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                 First Announcement and Call for Papers
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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).

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Program
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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.

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Call for Papers
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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).

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Important dates
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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.

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Conference information
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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.

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Organizing committee
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A list can be obtained at the workshop secretariat.

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Workshop secretariat
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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