E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing
ISSUE No. 135 - PART II, November 1, 1999.
E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing
ISSUE No. 135, November 1, 1999
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6. Journals
6.6 TOC Journal of The Franklin Institute, 336:7
6.7 TOC Journal of Dynamical and control systems, 5:4
6.8 CFP JSC, special issue computer algebra
6.9 TOC The Asian Journal of Control, 1:1-3
7. Conferences
7.1 CFP CCA and CACSD
7.2 CFP Conference on Multimedia and Expo
7.3 CFP 2nd Intl. Workshop on Multidimensional (nd) Systems (NDS-2000)
7.4 CFP 2nd Intl. ICSC Symposium on Neural Computing (NC'2000)
7.5 CFP CONTROLO'2000
7.6 CFP Marine Electrotechnology Conference and Exhibition, IMECE 2000
7.7 CFP ICARCV 2000
7.8 CFP Workshop on Hybrid Systems aff. with 1999 CDC
7.9 CFP Workshop on Unmanned Air Vehicles aff. with 1999 CDC
7.10 CFP AIPS 2000 Workshop
7.11 CFP 19th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control
7.12 CFP 3rd International Conference on Information and Fusion
7.13 CFP ISI'2001
7.14 CFP Second NICONET workshop
7.15 CFP 5th Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES2000)
7.16 CFP Control of Oscillations and Chaos (COC'2000)
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Contributed by: Tricia Manning
Managing Editor, J. Franklin Institute
tmanning@fi.edu
For information about submitting papers to The Journal of The Franklin
Institute, please contact Tricia Manning at tmanning@fi.edu or see
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jfranklin
Journal of The Franklin Institute
Volume 336, Issue 7, November 1999
pp 1035-1047
A nonlinear resistor and nonlinear inductor using a nonlinear
capacitor
E Gluskin
pp 1049-1053
A design example with eigenstructure assignment control whose loop
transfer function is fully realized
CC Tsui
pp 1055-1061
Closed-loop identification of transfer function model for unstable
systems
I Ananth, M Chidambaram
pp 1063-1074
Design for quality and reliability using expert system amd computer
spreadsheet
TI Liu, XM Yang
pp 1075-1092
Design of the constrained controllers for uncertain nonlinear systems
using the Lyapunov stability theory
SE Lyshevski
pp 1093-1117
Set-models of information-gap uncertainty: axioms and an inference
scheme
Y Ben-Haim
pp 1119-1134
Design of MIMO integral variable structure controllers
CC Cheng, IM Liu
pp 1135-1153
PARAdeg-processor scheduling for acyclic SWITCH-less program nets
QW Ge
pp 1155-1173
Robustness of the sign detector in dependent noise
W Liu, DR Halverson
pp 1175-1185
Stabilization of structurally damped systems by pointwise
time-delayed feedback control
A Cherid, YA Fiagbedzi, IS Sadek
NOW ONLINE at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jfranklin
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Contributed by: Yuri L. Sachkov
JOURNAL OF DYNAMICAL AND CONTROL SYSTEMS
Vol. 5, No. 4 October 1999
CONTENTS
R.V. Gamkrelidze
Discovery of the Maximum Principle
pp. 437-- 451
A.A. Bolibrukh
On Sufficient Conditions for the Existence of a Fuchsian Equation
with Prescribed Monodromy
pp. 453-- 472
F. Monroy-Perez and A. Anzaldo-Meneses
Optimal Control on the Heisenberg Group
pp. 473--499
O.D. Anosova
On Invariant Manifolds in Singularly Perturbed Systems
pp. 501--507
M. Stephane
On Reducible Monodromies Realized by Reducible Fuchsian Systems
pp. 509--522
V.A. Kondrat'ev
On Propertiies of Solutions to Nonlinear Parabolic Equations
of the Second Order
pp. 523--546
V.V. Dolotin
Groups of Flagged Homotopies and Higher Gauge Theory
pp. 547--563
V.A. Golubeva and V.P. Leksin
On Two Types of Representations of the Braid Group
Associated with the Knizhnik--Zamolodchikov
Equation of the B_n Type
pp. 565--596
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Contributed by: Jeremy Johnson, Jose' Moura, Markus Pueschel, Dan
Rockmore
Call for Papers
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We would like to invite you to contribute to the
Journal of Symbolic Computation (JSC) special issue:
Computer Algebra and Signal Processing
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The object of this special issue is to compile state-of-the-art
research and tutorial information in the application of
computer algebra and algebraic techniques to signal processing.
For more information please visit
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~caviness/jsc/specialIssues/CAandSignalProcess.html
Best regards,
Jeremy Johnson,
Jose' Moura,
Markus Pueschel,
Dan Rockmore
(Guest Editors)
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Contributed by: Li-Chen Fu
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Asian Journal of Control,
[an ACPA (Asian Control Professor Association) affiliated journal]
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Vol.1, No.1 First Issue
1. Title: "Super-Heuristics and Their Applications to Combinatorial Problems,"
Author: Tak Wing Edward Lau and Yu-Chi Ho
2. Title: "Nonlinear Optimal ControlGA Control Lyapunov Function and
Receding Horizon Perspective,"
Author: James A. Primbs, Vesna Nevistic and John C. Doyle
3. Title: "The Role of Euler Parameters in Robot Control,"
Author: Fabrizio Caccavale, Bruno Siciliano and Luigi Villani
4. Title: "Improved Continuation Method Controller for PWM SystemsGAn
Experimental Case Study,"
Author: T. Iwata, M. Yamakita and K. Furuta
5. Title: "Observer-based Control of Systems with Monotonic Nonlinearities,"
Author: Murat Arcak and Petar Kokotovic
6. Title: "Control System Design Considering a Tradeoff Between Evaluated
Uncertainty Ranges and Control Performance,"
Author: Y. Wakasa and Y. Yamamoto
7. Title: "Modeling of a Three-phase Step Up/Down AC /DC Converter,"
Author: Jeng-Yue Chen, Ching-Tsai Pan and Yi-Shuo Huang
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Vol.1, No.2 Second Issue
1. Title: "Model Set Identification in Frequency-Domain and Its
Application to Joint Design with Robust Contro,"
Author: Hiroaki Fukushima and Toshiharu Sugie
2. Title: "Adaptive Control and Synchronization of Chua's Circuits,"
Author: Teh-Lu Liao and Sheng-Hung Lin
3. Title: "On the Controller Synthesis for Linear Hybrid Systems,"
Author: M. De la Sen
4. Title: "Indirect Adaptive Control for Nonlinear Systems with System
Perturbation,"
Author: Kuo-Ming Chang
5. Title: "Dual Stroke and Phase Control and System Identification of
Linear Compressor of a Split-Stirling Cryocooler,"
Author: Yee-Pien Yang and Wei-Ting Chen
6. Title: "Force/Position Sliding-Mode Control of a Robot Manipulator in
a Non-rigid Environment,"
Author: Yon-Ping Chen and Zhen-Zhong Lu
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Vol.1, No.3 Third Issue
1. Title: "Landing an Unmanned Air VehicleG Vision Based Motion Estimation
and Nonlinear Control,"
Author: Omid Shakernia, Yi Ma, T. John Koo and Shankar Sastry
2. Title: "Block Decoupling Control of Linear Multivariable Systems,"
Author: Ching-An Lin and Chang-Ming Wu
3. Title: "Tracking Control in the Presence of Nonlinear Dynamic Frictional
EffectsGRobot Extension,"
Author: M. Feemster, D.M. Dawson, A. Behal and W. Dixon
4. Title: "A Stable Self-Learning Optimal Fuzzy Control System,"
Author: Sinn-Cheng Lin and Yung-Yaw Chen
5. Title: "Training Algorithm of Uniform Parzen Window Neural Networks,"
Author: Chao-Yin Hsiao and Shan-Hung Hsien
6. Title: "Robust Neural Network Control of Rigid Link Flexible-Joint Robots,"
Author: C.M. Kwan, F.L. Lewis and Y.H. Kim
7. Title: "Robust Sampled-Data Control Systems Analysis by Approximate Z-
transform Using Higher-Order Integrators,"
Author: T.C. Lin, C.C. Teng, C.H. Wang and K.H. Yu
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Anyone who is interested in submitting papers to the journal, he
can contact the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Fu at the following address for the
necessary information.
