E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing

ISSUE No. 61, September 1, 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 Eng.
           Eindhoven University of Technology
           P.O. Box 513
           5600 MB Eindhoven
           the Netherlands
           Fax     +31-40-434582        
          

CONTENTS

1.      Editorial

2.      Personals 

3.      General announcements        CWI's address has changed !
                                     Publication List SISTA (Katholieke 
                                          Universiteit Leuven)
                                     Matlab Primer available

4.      Positions                    Faculty Position in California Institute of
                                          Technology
                                     Faculty positions Seoul National University
                                     Staff Engineer - Atlantic Aerospace 
                                          Electronics Corp
                                     Research associate University of Sheffield
5.      Books                        Recent Advances in Computer-Aided Control 
                                          Systems Engineering
                                     Markov Models and Optimization

6.      Journals:                    Circuits, systems, and signal processing
                                     SIAM Journal on Computing  
                                     SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical
                                          Computing
                                     SIAM Journal on Optimization
                                     Special Issue on Motion Control Systems, 
                                          Journal of Systems Engineering
                                     Electronic transaction on numerical
                                          analysis
7.      Conferences:                 12th ICPR - Signal Processing
                                     33rd CDC 
                                     Silver Jubilee Workshop on Computing and
                                          Intelligent systems
                                     ARO-NASA Workshop on Formal Models for 
                                          Intelligent Control
                                     1994 Japan-U.S.A. Symposium on flexible 
                                          automation
                                     Workshop on Robust Control via Variable 
                                          Structure & Lyapunov Techniques
                                     Visual Communications and Image Processing 
                                          '94 (VCIP '94)
                                     ACC '94
                                     Barcelona Workshop on Continuous Algorithms
                                          and Complexity

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1)   D. Dan Cho is leaving the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
     Engineering at Princeton University in August 1993. He will be 
     joining the faculty of the Seoul National University in Korea. 

     His new address is:

          Prof. Dong-Il Dan Cho
          Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering
          Seoul National University
          Kwanak-ku, Shinlim-dong, San 56-1
          Seoul  151-742   
          KOREA
          phone: (82-2) 880-7305, fax: (82-2) 885-6620
          e-mail: dicho@krsnucc1.bitnet

2)   Prof. B.M. Chen has resigned his post as an assistant professor at the 
     State University of New York, Stony Brook, and taken an offer from the 
     National University of Singapore. Starting 15 August 1993, his new 
     address is:

          Prof. Ben M. Chen
          Department of Electrical Engineering
          National University of Singapore
          10 Kent Ridge Crescent
          Singapore 0511

3)   Change of Address for Carla Schwartz

          Dept. EE
          University of Florida
          409 CSE Bldg 42
          Gainesville, FL 32611-2024
          Tel.    (904) 392 9935
          E-mail: carla@neptune.ee.ufl.edu


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contributed by: Jan van Schuppen 

CWI'S ADDRESS HAS CHANGED! 

CWI - Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science
  (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica)

Old address
CWI
P.O. Box 4079
1009 AB Amsterdam
The Netherlands

New address
CWI
P.O. Box 94079
1090 GB Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Note that both the post office box number and the postal code
have changed. This change of address has taken effect recently.
The old address can still be used till about June 1994.
The street address is unchanged. The change is imposed on CWI 
by the postal service because of a reorganization. 
     
Researchers and organizations at this address:

Prof. J.H. van Schuppen     (schuppen@cwi.nl)
Prof. J.M. Schumacher       (jms@cwi.nl)
Mr. J. de Does              (jesse@cwi.nl)
Ms. J.M. van den Hof        (jmhof@cwi.nl)
Mr. A.A.F. Overkamp         (overkamp@cwi.nl)
CWI - Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science
  (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica)
Systems and Control Theory Network (J.H. van Schuppen Director)
  (Netwerk Systeem- en Regeltheorie)

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contributed by: Geert.Schelfhout@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

The publication list of the research group SISTA is now made available 
by anonymous ftp.

SISTA (Signals, Identification, System Theory and Automation) is the Control
and Signal Processing group of the division ESAT (Electronics, Systems, 
Automation, Technology) of the department of Electrical Engineering 
of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

The list can be obtained from gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be (134.58.56.20).
Please type your email address at the password prompt.
It is stored in a directory pub/SISTA/publications, both in (compressed) 
Postscript (publist.ps.Z) and in (compressed) ASCII format (publist.def.Z). 

Many recent SISTA publications are available at this ftp site as well.

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contributed by: Kermit Sigmon,  sigmon@math.ufl.edu

                      MATLAB PRIMER AVAILABLE

This is to remind users of the MATLAB Primer that the latest
version is available via anonymous ftp from:

       math.ufl.edu   in the directory   pub/matlab

The following files are currently available:

     primer.tex    Plain TeX source of the second edition
     primer.ps     PostScript file for the second edition

     primersp.tex  Plain TeX source of the Spanish version of the 2nd ed.
     primersp.ps   PostScript file for the Spanish version of the 2nd ed.

You are advised to download the appropriate file since it contains
a new copyright clearance statement as well as a few minor revisions
to the one you probably now have.  In fact, you are advised to 
download anew the latest version each term since minor improvements
and corrections may have been made. 

While the second edition of the Primer is based primarily on version
3.5 of MATLAB, it is compatible with version 4.0 with the fundamental
differences noted.  An edition of the Primer based on version 4.0 is,
however, under development.  You will be informed here when is becomes
available.

