E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing
ISSUE No. 60, July 23, 1993
E-mail: eletter-request@win.tue.nl
Editors: Anton A. Stoorvogel
Dept. of Mathematics & Computing Science
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
the Netherlands
Fax +31-40-465995
Siep Weiland
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
the Netherlands
Fax +31-40-434582
Welcome to this E-letter number 60 !!
Contents
1. Editorial
2. Personals Carlos de Souza
Vincent Blondel
3. General announcements Nominations George Polya Prize
White house electronic addresses
Internal Reports SISTA
Course on Numerical Methods in Control,
Signal and Image Processing
4. Positions United Technologies Research Center
Postdoc at University of Newcastle,
Australia
5. Books Discrete event systems: modeling
and control
6. Journals: Call for papers, Neural Networks for
Control
Table of Contents Automatica
Table of Contents IEEE Trans. on Automatic
Control
Special issue on data fusion techniques and
applications in Control Engineering
Practice
7. Conferences:
1993 American Control Conference
Proceedings
1994 American control Conference
31-st Allerton Conference on Communication,
Control and Computing
Int. Symp. of Young Investigators on
Information/Computer/Control
Int. Conf. on Control Theory and its
Applications
IFAC Workshop on Integrating AI/KBS in
Process Control
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contributed by: Carlos E. de Souza
Change of Address
My sabbatical leave at the Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble,
France, has ended and my address reverted to:
Dr. Carlos E. de Souza
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
The University of Newcastle
N.S.W. 2308
AUSTRALIA
email: eeced@cc.newcastle.edu.au
Fax : (61) (49) 601 712
Tel. : (61) (49) 512 697
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contributed by: V. Blondel (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)
Starting September 1st I will be at the Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm (KTH) for a one year postdoctoral position.
My new address:
KTH, Department of Mathematics
Optimization and Systems Theory
S-100 44 Stockholm
Sweden
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contributed by: Allison Bogardo, SIAM
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
FOR
GEORGE POLYA PRIZE
The Polya Prize
SIAM will present the award at the 1994 SIAM Annual Meeting in San Diego,
California, July 25-29. The award honors the memory of George Polya and will
be given for a notable contribution in one of the following areas:
approximation theory, complex analysis, number theory, orthogonal polynomials,
probability theory, or mathematical discovery and learning.
Eligibility
There are no restrictions except that the prize is broadly intended to
recognize specific work.
Description of the Award
The award will consist of an engraved medal and a $20,000 cash prize.
Nominations
A letter of nomination, including description of achievement(s), should be
sent by August 1, 1993, to:
Professor Richard A. Askey
Chair, Polya Prize Committee
c/o Allison Bogardo
SIAM
3600 University City Science Center
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688
Telephone: (215) 382-9800
Fax: (215) 386-7999
E-mail: bogardo@siam.org
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contributed by: sontag@control.rutgers.edu (Eduardo Sontag)
NEW WHITE HOUSE ELECTRONIC ADDRESSES
Please don't send junk-mail to these (they get enough of that), but if you do
have something to tell them...:
president@whitehouse.gov (President Clinton)
vice.president@whitehouse.gov (Vice President Gore)
Note: these addresses are real, and they work. If you send them mail, you
should get an immediate electronic acknowledgement of receipt.
One issue that may interest you is that there have been suggestions that
academic people in the US should start paying for using email (it is now
subsidized). If this happens, it would have a very negative impact on
worldwide scientific use of email (and surely other governments would then
attempt to use the precedent to start charging as well). You may want to send
a note to VP Gore (he is the one mainly interested in the issue of the
"electronic highways of the future") explaining why *free* email access is so
important to scientific and technological research.
-eduardo
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contributed by: Geert.Schelfhout@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
The following list of internal reports of the research group SISTA are
available by anonymous ftp.
SISTA (Signals, Identification, System Theory and Automation) is the control
and SP group of the division ESAT (Electronics, Systems, Automation,
Technology) of the department of Electrical Engineering
of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
The reports can be obtained from gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be (134.58.56.20).
Please type your email address at the password prompt.
The reports of a researcher of ESAT/SISTA are stored in a directory
pub/SISTA//reports, where is the first author's name.
Each 'reports' directory contains a file ABSTRACTS containing some information
about each filed report, including an abstract. The documents are in
compressed postscript.
FILES: pub/SISTA/demoor/reports/davidtllssyscont.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Bart De Moor, Johan David
TITLE: Total linear least squares and the algebraic
Riccati equation
STATUS: System & Control Letters, Volume 18, 5, pp.329-337, May 1992
FILES: pub/SISTA/demoor/reports/lasfinal.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Bart De Moor
TITLE: The singular value decomposition and long and
short spaces of noisy matrices.
STATUS: To be published in IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing, 1993.
FILES: pub/SISTA/demoor/reports/kak.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Bart De Moor
TITLE: Numerical Algorithms for State Space Subspace
System Identification
STATUS: To be published in the Proc. of the Koninklijke Akademie
voor Wetenschappen, Belgie (Royal Academy of
Sciences, Belgium)
FILES: pub/SISTA/moonen/reports/89-13J.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Moonen M., Van Dooren P., Vandewalle J.
TITLE: An SVD updating algorithm for subspace tracking
STATUS: To appear in SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., Vol. 13, No. 4, 1992.
FILES: pub/SISTA/moonen/reports/89-013J.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Moonen M., Van Dooren P., Vandewalle J.
TITLE: A systolic array for SVD updating
STATUS: To appear in SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl, Vol. 14, No. 3, 1993.
FILES: pub/SISTA/moonen/reports/90-39J.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Moonen M., Vandewalle J.
TITLE: A systolic array for recursive least squares computations
STATUS: To appear in IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, February 1993.
FILES: pub/SISTA/moonen/reports/89-27J.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Moonen M.
TITLE: Implementing the Square-Root Information Kalman Filter on a
Jacobi-Type Systolic Array
STATUS: To appear in Journal of VLSI Signal Processing
FILES: pub/SISTA/moonen/reports/91-31J.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Moonen M.
TITLE: Systolic MVDR Beamforming with Inverse Updating
STATUS: To appear in IEE Proceedings F, Radar and Signal Processing
FILES: pub/SISTA/moonen/reports/91-07J.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Moonen M., Ramos J.
TITLE: A subspace algorithm for balanced state space system
identification
STATUS: To appear in IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, August 1993.
FILES: pub/SISTA/moonen/reports/92-31J.ps.Z
AUTHORS: M. Moonen, P. Van Dooren, F. Vanpoucke
TITLE: On the QR algorithm and updating the SVD and URV decomposition
in parallel
FILES: pub/SISTA/moonen/reports/92-32J.ps.Z
AUTHORS: M. Moonen, F. Vanpoucke, E. Deprettere
TITLE: Parallel and adaptive high resolution direction finding
FILES: pub/SISTA/moonen/reports/92-37C.ps.Z
AUTHORS: M. Moonen
TITLE: Systolic algorithms for adaptive signal processing
STATUS: To appear in Proc. IMA Workshop `Linear Algebra for Signal
Processing'.
FILES: pub/SISTA/moonen/reports/93-12J.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Moonen M.
TITLE: A systolic array for recursive least squares computations, Part
II~: Mapping directionally weighted RLS on an SVD updating array
FILES: pub/SISTA/moonen/reports/93-20J.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Moonen M., McWhirter J.