Prof. Li-Chen Fu
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
National Taiwan University
Tel: +(886-2) 2362-2209
Fax: +(886-2) 2365-7887
E-mail: lichen@ccms.ntu.edu.tw
or directly visit our web page at : http://ajc.csie.ntu.edu.tw.
Anyone who is interested in subscribing the journal, please purchase
an international money order with the following amount:
1. US $35 per copy, if you are an ACPA member;
2. US $50 per copy, if you are not an ACPA member nor CACS member;
3. US $25 per copy, if you are CACS member;
(Note: ACPA stands for Asian Control Professor's Association,
CACS stands for Chinese Automatic Control Society )
payable to "Chinese Automatic Control Society" and send it with an
intention letter to the following address:
Chinese Automatic Control Society
P.O. Box, No. 5-2 Lung-Tan
Tao-Yuan 325, Taiwan
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Contributed by: Thomas Parisini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy"
Call for Papers
IEEE International Conference on Control Applications
&
IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Aided Control System Design
September 25-27, 2000. Anchorage Hilton. Anchorage, Alaska, USA
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www.elet.polimi.it/CCA2000
www.wright.edu/~pmisra/CCA2000
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The IEEE Control Systems Society will hold the Ninth IEEE
International Conference on Control Applications (CCA) and the
Eleventh IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Aided Control System
Design (CACSD), Monday through Wednesday, September 25-27, 2000 at the
Anchorage Hilton, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. The joint CCA/CACSD meeting
is being Technically Co-sponsored by Dynamic Systems and Control
Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), USA,
the European Union Control Association (EUCA), Europe, and the Society
of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), Japan.
The CCA and CACSD will run in parallel from Monday, September 25th,
2000 to Wednesday, September 27th, 2000 and will be preceded by
several tutorial workshops on Sunday, September 24th, 2000. There will
be a single registration for both the CCA and CACSD and all attendees
will receive proceedings from both events. The Technical Program
Committees solicit papers presenting original contributions in all
areas of control applications and computer-aided control system
design.
Location
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The conference will be held at the Anchorage Hilton, in Downtown,
Anchorage, Alaska, USA, a city with all the amenities of a major
metropolitan area, yet with the advantage of being a few short minutes
away from the wilderness. The city, located on the Cook Inlet has a
breathtaking backdrop of the Chugiak mountain range. We hope that you
will join us in this land of superlatives, the last American
Frontier, for the technical excellence of the conference and to
experience the uniqueness of the land.
Scope and Topics of Interest
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CCA
o Applications of Adaptive & Robust Control
o Sensor Based Control
o Nonlinear Control
o Sliding Mode Control
o Modeling & System Identification
o Fuzzy Logic & Control
o Neural Control
o Expert Systems
o Distributed Systems
o Discrete Event Systems
o Manufacturing Systems
o Mechatronics
o Motion Control
o Robotics Vibration Control
o Structural Control
o Flexible Systems
o Fault Detection & Fault Tolerant Control
o Aeronautical, Aerospace & Space Systems
o Systems
o Vehicle Control
o Traffic & Network Control
o Process Control
o Biomedical Systems
o Data Fusion Systems
o Power Electronics Systems
o Man/Machine Systems
o Industrial Case Studies.
Please submit five copies of your completed manuscript to the Program
Chair-CCA at the address given below.
CACSD
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o Theory and Applications of Symbolic and Numerical Analysis and
Synthesis Algorithms
o Soft-Computing and Evolutionary Algorithms in Control Engineering
o Control Problem-Solving Environments
o Hybrid Systems and Physical/Discrete Event Plant Modeling
o Computer Aided Uncertainty Modeling for Control Design
o Optimization-Based Control System Design and Robustness Assessment
o Methodologies for Multi-Objective Goal Attainment in Control Design
o Design-Embedded Simulation
o Supervisory Control and Model-Based Fault Monitoring Techniques
o Automatic Code Generation
o Teach-Ware for Control
o Computer-Aided Industrial Design Cases
o Large Scale System Modeling.
Please submit five copies of your completed manuscript to the Program
Chair-CACSD at the address given below.
In addition to the contributed papers, the Joint CCA/CACSD also
solicits Invited Session proposals. Please contact the respective
Chair for Invited Sessions for CCA and CACSD, whose addresses are
given below, for further information about the format and forms.
General Chair-CCA
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Pradeep Misra
Elect Engr Dept
Wright State Univ
Dayton, OH 45435
USA
Tel: (937) 775-5062
Fax: (937) 775-5009
pmisra@cs.wright.edu
Program Chair-CCA
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Gary G. Yen
Elect & Comp Engr
Oklahoma State Univ
Stillwater, OK 74078
USA
Tel: (405) 744-7743
Fax: (405)744-9189
gyen@master.ceat.okstate.edu
General Chair-CACSD
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Andras Varga
DLR Oberpfaffenhofen
Postfach 1116
D-82230, Wessling
Germany
Tel: (49) 8153-28-2407
Fax: (49) 8153-28-1441
Andras.Varga@dlr.de
Program Chair-CACSD
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Vassilis Syrmos
Dept of Elect Engr
Univ of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA
Tel: (808) 956-3432
Fax: (808) 956-3427
hellas@euclid.eng.hawaii.edu
In addition to the regular technical program, the conference will
offer several pre-conference Tutorial Workshops. Those interested in
offering a workshop at the 2000 CCA/CACSD should contact the Workshops
Chair: Michael Masten, Texas Instruments, 2309 Northcrest, Plano, TX
75075, USA, Tel: (972) 997-5179, Fax: (972) 997-5693,
m.masten@ieee.org.