As many of you know, the MATLAB Primer was written to help students
begin to use MATLAB.  It is intended to serve as an introduction to
and *not* a manual for MATLAB.  While its primary purpose is for use
in courses which require use of MATLAB, it could, of course, serve
as an introduction to MATLAB for others.  It is intended to be
distributed via a local copy center.

   Kermit Sigmon                    Department of Mathematics
   sigmon@math.ufl.edu              University of Florida


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contributed by: Debbie McGougan 

Faculty Position in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of
Technology.  The Electrical Engineering Department at Caltech invites
applications for tenure-track positions as Assistant Professor.  The term
of the initial appointment is normally four years and is contingent upon
completion of PhD.  Exceptionally qualified senior applicants may also be
considered.  We are especially interested in applicants from the area of
Electrical Systems, i.e., Communications, Control, and Signal Processing. 
We are seeking highly qualified candidates who are committed to a career in
research and teaching.  Applicants should submit a resume, a one-page
statement of research accomplishments and plans, three letters of
recommendation, and up to five of their most significant conference of
journal publications to: Professor R.J. McEliece, Chairman, EE Search
Committee, Department of Electrical Engineering (116-81), California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA.  Caltech is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.  Women and minorities are
encouraged to apply.


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contributed by: Dong-Il Dan Cho (DICHO@krsnucc1.bitnet)

Nine (9) faculty positions are available in the Electrical, Electric,
and Control Engineering Division of the College of Engineering of the
Seoul National University.

Dept. of Control and Instrumentation Engineering
 1&2) Industrial vision system, Control system theory and applications,
      FMS/CIM modeling and control, or Robot control and applications.
 3) Real-time computer architecture for automation (multiprocessor
    architecture, parallel processing architecture, fault-tolerant
    architecture)
 contact: Chairperson, Dept. of Control and Instrumentation Engrg.,
          Seoul National University
          Tel: (82-2) 880-7305, Fax: (82-2) 885-6620

Dept. of Electrical Engineering
 1) Laser engineering or electro-optics
 2) Electrical machinery
 3) Power electronics
 Contact: Chairperson, Dept. of Electrical Engrg.,
          Seoul National University
          Tel: (82-2) 880-7241, Fax: (82-2) 871-5974

Dept. of Electronic Engineering
 1&2) Data communication, Communication network, Modulation and demosulation,
      or Communication systems
 3) System software
 Contact: Chairperson, Dept. of Electronic Engrg.,
          Seoul National University
          Tel: (82-2) 880-7265, Fax: (82-2) 885-4459

A Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering or related engineering disciplines is
required. In order to receive full consideration, all required materials must
be received by October 16, 1993. Contact the respective department chairperson
to obtain further information.

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contributed by: Bill Bennett (bennett@src.umd.edu)

Position Announcement:
Staff Engineer - Systems Analysis for Image Processing

Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corp is an employee owned business
specializing in surveillance and sensor system technology and system
development for a variety of customers.  AAEC has offices in
Greenbelt, MD and Waltham, MA.  AAEC is currently seeking a qualified
candidate for a position opening in Greenbelt as staff system engineer
for image processing system advanced development.

A Ph D (EE or CS) and up to 3 years experience in image and/or digital
signal processing and some background in sensor systems (radar, EO,
IR) is a desirable.  Must have working experience with
workstation-based software (UNIX, X-Windows, C, Matlab, etc) for
development of software applications with graphical user interface.
Experience with data base software a plus. The position is to support
the development and testing of advanced algorithms for image
understanding and target recognition including fusion of multiple
source data.  The successful candidate will exhibit strong analytical
and communication skills. Atlantic Aerospace is an equal opportunity
employer.  Applicants must have U. S. citizenship, will be subject to
a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for
access to classified information.  If you have a desire to join a
successful and highly motivated team, please send a resume (including
evidence of citizenship) together with 5 references to  
Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corp.
6404 Ivy Lane Suite 300
Greenbelt, MD 20770-1406
Attn: Dr. William H. Bennett
Phone (301) 982-5292       FAX (301) 982-5278
Please no email responses.

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contributed by: Alan Zinober 


                       The University of Sheffield

                  School of Mathematics and Statistics

                           Research Associate

     (Variable Structure and Lyapunov Control of Uncertain Systems)

Applications are invited for the above SERC funded post, available from
1 October 1993, for 3 years to work with Dr Alan S I Zinober on the
development of theory and computational algorithms for Variable
Structure and Lyapunov Control of Uncertain Systems.  There will be
opportunities for national and international collaboration.  The work
will be carried out within the School of Mathematics and Statistics in
the University. Applicants should have, or expect to obtain shortly, a
PhD in Control Engineering or Mathematics.

Salary in the range 12,828 - 15,796 pounds according to experience.
Informal enquiries to Dr Alan Zinober (Tel: (0742) 824435, Fax: (0742)
739826, E-mail: A.Zinober@sheffield.ac.uk).  Further details from Director
of Personnel Services, The University, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN
(Tel: (0742) 824144), to whom applications including a full CV and
names and addresses of two referees (2 copies of all documents) should be
sent by 24 September 1993.  Applications from overseas should be sent
as soon as possible preferably by email to Dr Alan Zinober.


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contributed by: Charles Herget 

                             NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT                             

Title:          Recent Advances in Computer-Aided Control Systems Engineering
Editors:        M. Jamshidi and C. J. Herget

Publisher:      Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1992.

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About the Book:

The previous book on this subject by the editors was published in 1985.  
Significant advances have been made in Computer-Aided Control Systems 
Engineering (CACSE) since that time, as evidenced by the contents of the
present book.