TITLE: A systolic array for recursive least squares by inverse
iterations
FILES: pub/SISTA/vanhuffel/reports/intrep9222.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Sabine VAN HUFFEL
TITLE: Enhanced resolution based on minimum variance estimation
and exponential data modeling.
STATUS: Submitted to Signal Processing
FILES: pub/SISTA/vanoverschee/reports/mtns.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Peter van Overschee, Bart de Moor
TITLE: Subspace algorithms for system
identification and stochastic realization
STATUS: 90-30C, Recent Advances in Mathematical Theory of Systems
Control, Networks and Signal Processing, Proc. of the
International Symposium MTNS-91, June 17-21 1991, Kobe,
Japan, MITA Press., pp. 589-595
DATE OF ENTRY: February 5, 1993
FILES: pub/SISTA/vanoverschee/reports/cdc91.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Peter van Overschee, Bart de Moor
TITLE: SUBSPACE ALGORITHMS FOR THE STOCHASTIC IDENTIFICATION
PROBLEM
STATUS: 91-28C, Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Conference On Decision
and Control, Brighton, England, 11-13 December 1991.,
pp.~1321-1326
DATE OF ENTRY: February 5, 1993
FILES: pub/SISTA/vanoverschee/reports/stoch_auto2.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Peter Van Overschee, Bart De Moor
TITLE: Subspace algorithms for the stochastic identification
problem
STATUS: Automatica
DATE OF ENTRY: February 5, 1993
FILES: pub/SISTA/vanoverschee/reports/det-sto.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Marc Moonen, Peter Van Overschee, Bart De Moor
TITLE: A Subspace Algorithm for Combined
Stochastic-Deterministic State Space Identification.
DATE OF ENTRY: August 26, 1992
FILES: pub/SISTA/vanoverschee/reports/cdc92.ps.Z
AUTHORS: P. Van Overschee, B. De Moor.
TITLE: Two Subspace Algorithms for the
Identification of Combined Deterministic-Stochastic Systems.
STATUS: 92-12C, Proc. of the 31st IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control, December 16-18, 1992, Tucson, USA,
Vol. 1., pp. 511-516
DATE OF ENTRY: August 26, 1992.
FILES: pub/SISTA/vanoverschee/reports/comb_auto1.ps.Z
AUTHORS: P. Van Overschee, B. De Moor.
TITLE: An Exact Subspace Algorithm for the
Identification of Combined Deterministic-Stochastic Systems.
DATE OF ENTRY: August 26, 1992.
FILES: pub/SISTA/vanoverschee/reports/comb_auto2.ps.Z
AUTHORS: P. Van Overschee, B. De Moor.
TITLE: An Approximate Subspace Algorithm for the
Identification of Combined Deterministic-Stochastic Systems.
DATE OF ENTRY: August 26, 1992.
FILES: pub/SISTA/vanoverschee/reports/comb_ext2.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Peter Van Overschee, Bart De Moor
TITLE: N4SID : Subspace Algorithms for the Identification of Combined
Deterministic-Stochastic Systems
STATUS: 92-34I, Accepted for publication in
Automatica : special issue on statistical processing and
control.
DATE OF ENTRY: February 5, 1993
FILES: pub/SISTA/vanpoucke/reports/93-09I.ps.Z
AUTHORS: Filiep Vanpoucke, Marc Moonen
TITLE: A systolic algorithm for robust adaptive LCMV beamforming
with an adjustable constraint.
STATUS: ESAT-SISTA Report 1993-09
DATE OF ENTRY: April 23, 1993
The email adresses of the authors above are :
bart.demoor@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
marc.moonen@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
sabine.vanhuffel@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
peter.vanoverschee@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
filiep.vanpoucke@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
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contributed by: flores@siam.org
TUTORIAL
Numerical Methods in Control, Signal and Image Processing
August 15, 1993
Organizer: Biswa Nath Datta, Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Northern Illinois University,
Tutorial Description and Objectives
In the last few years many numerically reliable algorithms
have been developed for important linear algebra problems arising
in the design and analysis of control systems, and in signal and
image processing. These methods do not seem to be widely known
and the software based on these methods are not readily
available to control theorists, applied mathematicians and the
practising engineers. The researchers and practising engineers
working in these important applications areas will be exposed to
these numerically reliable algorithms and the associated
softwares through this course.
Who Should Attend
Mathematicians; computer scientists; and control, systems,
and signal and image processing engineers. Practising engineers,
graduate students and researchers looking for some future
exciting areas of research are especially encouraged to attend.
Recommended Background
A first course in linear and numerical linear algebra and
some basic knowledge in control and systems theory and/or signal
and image processing. No rigorous knowledge of control theory and
signal processing will be assumed.
Instructors
George Cybenko is a professor of electrical engineering and
computer science at Dartmouth College. His research interests
include numerical linear algebra and applications to signal
processing and neural networks. He is the associate managing
editor of SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis.
Biswa Nath Datta is a professor of mathematical sciences at
Northern Illinois University. His research interests include
linear algebra and numerical linear algebra in control, including
large scale and parallel computations in these areas. He serves
on the editorial board of SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Applications and
Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation and Control. He is
the chairman of the SIAM conference associated with this course;
and is the vice-chair of SIAM Linear Algebra Activity Group.
Alan J. Laub is a professor of electrical engineering at
University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests
are in computer aided control system design, linear and
large-scale control and filter theory, parallel computations in
control, etc. He was the past president and is a distinguished
member of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He has served or
serves on the editorial board of five major journals. He is a
fellow of IEEE Control System Society.
Robert J. Plemmons is the Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of
Mathematics and Computer Science at Wake Forest University. His
research interests include linear algebra, numerical linear
algebra and their applications to signal and image processing.
He serves on the editorial board of SIAM Journal on Matrix
Analysis, Linear Algebra and Applications, SIAM Review, etc.
Paul Van Dooren is a professor of electrical engineering at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests
include numerical linear algebra and applications to control and
systems theory and signal processing. He serves on the editorial
board of SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Linear Algebra
and Applications, and Control Systems Letters.
The course will be divided into two parts. Part I -- Numerical Methods in
Control and Systems Theory will be taught by Biswa Datta, Alan Laub, and Paul
Van Dooren. Part II -- Numerical Methods in Signal and Image Processing will
be taught by George Cybenko and Robert Plemmons.
Part I will cover recently developed numerically viable methods for control
systems design and analysis, including methods for large-scale and parallel
computations. A brief architectural description of some of today's high
performance computers and ideas, and actual results of implementation of
existing algorithms on those computers will also be presented.
Part II will be devoted to the applications of recently developed matrix
computations techniques to the solution of linear algebra problems arising in
signal and image processing.
Special attention will be given to large-scale structured matrix computations
such as techniques for block Toeplitz systems. FFT-based preconditioned
iterative methods, etc. that have been successfully used in recent years to
problems on restoration of images, etc.
Program
Part I: Numerical Methods in Control and Systems Theory
8:00 AM Introduction
Biswa N. Datta
8:15 AM Controllability, Observability, Luenberger Observer,
Feedback Stabilization and Eigenvalue Assignment,
Control of Second Order Systems
Biswa N. Datta
9:30 AM Coffee
10:00 AM Lyapunov, Sylvester and Riccati Equations
Alan J. Laub
11:15 AM Frequency Domain Versus State Space (GCD) Extraction,
Minimal Realization, Spectral Factorization, Coprime
Factorization, etc.)
