E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing

ISSUE No. 59, June 17, 1993


                 


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Editors:   Anton A. Stoorvogel
           Dept. of Mathematics & Computing Science
           Eindhoven University of Technology
           P.O. Box 513
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           the Netherlands
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	   Siep Weiland           
	   Dept. of Electrical Eng.
           Eindhoven University of Technology
           P.O. Box 513
           5600 MB Eindhoven
           the Netherlands
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Contents:

1.	Editorial
2.      Personals  
3.	General announcements
				     1994 AACC Awards Nominations
				     Recent publications by F.E. Cellier
				     Technical report by R.M. Gray
				     CAC-NET info
                                     Benchmark examples requested
				     Monographs Washington University
4.	Books
				     Approximate Kalman Filtering
				     Markov chains and stochastic stability
				     Loop Transfer Recovery: Analysis and Design
                                     Nonlinear Feedback Control Systems ---
                                                     An Operator Theory Approach
5.	Update of SCAD Database

6.	Journals:     	             Electronic Trans. on Numerical Analysis
                                     25th Anniversary Index / Trans.Aut.Control
                                     Journal of Complexity
				     SIAM Journal on Optimization
7.	Conferences:                 
                                      Final Program European Control
                                              Conference
				      IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control 
                                              in Aerospace
                                      IEEE Int. Symposium on Intelligent Control
				      IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
                                      SIAM Conference on Linear Algebra in 
                                              Signals, Systems, and Control
                                      IFAC/IFIP/IMACS Symposium on Artificial
                                              Intelligence in Real-Time Control 



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contributed by: Volker Mehrmann:

           Change of Address

My new address is:

Volker Mehrmann
Fachbereich Mathematik
TU Chemnitz-Zwickau
Reichenhainer Str.41
D-O-9022 Chemnitz
FRG
Tel.: 049 (0)371-561-2659
Fax.: 049 (0)371-561-2657
email: mehrmann@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de

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contributed by: Patricia New 


        1994 AACC Awards Nominations due December 1, 1993

	Nominations are solicited for four awards presented by the American 
Automatic Control Council (AACC).  Awards consist of a certificate and 
honorarium, and they will be presented at the 1994 American Control Conference.
Nomination packages should be prepared in accordance with the AACC Award 
Nomination Form (which can be obtained from the AACC Secretariat) and include 
the following: biographical information, a statement identifying and evaluating
the accomplishments on which the nomination is based (not to exceed two double 
spaced pages), a minimum of three and a maximum of five reference letters, a
current list of publications and patents, and any additional supporting material
that could have bearing on the award.  All materials should be collected in a 
single package and the original together with six (6) copies should be submitted
at the same time.  The nomination package is due by December 1, 1993.  It should
be sent to:

		Professor Abraham Haddad
		Department of EECS
		Northwestern University
		2145 Sheridan Rd.
		Evanston, IL 60208-3118.
		Telephone:	(708) 491-3641
		Fax:		(708) 491-4455
		E-Mail:	ahaddad@eecs.nwu.edu

The awards are described as follows:

o	Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award.  For distinguished career
        contributions to the theory or applications of automatic control.  The 
        nominee is to have spent a significant part of his or her career in the 
        United States.  Posthumous nominations  are not allowed.  
        [1993 recipient: Eliahu I. Jury]

o	Donald P. Eckman Award.  For outstanding accomplishments by a young 
        engineer in the field of automatic control.  Nominees must be younger 
        than 35 years at the time of the award.  The award is based on 
        contributions made while the nominee was a resident of the United States
        [1993 recipient: Munther A. Dahleh]

o	Education Award.  For outstanding contributions to automatic control 
        education in any form.  The awardee normally is a teacher, but there is 
        no formal requirement that nominees be members of a university faculty. 
        [1993 recipient: Dale E. Seborg]

o	O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award.  For the best paper presented at the 
        previous American Control Conference.  The paper must have been 
        presented by the author or a co-author at the conference.  Selection 
        criteria include quality of the written and oral presentation, technical
        contribution, timeliness, and practicality.  
        [1993 recipients: Kameshwar Poolla, Pramod Khargonekar, Ashok Tikku, 
                          James Krause, and Krishan Nagpal]

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contributed by: CELLIER@cadmus.ece.arizona.edu Sat May  1 07:40:51 1993

Dear Colleagues:

    Let me make a contribution to the preservation of our forests.  In the
future, rather than sending out lots of (p)reprints of my papers blindly to many
people, I propose a different approach.  Since almost all engineering and
science academics are meanwhile reachable by EMail, I'll simply post the
titles of recent papers on a few bulletin boards, and anyone who wishes to
receive a reprint of one or the other of these papers, can mark the list up and
EMail it back to me.  I shall repeat this procedure once every dozen papers or
so.  In this way, I can make sure that only those who are truly interested and
plan to read the articles receive (p)reprints.

                 RECENT PUBLICATIONS BY FRANCOIS E. CELLIER

                          March 1992 - April 1993

 1. Cellier, F.E. (1992), "Hierarchical Non-Linear Bond Graphs: A Unified
    Methodology for Modeling Complex Physical Systems," Simulation, Vol.58,
    No.4, pp. 230-248.

 2. Cellier, F.E., and H. Elmqvist (1993), "Automated Formula Manipulation
    Supports Object-Oriented Continuous-System Modeling," IEEE Control Systems
    Magazine, Vol.13, No.2, pp. 28-38.

 3. Cellier, F.E. (1992), "Ordinary Differential Equation Models: Numerical
    Integration of Initial-Value Problems," in: Concise Encyclopedia of
    Modelling and Simulation (D.P. Atherton and P. Borne, eds.), Pergamon
    Press, Oxford, U.K., pp. 313-317.

 4. Cellier, F.E. (1992), "Simulation Modelling Formalisms: Ordinary
    Differential Equations," in: Concise Encyclopedia of Modelling and
    Simulation (D.P. Atherton and P. Borne, eds.), Pergamon Press, Oxford, U.K.,
    pp. 420-423.

 5. Cellier, F.E., L.C. Schooley, M.K. Sundareshan, and B.P. Zeigler (1992),
    "Computer-Aided Design of Intelligent Controllers: Challenge of the
    Nineties," in: Recent Advances in Computer Aided Control Systems Engineering
    (M. Jamshidi and C.J. Herget, eds.), Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam,
    the Netherlands, pp. 53-80.

 6. Weiner, M., and F.E. Cellier (1993), "Modeling and Simulation of a Solar
    Energy System by Use of Bond Graphs," in: Proceedings SCS International
    Conference on Bond Graph Modeling (J.J. Granda and F.E. Cellier, eds.),
    San Diego, Calif., January 17-20, 1993, pp. 301-306.

 7. Brooks, B.A., and F.E. Cellier (1993), "Modeling of a Distillation Column
    Using Bond Graphs," in: Proceedings SCS International Conference on Bond
    Graph Modeling (J.J. Granda and F.E. Cellier, eds.) San Diego, Calif.,
    January 17-20, 1993, pp. 315-320.

 8. Schooley, L.C., F.E. Cellier, F.-Y. Wang, and B.P. Zeigler (1993),
    "Intelligent Control and Communication Systems," in: Proceedings AIS-93,
    Smaller, Cheaper, Faster Missions to the Moon and Mars, Tucson, Arizona,
    February 18-19, 1993.

 9. de Albornoz Bueno, A., and F.E. Cellier (1993) "Qualitative Assessment of
    the Behavior of an Aircraft Through Fuzzy Inductive Reasoning," in:
    Proceedings QUARDET'93, Qualitative Reasoning and Decision Technologies,
    Barcelona, Spain, June 16-18, 1993.

10. de Albornoz Bueno, A., F.E. Cellier, and R. Huber (1993) "Variable Selection
    and Sensor Fusion in Automatic Hierarchical Fault Monitoring," in:
    Proceedings QUARDET'93, Qualitative Reasoning and Decision Technologies,
    Barcelona, Spain, June 16-18, 1993.

11. Nebot, A., F.E. Cellier, and D. Linkens (1993) "Controlling Anaesthetic
    Depth by Means of Fuzzy Inductive Reasoning Techniques," in: Proceedings
    QUARDET'93, Qualitative Reasoning and Decision Technologies}, Barcelona,
    Spain, June 16-18, 1993.

12. Otter, M., H. Elmqvist, and F.E. Cellier (1993) "Modeling of Multibody
    Systems With the Object-Oriented Modeling Language Dymola," in: Proceedings
    NATO/ASI, Computer-Aided Analysis of Rigid and Flexible Mechanical Systems,
    Troia, Portugal, June 27 - July 9, 1993.

13. Cellier, F.E., H. Elmqvist, M. Otter, and J.H. Taylor (1993), "Guidelines
    for Modeling and Simulation of Hybrid Systems," in: Proceedings of IFAC
    World Congress, Sydney, Australia, July 18-23, 1993.

14. Mugica, F., and F.E. Cellier (1993), "A New Fuzzy Inferencing Method for
    Inductive Reasoning," in: Proceedings International Symposium on Artificial
    Intelligence, Monterrey, Mexico, September 20-24, 1993.

 x. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona,
    Annual Report 1991-92.


If you wish to receive reprints of those articles from the previous list, please
send your name and adrress to me.


                    Best regards

Francois E. Cellier, Ph.D.              Phone: (602)621-6192
Associate Professor		        FAX:   (602)621-8076
Dept. of Electr. & Comp. Engr.          EMail: Cellier@ECE.Arizona.Edu
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
U.S.A.