Deadlines
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January 21, 2000
- Deadline for submission of Invited Session Proposals to
Vice-Chair, Invited Sessions
- Deadline for submission of Contributed Papers to the
appropriate Program Chair
- Deadline for submission of Workshop Proposals to the
Workshops Chair.
Further Information
Further information about the conference may be found on any of the
three web sites listed above; for faster connections, please visit the
web-site nearest to you. Alternatively, you may contact Pradeep Misra
or Andras Varga - their contact information is listed above.
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Contributed by: Sankar Basu (sankar@watson.ibm.com)
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA AND EXPO
JULY 30 -- AUGUST 2, 2000, NEW YORK CITY
http://://www.ieee-multimedia.poly.edu
International Conference on Multimedia & Expo 2000 is the first IEEE
multimedia conference that will take place in joint collaboration with
four IEEE societies. The same four IEEE societies that have recently
launched the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, namely the Circuits and
Systems Society, the Computer Society, the Signal Processing Society
and the Communications Society have again come together in making this
one-of-a-kind conference a reality.
The goal is to unify all IEEE as well as non-IEEE multimedia related
activities under the common umbrella of ICME 2000 -- the millennium
multimedia meeting. It is expected that this will become a yearly
event as the flagship Multimedia conference of the IEEE. New York
City (the Big Apple) is uniquely suited for this first-time event in
view of its large concentration of high tech Industries, first-rate
academic institutions and numerous small multimedia companies. The
intent is to blend the traditional IEEE conference framework into an
Expo by providing the industry an opportunity to showcase products.
Authors should submit a four-page manuscript in double-column format
including authors' names, affiliations and a short abstract. Only
electronic submission (in postscript format) will be accepted.
Electronic submission procedure will be made available at the
conference web site:
http://www.ieee-multimedia.poly.edu
Topics covered include but are not limited to the following:
* Signal processing for media integration
* Components and technologies for multimedia systems
* Human-machine interface and interaction
* Multimedia databases and file systems
* Multimedia communication and networking
* System integration
* Applications
* STDS standards and related issues
Once accepted, the authors will be asked to prepare a four-page camera
ready paper to appear in the conference proceedings and CD-ROM
proceedings.
Proposals for special sessions and half-day or full-day tutorial courses
may be submitted to the respective chairs before the respective
deadlines. Visit the conference web site for further information.
DEADLINES
December 1, 1999 Submission of regular papers
February 1, 2000 Proposals for special sessions, panels, tutorials,
demos
March 1, 2000 Notification of acceptance for papers
March 15, 2000 Notification of acceptance for proposals
April 1, 2000 Paper camera-ready copy due
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Contributed by: Krzysztof Galkowski
INVITATION TO PARTICIPATION
THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
MULTIDIMENSIONAL (ND) SYSTEMS (NDS-2000)
June 27-30, 2000, Castle Czocha, Lower Silesia, POLAND
Call for papers and first announcement
YOU ARE INVITED to participate in the second Workshop on
Multidimensional (nD) Systems, organised by
Technical University of Zielona Gora, Institute of Robotics
and Software Engineering, Zielona Gora, Poland
The following invited keynote talks are planned
Bose N.K., USA, MULTIVARIATE MATRIX FACTORIZATION FOR FILTER BANKS AND
WAVELETS Bauer P., USA, M-D Systems: Why do we need them now and in the
future? Basu S., USA, m-D wavelets in statistical modelling of
multidimensional data Kaczorek T., Poland, An overview of positive nD system
theory Buchberger B., Austria, Groebner Bases: An Introduction and a Report
on Interactions with Theorem Proving Rabenstein R., Germany, Models for
Continuous and Discrete Multidimensional Systems Willems J., Netherlands,
DISSIPATIVE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS.
The following special sessions are planned:
"The behavioural approach to nD systems" - Jeff Wood, UK
"Applications to Iterative Learning Control" - R. Longman, USA
"Applications to Multidimensional Signal Processing" - M. Domanski, Poland
Contributed papers and invited sessions for NDS-2000 are hereby solicited
in all areas mathematics of nD systems as well as emerging fields in
engineering with potential impact in circuits, automatic control
systems and signal processing.
PAPERS: Submit two copies of your paper of maximum 6 pages, written in the IFAC
style by
February 28th 2000.
Some financial support for colleagues from Eastern and Central
Europe is hoped.
SUBMISSION SHOULD BE MADE TO:
Dr. A. Janczak
Technical University of Zielona Gora
Institute of Robotics and Software Engineering
Podgorna Str. 50, 65-246 Zielona Gora, Poland
Fax: 48 68 3254615, email:a.janczak@irio.pz.zgora.pl
VENUE: Czocha - the picturesque castle having the roots in medieval
times, surrounded by huge forests and lakes, is the tourist pearl
of Lower Silesia, the south-west part of Poland. This provides an
excellent atmosphere for scientific, as well as, informal contacts
and having the rest. The excursion to hilly part of Lower Silesia,
so-called Sudety mountains with extremely interesting towns,
palaces, castles, churches, as well as nice country views, waterfalls
etc. and the reach social programme are planned during the meeting.
TRANSPORT: The coach will be provided from Zielona Gora /easily
accessible by train from Berlin /e.g. 2 hours by IC/, or from Warsaw
/5 hours//. As well, an easy direct access to Czocha is possible from
Dresden /Germany/ via Gorlitz-Zgorzelec /Czocha is in a very little
distance from Gorlitz/ or from Wrocaw /Poland/.
Expected fee which cover the accommodation and the social programme
is 320 USD.
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Contributed by: pascal@icsc.ab.ca
ANNOUNCEMENT / CALL FOR PAPERS
Second International ICSC Symposium on NEURAL COMPUTATION
NC'2000
To be held at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany May 23-26, 2000
http//www.icsc.ab.ca/nc2000.htm
INTRODUCTION
The science of neural computation focusses on mathematical aspects to solve
complex practical problems, and it also seeks to help neurology, brain theory
and cognitive psychology in the understanding of the functioning of the nervous
system by means of computational models of neurons, neural nets and subcellular
processes. NC'2000 aims to become a major point of contact for research
scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world in the field of
Neural Computation. Participants will share the latest research, developments
and ideas in the wide arena of disciplines encompassed under the heading of
NC'2000 as a follow-up of the most successful NC'98 conference in Vienna,
Austria.