Paul Van Dooren
12:30 PM Lunch
Part II: Numerical Methods in Signal and Image Processing
2:00 PM Structured Matrix Computations in Signal Processing
Robert J. Plemmons
3:15 PM Coffee
3:45 PM Numerical Linear Algebra in Signal Processing
George Cybenko
5:00 PM Discussion
5:30 PM Tutorial adjourns
Tutorial Registration Fees*
SIAG/LA** SIAM Mbr. Non-
Member (regular) Member Student
Advance (August 2) $120 $120 $135 $55
On-Site (after August 2) $135 $135 $155 $55
**Member of SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra.
*Includes Course Notes, coffee and lunch.
Attendees are advised to pre-register for the tutorial. On-site registration
cannot be guaranteed. Notes of the lecture materials will be distributed upon
check-in at the SIAM registration desk.
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contributed by: Carl Nett
United Technologies Research Center, an internationally recognized R&D
facility for broad-range research in both basic and applied sciences and
engineering is currently seeking a talented individual with background and
experience in Control Systems, Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and
System Diagnostics.
Individual will develop algorithms and architectures for intelligent
embedded systems that will be incorporated in future UTC products and
processes. Responsibilities will include research in logic design methods,
development of system concepts, logic design, modeling and simulation of
mechanical electrical, thermal and fluid dynamic systems with associated
optimization studies. Requires MS in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
or a PhD, EE or ME. Creative multi-diciplinary research experiences in the
laboratory and in simulation methods are desirable.
United Technologies Research Center offers a competitive salary and
benefits package designed to attract and retain talented professionals.
Send a resume and salary requirements to Professional Staffing, MS-35,
United Technologies Research Center, 411 Silver Lane, East Hartford, CT
06108, Attention: Kirsten Fuchs.
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contributed by: Dr. Minyue Fu
Postdoctoral Position Available
An up to three year postdoctoral position is availbale in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Newcastle,
Australia, for research in robust control and estimation areas.
Applicants are required to have a Ph.D. degree in Control and Systems.
Special interests in H-infinity control, nonlinear systems, robust
stability and signal estimation will be particularly valuable.
Approximate salary range: $A35,000--$A38,000 (1A$=US$0.70). For further
information, please contact Dr. Minyue Fu (eemf@cc.newcastle.edu.au) or Dr.
Carlos de Souza (eeced@cc.newcastle.edu.au).
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contributed by: Petr Kozak (kozak@cspgas11.bitnet)
Title: DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS: MODELING AND CONTROL
Subtitle: Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Discrete Event Systems
(WODES'92), August 26-28, 1992, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Editors: S. Balemi, P. Kozak and R. Smedinga
Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag, March 1993,
ISBN 3-7643-2845-2 (Europe) 0-8176-2845-2 (USA)
Price: SFr 88.- (Swiss Francs)
BibTeX Item:
@book{WODES:92,
title={Discrete Event Systems: Modeling and Control},
year={1993},
editor={S. Balemi and P. Koz{\'a}k and R. Smedinga},
publisher={Birkh\"auser Verlag, Basel, Switzerland},
series={Progress in Systems and Control Theory},
volume={13},
note={(Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Discrete Event
Systems (WODES'92), } #aug# { 26--28, 1992, Prague, Czechoslovakia)},
ISBN={3-7643-2845-2 0-8176-2845-2}
}
About the Book:
Research of discrete event systems is strongly motivated by applications
in flexible manufacturing, in traffic control and in concurrent and
real-time software verification and design, just to mention a few important
areas. Discrete event system theory is a promising and dynamically developing
area of both control theory and computer science.
Discrete event systems are systems with non-numerically-valued states, inputs,
and outputs. The approaches to the modelling and control of these systems can
be roughly divided into two groups. The first group is concerned with
the automatic design of controllers from formal specifications of logical
requirements. This research owes much to the pioneering work of P.J. Ramadge
and W.M. Wonham at the beginning of the eighties. The second group deals with
the analysis and optimization of system throughput, waiting time, and other
performance measures for discrete event systems.
The present book contains selected papers presented at the Joint Workshop
on Discrete Event Systems (WODES'92) held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on
August 26-28, 1992 and organized by the Institute of Information Theory and
Automation of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechoslovakia,
by the Automatic Control Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, and by the Department of Computing
Science of the University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Thirty research papers of high quality were presented and discussed thoroughly
by the participants from fourteen countries. Five invited survey lectures
given by leading researchers covered main topics of the discrete event system
area. Nine different solutions to a simple control problem, stated at the
workshop announcement with the aim to stimulate comparison between different
approaches, were presented during a special session.
The book reflects four main topics of current research: models of real-time
system behaviour, methods for decreasing computational and model complexity,
unifying approaches to modelling, and performance analysis of discrete event
systems.
Content: (BibTeX Items)
@inbook{Ush:93b,
crossref={WODES:92},
author={T. Ushio},
title={Augmented Language and Supervisory Control in
Discrete Event Systems},
pages={3--13}
}
@inbook{Bal:93,
crossref={WODES:92},
author={S. Balemi},
title={Input/Output Discrete Event Processes and System Modeling},
pages={15--27}
}
@inbook{Ina:93,
crossref={WODES:92},
author={K. {\.I}nan},
title={Supervisory Control and Formal Methods for Distributed Systems},
pages={29--41}
}
@inbook{Sme:93b,
crossref={WODES:92},
author={R. Smedinga},
title={An Overview of Results in Discrete Event Systems
Using a Trace Theory Based Setting},
pages={43--56}
}
@inbook{BraBon:93,
crossref={WODES:92},
author={Y. Brave and D. Bonvin},
title={A Minimally Restrictive Policy for Deadlock Avoidance
in a Class of FMS},
pages={57--69}
}
@inbook{Pik:93,
crossref={WODES:92},
author={J. Pik},
title={Similarity of Events in Discrete Event Systems},
pages={71--78}
}
@inbook{SchWeh:93,
crossref={WODES:92},
author={R. Scheuring and H. Wehlan},
title={Control of Discrete Event Systems by means of
the Boolean Differential Calculus},
pages={79--93}
}
@inbook{Koz:93a,
crossref={WODES:92},
author={P. Koz\'{a}k},
title={A Unifying Framework for Discrete Event System Control Theory},
pages={95--109}
}
@inbook{Ols:93,
crossref={WODES:92},
author={G.J. Olsder},
title={Synchronized Continuous Flow Systems},
pages={113--124}
}
@inbook{BraRes:93,
crossref={WODES:92},
author={J.G. Braker and J.A.C. Resing},
