E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing ISSUE No. 44, 24 Sept 1991 Editors: Bradley W. Dickinson bradley@princeton.edu or bradley@pucc.bitnet Eduardo D. Sontag sontag@hilbert.rutgers.edu or sontag@pisces.bitnet ***************************************************************************** * SEE BELOW FOR AN UPDATE ON THE SCAD DATABASE: * * * * Customize your CDC program by editing the ONLINE complete program... * * * * ALSO: See Conference and Hotel Registration Forms for 1991 CDC below * * * ***************************************************************************** Welcome. We remind you that items for posting can be emailed to either of the editors. PLEASE SEND CONTRIBUTIONS, since the eletter can only be useful if everyone participates. A REQUEST: It would be useful if articles are already sent in the format that we use, starting with a "Contributed by:..." and a title centered in the next line. In addition, please provide a 60-character title for the Contents. 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NOTE: if you are using an editor to read this mailing and if at any point you wish to skip to the next article, you can accomplish this by searching for the string: *.** Contents Changes to mailing list Personals: People on the move People going up Awards and Recognitions Update on the SCAD database -- INCLUDING INFO ON CDC PROGRAM ONLINE Journals: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization Vol. 30,#1, Jan 1992 Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing Vol. 10, No. 4, 1991 Papers recently accepted for MCSS Linear Algebra and its Applications Vol 158, November 15, 1991 CSSP Special Issue "Networks for Neural Processing" LAA Special issue Linear Algebra and Statistics New Journal: Adaptive Behavior Conferences: Conference and Hotel Registration Forms for 1991 CDC Post-CDC Wkshp Robust and Multivar Control (Bangalore, India) Sessions at IMACS Intl Symp, Dec 7-11, 1992 (Bangalore, India) 2nd ORSA Telecommunications Conference announcement New Books Published: Signal Processing and Systems Theory: Chui and Chen Communication Networks - A First Course: Jean Walrand Vector Quantization and Signal Compression: Gersho and Gray Faculty Positions Available/Wanted: Research Positions in Speech Processing in Switzerland Openings: Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by the Editors: Changes/Additions to mailing list. Changes and Updates: ------------------- rortega@mcrcim.mcgill.ca (Romeo Ortega, McGill Univ., Montreal) pi@sor.ece.jhu.edu (Pablo Iglesias, Johns Hopkins Univ.) df2g@dlrvm.bitnet (Andy Bartlett, DLR-FF-DF, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany) hager@math.ufl.edu (Bill Hager, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville) lfaybuso@ndcvx.cc.nd.edu (Leonid Faybusovich, Notre Dame Univ.) wfk@minnie.bell.inmet.com (Wolf Kohn, Intermetrics) runggal@ipdunivx.unipd.it (Wolfgang Runggaldier, Univ. of Padova, Italy) hisashi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Hisashi Kobayashi, on leave at Univ. of Tokyo) zhicheng@cae.wisc.edu (Zhicheng Shi, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison) tomy@atc.boeing.com (Thomas A. Tucker, Boeing High Tech. Center, Seattle, WA) hjt@ecehjt.ncsu.edu (Joel Trussell, North Carolina State Univ. Raleigh) ben@boxhill.com (Benjamin Monderer, BoxHill Systems Corp., New York) amy@vax135.att.com (Amy Reibman, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ) lshaw@tasha.poly.edu (Len Shaw, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY) bamieh@control.csl.uiuc.edu (Bassam Bamieh, Univ. of Illinois) elelimyc@nusvm.bitnet (Y.C. Lim, National Univ. of Singapore) hjch@bs.win.tue.nl (Henri Huijberts, Eindhoven Univ. of Tech, Netherlands) mim@hyperion.wustl.edu (Michael Miller, Washington Univ. St., Louis, MO) kamen@ee.gatech.edu (Ed Kamen, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta) bullock@ee1.ee.ufl.edu (Tom E. Bullock, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville) Additions: --------- gombani@pdcnr1.pd.cnr.it (Andrea Gombani, LADSEB-CNR, Padova, Italy) jon@sputnik.mit.edu (Jonathan How, MIT) straussn@pgate.boeing.com (Nicholas Strauss, Boeing, Seattle, WA) gahinet@colorado.inria.fr (Pascal Gahinet, INRIA, Le Chesnay, France) agmas@asuacad.bitnet (Mohammed Sarhan, Arizona State Univ., Tempe) bucchianico@rugr86.rug.nl (Alessandro Di Bucchianico, Groningen) helton@osiris.ucsd.edu (Bill Helton, Univ. of California, San Diego) ken@control.eng.glasgow.ac.uk (Kenneth Hunt, Glasgow Univ., Scotland, UK) bradtke@envy.cs.umass.edu (Steven Bradtke, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst) zqz@bach.caltech.edu (Zhi (Alex) Q. Zheng, Caltech, Pasadena, CA) chowj@ecse.rpi.edu (Joe Chow, Rennselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY) emmanuel@sie.arizona.edu (Emmanuel Fernandez, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson) feiyue@sie.arizona.edu (Feiyue Wang, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson) harnden@auvm.bitnet (Eric Harnden, American Univ., Washington, D.C.) meyer@frulm63.bitnet (Jean-Arcady Meyer, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris) malan@itopoli.bitnet (Stefano Malan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy) eeks@ccnyvme.bitnet (Kenneth Sobel, CCNY/CUNY, New York) madams@eagle.mit.edu (Milton Adams, MIT) kulkarni@ee.princeton.edu (Sanjeev Kulkarni, Princeton Univ.) lxrodm@wmvm1.bitnet (Lieba Rodman, Coll. of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA) ojha@autoctrl.rug.ac.be (Piyush C. Ojha, Univ. of Gent, Belgium) inan@trmetu.bitnet (Kemal Inan, Middle East Tech. Univ., Ankara, Turkey) prbarros@brufpb2.bitnet (Pericles Rezende Barros, U. Fed. Paraiba, Brazil) yunw@uscvm.usc.edu (Yun Wang, Univ. of So. California, Los Angeles) echong@ecn.purdue.edu (Edwin Chong, Purdue Univ., W. Lafayette, IN) tsinoli@ceride.bitnet (Carlos Enrique Neuman, INTEC, Santa Fe, Argentina) sandeep@violet.berkeley.edu (Sandeep Pandey, Univ. of California, Berkeley) verma@fangorn.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Madanpal Verma, McGill Univ., Montreal) *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by the Editors -- PERSONALS ********** PEOPLE ON THE MOVE ************ (1) Henri Huijberts has moved from the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, Enschede to the Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology. Address: Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Email: hjch@bs.win.tue.nl. Telephone: (+31)(40474230) (2) Athanasios Kehagias defended his thesis ("Approximation of Stochastic Processes by Hidden Markov Models", advisor Stuart Geman, Brown Un., Division of Applied Mathematics) on July 25 and is now returning to Greece to serve in the military. (3) Romeo Ortega's new address is: McGill University Dept. of Electrical Engg. & McRCIM 3480 University St. Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2A7 CANADA Tel: (514)398-7140 FAX: (514)398-4470 e-mail: rortega@mcrcim.mcgill.ca (4) Pablo Iglesias, from Cambridge University, has recently been appointed Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University. His new address is: 310 Barton Hall Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218 TEL: (301) 516-6026 FAX: (301) 338-5566 e-mail: pi@ruth.ece.jhu.edu (5) Wolf Kohn, effective Sept 13, will be leaving BOEING and Joining Intermetrics as chief scientist in the area of Intelligent Control. (6) Dennis Bernstein was appointed as an Associate Professor with the Dept. Aerospace Engineering, Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2140. His e-mail is (temporarily) barich@um.cc.umich.edu. Phone is 313-764-3719, fax is 313-763-0578. (7) Hisashi Kobayashi is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, on leave from Princeton University where he recently completed his term as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. His email address in Tokyo is hisashi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp ********** PEOPLE GOING UP ************ Richard Vinter has been appointed __Professor of Control Theory__ at Imperial College, London. Congratulations!! ******* send us more information for the gossip column!!! ******* *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Raimund J. 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New contents: ============= The following scad directories contain new material: conferences: - subdirectory: `cdc91': program of 1991 CDC in Brighton, UK. eletters: - eletter issues: 42-1, 42-2, 43 journal contents: - content pages of MCSS vols. 1,2,3,4 books: - subdirectory `sontag': complete index and bibliography for E.D. Sontag's "Mathematical Control Theory" preprints: - subdirectory `syconreports': -- Abstracts of the reports of the Rutgers Center for Systems and Control (Sycon) years 88-91. -- Sycon reports: 91-03, 91-05, 91-06, 91-07, 91-08 *********** Remember to send your tech reports and other material! ********* How to access scad: =================== Scad can be accessed using ftp. The ftp address is: ftp ftp.utdallas.edu (IP number: 129.110.10.11) You simply type: ftp ftp.utdallas.edu or: 129.110.10.11 When asked for your name, type: anonymous When asked for your password, type your emailaddress: me@mymachine.myuniversity To get to scad type: cd pub/scad To get more info about scad get the README file and examine it on your machine: get README To see the directories in scad type: dir To change to (e.g.) conferences: cd conferences To see the subdirectories: dir To change to the CDC91 subdirectory: cd 91cdc-prog