The previous book emphasized packages for control systems design.  A few 
commercial packages have become dominant on the market, and that aspect of
CACSE has not been included in this book.  The focus of the present volume is
on the research aspects of CACSE.  As such, it is expected that this book will
be the first in a series of Recent Advances in Computer-Aided Control Systems 
Engineering.

With the emphasis on current research, the subjects have been categorized in
six topical areas:  ALGORITHMS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, DATA STRUCTURES, 
ENVIRONMENTS, REAL TIME CONTROL, and SIMULATION.  There are twenty articles 
written by a total of forty-seven authors from fourteen countries.  The authors 
are among the leading authorities in this field.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Foreword

Contributor List

Section 1. ALGORITHMS

R. V. Patel
Numerical Issues in Computing the Stable Invariant Subspace of a Symplectic 
Pencil

A. L. Tits and J. L. Zhou
Fast Feasible Direction Methods, With Engineering Applications

Section 2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

W. C. Amaral, F. A. C. Gomide, R. Nazzetta, and G. H. C. Oliveira
Intelligent Environment for System Identification and Adaptive Control

F. E. Cellier, L. C. Schooley, M. K. Sundareshan, and B. P. Zeigler
Computer-Aided Design of Intelligent Controllers:  Challenge of the Nineties

M. Jamshidi, R. Marchbanks, K. Bisset, R. Kelsey, S. Baugh, and D. Barak
Computer-Aided Design of Fuzzy Control Systems:  Software and Hardware 
Implementations

Grantham K. H. Pang
Knowledge-Based Control System Design

Section 3. DATA STRUCTURES

J. D. Aplevich
Data Structures and Algorithms for Implicit Linear System Models

James H. Taylor
Data-Base Management for Computer-Aided Control Engineering

Section 4.  ENVIRONMENTS

J. Douglas Birdwell, Roger D. Horn, and Sheng Liang
Automatic Generation of Signal Classification Algorithms Using Machine Learning

F. Delebecque and R. Nikoukhah
A Mixed Symbolic-Numeric Software Environment and Its Application to Control 
Systems Engineering

Eiko Furutani, Shuping Bao, and Mituhiko Araki
A-TDS: A CADCS Package for Plants with a Pure Delay

Arto Marttinen
An Integrated Environment for Process Control Design

S. E. Mattsson and M. Andersson
Omola - An Object-Oriented Modeling Language

Section 5. REAL TIME CONTROL

T. Hoshino and K. Furuta
Development of Real Time Control System Using Transputers

Chr. Schmid
Real-Time Control with CADACS-PC

M. Vukobratovic, N. Kircanski, T. Petrovic, and A. Timcenko
New Generation of Robot Control Systems Based on Peripheral Array Processors
and Transputer Networks

Section 6. SIMULATION

P. Bujakiewicz and P. P. J. Van Den Bosch
Modeling and Simulation of Mixed Discrete-Event and Continuous Systems

G. Casalino, R. Minciardi, C. Morelli, and T. Parisini
ADPAC: A Design and Simulation Tool for Stochastic Adaptive Controllers

M. H. Dorri, M. A. Ivanov, S. N. Klimachev, and A. M. Pylaev
EXPRESS-RADIUS Package for Control System Simulation and Design

Dingyu Xue and Derek P. Atherton,
Simulation Analysis of Continuous Systems Driven by Gaussian White Noise

Index

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ISBN: 0-444-89255-9, Hardcover 456 pages.

Information on ordering:

In the USA:

Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc.
P. O. Box 945, Madison Square Station
New York, NY  10160-0757

Phone:  212-989-5800
FAX:    212-633-3880

Outside the USA:

Elsevier Science Publishers
P. O. Box 211
1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Phone: (0) 20 5803-911
FAX:   (0) 20 5803-705

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contributed by: Mark Davis (m.davis@ic.ac.uk)

WARNING!!  What follows is SHAMELESS ADVERTISING. If you find this distasteful
or even offensive, just search for the next occurrence of star-dot-star etc.
and you can breathe easily again.

STOCHASTIC CONTROL -- the very thought makes you shudder, right? All that stuff
about nonlinear PDEs, stochastic integrals, Ito calculus, the notorious
Stratonovich correction term .... it takes you ages to learn, and then what can 
you use it for?

                      WELL NOW THERE'S A NEW BRAND

                             featuring

       *lots of applications
       *no Brownian motion
       *clear connection with good old dynamical systems as we know and love 
        them.
       *everything done from scratch -- if you know something about dynamic
        programming and you know what a Poisson process is, you're on.
       *effective computational methods based on parallel processing.

Sounds good? Well, call your bookstore NOW and order

        M.H.A.Davis, Markov Models and Optimization
        Chapman & Hall, London/New York, 295pp
        ISBN 0-412-31410-X

More good news: it only costs 40 bucks, and for that you get a properly
typeset book, none of this grisly Computer Modern TeX output run off on some
El Cheapo laser printer at 300 dpi.

Contents:
       1. Analysis, probability & stochastic processes (background)
       2. Piecewise-deterministic Markov processes (the basic model)
       3. Distributions and expectations
       4. Control theory
       5. Control by intervention (impulse control)
       Appendix: Jump processes and their martingales.


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contributed by: A.H.Zemanian (zeman@sbee.sunysb.edu)


         CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING
              Volume 12, Number 4, 1993.