title={On a Generalized Asymptoticity Problem in Max Algebra},
pages={125--139}
}
@inbook{WGALC:93,
crossref={WODES:92},
author={K.J. Williams and J.A. Gannon and M.S. Andersland and
J.E. Lumpp and T.L. Casavant},
title={Conditions for Tracking Timing Perturbations in Timed {P}etri
Nets with Monitors},
pages={141--151}
}
@inbook{SenLaf:93,
crossref={WODES:92},
author={R. Sengupta and S. Lafortune},
title={Extensions to the Theory of Optimal Control of Discrete
Event Systems},
pages={153--160}
}
@inbook{Sme:93c,
crossref={WODES:92},
author={R. Smedinga},
title={The Workshop Exercise Using a Trace Theory Based Setting},
pages={167--172}
}
@inbook{Cap:93,
crossref={WODES:92},
author={F. \v{C}apkovi\v{c}},
title={A {P}etri Nets-Based Approach to the Maze Problem Solving},
pages={173--179}
}
@inbook{Kri:93,
crossref={WODES:92},
author={O. K\v{r}\'{\i}\v{z}},
title={The Cat-and-Mouse Problem as a System of Boolean Equations},
pages={181--187}
}
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crossref={WODES:92},
author={G.J. Hoffmann and H. Wong-Toi},
title={Symbolic Supervisory Synthesis for the Workshop Exercise},
pages={189--197}
}
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crossref={WODES:92},
author={P. Koz\'{a}k},
title={The Cat-and-Mouse Problem with Least Delays},
pages={199--205}
}
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crossref={WODES:92},
author={S.L. Chung and S. Lafortune and F. Lin},
title={Supervisory Control with Variable Lookahead Policies:
Illustrative Example},
pages={207--214}
}
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title={Selected Bibliography},
pages={217--230}
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Additional discrete event system references in BibTeX format (more then 600
items) are available via anonymous ftp (file name: des.bib) from
the following two servers:
ifa.ethz.ch 129.132.50.2
rascals.stanford.edu 36.60.0.110
or directly from
Silvano Balemi (balemi@aut.ee.ethz.ch)
Petr Kozak (kozak@cspgas11.bitnet)
Rein Smedinga (rein@cs.rug.nl)
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contributed by: David L. Elliott
Call for Papers, NEURAL NETWORKS FOR CONTROL
Special Volume in the Series "Progress in Neural Networks" (Ablex Publishing
Corp.; Series Editor O.M. Omidvar)
Special Volume Editor: David L. Elliott
Original manuscripts describing recent progress in neural
networks research directly applicable to Control or making use
of modern control theory. Manuscripts may be survey or
tutorial in nature. Suggested Topics:
%New directions in neurocontrol
%Adaptive control
%Biological control architectures
%Mathematical foundations of control
%Model-based control with learning capability
%Natural neural control systems
%Neurocontrol hardware research
%Optimal control and incremental dynamic programming
%Process control and manufacturing
%Reinforcement-Learning Control
%Sensor fusion and vector quantization
%Validating neural control systems
The papers will be refereed and uniformly typeset. Ablex and the Progress
Series editors invite you to submit an abstract, extended summary or
manuscript proposal, directly to the Special Volume Editor:
Dr. David L. Elliott, Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Tel: (301)405-1241 FAX (301)314-9920
Email: DELLIOTT@SRC.UMD.EDU
or to the Series Editor:
Dr. Omid M. Omidvar, Computer Science Dept.,
University of the District of Columbia, Washington DC 20008
Tel: (202)282-7345 FAX: (202)282-3677
Email: OOMIDVAR@UDCVAX.BITNET
The Publisher is Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood, NJ
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contributed by: Huibert Kwakernaak - AUTOMATICA
LIST OF MATERIAL FOR THE 150th ISSUE OF
THE IFAC JOURNAL-AUTOMATICA
Vol. 29 No. 6 November 1993
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G.S. Axelby Editorial: The 150th Issue
Survey/Tutorial Paper
V. Kucera Diophantine Equations in Control - A Survey
Papers
Y-P. Harn Optimal Low-Order Controller Design via
R.L. Kosut 'LQG-Like' Parametrization
D.L. Laughlin Robust Performance of Cross-Directional
M. Morari Basis-Weight Control in Paper Machines
R.D. Braatz
Y-R. Hu Dynamic Control of Coordinated Redundant
A.A. Goldenberg Robots with Torque Optimization
R.A. Freeman Design of 'Softer' Robust Nonlinear
P.V. Kokotovic Control Laws
B.P. Furey A Sequential Quadratic Programming Based
Algorithm for Optimization of Gas Networks
D. Li Hierarchical Control for Large-Scale
Systems with General Multiple
Linear-Quadratic Structure
C. Commault Output Feedback Disturbance Decoupling
J.M. Dion Graph Interpretation for Structured
M. Benahcene Systems
S. Dasgupta Characterizing Persistent Excitation for
C.R. Johnson Jr. the Sign-Sign Equation Error Identifier
A.M. Baksho
P. Zagalak The Row-By-Row Decoupling via State
J.F. Lafay Feedback: A Polynomial Approach
A.N. Herrera-Hernandez
W. Schaufelberger Low Cost Control Education Software For
MS-DOS PC's
Brief Papers
A. Zolghadri A Two-Ellipsoid Overlap Test for On-Line
B. Bergeon Failure Detection
M. Monsion
P.M.J. Van den Hof An Indirect Method for Transfer Function
R.J.P. Schrama Estimation from Closed Loop Data
A. Henderson Symbolic Codes for Multifrequency Binary
J. McGhee Testing of Control Systems
H. Akcay The Least Squares Algorithm, Parametric
P.P. Khargonekar System Identification, and Bounded Noise
A. Ailon A Solution to the Disturbance Decoupling
Problem in Singular Systems via Analogy
with State-Space Systems
P.W. Gibbens Achieving Diagonal Interactor Matrix for
C.A. Schwartz Multivariable Linear Systems with
M. Fu Uncertain Parameters
V. Cerone Feasible Parameter Set for Linear Models
with Bounded Errors in all Variables
Y. Tang Adaptive Tuning to Frequency Response
R. Ortega Specifications
R. Lozano Model Reference Adaptive Control with
R.G. Moctezuma Unknown High Frequency Gain Sign
M. El-Khoury Influence of Zero Locations on the Number
O.D. Crisalle of Step-Response Extrema
R. Longchamp
H-S. Ahn Iterative Learning Control for a Class of
C-H. Choi Nonlinear Systems
K-B. Kim
H. Ying The Simplest Fuzzy Controllers Using
Different Inference Methods Are Different
Nonlinear Proportional-Integral
Controllers With Variable Gains
Book Reviews
M. Vosvrda Discrete Random Signals and Statistical
Signal Processing by C.W. Therrien
S. Tan Modern Control System Theory and Design
by S.M. Shinners
J. Bohm Uncertain Models and Robust Control by
A. Weimann
B. Wahlberg Identification of Linear Systems, A
Practical Guide to Accurate Modelling by
J. Schoukens and R. Pintelon
S.H. Starr Concise Encyclopedia of Modelling and
Simulation by D.P. Atherton and P. Borne
Biographies of Contributors to This Issue
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contributed by: John Baillieul, Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Trans. Auto. Control
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL
Table of Contents - Volume 38, Number 7 - July, 1993
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Editorial ..................................................J. Baillieul
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Scanning the issue .....................................................
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Abstracts of Companion Papers Appearing in Automatica ..................