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contributed by: gray@isl.stanford.edu Wed May 12 00:17:38 1993

    Electronic Publication of "Toeplitz and Circulant Matrices: A Review"


A latex version of the Technical Report "Toeplitz and Circulant Matrices:
A Review," by R. M. Gray, first printed in June 1971 and revised and
reprinted in April 1977, may be obtained by anonymous ftp to
decaf.stanford.edu cd to the pub/toeplitz directory and read the README
file for a description. The report was an attempt to provide relatively
simple proofs asymptotic properties of Toeplitz matrices in terms of
circulant approximations. In particular, it was the author's intent to
make some of the results in Grenander and Szego's classic book on the
subject more accessible to engineers who have not had functional analysis.
As I continue to get requests for the now exhausted last printing, a
latex version has been made available to allow cost free distribution.

Some minor fixes were made in 4/93.  I hope to do a more thorough
revision during the summer.

Robert M. Gray

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contributed by:  Art Werschulz 

CAC-NET is to researchers in Continuous Algorithms and Complexity as
NA-NET is to Numerical Analysts.  We have a digest that appears
periodically, as well as some of the other features of NA-NET (e.g.,
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The abstracts are available in .tex, .dvi, and .ps form.  These may be
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contributed by: Volker Mehrmann 

       Call for benchmark examples in systems and control:
       ---------------------------------------------------

The Working Group on Software WGS, which consists of a number of experts in 
both control theory, numerical analysis and software design from Belgian, 
Dutch, English and German Universities, Research Institutes and Industry, 
develops in cooperation with the Numerical Algorithms Group NAG from Oxford 
a Subroutine Library In COntrol Theory, called SLICOT.
The original goal of the SLICOT endeavor is the realization of a portable
library of basic, high-quality routines for systems and control theory and
signal processing, particularly with respect to numerical reliability and
computational efficiency. The current release 2.0 includes about 90
user-callable Fortran 77 subroutines mainly for the analysis, synthesis and
design of linear time-invariant systems.
Since numerical robustness and efficiency are the basic requirements for all 
contributions to future releases, the group is looking for good benchmark 
examples for the evaluation and testing of numerical algorithms in this area. 
We are particularly interested in examples which represent ill-conditioned 
problems and examples which test the limits of the numerical methods with 
respect to parameters like accuracy and speed.

Special areas of interest are the following:

Reduction to state space forms, minimal realization

Filtering problems

Riccati, Sylvester and Lyapunov equations

Pole placement problems

identification problems

variable coefficient problems

descriptor systems in control

robust control problems

adaptive control

These examples will be collected in a test set, which will be available on
request, and used for our testing purposes.
Examples in the form of FORTRAN subroutines, MATLAB m-files or hardcopy papers 
are welcome. They should contain values for all used parameters as well as
a reference solution for which the accuracy is known.

The benchmark examples should be sent to :

Volker Mehrmann               Tel.: 049 (0)371-561-2659
Fachbereich Mathematik        Fax.: 049 (0)371-561-2657
TU Chemnitz-Zwickau           email: mehrmann@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de
Reichenhainer Str.41
D-09009 Chemnitz
FRG

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contributed by:  dls@saturn.wustl.edu (Donald L. Snyder)


                              RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS
                                      1993

               ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS AND SIGNALS RESEARCH LABORATORY

                      DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
                             WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
                           ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI 63130

The following is a list of research monographs for 1993 from the Electronic
Systems and Signals Research Laboratory.  Individual copies are available upon
request from:

                    Director
                    Electronic Systems and Signals Research Laboratory
                    Department of Electrical Engineering
                    Campus Box 1127
                    Washington University
                    One Brookings Drive
                    St. Louis, Missouri 63130

                    e-mail requests to: dls@saturn.wustl.edu

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ESSRL-93-1   J. A. O'Sullivan, D. G. Porter, R. S. Indeck, and M. W. Muller,
             "Physically Based Information Science of Magnetic Recording I.
             Information Capacity of a Medium Model."

ESSRL-93-2   T. A. Barton, "A Note on Generating Complex Gaussian Data."

ESSRL-93-3   C. S. Butler, "3D Maximum A Posteriori Estimation on Massively
             Parallel Computers for Single Photon Emission Tomography with
             Multigrid Initialization."  (Dissertation, page charge)

ESSRL-93-4   S. C. Joshi and M. I. Miller, "MAP Intensity Estimation with
             Good's Roughness and Global Shape Models for 3D Optical Sectioning
             Microscopy."

ESSRL-93-5   T. A. Barton and D. R. Fuhrmann, "On the Existence of Complex
             Toeplitz Covariance Estimates."

ESSRL-93-6   M. I. Miller, R. Teichman, A. Srivastave, J. A. O'Sullivan, and D.
             L. Snyder, "Jump-Diffusion Processes for Automated Tracking-Target
             Recognition.

ESSRL-93-7   T. J. Sullivan, "Estimating the Power Consumption of Custom CMOS
             Digital Signal Processing Integrated Circuits for Both the Uniform
             and Logarithmic Number Systems."  (Dissertation, page charge)

ESSRL-93-8   B. Rimoldi, "Multiple-access Coding for F-Adder Channels."

ESSRL-93-9   B. Rimoldi and Q. Li, "Catastrophic Continuous Phase Modulation
             Schemes and Their Non-catastrophic Equivalents."

ESSRL-93-10  J. A. O'Sullivan, K. C. Du, R. S. Teichman, M. I. Miller, D. L.
             Snyder, and V. C. Vannicola, "Reflectivity Models for Radar Target
             Recognition."

ESSRL-93-11  A. Srivastava, N. Cutaia, M. I. Miller, J. A. O'Sullivan, and D.
             L. Snyder, "Multi-Target Narrowband Direction Finding and Tracking
             Using Motion Dynamics."

ESSRL-93-12  G. E. Christensen, R. D. Rabbitt, and M. I. Miller, "A Deformable
             Neuroanatomy Textbook Based on Viscus Fluid Mechanics."

ESSRL-93-13  M. I. Miller, and S. Joshi, D. R. Maffit, J. G. McNally, and U.
             Grenander, "Membranes, Mitochondria, and Amoebae 1, 2, and 3
             Dimensional Shape Models."

ESSRL-93-14  D. L. Snyder, A. M. Hammoud, and R. L. White, "Image Recovery from
             Data Acquired with a Charge-Coupled-Device Camera."  Reprint from
             J. Optical Society of America A.

ESSRL-93-15  W. L. Straube and R. M. Arthur, "The Potential for Use of
             Backscattered Ultrasound Power for the Tracking of Temperature
             Distributions."

ESSRL-93-16  R. M. Arthur, N. G. Kavesh, H. D. Ambos, and M. E. Cain, "Phase
             and Group-Delay Characteristics of Signal-Averaged
             Electrocardiograms for Patients with Ventricular Tachycardia."


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contributed by:  Guanrong Chen (gchen@uh.edu)

Title:       APPROXIMATE KALMAN FILTERING

Editor:      Guanrong Chen, University of Houston, Texas, USA

Publisher:   World Scientific Pub., ISBN 981-02-1359-X, $58, Summer 1993.

Abstract:

The standard Kalman filtering algorithm gives optimal (linear, unbiased and 
minimum error-variance) estimates of the unknown state vectors of a linear 
dynamic-observation system, under regular conditions such as perfect data 
information, complete noise statistics, exact linear modeling, etc. In practice,
however, some of these conditions may not be satisfied, so that ``approximate 
Kalman filtering'' becomes necessary. In the last decade, a great deal of 
attention has been focused on modifying and/or extending the standard Kalman 
filtering technique to handle various irregular cases. It has been realized that
approximate Kalman filtering is even more important and useful in applications.

This book is a collection of several tutorial and survey articles summarizing 
the state-of-the-art development and recent contributions to the field, along 
the line of approximate Kalman filtering with emphasis on both its theoretical 
and practical aspects.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
I. Extended Kalman Filtering for Nonlinear Systems                       1
   T. E. Bullock and M. J. Moorman
   Extended Kalman Filters 1: Continuous and Discrete Linearizations     3
   T. E. Bullock and M. J. Moorman
   Extended Kalman Filters 2: Standard, Modified and Ideal               9
   M. J. Moorman and T. E. Bullock
   Extended Kalman Filters 3: A Mathematical Analysis of Bias           15
II. Initialization of Kalman Filtering                                  21
   D. Catlin
   Fisher Initialization in the Presence of Ill-Conditioned 
   Measurements                                                         23
   V. Gomez and A. Maravall
   Initializing the Kalman Filter with Incompletely Specified 
   Initial Conditions                                                   39
III. Adaptive Kalman Filtering in Irregular Environments                63
   A. R. Moghaddamjoo and R. L. Kirlin
   Robust Adaptive Kalman Filtering                                     65
   P. J. Wojcik
   On-line Estimation of Signal and Noise Parameters and Adaptive 
   Kalman Filtering                                                     87
   H. Wu and G. Chen
   Suboptimal Kalman Filtering for Linear Systems with Non-Gaussian 
   Noise                                                               113
IV. Set-valued and Distributed Kalman Filtering                        137
   D. Morrell and W. C. Stirling
   Set-valued Kalman Filtering                                         139
   L. Hong
   Distributed Filtering Using Set Models for Systems with 
   Non-Gaussian Noise                                                  161
V. Stability Analysis and Numerical Approximations of Kalman Filtering 177
   B. S. Chen and S. C. Peng
   Robust Stability Analysis of the Kalman Filter under Parametric 
   and Noise Uncertainties                                             179
   T. H. Kerr
   Numerical Approximations and Other Structural Issues in Practical
   Implementations of Kalman Filtering                                 193
Further Reading 221
Notation 223
Subject Index 225


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contributed by: Sean P. Meyn 
		Richard L. Tweedie 


		  MARKOV CHAINS AND STOCHASTIC STABILITY

authors:   Sean P. Meyn  and  Richard L. Tweedie
	   University of Illinois  and  Colorado State University

publisher:  Springer Verlag



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This book describes the  modern theory of general state space Markov
chains, and the application of that theory to operations research, time
series analysis, and systems and control theory. It is intended as an
advanced graduate text in any of these areas, as well as being a
research monograph incorporating a new and thorough treatment of the
stability of general Markov chains.

