First Announcement and Call for Papers

        International Federation of Automatic Control

                        SYSID'97

        11th IFAC Symposium on System Identification
                    8-11 July  1997
                     Fukuoka, Japan

Organized by
 Science Council of Japan
 Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)

Steering Committee:
  General  Chairman:  Y.Sawaragi (J)
  Members:
  M.Blanke (DK)   H.F.Chen (PRC)  K.Furuta (J)    L.Keviczky (H)
  S.Sagara (J)    T.Soderstrom(S) N.Suda (J)      B.Wahlberg (S)

Scope:

Following the tradition of previous symposia, SYSID'97,  the 11th IFAC
Symposium on System Identification, will bring together engineers, scientists
and mathematicians in the broad fields of system modelling and identification
from all over the world, under the sponsorship of the IFAC and the IFORS.
The scope of the symposium includes all aspects of system identification and
parameter/state estimation, from theoretical and methodological developments
to practical applications. The following list of topics is of obvious
relevance to the symposium:

- - Identifiability and convergence analysis;
- - Recursive identification;
- - State-space and subspace methods;
- - Frequency domain methods;
- - Nonparametric methods;
- - Identification with orthonormal basis functions and wavelets;
- - Fuzzy and neural network approaches;
- - Set membership identification;
- - Identification of uncertainty models;
- - Worst-case identification;
- - Control relevant identification;
- - Experiment-based controller tuning;
- - Adaptive control;
- - Applications of system identification to
        Nonlinear systems,  Large-scale systems,
        Distributed parameter systems,  Signal processing,
        Fault detection and isolation,
        Motion control systems,  Robot systems,
        Aerospace systems,  Industrial processes,
        Environmental systems,  Social and economical
        systems, Biological and medical systems, and
        Telecommunication systems.

Call for Contributed Papers:

Prospective authors are requested to submit four copies of  a draft paper to
the Secretariat. The draft paper should be enough elaborated to facilitate
the review process by the IPC.  Please consider that your  final paper will
be limited to six conference laysheets of length which is approximately 15
double-spaced A4 pages including tables and figures. Include on the front
page
the following information:
  1. Name and address of the corresponding author,
  2. Preference (if any) for a poster session or a lecture session,
  3. 4-10 Keywords.
Finally accepted contributions will be grouped into  Lecture Sessions or
Poster Sessions according to authors' preferences or the IPC decision.


Call for Invited Sessions:

The IPC is also soliciting proposals for Invited Sessions which are executed
in the Lecture or the Poster Session format.  Prospective organizers should
contact the IPC chairman and supply their suggestions and ideas as soon
as possible.  Each Invited session may be either a block of  six 20-minute
lectures or a 120-minute Poster Session including six to eight posters. The
proposal should contain the title and aim of the session and list of sub-
topics together with abstracts, the names, affiliations and addresses
(including fax, phone and e-mail) of speakers. All proposals should be
submitted to the SYSID'97 Secretariat by 30 April 1996, and will be reviewed
by the IPC.

Call for Software and Demonstration Sessions:

Computer software sessions will provide good  opportunities to experience and
evaluate the state-of-the-art in system identification. Software and
Demonstration Sessions will be organized for this purpose.  Those having
original research software, application software, or educational software can
demonstrate their software using posters and PCs/workstations in the
sessions.
The IPC is soliciting prospective organizers of Software and Demonstration
Sessions.

Deadlines:

Deadline for draft papers:        1      October        1996
Notification of authors:         15      January        1997
Deadline for final papers:        1      April          1997

Mailing Address:

SYSID'97 Secretariat:  Mrs. Y.Hayashi
Fukuoka Institute of Technology
3-30-1 Wajiro-higashi,  Higashi-ku
Fukuoka 811-02, Japan
Tel: (+81)-92-606-3131 (Ext.3183)
Fax: (+81)-92-606-1342
e-mail: y-hayashi@dw.ee.fit.ac.jp

For additional information, please contact
IPC Chairman at the above address
or by e-mail(ssagara@dw.ee.fit.ac.jp).

Information about SYSID'97 will also be available from
WWW:  http://dnksun5.dw.ee.fit.ac.jp:80/IFAC/