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SPECIAL ISSUE ON MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF COMPUTER
SCIENCE IN THE INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF CONTROL
Meeting the Challenge of Computer Science in the Industrial Applications
of Control: An Introductory discussion to the Special Issue
..........................A. Benveniste and K. J. Astrom
SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS
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Adaptive Automotive Speed Control
...M. K. Liubakka, D. S. Rhode, J. R. Winkelman, and P. V. Kokotovic
The Application of Scheduled H0 Controllers to a VSTOL Aircraft
............................................R. A. Hyde and K. Glover
Supervisory Control of A Rapid Thermal Multiprocessor
.. Balemi, G. J. Hoffmann, P. Gyugyi, H. Wong-Toi and G. F. Franklin
The Controlled Cooling of Hot Rolled Strip: A Combination of
Physical Modeling, Control Problems and Practical Adaption
...................................................G. van Ditzhuijzen
Scheduling of Manufacturing Systems Using The Lagrangian
Relaxation Technique..............................P. B. Luh and D. J. Hoitomt
Control Systems Software...........................................M. Boasson
Daily Generation Management at Electricit de France: From
Planning Towards Real Time..........................................A. Renaud
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TECHNICAL NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE
Use of A Kinematic Constraint in Tracking Constant Speed,
Maneuvering Targets.............................A. T. Alouani and W. D. Blair
On the Theory of State-Covariance Assignment for Single-Input
Linear Discrete Systems..........................V. Sreeram and P. Agathoklis
Transmission Zero Assignment Using Semistate Descriptions
..........................................V. L. Syrmos and F. L. Lewis
The Differential Field Associated to A General Analytic Nonlinear
Dynamical System.........................G. Conte, A. M. Perdon and C. H. Moog
On Sequencing Problems of Repetitive Production Systems
...............................................P. Xu, C. Liu and X. Xu
Pole Assignment of Linear Uncertain Systems in A Sector
A Lyapunov-Type Approach...............D. Arzelier, J. Bernussou and G. Garcia
Feedback Decoupling of Structured Systems...........J. M. Dion and C. Commault
Direct Predictive Adaptive Control with Stochastic Gradient
Identifiers...........................................L. Giarr\'e and E. Mosca
A Sufficient Condition for the Stability of Interval Matrix
Polynomials......................................W. C. Karl and G. C. Verghese
On Discrete-Time $H^\infty$ Control: A J-Lossless Coprime
Factorization Approach....................M.-C. Tsai, C.-S. Tsai and Y.-Y. Sun
On Weak Relative Degree and the McGehee Transformation
.................................A. Fuchs, M. Varghese and R. Mukundan
Robust Stability Bound for Systems with Structured and Unstructured
Perturbations..........................................Y. K. Foo and Y. C. Soh
Robust Stability Analysis of Linear Continuous/Discrete-Time
Systems with Output Feedback Controllers...............J.-H. Su and I.-K. Fong
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contributed by: kokar@meceng.coe.neu.edu (Mitch Kokar)
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Data Fusion Techniques and Applications
Control Engineering Practice, the new journal published by Pergamon Press
for the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), publishes
state-of-art papers on all aspects of the practical implementation of
automatic control. In response to the strong interest and activities in
the area of data fusion, the journal plans to publish a set of papers on
this topic.
Growing out of military applications, this technology has become one of the
emerging new fields, with diversified potential in many commercial and
industrial applications such as robotics, automated manufacturing, remote
sensing and image processing, among others.
This set of papers will provide a timely, appropriate answer to the need for
a unified overall perspective view of the technology. Application-oriented
papers are solicited in (but not limited to) the following topic areas:
- Survey and tutorial articles
- Theoretical foundations
- Multisensor fusion and integration
- Intelligence Fusion
- 3-D image construction and enhancement
- Speech and signal processing
- Distributed data fusion
- Database management
- Data fusion for system identification
- Manufacturing
- Business planning and management
- Air traffic control and flow management
- Seismic and meteorological prediction
- Data fusion test/evaluation and implementation
Four double-spaced copies of manuscripts should be submitted, with a covering
letter, to:
Kwang H. Kim
The MITRE Corp., M/S S221
202 Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730-1420, U.S.A.
For more information, contact Kwang H. Kim at the above address, by email
at kwang@linus.mitre.org, or fax number (617) 271-8522.
Detail instruction for authors are also available from the Editor-in-Chief
of Control Engineering Practice:
Professor Mike Rodd,
Institute for Industrial Information Technology Ltd,
Innovation Centre,
Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
email iiitrodd@pyr.swan.ac.uk
fax number +44(0)792 29-5811
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contributed by: Bonnie S. Heck, bheck@ee.gatech.edu
1993 American Control Conference Proceedings Available
The 1993 ACC Proceedings can be purchased from:
The IEEE Service Center
445 Hoes Lane
P.O. Box 1331
Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331
(908) 981-0060 or (800) 678-4333
fax (908) 981-9667
The price is $142 for members of any of the following societies:
AIAA, ASME, AIChE, AISE, IEEE, ISA or SCS. For nonmembers, the
price is $284. Please specify catalog number 93CH3225-0
when ordering.
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Dr. Bonnie Heck bonnie.heck@ee.gatech.edu (404)894-3145
School of Electrical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology
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contributed by: Pierre.Kabamba@um.cc.umich.edu
1994 American Control Conference
June 29 to July 1
Stouffer Harborplace Hotel
Baltimore, Maryland
The American Automatic Control Council will hold the thirteenth American
Control Conference (ACC) Wednesday through Friday, June 29-July 1, 1994 at
the Stouffer Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. Held in cooperation
with the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), this
conference will bring together people working in the fields of control,
automation, and related areas from the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics (AIAA), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE),
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Association of Iron and
Steel Engineers (AISE), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), Instrument Society of America (ISA) and the Society for Computer
Simulation (SCS).
Both contributed and invited papers will be included in the program. The
ACC will cover a range of topics relevant to theory and practical
implementation of control and automation. Topics of interest include but
are not limited to: robotics, manufacturing, guidance and flight control,
power systems, process control, measurement and sensing, identification and
estimation, signal processing, modeling and advanced simulation, fault
detection, model validation, multivariable control, adaptive and optimal
control, robustness issues, intelligent control, expert systems, neural
nets, industrial applications, and control education.
Call for Contributed Papers
The 1994 ACC Program Committee is soliciting two types of contributed papers
in all areas of control and automation: (i) regular papers that describe the
work in some detail, and (ii) short papers that present recent research
results. All papers accepted for presentation must appear in the Conference
Proceedings, where regular papers will be allotted 5 pages and short papers
will be allotted 2 pages. Prospective authors of regular papers should
submit 6 copies of the complete manuscript (marked "1994 ACC") to a Society
Review Chair by September 15, 1993. At the author's request, regular papers
will be considered for publication in a society's journal provided the
submission rules for the journal are followed. Short papers consisting of a
3-4 page summary should be submitted to the Program Vice-Chair for
Contributed Sessions by September 15, 1993. The author's society
affiliation, if any, should be indicated on the short paper summary, along
with a list of keywords.
Student Best Paper Award
Primary and first-listed authors of regular papers who are students at the
time of submission can apply for this award. Up to five finalists will be
chosen based on the written paper and will be awarded limited travel grants
to attend the Conference. The final selection will be made at the
Conference and will be based on both the written paper and the student's
presentation. The winner will receive a plaque at the dinner banquet. To
apply, submit your paper through the regular procedure. Then send a copy of
the paper together with a cover letter from your major professor (advisor),
to the Program Chair. The letter should be on University letterhead and
should certify that the eligibility conditions are satisfied. The deadline
for application is the same as the deadline for submission of regular
papers.
