E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing
ISSUE No. 127, March 1, 1999.
E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing
ISSUE No. 127, March 1, 1999
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 40 246 5995
Siep Weiland
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
the Netherlands
Fax +31 40 243 4582
Contents
1. Editorial
2. Personals
3. General announcements
3.1 Encryption option now available at preprint archive
3.2 TMR Nonlinear control network
3.3 NICONET Newsletter 2 and NICONET E-letter
4. Positions
4.1 Full time professor position Eindhoven University
4.2 Professor position applied math. Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Inst.
4.3 Ph.D. Studenships in Control, Pytechnic Univ., New York
4.4 Postdoc in Control, University of California, San Diego
4.5 Position research associate in control, Univ. of Leicester
4.6 Control Faculty Position in Canberra Australia
4.7 Postdoctoral fellowship positions Missouri-Kansas
4.8 Postdoctoral research position, Princeton University
5. Books
5.1 Errare humanum est...
5.2 "Complexity and Information", Traub and Werschulz
5.3 CFP series "Computational Mathematics and Applications"
5.4 "High-level feedback control with neural networks", Kim & Lewis.
5.5 "Mathematical Methods for Stabilization of Dynamical Systems",
Zubov and Zubov
6. Journals
6.1 Editorial change ELA
6.2 TOC LAA Vol. 286, 288 and 290, issues 1-3
6.3 TOC Control Engineering Practice, Vol.7:1
6.4 TOC EJC, Vol. 1.99
6.5 TOC Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 12:1
7. Conferences
7.1 CFP Symposium on Quantitative Feedback Theory
7.2 CFP 11th Haifa Matrix theory conference
7.3 CFP 3rd IMACS-IEEE CSCC.
7.4 CFP IEE Workshop on Model Predictive Control
7.5 CFP MTNS-2000
7.6 CFP session on Teaching Mechatronics
7.7 CFP NSF Workshop on Control of Flows
7.8 CFP ICASSP-99
7.9 CFP IEEE Conference on Information, Intelligence and Systems
7.10
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Contributed by: Thomas Fliegner
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
Please, note my new address (since September 1998)
Thomas Fliegner
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY, UK
Tel: +44-(0)1225-826891
Internet E-mail: T.Fliegner@maths.bath.ac.uk
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Contributed by: Datta Godbole
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
Please note that I have moved from the PATH program at U. C. Berkeley
to Honeywell Technology Center.
My new coordinates are:
Datta Godbole,
Honeywell Technology Center,
MN65-2810,
3660 Technology Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55418
Tel: 612-951-7035,
Fax: 612-951-7438
godbole_datta@htc.honeywell.com
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Contributed by: Eduardo Sontag
Encryption option now available at preprint archive
As mentioned in last month's Eletter, the Los Alamos preprint archives added a
"Control and Optimization" category.
Unfortunately, and somewhat embarrassingly for those of us who had lobbied
to get control theory to be recognized as an official subject area, few
people have placed their papers there. Perhaps the public availability of
TeX sources has been a factor discouraging some people from submitting.
The administrators have just added an option which allows encryption of TeX
sources. So now there is no excuse not to send your papers to the archive.
Please do so, and tell your colleagues and students too! The archives provide
an excellent way to make control research available to everyone, including
search engines, and to "time stamp" your work. Even if a paper is submitted
to a conference or to a journal, it is very useful to have it online.
Please see:
http://xxx.lanl.gov/help/quickstart
for instructions (access also available from www.theorem.net/control.html).
You will want to use the "math.OC" category for "Optimization and Control".
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Contributed by: Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue
TMR contract of the European Community
NONLINEAR CONTROL NETWORK
http://www.supelec.fr/lss/NCN
The NCN Web site contains information about the various actions of the network
and many updated links concerning other international Nonlinear Control activities.
Network Board
* Dirk Aeyels, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
* Alfonso Banos, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
* Fritz Colonius, Universitat Augsburg, Germany
* Alberto Isidori, Universita di Roma, Italy
* Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue (coordinator), CNRS, France
* David H. Owens, University of Exeter, England
* Arjan J. van der Schaft, University of Twente, Netherlands
* Fatima Silva Leite, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
* John Tsinias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
In the framework of this project young researchers (Post-docs and Ph.D.
students) can be appointed. These researchers will work with, and can
be employed by, one of the previous partners. Potential candidates may
contact the network coordinator or any Permanent member of the
Nonlinear Control Network.
Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue
Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes,
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
Address: LSS, CNRS
SUPELEC
91190 Gif-sur-Yvette
FRANCE
Phone : (33) 1 69 85 17 27
Fax : (33) 1 69 41 30 60
e-mail: lamnabhi@lss.supelec.fr
http://www.supelec.fr/lss/fr/personnels/lamnabhi
http://www.supelec.fr/lss/NCN (Nonlinear Control Network)
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Contributed by: A.J.W. v.d.Boom
NICONET Newsletter 2 and NICONET E-letter 2 have appeared.
The NICONET Newsletter informs you about the evolution of the SLICOT library
and other NICONET activities related to CACSD software developments.
The Newletter can be accessed at:
http://www.win.tue.nl/wgs/newslet.html
Contents of NICONET Newsletter 2:
1. Editorial
2. New developments in the SLICOT benchmark library
3. Basic numerical SLICOT tools for control
4. SLICOT tools for model reduction
5. SLICOT tools for subspace identification
6. SLICOT tools for robust control
7. SLICOT tools for nonlinear systems in robotics
8. An introduction to the CACSD software package Scilab
9. SLICOT: a usuful tool in industry?
10. Highlights of the first NICONET workshop in Valencia, Spain
11. NICONET information corner
NICONET E-letter 2 has appeared too. This E-letter 2 reports on the
activities
of the EU sponsored Thematic Network project NICONET and the publications
in this project during the period October to December 1998.
The NICONET E-letter 2 can be accessed at:
http://www.win.tue.nl/wgs/
or via anonymous ftp from:
wgs.esat.kuleuven.ac.be./pub/WGS/E-LETTER/E-issue-2.Z
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Contributed by: B.A. Cornelissen
Full-time Professor for the chair of Signal Processing Systems (m/f)
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Eindhoven University of
Technology comprises approximately 200 staff members and 600 students.
The educational curriculum and research programme are provided by four
groups: Electrical Power Engineering, Information and Communication
Systems, Measurement and Control Systems and Telecommunication Technology
and Electromagnetics. The Faculty has a vacancy for a full-time professor
in the Measurement and Control Systems group, which includes the chairs
Electromechanics and Power Electronics and Measurement and Control.
Information about the position
You will be responsible for education and research within the chair of
Signal Processing Systems, and in particular for the fundamentals and
applications of signal processing. Strong emphasis will lie on modern signal
specifications, implementation of algorithms for digital signal processors or
other adapted architectures, and signal representation with respect to people
and network theory. In addition to knowledge of the fundamental areas already
mentioned, knowledge of applications, preferably of physiological systems,
is also required. Your research within the chair must be finely tuned to that
of three Associate Professors in the sub-fields of mixed signal representa-
tions, adaptive signal processing and clinical automation. Your group
provides lectures for the Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Technology
study programmes.
It is expected that you will have broad international scientific, and where
possible industrial experience in a substantial part of the field outlined
above, backed-up by articles published in relevant scientific journals. You
will be responsible for your chair, which consists of approximately 6
scientific personnel and five supporting staff members. One of your tasks
will be the recruitment and supervision of PhD. students. You will also be
required to participate in the research schools COBRA (Communication
Technology Basic Research & Applications) and/or DISC (Dutch Institute of
Systems and Control) and/or EESI (Eindhoven Embedded Systems Institute).