To examine this directory: dir To get a file, type e.g.: get AdvPrgmFinal-Wed.txt To finish the session: quit What follows is an example of such a session: ftp ftp.utdallas.edu Connected to ASPEN.UTDALLAS.EDU. 220 aspen.utdallas.edu FTP server (Version 5.64) ready. Name (ftp.utdallas.edu:joe): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, please send your e-mail address as a password. Password: 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> cd pub/scad/conferences/91cdc-prog 250 CWD command successful. ftp> get README 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for README (77 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: README remote: README 79 bytes received in 0.04 seconds (1.9 Kbytes/s) ftp> get AdvPrgmFinal-Wed.txt 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for AdvPrgmFinal-Wed.txt (44311 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: AdvPrgmFinal-Wed.txt remote: AdvPrgmFinal-Wed.txt 45857 bytes received in 7.3 seconds (6.1 Kbytes/s) ftp> get AdvPrgmFinal-Th.txt 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for AdvPrgmFinal-Th.txt (42454 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: AdvPrgmFinal-Th.txt remote: AdvPrgmFinal-Th.txt 43909 bytes received in 20 seconds (2.1 Kbytes/s) ftp> get AdvPrgmFinal-F.txt 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for AdvPrgmFinal-F.txt (42111 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: AdvPrgmFinal-F.txt remote: AdvPrgmFinal-F.txt 43571 bytes received in 7 seconds (6.1 Kbytes/s) ftp> quit MORE INFO: There is README file in /pub/scad which contains more info on how to submit material to SCAD. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: SIAMPUBS@wilma.wharton.upenn.edu SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization Vol. 30, No. 1, Janaury 1992 Lagrange Multipliers in Stochastic Programming Sjur D. Flam Algebraic Geometric Aspects of Feedback Stabilization Shiva Shankar and V. R. Sule Unbounded Solutions to the Linear Quadratic Control Problem G. Da Prato and M. C. Delfour Local Convergences and Optimal Shape Design Wenbin Liu and J. E. Rubio Stable Solutions of Real Algebraic Matrix Riccati Equations Andre C. M. Ran and Leiba Rodman Sufficiency Criteria via Focal Points and via Couples Points Vera Zeidan Properties of Energy-Minimizing Segmentations Jayant Shah The Revenge of the Linear Search Problem Anatole Beck and Micah Beck H -Control by State-Feedback for Plants with Zeros on the Imaginary Axis Carsten Scherer H -Optimization Without Assumptions on Finite or Infinite Zeros Carsten Scherer Boundary Velocity Control of Incompressible Flow with an Application to Viscsous Drag Reduction Max D. Gunzberger, Lisheng Hou, and Thomas Svobodny The Discrete Time H Control Problem with Measurement Feedback A. A. Stoorvogel New Results in Pole Assignment by Real Output Feedback Joachim Rosenthal Information and Strategies in Dynamic Gams P. Bernhard On the Modelling and Exact Controllability of Networks of Vibrating Strings E. J. P. George Schmidt *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: zeman@sbee.eng.sunysb.edu (Armen H. Zemanian) TABLE OF CONTENTS CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING Birkhauser-Boston, Inc. 675 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 601 Cambridge, MA 02139-3309 (617) 876-2333 Vol. 10, No. 4, 1991. Sign Algorithms for Blind Equalization and Their Convergence Analysis, Vijitha Weerackody, Saleem A. Kassam, and Kenneth R. Laker Symmetric Sine and Cosine Structures for Trigonometric Transforms, Yuk-He Chan and Wan-Chi Siu Robust Stability and Sensitivity of Input-Output Systems Over Extended Spaces. Part II: Sensitivity, Vaclav Dolezal Duality, Observability, and Controllability for Linear Time-Varying Descriptor Systems, Stephen L. Campbell, Nancy K. Nichols, and William J. Terrell On Rational Interpolation with Positivity Constraints, A. Lepschy, G. A. Mian, and U. Viaro Higher-Order Statistics-Based Input/Output System Identification and Application to Noise Cancellation, G. B. Giannakis and A. V. Dandawate *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: the editors Papers recently accepted for MCSS The following papers have been recently accepted for publication in Math of Control, Signals, and Systems. They should appear in Volume 5, 1992: Nonlinear H-infinity control theory for stable plants Joe A. Ball and J. William Helton Time-scale decomposition of the reachable set of constrained linear systems Asen L. Dontchev An Algebraic Approach to Supervisory Control K. Inan Topological aspects of the partial realization problem W. Manthey, U. Helmke, and D. Hinrichsen Stable Hermitian solutions of discrete algebraic Riccati equations Andre C.M. Ran and Leiba Rodman Continuous dependence of