Call for Invited Sessions
The Program Committee is also soliciting proposals for invited sessions for
the conference. Prospective organizers should contact the Program
Vice-Chair for Invited Sessions before August 15, 1993 for the appropriate
forms. The completed forms must be returned to him by September 15, 1993.
ACC Workshops
The Organizing Committee intends to arrange tutorial workshops to be held in
conjunction with the 1994 ACC. Suggestions are solicited for appropriate
subjects. Potential organizers should contact the Workshop Chair.
Schedule Summary
August 15, 1993: Deadline for contacting the Program Vice-Chair for Invited
Sessions regarding proposed invited sessions.
September 15, 1993: Deadline for submission of contributed papers and
invited session proposals.
January 21, 1994: Authors notified and authors' kits distributed.
March 15, 1994: Deadline for typed mats for Proceedings.
For further information contact:
General Chair
Hassan Khalil
Department of Electrical Engineering
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48823-1226
Phone: (517)355-6689
FAX: (517)353-1980
e-mail: khalil@ee.msu.edu
Program Chair
Jeffrey Kantor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, In 46556
Phone: (219) 631-5797
FAX: (219) 631-8366
e-mail: jeffrey.c.kantor.1@nd.edu
Workshop Chair
Michael K. Masten
Texas Instruments
2309 Northcrest
Plano, TX 75075
Phone: (214)462-3433
FAX: (214)462-3126
e-mail: m.masten@ieee.org
Exhibits Chair
Ching-Fan Lin
American GNC Corporation
9131 Mason Avenue
Chatsworth, CA 91311
Phone: (818)407-0092
FAX: (818)407-0093
e-mail: american_-_gnc@cup.portal.com
Program Vice-Chair for Contributed Sessions
Bonnie S. Heck
School of Electrical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0250
Phone: (404)894-3145
FAX: (404)853-9171
e-mail: bheck@ee.gatech.edu
Program Vice-Chair for Invited Sessions
James B. Rawlings
Chemical Engineering Department
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712-1062
Phone: (512)471-4417
FAX: (512)471-7060
e-mail: jbraw@che.utexas.edu
Society Review Chairs
AIAA
Dr. C. F. Lin, President
American GNC Corporation
9131 Mason Avenue
Chatsworth, CA 91311
Phone: (818) 407-0092
FAX: (818)407-0093
e-mail: american_-_gnc@cup.portal.com
AIChE
James B. Rawlings
Chemical Engineering Department
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78712-1062
Phone: (512)471-4417
FAX: (512)471-7060
e-mail: jbraw@che.utexas.edu
AISE
Christopher Kelly
Inland Steel
3001 East Columbus Dr.
East Chicago, IN 46312
Phone: (219)399-6313
FAX: (219)399-6562
e-mail: cdkelly@inland.com
ASME
M. Tomizuka
Department of Mechanial Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone: (510) 642-0870
e-mail: tomizuka@euler.berkeley.edu
IEEE
Michael Peshkin
Mechanical Engineering Dept.
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3111
Phone: (708) 467-2666
FAX: (708) 491-3915
e-mail: acc94@nwu.edu
ISA
Celal Batur
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Akron
302 East Buchtel Avenue
Akron, OH 44325-3903
Phone: (216)972-7367
FAX: (216)972-6027
SCS
M. Zhody
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
Dodge Hall of Engineering
Oakland University
Rochester, MI 48309
Phone: (313)370-2234 / -2177
FAX: (313)370-2286 / -4261
e-mail: zohdy@vela.acs.oakland.edu
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contributed by: D. Sarwate and P. Van Dooren
THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL ALLERTON CONFERENCE
ON COMMUNICATION, CONTROL, AND COMPUTING
SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 1, 1993
The Thirty-first Annual Allerton Conference will be held September 29 -
October 1, 1993 at Allerton House, the conference center of the
University of Illinois. Allerton House is located twenty-six miles
southwest of the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University in a wooded
area on the Sangamon River. It is part of the fifteen hundred acre
Robert Allerton Park, near Monticello, Illinois.
Papers presenting original research are solicited in the areas of
communication systems, information theory and coding, detection and
estimation, communication networks, mobile radio, vector quantization,
source coding, image coding and data compression, control systems,
adaptive control, optimization, dynamic games, large scale systems,
robotics and automation, manufacturing systems, discrete event
systems, intelligent control, multivariable control, adaptive signal
processing, neural networks, parallel and distributed algorithms,
numerical methods for signals and systems. Invited sessions organized
on some of these topics are listed below.
Information for authors: Two kinds of papers are solicited. The
first are regular papers for presentation in twenty minutes;
these papers will be published in the conference Proceedings.
The second are short papers suitable for presentation in ten
minutes; only summaries of these papers will be published in the
Proceedings. The purpose of the short paper category is to
encourage authors to present preliminary results of their work.
For regular papers, a title and a five to ten page extended abstract,
including references and sufficient detail to permit careful reviewing
are required. For short papers, a title and a thousand word summary
are required. Manuscripts that are submitted as regular papers
but cannot be accommodated in that category will be considered in the
short paper category, unless the authors indicate otherwise.
Two copies of the manuscript must be received by July 12, 1993. These
should be mailed to 31st Annual Allerton Conference, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308
West Main Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801. Please specify the name and
address of the author who is to receive all subsequent correspondence.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by August 23, 1993, at
which time they will also receive special sheets for the preparation
of papers for the Proceedings. The length of regular papers is
limited to the equivalent of ten single-spaced 8 1/2-by-11 inch pages.
The length of short papers is limited to two such pages.
