed Work in Networks: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Switch Service Disciplines Scott Shenker (Xerox Parc) SESSION: Performance Limits in Multiuser Communication Organizer: B. Hughes, (Johns Hopkins University) Randomization in Multiuser Coding Roger S. Cheng (University of Colorado at Boulder) Performance Limits for Blocking Multiuser Communication Networks Robert J. McEliece (California Institute of Technology) Limits of Coding and Modulation in Spread-Spectrum Systems Wayne E. Stark (University of Michigan) Title to Be Announced I. Emre Telatar (AT&T Bell Laboratories) Capacity of a Network of Receivers with Macrodiverisity Stephen Hanly (AT&T Bell Laboratories) ooooooooooooooo General Chairs: Bruce Hajek and Bixio Rimoldi Local Arrangements: Paul Min Registration and Travel Grants: Joseph O'Sullivan Publicity/Publications: Leandros Tassiulas *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Maureen Quirk IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY _______ /| /| SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING / |ICIP / | October 22-25, 1995 /__|____/ | Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Washington, D.C., USA | |____|__| | / | / | / 95 | / PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS |/______|/ Sponsored by the Signal Processing Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, ICIP-95 is an international conference on theoretical, experimental and applied image proces- sing. It provides a unique, centralized, forum for presentation of technological advances and research results by engineers and scientists working in Image Processing and associated disciplines. SCOPE 1. GENERAL TECHNIQUES & ALGORITHMS: Filtering, Enhancement, Restoration, Coding, Segmentation, Multiresolution Processing, Multispectral Processing, Image Representation, Image Analysis, Interpolation and Spatial Transformations, Neural Networks, Noise Modeling, Architectures and Software. 2. COMPUTED IMAGING: Acoustic, Radar, Tomographic, Magnetic Resonance, and Geophysical Imaging, Radio Astronomy, Speckle Imaging, Computer Holography, Confocal Microscopy, Electron Microscopy, X-ray Crystallography, Coded-Aperture Imaging, and Real-Aperture Arrays. 3. IMAGE SCANNING DISPLAY AND PRINTING: Scanning and Sampling, Quantization and Halftoning, Color Reproduction, Rendering, Graphics and Fonts, Architectures and Software for Display and Printing, Visualization. 4. VIDEO: Multimedia, HDTV, Packet Video, Video Signal Proces- sor Chips, Motion Estimation, Image Sequence Processing, Video Data Base, Low Bit Rate and Very Low Bit Rate Coding, Video over Wireless Channels. 5. APPLICATIONS: Application of image processing technology to any field, including the biomedical sciences, astronomy and the geosciences. SUBMISSION PROCEDURES Prospective authors are invited to propose papers in any of the technical areas listed above. To submit a proposal, prepare a 2-3 page summary of the paper including figures and references. Send five copies of the paper summary and a cover sheet (see the form at the bottom of this message) stating the (1.) paper title, (2.) technical area(s), (3.) contact author's name, (4.) address, (5.) telephone number, (6.) Fax number, and (7.) electronic mail address to: Prof. Rama Chellappa Center for Automation Research Rm. 4417, A.V. Williams Building, University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742. Attn. ICIP' 95 Each selected paper (4-page limit) will be published in the Pro- ceedings of ICIP-95. Style files in LaTeX will be provided for the convenience of the authors. SCHEDULE Paper summaries due: 1 February 1995 Notification of Acceptance: 24 April 1995 Camera-Ready papers: 15 June 1995 Conference: 22-25 October 1995 PROGRAM COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR: Bede Liu, liu@ee.princeton.edu TECHNICAL PROGRAM: Rama Chellappa chella@eng.umd.edu SPECIAL SESSIONS: Murat Tekalp tekalp@ee.rochester.edu TUTORIALS: Michael Unser unser@helix.nih.gov FINANCES: Fred Mintzer mintzer@watson.ibm.com LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Ajit Singh asingh@scr.siemens.com PUBLICITY: Maureen Quirk quirk@ccr-p.ida.org PUBLICATIONS: Jerry Prince prince@mashie.ece.jhu.edu REGISTRATION: Philippe Thevenaz thevenaz@helix.nih.gov EXHIBITS: Emil Modugno modugno@lfs.loral.com FAR EAST LIAISON: Takao Nishitani takao@dsp.cl.nec.co.jp EUROPEAN LIAISON: Jan Biemond Biemond@et.tudelft.nl CONFERENCE ENVIRONMENT ICIP-95 will be held in the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, near Washington National Airport, about ten minutes from the center of Washington, D.C. As the center of the federal government of the United States, Washington, has many imposing government buildings beautiful monuments, and parks. It is a major cultural center with numerous museums, libraries, and houses of worship. For further details, please send an electronic message to: icip95@ieee.org *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Floyd Hanson ** Last Call for Papers Due 15 November 1994 ** ICCI95 Call for Papers International Conference on Control and Information, 5-9 June 1995 The Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin NT, HONG KONG Conference Scope ---------------- The Conference will include contributed sessions and invited minisymposia, in broad areas of automatic control, system theory, information theory and applications. Control and information are important for progress in advancing technology, maintaining industrial edge, and essential for understanding scientific progress in the Pacific Rim. Hence, a genuine international conference is vital to the interest of all nations and to promote the exchange of scientific information. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. General topics of interest will include, but are not limited to: * Adaptive Control, Advanced Methods for Control, Algebraic-Geometric Methods for Control, Communication Network Control, Fuzzy Logic Control, Optimal and Nonlinear Filtering, H-infinity Control, Intelligent Control, Parallel Computational Control, Robotics, Robust Control, Stochastic Control. * Expert Systems, Failure Detection, Distributed Systems, Hybrid and Hierarchical Systems, Genetic Algorithms, Intelligent Systems, System Identification. * Signal Processing, Data Compression, Information Network Analysis, Neural Networks, Performance Evaluation, Wavelet Analysis, Image Denoising. * Applications: Aerospace, Biomedical Control, Industrial and Manufacturing, Marine Navigation, Multimedia Communications, Satellite Communications, Telecommunications, Transportation. Key Dates --------- November 15, 1994: Paper Submission Deadline January 20, 1995: Notification of Acceptance February 20, 1995: Submission of camera-ready mats June 5-9, 1995: ICCI95 Conference Registration Fees: ----------------- Before June 1 After June 1 Regular Registration US$375 US$425 Student (not including banquet or proceedings) US$40 US$40 Invited Keynote Speakers ------------------------ Brian D. O. Anderson (Australia) Yu-Chi Larry Ho (USA) Suguru Arimoto (Japan) Sanjoy K. Mitter (USA) Jagdish Chandra (USA) Jian Song (China) Charles K. Chui (USA) Jan C. Willems (Netherlands) Bruce A. Francis (Canada) Eugene Wong (Hong Kong and USA) Submission of Contributed Papers and Minisymposia Proposals ----------------------------------------------------------- Authors should submit four copies of full papers for review no later than November 15, 1994 to the Programme Coordinator Dr. Wing-Shing Wong, at the address given below. The same date holds for submission of minisymposia session proposals and associated papers. The first page of all papers must contain the paper title, three key words, and the name, affiliation, and complete mailing address of each author. If available, include telephone and Fax numbers, as well as E-mail address. Notification of acceptance and authors' kits will be distributed by January 20, 1995 with final mats due soon after. All papers accepted for presentation will be included in the conference proceedings. Full papers and minisymposia proposals with papers should be submitted to: Dr. Wing-Shing Wong ICCI95 Programme Coordinator Dept. Information Engineering Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin NT, Hong Kong Phone: +(852) 609-8378 Fax: +(852) 603-5032 E-mail: wswong@ie.cuhk.hk Conference registration should be sent to: Dr. Hing Sun Luk ICCI95 Registration Chair Department of Mathematics Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin NT, Hong Kong Phone: +(852) 609-7975 Fax: +(852) 603-5154 E-mail: b084795@vax.csc.cuhk.hk For general information, send an E-mail message to ICCI-95@cuhk.hk or contact: Dr. Kung Fu Ng ICCI95 Local Arrangements Committee Department of Mathematics Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin NT, Hong Kong Phone: +(852) 609-7968 Fax: +(852) 603-5154 E-Mail: ngkf@cuhk.hk Conference Steering Committees: ------------------------------ General Co-Chairmen: Prof. Stephen S. T. Yau (USA) Prof. Shing-Tung Yau (USA & Hong Kong) General Associate Chairman: Prof. Floyd B. Hanson (USA) Honorary Chair: Dr. Ching-Fang Lin (USA) Financial and Registration Chair: Dr. Hing Sun Luk (Hong Kong) Publication Chair: Dr. Raymond H. F. Chan (Hong Kong) Publicity Chair: Prof. Floyd B. Hanson (USA) Technical Co-Sponsors: ------------------- IEEE Control Society IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Financial Sponsors: ------------------- US Army Research Office Army Research Office - Far East Institute of Mathematical Sciences of CUHK K. C. Wong Education Foundation American GNC Corporation International Press Company Varitronix Limited Hong Kong Baptist University other foundations and agencies anticipated *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: A. H. Haddad (A FULL version of the CFP may be obtained from