The 33rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Buena Vista Palace at Walt Disney World Resort
Lake Buena Vista, Florida
December 14-16, 1994

The IEEE CSS Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) is the annual meeting of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS). It is conducted in cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA). The thirty-third CDC will be held on December 14-16, 1994, with tutorial workshops preceding the conference on December 12, 13. The CDC will be held at the Buena Vista Palace hotel, near the Walt Disney World Resort, in Orlando, Florida. The conference will be an ideal occasion for attendees to bring their families to the holiday season decorations at Disney. The General Chairman of the Conference is Mike Masten of Texas Instruments. The Program Chairman is Harris McClamroch of the University of Michigan. The conference will include both contributed and invited sessions. Papers and sessions are hereby solicited in all aspects of the theory and application of systems involving decision, control, optimization and adaptation.

Call for contributed papers and invited sessions

Regular papers.

Regular papers describe completed work in some detail. Authors should submit seven (7) copies of the full paper for review. A regular conference paper may simultaneously be submitted for possible publication as a regular paper in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control if requested. Please consult the Information for Authors which appears on the back cover of most issues of the Transactions. Submissions must be received no later than MARCH 1, 1994, by the Editor for Conference Publications, Professor M. Peshkin, at the address indicated below. Submissions must follow the guidelines indicated below.

Short papers.

Short papers describe important recent results which require limited length for their development. Authors should submit four (4) copies of a 4-6 page detailed summary, including references, for review. Submissions must be received no later than MARCH 1, 1994, by Professor G. Yin, at the address indicated below. Submissions must follow the guidelines indicated below.

Invited sessions.

The Program Committee also solicits proposals for invited sessions. Session organizers should submit four (4) copies of proposals for invited sessions for review. Submissions should be received no later than MARCH 1, 1994, by the Program Chairman, Harris McClamroch, at the address indicated below. Submissions must follow the guidelines indicated below. Submissions of cohesive sessions focusing on new or emerging areas and/or sessions built around theme problems are particularly encouraged. Such session proposals will have priority over those of a classical or mainstream flavor. Proposals for invited sessions should contain the names, affiliations and complete mailing addresses of the session organizer(s), chairperson, co-chairperson and all authors, paper titles, abstracts, and detailed extended summaries of all papers. The organizers must include in the proposal: (1) a clear statement on the topic and the purpose of the session and (2) a description of how the papers form a cohesive, well-integrated exploration of the session topic. Detailed extended summaries, consisting of a minimum of 2000 words, covering all contributions of the paper in sufficient depth to permit an informed review, must be included for each paper in an invited session proposal.. The extended summaries should contain the submission information indicated below. The initial paper in an invited session can be a tutorial or survey paper, which can be allotted twice the usual time for presentation. Normally, the number of papers in an invited session is six. Proposals for technical sessions are invited which make use of demonstrations, video tapes, photographic materials and posters. The organizers of invited sessions may be contacted near June 1, 1994, concerning the tentative disposition of their sessions.

Submission and acceptance information.

Each submitted regular or short paper or extended summary must be headed with paper title, the names, affiliations and complete mailing addresses of all authors, a list of three (3) keywords, and the statement "33rd CDC". The first named author of each paper will be used for all correspondence unless otherwise requested; if possible an electronic mail address and fax number of the corresponding author should be included. Incomplete submissions or submissions by fax or electronic mail cannot be accepted. Final selection of papers will be announced in mid-July, 1994. Authors of all accepted papers will be provided with publication kits and instructions for preparation of manuscripts for the Proceedings. Authors will be requested to keep their manuscripts to six Proceedings pages (approximately 6000 words) or less for regular papers or two Proceedings pages (approximately 2000 words) or less for short papers. There will be a mandatory page charge for each additional Proceedings page. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the Conference to present their work. Authors of all accepted regular and short papers will be allocated twenty minutes for their presentations.

Address Information

Regular Papers: Prof. M. Peshkin, 33rd CDC; Mechanical Engr Dept; Northwestern University; 2145 Sheridan Road; Evanston, Ill 60208-3111; Phone: (708) 467-2666; Fax: (708) 491-3915; email: cdc@nwu.edu
Invited Sessions: Prof. N. H. McClamroch, 33rd CDC; Dept of Aerospace Engr; The University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2140; Phone: (313) 763-2355; Email: mcclamroch@um.cc.umich.edu
Short Papers: Prof. G. Yin, 33rd CDC; Dept of Mathematics; Wayne State University; Detroit, MI 48202; Phone: (313) 577-2496; Email: gyin@math.wayne.edu
General Information: Dr. M. Masten, 33rd CDC; 2309 Northcrest; Texas Instruments; Plano, TX 75075; Phone: (214) 462-3433; Fax: (214) 480-2405; Email: M.Masten@IEEE.ORG