There are several key themes in this book which interweave to a
surprising extent in  both the mathematics and its implementation.
There is the use of the  splitting technique  ,  which provides an
approach to general state space chains through  regeneration methods;
the systematic use of ``Foster-Lyapunov''  drift criteria  , both in
improving the theory and in enabling the classification of individual
chains;  the delineation of appropriate  continuity conditions   to
link the general theory with the properties of chains on, in
particular, Euclidean space; and the development of  control model
approaches, enabling analysis of models from their deterministic
counterparts.

The applications cover storage systems, including some  networks models
as well as more traditional GI/G/1 queues and dam models; vector ARMA
models including those with random coefficients and bilinear models;
and both linear and non-linear  state space systems with and without
controls.

To enhance accessibility, each chapter begins with a development of
countable state space chains if appropriate. The general state space
theory is then developed in close analogy, and where possible the
theory is then specialized to chains on a topological state space, such
as $\Re^n$, so that the special structure of such   spaces can be
explored.

The book is divided into three parts.  Chains which are
$\psi$-irreducible are the focus of this book, and it is  in Part~I
that this class of chains is initially developed.  Numerous
applications are described,  and the foundations and basic
definitions  are developed directly, and illustrated through these
applications.

In the second part a description of the possible stable regimes for a
Markov chain are described.  The dichotomies which exist between
transience and recurrence are developed here, and positive recurrence
is described for general state space chains. Drift criteria are
introduced to enable practical verification of the  various forms of
stability for specific models.

In Part~III existing and new ergodic theory is presented, and here the
drift criterion approach   makes its full impact.  Total variation norm
limit theorems, laws of large numbers, and functional central limit
theorems are obtained through the combined use of drift criteria
and splitting techniques.

Many of the theoretical results appear here for the first time, and
much of the theory and the models which are used to illustrate the
theory, and to provide extensions of the theory in special cases, have
not previously been brought together in book form.

This book thus provides a readable account of the development over the
last two decades of a fundamental and applicable area  of stochastic
processes, and as such will be of value not only in probability theory
but in the many discplines where these models form the basis of
analysis.

---------------------- Table of Contents:

Preface 
  
Chapter  1   Heuristics      
Chapter  2   Markov Models    
Chapter  4   Irreducibility  
Chapter  5   Pseudo-atoms  
Chapter  6   Topology and Continuity   
Chapter  7   The Nonlinear State Space Model   
Chapter  8   Transience and Recurrence  
Chapter  9   Harris and Topological Recurrence   
Chapter  10  The Existence of $\pi$      
Chapter  11  Drift and Regularity      
Chapter  12  Invariance and Tightness      
Chapter  13  Ergodicity      
Chapter  14  $f$-Ergodicity and $f$-Regularity      
Chapter  15  Geometric Ergodicity      
Chapter  16  $V$-Uniform Ergodicity      
Chapter  17  Sample Paths and Limit Theorems      
Chapter  18  Positivity      
Chapter  19  Generalized Classification Criteria  
 
APPENDICES   

Chapter  A  Mud Maps      
Chapter  B  Testing for Stability      
Chapter  C  A Glossary of Model Assumptions      
Chapter  D  Some Mathematical Background      


References
Index
Symbol Index

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contributed by: bchen@sbee.eng.sunysb.edu (Ben Chen )

               Loop Transfer Recovery: Analysis and Design
                                   
                 Ali Saberi, Washington State University
         Ben M. Chen, State University of New York at Stony Brook
                Peddapullaiah Sannuti, Rutgers University

       Springer-Verlag Communications and Control Engineering Series
                  ISBN 3-540-19831-8 / ISBN 0-387-19831-8


* From the Back Cover:

Loop Transfer Recovery (LTR) theory is a subject dealing with the recovery,
while using only measurement feedback controllers, of target open-loop or
closed-loop transfer functions which incorporate all the desirable design
objectives in a multivariable control system. Consideration of when and 
how such a recovery is possible, different controller structures and the 
available design freedom and the design methods for accomplishing such a
recovery, are the main topics of discussion in LTR. This book deals with
all such issues in general continuous and discrete-time systems.


* Table of Contents

1 Introduction
  1.1 Introduction 
  1.2 Problem formulation 
  1.3 Preliminaries 

2 Preliminary Analysis of Continuous LTR 
  2.1 Introduction 
  2.2 Preliminary analysis 
      2.2.1 Luenberger observer based controller 
      2.2.2 Full order observer based controller 
      2.2.3 Reduced order observer based controller 
      2.2.4 Relationship between the recovery matrices $M_f(s)$ and $M_r(s)$

3 Continuous LTR -- Detailed Analysis
  3.1 Introduction
  3.2 Recovery analysis while not using the knowledge of $F$
  3.3 Analysis for recoverable target loop transfer functions
  3.4 Recovery analysis in a given subspace
  3.5 Duality of LTRI and LTRO

4 Continuous LTR -- Design  
  4.1 Introduction  
  4.2 Design constraints and the available freedom  
  4.3 ATEA design method  
      4.3.1 General ATEA design  
      4.3.2 Design for exactly recoverable target loop transfer functions 
  4.4 Optimization based design methods 
      4.4.1 $H_2$-optimization based design algorithms  
      4.4.2 $H_\infty$-optimization based design algorithms 
  4.5 Design for recovery over a specified subspace 
  4.6 LTR design for output break point 
  4.7 Comparison of ATEA and optimization based design algorithms 

5 Introduction to Discrete LTR 
  5.1 Introduction 
  5.2 Problem formulation 
  5.3 Preliminaries 

6 Preliminary Analysis of Discrete LTR 
  6.1 Introduction 
  6.2 Controller structures for discrete LTR 
      6.2.1 Luenberger estimator based controller 
      6.2.2 Prediction estimator based controller 
      6.2.3 Current estimator based controller 
      6.2.4 Reduced order estimator based controller 
  6.3 Preliminary analysis 

7 Discrete LTR -- Detailed Analysis 
  7.1 Introduction 
  7.2 Recovery analysis while not using the knowledge of $F$ 
  7.3 Analysis for recoverable target loop transfer functions
  7.4 Recovery analysis in a given subspace 
  7.5 Duality of LTRI and LTRO 

8 Discrete LTR -- Design 
  8.1 Introduction 
  8.2 Design constraints and the available freedom  
  8.3 Design by eigenstructure assignment 
  8.4 Optimization based design methods 
      8.4.1 $H_\infty$-optimization based algorithm  
      8.4.2 $H_2$-optimization based algorithm 
  8.5 Design for recovery over a specified subspace 
  8.6 LTR design for output break point 

9 Closed-Loop Transfer Recovery 
  9.1 Introduction 
  9.2 Continuous CLTR 
      9.2.1 Problem formulation 
      9.2.2 General analysis 
      9.2.3 Design methods and examples 
  9.3 Discrete CLTR  
      9.3.1 Problem formulation 
      9.3.2 General analysis  
      9.3.3 Design methods and examples  

10 Some Issues of Controller Architecture 
   10.1 Introduction 
   10.2 Recoverability with an arbitrarily structured controller 
   10.3 CSS architecture based controllers for LTR 
        10.3.1 Full order CSS architecture based controller  
        10.3.2 Reduced order CSS architecture based controller 
        10.3.3 Properties of the CSS architecture based controllers 
   10.4 Design examples 
   10.5 Open research problems 

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contributed by:  Rui J.P. de Figueiredo (rui@eagle.eng.uci.edu)

Title:       Nonlinear Feedback Control Systems ---
             An Operator Theory Approach

Authors:     Rui J.P. de Figueiredo (Univ of California at Irvine)
             Guanrong Chen          (Univ of Houston, Texas)

Publisher:   Academic Press, 1993, ISBN 0-12-208630-9, $64.95

Table of Contents ---

Preface
1.   Nonlinear Analytic Mappings
1.1. n-Linear Operators
1.2. Bounded n-Linear Operators
1.3. Normed Linear Spaces of Bounded n-Linear Operators
1.4. Continuous n-Linear Operators
1.5. Differentiation of Nonlinear Operators
1.6. Higher Order Derivatives of Nonlinear Operators
1.7. Infinite Power Series
1.8. Nonlinear Analytic Mappings
1.9. Nonlinear Volterra Mappings
     Exercises
     References
2.   Nonlinear Lipschitz Operators
2.1. Preliminaries
2.2. Lipschitz Operators
2.3. Contraction Mapping Theorem
2.4. Generalized Lipschitz Operators
2.5. Differentiable Mappings
     Exercises
     References
3.   Nonlinear Feedback Systems
3.1. Causality of Feedback Systems
3.2. The Small Gain Theorem
3.3. Stabilities of Control Systems
3.4. Stabilizing Nonlinear Feedbacks
3.5. Relationship Between Input-Output and Lyapunov Stabilities
     Exercises
     References
4.   Optimal Design of Nonlinear Feedback Control Systems
4.1. Motivation for Optimal Feedback Controller Design
4.2. Optimal Tracking
4.3. Optimal Disturbance Rejection
4.4. Robust Stabilization
     Exercises
     References
5.   Coprime Factorizations of Nonlinear Mappings for Control Systems
5.1. Preliminaries
5.2. Right Coprime Factorization of Nonlinear Feedback Systems
5.3. Necessary and Sufficient Condition and Construction of Coprime 
     Factorizations
5.4. An Illustrative Example
5.5. Left Coprime Factorization for a Class of Nonlinear Control Systems
5.6. More on the Left Coprime Factorization
     Exercises
     References
6.   Nonlinear System Identification
6.1. Problem Formulation
6.2. Lower and Upper Bounds
6.3. Existence of Optimal Algorithms
6.4. The Generalized Fock Space 
6.5. Nonlinear System Identification Algorithms
6.6. Extension to Continuous-Time-Parameter Systems
     Exercises
     References
Subject Index