TOPICS
Contributions are sought in areas based on the list below, which is indicative
only. Contributions from new applications areas are welcome.
COMPUTATIONAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS
NEUROPHYSIOLOGICALLY INSPRIED MODELS
SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS
NEURAL NETWORK APPLICATIONS
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
NC'2000 will include invited plenary talks, contributed sessions, invited
sessions, workhops and tutorials.
INVITED SESSIONS
The organization of invited sessions is encouraged. Prospective organizers
are requested to send a session proposal (consisting of 4-5 invited papers,
the recommended session-chair and co-chair, as well as a short statement
describing the title and the purpose of the session to the Symposium
Chairman or the Symposium Organizer. Invited sessions should preferably
start with a tutorial paper. The registration fee of the session organizer
will be waived, if at least 4 authors of invited papers register to the
conference.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Poster presentations are encouraged for people who wish to receive peer
feedback and practical examples of applied research are particularly
welcome. Poster sessions will allow the presentation and discussion of
respective papers, which will also be included in the conference
proceedings.
WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS
Proposals should be submitted as soon as possible to the Symposium Chairman or
the Symposium Organizer.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Prospective authors are requested to either send a draft paper (maximum 7
pages) or an extended abstract for review by the International Program
Committee. All papers must be written in English, starting with a succinct
statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and a
comparison with previous work.
Submissions must be received by October 31, 1999. Regular papers, as well as
poster presentations, tutorial papers and invited sessions are encouraged.
The submission should also include
- Title of conference (NC'2000)
- Type of paper (regular, poster, tutorial or invited)
- Title of proposed paper
- Authors names, affiliations, addresses
- Name of author to contact for correspondence
- E-mail address and fax # of contact author
- Topics which best describe the paper (max. 5 keywords)
- Short CV of authors (recommended)
Contributions are welcome from those working in industry and having
experience in the topics of this conference as well as from academics. The
conference language is English.
It is strongly recommended to submit abstracts by electronic mail to
operating@icsc.ab.ca or else by fax or mail (2 copies) to the following
address
ICSC Canada
P.O. Box 279
Millet, Alberta T0C 1Z0
Canada
Fax +1-780-387-4329
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission Deadline: October 31, 1999
- Notification of Acceptance: December 31, 1999
- Delivery of full papers: February 15, 2000
- Tutorials and Workshops: May 23, 2000
- NC'2000 Symposium: May 24-26, 2000
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First Announcement and Call for Papers
CONTROLO'2000: 4th PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL
4-6 October 2000, GUIMARAES Portugal
Organized by APCA - Portuguese Association of Automatic Control
(IFAC National Member Organization) and supported by Universidade do Minho
http://www.dei.uminho.pt/controlo2000
VENUE & SCOPE
The Portuguese Association of Automatic Control (APCA) invites you
to participate in the CONTROLO'2000: 4th PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE
ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, which will be held at the Campus of
Azurem of the University of Minho, in the town of Guimaraes.
The conference is intended as an international forum where an
effective exchange of knowledge and experience amongst researchers
active in various theoretical and applied areas of systems and control
can take place. This is also an excellent opportunity to promote the
Portuguese control community and stimulate the establishment of
new international links. The program will include an ample space for
promoting the implementation of new technologies, emphasizing
simultaneously the real-world challenges in their applications.
The program includes a "Student Forum on Automatic Control", a
mean to attract young students to the area of control.
The working language of the conference is English.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
February 14, 2000: Submission of full papers and proposals of special sessions
April 15, 2000: Notification of acceptance
June 30, 2000: Final version of the papers accepted and pre-registration
REGISTRATION FEES
The registration fee includes the Proceedings, attendance to the sessions,
coffee breaks and social program. The average price of a single room in a
3/4-star hotel is under 10 000 PTE per night. Accepted papers will be
published in the Proceedings only if one of the authors pays the
registration fee before July 31, 2000. 1 000 PTE = 5 Euros; PTE: Portuguese
Escudos
Before July 15, 2000
Member of APCA: Full fee - 35 000; Reduced fee* - 17 500
Non-Member of APCA: Full fee - 45 000; Reduced fee* - 22 500
* Reduced fee: students under 25.
An online pre-registration form is availabe at the internet
http://www.dei.uminho.pt/controlo2000
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
- 3 plenary lectures by invited speakers
- Special sessions
- Contributed (regular) lectures
- Poster sessions
Special sessions
Comprise 4/5 contributions each. Papers in each session should
present a cohesive and comprehensive focus on a relevant topic,
consistent with the conference themes. Prospective organizers are
invited to submit 4 copies of the full papers and a session title.
Contributed papers and poster sessions
Are solicited in all areas consistent with the conference themes.
Authors are asked to submit 4 copies of original papers.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
The length of each paper (special, contributed or poster proposal)
should not exceed 6 single spaced pages. The cover page should
contain title, author's name, affiliation and address, fax number and
e-mail address, as well as, a brief abstract and five keywords.
Detailed format information (IFAC type) will be provided after paper's
selection. Authors are encouraged to employ the electronic submission
procedure, but contributions may also be sent by normal mail on
paper (4 copies), together with a file on a floppy disk (PC format),
using Microsoft WORD, PDF or Postscript formats.
The required paper format and the procedure for electronic
submission are described at the Conference web site.
http://www.dei.uminho.pt/controlo2000
SECRETARIAT
CONTROLO'2000 (c/o Filomena Soares)
Departamento de Electronica Industrial
Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurem
4800-058 Guimaraes PORTUGAL
Phone: 351-253- 510190 Fax: 351-253-510189
E-mail: controlo2000@dei.uminho.pt
http://www.dei.uminho.pt/controlo2000
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Contributed by:Dan Wang
CALL FOR PAPAR & APPLICATION:
THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL MARINE ELECTROTECHNOLOGY
CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION
IMECE 2000 SHANGHAI CHINA
(FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT)
Subject:The 21st-Century Oriented Marine Electric, Electronic, Information,
Communication, Navigation, Control and Automation Technologies.
