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IFAC SYMPOSIUM ON FAULT DETECTION, SUPERVISION AND 
SAFETY FOR TECHNICAL PROCESSES: SAFEPROCESS'97 
 
August 26 - 28, 1997 
Hull, United Kingdom 
 
Enquiry:       [email-masked] 
WWW pages:     http://www.enc.hull.ac.uk/EE/CONTROL/safe97.htm
 
Scope:  Reliability, availability and safety of technical processes and 
their control systems are important qualities.  These qualities are 
closely related both to the process and its control systems and they  
are addressed during design, start-up, operation, maintenance and  
repair. To ensure that a controlled process is reliable, always available 
 
and safe, it is necessary to perform condition monitoring, predictive  
maintenance and fault diagnosis, as well as ensuring the quality of the 
 
system components (the sensors, the actuators, the process control  
computers, etc.).  One of the main goals is to produce an early  
diagnosis (detection, isolation and identification) of faults, whilst they  
are incipient and hard to detect and isolate.  Another goal is to ensure 
 
that the process can tolerate faults through control system  
reconfiguration or by a graceful degradation of safe 
and stable closed-loop performance.  Human factors and  
human-machine interfaces are final links in the safe operation of  
technical processes. 
 
The goal for the Symposium is to bring together experts from different 
 
fields and applications, with the common interest of supervision,  
safety and fault tolerance of process and other engineering systems.   
The programme will consist of state-of-the art reviews, presentations  
of the new results, tutorials, discussion and application benchmark  
sessions.  An interdisciplinary approach is stressed in the themes.   
Organised Special Sessions are welcomed and sessions on Industrial  
and Laboratory Benchmark Problems will form an important part of  
the Special Sessions Programme.  There will be a continuing  
benchmark study based on the industrial actuator problem 
described at SAFEPROCESS `94 and in the Journal Control  
Engineering Practice Vol.3, No. 12, 1995 (Blanke, Patton et al.) 
 
Technical Topics 
 
A    Design for Reliability and Safety 
     A1   Reliability aspects in design 
     A2   Safety evaluation tools 
     A3   Probabilistic safety assessment applications 
     A4   Probabilistic safety criteria 
     A5   Reliability targets 
     A6   Inherently safe processes 
     A7   Reliability and safety analysis 
 
B    Fault Diagnosis (Detection, Isolation and 
     Identification) and System Supervision 
     B1   Fault modelling 
     B2   Signal analysis 
     B3   Quantitative model-based methods 
     B4   Qualitative model-based methods 
     B5   Statistic test and decision-making 
     B6   Pattern recognition 
 
C    Artificial Intelligence in Fault Diagnosis 
     C1   Qualitative reasoning 
     C2   Expert systems 
     C3   Fuzzy logic 
     C4   Artificial neural networks 
     C5   Neuro-fuzzy approaches 
 
D    On-line Fault-Tolerant Operation 
     D1   Fault prediction 
     D2   Construction of fault-tolerant systems 
     D3   On-line fault-tolerant operation 
     D4   Reconfigurable control systems 
 
E    Maintenance 
     E1   Predictive maintenance 
     E2   Reliability centred maintenance 
     E3   Maintenance and repair strategies 
     E4   Life-cycle cost considerations 
 
F    Human Factors 
     F1   The role of the human operator 
     F2   Human reliability analysis 
     F3   Industrial safety management and safety culture 
     F4   Economic, environmental and ecological 
          aspects of fault diagnosis 
     F5   Operator support systems 
     F6   Hypermedia applications 
 
G    Case Studies and Implementation Issues 
     G1   Electrical, mechanical and electronic systems 
     G2   Biomedical systems 
     G3   Chemical processes 
     G4   Power systems 
     G5   Nuclear plants 
     G6   Traffic and automotive systems 
     G7   Rail transportation systems 
     G8   Marine systems 
     G9   Aeronautical and aerospace systems 
     G10  Others 
 
H    Benchmarks 
 
Symposium Language: English is the working language of the  
Symposium. 
 
Venue:  The Symposium will be held at The University of Hull,  
Department of Electronic Engineering, approx. 3 miles from Hull  
Railway Station located at the City Centre.  Accommodation is  
provided at the University's very attractive "Lawns" residence facility, 
 
within 3 miles of the main University Campus.  Hull is close to many  
famous cultural and historic centres.  The timing of the symposium will 
 
be arranged for atendees to visit the historical city of York. 
 