You will also be expected to participate in the management of the Faculty of
Electrical Engineering as a whole.
Requirements
A technical-academic education and PhD. are essential. You must possess
excellent didactic and leadership qualities. An effective network is
essential and you must be able to secure funding from both government and
industrial sources for projects which you will supervise and manage.
Further Information
About the position:
Prof. dr. ir. P.P.J. van den Bosch,
040-2473760/2472300,
E-mail: P.P.J.v.d.Bosch@tue.nl
General information:
Mrs. Y. van der Veer,
040-2474796,
E-mail: Y.v.d.Veer@tue.nl
Application
Please send your application in writing, accompanied by a complete Curriculum
Vitae and list of publications to G.H. Pasmans, Manager, Faculty of
Electrical Engineering, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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Contributed by: Peder Thusgaard Ruhoff (ptr@mip.ou.dk)
ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS (AUTOMATIC CONTROL)
A position as assistant/associate professor in Applied Mathematics is vacant
at the The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute for Production Technology at
University of Southern Denmark, Main Campus: Odense University. It is
anticipated that the successful applicant will take up the position on 1
August 1999 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Applications are invited from applied mathematics or engineering Ph.D.'s for
this position. The department is particularly interested in applicants with
research interests in the field of automatic control. The successful candidate
will be expected to participate in undergraduate and graduate teaching in
control theory within the departments's Applied Mathematics programme.
Applicants who have completed their Ph.D. more than 5 years prior to
appointment to the position will normally not be considered for the position
as assistant professor. An applicant who feels that this 5-year rule should
be disregarded on the basis of special circumstances must state this
explicitly in the application.
The application must include the following: 1) A curriculum vitae including
previous teaching experience; 2) A list of all publications, indicating which
publications are most relevant for the position; 3) Copies of all relevant
publications; 4) A list of all enclosures. All enclosures must be numbered,
stated the applicant's name, and be assembled in sets.
Applications will be assessed by a committee. The applicants will receive the
evaluation about themselves.
Appointment to the position will be in accordance with the salary agreement
between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional
Associations.
Further information can be obtained by contacting
Professor John Perram
University of Southern Denmark, Main Campus: Odense University
phone: (+45) 6315 7111
e-mail: jperram@mip.ou.dk
Please send 3 copies of the application, marked "Position No. 993003" to:
Det Naturvidenskabelige og Tekniske Fakultetssekretariat, Syddansk
Universitet, Odense Universitet, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.
The closing date is 3 May 1999, 12:00.
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Contributed by: Z. P. Jiang
Ph.D. Studenships in Control
Department of Electrical Engineering
Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York
TA or RA opportunities exist in our Department to attract
students with outstanding track records to do research towards
a PhD degree in the general area of nonlinear control and applications.
Any students with good analytical and computer skills are encouraged to
apply. Check the home page of the Dept (http://www.poly.edu) for the details
about the courses and application forms.
Additional info can be obtained by sending an e-mail to
Dr. Jiang
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Contributed by: M. Krstic
Postdoc in Control of Nonlinear Distributed Parameter Systems
University of California, San Diego
Applications are invited from mathematicians or mathematically
inclined engineers and physicists to work on problems of
stabilization of nonlinear distributed parameter systems with
Professor Miroslav Krstic. The types of expertise of interest
include: analysis of well posedness of nonlinear PDEs, Lyapunov
theory, and numerical methods/CFD. Applications motivating
the work are in the area of control of flow instabilities. The position
is for one year with possibility of extension subject to research
progress and availability of funds.
Before applying, candidates are encouraged to e-mail to Prof. Krstic
a detailed curriculum vitae with names of at least three persons
who will provide letters of reference. If sufficient match of interests
exists, the full application will include the letters plus the
candidate's
representative articles. For contact coordinates, see the web page
http://www-ames.ucsd.edu/research/krstic/
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Contributed by: Professor Ian Postlethwaite,
The University of Leicester, Department of Engineering
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE IN CONTROL
The Research Associate will work on a 3 year EPSRC funded project
which aims to develop new design methods for the conditioning of
controllers to overcome the problems of actuator saturation.
Candidates should have, or be completing, a PhD in control or a
related subject. Salary: # 15,735 to # 23,651 pa.
Research Associate: further particulars and application forms are
available, by quoting the reference R9025, from the Personnel
Office (Appointments), University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH. Tel: 0116 2523 2439. Closing date: 12 March
1999.
EPSRC PROJECT STUDENTSHIP
The Project Student will work on the same project as the RA and will
register for a PhD in the general area of Control with Input
Constraints. Candidates should have or be expecting a first class
or 2.1 honours degree in a relevant subject.
Project Student: CV including the names and addresses of two referees
to Professor Ian Postlethwaite, University of Leicester, University
Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH. Closing date: 12 April 1999.
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Contributed by: Ian Petersen
Control Faculty Position in Canberra Australia
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE ACADEMY
School of Electrical Engineering
Senior Lecturer/Lecturer
Applications are invited for this position from suitably qualified
personnel in the field of electrical engineering. The School of Electrical
Engineering is one of twelve Schools at University College which form a
campus of the University of New South Wales. Located at the Australian
Defence Force Academy, the school provides undergraduate courses in
electrical engineering to midshipmen, officer cadets and officers of the
Australian Defence Force. Postgraduate courses are offered to civilian and
defence personnel, including postgraduate coursework programs and the
supervision of research masters and PhD degrees. The School also provides a
number of technology awareness courses for defence personnel. Active
research programs are maintained in the areas of control, robotics,
image/video coding and transmission, image processing and interpretation,
remote sensing, radar and electromagnetic engineering, mobile
communications, antenna arrays, optoelectronics, laser applications and
electronic materials. Many of these projects are supported by bodies like
the Australian Research Council. The successful applicant will be expected
to undertake an active research program and to attract external funding to
support their research.
The position is available at either the lecturer or senior lecturer level
depending on the teaching and research experience of the successful
applicant. The position is available from July 1999. The School is looking
to appoint a staff member who has the ability and willingness to deliver
undergraduate and postgraduate coursework subjects in the area of both
control and power & machines.
A successful applicant would be expected to have: a PhD or equivalent in
electrical engineering or a related field; demonstrated achievement in
research; an ability and willingness to undertake an active research
program and to contribute to research in at least one of the School's
current research programs; an ability and willingness to teach at all
levels and in a range of topics within the School's teaching program if
required; an ability and willingness to contribute to aspects of School
administration and to serve on University College committees; an ability to
communicate well in English both orally and in writing; a knowledge and
understanding of the principles of EEO/AA and OH&S practices and
procedures.
It would be desirable for the successful applicant to have: the ability to
contribute to the School's research program in at least one of the areas of
control and robotics, communications or image/video coding and processing;
an ability to contribute to the School's teaching program in at least one
of the areas of radar and electromagnetics, guided weapons, avionics or
systems engineering; a demonstrated record of quality teaching at the
university level.
Membership of an approved University superannuation scheme is a condition
of employment of this position. For further information including selection
criteria for this position, please contact the Head of School Professor
John Arnold on telephone +61 2 6268 8212, fax +61 2 6268 8443 or email
j-arnold@adfa.edu.au.
Salary: Lecturer $AUD 48,678 - $57.806 per annum
Senior Lecturer $AUD 59,629 - $68,757 per annum
Applications will close on 19 March 1999. Please quote Ref Z200.019.
