From eletter@win.tue.nl Mon May 1 18:19:14 1995 Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 18:15:55 +0200 To: eletter@win.tue.nl Subject: E-letter 81 E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing ISSUE No. 81, May 1, 1995 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 Short course modern industrial control, Newcastle 3.2 Genetic algorithms available in Matlab 3.3 SCAD update 4. Positions 4.1 Graduate research traineeships, Un. of Missouri-Rolla 4.2 Assistent professor ETH Zurich 4.3 Research and teaching position Systems and Control, Eindhoven 4.4 Postdoctoral fellow in control, Canberra 4.5 Postgraduate scholarships Un. of Glasgow 4.6 Army research lab., Aberdeen 5. Books 5.1 Intelligent control, fuzzy logic applications, C.W. de Silva 5.2 Approximation of discrete time partially observed control problems, W.J. Runggaldier 5.3 VLSI digital signal processors, V.K. Madisetti 5.4 Large deviations for performance analysis, A. Shwartz, A. Weiss 5.5 Dissertation Zoran Fejzo 5.6 Using Matlab to analyze and design control systems, N.E. Leonard 6. Journals 6.1 TOC SIAM Review, vol. 37:2 6.2 TOC MCSS, vol. 17:3 6.4 TOC Automatica, vol. 31:5 6.5 TOC J. of Mathematics, Systems, Estimation and Control, vol. 5:2 6.6 TOC LAA, vol. 219 7. Conferences 7.1 ACC-1995 7.2 Advance program ICCI-1995 7.3 Symp. on large scale systems, City un. of London 7.4 Industrial mathematics modeling workshop, Raleigh 7.5 Workshop digital communications, s.p. in telecom, Viareggio 7.6 Workshop automatic speech recognition, Snowbird, Utah 7.7 CFP Workshop hybrid systems, Rutgers, Oct 22-25, 1995 7.8 Neural adaptive control techn. workshop, Glasgow 7.9 CFP Int. Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Hsinchu, Taiwan 7.10 CFP Methods & models in automation and robotics, Miedzyzdroje ****************************************** * * * Editorial * * * ****************************************** Welcome to E-letter number 81 !!! We plan to send out the E-letter monthly. The next issue of E-letter will appear June 1. Please send contributions before this date. We encourage contributors to provide essential information only and reserve the right to require contributors to cut certain parts of their contribution. 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In connection with this move, I have stepped down as Editor of Stochastics and Stochastics Reports. The new Editor is Dr Saul Jacka Department of Statistics University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL, England email: s.d.jacka@warwick.ac.uk Referees' reports etc for papers already under review should be sent to Doris Abeysekera at Imperial College. All new papers should be submitted to Saul Jacka. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Len Sciacca, Change of Address I have taken up a position as Senior Research Scientist in the Radio Frequency Seekers group in DSTO as from March 1995. Interests in tracking, antenna control systems, signal processing and realtime computing. Old Address:Director, Australian Systems Research (NSW) Pty Ltd New Address:Senior Research Scientist Radio Frequency Seekers, WSD Defence Science and Technology Organisation PO Box 1500 Salisbury AUSTRALIA 5108 Phone : +61 8 259 5494 Fax : +61 8 259 5688 Home : 08 369 2648 ****************************************** * * * General announcements * * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Lisa Crisafulli MODERN INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SHORT COURSE SEPTEMBER 25 - 29 1995 NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY, NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA Professor Graham Goodwin and colleagues from the Centre for Industrial Control Science (CICS) at Newcastle University will conduct a week long school presenting modern control strategies in an industrial context. The course is aimed at engineers and control practitioners providing practical knowledge and tools for design, analysis and implementation of both conventional and advanced control strategies. It would also be beneficial to academics or research students in gaining exposure to how modern control theory can be effectively applied to practical problems. The course features a problem based learning format where the material is motivated by and applied to real world problems, and then followed up by hands-on laboratory sessions. FIVE MODULES COVERING: Review of Conventional Control Introduction to Model Based Control Advanced Model Based Control Soft Sensing and Kalman Filtering Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Control HANDS-ON LABORATORY SESSIONS: Description, motivation and solutions of actual industrial control applications For more detailed information and registration forms contact: Lisa Crisafulli, CICS, University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308, Australia Ph:Int + 61 49 217126 Fax:Int + 61 49 601712 email:lisac@ee.newcastle.edu.au *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Flexible Intelligence Group FlexTool(GA) M1.1 for MATLAB We are glad to inform you of the following: (1) FlexTool(GA) M1.1, a genetic algorithm tool for MATLAB, and (2) Guidelines to Evolutionary Fuzzy Modeling, a document now available from Flexible Intelligence Group, L.L.C. Please contact FIGLLC@AOL . COM or send mail to Flexible Intelligence Group, L.L.C., Tuscaloosa, AL 35486-1477,USA for more details. Regards, Antony Flexible Intelligence Group, L.L.C. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Raimund J. Ober Xu Huang UPDATE ON SCAD DATABASE -- May 1995 #### #### ## ##### # # # # # # # #### # # # # # # # ###### # # # # # # # # # # #### #### # # ##### Systems and Control Archive at Dallas gopher: gopher.utdallas.edu ftp address: ftp.utdallas.edu IP number: 129.110.10.14 Worldwide web: URL: http://www.utdallas.edu/research/scad queries (email): scad@utdallas.edu New contents: ============= books: ====== Book announcement for: D.W. St. Clair: Controller Tuning and Control Loop Performance, A Primer. eletters: ========= Number 80-1, 80-2 conference announcements: ========================= ICASAV'95: First announcement and Call for Papers IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Components for Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Vehicles. Toulouse, France. October 25-26, 1995. jobs archive: ============= links to AMS employment information and the IEEE job bank. preprints: ========== link to Bill Helton's ftp preprints archive. software: ========= links to: * Bill Helton's ftp software archive. * Visual Solutions, maker of VisSim a visual nonlinear dynamic simulation environement. * Wor-toolbox, Weighted order reduction Matlab toolbox by Pepijn Wortelboer, Philips Research. theses: ======= Pepijn Wortelboer, Weighted order reduction. New activities: =============== We keep expanding the information that we are offering. Check out our WWW and gopher pages! Information is available on: books, jobs, journal contents pages, conferences, software and much more. To improve our database we need your input with suggestions of what to add and how to improve SCAD! ************ Remember to send your tech reports and other material! ********* How to access scad: =================== 1.) Using gopher: Type gopher -p 1/research/scad gopher.utdallas.edu or gopher gopher.utdallas.edu Select `UT-Dallas Research' and then `Systems and Control Archive at Dallas' 2.) Using ftp: ftp ftp.utdallas.edu Then cd /pub/scad 3.) Using Worldwide Web: URL: http://www.utdallas.edu/research/scad More detailed instructions can be obtained by sending an email to scad@utdallas.edu After accessing SCAD you can find a README file which contains more information about SCAD. ****************************************** * * * Positions * * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Professor K. Krishnamurthy GRADUATE RESEARCH TRAINEESHIPS at UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ROLLA For Study Leading to the Ph.D. Degree in Mechanical Engineering in the field of Machine Tool Research (Intelligent Control of Precision Machining Operations) Annual Stipend - $15,000 plus tuition and fee waiver * Traineeships is provided by the National Science Foundation * Awardees must be U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents * Minorities and Women are especially encouraged to apply * Application Deadline for Fall Semester 1995 is June 1, 1995 * Applicants with a B.S. degree with a minimum GPA of 3.0 are expected to complete an M.S. degree in two years and then a Ph.D. degree in another three years * Applicants with an M.S. degree with a minimum GPA of 3.5 can directly pursue the Ph.D. degree Contact Vicki Hudgins for application forms and more information. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Manfred Morari ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF NONLINEAR SYSTEMS Laboratory of Automatic Control The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) invites applications for this position. Teaching and research will focus on the analysis and control of nonlinear systems. Candidates should have a strong mathematical background and a solid research record in the subject area. The post of an assistant professor has been established to promote the career of young scientists. It is available for three years with the possibility of a renewal for another three years. Please submit your application, together with a curriculum vitae and a list of publications, to the President of ETH Zurich, Prof. Dr. J. Nuesch, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zurich, no later than June 30, 1995. The ETHZ specifically encourages female candidates to apply with view towards increasing the proportion of female professors. For additional information please contact: morari@aut.ee.ethz.ch Brigitte von Kaenel Tel: +41 1 632 2835 Institut fuer Automatik Fax: +41 1 632 1211 ETH-Z, ETL K10.1 8092 Zuerich e-mail: vkaenel@aut.ee.ethz.ch *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Jan J. Kok and Heinz A. Preisig RESEARCH AND TEACHING POSITIONS IN THE SYSTEMS AND CONTROL GROUP IN THE FACULTIES CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND APPLIED PHYSICS EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 5600 MB EINDHOVEN THE NETHERLANDS The Eindhoven University of Technology revived and enlarged the systems and control group. Whilst the group was originally located in the Faculty for Applied Physics, it is now defined as an interdisciplinary group with roots in the Faculty of Chemical Technology, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics. The group is strongly bound to the interdisciplinary institute 'Stevin Centrum', which also involves members of the Faculty of Mathematics. Ties with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and other control groups exist through the DISC (the Dutch Institute for Systems and Control). The group will offer two to three positions, initially at the level of a postdoctoral research and teaching assistant with the contingency for two positions to convert into UD (roughly the equivalent to an assistant professor) or UHD (equivalent to associate professor). Overall, the group is expected to grow up to 25-30 people. One, possibly two positions will be offered in Chemical Engineering. Chemical Engineering is part of the Faculty of Chemical Technology that houses classical chemistry, chemical engineering and a number of specialised topics such as polymers and catalysis. Strong backgrounds in dynamic systems, control theory and thermodynamics of macroscopic systems are desired assets. The person will be involved in generating new courses in Chemical Technology which will include modelling of physical-chemical processes both on the introductory and the advanced level and dynamic systems and control courses again both on the introductory and the advanced level. The other position is allocated to the Faculty of Applied Physics. Here a solid background in modelling of dynamic systems and control theory is required. A computer science and discrete-event dynamic systems background is desirable. Again the person would be involved in teaching. Current plans are to combine courses of the three involved faculties. All people are expected to participate strongly in a joint research program with a current emphasis on o batch processes o multivariable model predictive control o discrete-event dynamic modelling and control o computer-aided modelling + active vibration control + control of nonlinear systems + control of chaotic systems. The areas marked with o are to be strengthened by additional personnel. The areas marked with + are either not likely to be further extended or of secondary priority. Salaries are on the central European level and depend on experience and position. Decision on promotion should be made within two years. Eindhoven, a small city of approx. 300,000 inhabitants, is the home of Philips and DAF. Eindhoven is approximately on the same latitude as London in the southern part of Holland, about 1 1/2 hours drive from Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels and Aachen. CONTACT : Prof. Heinz A. Preisig or Prof. Jan J. Kok Systems and Control Group Faculty of Applied Physics, W&S 1.33 Eindhoven University of Technology 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands fax +31 (40) 43 71 70 tel +31 (40) 47 25 30 / 47 21 50 / 47 27 98 e-mail H.Preisig@ctrl.phys.tue.nl or J.J.Kok@ctrl.phys.tue.nl *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by irp@ee.adfa.oz.au POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW POSITION IN CONTROL THEORY AVAILABLE RESEARCH STAFF LEVEL A Department of Electrical Engineering University College, University of New South Wales Australian Defence Force Academy CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA This position is funded by the Australian Research Council under the grant: "Robust Control for Uncertain Systems with Integral Quadratic Constraints" and will involve carrying out research in conjunction with Associate Professor I.R. Petersen. The successful applicant will be appointed for a period of two years. Applicants should have a Ph.D in Engineering or Mathematics with a specialisation in Control Theory. They should also have a demonstrated ability to carry out research in one or more of the following areas: Robust Control; The Control of Uncertain Systems; H infinity Optimal Control; Stochastic Control; Differential Games; Salary: In the range $Aust 37,345 - $Aust 40,087 (1$Aust ~= $US 0.73) Further information can be obtained from Ian Petersen on email irp@ee.adfa.oz.au or FAX 61 6 2688443. Applications close 26 May 1995. Written applications should be sent to Asst. College Secretary (Personnel) University College, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Northcott Drive, Canberra ACT 2600 AUSTRALIA Alternatively, applications can be sent directly to Ian Petersen via email or FAX. Applications should include the names, addresses, and email or FAX numbers of two referees. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Yun Li POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS at GLASGOW UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW FACULTY OF ENGINEERING CENTRE FOR SYSTEMS AND CONTROL POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS The Faculty of Engineering is offering Scholarships in any research area of the Faculty, including Systems and Control Engineering. Successful applicants will carry out research leading to the award of PhD. Applicants should have a UK first or upper second class degree or equivalent. Awards will be made on the basis of merit. The annual value of each scholarship includes fees and an maintenance component. The fee component corresponds to PhD fees for home/EU students; applicants outwith the EU would have to find additional costs from other sources, for example ORS awards. General information about Glasgow University, the Faculty and research into systems and control can be obtained on WWW with URLs: http://www.gla.ac.uk/HomePage.html http://www.mech.gla.ac.uk/Control/ Informal enquires should be made to Prof. DJ Murray-Smith (D.Murray-Smith@eng.gla.ac.uk) or Prof. PJ Gawthrop (P.Gawthrop@eng.gla.ac.uk). Formal applications, including a CV and the names of two referees should be sent as soon as possible and marked for the attention of P.J. Gawthrop to: The Clerk to the Faculty of Engineering James Watt Building, The University, GLASGOW. G12 8QQ Scotland. Tel: +44 141 339 8855 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Brint Cooper RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AT THE ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY Research opportunities described below are available on the campus of the Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. We are interested in offering appointments for one year to recent awardees of the PhD or to senior research associates, typically faculty 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 to 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; joint source and channel coding for wireless channels; multipath; spread spectrum (CDMA). adaptive network protocols; network flow and congestion control; adaptive routing algorithms for mobile nets; communication and information theory; The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is the Army's premier scientific 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-IS-TP Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5067 PHONE: 410-278-6883 FAX: 410-278-2934 INTERNET: abc@arl.mil WWW: http://info.arl.mil/~abc ****************************************** * * * Books * * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: C. de Silva A NEW BOOK (1995) Title: INTELLIGENT CONTROL: FUZZY LOGIC APPLICATIONS Author: Clarence W. de Silva, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Publisher: CRC Press 2000 Corporate Blvd., N.W. Boca Raton, FL 33431-9868, U.S.A. Tel: 800-272-7737 (Toll Free) Fax: 800-374-3401 (Toll Free) Catalog No.: 7982NKY; ISBN: 0-8493-7982-2 Outline: This comprehensive new book provides an interesting combination of research, teaching, and industrial applications in the field of intelligent and fuzzy-logic control. The mathematical complexities are minimized in the beginning