Call for Contributed Papers:  4 copies of a well structured draft paper  
of 5-8 pages (about 1500-2400 words, 11/2-space typing) are invited.   
Draft papers should give an outline of the structure of the final paper  
and indicate clearly the merits of the new contributions and the  
relevance to the theme of the Symposium.  Further information about  
a number of issues concerning the symposium is available on  
http://www.enc.hull.ac.uk/EE/CONTROL/safe97.htm. 
Draft papers including 5 keywords and Classification (e.g. A1) and the  
full mail address with Telephone, Fax and E-mail, are to be sent by post 
 
to: 
 
          SAFEPROCESS'97 Secretariat 
          Department of Electronic Engineering 
          The University of Hull, 
          Hull, HU6 7RX, U.K. 
          Phone:      +44 14 82 46 51 33 
          Fax:        +44 14 82 46 60 06 
          email:      [email-masked] 
 
Deadlines 
 
Submission of draft papers         October 15, 1996 
Notification of acceptance         January 15, 1997 
Submission of full paper           April 15, 1997 
 
International Programme Committee (IPC) 
 
Patton R.J. (UK), Chair       Koivo H. (FI) 
Addi H. (USA)                 Korbicz J. (Pol) 
Albertos P. (ES)              Konig J. (D) 
Basseville M. (F)             Lautala P. (FI) 
Baturone O. (ES)              Leitch R. (UK) 
Blanke M. (DK)                Ljung L. (S) 
Bologna S. (I)                Magni J.F. (F) 
Brandt D. (D)                 Matsuyama H. (J) 
Cauvin S. (F)                 McAvoy T. (USA) 
Clark D. (UK)                 Milne R. (UK) 
Clark R.N. (USA)              Mitchell J. R. (USA) 
Daley S. (UK)                 Morris A.J. (UK) 
Dubuisson B. (F)              Ollero A. (ES) 
Filbert D. (D)                Perrin J. P. (F) 
Fleming P. (UK)               Ragot J. (F) 
Frank P.M. (D)                Rizzoni G. (USA) 
Gertler J. (USA)              Roberts P.D. (UK) 
Gissinger G.L. (F)            Soderstrom T. (S) 
Goodwin G. (AUS)              Speyer J. L. (USA) 
Halme A. (FI)                 Staroswiecki M. (F) 
Harris C J (UK)               Suski G. J. (USA) 
Himmelblau D. (USA)           Tersty nszki G. (H) 
Isaksson A.J. (S)             Tzafestas S. (G) 
Isermann R. (D)               Verbruggen H. B. (NL) 
Jiang J. (CAN)                Wach D. (D) 
Keviczky L. (H)               Walker B.K. (USA) 
Kiencke U. (D)                Zarrop M.B. (UK) 
Kinnaert M. (B)               Zhang H.Y. (PRC) 
 
National Organising Committee 
 
Daley S.            Chair 
Chen J.             Associate Editor 
Gilbert J. M        Publicity 
Henry M.            Industrial Liaison 
Millar P.           Industrial Liaison 
Montague G.         Co-sponsorship 
Patton R.J.         Editor 
Rodd M.G.           UKACC Representative 
 
Sponsors and Organiser 
 
SAFEPROCESS is a tri-ennial Symposium series of the International 
Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and is sponsored by the IFAC 
Technical Committee:  Fault Detection, Safety and Supervision of  
Technical 
Processes 
 
The following Technical Committees are co-sponsoring 
SAFEPROCESS `97: 
 
Algorithms & Architectures for Real-Time Control 
AI in Real-time Control       Chemical Process Control 
Marine Systems                Components & Instruments 
Aerospace                     Automotive Control 
Transportation Systems        Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles 
Safety of Computer Control Systems Social impact of Automation 
 
The Symposium is organised by: 
 
THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  HULL 
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

on behalf of: 
 
The United Kingdom Automatic Control Council (UKACC)
 - the IFAC National Member Organisation

IFAC Publication and Copyright Policy: 
 
The material submitted for presentation at SAFEPROCESS 
`97 must be original, not published or being considered 
elsewhere.  All papers accepted for publication will appear in 
the Pre-prints of the meeting which will be distributed to the 
participants.  Papers duly presented will be offered for sale, in 
the form of Postprint volumes, by Elsevier Science Ltd,  
Oxford, UK.  These will be further screened for possible 
publication in the IFAC journals Automatica and Control 
Engineering Practice. 
 
Copyright in material will be held by IFAC.  Authors will be sent 
a copyright transfer form.  Automatica and Control 
Engineering Practice and, after these, IFAC affiliated 
journals have priority access to all presented contributions.  
However, if the author is not contacted by an editor of these 
journals, by 1st December 1997, he/she is free to re-submit 
the material for publication elsewhere.  In this case, the 
paper must carry a reference to the IFAC Symposium 
SAFEPROCESS'97.