Date: November 7th to 10th, 2000
Place: Shanghai China
Sponsor: China Electrotechnical Society(CES)
Organizer: Marine Committee of CES
1. GENERAL INFORMATION
The Marine Committee of CES is approved by the Authorities as a legal
mass organization endeavoring for academic activities. The members are
all experts dealing with research, development, designing, production,
testing, inspection, application and operation of electrotechnologies
and products in maritime related organizations: universities, laboratories,
research and design institutes, classification societies, shipping
companies, shipyards, manufacturers and other firms.The International
Marine Electrotechnology Conference and Exhibition organized by the
Marine Committee of CES was held three times successfully from 1991to
1997. The 4th Conference shall be held in 2000 in Shanghai, China.
The Purpose of this Conference is, to discuss the New Developments
and Expectations to 21st Century for Marine Electric and Relevant Field
Technology, to promote widely Technical Exchange between Chinese
and Foreign Experts, to exhibit many Marine Products from Chinese and
Foreign Manufacturers, to promote the Development and Application of New
Technologies, and to provide good Opportunities for Building up
Cooperation between Chinese and Foreign Experts and Companies.
Two Special Events shall be held during the Conference:
(1) Exhibition: A professional exhibition will take
place to display samples, models, pictures, video
and brochures from makers all over the world.
(2) Seminar: The participants can apply for a special
time of about one hour to make an in-depth
product introduction and discussion to a group of
audience.
2. TIME SCHEDULE
Before Nov. 1st, 1999:
Application Form to be mailed to the Organizer.
Before Dec. 1st, 1999:
Abstract of paper to be mailed to the Organizer.
Mar. 1st, 2000:
Issuing of acceptance notice of paper and providing
the typing format and requirement for paper to
authors.
Apr. 1st, 2000:
Deadline for formal registration of joining Exhibition
and Seminar, and remittance of 30% deposit of
exhibition booth charge to the Organizer.
Jul 1st, 2000:
Deadline for delivery of full paper.
Sep. 1st, 2000:
Deadline for remittance of remaining booth charge.
3. All correspondence shall be directed to the following address:
Mr. Xin XuKun, Secretary General
C/O Design & Research Institute, Shanghai Shipyard
1, JiMo Road, Pudong New Area
Shanghai 200120, China
Tel: 86-21-58790451-3243 Fax: 86-21-58760752
E-mail: shadd@ISDNNET.sta.net.cn.
Further information: http://www.geocities.com/imece_2000/
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Contributed by: Changyun Wen
CALL FOR PAPERS ICARCV 2000
SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
CONTROL, AUTOMATION, ROBOTICS AND VISION
5-8 December 2000
Singapore
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/icarcv2000
The Sixth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and
Vision, ICARCV 2000, will be held in Singapore on 5 - 8 December 2000. The
conference will be co-organised by the School of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, The Institution of
Engineers, Singapore and IEEE Singapore Section. The theme of ICARCV 2000
is "Intelligent Automation in the New Millennium" and it will focus on the
trends and impacts of automation technologies in the new millennium. This
will provide a forum for Control and Automation professionals,
manufacturing engineers and academic researchers to exchange up-to-date
technical knowledge and experiences. The conference will focus on both
theory and applications. In addition to the technical sessions, there will
be plenary, invited and tutorial sessions. An exhibition will also be held
in conjunction with the technical sessions.
Papers describing original work in the following technical areas are
invited:
CONTROL : Modelling of Complex Systems* Control Methodologies and
Applications* Estimation, Identification and Fault Detection* Adaptive and
Learning Systems* Robust Control* Nonlinear Control* Intelligent Control*
Process Control * Motion Control
AUTOMATION : Instrumentation Systems* Flexible Manufacturing Systems*
Process Automation* Man-machine Interactions* Computer Integrated
Manufacturing* Factory Modelling and Automation* Petri Nets and
Applications
ROBOTICS : Robot Control* Mobile Robots and Navigation* Task Planning*
Intelligent Sensors and Actuators* Kinematics and Simulation* Dexterous and
Redundant Manipulation* Medical Robots* Human-like Robots* Service Robots*
Telerobotics* Undersea Robotics* Mechatronics* Mechanism Design and
Applications
COMPUTER VISION : Image Processing and Interpretation* 2-D and 3-D Scene
Analysis * Motion Analysis and Tracking* Pattern Recognition and
Applications* Learning in Computer Vision* Parallel Algorithms for Computer
Vision* Applications of Computer Vision
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES : Neural Networks & Fuzzy Systems* Genetic
Algorithms* Real-time Systems* Micro-electromechanical Systems* Electric
VehicleTechnology
Submission Procedure:
Papers must be written in English and should describe original work in
detail. Please submit the following to the Technical Programme Chairman by 31
May 2000:
1. Title page which includes name, title, address, affiliation,
telephone/fax numbers and email of the
author to whom all correspondence will be sent.
2. A second page with paper title, author(s), affiliations, four keywords
to indicate the area of the paper,
and a 100-word abstract.
3. Four copies of full paper.
The length of the final paper in the Proceedings will be limited to a
maximum of 5 pages
(A4 size, single space, Times Roman of font size 10, two columns format),
including figures, tables
and references. Upon acceptance, authors will be required to register and
present their papers.
Papers will be published in the conference proceedings only if at least
one of the authors is officially
registered.
Invited Sessions: The Technical Programme Committee is soliciting
proposals for invited sessions
focusing on topics related to the theme of ICARCV 2000. Prospective
organisers should submit
proposals to the Technical Programme Co-Chairmen (at the same address as
below) by
31 March 2000.
Best Paper Award: Selection of the best paper will be made at the
Conference based on both the technical contents and presentation. The winner
will be chosen by the Technical Program Committee members in consultation with
the International Advisory Committee members. For more information about the
Conference, please visit the web site given below.
Please forward your submission to :
Dr Wang Jianliang
Technical Chairman ICARCV 2000
c/o Intelligent Machines Research Laboratory
School of Electrical and Electronic Engg, S1
Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798
Republic of Singapore
Tel: (65) 790-5470 / 790-4174
Fax: (65) 790-5868 / 791-2687
E-mail: icarcv2000@ntu.edu.sg
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/icarcv2000
Author's Schedule:
31 May 2000 Receipt of Full Papers
31 July 2000 Notification of Acceptance
15 September 2000 Receipt of Camera Ready Manuscripts
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Contributed by: George J. Pappas
1999 IEEE CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL
WORKSHOP ON HYBRID SYSTEMS: MODELING, ANALYSIS AND CONTROL
Organized By: John Lygeros, George J. Pappas, and Shankar Sastry
Crowne Plaza Hotel, 100 N. 1st Street,Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Monday,December 6th 1999
Workshop Abstract
Hybrid systems have recently attracted considerable attention from
researchers, primarily in the control community and in theoretical computer
science. In this one day workshop we propose to cover a wide range of
techniques that have been used for dealing with hybrid systems. The workshop
will be addressed primarily to control engineers, who are either interested
in doing research in the area and would like to become familiar with the
state of the art or are interested in applying hybrid systems techniques to
specific control problems. We will however, attempt to preserve a balance
between the control and computer science approaches. The topics covered can
be roughly divided into four categories: modeling, analysis, control and
applications. The morning session will be devoted to modeling and analysis.