High speed implementation of certain adaptive filters: A novel
Toeplitz matrix decomposition approach,
     Francis I. McWhorter and John A. Tague

Fast algorithms for erasures and error correction in redundant residue 
number systems,
     Jenn-Dong Sun and Hari Krishna

Persistence of the saddle-node bifurcation for nonlinear
systems with slow unmodeled dynamics,
     Lazhar Fekih-Ahmed and Hsiao-Dong Chiang

Analysis of a PRSA generator,
        Anjum Ali and Charles A. Halijak

Rate distortion function for nth-order Gaussian Markov process,
        S. Ghoniemy and S. F. Baghat

On real and complex normalizations
        Yi-Sheng Zhu and Wai Kai Chen

Computational design techniques for reduced-order observers in 
generalized state-space systems,
        V. L. Syrmos

Approximation of currents in infinite nonlinear resistive networks, 
        Paolo M. Soardi        

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contributed by: tschoban@siam.org

SIAM JOURNAL ON COMPUTING

OCTOBER 1993     Volume 22, Number 5


CONTENTS

889  Finding a Smallest Augmentation to Biconnect a Graph
     Tsan-Sheng Hsu and Vijaya Ramachandran

913  Different Modes of Communication
     Bernd Halstenberg and Rudiger Reischuk

935  Suffix Arrays: A New Method for On-Line String Searches
     Udi Manber and Gene Myers

949  Randomizing Reductions of Search Problems
     Andreas Blass and Yuri Gurevich

976  An Optimal Algorithm for the Maximum Three-Chain Problem
     Ruey-Der Lou and Majid Sarrafzadeh

994  Random-Self-Reducibility of Complete Sets
     Joan Feigenbaum and Lance Fortnow

1006 Learning Binary Relations and Total Orders
     Sally A. Goldman, Ronald L. Rivest, and Robert E. Schapire

1035 Drawing Graphs in the Plane with High Resolution
     M. Formann, T. Hagerup, J. Haralambides, M. Kaufmann,
     F. T. Leighton, A. Symvonis, E. Welzl, and G. Woeginger

1053 Probabilistic Analysis of Disjoint Set Union Algorithms
     Bela Bollobas and Istvan Simon

1075 A Pseudorandom Oracle Characterization of BPP
     Jack H. Lutz

1087 Polynomial-Time Approximation Algorithms for the Ising Model
     Mark Jerrum and Alistair Sinclair


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contributed by: tschoban@siam.org

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SISC 14-6, November 1993


Block-Cyclic Dense Linear Algebra
Woody Lichtenstein and S. Lennart Johnsson

Computing the Exact Least Median of Squares Estimate and Stability
Diagnostics in Multiple Linear Regression
Arnold J. Stromberg

Numerical and Asymptotic Solutions for Peristaltic Motion of
Nonlinear Viscous Flows with Elastic Free Boundaries
Dalin Tang and Samuel Rankin

A Parallel Algorithm for Reducing Symmetric Banded Matrices to
Tridiagonal Form
Bruno Lang

Computing Periodic Gravity Waves on Water by Using Moving Composite
Overlapping Grids
N. Anders Petersson

A Modified Broyden Update with Interpolation
Miguel F. Anjos

Fast Fourier Transforms for Nonequispaced Data
A. Dutt and V. Rokhlin

Numerical Solution of the Riemann Problem for Two-Dimensional Gas
Dynamics
Carsten W. Schulz-Rinne, James P. Collins, and Harland M. Glaz

Construction of K-Dimensional Delaunay Triangulations Using Local
Transformations
Barry Joe

A Method for Devising Efficient Multigrid Smoothers for Complicated
PDE Systems
Irad Yavneh

Computing the Generalized Singular Value Decomposition
Zhaojun Bai and James W. Demmel

The Use of the L-Curve in the Regularization of Discrete Ill-Posed
Problems
Per Christian Hansen and Dianne Prost O'Leary

Author Index

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contributed by: gallaghe@siam.org

SIAM JOURNAL ON OPTIMIZATION

November 1993, Volume 3, Number 4

CONTENTS

Convex Functions with Unbounded Level Sets and Applications to Duality Theory
A. Auslender, R. Cominetti, and J.-P. Crouzeix

Reducing Matching to Polynomial Size Linear Programming
Francisco Barahona

Higher-Order Predictor-Corrector Interior Point Methods with Application to
Quadratic Objectives
Tamra J. Carpenter, Irvin J. Lustig, John M. Mulvey, and David F. Shanno

A Note on K-Best Solutions to the Chinese Postman Problem
Yasufumi Saruwatari and Tomomi Matsui

Generating Fenchel Cutting Planes for Knapsack Polyhedra
E. A. Boyd

Primal-Dual Projected Gradient Algorithms for Extended Linear-Quadratic
Programming
Ciyou Zhu and R. T. Rockafellar

The D*2-Triangulation for Continuous Deformation Algorithms to Compute
Solutions of Nonlinear Equations
Chuangyin Dang

alpha-Lower Subdifferentiable Functions
J. E. Martinez-Legaz and S. Romano-Rodriguez

A Global Optimization Algorithm for Concave Quadratic Programming Problems
Immanuel M. Bomze and Gabriele Danninger

A Quadratically Convergent Polynomial Algorithm for Solving Entropy
Optimization Problems
Florian Potra and Yinyu Ye

On Mizuno's Rank-One Updating Algorithm for Linear Programming
Robert A. Bosch

Accelerated Stochastic Approximation
Bernard Delyon and Anatoli Juditsky

Parallel Projected Aggregation Methods for Solving the Convex Feasibility
Problem
Ubaldo Garcia-Palomares

A Central Cutting Plane Algorithm for Convex Semi-Infinite Programming
Problems
K. O. Kortanek and Hoon No