Conference Co-Chairs: Dilip V. Sarwate and Paul Van Dooren
COORDINATED SCIENCE LABORATORY
AND DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
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Invited Sessions
Session: Discrete Event Dynamic Systems I and II
Organizer: R.S. Sreenivas
P. Antsaklis; C. Cassandras; R. Decarlo; V. Garg; L. Holloway; R. Kumar;
S. Lafortune; F. Lin; U. Ozguner; K. Passino; P. Vakili; M. Zazanis;
M. Wonham**; K. Rudie**
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Session: Numerical Methods
Organizer: P. Van Dooren
L. Petzold; R. Patel; R. Balak; M. Verma; G. Ammar; D. Boley
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Session: Some Analytic Methods with an Algebraic Twist
Organizer: B. F. Wyman
B. Wyman; M. Sain; J. Ball; S. Giust; M. Rakowski
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Session: Intelligent Control
Organizers: P. R. Kumar and T. Basar
P. Antsaklis, M. Lemmon,and J. Stiver; S. Mitter;
K. Buescher, R. Jones, and M. Messina; S. Kulkarni
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Session: Advances in Robust Control
Organizers: B. Bamieh and T. Basar
C. Foias, C. Gu, and A. Tannenbaum*; M. Dahleh; M. Rotea;
O. Toker and H. Ozbay*; K. Poolla**;
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Session: Advances in Nonlinear Control
Organizers: B. Bamieh and T. Basar
J. Baras; P. Kokotovic; A. Isidori* and A. Tarn;
Z. Lin and A. Saberi*; W. Dayawansa
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Session: Queueing Networks
Organizers: P. R. Kumar and S. Meyn
R. Tweedie; V. Anantharam; J. Dai; T. Konstantopoulos; K. Sigman
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Session: Control of Communication Networks
Organizer: B. Hajek
A. Parekh; R. Ogier; N. Shacham; L. Tassiulas;
W. Szpankowski; R. Agrawal; E. Gelenbe;
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Session: Optical Networks
Organizer: G. Sasaki
R. Barry; Z. Haas; A. Ramanan, H. Jordan and J. Sauer;
J. Sharony; G. Sasaki; N. Bambos; Y. Birk
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Session: High Speed Networks and Switching
Organizer: J. Hui
P. Min; R. Cruz; S. Jordan
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Session: Surveys in High-Performance Networks and Switching
Organizer: B. Hajek
J. Turner; M. Karol; R. Ramaswami
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Session: PCS/Wireless Mobile Networks
Organizer: S. Kumar
W. Massey* and W. Whitt; Z. Haas* and J. Winters; S. Kumar
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Session: Mobile and Personal Communication Systems and Networks
Organizers: D. E. Borth and M. B. Pursley
L. F. Chang; K. Pahlavan; P. Monson; R. Peterson* and F. Ling;
L. Milstein and R. Pickholtz*; R. Kohno
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Session: Multiple Access Communications
Organizer: S. Verdu
B. Aazhang; R. Cheng; A. Ephremides; B. Hughes; G. Pottie; B. Rimoldi
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Session: Advances in Communication, Control,
and Signal Processing Education
Organizers: T. U. Basar and M. E. Van Valkenburg
C. Sechrist; K. Craig; L. King; S. Mitra; B. Black; S. Franke; J. Hui
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* This author will present the paper
** Attendance subject to confirmation
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contributed by: Dr. Minyue Fu
CALL FOR PAPERS
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF YOUNG INVESTIGATORS
ON INFORMATION\COMPUTER\CONTROL
February 2-4, 1994
Beijing, CHINA
Motivation Information\Computer\Control have been very exciting fields
in science and technology and played major role in many
areas of engineering applications. Many Chinese researchers
over the world have made eminent contributions in a wide
spectrum of research and development. The theme of this
symposium is to provide a forum for the young Chinese
worldwide researchers in the fields to report their
achievements, to exchange ideas, and to discuss future
directions of the fields.
Sponsorship AYAS--Association of Youth Academic Sinica
CNSF--The Chinese National Science Fundation
CAL--The Chinese Academic Link
Host Institute NLPR--The National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O.Box 2728, Beijing 100080
The symposium consists of three workshops and overlap of these
workshops is provided for exchange of common interests and
encouragement of cross-firtilizing. Suggested topics:
WORKSHOP I: INFORMATION
. Image Processing
. 3D Computer Vision
. Speech Recognition
. Character Recognition
. Sound In Atmosphere, Sea, and Earth
. Ultrasonic And Sonar Systems
WORKSHOP II: COMPUTER
. Foundation of Computer Systems
. Parallel And Distributed Processing
. Neural Computing And Its Applications
. Knowledge Engineering And Expert Systems
. CAD And Computer Graphics
. Software Engineering
WORKSHOP III: CONTROL
. Intelligent Processing Control
. Robotics And Automation
. Modelling Of Complex Systems
. Robust Control, Adaptive Control, Self-Organizing Systems
. Neural Network And Fuzzy Control
. Discrete Event Systems
Abstract Four copies of an extended abstract of four pages in
English must be submitted by July 3, 1993 to the
program chairman for review and approval. The
extended abstract must headed as follows:
Title of the paper:
Author's name(s):
Affiliation(s):
Speaker's name:
Name and address for correspondence:
Keynote Speech Keynote speeches are solicited in all areas of the
suggested topics. Keynote speakers are not subject
to nationality or age. Leading researches and experts
are encouraged to submit proposed topics to the program
chair. Nomination for keynote speakers and subject
matter are also appreciated.
Important Date July 3, 1993: Deadline of abstracts
September 30, 1993: Notification of acceptance
February 2, 1993: Deadline for paper limited to 15 pages
Chairs Prof. SongDe Ma--General Chair
Prof. Yaotong Li--Program Chair
Mrs. Wenli Lou--Organizing Chair
All three chairs can be reached by mail, phone, or
e-mail:
Institute of Automation, Academy of Sciences
P.O.Box 2728, Beijing 100080, China
Tele: 86-1-255-5513, 86-1-256-6666 ext. 1952 or 1953
Fax: 86-1-255-1993
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contributed by: Zvi Artstein (MTARTS@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL)
International Conference on Control Theory and its Applications
October 18 - 21, 1993
Kibbutz Maale Hachamisha, Israel
Second Announcement
The International Conference on Control Theory and its Applications
will be held on October 18 - 21, 1993, at Kibbutz Maale Hachamisha
Guest House (10 kilometers from Jerusalem), Israel. The conference
is being organized by the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology.
The aim of the conference is to foster recent developments in the
Mathematics of Control Theory and to examine the possible Practical
Applications of the theory. Theoreticians and practitioners will
exchange knowledge and views on current developments, addressing
subjects such as Nonlinear Stabilization, Robust control, H-infinity
control, Identification and Design, Singular Perturbations,
Optimization, Robotics, Aerospace Applications and the like. There
will be special sessions on: Optimization, Applications and a session
on Electro-Mechanical Systems affected by nonsmooth nonlinearities.
Emphasis will be placed on bridging gaps between subfields of
Control Theory and the Applications.
The Scientific Program will include plenary and invited sessions,
contributed papers, a poster session, and panel discussions. we try
to keep the conference not overcrowded, and there will be
will be opportunities for informal gatherings and discussions.
Contributions of Scientists and practitioners from a dozen of
countries have already been accepted. The following is a Partial
list of the speakers. The program is expected to be complete toward
the Beginning of August (but there are always last minute changes):
J. Ackermann, (DLR, Germany)
A. Bensoussan,( INRIA, France)
R. Brockett, (Harvard University)
B. Francis,(University of Toronto)
E. Kamen, (Georgia Institute of Technology)
P. Khargonekar,(University of Michigan)
E. Sontag, (Rutgers University)
J. Speyer, (UCLA)
G. Stein, (Honeywell Inc.)
H. Sussmann, (Rutgers University)
M. Araki (Kyoto University)
D. Auerbach (U. of Maryland)
M. Basin (Moscow)
F. Colonius, F. (Augsburg)
C.-H. Goh, (Oberpfaffenhofen)
J. Kogan, (U.Maryland, Baltimore)
I.D. Landau,(Grenoble)
J.H. Lilly, (Louisville)
J.-B. Pomet (Spphia-Antipolis)
D. Limebeer (Imperial College)
J. Shaw, (Huafan Inst.Taiwan)
J. Tsinias,(National Tech.U.Athens)
PL. Zezza (DIMADEFAS,Firenze)
A. Ailon (Ben-Gurion U.)
D. Alpay, (Ben-Gurion U.)
I.Y. Bar-Itzhak (Technion)
N. Barlev (Servotech IL)
Y. Ben-Asher,(Ta'as IL)
E. Zeheb, (Technion)
F. Bruckstein, (Technion)
A. Drozdov Aleksey, (Inst.Ind.Math.)
A. Ioffe (Technion)
E. Keindler (Technion)
A. Leizarowitz, (Technion)
M.V.Meerov,
H. Rotstein (Technion)
A.R.Tannenbaum (U.of Minnesota)
U. Shaked, (Tel Aviv U)
G. Weiss (Ben Gurion U)
P.O. Gutman (Technion)
C. Canudas (Grenoble)
S. Faibish, (Technion)
A. Harnoy, (New Jersey)
X. Hu, (Royal.Inst.Stockholm)
M. Nordin, (Royal Inst. Stockholm)
P. Kokotovic, (UCSB,USA)
G. Picci (Padova)
A complete (more or less) list of speakers and titles will hopefully
be available with the program. Registration without presenting a
talk is also welcome.