Analysis techniques ranging from extensions of Lyapunov techniques to
computer aided verification, as well as the models on which these techniques
are based will be covered. The control of hybrid systems will be covered
next. A number of techniques that have been proposed for synthesizing
controllers for this class of systems will be presented. The workshop will
conclude with a session on simulation tools and their application in various
emerging domains, such as Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
For registration information please visit
http://www.ece.gatech.edu/conferences/cdc99/Workshops.htm
or contact any of the organizers
John Lygeros
211-137 Cory Hall
U.C. Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1770
Tel: (510) 643-5806
Fax: (510) 642-1341
lygeros@eecs.berkeley.edu
George J. Pappas
207-118 Cory Hall
U.C. Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1772
Tel: (510) 643-5806
Fax: (510) 642-1341
gpappas@eecs.berkeley.edu
Shankar Sastry
University of California at Berkeley
269M Cory Hall #1772
Berkeley, CA 94720-1772
Tel: (510) 642-1857,
Fax: (510) 642-1341
sastry@eecs.berkeley.edu
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Contributed by: Joao P. Hespanha (hespanha@usc.edu)
1999 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Crowne Plaza Hotel, 100 N. 1st Street,
Phoenix, Arizona
WORKSHOP ON UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES:
COORDINATION, SENSING, AND CONTROL
(Monday, December 6th, 1999)
Workshop Abstract:
Unmanned air vehicles are being used more and more in a number of
civilian and military applications, e.g., remote monitoring of
traffic, search and rescue operations, surveillance, etc. This has
spanned considerable interest in the control community, mainly due to
the fact that the design of UAVs brings to light research questions
falling in some of the most exciting "new directions" for automatic
control. Examples of these are multi-agent coordination, probabilistic
reasoning in control, vision in the feedback loop, sensor fusion,
hybrid systems, biologically inspired systems, etc. Adding to this,
many UAVs make use of new sensing and control technologies, such as
Infrared Sensors (IR), Global Positioning System (GPS), Micro Electro
Mechanical Systems (MEMS), etc.
In a one day workshop we propose to cover a wide range of questions
arising in the design of UAVs. This will be done systematically,
starting with high-level mission planning and going all the way to
single vehicle, integrated hardware/software design. The first set of
talks address the coordination of fleets of UAVs. The specific
questions covered include multi-agent pursuit-evasion games, conflict
resolution, and hierarchical architectures for control and
communication. A second set of talks concentrates navigation and
sensing. In particular on three-dimensional obstacle avoidance, the
landing of UAVs on fixed or moving platforms, and the fusion of sensor
data that includes GPS, INS, and vision measurements. The last set of
talks focus on the design, modeling, and control of single
UAVs. Special emphasis is put on the nonlinear nature of the systems.
Biologically inspired design and hardware/software integration are
also considered.
For registration information please visit
http://www.ece.gatech.edu/conferences/cdc99/Workshops.htm
Organizers:
Joao Hespanha
University of Southern California
3740 McClintock Ave, room 318
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2563
Ph: (213) 740-9137, Fax: (213) 821-1109
hespanha@usc.edu
Claire Tomlin
Stanford University
028A Durand Building, MC 4035
Stanford CA, 94305-4035
Ph: (650) 723-5164, Fax: (650)723-3738
tomlin@leland.stanford.edu
Shankar Sastry
University of California at Berkeley
269M Cory Hall #1772
Berkeley, CA 94720-1772
Ph: (510) 642-1857, Fax: (510) 642-1341
sastry@eecs.berkeley.edu
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Contributed by: Alexander Kott, akott@cgi.com
Call for Papers and Participation
AIPS 2000 Workshop on
PLANNING AND SCHEDULING IN
CONTROL OF DYNAMIC ENTERPRISES
Breckenridge, CO, USA, April 14, 2000
The proposed workshop will explore the issues and opportunities at the
interface of Planning/Scheduling and Enterprise-level Control.
We observe a rapidly growing interest in exploring opportunities for
convergence of Planning/Scheduling and the recent advances in supervisory
control of discrete and hybrid systems. An intriguing evidence of this
interest is the recent initiation of large-scale programs focused on a
broader issue of control of enterprise operations, as opposed to generation
of plan/schedule for an enterprise. The message is How do we do
planning/scheduling within the overall process of continuous control of
complex, large-scale dynamic enterprises?
This workshop, although not excluding such a research, will strive to give
greater weight to the planning and control of an enterprise a large-scale
system with broadly distributed and potentially conflicting goals, resources
and constraints, with multiple semi-autonomous participants of both human
and a rtificial nature (e.g., large military operations, financial/trading
institutions, logistics systems, manufacturing plants, power grids).
Specific Topics of Interest
Integrated planning, scheduling and control algorithms
Control and planning of Discrete-Event Systems Stability and
dynamic phenomena in dynamic replanning, rescheduling and
execution Adaptive control vs. learning in planning
Game-theoretic control and adversarial planning Mixed-initiative
planning/scheduling and role of humans on the control loop
Distributed control vs. multi-agent planning Monitoring and
state estimation in control and planning
This workshop is intended to bring together theoretical and applied
researchers from both the Planning and Scheduling community and the Control
Theory community.
Format of the Workshop
The workshop will combine an invited talk, presentations of papers and a
poster session which may also include demonstrations. Thus, the workshop
invites any of the following, or a combination thereof:
a full-length paper
a poster presentation
a demonstration of a software system.
Submission Guidelines
Papers should not exceed 8 pages in length and must use AAAI macros and
templates and AAAI instructions. Researchers wishing to participate in the
poster and/or demonstration session can submit either a 2-page position paper
or a full-length paper corresponding to their posters or demonstration. The
organizing committee will determine the acceptance of the papers fr either a
talk of about 20 minutes or a poster presentation. All full-length papers
accepted for either a talk or the poster session will be included the workshop
publication. Submit all papers as uncompressed PostScript files via e-mail
to akott@cgi.com
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: December 15, 1999
Submission Notification: January 30, 2000
Final Submission Due: February 28, 2000
Workshop Held: April 14, 2000
Workshop Organizers
Alexander Kott, akott@cgi.com
Bruce Krogh, krogh@ece.cmu.edu
Stephen Smith, sfs@cs.cmu.edu
Further Information
See www.ece.cmu.edu/~pscontrol or send your questions to one of the
workshop organizers.