solutions to the Liapunov equation relative to an elliptic differential operator of order 3 Takao Nambu Optimality conditions for impulsive control of piecewise-deterministic processes Dariusz Gatarek *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Hans Schneider Linear Algebra and its Applications Contents Volume 158, November 15, 1991 Cristian Mallol, Artibano Micali (Montepellier, France), and Moussa Ouattara (Burkina Faso) Sur les Algebres de Bernstein. IV 1 Osvaldo Maria Grasselli (Roma, Italy) and Sauro Longhi (Ancona, Italy) The Geometric Approach for Linear Periodic Discrete-Time Systems 27 Jiang Feng and Zhou Rong-Fu (Nanjing, The People's Republic of China) An Error Bound on the AOR Method for Solving Linear Systems 61 B. V. Rajarama Bhat (New Delhi, India) On Greatest Common Divisor Matrices and Their Applications 77 Newton R. Santos (Horizonte, Brasil) Applying the JII, JII-SI, and CG Methods to Two Classes of Linear Problems 99 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: George Georgiou Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue On NETWORKS FOR NEURAL PROCESSING Guest Editors: W.A. Porter, University of Alabama, Huntsville S.C. Kak, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge Papers are solicited on the theoretical foundations, challenging applications and efficient parallel architectures for neural computing. Suggested topics include: training for generalization, use of higher order moments, rapid training algorithms, nonbinary design, optimization networks, and mapping networks. Papers which critique and/or compare recent developments in neural computation are also of interest. Papers should be prepared according to the Information for Contributors on the inside back cover of Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing. Papers should be submitted by January 20, 1992 in care of: Professor William A. Porter Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The Univesity of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, AL 35899 For further information contact Professor S.C. Kak at kak@max.ee.lsu.edu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Richard A. Brualdi LAA Special Issue Ingram Olkin will celebrate his seventieth birthday in 1994. A special issue of the journal will honor him for his many important contributions to linear algebra and its applications to statistics. The purpose of this announcement is to solicit papers for this special issue. Anyone may submit a paper for this issue. Contributions should be appropriate for publication in Linear Algebra and its Applications and will be subject to the usual review process. All papers that fall within the scope of the journal, including the use of linear algebra in statistics, can be submitted for this special issue. The deadline for submissions is August 31, 1992. Papers should be submitted to one of the special editors of the issue: Friedrich Pukelsheim Institut fur Mathematik Universitat Augsburg Memminger Strasse 6 D-8900 Augsburg, Germany George P. H. Styan Department of Mathematics and Statistics McGill University, Burnside Hall 1240 805 ouest, rue Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2K6 Henry Wolkowicz Department of Combinatorics and Optimization Faculty of Mathematics University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 Ion Zaballa Departamento de Matematica Aplicada Universidad del Pais Vasco Apdo. Correos 450 01080 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Papers can also be submitted through the editor-in-chief. Publication of the special issue is planned for the fall of 1993. We hope that you will join in this tribute to our esteemed colleague. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Jean-Arcady Meyer or Call for papers A D A P T I V E B E H A V I O R An international journal devoted to experimental and theoretical research on adaptive behavior in animals and in autonomous artificial systems, with emphasis on mechanisms, organizational principles, and architectures that can be expressed in computational, physical, or mathematical models. Broadly, behavior is adaptive if it deals successfully with changed circumstances. The adapting entities may be individuals or populations, over short or long time scales. The journal will publish articles, reviews, and short communications that treat the following topics, among others, from the perspective of adaptive behavior. Perception and motor control Ontogeny, learning and evolution Motivation and emotion Action selection and behavioral sequences Internal world models and cognitive processes Architectures, organizational principles, and functional approaches Collective behavior Characterization of environments Among its scientific objectives, the Journal aims to emphasize an approach complementary to traditional AI, in which basic abilities that allow animals to survive, or robots to perform their mission in unpredictable environments, will be studied in preference to more elaborated and human-specific abilities. The Journal also aims to investigate which new insights into intelligence or cognition can be achieved by explicitly taking into account the environmental feedback --mediated by behavior--that an animal or a robot receives, instead of studying components of intelligence in isolation. The journal will be published quarterly, beginning with the Summer issue of 1992. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jean-Arcady Meyer (Ecole Normale Superieure, France) email: meyer@wotan.ens.fr meyer@frulm63.bitnet tel: (1) 43 29 12 25 ext 3623 fax: (1) 43 29 70 85 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Randall Beer (Case Western Reserve Univ., USA) Lashon Booker (MITRE Corp., USA) Jean-Louis Deneubourg (Univ. of Bruxelles, Belgium) Janet Halperin (Univ. of Toronto, Canada) Pattie Maes (MIT Media Lab., USA) Herbert Roitblat (Univ. of Hawaii, USA) Ronald Williams (Northeastern University, USA) Stewart Wilson (The Rowland Institute for Science, USA). EDITORIAL BOARD David Ackley (Bellcore, USA) Michael Arbib (Univ. South. California, USA) Andrew Barto (Univ. of Massachusetts, USA) Richard Belew (Univ. of California, USA) Rodney Brooks (MIT AI Lab., USA) Patrick Colgan (Canadian Museum of Nature, Canada) Holk Cruse (Univ. Bielefeld, Germany) Daniel Dennett (Tufts Univ., USA) Jorg-Peter Ewert (Univ. Kassel, Germany) Nicolas Franceschini (Univ. Marseille, France) David Goldberg (Univ. of Illinois, USA) John Greffenstette (Naval Research Lab., USA) Patrick Greussay (Univ. Paris 8, France) Stephen Grossberg (Center for Adaptive Systems, USA) John Holland (Univ. Michigan, USA) Keith Holyoak (Univ. California, USA) Christopher Langton (Los Alamos National Lab., USA) David McFarland (Univ. of Oxford, UK) Thomas Miller (Univ. of New Hampshire, USA) Norman Packard (Univ. of Illinois, USA) Tim Smithers (Edinburgh Univ., UK) Luc Steels (VUB AI Lab., Belgium) Richard Sutton (GTE Labs., USA) Frederick Toates (The Open University, UK) David Waltz (Thinking Machines Corp., USA) To be published, an article should report substantive new results that significantly advance understanding of adaptive behavior. Critical reviews of existing work will also be considered. Contributions will originate from a range of disciplines including robotics, artificial intelligence, connectionism, classifier systems and genetic algorithms, psychology and cognitive science, behavioral ecology, and ethology among others. Ideally, an article will suggest implications for both natural and artificial systems. Authors should aim to make their results, and the results' significance, clear and understandable to the Journal's multi- disciplinary readership. Very general, speculative, or narrowly specialized papers, papers with substantially incomplete conceptual, experimental, or computational results, or papers irrelevant to the subject of adaptive behavior may be returned to authors without formal review. Submissions should be sent to: Dr. Jean-Arcady Meyer, Editor Adaptive Behavior Groupe de BioInformatique Ecole Normale Superieure 46 rue d'Ulm 75230 Paris Cedex05 FRANCE Please send five (5) copies of all materials. For subscription information, please contact: MIT Press Journals Circulation Department 55 Hayward Street Cambridge, Ma 02142 tel: 617-253-2889 fax: 617-258-6779 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Jim Taylor, 1991 CDC Publications Chair: Conference and Hotel Registration Forms for 1991 CDC The following forms may be used for Conference and Hotel Registration for the 30th Conference on Decision and Control, 11-13 Dec.1991, Brighton, ENGLAND. For further information, you may request a copy of the CDC Advance Program, by sending your full address (**in a form that can be used as an address label**) via FAX, e-mail, or regular mail to: James H. Taylor GE Corporate R & D Bldg. 