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contributed by: Dr. T. H. Lee" 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Journal of Systems Engineering

SPECIAL ISSUE ON MOTION CONTROL SYSTEMS

Papers are solicited for a special issue of the Journal of Systems
Engineering covering the multidisciplinary area of *Motion Control
Systems* to be published in September 1994. The special issue will cover
all aspects of motion control systems. Topics of special interest
include, but are not limited to, the following:

     *Intelligent Motion and Motor Drive Systems
     *Adaptation and Learning in Motion Systems
     *Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems and Expert Systems in Motion Control
     *Intelligent Sensors and Actuators (for Motion Control)
     *Motion and Force Control
     *Other related topics in Robotics and Industrial Drives

Papers concerned with new developments in the above topics which are
supported by *both* theoretical analysis and real-time experimental
results are particularly encouraged. To be considered for the Special
Issue, prospective authors should submit 4 copies of their complete
manuscript by 30 November 1993 to the Guest Editor:

     Dr. T. H. Lee
     Guest Editor, Journal of Systems Engineering
     Special Issue on Motion Control Systems
     Department of Electrical Engineering
     National University of Singapore
     10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 0511
     SINGAPORE

Detailed Instructions for Authors are available from:

     Dr. T. H. Lee
     E-mail: eleleeth@nusvm.bitnet


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contributed by: Lothar Reichel 


 ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION ON NUMERICAL ANALYSIS 
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
 ETNA, Vol 1, "Issue 1", September 1993.
 
 
 C. Schneider, Analysis of the linearly implicit mid--point rule for 
 differential--algebraic equations, pp. 1-10
 
 G.L.G. Sleijpen and D.R. Fokkema, BiCGstab(l) for linear equations involving 
 unsymmetric matrices with complex spectrum, pp. 11-32
 
 G. Ammar, P. Benner and V. Mehrmann, A multishift algorithm for the numerical 
 solution of algebraic Riccati equations, pp. 33-48
 
 M. Eiermann and R.S. Varga, Zeros and local extreme points of Faber 
 polynomials associated with hypocycloidal domains, pp. 49-71
 
 
 The next batch of accepted papers will be posted in December. A special issue
 of ETNA will be dedicated to Professor Niethammer on the occassion of his
 60th birthday. Send mail to etna@mcs.kent.edu if you would like to
 contribute or would like more information about ETNA.
 

 How to access papers in ETNA:
 
 
 1. ACCESSING ETNA USING GOPHER.
   ETNA is running a gopher server. Its hostname is etna.mcs.kent.edu.
   If you are running gopher on your system the command
         gopher etna.mcs.kent.edu
   will connect you directly to ETNA. Provided your system is suitably
   configured, keyword searches and the on-line-graphical display of
   papers will then be available. The ETNA directory, "viewers", contains
   the source files for programs that will provide most UNIX workstations
   with direct-display and keyword-search capabilities. Contact your system
   admistrator about installing these programs.
 
 2. OBTAINING AN ETNA PAPER WITH FTP.
   Papers can be obtained at any time from ETNA via anonymous ftp from 
   etna.mcs.kent.edu.  A paper's location will always correspond to 
   its reference. For instance, a paper which is referenced as 
   "...,Elec. Trans. Numer. Anal., Vol 1, 1993, pp. 11-32", will be stored
   in the directory "vol.1.1993", and its file name will be "pp11-32.ps".
   To obtain that paper using ftp
 
      a) ftp etna.mcs.kent.edu
      b) login as anonymous
      c) enter your e-mail address as your password
      d) cd to vol.1.1993
      e) get pp11-32.ps
 
   To obtain only the list of titles and abstract for the papers published
   is volume 1 of ETNA, proceed repeat a)-d) above but change e) to 
   
     e) get index
 
 3. OBTAINING AN ETNA PAPER VIA E-MAIL.
   ETNA is using a mailer program which will scan incoming e-mail messages
   for requests and then e-mail the requested file to the sender. The program
   was written by Eric Grosse for netlib and modified slightly by Arden 
   Ruttan for ETNA. 
 
   A PostScript file of any paper published in ETNA may be obtained by sending 
   an e-mail message to "mailer@etna.mcs.kent.edu" containing a phrase of the 
   form "send pagenumber from vol.number.year". For instance, to use 
   ETNA's mailer to obtain a paper which is referenced as 
   "...,Elec. Trans. Numer. Anal., Vol 1, 1993, pp. 11-35", 
   send e-mail to "mailer@etna.mcs.kent.edu" containing the phrase
   "send pp11-35.ps from vol.1.1993".
   
   To obtain only the list of titles and abstract for the papers published
   in volume 1 of ETNA, send an e-mail message to "mailer@etna.mcs.kent.edu"
   containing the phrase "send index from vol.1.1993".
 
   The requested paper will be e-mailed to you in several pieces. The subject
   of each piece of e-mail indicates the number of that piece. To
   reconstruct the original file,
     a) Edit each piece deleting all lines that are not strictly between
        the two occurrence of the phrase "CUT HERE............"
        including the lines containing those phrases.
     b) Using the file containing piece 1, successively append 
        the remaining pieces in order to the END of the that file.
 
 4. BECOMING A SUBSCRIBER TO ETNA.
   To be included in ETNA's quarterly mailing list of the titles and abstracts 
   of papers published in ETNA, send an e-mail message to etna@mcs.kent.edu 
   with the subject "ETNA Registration". 
 