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Contributed by: Siep Weiland
CALL FOR PAPERS
19th BENELUX MEETING ON SYSTEMS AND CONTROL
Mierlo, The Netherlands, March 1-3, 2000
http://www.win.tue.nl/Benelux2000
The 19th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control will take place from
March 1 to March 3, 2000, in conference center ``Carlton De Brug''
in Mierlo (the Netherlands). The aim of this meeting is to promote the
research activities and the cooperation between researchers in Systems
and Control in the Benelux.
The technical program consists of
- Invited plenary lectures on
Randomized Algorithms in Control
(given by R. Tempo and M. Campi)
Modeling and Control of Smart Structures
(given by K.~Schlacher)
- Minicourse on Saturation in Control
(given by A.A.Stoorvogel and F.~Blanchini
- Contributed Lectures covering all aspects of systems and control
theory and its applications.
Contributions for part 3 of the program are now being invited. A
contribution consists of a one page abstract of the presentation.
Accepted abstracts will be included in a "Book of Abstracts" which
will be distributed at the conference.
All further information on submissions, registrations and conference
information can be found on the web site:
http://www.win.tue.nl/Benelux2000
Important dates:
December 10, 1999: Deadline for submitting abstracts for presentations
and special session proposals.
January 7, 2000: Notification regarding acceptance of abstracts
January 15, 2000: Deadline for early registration.
February 1, 2000: Deadline for final abstract submission.
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Contributed by: Fa-Long Luo, Ph.D
CALL FOR PAPERS AND ANNOUNCEMENT
of 3rd International Conference on Information and Fusion
Paris,France, July 10th-13th,2000
http://www.onera.fr/fusion2000
IMPORTANT DEADLINE : Paper submission due --> March 1st, 2000
The conference will be held in The Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie
(http://www.cite-sciences.fr), Parc de la Villette in Paris.
FUSION 2000 provides a forum for the presentation of research and
technological advances by scientists and engineers working in all aspects of
information and data fusion techniques and systems. The conference will also
feature invited sessions, keynote speeches and plenary talks. Topics
include, but are not limited to, the following:
A. Theoretical and technical advances in information fusion
B. Algorithms and systems
C. Applications
Submission instructions
Prospective authors are invited to submit (electronic submission only) the
draft of their paper to Professor Roger Reynaud (Technical Program Committee
Chairman) at submit@fusion2000.ief.u-psud.fr by the due date. Submission by
Fax will NOT be considered. The draft and final paper must follow either the
LaTeX style or the MS word style provided on the conference web site and
must be prepared as follows :
Page 1 contains the paper title, authors and their affiliations, including
the contact author's name and address, telephone number, fax number, and
email address. Page 2 contains the abstract and keywords. Page 3 contains a
short paragraph with the biographical details of each author. Starting from
the page 4 is the full draft paper (single spaced text and figures) containing
the title of the paper, the abstract, key words, and the body of the paper.
The final camera-ready paper must have 6 to 8 pages (A4 format) excluding
the 3 first ones. Its electronic file type must be either ps (Postscript), pdf
(Portable Document Format) or MS Word.
Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and
soundness. Each paper will be refereed by three researchers in the topical
area. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
and CD Rom, to be available at the Conference in July 2000.
Deadlines
Submission of draft papers: March 1st, 2000
Notification of acceptance to authors: April 15th, 2000
Camera ready papers due: May 15th, 2000
Conference: July 10-13th, 2000
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Contributed by: pascal@icsc.ab.ca
First Call for Papers
International Congress on
INFORMATION SCIENCE INNOVATIONS (ISI'2001)
to be held at the American University in Dubai, U.A.E.
from March 20-23, 2001
http//www.icsc.ab.ca/isi2001.htm
The congress consists of the following four Symposia:
1. CLINICAL TRIALS (CT'2001)
2. E-BUSINESS AND BEYOND (EBB'2001)
3. INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING (IAM'2001)
4. ENGINEERING OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
ISI'2001 will include invited plenary talks, contributed
sessions, invited sessions, workshops and tutorials.
INVITED SESSIONS
The organization of invited sessions is encouraged. Prospective
organizers are requested to send a session proposal (consisting
of 4-5 invited papers, the recommended session-chair and
co-chair, as well as a short statement describing the title and
the purpose of the session) to the respective symposium chair
or the congress organizer. Invited sessions should preferrably
start with a tutorial paper. The registration fee of the session
organizer will be waived, if at least 4 authors of invited
papers register to the conference.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Poster presentations are encouraged for people who wish to
receive peer feedback and practical examples of applied research
are particularly welcome. Poster sessions will allow the
presentation and discussion of respective papers, which will
also be included in the conference proceedings.
WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS
Several workshops/tutorials are planned for ISI'2001. Each
workshop/tutorial will focus on a particular topic, and consist
of several presentations and open discussions. The proposal for
a workshop/tutorial should include the title, topics covered,
proposed speakers, targeted audiences, and estimated length
(hours) of the workshop/tutorial. The proposal should be
submitted either to the congress chair, the corresponding
symposium chair or the congress organizer by June 30, 2000.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Prospective authors are requested to either send a draft paper
(maximum 7 pages) or an extended abstract for review by the
International Program Committee. All submissions must be
written in English, starting with a succinct statement of the
problem, the results achieved, their significance and a
comparison with previous work.
Submissions must be received by June 30, 2000.
The submission should also include
- Title of symposium (CT'2001, EBB'2001, IAM'2001 or ENAIS'2001)
- Type of paper (regular, poster, tutorial or invited)
- Authors names, affiliations, addresses
- Name of author to contact for correspondence
- E-mail address and fax # of contact author
- Topics which best describe the paper (max. 5 keywords)
- Short CV of authors (recommended)
Submission by electronic mail is strongly recommended to
operating@icsc.ab.ca
or else by fax or mail (2 copies) to the following address:
NAISO / ICSC
Natural and Artificial Intelligent Systems Organization
P.O. Box 279
Millet, AB T0C 1Z0 / Canada
Fax: +1-780-387-4329
Phone: +1-780-387-3546
Email: operating@icsc.ab.ca
IMPORTANT DATES
June 30, 2000: Submission deadline
September 30, 2000: Notification of acceptance
November 30, 2000: Delivery of full papers
March 20-23, 2001: ISI'2001 congress
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Contributed by: A.J.W.v.d. Boom,
Second NICONET workshop December 3, 1999
The Second NICONET workshop will be held at INRIA Rocquencourt, France.
The workshop is sponsored by the EU. The workshop covers all aspects of
numerical software in systems and control and their implementation and use
in industrial practice. See the NICONET website at:
http://www.win.tue.nl/niconet
for more details
Prospective authors of the poster session are invited to submit two copies
of a camera ready paper describing the contents of the poster contribution
to the workshop secretariat before November 15, 1999.