of the text, but are subsequently integrated for the benefit of advanced students and researchers without hampering the book's readability for the novice. Applications are emphasized throughout the book. Intelligent Control is filled with worked examples, exercises, case studies, problems, solutions or answers to problems, an index, and references for further reading. Software for developing intelligent control applications are discussed, giving practical applications. The book which has about 350 pages contains ten chapters and two appendices. Problems are given at the end of every chapter. The traditional control techniques are introduced and contrasted with intelligent control. Several methods of representing and processing knowledge are presented, including fuzzy logic. Advantages of fuzzy logic over other techniques are highlighted and limitations are indicated. A hierarchical control structure appropriate for use in intelligent control systems is described in detail. Several applications are provided, with most falling into the areas of robotics and mechatronics. Other applications such as air conditioning and process/ production control are also given. No prior knowledge of the subject is needed, and much of the book can be comprehended without an advanced knowledge in mathematics. Intelligent Control is suitable for an undergraduate or introductory- level graduate course on the subject, and is also a convenient reference tool for practicing professionals. Table of Contents: 1. Conventional Control and Intelligent Control 2. Knowledge Representation and Processing 3. Fundamentals of Fuzzy Logic 4. Fuzzy Logic Control 5. Knowledge-Based Tuning 6. Knowledge-Based Control of Robots 7. Servo Motor Tuning 8. Hierarchical Fuzzy Control 9. Intelligent Restructuring of Production Systems 10. Future Applications Appendix A. Further Topics on Fuzzy Logic Appendix B. Software Tools for Fuzzy-Logic Applications Index *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contribuited by Wolfgang Runggaldier Announcement of the monograph APPROXIMATIONS OF DISCRETE TIME PARTIALLY OBSERVED CONTROL PROBLEMS Wolfgang J.Runggaldier (Dept.of Mathematics,Univ. of Padova, Italy) Lukasz Stettner (Inst. of Mathematics, Polish Acad.of Sciences, Warsaw) Table of contents : INTRODUCTION 1.PRELIMINARY RESULTS (1.1 The control problems; 1.2 The filter process; 1.3 A general measure transformation). 2.FINITE HORIZON PROBLEMS (2.1 The idea of the approximation approach; 2.2 Convergence, 2.2.1 Bounded cost functions, 2.2.2 Cost functions with polynomial growth; 2.3 The study of the approximating problem, 2.3.1 Approximating finite state Markov chain, 2.3.2 Approximating operators separated in the variables). 3.INFINITE HORIZON WITH DISCOUNTING (3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Bellman equation; 3.3 Construction of nearly optimal control functions, 3.3.1 Convergence: a) compact state space E, b) continuous control functions, 3.3.2 A specific approximation : a) compact state space, b) continuous control functions, 3.3.3 Further discretizations : a) compact state space, a1) discretization of $P(E_m)$, a2) Sondik's algorithm, b) continuous control functions; 3.4 Approximating operators separated in the variables, 3.4.1 Generalized Bellman equation, 3.4.2 Convergence of approximations, 3.4.3 The approxi- mating procedure; 3.5 Filter approximation and near optimal control values, 3.5.1 Filter approx. and near optimal control values in the context of sec. 3.3, 3.5.2 Filter approx. and near opt. cont. val.in the context of sec.3.4). 4.INFINITE HORIZON WITH ERGODIC COST (4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Bellman equation (discounted cost approximation), 4.2.1 Existence of sol.to the ergodic Bellman eq. for the case of a compact state space, 4.2.2 Control function approxim., 4.2.3 The case of a locally compact state space; 4.3 Mixed observation model, 4.3.1 Study of the associated filter process, 4.3.2 Solution to the Bellman eq.; 4.4 Invariant measures for controlled filtering processes, 4.4.1 A counterexample, 4.4.2 Embedded i.i.d. case, 4.4.3 Mixed observation case; 4.5 Construction of nearly opt. continuous control funct., 4.5.1 Approx. of invariant measures (general conv. result) : a) the mixed obs. case, b) the embedded i.i.d. case, 4.5.2 Specific approx.: a) control function approx., b) discretiz. of state and obs., b1) the mixed obs.case, b2) the embedded i.i.d. case, 4.5.3 Discretization of the simplex $P(E_m)$, 4.5.4 Computational analysis of an example : a) the computational method, b) the implementation, c) numerical example, 4.5.5 Discounted cost approx.; 4.6 Filter approx. and near optimal control values APPENDIX (Bibliographical notes) REFERENCES The monograph (XIX + 268 pages) is published by Giardini Editori of Pisa ISBN 88-427-0267-6 and can be ordered through : The Courier s.r.l (Italian Books and Journals) Via L.A. De Bosis 25/27 - P.O.B. 67 50145 - Firenze, Italy (Tel.+39-55-300010,300443, Fax +39-55-300036) Price is 80.000 ITL (about 50 USD) *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Vijay Madisetti VLSI DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS: ------------------------------ An Introduction to Rapid Prototyping and Design Synthesis. by Vijay K. Madisetti Georgia Institute of Technology (http://www.ee.gatech.edu/users/215/index.html) Butterworth Heinemann/IEEE Press April 1995 -------- "VLSI Digital Signal Processors: An Introduction to Rapid Prototyping and Design Synthesis" provides a cohesive, quantitative and clear exposition of the implementation and prototyping of digital signal processing algorithms on programmable signal processors, parallel processing systems, and application-specific ICs. Included in this book are both programmable and dedicated DSPs as well as discussions on the latest optimization methods, and computer-aided design (CAD) techniques, using a systems-based approach. This book is suitable for first/second year graduate students in signal processing, computer engineering, telecommunications or control engineering, and may also be used at the senior undergraduate level. It will also be useful for the practicing professional in the industry. The book has been class-tested for 4 years at Georgia Tech, and has been offered on NTU. Basic digital design and an introduction to digital signals and systems is a sufficient background for this book, and no knowledge of VLSI design is assumed. Exercises for five chapters and an extensive list of recent references are provided. CONTENTS Chapter 1: Digital Signal Processors Chapter 2: Classification of DSP Architectures Chapter 3: Data/Instruction Memories, Communications, I/O Chapter 4: VLSI Signal Processors: Chapter 5: Datapath Design for DSP, (High-Level Synthesis) Chapter 6: Rapid Prototyping of Systems Chapter 7: Digital Signal Multiprocessors (DSMP) Chapter 8: DSMP Compilers and Schedulers Chapter 9: Formal Optimization methods for Scheduling, Assignment and Allocation for DSPs (Constrained Behavioral Synthesis). Chapter 10: Examples of DSMP Prototyping Chapter 11: Video Signal Processors (VSPs). 452 pp., Hardcover, ISBN 7506-9406-8 April 1995. $ 69.95. To order the book: Butterworth Heinemann (Reed Elsevier Group) Book Distribution Center 225 Wildwood Avenue Woburn, MA 01801, USA Tel: 1-800 366-2665 (toll free) Tel: 617-928-2500 Fax: +(617) 933-6333 IEEE Members - call 1-800-678-IEEE for placing your order. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Adam Shwartz New book announcement: LARGE DEVIATIONS for PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS Queues, Communication, and Computing Adam Shwartz and Alan Weiss Chapman & Hall April 1995: 6 x 9: 576 pp Cloth: 0 412 06311 5: #B8827: $54.95/X [Can. cl $74.00/X] Probability/ Applied Mathematics/ Operations Research Order (800) 634-7064 from the US and Canada GB Office: Telephone 0171 865 0066, Fax 0171 522 9623, 39.95 UK Pounds The book is designed to be an introduction to the theory, and a compelling collection of real engineering applications, for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and applied mathematics. The book is also a reference resource for mathematicians, researchers, and engineers. It is self-contained, with detailed appendices to cover all the major tools used in the book, and over 60 figures. We enclose instructions for obtaining a Synopsis, suggestions for courses based on the book and sample chapters. We also enclose a table of contents. The complete table of contents and Chapters 0 and 1 (together with a unique cover which is not included with the printed version!) are available as the Unix-compressed PostScript file bookintro.ps.Z in ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/att/math/weiss You may prefer http://netlib.att.com/netlib/att/math/weiss/LargeDeviations.html which includes everything we have here, as well as a Synopsis, and suggestions for courses based on the book. Adam Shwartz is with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Alan Weiss is a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. Contents: Theory (pages 1-242): 1. Large Deviations