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Name: ____________________________________________________________ Institution: _____________________________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________________ City: ____________________ County/state: ________________________ Country: ____________________ Telephone: ________________________ Sharing room with: ____________________________________________ Arrival date: _____________________ Time: ________________________ Departure date: _____________________ (Check out by Noon) Reservations must include a deposit for one night's stay. This can be paid by a cheque or money order in pounds sterling or by using a credit card: _________ Mastercard _________ Visa _________ American Express Credit Card No.: _____________________________________ Expiration date: _____________________________________ ** Signature: _____________________________________ NB: Priority is given to delegates staying three nights. - - - - - - - - - - - - cut here - End of CDC Forms - - - - - - - - - - - - *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: pramod@dip.eecs.umich.edu WORKSHOP ON ROBUST AND MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL A post-CDC two day workshop on robust and multivariable control will be held at the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Bangalore, India on December 19-20, 1991. Individuals interested in participating in the workshop are invited to contact M. Vidyasagar, Director Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Raj Bhavan Circle, High Grounds, Bangalore, 560001, INDIA. Email: sagar@yantra.ernet.in Tel. 9181227803 or Pramod Khargonekar Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122 Email: pramod@dip.eecs.umich.edu pramod@caen.engin.umich.edu Tel. 313-764-4328 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: dattab@math.niu.edu (Biswa Datta) Special Sessions On "Large-Scale and Parallel Matrix Computations" and "Numerical Methods in Signal, Systems and Control" at the IMACS - International Symposium on Scientific Computing and Mathematical Modeling December 7-11, 1992 Bangalore, India Please send three copies of the extended abstracts of the contributed talks to: Professor Biswa Nath Datta Department of Mathematical Sciences NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY DeKalb, IL 60115 FAX: (815)753-0198 E-MAIL: dattab@math.niu.edu or na.bdatta@na-net.ornl.gov The sessions will have both contributed and invited talks. All contributed papers will be refereed. The accepted papers will be published in Proceedings of the conference. Deadline: October 15, 1991 For further information on registration, local arrangements and other details of the scientific program of the conference, please contact: Professor S.K. Dey (chairman) Department of Mathematics Eastern Illinois University Charleston, IL 61920 E-MAIL: cfsdk@eiu.edu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: David Yao %plain TeX file for 2nd ORSA Telecommunications Conference announcement \magnification=1100 \nopagenumbers \def\bsk{\vskip .5cm\noindent} \def\ssk{\vskip .2cm\noindent} \def\hsk{\vskip .1cm\noindent} \centerline {{\bf Second ORSA Telecommunications Conference}} \vskip .5cm\noindent The Second ORSA (Operations Research Society of America) Telecommunications Conference will be held on March 9-11, 1992 in Boca Raton, Florida. The conference organizing committee includes: Donald M. Topkis (General Chair), David D. Yao (Program Chair), Robert B. Cooper (Local Arrangements), Mary Magrogan (ORSA Business Office), Clyde Monma, and Hasan Pirkul. \ssk The conference theme is ``Operations Research in Telecommunications: Methods and Applications''. The objective of the conference is to explore the use of OR methodologies and to bring out OR contributions in the many aspects of telecommunications, from dynamic operational control to short and long term planning and management. Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following: \hsk $$\vbox{\settabs 2 \columns \+Distributed Systems & Network Planning \cr \+Dynamic Routing/Scheduling & Network Topology \cr \+Fiber Optical Networks & Parallel Processors \cr \+Flow Control, Admission Control & Performance Evaluation \cr \+Local Area Networks, Cyclic Service & Stability, Stationarity\cr \+Loss Networks & Stochastic Optimization \cr \+Network Management & Simulation Based Methods \cr}$$ \ssk Two kinds of submissions are invited: (i) proposals for organized sessions, and (ii) presentations for contributed sessions. For both submissions, only abstracts are required. Each abstract should be limited to one page. Each proposal for an invited session should include abstracts for all presentations, and a cover letter from the session organizer to comment on the common theme of the presentations. All abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee. Please send three copies of proposals and/or abstracts to David D. Yao IEOR Department and Center for Telecommunications Research 312 Mudd, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027-6699 (Phone: 212-854-2934; email: yao@marcy.ieor.columbia.edu; fax: 212-316-9068) \ssk\noindent {\bf Plenary Speakers:} \hsk $$\vbox{\settabs 2 \columns \+ B. Hajek (U. Illinois) & M. Schwartz (Columbia) \cr \+ L. Kleinrock (UCLA) & G. Shanthikumar (Berkeley) \cr \+ D. Mitra (AT\&T Bell Labs.) & J. Tsitsiklis (MIT) \cr}$$ \ssk\noindent {\bf Program Committee:} \hsk $$\vbox{\settabs 3 \columns \+ V. Anantharam (Cornell) & C. Monma (Bellcore) & D. Topkis (U.C. Davis) \cr \+ R. Cooper (Florida Atlantic) & R. Nelson (IBM) & S. Verdu (Princeton) \cr \+ A. Cox (USWest) & M. Pinedo (Columbia) & J. Walrand (Berkeley) \cr \+ B. Gavish (Vanderbilt) & H. Pirkul (Ohio State) & W. Whitt (AT\&T Bell Labs.)