Written applications addressing the selection criteria and including
details of work experience, qualifications, contact number (business/home),
citizenship status and the names and addresses, including facsimile numbers
of at least two referees should be forwarded to: Recruitment Officer
(Personnel), University College, University of New South Wales, Australian
Defence Force Academy, Northcott Drive, Canberra, ACT 2600. For
confirmation of receipt of applications telephone +61 2 6268 8726.
UNSW is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a smoke free workplace.
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Contributed by: Prof. Khosrow Sohraby
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP POSITIONS
Computer Science Telecommunications at the University of Missouri-Kansas
City invites applications for number of postdoctoral fellowship positions.
We are looking for excellent candidates in the following broad areas:
-Design and Analysis of High-Speed Computer and Communications Networks
-Wireless Networks
-Parallel, Distributed and Large-Scale Computations Applied to Design and
Analysis of Communications Networks
The successful candidate should have a Ph.D in EE, CS, Applied Mathematics
or related areas. The expected starting date will be as soon as possible.
For more information, please contact:
Prof. Khosrow Sohraby
Computer Science Telecommunications
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Rd.
Kansas City, MO 64110
Tel: 816-235-2361
FAX: 816-235-5159
E-Mail: sohraby@cstp.umkc.edu
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Contributed by: Minh Q. Phan (mqphan@princeton.edu)
POST-DOCTORAL POSITION
The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering invites applications
for a post-doctoral position in system identification and intelligent control
and optimization. A Ph.D. degree in engineering or applied physical sciences
is required. Candidates with balanced knowledge in theory and application
of linear and nonlinear system identification, control, intelligent agent
design, neural networks, computational learning, and other aspects of
artificial intelligence are sought. Interested applicants should send
their vita, related publications, and a list of references as soon as possible to:
Prof. Minh Q. Phan
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
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Contributed by: Yair Censor and Stavros Zenios
Errare humanum est...
We proudly announce that our tireless efforts to publish the "first ever
published book without errors" have failed....
For the benefit of the readers of our book (see full publication details
below) we installed an Errata list at the following internet site:
http://www.ucy.ac.cy/ucy/pba/zenios/bookinfo.html
We would be grateful to anyone bringing to our attention further errors,
typos, or omissions of credits and references. We will gladly post those
on the page.
Yair Censor and Stavros Zenios
P.S. If you wish a .ps file of the Errata list e-mailed to you please send
a request to: yair@mathcs2.haifa.ac.il
PARALLEL OPTIMIZATION : THEORY, ALGORITHMS, AND APPLICATIONS
By Yair Censor and Stavros A. Zenios,
A volume in the series: "Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computation",
Oxford University Press, New York, 1997.
Hardcover, 576 pages, ISBN 0-19-510062-X.
For information on the book, including Title Page, Foreword, Preface,
Organization of the Book, Suggested Course Outlines, Acknowledgements,
and Ordering Instructions, please visit the publisher on the internet at
http://www.oup-usa.org/gcdocs/gc_019510062X.html
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Contributed by: Art Werschulz
COMPLEXITY AND INFORMATION
J. F. TRAUB
Columbia University and Santa Fe Institute
A. G. WERSCHULZ
Fordham University and Columbia University
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Simultaneous publication in hard and soft cover as part of the
series Lezioni Lincee, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
The twin themes of computational complexity and information pervade
this book. The authors begin with an introduction to the computational
complexity of continuous mathematical models, that is, information-based
complexity. This is used to illustrate a variety of topics, including
breaking the curse of dimensionality, complexity of path integration,
solvability of ill-posed problems, the value of information in computation,
assigning values to mathematical hypotheses, and new, improved methods for
mathematical finance.
The style is informal, and the goals are exposition, insight and motivation.
A comprehensive bibliography is provided, to which readers are referred for
precise statements of results and their proofs. As the first introductory
book on the subject it will be invaluable to the many students and
researchers whose disciplines are influenced by the computational complexity
of continuous problems.
CONTENTS
Preface
Part One: Fundamentals
1 Introduction
2 Information-Based Complexity
3 Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality
Part Two: Some Interesting Topics
4 Very High-Dimensional Integration and Mathematical Finance
5 Complexity of Path Integration
6 Are Ill-Posed Problems Solvable?
7 Complexity of Nonlinear Problems
8 What Model of Computation Should Be Used by Scientists?
9 Do Impossibility Theorems from Formal Models Limit
Scientific Knowledge?
10 Complexity of Linear Prgramming
11 Complexity of Verification
12 Complexity of Implementation Testing
13 Noisy Information
14 Value of Information in Computation
15 Assigning Values to Mathematical Hypotheses
16 Open Problems
17 A Brief History of Information-Based Complexity
Part three: References
18 A Guide to the Literature of IBC
Bibliography
Author index
Subject index
Hardback 0-521-48005-1 US$54.95 UK L35.00
Paperback 0-521-48506-1 US$19.95 UK L12.95
This book can be ordered online:
* It can be conveniently ordered from Cambridge University Press via
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~traub
* It can also be ordered through amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com
It can, of course, be obtained through your bookstore.
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Contributed by: George Anastassiou
Dear Colleaques Hi!
I, George Anastassiou, have been appointed a KLUWER/PLENUM publishers
book series Editor for the new book series "Computational Mathematics
and Applications"(CMAA). This series basically intends to publish high
quality strictly refereed books in all of Mathematics and their
applications including Probability, Stochastic Processes and Statistics,
EXCEPT OF PURE MATHEMATICS. SO THIS MESSAGE IS TO CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSALS
AND MANUSCRIPTS.
The books we will consider should be in one of the following groups:
upper level undergraduate,graduate level,research level.
We intend to publish texts,monographs,proceedings of conferences,
handbooks and compilations of papers.
The published books will be suitable for
students,researchers,libraries in Mathematical
Sciences,Engineering,etc.
Interested potential authors should send 3 hard copies of their book
proposal(about 10 pages) or 2 hard copies of their book in final
form(at least 125 printed pages),along with 2 discs with book content
to
Dr.George Anastassiou
Department of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Memphis
Memphis,TN 38152
USA
Tel (901) 678-3144 office
(901) 678-2482 secretary
(901) 678-2480 FAX
(901) 371-9752 home
e-mail anastasg@hermes.msci.memphis.edu
http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~anastasg/anlyjour.htm
Book manuscripts should be typed in any of the TEX,LATEX,AMS-TEX,AMS-
LATEX different versions.It would be much easier for the publishers
and authors, if authors follow the Kluwer typing style file,which is
among others Latex 2.09.To get it please write to
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The authors should provide us a list of 6 possible referees to
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SERGEY V. ZUBOV, NICKOLAY V. ZUBOV
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The ELECTRONIC Journal of LINEAR ALGEBRA (ELA) is happy to announce the
appointment of five new advisory editors and three new associate editors.