Program and Organizing Committee
Z. Artstein, The Weizmann Institute, Chair
Y. Ben Asher, Ta'as
P. Fuhrmann, Ben-Gurion University
U. Shaked, Tel-Aviv University
A. Tannenbaum, Technion
E. Zehev, Technion
G. Ariely, Ministry of Science
B. Shimoni, Ministry of Science.
Presentations. The program allows still for a small number of
contributions. Send a.s.a.p. the following information
Authors' names and addresses
Telephone, fax or e-address of contact
Title of proposed presentation
Extended abstract (up to two pages, with enough information),
A booklet of the abstracts will be handed out to the participants
upon arrival.
The material should be sent to the conference chair:
Zvi Artstein
Faculty of Mathematical Sciences
The Weizmann Institute
Rehovot 76100, Israel.
fax: (972) 8 344122
e-address: MTCONF@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il
phone: (972) 8 342855
First Circular, containing information about registration,
accommodation, travel etc., is available. Final circular is
expected mid to end of August. Requests for it can be sent
to the chair (Zvi Artstein) at the above address,
or to Ms. Beki Shimoni
Head,Conference Unit
Ministry of Science and Technology
P.O.Box 18195
91181 Jerusalem, Israel
fax: (972) 2 824022
phone: (972) 2 811220
Venue: Kibbutz Maale HaChamisa, near Jerusalem
Phone 972 2 342591/8
fax 972 2 342144
Fees: Registration and hosting fees including participation at the
conference, 3 lunches, refreshments,social events (festive
dinner and folk evening) - $200
Student registration (not including social events) $100
Accompanying person, including social events $100
These fees are valid if sent before the conference starts. An
addition of $25 will be required if payment is done on sight
(unless agreed otherwise).
Kibbutz Maale Hachamisha accommodation (bed and breakfast)
in Double occupancy $44 per person
in Single occupancy $58 per person
The Conference will be held in English
It is advisable to book the flights to Israel ahead of time, as October
is a heavy tourist season.
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contributed by: Karl-Erik Arzen
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS
International Federation of Automatic Control
IFAC
2nd IFAC Workshop on
Computer Software Structures
Integrating AI/KBS Systems
in Process Control
AUGUST 10-12, 1994
LUND, SWEDEN
Organized by
Department of Automatic Control
Lund Institute of Technology
on behalf of
Swedish IFAC Committee
Sponsored by:
IFAC Technical Committee on Applications
Co-sponsored by:
IFAC Technical Committee on Computers
IEEE Control Society
SAIS Swedish AI Society
International Program Committee:
Chairman: K.-E. Arzen (S)
K. J. Astrom (S) J. Morris (UK)
D. Birdwell (USA) L. Motus (EST)
H. Bersini (B) G. Pang (CAN)
A. Van Cauwenberghe (B) M. Rodd (UK)
M. Fjeld (N) G. Suski (USA)
R. Fjellheim (N) J. C. Taunton (USA)
C. C. Hang (SGP) T. Terano (J)
E. Hangos (H) A. Titli (F)
E. Hollnagel (DK) V. Venkatasubramanian (USA)
Y. Ishida (J) H. B. Verbruggen (NL)
B. Kuipers (USA) C. Weisang (FRG)
R. Leitch (UK) E. Woods (N)
M. Lind (DK) H.-J. Zimmermann (FRG)
T. McAvoy (USA)
National Organizing Committee:
K.-E. Arzen, Chairman, Lund Institute of Technology
E. Dagnegard, Lund Institute of Technology
T Hagglund, Lund Institute of Technology
C. Rytoft, Asea Brown Boveri AB
B. Wittenmark, Lund Institute of Technology
Scope:
The aim of the workshop is to inform about
- where the leading edge is in the integration of
AI/KBS systems in real time process control
- what the primary challenges are to future
advances
- how computer science, process control, and
related technologies can contribute to these
advances.
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) and knowledge-based
systems (KBS) has created a strong interest in applying these
technologies to process control. The workshop will focus on solutions
that meet the needs of real-time operations, data synchronization, and
execution speed while satisfying control systems functionality and
integration constraints.
New practical and theoretical avenues (in architectures, languages,
executives) that provide a basis for effective coexistence of, and
execution of, real time and knowledge-based modules in modern process
control systems are among the topics of interest.
Topics:
- The role of AI/KBS systems in the supervision, management, and
control of industrial processes.
- Software architectures and languages for joint applications of
expert systems and process control algorithms, possibly high
performance and time-critical.
- Synchronous communication and real time needs in control
systems incorporating AI/KBS.
- Object-oriented structures. AI/KBS versus traditional software
systems in process control.
- Issues in hardware and software integration.
- Software techniques that accommodate changes in process
configuration.
- Issues in knowledge acquisition and representation for
process control.
- Augmenting human decision making.
- The hardware technology base for integrated systems. Neural
networks and other new avenues.
- Management issues (cost & economy, implementation, project
management).
- Process control applications of real time expert systems,
neural networks, and fuzzy logic.
Key dates:
Submission of draft papers January 15, 1994
Notification of acceptance March 15, 1994
Submission of full papers June 1, 1994
The Workshop language is English. All submissions must be written in
English. Send three copies of the draft papers.
Location:
The Workshop will take place in the Palaestra building in the
university area in the center of the old university town Lund.
Lund is located in the southern part of Sweden and has good
international flight connections via Copenhagen and/or Malmo.
An exhibition will be arranged in connection with the Workshop.
Publication and Copyright:
Only unpublished papers may be submitted. IFAC holds the copyright for
publication of the papers. Accepted papers will appear in the
Preprints and will be considered for possible publication in the IFAC
Journals Automatica or Control Engineering Practice
published by Pergamon Press. A paper will be released for
(re)publication three months after the symposium unless the author has
been notified that the paper is being considered for publication in
either of the IFAC Journals. The abstract of all presented papers will
be published in the IFAC Journal Control Engineering Practice.
Copyright of articles are transferred to IFAC on presentation at the
meeting. Permission to republish material presented at the meeting
should be sought from the IFAC Publications Office, Pergamon Press in
Oxford, UK. Permission to republish from Automatica and
Control Engineering Practice should be sought from the Rights and
Permissions Manager, Pergamon Press in Oxford, UK. Please also note
that the papers cannot be published unless they have been released
from all patent and proprietary restrictions.
Workshop Secretariat:
Ms. Eva Dagnegard, Conference Secretary
Address:
Department of Automatic Control
Lund Institute of Technology
P.O. Box 118
S-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Tel: +46 46 108787
Fax: +46 46 138118
Email: ifac@control.lth.se
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