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contributed by: reichel@mcs.kent.edu Thu May 13 21:56:29 1993
 
                     Call for Papers
 
 
            Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis

 
 
Scope: 
 
Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA) is an electronic journal
for the publication of significant new and important developments in numerical
analysis and scientific computing. Papers of the highest quality that deal with
the analysis of algorithms for the solution of continuous models and numerical 
linear algebra are appropriate for ETNA, as are papers of similar quality that 
discuss implementation and performance of such algorithms. New algorithms for 
current or new computer architectures are appropriate provided that they are 
numerically sound. However, the focus of the publication should be on the 
algorithm rather than on the architecture. The journal is published by the Kent
State University Library in conjunction with the Institute of Computational 
Mathematics at Kent State University. Mathematical Reviews will receive all
papers accepted for publication in the journal and review them as appropriate.
ETNA is registered with the Library of Congress and has ISSN 1068-9613.
 
 
Dissemination: 

On a quarterly basis, accepted manuscripts will be posted in a directory which 
is publicly accessible through Internet. The titles and abstract of these 
manuscripts will be e-mailed to registered departments and individuals and 
posted on public bulletin boards such as NA-digest. An individual who wishes 
to obtain a copy of a current or back manuscript can get a copy through 
anonymous FTP or by using a netlib-type mailer. We also plan to install 
Gopher. All manuscripts will be available in Post Script format. The first 
issue of ETNA will appear September 1, 1993. Funds made available by the 
Kent State University Library and the Kent State University make free 
subscription possible for at least three years. After this time period we 
may have to charge an annual fee from institutional subscribers. Since the 
operating costs for the journal are low, we envision that this fee will not 
be above $100 for institutional subscribers. Everybody at the subscribing 
institution will have access to ETNA by FTP, a netlib-type mailer or Gopher.
In addition, articles in ETNA can be obtained through interlibrary loan from
Kent State University Library. 

To register to receive ETNA's quarterly titles and abstract lists, please send
an e-mail message to etna@mcs.kent.edu. The subject of the message should be: 
ETNA registration. Titles and abstracts of papers published in ETNA will be 
e-mailed quarterly to the return addresses of all such requests. Inquiries for
further information should also be e-mailed to etna@mcs.kent.edu.

 
Submission, Acceptance and Refereeing:
 
Authors will normally submit papers for publication via e-mail, and they will 
be required to submit their manuscript in LaTeX or TeX using macros we provide.
Requests for macros can be sent by e-mail to etna@mcs.kent.edu. All papers will
be refereed. As soon as a paper has been accepted for publication in ETNA, it
will be entered into the ETNA data base. There are no annual page limitations, 
and, therefore, we are in a position to publish accepted manuscripts faster 
than many other journal. Manuscripts can be submitted NOW by sending them to 
the address etna@mcs.kent.edu.
 
  
 
Current Editorial Board:
 
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editor-in-chief    reichel@mcs.kent.edu
 
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A. Ruttan          Kent State University
managing editor    ruttan@mcs.kent.edu
 
 
G.S. Ammar         Northern Illinois University         
 
J.W. Demmel        University of California, Berkeley    
 
J.J. Dongarra      University of Tennessee               
 
I.S. Duff          Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
 
M. Eiermann        University of Karlsruhe               
 
J.A. George        University of Waterloo                
 
G.H. Golub         Stanford University                    
 
W.B. Gragg         Naval Postgraduate School                   
 
M.H. Gutknecht     Swiss Federal Institute of Technology                   
 
V. Mehrmann        Technical University of Chemnitz-Zwickau
 
D.C. Sorensen      Rice University                   
 
G.W. Stewart       University of Maryland                   
 
O.B. Widlund       New York University
 
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contributed by: birdwell@hickory.engr.utk.edu


          25th Anniversary Index / Transactions on Automatic Control

Single copies of the 25th Anniversary Index of the IEEE Control Systems
Society's Transactions on Automatic Control are available free upon request,
while supplies last.  To obtain a copy, send your name and address to:

    Prof. J. D. Birdwell
    Secretary/Administrator, IEEE Control Systems Society
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    The University of Tennessee
    Knoxville, TN 37996-2100  USA

or, via e-mail, to either of:

    birdwell@hickory.engr.utk.edu
    birdwell@utkvx.bitnet

The index covers all issues from 1956 through 1980, and was published in
August, 1981.


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contributed by: Art Werschulz 


                     Journal of Complexity

                    Contents -- March, 1993

This issue consists of invited papers from the Festschrift honoring
J. F. Traub's 60th birthday, held at Schloss Dagstuhl in September, 1992.

Preface 

TITLE: Complexity of Bezout's Theorem III: Condition Number and Packing
AUTHORS: Michael Shub and Steve Smale

TITLE: Some Complexity Results for Zero Finding for Univariate Functions
AUTHORS: Erich Novak and Klaus Ritter

TITLE: On approximate recovery of functions with bounded mixed derivative
AUTHOR: V. N. Temlyakov

TITLE: Improved Error Bounds for Lattice Rules
AUTHOR: Harald Niederreiter

TITLE: Discontinuity Detection and Thresholding - a Stochastic Approach
AUTHORS: David Lee and G. W. Wasilkowski

TITLE: Global bounds on numerical error for ordinary differential equations
AUTHORS: Arieh Iserles and Gustaf S\"oderlind

TITLE: The Minimal Cost of Approximating Linear Operators Using Perturbed 
       Information - The Asymptotic Setting}
AUTHORS: Boleslaw Z. Kacewicz and Leszek Plaskota

TITLE: On Numerical Solution of Poincare Problem for Oceanic Circulations
AUTHOR: G. Marchuk

TITLE: Complexity of integral equations and relations to $s$-numbers
AUTHOR: Stefan Heinrich

TITLE: The Complexity of two-point boundary-value problems with analytic data
AUTHOR: Arthur G. Werschulz

TITLE: On Optimal Random Nets
AUTHOR: Peter Math\'e

TITLE: An Ellipsoid Algorithm for the Computation of Fixed Points
AUTHOR: K. Sikorski, C. W. Tsay and H. Wo\'zniakowski


                     Journal of Complexity

                    Contents -- June, 1993


This issue consists of invited papers from the Festschrift honoring
J. F. Traub's 60th birthday, held at Schloss Dagstuhl in September, 1992.

TITLE: Witnesses for Boolean Matrix Multiplication and for Transitive Closure
AUTHORS: Zvi Galil and Oded Margalit

TITLE: Average $n$-Widths of the Wiener Space in $L_{\infty}$-Norm
AUTHORS: Vitaly Maiorov

TITLE: On Randomized Semi-algebraic Test Complexity
AUTHORS: Peter B\"ugisser, Marek Karpinski and Thomas Lickteig

TITLE: Integration of Monotone Functions of Several Variables
AUTHORS: Anargyros Papageorgiou

TITLE: A Proof of the Polynomiality of the Iri-Imai Method
AUTHORS: Masao Iri

TITLE: Average Case Complexity of Multivariate Integration for Smooth Functions
AUTHORS: Spassimir H. Paskov

TITLE: On the Avearge Complexity of Finding an $\varepsilon$-Optimal
       Solution for Linear Programming} 
AUTHORS: Jun Ji and Florian Potra

TITLE: A Multi-step Algorithm for Hankel Matrices
AUTHORS: Adam W. Bojanczyk and Georg Heinig

TITLE: On Optimization of Direct Methods of Solving Weakly Singular
       Integral Equations 
AUTHORS: Sergei Pereverzev and Sergei Solodky

TITLE: There Exists a Linear Problem with Infinite Combinatory Complexity
AUTHORS: Grzegorz W. Wasilkowski and Henryk Wo\'zniakowski

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contributed by: wilshuen@siam.org


                  SIAM JOURNAL ON OPTIMIZATION

                 August 1993, Volume 3, Number 3

      CONTENTS

      Nonsmooth Equations:  Motivation and Algorithms
      Jong-Shi Pang and Liqun Qi

      A Newton Method for Convex Regression, Data Smoothing, and Quadratic
      Programming with Bounded Constraints
      Wu Li and John Swetits

      Second-Order Multiplier Update Calculations for Optimal Control Problems
      and Related Large Scale Nonlinear Programs
      J. C. Dunn

      A NonInterior Continuation Method for Quadratic and Linear  Programming
      Bintong Chen and Patrick T. Harker

      An Implementation of the Dual Affine Scaling Algorithm for Minimum-Cost
      Flow on Bipartite Uncapacitated Networks
      Mauricio G.C. Resende and Geraldo Veiga

      Convergence Analysis of a Proximal-like Minimization Algorithm Using
      Bregman Functions
      Gong Chen and Marc Teboulle

      A Lagrangian Relaxation Algorithm for Multidimensional Assignment
      Problems Arising from Multitarget Tracking
      Aubrey B. Poore and Nenad Rijavec

      Manifold Structure of the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker Stationary Solution Set 
      with Two Parameters
      Ryuichi Hirabayashi, Masayuki Shida, and Susumu Shindoh

      Numerical Experience with Limited-Memory Quasi-Newton and Truncated
      Newton Methods
      X. Zou, I. M. Navon, M. Berger, K. H. Phua, T. Schlick, and F. X. Le Dimet

      A Globally Convergent Method For lp  Problems
      Yuying Li 

      A Collinear Scaling Interpretation of Karmarkar's Linear Programming
      Algorithm
      J. C. Lagarias
      
      Automatic Column Scaling Strategies for Quasi-Newton Methods
      Marucha Lalee and Jorge Nocedal

      Multi-Objective Control-Structure Optimization Via Homotopy Methods
      Joanna Rakowska, Raphael T. Haftka, and Layne T. Watson


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contributed by:  H.L. Trentelman 


                SECOND EUROPEAN CONTROL CONTROL CONFERENCE 

                        JUNE 28 - JULY 1,  1993

                     GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

Copies of the final program of the Second European Control Conference can
be obtained by anonymous FTP. The Tex-file containing the program is called  

                         program.tex

and can be obtained using the following commands:



ftp ciwi1.math.rug.nl

username: anonymous

password: your Email address

cd dist/ECC

get program.tex

quit  

The Organizing Committee looks forward to see you in Groningen. 