The new advisory editors are:
Richard A. Brualdi
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Journal: Linear Algebra and Its Applications
ISSN : 0024-3795
Volume : 286
Issue : 1-3
Date : 17-Dec-1998
pp 1-17
Infima of hilbert space effects
T Moreland, S Gudder
pp 19-35
Ambiguity resistant polynomial matrices
GUANGCAI Zhou, XIANGGEN Xia
pp 37-44
Products of diagonalizable matrices over a field of characteristic
two
JD Botha
pp 45-68
Restrictions on implicit filtering techniques for orthogonal
projection methods
G De Samblanx
pp 69-85
Construction and decoding of BCH codes over finite commutative rings
AA De Andrade
pp 87-106
A Young-Eidson's type algorithm for complex p-cyclic SOR spectra
S Galanis, A Hadjidimos
pp 107-133
Convex convertible cones of matrices-a unified framework for the
equations of Sylvester, Lyapunov and Riccati
I Lewkowicz
pp 135-148
Time-varying discrete Riccati equation:some monotonicity results
G Freiling
pp 149-173
Geometric proofs of some theorems of Schur-Horn type
RS Leite, C Tomei
pp 175-186
On normal affine semigroups
JC Rosales
pp 187-196
A generalization of Sourour's theorem
EW Ellers
pp 197-208
A conjecture concerning strongly connected graphs
BINYAMIN Schwarz
pp 209-221
Some inequalities for singular values and eigenvalues of generalized
schur complements of products of matrices
J Liu
pp 223-259
Inversion of a generalized block loewner matrix, the minimal partial
realization, and matrix rational interpolation problem
GN Chen
pp 261-272
Schur norms of bicirculant matrices
M Hladnik
pp 273-285
The Holens-Dokovic conjecture on permanent fails!
IM Wanless
pp 287-295
On matrix groups with finite spectrum
G Cigler
pp 297-301
Norm inequalities for Cartesian decompositions
XINGZHI Zhan
pp 303-309
Right eigenvalues for quaternionic matrices: A topological approach
A Baker
pp 311-321
Some linear preserver problem on B(H) concerning rank an corank
L Molnar
pp 323-324
Author index vol. 286
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Journal: Linear Algebra and Its Applications
ISSN : 0024-3795
Volume : 288
Issue : 1-3
Date : 01-Feb-1999
pp 1-10
Positive definite completions and determinant maximization
W Glunt, TL Hayden
pp 11-22
On constructing matrices with prescribed singular values and diagonal
elements
MOODYT Chu
pp 23-33
Trace form preservers
DB Shapiro
pp 35-43
Hadamard inverses, square roots and products of almost semidefinite
matrices
RB Reams
pp 45-51
Forme de Jordan des extensions d'operateurs lineaires (probleme de
Carlson) et sous-espaces reduisants minimaux contenant un sous-espace
donne
BERNARD Charles
pp 53-73
Matrix majorization
G Dahl
pp 75-88
Structured backwards errors for KKT systems
JG Sun
pp 89-104
Commutativity preserving linear maps and lie automorphisms of
triangular matrix algebras
LW Marcoux
pp 105-121
A matrix Euclidian algorithm induced by state space realisation
BM Allen
pp 123-148
The Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation problems and power moment problems
for matrix-valued functions
GONGNING Chen
pp 149-173
Sub-direct sums and positivity classes of matrices
SM Fallat
pp 175-186
On the numerical solution of a nonlinear matrix equation in Markov
Chains
CHUNHUA Guo
pp 187-198
On the contribution of cardinalities of row space of Boolean matrices
L Zhong
pp 199-210
S-subunitvariant norms
B Lavric
pp 211-217
Maximum rank matrix completion
JF Geelen
pp 219-228
Estimation of the mean and the covariance matrix under a marginal
independence assumption- an application of matrix differential
calculus
E Cramer
pp 229-241
Exponents of indecomposability
J Shen, DA Gregory
pp 243-247
Remarque sur l'approximation positive contractante
S Cherki
pp 249-258
Applications of vector bundles to factorization of rational matrices
V Lomadze
pp 259-267
On a conjecture of Fiedler and Markham
XUERONG Yong
pp 269-281
Finite rank Hankel operators on the polydisk
C Gu
pp 283-292
The numerical range of products of normal matrices
SW Drury
pp 293-312
Computation of formal fundamental solutions
W Balser
pp 315-316
Author index
NOTE:
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Journal: Linear Algebra and Its Applications
ISSN : 0024-3795
Volume : 289
Issue : 1-3
Date : 01-Mar-1999
Seventh Special Issue on Linear Algebra and Statistics
Special Editors: S.PUNTANEN, G.P.H.STYAN, H.J.WERNER
pp 1-2
Preface
pp 3-24
Improved biased estimation in an ANOVA model
SE Ahmed
pp 25-39
Mimimax adjustment technique and fuzzy information
BF Arnold
pp 41-54
Monte Carlo estimates of the log determinant of large sparse matrices
RP Barry
pp 55-74
Linear restrictions, rank reduction, and biased estimation in linear
regression
JS Chipman
pp 75-94
Spherical functions on the Grassmann manifold and generalized Jacobi
polynominals-Part 1
AW Davis
pp 95-119
Spherical functions on the Grassmann manifold and generalized Jacobi
polynominals-Part 2
AW Davis
pp 121-126
A class of statistical estimators related to principal components
RW Farebrother
pp 127-130
Solution to a rank equation
J Gross
pp 131-134
Explicit solutions to the matrix inverse problem AX=B
J Gross
pp 135-139
Idempotency of the Hermitian part of a complex matrix
J Grob
pp 141-150
On the product of orthogonal projectors
J Grob
pp 151-160
A note on the rank-subtractivity ordering
J Gross
pp 161-168
Partial orderings, preordenings, and the polar decomposition of
matrices
J Gross
pp 169-182
On semi-orthogonality and a special class of matrices
J Gross
pp 183-201
Frechet distance as a tool for diagnosing multivariate data
ALIS Hadi, H Nyquist
pp 203-224
Use of the Gibbs sampler to invert large, possible sparse, positive
definite matrices
DA Harville
pp 225-242
Changes in the general linear model: a unified approach
SR Jammalamadaka
pp 243-259
The Marcus-de Oliveira conjecture, bilinear forms, and cones
A Kovacec
pp 261-266
A note on the parameter set for factor analysis models
WP Krijnen
pp 267-277
Matrix results on the Khatri-Rao and Tracy-Singh products
S Liu
pp 279-284
Simultaneous polar decomposition of rectangular complex matrices
A Markiewicz
pp 285-296
Softly unbiased estimation part 1: the Gauss-Markov model
B Schaffrin
pp 297-310
On oblique projectors
Y Takane
pp 311-318
Some new results on correlation-preserving factor scores prediction
methods
JMF Ten Berge
pp 319-332
The perturbed nonhomogeneous Markov systems
PCG Vassiliou
pp 333-342
Two-way selection of covariables in multivariate growth curve models
SG Wangi, T Nummi
pp 343-344
Author index to volume 289
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Journal: Linear Algebra and Its Applications
ISSN : 0024-3795
Volume : 290
Issue : 1-3
Date : 12-Mar-1999
pp 1-22
Real quadratic flexible division algebras
JA Cuenca Mira, A Rochdi
pp 23-29
On local w-uniqueness of solutions to linear complementarity problem
SONG Xu
pp 31-48
Singular numbers of contractions in spaces with an indefinite metric
and Yamamoto's theorem
A Ben-Artzi
pp 49-59
The relationship between the class u_2(R,S) of (0,1,2)-matrices and
the collection of constellation matrices
SUMEI Hou
pp 61-94
Extending the notions of companion and infinite companion to matrix
polynomials
M Van Barel, V Ptak
pp 95-108
Index of Hadamard multiplication by positive matrices
D Stojanoff
pp 109-118
A fixed point theorem and a norm inequality for operator means
JS Aujla
pp 119-134