Workshop secretariat:
Mrs. Christine Bren
Fax: + 33-1-39635638
Mail: INRIA, Relations Exterieures
Domaine de Voluceau Rocquencourt B.P. 105
78153 Le CHESNAY CEDEX (FRANCE)
WWW: http://www-rocq.inria.fr/Niconet/register.html
e-mail: symposia@inria.fr
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Contributed by: Rene Boel, SYSTeMS, Universiteit Gent
Announcement and Call for Papers
5th Workshop on Discrete Event Systems
(WODES2000)
August 21-23, 2000
Ghent, Belgium
Extended abstracts for contributed papers, and proposals for special,
invited sessions are sollicited for the Fifth Workshop on Discrete Event
Systems, to be held in Ghent, Belgium, on August 21-23, 2000.
Deadline for Submissions: January 15, 2000
==========================VENUE =======================
The Workshop on Discrete Event Systems will be organised for the 5th
time in Ghent, Belgium, on August 21-23, 2000, following earlier
successful meetings in Prague, Antibes, Edinburgh, and Cagliari. It will
take place in the conference centre het Pand of the University of
Ghent, a historical building in the centre of Ghent.
======================= AIMS AND SCOPES =================
The interdisciplinary field of Discrete Event Systems combines
methodologies and tools from control and from computer science. The
research activity in this field is driven by the needs of many different
applications domains: manufacturing, process control, supervisory
control, transportation, software engineering.
The workshop aims to provide researchers from different fields (control
theoreticians and control engineers, software engineers and computer
scientists) with an opportunity to exchange information and new ideas, and
to discuss new developments in the field of Discrete Event Systems. Both
theory and applications of discrete event systems will be discussed.
=========================== TOPICS ======================
The workshop will focus on all topics in the field of discrete events
system analysis and control, including amongst others:
- supervisory control and real time control),
- analysis tools for discrete event systems (such as perturbation
analysis, (max,+)-algebra, verification tools)
- computer science tools (with emphasis on hybrid systems, reactive
systems, Petri nets, process algebras, software verification and
design),
- applications (including manufacturing systems, transportation
systems, process control, software engineering, system analysis and
design).
======================= PROGRAMME ======================
The workshop programme will consist of contributed lectures, contributed
special sessions, and a number of plenary invited talks, covering
different topics in the field of discrete events systems.
========== CONTRIBUTED PAPERS/IMPORTANT DATES ===========
Contributed papers containing original, unpublished research results
should be submitted to the workshop at the address below. Submission by
e-mail and in LaTeX is preferred. The maximum page size for contributed
papers is 6 pages (A4). Papers will be reviewed by the programme committee
and by external reviewers.
Full versions (max. 6 pages) of the accepted contributions will appear in
the proceedings of the Workshop. Style files and instructions for
preparation of camera-ready copy will be made available on the web page
for the workshop. These Proceedings will be published prior to the
workshop.
Proposals for special sessions concerning topics of special interest for
the Discrete Event Systems community are also being sollicited. Each
session should contain between 4 and 6 papers. Papers belonging to one
contributed sessions will be individually reviewed, by the same
reviewers.
Important dates:
JANUARY 15, 2000: Deadline for submission of contributed Papers, and of
special sessions
APRIL 1, 2000: Notification of acceptance of papers, second
announcement, and preliminary programme
May 2000: Deadline for submission of final version of accepted papers
JUNE 15, 2000: Deadline for early registration
AUGUST 21-23, 2000: WORKSHOP
==================== REGISTRATION ======================
Please register early by using the form on the Web server
at
http://systems.rug.ac.be/wodes2000
Information regarding hotel reservation will also be made available on
this web site.
=================== WORKSHOP ADDRESS ====================
All inquiries regarding the workshop, and all contributions, PREFERABLY
in electronic form (Postscript or adobe) are to be directed to
WODES2000
Rene Boel
SYSTeMS Group, Universiteit Gent,
Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 9
B-9052 Gent
Belgium
e-mail: rene.boel@rug.ac.be
Phone: +32-9-2645658
Fax: +32-9-2645840
Up to date information, and registration forms are available from:
WWW: http://systems.rug.ac.be/wodes2000
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Contributed by: Alexander Fradkov
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
"CONTROL OF OSCILLATIONS AND CHAOS" (COC'2000)
Saint-Petersburg, RUSSIA
July 5-7, 2000
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SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
(Attention: New deadline for submissions: November 30 !)
ORGANIZERS:
- St.Petersburg Informatics and Control Society
- Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering
of Russian Academy of Sciences
- St.Petersburg State University
SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE:
The first International Conference on Control of Oscillations and Chaos
(COC'97) was held in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1997 and was a great
success (with about 200 participants from 35 countries, see report
at http://www.ipme.ru/coc97.html ). This second Conference will be
focusing on the same subjects of controlling oscillatory dynamical
systems, with emphasis on both theory and applications.
A major goal of the Conference is to bring together researchers from
various fields, to advance the state-of-the-art control theory and
technology for the control and analysis of complex oscillatory dynamical
systems and to gain some general and unified perspectives in this
interdisciplinary field of advanced research.
The topics for the Conference include but are not limited to:
- Nonlinear, adaptive and robust control of complex behavior;
- Analysis and design of oscillatory systems;
- Modeling and identification of oscillatory systems;
- Synchronization of oscillatory and chaotic processes;
- Control of oscillations and waves in distributed and time-delayed
systems;
- Applications of control of oscillations, bifurcations and chaos
in science and technology (mechanics, physics, chemistry, biology,
telecommunications, medicine, lasers, power systems, finance,etc.).
SUBMISSION:
The Organizing Committee invites the prospective authors to submit 4 copies
of their papers (4-6 pages) by November 30, 1999 to the Organizing
Committee. The title should be followed by the authors' names, affiliations,
addresses (including FAX and E-mail address) and abstracts (60-100 words).
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for submission: November 30, 1999.
Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2000.
Camera ready copy: April 15, 2000.
Conference: July 5-7, 2000.
WORKING LANGUAGE:
English will be the official language of the Conference.
No simultaneous translation will be provided.
LOCATION:
St.Petersburg is located in the mouth of Neva river near the Finnish Gulf
of the Baltic Sea. There are daily flights of major international
carriers to the International airport "Pulkovo" of St.Petersburg.
It also can be reached from Helsinki, Finland by plane (0.5 hours)
or by train (4 hours).
ADDRESS OF ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Prof.A.L.Fradkov
The Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering
61 Bolshoy ave. V.O.
199178, St.Petersburg, RUSSIA
Tel: +7(812)321-4766, Fax: +7(812)321-4771
E-mail: coc2000@ccs.ipme.ru
http://www.ipme.ru/coc2000.html
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