of Random Variables 2. General Principles 3. Random Walks, branching processes 4. Poisson and Related Processes 5. Large Deviations for Processes 6. Freidlin-Wentzell Theory 7. Applications and Extensions 8. Boundary Theory Applications (pages 243-470): 9. Allocating Independent Subtasks 10. Parallel Algorithms: Rollback 11. The M/M/1 Queue 12. Erlang's Model 13. The Anick-Mitra-Sondhi Model 14. Aloha 15. Priority Queues 16. The Flatto-Hahn-Wright model Appendices (pages 471-538): A. Analysis and Probability B. Discrete-Space Markov Processes C. Calculus of Variations D. Large Deviations Techniques References Index *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Hanoch Lev-Ari (levari@cdsp.neu.edu) Ph.D. Dissertation available: Title : Adaptive Nonlinear Laguerre-Based Filtering Author : Zoran Fejzo University : Northeastern University, Boston Thesis Advisor : Prof. H. Lev-Ari Author's e-mail : zfejzo@aware.com Publication : December 1994 Abstract: In this thesis we have developed two adaptive non-linear estimation approaches that use the Laguerre filter bank to possibly reduce the structural index $M$ of the non-linear model. The first approach is related to the Wiener-Laguerre model of non-linear systems. This approach offers an attractive performance-complexity trade-off. In particular for a quadratic non-linear model: (i) the Wiener-Laguerre-Transversal model with RLS adaptation (WLT/RLS) has excellent steady state performance and fast initial convergence at the cost of ~${\cal O}(M^{4}) $~ computations per time iteration; (ii) WL-Lattice with order recursive adaptation exhibits excellent convergence behavior and requires only ~${\cal O}(M^{2})$~ computations however, it introduces a moderate steady state performance degradation; (iii) WLL with the normalized LMS adaptation performs only ${\cal O}(M^{2}) $~ computations per time instant and has very good steady state performance but with somewhat slower initial convergence. As a second approach we have developed an alternative adaptive non-linear estimation technique which reduces the computational requirements of WLT/RLS (to ~${\cal O}(M^{3})$~ calculations for quadratic model) with negligible performance degradation. The proposed technique uses a filter-banks-based expansion for non-linear systems and utilizes a modular multichannel Laguerre-lattice structure to obtain an computationally efficient algorithm for the adaptation of model parameters. The resulting structure consists of arrays of cells, each performing scalar computations. As such this structure exhibits excellent numerical behavior and a high level of regularity which makes it suitable for the VLSI implementations. The postscript file to print the dissertation is available through anonymous ftp. ftp ftp.cdsp.neu.edu login:anonymous (password is your internet mail address, like whoever@wherever.edu) cd pub/papers/zfejzo binary get thesisoff.ps quit *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Naomi Ehrich Leonard Announcement of Second Edition Book Publication: USING MATLAB TO ANALYZE AND DESIGN CONTROL SYSTEMS by Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University and William S. Levine, University of Maryland 212 pages, softcover, published April 1995 MATLAB files available at no cost. Publisher: Benjamin/Cummings 390 Bridge Parkway, Redwood City, CA 94065 800/552-2499, Internet: bookinfo@bc.aw.com (Use Addison-Wesley ISBN 0-8053-2193-4) >From the back cover of the 2nd edition: Now your students can learn MATLAB 4.2, a remarkable time-saving tool for anyone who studies or designs control systems. Through extensive interactive examples and exercies that demonstrate MATLAB fundamentals and its plotting capabilities, students quickly learn how to use the software to perform calculations and generate graphs essential to control system analysis. After mastering the basics, students discover how to use the software and extend their understanding of control system operation and design. Accompanying the book is an introduction to SIMULINK, software that allows students to simulate signals, perform transforms on those signals, and then measure them. The manual follows the organization of Norman S. Nise's Control System Engineering, Second Edition and is an ideal supplement to the text. Leonard and Levine's book can also be used with other control systems texts, or alone, as an independent guide to MATLAB for students and professionals. Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 MATLAB Fundamentals CHAPTER 2 Plotting CHAPTER 3 Setting Up Control Problems CHAPTER 4 Poles, Zeros, and Time Response CHAPTER 5 Root Locus Plots CHAPTER 6 Frequency-Domain Plots CHAPTER 7 State-Space Computations CHAPTER 8 Discrete-Time Control Systems INDEX ****************************************** * * * Journals * * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed nelson@siam.org SIAM REVIEW, VOL. 37, NO. 2, JUNE 1995 TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTICLES Software Libraries for Linear Algebra Computations on High Performance Computers Jack J. Dongarra and David W. Walker A Survey of the Maximum Principles for Optimal Control Problems with State Constraints Richard F. Hartl, Suresh P. Sethi, and Raymond G. Vickson Stabilization of the Inverted Linearized Pendulum by High Frequency Vibrations Mark Levi and Warren Weckesser Finite Catenary and the Method of Lagrange K. Veselic CLASSROOM NOTE IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS A Nonlinear Programming Algorithm for Hospital Management Frank H. Mathis and Lenora Jane Mathis PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS BOOK REVIEWS An Introduction to Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (J. D. Logan) Karen Ames Numerical Solution of Sturm-Liouville Problems (John D. Pryce) Alan L. Andrew Time Series: Forecasting, Simulation, Applications (Gareth Janacek and Louise Swift) David F. Findley Introduction to Multidimensional Integrable Equations (B. G. Konopelchenko) J. D. Gibbon General Pattern Theory: A Mathematical Study of Regular Structures (U. Grenander) Daniel Keenan Non-Standard Rank Tests (A. Janssen and D. M. Mason) Jana Jureckova Markov Models and Optimization (M. H. A. Davis) Suzanne Lenhart Linear Partial Differential Operators in Gevrey Spaces (Luigi Rodino) Otto Liess Fundamentals of Grid Generation (P. Knupp and S. Steinberg) C. Wayne Mastin Duality and Perturbation Methods in Critical Point Theory (N. Ghoussoub) Jean Mawhin Mathematical Computational Techniques for Multilevel Adaptive Methods (U. Rude) Steve McCormick Normal Forms and Bifurcation of Planar Vector Fields (Shee-Nee Chow, Chengzhi Li, and Duo Wang) Kenneth R. Meyer Model-Free Curve Estimation ( M. E. Tartar and M. D. Lock) Guy Nason Numerical Solutions of the Euler Equations for Steady Flow Problems (Albrecht Eberle, Arthur Rizzi, and Ernst Heinrich Hirschel) Paul D. Orkwis Numerical Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations (Peter E. Kloeden and Eckhard Platen) Matthias Gelbrich and Werner Romisch Box Splines (C de Boor, K. Hollig, and S. Riemenschneider) Amos Ron Numerical Hamiltonian Problems (J. M. Sanz-Serna and M. P. Calvo) Robert D. Skeel The Couette-Taylor Problem (Pascal Chossat and Gerard Iooss) Juergen Scheurle Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Steven H. Strogatz) Douglas S. Shafer The Fuzzy Systems Handbook: A Practioner's Guide to Building, Using, and Maintaining Fuzzy Systems (Earl Cox) Rod Taber SELECTED COLLECTIONS CHRONICLE *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Jan H. van Schuppen (J.H.van.Schuppen@cwi.nl) Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems (MCSS) TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 7, Issue 3 J.-M. Coron, On the Stabilization of Controllable and Observable Systems by an Output Feedback Law, pp. 187-216. R. Montgomery, Singular Extremals on Lie Groups, pp. 217-234. P. Martin and R. Rouchon, Feedback Linearization and Driftless Systems, pp. 235-254. Jyun-Horng Fu, Liapunov Functions and Stability Criteria for Nonlinear Systems with Multiple Critical Eigenvalues, pp. 255-278. REMINDER The new address for submissions is: J.H. van Schuppen Co-Editor MCSS CWI P.O. Box 94079 1090 GB Amsterdam The Netherlands E-mail inquires regarding submission should be addressed to: mcss@cwi.nl. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Huibert Kwakernaak AUTOMATICA Table of contents May, 1995 Issue 31:5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regular Papers J.M. Berg, H.G. Kwatny A canonical parametrization of the Kronecker form of a matrix pencil P. Banerjee, S. L. Shah The role of signal processing methods in the robust design of predictive control D.S. Chen Adaptive control on hot-dip galvanizing F. J. Doyle III, B. A. Nonlinear model-based control using second Ogunnaike, R. K. Pearson order Volterra models Brief Papers Yu Tang, E. F. Camacho, J. Frequency domain adaptive control: Band-wise J. Flores compensation Woo Sok Chang, IL Hong Suh, Analysis and design of two types of digital Tae Won Kim repetitive control systems J. M. Koscielny Fault isolation in industrial processes by dynamic table of states method J. R. Partington, P. M. Analysis of linear methods for robust Makila identification in l_1 R. Tempo Worst-case optimality of smoothing algorithms for parametric system identification H. Abou-Kandil, G. Freiling, On the solution of discrete-time Markovian G. Jank jump linear quadratic control problems G. Bartolini, V. I. Utkin Adaptive sliding mode control in discrete-time and A. Ferrara systems P. Colaneri, S. Longhi The realization problem for linear periodic systems Jenq-Tzong H. Chan Multivariable controller for redundantly actuated systems: A numerical design approach for open-loop data Technical Communiques Kaiqi Xiong Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a G-type Lyapunov function Book Reviews E.B. Lee J.E. Marshall, H. Gorecki, K. Walton, A. Korytowski: Time delay systems: Stability and performance criteria with applications N. Karcanias: V. Kucera Analysis and design of discrete linear control systems *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Edwin F. Beschler Table of Contents for Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation and Control Volume 5, Number 2 1995 TABLE OF CONTENTS Modelling and controllability of plate-beam systems J.E. Lagnese 141 On relations between Schmidt pairs arising in robust control Andrea Gombani 189 Errata: Chain-scattering representation, J-lossless factorization and H control Hidenori Kimura 203 Chain-scattering representation, J-lossless factorization and H control Hidenori Kimura 204 Errata Summary: Necessary and sufficient conditions for nonlinear worst case (H-infinity) control and estimation Arthur J. Krener 257 Summary: H control of nonlinear systems with sampled measurement Sadanori Suzuki, Alberto Isidori, and Tzhy-Jong Tarn 259 Summary: Minimax estimation of statistically uncertain systems under the choice of a feedback paramter B.I. Anan'ev 263 Summary: System assignment and pole placement for symmetric realisations Robert Mahony and Uwe Helmke 267 Summary: Legendre-Tau approximations for LQR feedback control of acoustic pressure fields H.T. Banks and F. Fakhroo *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Richard Brualdi LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS Contents Volume 219 Carsten W. Scherer (Delft, the Netherlands) The General Nonstrict Algebraic Riccati Inequality 1 Dragomir Z. Dokovic (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) and Leonardo Legorreta (Ogden, Utah) Congruence of Hermitian Matrices Over Some Localizations of C[z,"z_1] 35 Ali H. Sayed (Santa Barbara, California) and Thomas Kailath (Stanford, California) Fast Algorithms for Generalized Displacement Structures and Lossless Systems 49 Darko Veljan (Zagreb, Croatia) The Sine Theorem and Inequalities for Volumes of Simplices and Determinants 79 Chi-Kwong Li (Williamsburg, Virginia) and Paras P. Mehta (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Permutation Invariant Norms 93 Zuzana Nagyova (Kosice, Czechoslovakia) On Classes of Normalized Matrices 111 Takayuki Furuta (Tokyo, Japan) Extension of the Furuta Inequality and Ando-Hiai Log-Majorization 139 Miguel Lacruz (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan) Norms of Schur Multipliers 157 Hiroyuki Ishibashi (Saitama, Japan) Involuntary Expressions for Elements in GLn(Z) and SLn(Z) 165 C. Burgueno (Temuco, Chile) and C. Mallol (Montpellier, France) Morphismes de Peirce et Orthogonalite Dans les Algebres de Bernstein 179 Jan Hauke and Augustyn Markiewicz (Poznan, Poland) On Partial Orderings on the Set of Rectangular Matrices 187 Suk-Geun Hwang (Taegu, Republic of Korea) Minimizing the Permanent over Some Faces of the Polytope of Doubly Stochastic Matrices 195 Isabel Cabral (Monte da Caparica, Portugal) Matrices With Prescribed Submatrices and Number of Invariant Polynomials 207 P. Enflo, V. I. Gurarii, V. Lomonosov (Kent, Ohio) and Yu I. Lyubich (Haifa, Israel) Exponential Numbers of Linear Operators in Normed Spaces 225 A. J. Duran (Sevilla, Spain) and W. Van Assche (Heverlee, Belgium) Orthogonal Matrix Polynomials and Higher-Order Recurrence Relations 261 Author Index 281 ****************************************** * * * Conferences * * * ****************************************** *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: masada@mail.utexas.edu 1995 AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE June 21-23, 1995 The Westin Hotel Seattle, Washington, USA The 1995 American Control Conference will have over 1000 technical papers presented to reflect the rapid growth and strong interest in the field of control engineering. The program features strong representation in applications areas such as aerospace, robotics and process control and in theoretical areas such as estimation, robust control and artificial intelligence. Plenary speakers are Dr. E. Stear of the Boeing Company, Professor K. Poolla of the University of California at Berkeley, and Dr. I.D. Landau of G.R. Automatique. The conference will be preceded by seven tutorial workships which will be held on June 19 and 20. The December, 1994 issue of IEEE Control Systems Magazine has detailed descriptions of these workshops. There will be a number of social events, luncheons and receptions. Detailed information can be found in the February and April, 1995 issues of IEEE Control Systems Magazine or by accesssing the World Wide Web at: http://www.eecs.nwu.edu/~ahaddad/aacc.html For any other information, please contact the General Chair, Masayoshi Tomizuka Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Phone: (510) 642-0870 email: tomizuka@euler.berkeley.edu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Floyd B. Hanson Short Version of ICCI95 Advance Program International Conference on Control and Information, 1995 The Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin NT, HONG KONG June 5-9, 1995 ICCI95 Conference: ------------------ The Conference will include invited keynote speakers, 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. Recent developments in control and information have exhibited an expansion of classical methods to more modern and innovative methods, along with adaptation and integration of the classical methods to new methods. The emergence of new control and information methodologies has led to more powerful procedures for solving challenging problems. Keynote Invited Speakers: ------------------------- Jian Song, System Science & Policy Making Jagdish Chandra, Control Theory, Who Needs It: A Mathematician's Perspective Eugene Wong, A Technology Policy for Hong Kong Yu-Chi Larry Ho, Soft Optimization of Hard Problems Sanjoy K. Mitter, The Limits of Universality in Problems of Inferenced Jan C. Willems, Interconnection as the Central Concept in Control Bruce A. Francis, Optimal Multirate Digital Signal Processing B. D. O. Anderson, Sampled-Data System Description Using Frequency Responses Suguru Arimoto, Nonlinear Circuit Theory That May Account for Dextrous Motions of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems Minisymposia ------------ Integrated Design for High Performance Systems, Chaired by F. Hadaegh Parallel and Related Methods in Control, Chaired by F. Hanson and C. Shoemaker Stochastic Theory-Adaptive Control, Chaired by B. Pasik-Duncan Contributed Sessions -------------------- Robotic Control Neural Networks Advances in System Theory Mathematical Techniques Applications Intelligent Systems Stochastic Theory-Adaptive Control Control Theory I, II Filtering and Signal Processes I, II Advances of Information Theory Communication and Computer Systems Stability Theory Distributed Parameter and Large Scale Systems Conference Sponsors: -------------------- The IEEE Control Society and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society are technical co-sponsors of the conference. The conference is sponsored by the US Army Research Office, the Army Research Office - Far East, US Office of Naval Research, the Institute of Mathematical Sciences of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the K. C. Wong Education Foundation, the American GNC Corporation, the International Press Company, Varitronix Limited, Hong Kong Baptist University, as well as other foundations. More Information: ----------------- A longer form of this advance program including brief local information, registration form, or local information and registration forms alone, can be found by Anonymous FTP using: ftp euler.math.cuhk.hk login: anonymous password: ``your-email-address'' cd /conf/icci95 get program.tex get local-info.tex get regis.frm quit For more information, contact: Dr. Kung Fu Ng ICCI95 Local Arrangements Committee Department of Mathematics Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin NT, Hong Kong E-mail: ngkf@cuhk.hk *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by P. D. Roberts LSS95 BRIEF SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT 7th IFAC/IFORS/IMACS Symposium on Large Scale Systems: Theory and Applications The full program and further information is available from lss95@city.ac.uk Location and Dates: City University, London, United Kingdom Monday-Thursday, 