 5. SUBMITTING A PAPER TO ETNA.
   To obtain information as to how to submit a paper to ETNA, ftp the file 
   "info-for-authors" which is located in the directory "etna-info".
   Alternately you may send an e-mail message to "mailer@etna.mcs.kent.edu"
   containing the phrase "send info-for-authors from etna-info".
   
 
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contributed by: David Malah 



                CALL FOR PAPERS - 12th ICPR - SIGNAL PROCESSING
                     Oct 9-13, 1994, Jerusalem, Israel

                           CONFERENCE TOPICS:
   Analysis, representation, coding, recognition and enhancement of signals:
   speech and image enhancement; image restoration; speech and audio coding;
   image and video coding; multiresolution and wavelet analysis; scale-space
   and joint time-frequency representation; morphological signal processing;
   auditory scene analysis.
         

                           PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
        D. Malah (Chair) - Technion (malah@techunix.technion.ac.il)
                M. Barlaud      J. Biemond      A. Bregman
                Y. Bresler      D. Chazan       A. Cohen
                V. Cuperman     Y. Ephraim      S. Furui
                A. Gill         N. Jayant       E. Karnin
                M. Kunt         S. Mallat       W. Pearlman
                A. Rosenberg    Y. Sakai        P. Salembier
                M. Tekalp       Y. Yasuda       Y. Zeevi


This conference is one of Four conferences in the 12th ICPR. Each submitted 
paper will be reviewed by members of the program committee.
Papers describing applications are encouraged, and will be reviewed
by a special Applications Committee.
The conference proceedings are published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.


12-ICPR CO-CHAIRS:   S. Ullman - Weizmann Inst. (shimon@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il)
                     S. Peleg - The Hebrew University (peleg@cs.huji.ac.il)
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:  Y. Yeshurun - Tel-Aviv University (hezy@math.tau.ac.il)
INDUSTRIAL & APPLICATIONS LIAISON: M. Ejiri - Hitachi (ejiri@crl.hitachi.co.jp)


PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE:     February 1, 1994.
Notification of Acceptance:    May 15, 1994.   Camera-Ready Copy: June 30, 1994.

Send four copies of paper to: 12th ICPR, c/o International, 10 Rothschild Blvd,
65121 Tel Aviv, ISRAEL. Tel. +972(3)510-2538, Fax +972(3)660-604

Each manuscript should include the following:
1. A Summary Page addressing these topics:
   - Indicate that the paper is submitted to the SIGNAL PROCESSING conference.
   - What is the paper about? - What is the original contribution of this work?
   - Does the paper mainly describe an application, and should be reviewed by
     the applications committee?
2. The paper, limited in length to 4000 words. This is the estimated length
   of the proceedings version.
            
For further information on all ICPR conferences contact the secretariat at the
above address, or use E-mail: icpr@math.tau.ac.il .



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contributed by: Steve Yurkovich (Ohio State U.; s.yurkovich@ieee.org)

__________________________________________________________________________

                    ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
__________________________________________________________________________

                       The 33rd IEEE Conference
                       on Decision and Control
            Buena Vista Palace at Walt Disney World Resort
                      Lake Buena Vista, Florida
                         December 14-16, 1994
__________________________________________________________________

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 thirty-third CDC will be held on December
14-16, 1994, with tutorial workshops preceding the conference on
December 12, 13.  The CDC will be held at the Buena Vista Palace
hotel, near the Walt Disney World Resort, in Orlando, Florida.  The
conference will be an ideal occasion for attendees to bring their
families to the holiday season decorations at Disney.  The General
Chairman of the Conference is Mike Masten of Texas Instruments.
The Program Chairman is Harris McClamroch of the University of
Michigan.  The conference will include both contributed and invited
sessions.   Papers and sessions are hereby solicited in all aspects of
the theory and application of systems involving decision, control,
optimization and adaptation.
__________________________________________________________________

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED PAPERS AND INVITED SESSIONS

REGULAR PAPERS.  Regular papers describe completed work in some
detail.  Authors should submit seven (7) copies of the full paper for
review.  A regular conference paper may simultaneously be
submitted for possible publication as a regular paper in the IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control if requested.  Please consult the
Information for Authors which appears on the back cover of most
issues of the Transactions.  Submissions must be received no later
than MARCH 1, 1994, by the Editor for Conference Publications,
Professor M. Peshkin, at the address indicated below. Submissions must
follow the guidelines indicated below.

SHORT PAPERS.  Short papers describe important recent results which
require limited length for their development.  Authors should submit
four (4) copies of a 4-6 page detailed summary, including references,
for review. Submissions must be received no later than MARCH 1,
1994, by Professor G. Yin, at the address indicated below.
Submissions must follow the guidelines indicated below.