Generalized inversion of finite rank Hankel and Toeplitz operators
with rational matrix symbols
VM Adukov
pp 135-144
An inequality for non-negative matrices
MW Wang, J Shallit
pp 145-166
The contragredient equivalence: application to solve some matrix
systems
P Rubio
pp 167-191
Mappings preserving spectrum and commutativity on Hermitian matrices
T Petek
pp 193-212
The symmetric inverse m-matrix completion problem
CHR Johnson, RL Smith
pp 213-235
The realization graph of a degree sequence with majorization gap 1 is
hamiltonian
AR Arikati, UN Peled
pp 237-246
On some properties of p-matrix sets
YOO Song, SEETHARAMA Gowda
pp 247-255
A bound for the condition of a hyperboic eigenvector matrix
I Slapnicar, K Veselic
pp 257-266
Irreducible matrices with reducible principal submatrices
D London
pp 267-273
resolving infeasibility inextremal algebras
K Cechlarova
pp 275-301
Eigenvalue interlacing and weight parameters of graphs
MA Fiol
pp 303-303
Author index to volume 290
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Contributed by: g.irwin@ee.qub.ac.uk
IFAC Journal: Control Engineering Practice
CONTENTS
Volume : 7, No : 1 1999
pp 1-10
Advanced control of superheater steam temperatures-an evaluation based on
practical applications
T Moelbak
pp 11-26
Validation of drum boiler models through complete dynamic tests
A Leva, C Maffezzoni, G Benelli
pp 27-40
Dynamic interactions between power plants and power systems
E Welfonder
pp 41-47
Active suspension of passenger cars using linear and fuzzy-logic controls
T Yoshimura, K Nakaminami, M Kurimoto, J Hino
pp 49-55
Sensor fault diagnosis in a chemical process via RBF neural networks
DL Yu, BJ Gomm, D Williams
pp 57-61
Dedicated sensor and classifier of rail head defects
L Oukhellou, P Aknin, JP Perrin
pp 63-70
I1-norm optimal control of n-removal in an activated sludge process
LJS Lukasse, KJ Keesman, G Van Straten
pp 71-77
Robust identification of first-order plus dead-time model from step
response
Q Bi, WJ Cai, EL Lee, QG Wang, CC Hang, Y Zhang
pp 79-79
Preface to the special section on intelligent components and instruments
for control application
L Foulloy
pp 81-94
Fieldbuses and interoperability
JP Thomesse
pp 95-100
Actuator-sensor-interface interconnectivity
M Sveda, R Vrba
pp 101-108
Using a planning scheduler to improve the flexibility of real-time fieldbus
network
L Almeida, R Pasadas, JA Fonseca
pp 109-115
Specification and modelling of time-window mechanisms for the FIP fieldbus
P Lorenz
pp 117-121
Neural networks and stochastic search methods applied to industrial
capacitive tomography
J Tapson
pp 123-131
Techniques for reducing false alarms in infrared forest-fire automatic
detection systems
A Ollero, BC Arrue, JR Martinez, JJ Murillo
pp 145-145
Book review - Electromagnetics and calculation of fields by Nathan Ida and
Joao P.A. Bastos
C Christodoulou
pp 146-146
Book review: Evolutionary algorithms in management applications
ST Wierzchon
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Content EJC Issue 1.99 : papers and discussions
Contributed by: Y. A. Tsypkin, B and T. Polyak
High-Gain Robust Control
Contributed by: M. Boulvin, C. Renotte, A. Vande Wouwer and M. Remy
Modeling, Simulation and Evaluation of Control Loops for a Cement Grinding
Process
Contributed by: I. K. Kookos, A. I. Lygeros and K. G. Arvanitis
On Line PI Controller Tuning for Integrator/Dead Time Processes
Contributed by: D. Nesic and I. M. Y. MareelS
Stabilisability and Stability for Explicit and Implicit Polynomial Systems:
A Symbolic Computation Approach
Discussion on the paper by S. Diop.
Contributed by: A. Farina and A. Graziano
IM3HT Algorithm : A Joint Formulation of IMM and MHT for Multitarget Tracking
Discussion on the paper by Y. Bar-Shalom.
Contributed by: G. Freiling, G. Jank and H. Abou-Kandil
Discrete Time Riccati Equations in Open Loop Nash and Stackelberg Games
Discussion on the paper by G. De Nicolao.
Contributed by: J. Hennet and T. Dorea
Invariance Conditions of Polyhedral Domains for Continuous Time Systems
Discussion on the paper by F. Blanchini and S. Miani.
Contributed by: M. Alamir and N. Marchand
Numerical Stabilisation of Non-Linear Systems- Exact Theory and
Approximative Numerical Implementation
Contributed by: J. Alvarez Samirez, R. Suarez and R. Femat
Robust Control of a Class of Uncertain Non-Linear Systems in Strict
Feedback Form
Contributed by: E. Panteley and A. Loria
Global Uniform Asymptotic Stability of Cascaded Non Autonomous Non-Linear
Systems
Contributed by: J. Bruls, C. T. Chou, B. R. J. Haverkamp and M. Verhaegen
Linear and Non-Linear System Identification Using Separable Least-Squares
Contributed by: H. Werner
Tracking and Disturbance Rejection for an Uncertain System Using Fast
Output Sampling
Contributed by: O. M. Grasselli, L. Menini and P. Valigi
Output Regulation, Tracking and Nominal Decoupling with Stability for
Uncertain Linear Periodic Systems
Contributed by: D. Henrion, G. Garcia and S. Tarbouriech
Piecewise-Linear Robust Control of Systems with Input Constraints
Contributed by: Q.J. Staffans
Quadratic Optimal Control Through Spectral and Coprime Factorisation
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Contributed by:Clarence W. de Silva, Regional Editor
(desilva@mech.ubc.ca)
Journal: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
(International Journal of Intelligent Real-Time Automation)
ISSN : 0952-1976
Volume : 12
Issue : 1
Date : 19-Jan-1999
pp 1-1
Editorial
No Author
pp 3-19
Real-time adaptive neural control of a class of nonlinear systems
I Lizarraga, V Etxebarria
pp 21-35
Neural-network-based d-step-ahead predictors for nonlinear systems
with time delay
Y Tan, AV Cauwenberghe
pp 37-42
Multiagent AI implementations an emerging software engineering trend
CF Nourani
pp 43-57
A framework for developing an agent-based collaborative
service-support system in a manufacturing information network
SK Tso, HCW Lau, JKL Ho, WJ Zhang
pp 59-78
Decomposition of interacting features using a Kohonen self-organizing
feature map neural network
AH Zulkifli, S Meeran
pp 79-92
Fuzzy modeling of enzymatic penicillin-G conversion
R Babuska, HB Verbruggen, HJL Van Can
pp 93-109
On-line learning of fuzzy decision trees for global path planning
GHS Hamzei, DJ Mulvaney
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Contributed by: Ed Boje (boje@eng.und.ac.za)
International Symposium on
Quantitative Feedback Theory and
Robust Frequency Domain Methods
26 & 27 August 1999
UNIVERSITY OF NATAL, DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA
Co-Sponsors: European Office of Aerospace Research and Development
South African Council for Automation and Computation
South African Institute of Measurement and Control
Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
2nd Announcement and Call for Papers
This symposium will be the fourth in series of specialist conferences
on quantitative feedback theory (QFT) and other robust frequency domain
design methods. Its purpose is to bring together practitioners and
researchers in the field and to promote the development of these
methods and their practical application.
Application, tutorial, and theoretical papers are invited in the field
of frequency domain design with the following deadlines:
Abstracts 1 May 1999
Full papers 1 July 1999
Contact Dr Ed Boje (boje@eng.end.ac.za) for further details.