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contributed by: Herb Rauch 



            1994 IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace
                      September 12-16, 1994 
                   Palo Alto, California    USA

CALL FOR PAPERS

The IFAC Aerospace Technical  Committee is organizing the 13th IFAC Symposium 
on Automatic Control in Aerospace under the sponsorship of the American 
Automatic Control Council.  The IEEE Control Systems Society is a Technical Co-
Sponsor.  The Symposium will be held in Palo Alto, California (near Stanford 
University, and a short drive from San Francisco International Airport).  The 
symposium will run from Monday through Friday, September 12-16, 1994.

The Chair of the International Program Committee is Professor Daniel DeBra of 
Stanford University.  IPC Co-Chairs are Dr. George Ianculescu of Rockwell 
International, Professor Steve Rock of Stanford University, and Dr. David 
Schaechter of the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory.  The Chair of the 
National Organizing Committee is Dr. Kenneth R. Lorell of the Lockheed Palo 
Alto Research Laboratory.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Papers are solicited in all aspects of the theory and applications of 
aerospace control systems.  The symposium brings together people to present 
the state-of-the-art in aeronautical and space related control systems, 
including concept definition, design, test and verification, and operational 
applications.  Appropriate subjects range from control of systems in vehicles, 
including man-in-the-loop; to guidance, navigation and control of satellites, 
space vehicles and airplanes; to mission control and utilization of space, air 
and ground segments.

Please submit 5 copies of the paper (about 4000 words) to Dr. Lorell at the 
address below.  The first page of each paper must contain the paper title, 
five key words, and the name, affiliation, and complete mailing address of 
each author.  If available, include telephone number, FAX number, and e-mail 
address of the corresponding author.  All papers accepted for presentation 
will be included in the proceedings which will be available at the time of the 
conference.

DEADLINES

Papers due to Dr. Lorell at the address below           February 1, 1994
Notification and author's kits distributed              May 1, 1994
Camera-ready manuscripts for proceedings due  		July 1, 1994
                          
For further information, and to be put on the mailing list, contact:

Dr. Kenneth R. Lorell                           Phone (415) 424-2746
AEROSPACE CONTROL '94				FAX   (415) 424-3106
Lockheed 92-30/250
3251 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA   94304  USA


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contributed by: passino@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu

       8th IEEE International Symposium  on INTELLIGENT CONTROL 
                        August 25-27, 1993
                       The Knickerbocker Hotel
                       Chicago, Illinois, USA
                Sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society

ORGANIZING  COMMITTEE


GENERAL  CHAIR                         REGISTRATION  CHAIR                
Panos J. Antsaklis                     Jay A. Farrell
Dept. Electrical Engineering           The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
University of Notre Dame               555 Technology Square
Notre Dame, IN 46556                   Cambridge, MA 02139
Ph:  (219) 631-5792                    Ph:  (617) 258-2420
Fax: (219) 631-4393                    Fax: (617) 258-1131
antsakli@saturn.ece.nd.edu             farrell@draper.com


PROGRAM  CHAIRS
Kevin M. Passino                       Umit Ozguner                   
Dept. Electrical Engineering           Dept. of Electrical Engineering
The Ohio State University              The Ohio State University
2015 Neil Ave.                         2015 Neil Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210                     Columbus, OH 43210
Ph:  (614) 292-5716                    Ph:  (614) 292-5940
passino@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu          ozguner@eagle.eng.ohio-state.edu

PUBLICATIONS  CHAIR                    FINANCE  CHAIR
Michael B. Leahy Jr.                   James H. Taylor
SA-ALC/TIEST, Bldg 183,                Odyssey Research Associates, Inc.
450 Quentin Roosevelt Rd               301 Dates Drive
Kelly AFB, TX 78241-6416               Ithaca, NY 14850-1326
Ph:  (512) 925-3711;                   Ph:   (607) 277-2020
Fax: (512) 925-4916                    jim@oracorp.com
mleahy@sadis05.kelly.af.mil

LOCAL  ARRANGEMENTS  CHAIR
Chi-Haur Wu
Dept. of Electrical Eng. and Computer Science
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston,  IL   60208-3118
Ph:  (708) 491-7076; Fax: (708) 491-4455
chwu@eecs.nwu.edu

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

L. Acar, University of Missouri Rolla
J. Aguilar-Martin, University of Catalonia, Spain
J. Albus, National Institute of Standards and Technology
T. Aldemir, Ohio State University
H. Berenji, NASA Ames Research Center
S. Chiu, Rockwell International Science Center
A. Cinar, Illinois Institute of Technology
J. Davis, Ohio State University
A. Duyar, Florida Atlantic University
J. Farrell, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
T. Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan
Z. Gao, Cleveland State University
E. Grant, University of Strathclyde, U.K.
R. King, University of Patras, Greece
H. Koivo, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
M. Kokar, Northeastern University
B. Krogh, Carnegie Mellon University
M. Leahy, US Air Force
M. Lemmon, University of Notre Dame
A. Levis, George Mason University
K. Loparo, Case Western Reserve University
C. Lorenzo, NASA Lewis Research Center
M. Sartori, David Taylor Research Center
R. Stengel, Princeton University
H. Stephanou, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
K. Valavanis, University of Southwestern Louisiana
J. Xiao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
B. Zeigler, University of Arizona

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SYMPOSIUM HIGHLIGHTS

Plenary Presentations

Each day begins with a Plenary Lecture:

Thursday:  	Professor B. Widrow, Stanford University 
		"Learning Control Systems" 
Friday: 	Dr. H. Rauch, Lockheed 
		"Issues in Intelligent Fault Diagnosis and 
		Control Reconfiguration"

Technical Program Overview
	The 1993 International Symposium on Intelligent Control 
has 4 parallel sessions each day for 2 days, Thursday August 26 
and Friday August 27.  There is one set of morning sessions and 
two sets of afternoon sessions each day with plenty  of time in 
between for informal discussions over coffee.  The presentation 
time for all papers will be 20 minutes.  Overhead projectors will 
be available in all rooms.  Authors requiring other special audio-
video equipment for their presentation should notify the Local 
Arrangements Chair (see address above) at least ONE MONTH 
before the symposium so that the appropriate arrangements can 
be made.

Panel Discussions
	There will be several panel discussions conducted during 
ICIS'93 on a range of topics including: (i) hybrid systems, (ii) 
discrete event systems, (iii) neurocontrol, and (iv) intelligent 
control in process operations.  Moreover, there will be a 
symposium-wide panel discussion:

"Fuzzy vs. Conventional Control"
Moderator: K.M. Passino
Panel Members:
	M. Tomizuka, University of California, Berkeley
	G. Vachtsevanos, Georgia Institute of Technology
	S. Yurkovich, Ohio State University

This panel discussion will be held on Friday from 1:30 p.m. to 
3:00 p.m. 

Tutorial Workshops
	Three full day tutorial workshops (short courses) have been 
organized for the day before the symposium, Wednesday August 
25.  The workshops are listed below:

1. Distributed Detection and Decision Fusion: Moshe Kam of 
Drexel University and Pramod Varshney of Syracuse 
University

2. An Introduction to Learning Control: Jay Farrell and Walter 
Baker of The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

3. Fuzzy Control: Theory and Applications: Kevin Passino and 
Steve Yurkovich of The Ohio State University 

	The workshop lecturers are leaders in their fields who have 
published extensively and are experienced lecturers.  Workshop 
registration fees include lecture notes and are payable either 
through advance registration or on-site at the registration desk.  
The advance registration form is included in this program.  
	Advance registration is strongly encouraged both to reserve 
space and to prevent workshop cancellation.  A workshop will be 
canceled if the number of advance registrants does not exceed a 
specified lower limit.  In the unlikely event that a workshop is 
canceled, advance registrants will be contacted as soon as 
possible after the advance registration deadline of July 23; when 
registering for a workshop please make sure to include your 
phone number, fax number or e-mail address for this purpose.  
	Prospective on-site registrants are advised to confirm that 
the workshop has not been canceled with the Registration Chair 
Jay Farrell (see page 1 for address).  