INVITED SESSIONS. The Program Committee also
solicits proposals for invited sessions.  Session organizers
should submit four (4) copies of proposals for invited
sessions  for review.  Submissions should be received no
later than MARCH 1, 1994, by the Program Chairman,
Harris McClamroch, at the address indicated below.
Submissions must follow the guidelines indicated below.
Submissions of cohesive sessions focusing on new or
emerging areas and/or sessions built around theme problems
are particularly encouraged.  Such session proposals will
have priority over those of a classical or mainstream flavor.
Proposals for invited sessions should contain the names,
affiliations and complete mailing addresses of the session
organizer(s), chairperson, co-chairperson and all authors,
paper titles, abstracts, and detailed extended summaries of
all papers.  The organizers must include in the proposal: (1)
a clear statement on the topic and the purpose of the session
and (2) a description of how the papers form a cohesive,
well-integrated exploration of the session topic.  Detailed
extended summaries, consisting of a minimum of 2000
words, covering all contributions of the paper in sufficient
depth to permit an informed review, must be included for
each paper in an invited session proposal..  The extended
summaries should contain the submission information
indicated below.  The initial paper in an invited session can
be a tutorial or survey paper, which can be allotted twice the
usual time for presentation.  Normally, the number of papers
in an invited session is six.  Proposals for technical sessions
are invited which make use of demonstrations, video tapes,
photographic materials and posters.   The organizers of
invited sessions may be contacted near June 1, 1994,
concerning the tentative disposition of their sessions.
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SUBMISSION AND ACCEPTANCE INFORMATION.
Each submitted regular or short paper
or extended summary must be headed with paper title, the
names, affiliations and complete mailing addresses of all
authors, a list of three (3) keywords, and the statement "33rd
CDC".  The first named author of each paper will be used
for all correspondence unless otherwise requested; if
possible an electronic mail address and fax number of the
corresponding author should be included. Incomplete
submissions or submissions by fax or electronic mail cannot
be accepted.  Final selection of papers will be announced in
mid-July, 1994.  Authors of all accepted papers will be provided
with publication kits and instructions for preparation of
manuscripts for the Proceedings.  Authors  will be requested
to keep their manuscripts to six Proceedings pages
(approximately 6000 words) or less for regular papers or
two Proceedings pages (approximately 2000 words) or less
for short papers.  There will be a mandatory page charge for
each additional Proceedings page.  Authors of accepted
papers are expected to attend the Conference to present their
work.  Authors of all accepted regular and short papers will
be allocated twenty minutes for their presentations.
________________________________________________
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Address Information
-
Regular Papers:
-
Prof. M. Peshkin, 33rd CDC
Mechanical Engr Dept
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, Ill 60208-3111
Phone: (708) 467-2666
Fax: (708) 491-3915
email: cdc@nwu.edu
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Invited Sessions:
-
Prof. N. H. McClamroch,  33rd CDC
Dept of Aerospace Engr
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2140
Phone: (313) 763-2355
Email: mcclamroch@um.cc.umich.edu
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Short Papers:
-
Prof. G. Yin, 33rd CDC
Dept of Mathematics
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: (313) 577-2496
Email: gyin@math.wayne.edu
-
General Information:
-
Dr. M. Masten, 33rd CDC
2309 Northcrest
Texas Instruments
Plano, TX 75075
Phone: (214) 462-3433
Fax: (214) 480-2405
Email: M.Masten@IEEE.ORG

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contributed by: jubilee@csa.iisc.ernet.in


________________________________________________________________
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| SILVER JUBILEE WORKSHOP ON                                    | 
| COMPUTING AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS                             | 
|                                                               |  
|    Department of Computer Science and Automation              |  
|    INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE                                |  
|    Bangalore, India, 560 012                                  |  
|                                                               | 
| DECEMBER 20-22, 1993                                          | 
|_______________________________________________________________|


               PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT

The Department of Computer Science and Automation  and the
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research 
jointly announce the SILVER JUBILEE WORKSHOP ON COMPUTING AND 
INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS during December 20-22, 1993, at the 
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The workshop will
commemorate the SILVER JUBILEE of the Department of Computer 
Science and Automation.


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| WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES | 
-----------------------

The workshop is intended to bring together frontline researchers
and industry professionals in the areas of COMPUTER SCIENCE and
INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS to exchange ideas and discuss future directions
in frontier reseach topics. It will also serve as a unique meeting
ground for the department alumni, who have distingushed themselves
in various capacities all over the world. 


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| WORKSHOP SCOPE    |
---------------------
 
The workshop will feature invited expository talks by leading
researchers, and invited talks by distinguished alumni of the 
department. The talks encompass a wide spectrum of topics in
areas such as:

   ** Algorithms and Complexity
   ** Programming Methodology and Software Techonologies
   ** Parallel and Distributed Computing
   ** Decision and Control Theory
   ** Learning and Neural Networks
   ** Knowledge Engineering
   ** Intelligent Manufacturing


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| INVITED SPEAKERS  |
---------------------

Researchers from abroad who have confirmed participation include:

   ** Ashok Agrawala      University of Maryland
   ** Richard Anderson    University of Washington
   ** Karl Astrom         Lund Institute of Technology
   ** Henk Barendregt     Nijmagen University
   ** Thomas Kailath      Stanford University
   ** Manjunath Kamath    Oklahoma State University
   ** Petar Kokotovic     University of California
   ** Sanjeev Kulkarni    Princeton University
   ** P.R.Kumar           University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
   ** Zohar Manna         Stanford University
   ** Sanjoy Mitter       Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   ** Ketan Mulmuley      University of Chicago
   ** Ram Akella          University of California, Berkeley
   ** Santosh Shrivastava University of New Castle-Upon-Tyne
   ** George Zames        McGill University


_________________
| PARTICIPATION |
-----------------

Participation in the workshop is through registration, and
accommodation is available for early registrants. Researchers
and professionals desirous of participating in the workshop
should immediaitely convey their intent to:

           Professor N.Viswanadham
           Department of Computer Science and Automation
           Indian Institute of Science
           Bangalore, 560 012, India

           Phone: +91-80-344411; Extension: 2368
           Fax  : +91-80-341683
           Email: vishu@csa.iisc.ernet.in

Enquiries through Email may preferably addressed to:
           jubilee@csa.iisc.ernet.in
___________________________________________________________

Kindly fill in the questionnaire below and reply.