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TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES IN MATHEMATICS
SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
THE ELEVENTH HAIFA MATRIX THEORY CONFERENCE
21-25 June, 1999
to be held at the
Technion, Haifa, Israel
The Conference plans to cover all aspects of matrix theory,
linear algebra, and their applications.
For further information:
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Sylvia Schur (Secretary)
Department of Mathematics
Technion-Israel Insitutute of Technology
32000 Haifa, Israel
e-mail: iasm@techunix.technion.ac.il
fax: 972 4 832 4654
Deadline for registration:
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The deadline for registration is March 31, 1999. Please make
every effort to mail/email your form in time to ensure that it reaches
us before that date. The conference will commence on the morning of
Monday, June 21, 1999, so participants should reach Haifa by Sunday
evening. Lectures will be held from Monday through Friday.
Talks - Abstracts:
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If you are interested in presenting a talk, please let us have a title and
a short abstract as soon as possible. Abstracts should be up to one page
in length and can be sent either by e-mail in TeX or typed and sent by
mail (no larger than 14cm x 20cm).
Conference Proceedings:
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A special issue of ELA - The ELECTRONIC Journal of LINEAR ALGEBRA will be
devoted to the conference. This issue will contain only papers that meet
the publication standards of the journal, and that are approved by normal
refereeing procedures. Papers should be submitted electronically to
ela@math.technion.ac.il in any form of TeX or LaTeX. The submission
deadline is September 15, 1999.
Airport arrival:
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A sherut (shared taxi) service has recently been introduced by the
Amal Taxi Co. from Ben Gurion Airport direct to your hotel in Haifa.
The cost is about $15.00 (including service charges) and the service
is available at all times. There is also a bus service from
Ben-Gurion Airport to Haifa (bus No. 947) available daily from
6:30-20:40 hours, except for Saturdays. On Fridays public transport
stops before 16:00. Bus fare costs about $8.00 (payable only in
Israeli shekels) per person, and a taxi from the Haifa central bus
station to your hotel costs about the same. There is also a special
taxi service to Haifa available at the airport for about $80.00 per
taxi.
Accommodation:
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Hotel rooms will be available for the conference at the Marom and the
Shulamit Hotels on Mount Carmel at the following rates:
Marom Hotel:
double room (2 persons sharing): $ 65.00
single room: $ 50.00
Shulamit Hotel:
double room (2 persons sharing): $ 96.00
single room: $ 69.00
The price includes breakfast and service charges. These rates also
apply to periods directly before and after the conference, if
reservations are made together with the registration form. In order to
benefit from the special workshop rates, please complete the enclosed
registration form and mail/email it so as to reach us no later than
March 31, 1999.
Cultural activities:
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Conference tour:
On Wednesday, June 23, there will be a half-day excursion. The cost
of the tour will be $30.00 per person, depending on the number of
participants. Please indicate on the registration form whether or
not you wish to participate in this tour.
Conference banquet:
On Thursday, June 24, the conference banquet will be held. The cost
will be $40.00 per person. Please indicate on the registration form
whether or not you wish to participate in the banquet.
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Contributed by: Nikos E. Mastorakis
3rd IMACS-IEEE International Multiconference on
CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS,COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTERS.
* ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS / SPECIAL SESSIONS / TUTORIALS *
(Also sponsored by WolrdSES, Greece Section of IEEE, MIUE, HNA)
In cooperation with School of Mathematical Sciences of the University of
Southern Mississippi.
http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~mastor/CSCC99.htm
IMACS/IEEE CSCC'99 IS DEDICATED TO THE FATHER OF FUZZY LOGIC:
Lotfi A. ZADEH L. (CSCC'99 Honorary Chairman)
Athens, July 4-8, 1999
POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS WITH WSES Press and World Scientific ARE ON
SCHEDULE
As for the papers of the conferences CSC'96 and CSC'98, we schedule
post-conference publications with the WSES Press.
Accepted papers in CSCC'99 (after Review and full Registration of their
Authors) will be included in these Books. The titles of our new
post-conference books with World SES Press (WSES Press) will be:
a.. RECENT ADVANCES IN COMMUNICATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
b.. CURRENT TRENDS AND NEW TECHNIQUES IN SIGNAL PROCESSING
c.. COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS AND CONTROL
d.. SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE ENGINEERING FOR THE 21th CENTURY
e.. MODERN APPLIED MATHEMATICS TECHNIQUES IN CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS AND CONTROL
f.. PROGRESS IN SIMULATION, MODELING, ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS OF MODERN
ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND SYSTEMS
The titles of these Special Issues may be finally slightly modified as well
as some other titles may be added.
Previously Special Issues with World Scientific edited by
Nikos E. Mastorakis can be found at the site:
http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~mastor/Recent.htm
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Contributed by: Bruce Hajek and R.S. Sreenivas
(allerton@csl.uiuc.edu)
THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUALALLERTON CONFERENCE
ON COMMUNICATION, CONTROL, AND COMPUTING
September 22 - 24, 1999
The Thirty-Seventh Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control,
and Computing will be held from Wednesday, September 22 through Friday,
September 24, 1999, at the Allerton House, the conference center of the
University of Illinois. Allerton House is located twenty-six miles
southwest of the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University, in a wooded
area on the Sangamon River. It is part of the fifteen-hundred acre Robert
Allerton Park, a complex of natural and man-made beauty designated as a
National natural landmark. The Allerton Park has twenty miles of
well-maintained trails and a living gallery of formal gardens, studded with
sculptures collected from around the world.
Papers presenting original research are solicited in the areas of
communication systems, communication and computer networks, detection and
estimation, information theory and error-correcting codes, source coding
and data compression, multiple-access communications, queueing networks,
control systems, robust and nonlinear control, adaptive control,
optimization, dynamic games, large scale systems, robotics and automation,
manufacturing systems, discrete event systems, intelligent control,
multivariable control, adaptive signal processing, numerical methods for
signals and systems, learning theory, neural networks, combinatorial and
geometric algorithms, parallel and distributed computation, computational
complexity, VLSI design algorithms, VLSI architectures for communications
and signal processing, and automated highway systems. Also solicited are
organized sessions for the Conference; prospective organizers should
discuss their plans with the Conference co-chairmen before sending a formal
proposal.
This year the plenary lecture entitled, "Proportional fairness, resource
pricing and the evolution of congestion control," will be delivered by
Prof. Frank Kelly of Cambridge University, England.
Information for authors: Regular papers, suitable for presentation in
twenty minutes, as well as short papers, suitable for presentation in ten
minutes, are solicited. The purpose of the short paper category is to
encourage authors to present preliminary results of their work. Regular
papers will be published in full (subject to a maximum length of ten 8.5" x
11" pages) in the Conference Proceedings, while short papers will be
limited to two-page summaries in the Proceedings.
For regular papers, a title and a five-to-ten page extended abstract,
including references and sufficient detail to permit careful reviewing, are
required. For short papers, a title and a three-to-five page summary are
required. Manuscripts that are submitted as regular papers but cannot be
accommodated in that category will be considered in the short paper
category, unless the authors indicate otherwise.
Three copies of the manuscript should be mailed to 37th Annual Allerton
Conference, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, 1308
West Main Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801-2307, USA, in time to be received
by July 14, 1999. Submissions by e-mail or fax will not be accepted.