ifac96@eecs.nwu.edu) CALL FOR PAPERS 13th WORLD CONGRESS INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL The San Francisco Marriott Hotel SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA JUNE 30 - JULY 5, 1996 Hosted by the American Automatic Control Council TECHNICAL PROGRAM The technical program of the Congress will feature: Plenary lectures Regular paper sessions - contributed and invited sessions - sessions in lecture and poster format Special sessions and lectures - survey papers - case studies - benchmark sessions - panel discussion sessions. Lecture and Poster Sessions. In addition to the usual lecture sessions, the Congress will feature poster sessions. Accepted papers will be assigned to lecture or poster sessions according to the kind of presentation that fits the nature of work better; no value ranking is implied. Authors will also be asked to indicate their preference. Poster and lecture papers will be allowed the same number of pages in the Congress Preprints/ Proceedings. An invited session is a set of papers on a well-defined subject of current interest; in case of lecture presentation, it normally contains 5 papers. A survey paper summarizes the state of the art in a technical area of special interest; it is to be presented in a lecture session of contributed or invited papers where it usually takes the slots of two regular papers (about 40 minutes). A case study describes a particularly important application in some depth; its length may be an hour. A benchmark session compares several methods using a previously defined example; its length may be an hour. A panel discussion is a discussion session on a subject of current interest, usually with a strong industrial emphasis, with the participation of the audience and several recognized experts in the "panel". Its length is usually an hour. Congress Symposia and Technical Areas All technical activities of the Congress, with the exception of the Plenary Lectures, will be organized in the form of Congress Symposia, each one covering a coherent sub-field within automatic control. The program of each Symposium will be further subdivided into Technical Areas, following the Technical Committee structure of IFAC. All material submitted or proposed for presentation at the congress will be reviewed by sub-committees of the International Program Committee (IPC), set up according to the Congress Symposium - Technical Area structure. Listed below are the Congress Symposia, with their Technical Areas and International Program Subcommittees Chairs. 1. Symposium on Manufacturing and Instrumentation Luis Basanez (Spain), Chairman Technical Areas: a. Manufacturing, Modeling, Management and Control b. Robotics c. Architectures for Enterprise Integration d. Components and Instruments e. Low Cost Automation f. Advanced Manufacturing Technology 2. Symposium on Design Methods Robert Bitmead (Australia), Chairman Technical Areas: a. Control Design b. Nonlinear Systems c. Optimization Methods d. Robust Control 3. Symposium on Systems and Signals Han-Fu Chen (China), Chairman Technical Areas: a. Modeling, Identification and Signal Processing b. Adaptive Control and Tuning c. Discrete Event Dynamic Systems d. Stochastic Systems 4. Symposium on Infrastructure and Resources Katsuhisa Furuta (Japan), Chairman Technical Areas: a. Control in Agriculture b. Modeling and Control of Biomedical Systems c. Control Education d. Control Terminology e. Natural Resource Systems f. Automation in Developing Countries 5. Symposium on Systems Engineering and Management Gunnar Johannsen (Germany), Chairman Technical Areas: a. Large Scale Systems b. Modeling and Control of Biomedical Systems c. Computer Aided Control System Design d. Business and Management Techniques e. Modeling and Control of National Economies f. Supplemental Ways of Improving International Stability 6. Symposium on Human Aspects of Automation Tomas Martin (Germany), Chairman Technical Areas: a. Social Impact of Automation b. Cultural Aspects of Automation 7. Symposium on Industrial Applications Mogens Kummel (Denmark), Chairman Technical Areas: a. Chemical Process Control b. Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing c. Control of Pulp and Paper Processes d. Power Plants and Power Systems e. Control of Biotechnological Processes f. Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes 8. Symposium on Transportation and Vehicles Michael Masten (USA), Chairman Technical Areas: a. Aerospace b. Automotive Control c. Marine Systems d. Air Traffic Control Automation e. Transportation Systems f. Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles 9. Symposium on Computer Control Leo Motus (Estonia), Chairman Technical Areas: a. Distributed Computer Control Systems b. Real-Time Software Engineering c. Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control d. Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control e. Safety of Computer Control Systems f. Distributed Intelligence Systems Preparation of Camera-Ready Manuscripts Authors whose papers have been accepted by the International Program Committee for presentation at the Congress, and thus for inclusion in the Congress publications, will be required to submit their final manuscripts in camera-ready form. The printed publications will be prepared from a photo image of the authors' manuscript and the compact disk will be made by photographically scanning the same. Detailed typing instructions and sample sheets will be provided together with the acceptance notification. Authors are urged to prepare their camera-ready manuscript in target-size (A4 or 8.5"x11"), with small-size characters, using advanced word processing software and a laser printer. Exceptionally, the camera-ready manuscript may be prepared by a good quality typewriter, on oversized special sheets (which will then be photo-reduced before scanning and printing). Authors wishing to follow this second path should indicate this when submitting their draft paper. They will then receive special sheets together with their typing instructions. NO-SHOW PAPERS It is assumed that authors submit their papers in good faith, that is, they do intend to attend the Congress and there is a reasonable chance they will be able to. Acting otherwise would be professionally unethical; an unpresented paper takes away a slot from another author and holes in the lecture sessions cause serious inconvenience to the audience and the organizers. FINANCIAL AID Limited funds are expected to be available to assist a small number of authors who would not otherwise be able to attend the Congress. The exact conditions and procedures have yet to be worked out. Prospective authors wishing to obtain more information should contact Professor Peter Luh, Financial Aid Coordinator Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269-3157, USA Phone: (203) 486-4821 Fax: (203) 486-2447 e-mail: Luh@farside.ese.uconn.edu CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED PAPERS Authors are invited to submit individual contributed papers in any of the technical areas listed above. What to submit: * 6 copies of the manuscript * 4 additional copies of the front page containing - title - authors (with address, phone, e-mail) - abstract - several keywords * 4 copies of this form CALL FOR INVITED AND SPECIAL SESSION/PAPER PROPOSALS Proposals are also welcome for - invited lecture or poster sessions - survey papers - case-studies - benchmark sessions - panel discussions. What to Submit: For Invited and Benchmark Sessions, 4 copies each of: - a description of the theme and significance of the session - the Congress Symposium (and Technical Area) where it belongs - the name, affiliation and mailing address of the organizer - the list of papers and authors - an extended abstract (3-4 pages) for each paper - a completed Paper Submission Form for each paper. For Survey Papers and Case Studies, 4 copies each of: - the description of the theme and significance of the paper - the suggested Congress Symposium (and Technical Area) - an extended abstract (3-4 pages) - a completed Paper Submission Form. For Panel Discussions, 4 copies each of: - the description of the theme and significance of the session - the Congress Symposium (and Technical Area) where it belongs - the name, affiliation and mailing address of the organizer - the list of panelists, with affiliation and the status of their agreement to participate. TIME-TABLE All submissions and proposals should be received by: June 30, 1995. Notification of acceptance of submitted papers and invited/special paper/session proposals is expected in: First week of December, 1995. Preliminary program and registration material are expected in: Late Fall, 1995. Deadline for receiving camera-ready manuscripts of accepted papers: February 1, 1996. IFAC-'96 DRAFT PAPER SUBMISSION FORM - Title of paper __________________________________________________ - Corresponding author's title and name ___________________________ - Mailing address _________________________________________________ - phone _______________________ fax ____________________________ - e-mail ____________________________________________ - Signature of corresponding author _______________________________ - Suggested Symposium and Technical Area (e.g. 3/c) _________ - Preferred form of presentation: ___ lecture ___ poster The paper is part of an invited session ___ yes ___ no (Invited papers must be mailed together as a group) Mark here ___ if you need oversized typing sheets for the final paper Where to submit Michael Peshkin, IFAC '96 Mechanical Engineering Dept. Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208-3111 USA Inquiries only: e-mail: IFAC96@nwu.edu (preferred) tel: (708) 467-2666 fax: (708) 491-3915 (no manuscripts) ****************************************** * * * The End * * * ******************************************