\cr \+ A. Lazar (Columbia) & K. Ross (U. Pennsylvania) & D. Yao (Columbia) \cr \+ B. Melamed (NEC) & L. Servi (GTE) &\cr}$$ \ssk\noindent {\bf Important Dates:} \hsk Deadline for submission of organized session proposals: October 1, 1991 Deadline for submission of contributed session abstracts: October 15, 1991 Notification of acceptance: December 15, 1991 Deadline for pre-registration: February 1, 1992 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: GChen@uh.edu (Guanrong (Ron) Chen) New Book information: Title: "SIGNAL PROCESSING AND SYSTEMS THEORY --- Selected Topics" C. K. Chui and G. Chen (Texas A & M) (Univ. of Houston) Springer Series in Information Sciences, Vol.26, Springer-Verlag, 1991 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% OUTLINE of CONTENTS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 1. DIGITAL SIGNALS AND DIGITAL FILTERS ----------------------------- 1 1.1 Analog and Digital Signals -------------------------------------- 1 1.2 Time and Frequency Domains -------------------------------------- 8 1.3 z-Transforms --------------------------------------------------- 15 1.4 Digital Filters ------------------------------------------------ 23 1.5 Optimal Digital Filter Design Criteria ------------------------- 33 EXERCISES --------------------------------------------------- 41 2. LINEAR SYSTEMS ------------------------------------------------- 51 2.1 State-Space Descriptions --------------------------------------- 51 2.2 Transfer Matrices and Minimal Realization ---------------------- 59 2.3 SISO Linear Systems -------------------------------------------- 67 2.4 Sensitivity and Feedback Systems ------------------------------- 77 EXERCISES --------------------------------------------------- 95 3. APPROXIMATION IN HARDY SPACES ----------------------------------- 92 3.1 Hardy Spaces Preliminaries ------------------------------------- 93 3.2 Least-Squares Approximation ------------------------------------ 98 3.3 Minimum-Norm Interpolation ------------------------------------ 109 3.4 Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation --------------------------------- 115 EXERCISES -------------------------------------------------- 124 4. OPTIMAL HANKEL-NORM APPROXIMATION AND H-infinity-MINIMIZATION - 129 4.1 The Nehari Theorem and Related Results ------------------------ 130 4.2 s-Numbers and Schmidt Pairs ----------------------------------- 139 4.3 Systems Reduction --------------------------------------------- 150 4.4 H-infinity-Minimization --------------------------------------- 163 EXERCISES -------------------------------------------------- 176 5. GENERAL THEORY OF OPTIMAL HANKEL-NORM APPROXIMATION ----------- 184 5.1 Existence and Preliminary Results ----------------------------- 184 5.2 Uniqueness of Schmidt Pairs ----------------------------------- 203 5.3 The Greatest Common Divisor: the Inner Function f(z) ---------- 207 5.4 AAK's Main Theorem on Best Hankel-Norm Approximation ---------- 215 EXERCISES -------------------------------------------------- 221 6. H-infinity-OPTIMIZATION AND SYSTEMS REDUCTION FOR MIMO SYSTEMS 227 6.1 Balanced Realization of MIMO Linear Systems ------------------- 227 6.2 Matrix-Valued All-pass Transfer Functions --------------------- 233 6.3 Optimal Hankel-Norm Approximation for MIMO Systems ------------ 241 EXERCISES -------------------------------------------------- 264 BIBLIOGRAPHY ------------------------------------------------------ 270 LIST OF SYMBOLS --------------------------------------------------- 287 INDEX ------------------------------------------------------------- 288 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Jean Walrand New book published: Jean Walrand: Communication Networks - A First Course. Publisher: Aksen Associates - R. Irwin Description: Junior-Senior Level book on networks Desk Copy: Contact Irwin's Faculty Service at 1-800-323-4560 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Bob Gray Book Announcement: Vector Quantization and Signal Compression by Allen Gersho, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Robert M. Gray, Stanford University Scheduled Publication Date: 18 October 1991 ISBN number: 07923-9181-0 Kluwer Academic Publishers 101 Philip Drive Assinippi Park Norwell, MA 02061 (North American Distribution) 617-871-6600 (phone) 617-871-6528 (fax) Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Distribution Centre Post Office Box 322 3300 AH Dordrecht The Netherlands (Other regions) +31-78-334-911 (phone) +31-78-334-254 (fax) This book presents the underlying principles and fundamental techniques for signal compression with particular emphasis on vector quantization (VQ) techniques and algorithms. Topics covered include analog-to-digital conversion, scalar quantization techniques including predictive and transform coding, bit allocation, sub-band coding, entropy coding methods for noiseless coding. Extensive coverage is given to the concepts, structures, techniques, and design methods for vector quantizers including the various structurally constrained versions, tree-structured VQ, multi-stage VQ shape-gain VQ, classified VQ, predictive VQ, finite-state VQ, tree/trellis encoded VQ, adaptive VQ, and variable rate VQ. Extensive problems for students and numerous illustrative examples from the areas of speech and image compression are included. Condensed Table of Contents Preface 1 Introduction Part I Basic Tools 2 Random Processes and Linear Systems 3 Sampling 4 Linear Prediction Part II Scalar Coding 5 Scalar Quantization I 6 Scalar Quantization II 7 Predictive Quantization 8 Bit Allocation and Transform Coding 9 Entropy Coding Part III Vector Coding 10 Vector Quantization I 11 Vector Quantization II 12 Constrained Vector Quantization 13 Predictive Vector Quantization 14 Finite--State Vector Quantization 15 Tree and Trellis Encoding 16 Adaptive Vector Quantization 17 Variable Rate Vector Quantization Bibliography Index *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: osherson@idiap.ch Research Positions in Speech Processing in Switzerland The newly created "Institut Dalle Molle d'Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive" (IDIAP) in Martigny, Switzerland seeks to hire qualified researchers in the area of automatic speech recognition. Candidates should be able to conduct independent research in a UNIX environment on the basis of solid theoretical and applied knowledge. Salaries will be aligned with those offered by the Swiss government for equivalent positions. Researchers are expected to begin activity in the beginning of 1992. IDIAP is supported by the Dalle Molle Foundation along with public-sector partners at the local and federal levels (in Switzerland). IDIAP is the third institute of artificial intelligence supported by the Dalle Molle Foundation, the others being ISSCO (attached to the University of Geneva) and IDSIA (situated in Lugano). The new institute maintains close contact with these latter centers as well as with the Polytechnical School of Lausanne and the University of Geneva. Applications for a research position at IDIAP should include the following elements: - a curriculum vitae - sample publications or technical reports - a brief description of the research programme that the candidate wishes to pursue - a list of personal references. Applications are due by December 1, 1991 and may be sent to the address below: Daniel Osherson IDIAP Case Postale 609 CH-1920 Martigny SWITZERLAND For further information by e-mail, contact: osherson@idiap.ch (Daniel Osherson, director) or karit@idiap.ch (Kari Torkkola, researcher) Please use the latter email address only for inquiries concerning speech recognition research. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Bruce Francis (francis@odin.control.utoronto.ca) Openings Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto The Department of Electrical Engineering invites applications for three tenure-stream Assistant Professor positions in the following areas: 1. Communications, specializing in telecommunications and communication networks. Applicants will be knowledgeable about modern trends in telecommunications and skilled in the use of techniques related to modeling, performance analysis, and simulation. 2. Electromagnetics, with intended specialization in electromagnetic compatibility and antennas. Applicants will be skilled in modern computational and experimental techniques. 3. Systems Control. Applicants should have a strong interest in the role of computers and computing in control. Experience in experimental research would be an asset. These positions involve both research and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Applicants should have a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering, an outstanding academic record, and effective teaching ability. Applicants should send a CV, a statement concerning teaching and research interests, and a list of three references to: Professor Adel S. Sedra, Chair Electrical Engineering University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4 Canada In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. The University encourages both women and men to apply. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** End of Eletter 44, September 1991.