Submissions should specify the name, e-mail address, and postal address of
the author who is to receive all subsequent correspondence. Authors will be
notified of acceptance via e-mail by August 14, 1999, at which time they
will also be sent detailed instructions for the preparation of their papers
for the Proceedings. Full camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be
due the last day of the Conference.
Further information on the Conference can be found on the Conference Web
site whose URL is given below.
Conference Co-Chairmen: Bruce Hajek and R.S. Sreenivas
Email: allerton@csl.uiuc.edu URL: http://www.comm.csl.uiuc.edu/allerton
COORDINATED SCIENCE LABORATORY AND THE
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Contributed by: Peter D Roberts (p.d.roberts@city.ac.uk)
IEE WORKSHOP ON MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL:
TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS
On 28 and 29 April 1999, the UK Institution of Electrical Engineers
is holding a workshop on Model Predictive Control.
Model predictive control, probably more than any other advanced
control technique, has rapidly found significant application in the
process control industry. The aim of this event is to describe the
various techniques that are available together with latest
developments and examples of industrial applications, with the first
day concentrating mainly on techniques and second day devoted
primarily to applications. The programme contains keynote papers
from leading instigators and practitioners in the field, as well as
contributions from academia and industry. The workshop will have
a tutorial element as well as covering the latest research. The event
will benefit practicing control engineers as well as academics
interested in this important area of modern control.
For more information contact either scurwen@iee.org.uk or
p.d.roberts@city.ac.uk. The programme can be found on the web
page: http://www.iee.org.uk/Events/b28apr99.htm
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Contributed by: Michel.Fliess@cmla.ens-cachan.fr
First announcement and call for papers
MTNS-2000
The 14th International Symposium on "Mathematical Theory of Networks and
Systems" (MTNS-2000) will be held in Perpignan, France, from June 19 to 23,
2000.
Other important dates:
1 October 1999, submission of extended abstracts (3 to 5 pages)
15 January 2000, acceptance notification
31 March 2000, full paper (e-mail)
Registration Fees (tentative):
Regular fee: 305 euros before 30 April 2000
Industrial participants: 460 euros before 30 April 2000
The fee will include a book of abstracts, the proceedings CD, the coffee
breaks, the welcome reception on Monday 19 June, and the banquet.
For more details see the MTNS-2000 web site:
http://www.univ-perp.fr/mtns2000/
For further information please contact:
MTNS-2000 Secretariat
L.T.S., Universite de Perpignan
66860 Perpignan Cedex, France
A. El Jai
Phone: 33 4 68 66 17 61
Fax: 33 4 68 66 17 60
e-mmail: eljai@univ-perp.fr
M. Fliess
Phones: 33 1 47 40 59 16 & 33 6 61 19 12 06
Fax: 33 1 47 40 59 01
e-mail: fliess@cmla.ens-cachan.fr
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Contributed by: Ronald Perez (perez@csd.uwm.edu)
Announcement and Call for Papers for Sessions on Teaching Mechatronics
1999 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent
Mechatronics (AIM'99)
September 19-22, 1999
Atlanta, Georgia
Papers are invited for technical sessions on teaching mechatronics.
Acceptable topics include but are not limited to teaching methodologies,
laboratory experiments, and implementation and/or curriculum issues
related to the teaching of mechatronics at the university level.
In addition, proposals are invited for presentations to be held in a
poster session in which mechatronics experiments will be demonstrated.
Live and/or video-taped demonstrations of mechatronics experiments are
acceptable.
Session deadlines and details for submitting manuscripts and proposals
for demonstrations are listed in the attached flyer.
Session Organizers:
Professor Ronald A. Perez
Mechanical Engineering Department
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 784
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Telephone: (414) 229-6543
E-mail: perez@csd.uwm.edu
Professor William R. Murray
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Washington
UW Box 352600
Seattle, WA 98195-2600
Telephone: (206) 543-5710
E-mail: murray@me.washington.edu
Professor John F. Gardner
Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Telephone: (814) 865-8281
E-mail: jfgardner@psu.edu
Professor Imme Ebert-Uphoff
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0405
Telephone: (404) 385-0667
E-mail: imme.ebertuphoff@me.gatech.edu
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ontributed by: M. Krstic
NSF Workshop on CONTROL OF FLOWS
San Diego, California
May 31 and June 1, 1999
The workshop will be held during the two days preceding the
1999 ACC in San Diego. All participants of ACC are invited
to attend (no registration fee).
PURPOSE: The rate of progress and investment into actuator/sensor
technology for flow control has created an unprecedented situation
in which the theory is lagging behind experimentation. The objective
of the workshop is to thrust the control-theoretic and computational
expertise in this field towards problems with technology-enabling
impact.
ORGANIZERS:
M. Krstic (UCSD), T. Bewley (UCSD), and B. Bamieh (UCSB)
CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:
J. Baillieul (Boston University)
A. Balogh (UC San Diego)
H. T. Banks (North Carolina State University)
B. Bamieh (UC Santa Barbara)
V. Barbu (Iasi University, Romania)
T. Bewley (UC San Diego)
J. Burns (Virginia Tech)
H. Choi (Seoul National University)
P. Christofides (UCLA)
S. Collis (Rice University)
J.-M. Coron (Universite Paris-Sud, France)
B. Farrell (Harvard)
J. Freund (UCLA)
D. Gilliam (Texas Tech)
R. Glowinski (University of Houston)
M. Gunzburger (Iowa State)
M. Heinkenschloss (Rice University)
P. Huerre (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
P. Ioannou (University of Athens)
K. Ito (North Carolina State University)
I. Kevrekidis (Princeton)
J. Kim (UCLA)
P. Koumitsakos (ETH-Zurich)
P. Krishnaprasad (University of Maryland)
M. Krstic, (UC San Diego)
W. Liu (UC San Diego)
I. Mezic (UC Santa Barbara)
R. Murray (Caltech and UTRC)
S. Ravindran (NASA Langley)
J. Speyer (UCLA)
S. Sritharan (Navy-SPAWAR)
E. Titi (UC Irvine)
M. Zianne (Texas A&M)
ARRANGEMENTS: ACC attendees wishing to attend this
workshop are encouraged to book the same hotel they plan
to use for ACC. Even though no registration fee will be
charged for the workshop, for planning purpose we request
RSVP by May 1 to Workshop Secretary, Edith Juanengo,
ejuanengo@ames.ucsd.edu
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Contributed by: Lina Karam (karam@asu.edu)
ICASSP-99 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
IEEE Signal Processing Society
1999 IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
March 15-19, 1999
Civic Plaza, Hyatt Regency
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
http://icassp99.asu.edu
The IEEE Signal Processing Society and the ICASSP-99 Organizing
Committee invite you to attend the world's premier conference in the
field of signal processing. This year's technical program features
technical papers spanning all aspects of signal processing theory
and practice. ICASSP-99 conference will introduce the ICASSP Industry
DSP Technology Tracks, a new feature of ICASSP highlighting industrial
aspects and applications of signal processing. The rich variety of
keynote and plenary speakers, tutorials, exhibits, and social activities
outlined below will be augmented by the appeal of the spectacular spring
season in central Arizona. Please plan to join us in Phoenix in March!
On-line registration for the conference, tutorials, and hotels
is available at the ICASSP-99 web site http://icassp99.asu.edu/.
On-site registration is also available in the South Lobby of the
Phoenix Civic Plaza.