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SYMPOSIUM INFORMATION


Registration Form - IEEE ISIC'93


Name	___________________________________________
Name on badge_____________________________________
Affiliation_________________________________________
Department________________________________________
Street Address______________________________________
City______________________State__________ZIP________
Country________________Fax____________________
Accompanying Guest's Name_________________________
IEEE Membership Number____________________________
E-mail___________________________________________

			IEEE Member	Non-member	Student or Retiree
Adv. Reg. Fee	$200			$225		$60
Onsite Reg. Fee	$225			$250 		$75
Workshop Fee	$150			$200		$75
Add. Proc. Copies	$60			$75		No. _____	
Add. Banquet Tickets $30 each 	No. 	 __________
Workshop Number ____     Conference Registration Total _______

The society  and non-member symposium registration fee includes one 
proceedings copy, one banquet ticket, and one complimentary drink 
ticket.  All workshop registrations received after the advanced 
registration deadline must be at the nonmember rate.  To avoid 
workshop cancellation, please preregis-ter. 
Please make check or money order in US dollars payable to 
"8th IEEE ISIC93" and mail payment with this form to the Reg. 
Chairman:

Jay Farrell,  The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
555 Technology Sq., MS 4C,  Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Tel: (617) 258-2420;  Fax: (617) 258-1131; 
e-mail: farrell@draper.com

Alternatively, you can charge the total amount by filling in the 
following in-formation :   Mastercard __   Visa __    American Ex. __
Number:___________________________	Expiration Date:________

After completing the form, cut it out and mail it to the 
Registration Chair, Jay Farrell (see address above)


------------------------------------------------------------------------
Symposium Advanced Registration Deadline: 
July 23, 1993
Registration after this date is at the onsite rate.
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	Additional Banquet tickets, $30 each.  Attendees may pick 
up their symposium Proceedings at the symposium Registration 
area at the Knickerbocker Hotel.  All attendees must register and 
wear the symposium badges.  
	The Registration Desk will be open:

Tuesday August 24: 		6:00 - 8:00p.m.
Wednesday, August 25: 	7:00a.m. - 1:00p.m. & 4:00 - 8:00p.m.
Thursday, August 26: 	7:00a.m. - 5:00p.m.
Friday, August 27: 		7:00a.m. -12:00 p.m.

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Hotel Reservation Form -  IEEE ISIC'93

Name	_________________________________________

Affiliation______________________________________
Street Address___________________________________	
City_______________________State____________ZIP________
Country______________________Fax______________________

Sharing room with: __________________________________
Arrival Date:____________________Arrival Time:_________
Departure Date: __________________

Reservations must be received by July 23, 1993 and  must include a one 
night deposit.

Please reserve _____ single room(s) at $95 per room (plus tax)
Please reserve _____ double room(s) at $95 per room (plus tax)

Please pay in U.S. dollars by either check, money order, or credit card:
   Mastercard __             Visa __          American Ex. __

Number:_________________________Expiration Date:__________


Signature ______________________________________________


After completing the form, please cut it out and mail it to:

Knickerbocker Hotel
Walton Place at N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611
Tel: (312) 751-8100 or (800) 621-8140
Fax: (312) 751-0370


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Speakers' Breakfast
	Speakers and session chairs and co-chairs are invited to 
breakfast on the day of their session, from 7:15 to 8:15 a.m. on 
Thursday and Friday.  All speakers should plan to attend because 
session chairs use this opportunity to make final arrangements 
for the sessions and to learn about the background of the 
speakers.  

Reception and Banquet
	A dinner and reception will be held on Thursday evening, 
August 26, 1993 in the Grand Ballroom.  The reception begins at 
6:30 p.m. in the adjoining Continental Room.  A complimentary 
ticket for one drink is included with your registration packet.  
The banquet commences at 7:30 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom.  
One banquet ticket is included with the regular registration 
package; students' registration does not include banquet tickets.  
Additional banquet tickets for accompanying persons and guests 
should be purchased in advance, since only a limited number 
may be available on-site.  It is customary for the registrants who 
do not plan to attend the banquet to leave their tickets at the 
registration desk so students may use them.  

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ISIC'93 TECHNICAL PROGRAM
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The technical program for ISIC'93 and other information is in the SCAD database.
To access this, ftp to "ftp.utdallas.edu" and use "anonymous". 
Look in the conferences directory for the complete symposium 
technical program.

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contributed by: R. A. DeCarlo, Purdue University

  
            THE 32nd IEEE CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL
			  Marriott Rivercenter
			   San Antonio, Texas
			  December 15-17, 1993
 
The IEEE CSS Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) is the annual 
meeting of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS).  It is conducted in
cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
(SIAM) and the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA).  The 32nd
CDC will be held on December 15-17, 1993, at the Marriott Rivercenter,
on the beautiful San Antonio Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas.  The General
Chairman of the Conference is Ray DeCarlo of Purdue University.  The
Program Chairman is Peter Ramadge of Princeton University.
 
The Advance Program of the Conference will be available in early   
September, 1993.  For further information, contact the General Chairman
at 317/494-6389 (fax: 317/494-6440; email: decarlo@ecn.purdue.edu).
 
  
			   TECHNICAL PROGRAM
 
The Program Committee, having received a record number of submissions,
is putting together an outstanding technical program, consisting of
invited and contributed sessions on all aspects of the theory and 
application of systems, involving decision, control, optimization and
adaptation.
 
The conference will feature three plenary speakers:
  
Plenary Lecture I 	Pramod P. Khargonekar, University of Michigan
			"Semiconductor Manufacturing - A New Applications
			 Area for Control"
  
Plenary Lecture II 	P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois
			"Scheduling Semiconductor Manufacturing Plants"
  
Bode Prize Lecture	Michael Athans, Mass. Inst. of Technology
			"Control:  The Adventure Continues"

  
			   TUTORIAL WORKSHOPS
 
Seven one-day and one two-day tutorial workshops are being planned for 
the Monday and Tuesday preceding the conference:

Mon & Tues.       "Robustness of Systems with Real Parametric
Dec. 13-14   	   Uncertainty,"  Barmish, Hollot, Tempo

Monday, Dec. 13	  "Adaptive Control of Linear and Nonlinear Systems,"
		  Ioannou, Kanellakopoulos, Kokotovic

Monday, Dec. 13   "Convex Optimization Techniques in Robust Control,"
		  Balakrishnan, Boyd, Doyle, Vandenberghe

Monday, Dec. 13	  "Variable Structure Systems with Sliding Modes,"
		  Drakunov, Ozguner, Young

Monday, Dec. 13   "Design and Analysis of Control Systems Using MATLAB,"
		  Leonard, Levine

Tuesday, Dec. 14  "Case Studies and Methods for Combined Identification
		  and Control,"  Bitmead, Gevers

Tuesday, Dec. 14  "Modeling and Scheduling of Manufacturing Systems,"
		  Li, Luh

Tuesday, Dec. 14  "Mechanics, Holonomy and Control,"
	          Sastry, Krishnaprasad, Baillieul

For the fee structure on the tutorial workshops, see the registration
form below.
  
 
			   CRITICAL DEADLINES

Conference Registration:  NOVEMBER 5, 1993, for reduced fees.
Hotel Reservation:  NOVEMBER 12, 1993, for guaranteed reduced fees.
 
For detailed information and forms, see below.
 
 
			     TRANSPORTATION

1.  AIRLINE:  Delta Airlines
    Significantly reduced airfares are available through Delta Airlines 
    for travel to San Antonio from destinations within North America.  
    When making reservations, either by calling Delta's toll-free number 
    800-241-6760 or through your travel agency, mention File Number H0664.
 
 
2.  CAR RENTAL:  Alamo Rent A Car
    Special rates have been arranged with Alamo Rent A Car for rentals
    at San Antonio airport to be returned to the same point.  Call
    1-800-732-3232 to make reservations, and request group ID#371811,
    Rate Code GR.
  
In both cases, early reservations are advised.  The venue of the  
Conference, the Marriott Rivercenter, can be reached from the San 
Antonio airport by shuttle service (further information will be included
in Advance Program).  For those who would prefer to rent a car, there
is parking space available at the Marriott Rivercenter (self-park:  
$7 per day/valet parking: $10 per day).
 
  
			SPOUSE/GUEST PROGRAM AND TOUR
 
There will be a Spouse/Guest Program on Wednesday, Dec. 15, from 9:00 to
10:00 a.m. for spouses and guests of attendees.  Local Arrangements,  
Inc., will share a bit of the history and present a slide show tour of 
San Antonio.  This is an excellent opportunity to get acquainted with 
the City, and with other spouses and guests attending the Conference.   
Refreshments will be served.  There is no charge for this get-acquainted 
program.
  
"Let's See San Antonio," a tour for the spouses/guests of attendees,
will be offered on Wednesday afternoon from 1:00 to 4:00.  Highlights
are the historic King William district, Guenther House, Mission San 
Jose, Institute of Texan Cultures, and the fantastic shopping and dining
of El Mercado, the Mexican Market.  The cost is $20.  Advance registra-
tion is required (see registration form below).  In the event of
insufficient registration, the tour may be cancelled and refunds
issued.
  

  
			* * * * * * * * * * *

32nd CDC HOTEL RESERVATION:
  
Name:  ______________________________________________________________
Affiliation:  _______________________________________________________
Street Address:  ____________________________________________________
City:  _________________________  State:  _________  Zip:  __________
Country:  ___________________________________________________________

Please reserve ______ single room(s) at $110 per room.
Please reserve ______ double room(s) at $110 per room.
___ Smoking     ___ Non-smoking     ___ King-size bed     ___ 2 Double beds
Sharing room with:  _________________________________________________
Arrival Date:  __________________  Arrival Time:  ___________________
Departure Date:  _____________________  (Check out time:  12:00 noon)
 
Reservations must be received by Friday, November 12, 1993, and MUST
include a deposit for one night.  This can be paid by a check or money
order in U.S. dollars or credit card.