10-13 July, 1995 Organized by: The Control Engineering Centre, City University, London on behalf of the United Kingdom Automatic Control Council (UKACC) Sponsored by: IFAC, The International Federation of Automatic Control Technical Committee on Large Scale Systems Scope of the Symposium: In the field of Large Scale Systems special regard is taken of the problems of structure, decomposition, nonlinearity, complexity and uncertainty. The symposium contains three plenary lectures by leading international authorities. Within the 36 contributed sessions, which cover a wide range of major aspects of large scale systems from theoretical and methodological developments to practical applications, there are also three invited sessions which focus on strategic areas. Venue: The symposium will be held in the premises of City University in Northampton Square close to the heart of the City of London with easy access from public transportation. The university is in easy reach of major sightseeing locations in and around London. Programme Topics: - Computer integrated manufacturing and engineering - Intelligent control - Modelling and model reduction - Optimizing control - Production planning and scheduling - Transportation systems - Power systems stability - Hierarchical optimal control - Decision support systems - Chemical and steel processes - Hierarchical control - Complex systems - Power systems - Multiobjective optimization - Decentralized control and estimation - Power systems modelling - Management systems - Robust decentralized control - Water systems - Intelligent power systems - Optimization - Manufacturing systems - Robotics - Decomposition - Environmental systems - Decentralized control - Robotic systems - Supervision and diagnosis - Communications and information systems - Discrete event systems - Socioeconomic systems - Stability Invited Sessions: - Structural approaches to large industrial systems modelling and control - Traffic congestion control of traffic networks - Methodologies and tools for operational control of water systems Plenary Addresses: "Advanced Information Technology: A Route to Competitive Process Manufacturing", D Boland, ICI Engineering Technology, (UK) "Decentralized Control and Computations of Complex Systems: Status and Prospects", D D Siljak, Santa Clara University, (USA) "Methodology and Systems for Environmental Decision Support", Y Nakamori and Y Sawaragi, (Japan) *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Hien T. Tran Announcing the INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS MODELING WORKSHOP FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS August 7 - 16, 1995 Center for Research in Scientific Computation North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina FOREWORD The Industrial Mathematics Modeling Workshop for Graduate Students, which is the fourth in the series, will take place at the Center for Research in Scientific Computation at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, 7-16 August 1995. This workshop is being held annually, the previous highly successful meetings was held at the University of Minnesota in 1992 and at the Claremont Colleges in 1993 and 1994. A description of the 1993 Claremont workshop can be found in SIAM NEWS, November, 1993 issue. In line with the previous workshops the goals of this workshop are: * to expose 30 graduate students in mathematics and statistics to the challenging and exciting real-world problems from industry and government laboratories; * to introduce students to the team approach to problem solving. Funding for this workshop has been requested with the National Security Agency and the Army Research Office. Additional support is anticipated from the Center for Research in Scientific Computation. FORMAT In the workshop the students will be divided into six teams to work on "industrial mathematics" problems brought on by experienced applied mathematicians. These problems are challenging, real-world problems from industry or applied science and require fresh, new insight for their formulation and solution. The problem presenters, primarily from industry and government laboratories, are being recruited and their names will be announced subsequently. APPLICATION PROCEDURE Graduate students in mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics or operations research can be nominated for this program by a faculty member by sending a letter of recommendation. In addition, the student is required to send in a copy of a recent transcript. THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION IS JUNE, 30. Students will be expected to finance their travel. The workshop will cover local living expenses for U.S. citizens and permanent residents. ORGANIZERS Ben Fitzpatrick (Center for Research in Scientific Computation) Hien T. Tran (Center for Research in Scientific Computation) CONTACT PERSON Submit your complete applications or any inquiries you may have concerning this workshop to: Hien T. Tran Center For Research in Scientific Computation Box 8205 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8205 Telephone: (919) 515-3265 Fax: (919) 515-3798 e-mail: tran@control.math.ncsu.edu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: luise@iet.unipi.it 7th Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications SIGNAL PROCESSING IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS Viareggio, Italy, 10-14 September 1995 - Hotel Astor Co-Chairmen Marco LUISE - University of Pisa - Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Via Diotisalvi 2 - 56126 PISA (Italy) Phone: +39 50 568662 Fax: +39 50 568522 E-mail: luise@iet.unipi.it Ezio BIGLIERI - Politecnico di Torino - Dipartimento di Elettronica Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24 - 10129 TORINO (Italy) Phone +39 11 5644030 Fax: +39 11 5644099 E-mail: biglieri@polito.it ---------------------------------------------------------------- Scientific Secretariat University of Pisa - Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Via Diotisalvi 2 - 56126 PISA - Italy ---------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Secretariat INCOR - DGMP srl Via Carducci 62/E - 56010 GHEZZANO (Pisa) - Italy ---------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee: European Space Agency European Union - Human Capital & Mobility Program Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Telecomunicazioni CNIT Riccardo De Gaudenzi (European Space Agency) Mario Mancianti (University of Pisa, Italy) Giancarlo Prati (University of Parma, Italy) Franco Russo (University of Pisa, Italy) Gregori Vazquez (Polytechnic de Cataluna, Barcelona, Spain) ---------------------------------------------------------------- ANNOUNCEMENT This Workshop is the seventh in a series, launched in 1983 and held every other year, devoted to different aspects of Digital Communication. The goal of this edition is to provide a world-wide forum for the presentation and discussion of recent advances and new applications of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques to the different aspects of a telecommunication system. This Workshop will be held at the Astor Hotel of Viareggio, on the seashore near Pisa, and the Proceedings will be published in a volume by Elsevier Amsterdam (NL). The technical program will feature both tutorial and state-of-the-art presentations in the areas below: * Signal Processing in Satellite Networks Riccardo DE GAUDENZI - ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands * Joint Source/Channel Coding for Multimedia Applications Prof. James MODESTINO - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA * Adaptive Signal Processing Techniques Anibal FIGUEIRAS-VIDAL - Polytechnic of Madrid, Madrid, Spain * Applications of DSP to Personal Communication Networks (PCN) Ramjee PRASAD - Delft Univ. of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands * The Use of DSP in Channel Estimation/Equalization and Modem Design Umberto MENGALI - University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy * Recent Applications of DSP Techniques Gregori VAZQUEZ-GRAU - Polytechnic of Cataluna, Barcelona, Spain ---------------------------------------------------------------- The venue: VIAREGGIO The city of Viareggio and the surrounding coastal area, the Versilia, spreads out on a wide territory from the luxuriant forest of Migliarino to Lido di Camaiore along the Tyrrhenian sea, close to the beautiful cities of Pisa and Lucca. The Hotel Astor is located on the sea front in the very heart of the Viareggio promenade. Most of the rooms overlook the sea, others face the wonderful setting of the Apuan Alps. All the rooms are furnished with good taste and provided with every modern comfort (TV, minibar, air-conditioning); it has spacious public rooms, an indoor heated swimming pool. ------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information, please contact the co-chairmen at the address above. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Barb Wheatley, wheatley@csc.ti.com IEEE SPS 1995 Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition IEEE Signal Processing Society 1995 Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition Snowbird, Utah December 10-13, 1995 Workshop Announcement and Call for Papers The fifth Automatic Speech Recognition Workshop sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society will be held at Snowbird, Utah, on December 10-13, 1995. The objective of the workshop is to review the state of the art, current issues, and future directions in automatic speech recognition. Topics include: Language Modeling (Beyond Static N-grams) Spoken Language Understanding Spontaneous Speech Recognition Next Generation Algorithms Robustness Multilanguage Recognition Application Developers' Needs The workshop will comprise plenary sessions focused on specific topics and poster sessions encompassing all aspects of automatic speech recognition. The plenary sessions will consist entirely of invited presentations, with ample opportunity for discussion. Submissions for the poster sessions are welcome; topics include but are not limited to the list above. Attendance at the Workshop will be limited to 130 people on a first come/first served basis and will be by both invitation and application. Priority will be given to those who make presentations. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a 2-page summary to the address below. Electronic submissions should be in postscript format. Submissions should include the title, authors' names, affiliations, address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address if any. Summaries accepted for presentation will be included in the Workshop Proceedings to be distributed at the workshop to all attendees. Prospective attendees are encouraged to register early, as space is limited. The workshop registration fee is U.S. $375 until July 15, 1995, and U.S. $425 after that date. The registration fee includes refreshments, all meals from Sunday evening through Wednesday noon, and a copy of the Workshop Proceedings. Payment must accompany registration and must be made in US dollars. Please make check payable to IEEE 95 ASR Workshop. Indicate with your registration if you intend to submit a summary for poster presentation. Please send registrations and poster session submissions to: Barbara Wheatley Texas Instruments P.O. Box 655474 MS 238 Dallas TX 75265 USA e-mail: wheatley@csc.ti.com phone: 214-995-0651 fax: 214-995-0304 Schedule: Preregistration deadline: July 15, 1995 Submission of 2-page summary: July 15, 1995 Notification of acceptance: August 31, 1995 All workshop sessions will be held at Snowbird Resort, Snowbird, Utah, located 29 miles from Salt Lake City. Participants should stay at the resort. A block of rooms has been reserved for December 9-13, and a special conference rate is available for December 7-15. Housing and airport shuttle arrangements should be made directly with the resort. Mention IEEE ASR Workshop to obtain conference rates. Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort Central Reservations 7350 Wasatch Blvd. Salt Lake City, UT 84121-9829 USA phone: 800-453-3000 fax: 801-742-3300 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Eduardo Sontag (sontag@hilbert.rutgers.edu) Call For Papers Workshop on Verification and Control of Hybrid Systems Sponsored by DIMACS and SYCON October 22-25, 1995 New Brunswick, New Jersey The fifth of a series of workshops on hybrid systems will be organized at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, from October 22 to October 25, 1995. The previous workshops of the series were organized in 1991 and 1994 in Ithaca, New York, in 1992 in Lyngby, Denmark, and in 1993 in Boston. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers from both computer science and control theory, and to advance the theory of hybrid systems and its applications to real-life problems. The 1995 workshop will be organized as a part of the DIMACS 1995-96 Special Year on Logic and Algorithms. DIMACS is a Science and Technology Center funded by the National Science Foundation, and the participating institutions are Rutgers University, Princeton University, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Bellcore. The co-sponsor of this workshop is SYCON, the Rutgers Center for Systems and Control. SYCON is a Rutgers University Center dedicated to research in control theory and closely associated topics. The four-day workshop will combine invited presentations with accepted submissions. Submissions are invited in all areas pertaining to the formal verification and control of hybrid systems, that is, systems in which digital devices interact with continuous objects. We are especially interested in methods bringing together in creative ways concepts from computer science and control theory. Topics include, but are not limited to, formal models and specification languages, algorithmic and deductive verification, control and optimization, simulation and testing, design and synthesis, complexity and decidability issues, probabilistic systems, automatic and interactive tools, experimental results and applications. Authors are requested to submit an extended abstract not exceeding twelve pages, either six hard copies or a postscript file to the address below. The abstract should start with a title page containing the title of the paper, each author's name and affiliation, the contact author's physical and e-mail addresses, and a one- or two-paragraph summary. The full versions of selected submissions will be published after the workshop as a volume of the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. There will be no registration fee for the workshop. Limited funds are available to cover the travel costs of students. Important Dates Submission deadline: July 26, 1995 Notification to acceptance: September 1, 1995 Workshop Organizing Committee Rajeev Alur (alur@research.att.com) Thomas A. Henzinger (tah@cs.cornell.edu) Eduardo Sontag (sontag@control.rutgers.edu) Submission Address Rajeev Alur 2D-144, AT&T Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA Email: alur@research.att.com (postscript only) Program Committee Rajeev Alur (AT&T Bell Labs, USA) Albert Benveniste (INRIA-IRISA, France) John Guckenheimer (Cornell University, USA) Thomas A. Henzinger (Cornell University, USA) Bruce Krogh (Carnegie Mellon Univ, USA) Amir Pnueli (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Peter Ramadge (Princeton University, USA) Shankar Sastry (Univ of California, Berkeley, USA) Fred B. Schneider (Cornell University, USA) Eduardo Sontag (Rutgers University, USA) Hector Sussmann (Rutgers University, USA) Joseph Sifakis (VERIMAG, Grenoble, France) DIMACS Special Year Organizing Committee Eric Allender (allender@cs.rutgers.edu) Robert Kurshan (k@research.att.com) Moshe Y. Vardi (vardi@cs.rice.edu) *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Rafal W Zbikowski FINAL CALL Neural Adaptive Control Technology Workshop: NACT I 18--19 May, 1995 University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK The first of a series of three workshops on Neural Adaptive Control Technology (NACT) will take place on May 18--19, 1995 in Glasgow, Scotland. This event is being organised in connection with a three-year European Union funded Basic Research Project in the ESPRIT framework. The project is a collaboration between Daimler-Benz Systems Technology Research, Berlin, Germany and the Control Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. The project is a study of the fundamental properties of neural network based adaptive control systems. Where possible, links with traditional adaptive control systems will be exploited. A major aim is to develop a systematic engineering procedure for designing neural controllers for non-linear dynamic systems. The techniques developed will be evaluated on concrete industrial problems from within the Daimler-Benz group of companies: Mercedes-Benz AG, Deutsche Aerospace (DASA), AEG and DEBIS. The project leader is Dr. Ken Hunt (Daimler-Benz) and the other principal investigator is Professor Peter Gawthrop (University of Glasgow). Call for Participation, Provisional Programme, registration form and hotel booking can be found as the PostScript files: call.ps Call for Participation proviso.ps Provisional Programme register.ps registration & hotel on the servers detailed below. -FTP server anonymous FTP to: ftp.mech.gla.ac.uk (130.209.12.14) directory: nact -World-Wide Web server http://www.mech.gla.ac.uk/~nactftp/nact.html WWW server provides a link to the FTP server. Rafal Zbikowski Control Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Glasgow University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK rafal@mech.gla.ac.uk *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Yu Hu FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------- 1995 International Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks December 18-20, 1995, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China Sponsored by National Chiao-Tung University in cooperation with Ministry of Education, Taiwan R.O.C. National Science Council, Taiwan R.O.C. IEEE Signal Processing Society Call for Papers ------------------ The third of a series of International Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks will be held at the National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan in December of 1995. Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following topics: Associative Memory Robotics Electrical Neurocomputers Sensation & Perception Image/Speech Processing Sensory/Motor Control Systems Machine Vision Supervised Learning Neurocognition Unsupervised Learning Neurodynamics Fuzzy Neural Systems Optical Neurocomputers Mathematical Methods Optimization Other Applications Prospective authors are invited to submit 4 copies of extended summaries of no more than 4 pages. All the manuscripts should be written in English with single-spaced, single column, on 8.5" by 11" white papers. The top of the first page of the summary should include a title, authors' names, affiliations, address, telephone/fax numbers, and email address if applicable. The indicated corresponding author will receive an acknowledgement of his/her submissions. Camera-ready full papers of accepted manuscripts will be published in a hard-bound proceedings and distributed at the symposium. For more information, please consult at the MOSAIC URL site http://www.ee.washington.edu/isann95.html, or use anonymous ftp from pierce.ee.washington.edu/pub/isann95/read.me (128.95.31.129). For submission from USA and Europe: Professor Yu-Hen Hu Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706-1691 Phone: (608) 262-6724, Fax: (608) 262-1267 Email: hu@engr.wisc.edu For submission from Asia and Other Areas: Professor Sin-Horng Chen Dept. of Communication Engineering National Chiao-Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan Phone: (886) 35-712121 ext. 54522, Fax: (886) 35-710116 Email: isann95@cc.nctu.edu.tw ************************* SCHEDULE ************************* Submission of extended summary: July 15 Notification of acceptance: September 30 Submission of photo-ready paper: October 31 Advanced registration, before: November 10 ORGANIZATIOIN General Co-Chairs Hsin-Chia Fu Jenq-Neng Hwang National Chiao-Tung University University of Washington Hsinchu, Taiwan Seattle, Washington, USA hcfu@csie.nctu.edu.tw hwang@ee.washington.ed Program Co-Chairs Sin-Horng Chen Yu-Hen Hu National Chiao-Tung University University of Wisconsin Hsinchu, Taiwan Madison, Wisconsin, USA schen@cc.nctu.edu.tw hu@engr.wisc.edu Advisory Board Co-Chair Sun-Yuan Kung C. Y. Wu Princeton University National Science Council Princeton, New Jersey, US Taipei, Taiwan, ROC *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: banka@we.tuniv.szczecin.pl and raf@ldhpux.immt.pwr.wroc.pl ANNOUNCING NEW CONFERENCE .... The Second International Symposium on METHODS AND MODELS IN AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS - MMAR'95 August 30 - September 2, 1995 Miedzyzdroje, Poland -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organized by: Institute of Control Engineering, Technical University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland Scope: The objective of the Symposium is to bring together scientists and engineers to present and discuss recent developments in the area of mathematical methods, modelling, simulation and identification in automation and robotics. This Symposium is the second event in a series which started in 1994 with the name MATHEMATICAL MODELS IN AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS. PLENARY SESSIONS: (P1) Some aspects of Recursive Least Squares and Self-Tuning A. Niederlinski (Poland) (P2) Automata and languages T. Puchalka and P. Siwak (Poland) (P3) Mechatronic Approach to Robotic Modelling. Software Engineering Perspective O. Ravn (Denmark) and M. Szymkat (Poland) INVITED SESSIONS: (S1) Infinite-dimensional systems Organized by H. Zwart (The Netherlands) 1. Semigroup Criteria of Admisibility P. Grabowski (Poland) and F. Callier (Belgium) 2. Optimal Control for Time-Varying Infinite Dimensional Systems B. Jacob (Germany) 3. Mathematical Control Theory for Problems Arizing in the Models of Smart Structures I. Lasiecka (USA) 4. Boundary Control of PDE's M. Pedersen (Denmark) 5. A Comparison between Approximate and Behavioral Controllability for Delay-Differential Systems P. Rocha (Portugal) 6. Interpolation Theory for Control of Infinite-Dimensional Systems H. Zwart (The Netherlands) (S2) Singular 2-D systems Organized by T. Kaczorek (Poland) 1. Infinite Dimensional Singular 2-D Systems J. Klamka (Poland) 2. Approximation of Digital Model for Continuous Linear 2-D System J. Kurek (Poland) 3. Pass Reachability of the Linear Discrete Repetitive Processes K. Galkowski (Poland), E. Rogers and D. Owens (UK) 4. Generating Functions: A New Method for the Computation of 2-Dimensional Transition Matrices N. E. Mastorakis (Greece) 5. N-dimensional Sampling As a Tool for Nonlinear Neurocontrol A. Dzielinski (Poland) 6. Two-Point Boundary Problem for 2-D Continuous-Discrete Linear Systems T. Kaczorek (Poland) 7. A Method for Determining n-Dimensional Parameter Tolerance Area for Optimal Start Controller of Induction Motors T. Niewierowicz (Poland) (S3) Recent developments in robotics Organized by K. Kozlowski (Poland) 1. Design of a man-machine interface in teleoperation: a real-virtual approach F. Chavand (France) 2. Dynamic identification and control of robotics manipulator M.Gautier (France) 3. Robot motion planning with path space iteration D. Popa and J. Wen (USA) 4. New concepts for mobile robot idoor navigation F. M. Wahl (Germany) 5. Motion space analysis and trajectory planning for dual-arm system W. Szynkiewicz and A. Gosiewski (Poland) 6. Avoidable and unavoidable kinematic singularities of robotic manipulators K. Tchon (Poland) 7. Features of robot drive system and their influence on dynamicd and control of the arm E. Jezierski (Poland) 8. Hybrid evolutionary approach to control of intelligent arm W. Jacak (Austria) and REGULAR SESSIONS on the following topics: (T1) Distributed parameter systems (7 papers) (T2) Stability and robust control systems (9 papers) (T3) 2-D systems (7 papers) (C1) Optimization methods (9 papers) (C2) Predictive and adaptive control (10 papers) (C3) Components and instrumentation in control engineering (7 papers) (D1) Operational, switching and discrete processes (10 papers) (N1) Neural networks and learning systems (11 papers) (N2) Neural networks and fuzzy logic applications (10 papers) (I1) Identification methods and algorithms (10 papers) (I2) Pattern recognition, diagnostics and fault detection (7 papers) (R1) Robot design and control (11 papers) (R2) Robot modelling and simulation (14 papers) (M1) Systems modelling and simulation I (10 papers) (M2) Systems modelling and simulation II (10 papers) All papers chosen for presentation will appear in the Preprints which will be distributed to the participants at the beginning of the Symposium and also offered for sale. The presented papers will be also considered for publication of their extended versions in the quarterly "Applied Mathematics and Computer Science", Zielona Gora, Poland Location of the Symposium: -------------------------- The Symposium will be held in Miedzyzdroje, a well-known seaside resort of North-Western Poland. The Meeting will take place at the Slavia Hotel situated a few meters from the Baltic beach and at walking distance from the Wolin National Park. The Hotel has conference facilities and can accommodate all participants at reasonable prices (180-280 ECU). Accomodation will be provided in single and double rooms, as well as in suites. Participants may also reserve accommodation in the Slavia Hotel after the Symposium. Activities: ----------- During the Symposium organized trips are planned to points of interest in the Miedzyzdroje area and a cruise to the Bornholm Island, Denmark, with a Symposium closing dinner on board will take place. In conjunction with the Symposium a scientific book-display and exhibition of computer equipment will be arranged. A Symposium banquet will be held for all participants *and accompanying persons. Registration fee: ----------------- The registration fee of the Symposium covering the costs of Symposium Proceedings, ferry trip to the Bornholm Island and banquet is 150 ECU. Deadlines: ---------- January 15, 1995 Submission of abstracts March 30, 1995 Notification of acceptance May 30, 1995 Submission of final papers July 15, 1995 Distribution of the final programme August 30, 1995 Start of the Symposium NOTICE After the Symposium a free coach transport to the Berlin airport will be provided for participants of the European Control Conference ECC'95 in Rome (September 5-8, 1995) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All correspondence should be sent to the Local Organizing Committee: Prof. Z. Emirsajlow - Chairman (Dr Roman Kaszynski - Co-Chairman) Institute of Control Engineering Technical University of Szczecin ul. Sikorskiego 37 70-313 Szczecin Poland Phone: (+48 91) 49 47 04, 49 47 37 Fax: (+48 91) 34 09 32 E-mail: emirsaj@uoo.univ.szczecin.pl ****************************************** * * * THE END * * * ******************************************