INDUSTRY DSP TECHNOLOGY TRACKS
Topics in the new ICASSP Industry DSP Technology Tracks include DSP
Chips and Architectures; DSP Tools and Rapid Prototyping; DTV and
Multimedia Technologies; Communication Technologies; Adaptive
Interference Cancellation; Automotive Applications; and Defense DSP
Applications. technical contributors include ALCATEL, AMD, Analog
Devices, DSP Software Engineering; Hitachi; Honeywell; IBM; Intel;
Logic Devices; Lucent Technologies; Motorola, NEC, Nokia; Northrop
Grumman; Qualcomm; Siemens; Sony Research labs; Texas Instruments;
and Xilinx.
EXHIBITS
Exhibitors at ICASSP-99 will include Texas Instruments, The MathWorks,
Xilinx, DSP Technologies, Elanix, and many other companies well known
in the signal processing community.
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES AND TOURIST OPPORTUNITIES
March in Phoenix is the pinnacle of the sunny and comfortable desert
springtime. In addition to the conference banquet under the stars at
the Rawhide Resort, ICASSP-99 has arranged for the availability of
numerous organized outdoor activities. There are also bountiful
opportunities for informal outings, from a stroll through the Desert
Botanical Garden, to serious hiking, to a day trip to the Grand
Canyon. Bring walking shoes, shorts, and your camera!
The Phoenix area also offers cultural activities, sporting events,
excellent shopping, and a broad variety of dining. More information
is being added to the ICASSP-99 web site and still more will be
available at the conference.
COMING TO ICASSP
ICASSP-99 has selected United Airlines as our official air carrier
and has arranged a special discount agreement. ICASSP-99 participants
will receive a 5% discount off the lowest applicable fare or 10% off
the unrestricted coach airfare by calling United's toll-free number
(800-521-4041) and referring to the Meeting ID number 526ZF when
making reservations. An additional 5% discount will apply if
tickets are purchased at least 60 days in advance of the travel
date. Discounted car rentals with Avis and Alamo may also be obtained
at the time airline reservations are made with United.
In addition to United, Phoenix is served by all major U.S. airlines and,
by connection, by many major international air carriers.
The Phoenix Civic Plaza and the conference hotels are located in the
heart of downtown Phoenix, approximately eight kilometers from the
Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. Information on local transportation will
be made available at the ICASSP-99 web site http://icassp99.asu.edu
IMPORTANT DATES
Tutorial day: March 15, 1999
Technical sessions begin: March 16, 1999
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Conference Management Services
3109 Westchester Avenue
College Station, TX 77845-7919
(409) 693-6000 (phone)
(409) 693-6600 (fax)
icassp99@conf-mgmt.com
http://icassp99.asu.edu
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First Call for Papers
IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence and Systems
(Symposia)
November 1-3, 1999
Washington, DC
Sponsored by :
IEEE Computer Society
http://iciis99.cs.unr.edu/
The IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence, and Systems
(ICIIS) offers theoretical and practical media for the constructive interaction
among scientists and practitioners from different research fields
(computers, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, chemistry,
engineering, etc) having as goals the development of methodologies and
tools for the solution of complex problems in neuroscience and
biology, automation and robotics, image, speech and natural languages,
and their integration. The conference is organized as four simultaneous
single-track symposia.
IEEE Symposium on INTELLIGENCE in NEURAL and BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (INBS)
SOME TOPICS: Biological Models, Computational Biology, Evolutionary
Dynamics, Evolutionary Computation Models, Molecular Biology, DNA Sequence
Processing, Genome Processes, DNA Topologies, Genome Mapping and Sequencing,
Learning, Perception, Models of Neural Nets, Neuroscientific Models, etc.
Program Chairs: J.Gattiker, LANL, and J. Wang, NJIT
Phone: (505) 665-0604 & (973) 596-3396
Email: gatt@lanl.gov & jason@village.njit.edu
Submit summary to:
JR Gattiker
TA3, SM43, MSF645, DP13S, XCM
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87544
IEEE Symposium on INTELLIGENCE in AUTOMATION and ROBOTICS (IAR)
SOME TOPICS: Robot Path Planning, Multiple Robot Motion Planning, Autonomous
Navigation, Arm/Leg Control, Robot Vision, Visual Tracking, Human-Robot
Symbiosis, Telerobotics, Micro and Nano Robotics, Robot Cooperation,
Assembly Strategies, Sensors, , Walking/Running Robots, Task Planning,
Process Planning, Scheduling, Intelligent Control, etc.
Program Chairs: L. Tsoukalas, Purdue U. and A.Tascillo, Ford
Phone: (765) 494-0198 & (313) 845-7427
Email: tsoukala@helios.ecn.purdue.edu & atascill@ford.com
Submit summary to:
L. Tsoukalas
1290 Nuclear Engineering Building
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1290
IEEE Symposium on IMAGE, SPEECH, NATURAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS (ISNLS)
SOME TOPICS: Image (Coding, Compression, Encryption, Segmentation,
Enhancement, Restoration, Skeletonization, Analysis, Morphology, Databases,
Video, Pattern Recognition, OCR, Image Understanding & Interpretations,
Mathematical Methods); Speech (Coding, Compression, Processing, Analysis,
Synthesis, Recognition, Understanding); Natural Language (NL) Processing,
Computational Linguistics, Document Processing, NL Translation, NL
Understanding, Multimedia, etc.
Papers on the technical details of the commercial (e.g. , consumer
electronics) , scientific, and medical applications of the above are
encouraged.
Program Chairs: G. Bebis, U. Nevada, and S. Amer, USGS
Phone: (702) 784-6463 & (605) 594-6864
Email: bebis@cs.unr.edu & samer@edcmail.cr.usgs.gov
Submit summary to:
George Bebis
Dept of Computer Science
University of Nevada
Reno, NV 89557
IEEE Symposium on INFORMATION and INTELLIGENT AGENTS (IIA)
SOME TOPICS: Agent models and architectures, Agent-oriented programming,
Communication issues and protocols, Cooperation and coordination,
Cooperative information systems, Conflict resolution and negotiation,
Distributed search, Intelligent agents, Multiagent planning and learning,
Practical applications (Enterprise integration, Feature interaction,
Information gathering, Manufacturing, Software agents, Software
engineering), Testbeds and development environments, User interface issues.
Program Chairs: C. Koutsougeras, Tulane U., and S. Mertoguno, FUJITSU.
Phone: (504) 862-3369 & (408) 922-9520
Email: ck@eecs.tulane.edu & jmertohu@fmi.fujitsu.com
Submit summary to:
Chris Koutsougeras
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept.
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
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Information for Authors:
Please send four copies of a paper or an extended summary (3-6 pages)
describing the methodology and/or results by May 15, 1999 to the appropriate
Program Chair's address above. Notification of acceptance (please provide
email address or fax number) by June 30, 1999. Camera ready articles by
August 15, 1999.
Publication of Papers and Awards:
This is a fully refereed conference. The proceedings will be published by
IEEE Computer Society Press. A collection of best papers will be published
in an archival Journal and an Award will be given to each best paper per
Symposium. For further details or more up-to-date information please visit
the conference WWW page at http://iciis99.cs.unr.edu/
Special Sessions:
Proposals are invited for special sessions on any topic relevant to
the symposium. If you are interested in organizing an special session
please follow the procedure outlined below:
1. Submit a proposal (topic area) to one the appropriate program chair.
2. Upon approval, recruit authors for the session (2 hours, 4/5 papers)
and review papers for appropriate topic/contents.
3. Session chair submits abstract *package* of author/title/extended
abstracts to the appopriate program chair by May 30.
4. Editorial comments, and official acceptance of the session will be
made by the program chair(s) by June 30.
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