Mastercard_____  Visa_____  American Express_____  Other_____    	
Credit Card No:  ____________________________________________________
Expiration Date:  __________  Signature:  ___________________________
 
These special conference rates are valid from Saturday 12/11/93 through
Sunday 12/19/93.

$15 additional per person if room is shared with third and/or fourth
person (over 18).
  
PLEASE SEND TO:
		Reservations Department
		Marriott Rivercenter
		101 Bowie Street
		San Antonio, TX  78205

		FAX:  (210) 223-4092
		or call:  (800) 648-4462 (toll free)
                          (210) 223-1000 (local)
		and mention 32nd CDC.
  

			* * * * * * * * * * *

The 32nd IEEE CDC ADVANCE REGISTRATION FORM	
 
Deadline for Advance Registration:  November 5, 1993
  
Name:  ______________________________________________________________
                   (Last)            (First)        (Middle Initial)
Name on Badge:  _____________________________________________________
Affiliation:  _______________________________________________________
Department:  ________________________________________________________
Street Address:  ____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
City:  ________________________  State:  ____________  Zip:  ________
Country:  ______________________________  FAX:  _____________________
Email:  _____________________________________________________________
Accompanying Guest's Name:  _________________________________________
Society Membership (Check one):  ____ IEEE  ____ SIAM  ____ ORSA
Membership Number:  _________________________________________________


CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
(Please circle the relevant amount)
  
				Society	Non-	Student or	
				Member	Member	Retiree	
				------	------	-------
Advance Registration Fee	 225	 295	 70
(BEFORE NOV. 5, 1993)
On-Site Registration	 	 300	 390	 80

Registrations received after Nov. 5, 1993, will be returned.  Registra-
tion fee (except for student and retiree registrants) includes Welcoming
and Farewell Receptions, Thursday's Luncheon Banquet, and one set of
Conference Proceedings.  Registration fee for students and retirees 
includes one set of Conference Proceedings.
  
Conference Registration Total				  $ ________

Additional Copies of Proceedings			  $ ________
 (Member @$95; Non-member @$120)

Proceedings Mailing:  (Please check one)		  
 _____ Mail Proceedings directly to the above address.    $ ________
       $5.00 mailing fee.  (North American addresses
       only.  No P. O. Boxes.)
 _____ Have Proceedings available at the Conference.
       Mailing service will be available at Conference,
       domestic as well as international.
  
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION
(Please circle relevant amounts)
							Not	Stud.
					Attend	After	Attend	or
					CDC	11/5/93	CDC	Ret.
					------  ------- ------  -----
  
Workshop #1 (Mon-Tues)     	 	155	 225	 250	 115
Robustness of Sys. w/Real Parametric...
Workshop #2 (Mon)		 	95	 155	 195	 75
Adaptive Cntrl of Linear & Nonlin.Sys.
Workshop #3 (Mon)		 	95	 155	 195	 75
Convex Optimiz. Techn. in Robust Cntrl
Workshop #4 (Mon)		 	95	 155	 195	 75
Var. Structure Sys. w/Sliding Modes
Workshop #5 (Mon)		 	95	 155	 195	 75
MATLAB
Workshop #6 (Tues)		 	95	 155	 195	 75
Combined Identification & Control
Workshop #7 (Tues)		 	95	 155	 195	 75
Modeling & Scheduling of Mfg. Sys.
Workshop #8 (Tues)		 	95	 155	 195	 75
Mechanics, Holonomy & Control
 
Workshop Total						  $ ________
Extra Banquet Tickets #___ @ $45			  $ ________
Spouses' Tour #___ @ $20				  $ ________
  
TOTAL AMOUNT DUE:					  $ ________
 
Please make check or money order in US currency payable to "32nd IEEE
CDC" and mail payment and this form to the Registration Chair:
  
	Professor Pradeep Misra
	Dept. of Electrical Engineering
	Wright State University
	Dayton, OH  45435
	phone: 513-873-5062 
	e-mail:  pmisra@valhalla.cs.wright.edu
  
**  REGISTRATION BY FAX OR E-MAIL WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.   **
  
Alternatively, you can charge the total amount to:
 
Mastercard _________  Visa _________ American Express __________
Card No. _____________________________ Expiration Date:  ___/___
Signature:  _________________________________________________________
 

Non-U.S. registrants who have special registration payment requirements
or restrictions should pre-register by September 30 so that checks and
money orders are received by the deadline.  The cutoff date for advance
registration will be strictly enforced.


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contributed by: flores@siam.org


Third SIAM Conference on Linear Algebra in Signals, Systems, and Control
            August 16-19, 1993, University of Washington, Seattle


MONDAY, AUGUST 16

                        PLENARY SESSIONS

8:00-8:45 AM     IP1  Hoo Control from a Classical Circuit
                 Viewpoint
                 Hidenori Kimura

8:45-9:00 AM     IP2  Quadratic Eigenvalue Problems
                 Beresford N. Parlett

10:00 AM-12:00 PM       CONCURRENT SESSIONS

MS1    Convex Optimization in Control Systems Analysis and
       Design--Part I:  Applications
MS2    Topics in Matrix Theory
MS3    Parallel Matrix Computations and Applications
MS4    Analysis and Computational Methods for Dense Eigenvalue
       and Singular Value Problems (Part 1 of 2)
MS5    Grassmanians, Projective Space and Linear Algebra
MS6    Parallel and Adaptive Algorithms for Beamforming and
       Direction Finding
CP1    Numerical Linear Algebra 1

1:30-2:15 PM            CONCURRENT SESSIONS

SL1    Algebraic Theory and Fast Algorithms for Toeplitz, Hankel
       and Other Structures
       Georg Heinig
SL2    Algorithms and Conditioning for Eigenvalue Assignment
       Mark Arnold
SL3    Numerical Methods in Optimal Control
       William W. Hager
SL4    Are Persistent Disturbances a Pain in the Hilbert Space?
       Mark J. Balas

2:45-4:45 PM            CONCURRENT SESSIONS

MS7    Convex Optimization in Control Systems Analysis and
       Design--Part II: Algorithms
MS8    Matrix Equations, Inertia and Stability
MS9    Large-Scale and Parallel Matrix Computations and Their
       Applications (Part 1 of 4)
MS10   Analysis and Computational Methods for Dense Eigenvalue
       and Singular Value Problems (Part 2 of 2)
MS11   Numerical Methods for Differential Algebraic Equations and
       Descriptor Systems
CP2    Control of Linear Systems
CP3    Signal Processing 1

TUESDAY, AUGUST 17

                        PLENARY SESSIONS

8:00-8:45 AM     IP3  Computational Methods in Linear Least
                 Squares
                 Ake Bjorck

8:45-9:30 AM     IP4  Parallel Algorithms and Numerical Stability
                 for Toeplitz Systems
                 Richard P. Brent

10:00 AM-12:00 PM       CONCURRENT SESSIONS

MS12   Controls Research at Boeing
MS13   MATLAB and Applications
MS14   Multiple Taper Spectral Estimation
MS15   Iterative Methods for Toeplitz Systems
MS16   Second Order Systems
MS17   Automated System Identification and Control Using SVD
CP4    Optimal Control

1:30-2:15 PM            CONCURRENT SESSIONS

SL5    Conditioning, Consistency, and Stability Issues in Signal
       Processing
       James R. Bunch
SL6    Robust Stability and Control
       S.P. Bhattacharyya
SL7    Rational Krylov Algorithms for Eigenvalues with
       Engineering Applications
       Axel Ruhe
SL8    Surface Reconstruction with Uncertain Data
       Davi Geiger
SL9    Title to be announced
       Lane Dailey

3:00-5:00 PM            CONCURRENT SESSIONS

MS18   Least Squares for Signal Processing
MS19   Numerical Linear Algebra for Signal Processing and Control
MS20   Large-Scale and Parallel Matrix Computations and Their
       Applications (Part 2 of 4)
MS21   Numerical Solution of Matrix Differential Equations with
       Structured Solutions
CP5    Matrix Theory
CP6    Parallel Computations and Numerical Linear Algebra

3:00-5:00 PM            POSTER SESSION

8:00-9:00 PM     SPECIAL PRESENTATION
                 Wavelets and the Search for Good Filters
                 Gilbert Strang

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18

                        PLENARY SESSIONS

8:00-8:45 AM     IP5  Linear Algebra and Neural Networks
                 M. Vidyasagar

8:45-9:30 AM     IP6  Sampled-Data Systems in Signal Processing
                 and Control 
                 Bruce A. Francis 

10:00 AM-12:00 PM       CONCURRENT SESSIONS

MS22   Complexity Issues in Linear Algebra
MS23   Numerical Computation of H   Controllers for Infinite
       Dimensional Systems
MS24   Global Climate Change and Systems Science: Modeling,
       Methodology and Challenges
MS25   New Algorithms and Software for Eigen-problems Arising in
       Signal Processing and Control
MS26   Computational Methods for Estimation of Distributed
       Parameters
MS27   Numerical and Symbolic Computations for Contemporary
       Control Problems (Part 1 of 2)
CP7    Signal Processing II

1:30-2:15 PM            CONCURRENT SESSIONS

SL10   Cardinal Interpolation and Wavelets
       Charles K. Chui
SL11   A Retrospective on Condition Theory
       Charles S. Kenney
SL12   QMR Methods for Solving Large Linear Systems and
       Applications
       Roland W. Freund
SL13   Graphs, Computational Geometry, and Neural Network Design
       Nirmal Kumar Bose
SL14   Total Least Squares for Affinely Structured Matrices
       Bart De Moor

3:00-5:00 PM            CONCURRENT SESSIONS

MS28   Large-Scale and Parallel Matrix Computations and Their
       Applications (Part 3 of 4).
MS29   Parallel and Distributed Computation for Control Problems
MS30   State Space Methods
MS31   Matrix Completions and Applications
CP8    Numerical Linear Algebra II
CP9    Hoo Robust, and Adaptive Control

THURSDAY, AUGUST 19

                        PLENARY SESSIONS

8:00-8:45 AM     IP7  Signals, Seismics and Supers
                 George Cybenko

8:45-9:30 AM     IP8  Theory and Practice of Estimator Design in
                 Sensor Array Signal Processing
                 Mos Kaveh

10:00 AM-12:00 PM       CONCURRENT SESSIONS

MS32   Eigenvalues and Singular Values: Generalizations and
       Accuracy Issues
MS33   Adaptive Methods
MS34   Signal Processing at Boeing
MS35   Numerical and Symbolic Computations for Contemporary
       Control Problems (Part 2 of 2)
CP10   Stability and Identification

1:30-2:15 PM            CONCURRENT SESSIONS

SL15   Linear Matrix Inequalities in Systems and Control
       Stephen Boyd
SL16   Iterative Methods for Toeplitz Systems
       Raymond H. Chan
SL17   Krylov Space Methods on State-Space Control Models
       Daniel L. Boley
SL18   Quality in Industrial Computations
       Francoise Chatelin
SL19   Numerical Issues in Optimization Based Design and Control
       John A. Burns

3:00-5:00 PM            CONCURRENT SESSIONS

MS36   Large-Scale and Parallel Matrix Computations and Their
       Applications Part 4 of 4).
MS37   Parallel Signal Processing for Multiprocessor Systems
MS38   Numerical Techniques for Solving Optimal Control Problems
MS39   Topics in Wavelet Analysis
CP11   Matrix Theory II
5:30   Conference Adjourns

UNIVERSITY AND DORMITORY INFORMATION
University of Washington, Seattle
Department of Conference Housing and Special Services
McCarty Upper Plaza, GR-10
Seattle, Washington 98195
206-543-7636
FAX:  206-543-4094

Detailed information about the residence halls and maps will be
mailed to attendees with confirmations of dormitory reservations.

Dormitory Rates prior to Sunday, August 15 and after Tuesday,
August 17:  
                 Single:     $29.00 each person*
                 Double:     $19.00 each person*
                 
*No meals included

Dormitory Package Rate to include accommodations Sunday, August
15 thru Tuesday, August 17 and meals (breakfast, lunch and
dinner, Monday, August 16-Tuesday, August 17, breakfast and lunch
only on Wednesday, August 18)
                 Single:     $141.75 each person*
                 Double:     $111.75 each person*

*Meals and taxes included

Reservation Deadline:   Friday, July 23, 1993

HOTEL INFORMATION

SIAM is holding a small number of rooms at the following hotels
for those attendees who prefer to stay off campus.  These rooms
will be on a first come first serve basis.

The Meany Tower Hotel
4507 Brooklyn Avenue N.E.
Seattle, WA 98105
206-634-2000
800-648-6440
FAX: 206-634-2000

Room Rate:  $78.00 Single (1 bed 1 person)
            $90.00 Double (1 bed 2 persons)    
            $94.00 Double (2 beds 2 or more persons)          

University Inn
4140 Roosevelt Way N.E.
Seattle WA 98105
206-632-5055
800-733-3855
FAX: 206-547-4937

Room Rate:  $65.00 Single room (1 bed 1 person)
            $70.00 Double room (2 beds 2 persons)*

*$10.00 for each additional adult.  Children under 18 years are
free.

Reservations:  To make a reservation at either the University Inn
or the Meany Tower Hotel, you should call the hotel directly and
mention that you are an attendee at the SIAM Conference on Linear
Algebra.  The hotels require that you give them a credit card to
confirm your reservation.  Confirmations will be sent to
attendees by the hotels.  An additional 15.2% for occupancy and
sales tax will be added to your hotel room rate.

Reservation Deadline:   July 23, 1993

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Preregistration Form and payment must be received at the SIAM
office by Monday, August 2, 1993 or you will be required to pay
the full registration fee.  Please make checks payable to SIAM.

Registration Fees:
                                SIAM      ***Non    
                 **SIAG/LA      Member    Member    Student
Conference
Preregistration    $145         $150      $180      $25
Registration       $180         $185      $215      $25

BBQ Dinner         $ 35         $ 35      $ 35      $35

**Lunch is included in the cost of registration for tutorial and
workshop attendees.

***Member of SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra

To register in advance please contact SIAM:

                 Telephone:  215-382-9800
                 FAX:        215-386-7999
                 e-mail:     meetings@siam.org

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contributed by: hje@robots.ox.ac.uk



  ==================================================================
  =             IFAC/IFIP/IMACS Symposium on                       =
  =                                                                =
  =       ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN REAL TIME CONTROL             =
  =                                                                =
  =                       AIRTC'94                                 =
  =                                            3-5 October  1994   =
  =                                             Valencia, Spain    =
  ==================================================================


INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Chairman: J.A. de la Puente (E)     
  P. Albertos (E)         P. Borne (F)                L. Boullart (B)
  F. Charpillet (F)       H.J. Efstathiou (UK)        M. Fjeld (N)
  A. Halme (SF)           C.C. Hang (Sin)             C.J. Harris (UK) 
  A. Jimenez (E)          D. Kersual (F)              A.J. Krijgsman (NL)
  H.G. Kaliakov (Bu)      I.M. MacLeod (SA)           A. Mensch (F)
  L. Motus (EE)           S. Narita (J)               A. Ollero (E) 
  E. De Pablo (E)         Y.H. Pao (USA)              L.F. Pau (F) 
  U. Rembold (D)          M.G. Rodd  (UK)             A.G. Schmidt (D)    
  S.Q. Su (PRC)           G.J. Suski (USA)            B. Verbruggen (NL)
  E.A. Woods (N)
         
NATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Chairman: A. Crespo (E)   
  F. Barber           V. Botti         A. Espinosa       A. Garcia 
  F. Morant           J.L. Navarro     J. J. Serrano     R. Vivo
  E. Onaindia

SCOPE
This Symposium is intented to provide an international forum  for presentation
and discussion of concepts and application of artificial intelligence
techniques in the design, implementation, testing, supervision and monitoring
of real time control systems. The previous Symposium was held in Delft (1992),
and was the first symposium after o three succesful workshops in the same field.

The objective of the Symposium is to bring toghether control systems specialists, 
artificial intelligence specialists and end-users. The main topics covered in the 
Symposium are:

      - Real time expert systems shells 
      - Knowledge representation  
      - Intelligent control systems applications 
      - Fuzzy control  
      - Neural networks control 
      - Process monitoring and supervision  
      - Temporal reasoning in process control
      - Intelligent components architecture  
      - Real-time distributed A.I. architectures
      - Human interaction 
      - Multi-sensor fusion  
      - Fault detection and emergency control 
      - Adaptive learning control systems  
      - Parallel and distributed knowledge processing
      - Intelligent controllers 

CONTRIBUTIONS
The Symposium will include both invited sessions and  contributed papers.

      Regular papers 
      Four copies of an extended abstract (2-3 pages, 1000 words)  or a draft
      paper should be received no later than December 15, 1993  by the
      secretariat address. It must be clearly indicate the new contributions
      and the relevance to the scope of the Symposium.

      Invited sessions 
      Proposals for invited sessions including a brief description of the
      topics and a list of prospective authors and titles should be sent to
      the Symposium secretariat by December 15, 1993.

      Paper acceptance 
      The final copy of each accepted papers should reach the organizers by
      May 1, 1994, after a letter of acceptance in February 1994. Papers are
      to be prepared according to the Instructions which will be sent to the
      authors.The papers presented at the Symposium will be published in the
      AIRTC'94 Preprints,which will be distributed by Pergamon Press.
 
DEADLINES
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Submission of abstracts, drafts and invited sessions .... December 15, 1993
 Acceptance notification ................................. February 15, 1994
 Camera-ready papers due ................................. May 1, 1994
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
         
SYMPOSIUM LOCATION:
The symposium will be held at the Facultad de Informatica of the Universidad
Politecnica de Valencia.

SECRETARIAT ADDRESS: 
      AIRTC 1994  
      D.I.S.C.A. 
      Universidad Politecnica de Valencia  
      P.O. Box 22012, E -46071 Valencia, Spain 
      Phone: +34 6 3877571         
      Fax: +34 6 3877579  
      E-mail: airtc94@aii.upv.es

RELATED EVENTS
This event will follow the 13th Workshop on Distributed Computer Control
Systems (DCCS'94) to be held in Toledo, september 28-30, 1994.

COPYRIGHT
The copyright of all accepted papers is automatically transferred to IFAC.
Papers published in IFAC preprint volumes will also be considered for
publication in the IFAC Journals  Automatica  and Control Engineering
Practice  which have priority access to all such material.

LANGUAGE 
The official symposium language is English. No simultaneous translation will be
provided.


SPONSORED BY: 
International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committees on
Computers, Manufacturing Technology, Applications and Social Effects of
Automation.
Comite Espanol de IFAC (CEA-IFAC).

CO-SPONSORED BY: 
International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).
International for Mathematics and Computer in Simulation (IMACS)

ORGANIZED BY: 
Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas, Computadores y Automatica.
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia


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