________________________________________________________________
|                                                              | 
| SILVER JUBILEE WORKSHOP ON COMPUTING AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS |
|      Department of Computer Science and Automation           |
|      INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, BANGALORE, India           |
|                 December 20-22, 1993                         |
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contributed by: John Schubert 


                          ARO-NASA Workshop on 
                 Formal Models for Intelligent Control 
  
                         Sept 30 - Oct 2, 1993
                        Cambridge, Massachusetts
  
                              Sponsored by 
  
        The Center for Intelligent Control Systems, Brown, Harvard, MIT
                                    &
               The Intelligent Machines and Robotics Lab, Berkeley
 
  
  
  
SPEAKER                 TOPIC
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
R. Brockett             Representation of Data for Sensing, Communication,
Harvard                 and Control 
  
P. Caines               Logic Control via COCOLOG 
McGill
  
Robert Grossman         Trajectory Stores and Hybrid Systems 
Univ. of IL
  
John Guckenheimer       To be announced 
Cornell
  
J. Hauser               Challenges in Flight Control 
Univ. of Colorado
  
Y.C. Ho                 A Formal Model for Heuristic Rules in DEDS 
Harvard
  
W. Kohn                 Multiple Agent Hybrid Control Systems 
Intermetrics Corp.
  
S. Lafortune            Failure Diagnosis Using Discrete Event Models 
Univ. of Michigan
  
G. Meyer                Modeling of Flight Vehicle Management Systems 
NASA-Ames
  
Sanjoy Mitter           Steps Towards Real Intelligence  
MIT
  
A.S. Morse              Logic-Based Switching: A Form of Intelligent Control 
Yale
  
A. Nerode               Extraction of Finite Control Automata From Covers and
Cornell                 Optimal Control 
  
P. Ramadge              Models for Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems 
Princeton
  
S. Sastry               What is Intelligent Control  
UC Berkeley
  
E. Sontag               Dynamical Systems and Analog Computation 
Rutgers
  
R. Stengel              Intelligent Aircraft/Airspace Systems 
Princeton       
  
M. Tomizuka             Fuzzy Control in CONTROL ENGINEER'S Tool Box 
UC Berkeley
  
P. Varaiya              Hybrid Models for Intelligent Vehicle Highway System 
UC Berkeley
  
L.X. Wang               Modeling and Control of Hierarchical Systems with
UC Berkeley             Fuzzy Logic 


If you would like to receive more information about the workshop please
send email to:

        nasaaro@lids.mit.edu


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contributed by: Tohru Watanabe (watanabe@cs.ritsumei.ac.jp)



                             CALL FOR PAPERS -
          1994 JAPAN-U.S.A. SYMPOSIUM ON FLEXIBLE AUTOMATION
                       --- A Pacific Rim Conference ---
                              July 11-13, 1994
                 Kobe International Conference Hall
                                Kobe, JAPAN

                                SPONSORED BY:
                  American Society of Mechanical Engineers
           Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers

                           PARTICIPATING SOCIETIES:
                    IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
                      Institute of Industrial Engineers
                    Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
             Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan
                    Japan Society of Precision Engineering
                          Robotics Society of Japan

Organizing Committee Chairs:T. Tsumura - Univ. of Osaka Pref. 
                            M. C. Leu - New Jersey Inst. of Tech. 
Executive Committee Chair:
           S. Fujii - Kobe Univ.(fujii@tubaki.seg.kobe-u.ac.jp) 
Program Committee Chairs: 
           T. Yoshikawa - Kyoto Univ.(yoshi@mech.kyoto-u.ac.jp) 
           D. E. Hardt - M.I.T.(hardt@mit.edu)
Organizing  Committee : 
           H. Asada - M.I.T.
           S. J. Deutsch - Northeasten Univ.
           D. A. Dornfeld - Univ. of California, Berkeley 
           Y. Ito - Nippon Steel, ISC Inc., ISCIE 
           K. Kanai - National Defence Academy, SICE
           F. Kimura - Univ. of Tokyo, JSME 
           P. F. Lilienthal, II - AT & T
           N. Okino- Kyoto Univ. JSPE 
           M. Tomizuka - Univ. of California, Berkeley
                           (tomizuka@euler.Berkeley.edu)
           G. A. Ulsoy - Univ. of Michigan
           T. Watanabe - Ritsumeikan Univ.(SJK29502@mgw.shijokyo.or.jp) 

SCOPE 

Flexible Automation has become increasingly important in meeting the
needs of modern manufacturing and has undergone significant advances
in recent years in Japan, the United States and other Pacific rim 
countries. In order to rapidly advance the science and art of flexible
manufacturing, it is essential that researchers and engineers in these
and other countries communicate and coordinate their work. The purpose
of this biennial symposium, following in the footsteps of four
previous ones held in Osaka, Minneapolis, Kyoto and San Francisco, is 
to promote research activities in various areas of flexible automation
by providing a forum for the exchange of ideas, presentation of 
technological achievements, and discussion of future directions.

AREAS OF INTEREST 
 Robotics 
 Vehicles (AGV) 
 Mechatronics (Electro-mechanical) Applications 
 Micromechanics 
 Automatic Assembly 
 Flexible Manufactuing Systems (FMS)
 Agile and Intelligent Manufacturing
 Production Management and Scheduling for Manufacturing 
 Discrete Event Systems 
 CIM and SIS
 CAD/CAM/CAE
 Concurrent Engineering (CE)
 Communication, Networks and Software Systems 
 Sensing and Signal Processing
 Vision Systems 
 Fuzzy Theory and Neural Networks (NN)
 Artificial Intelligence(AI) and Expert Systems (ES)
 Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Artificial Life (AL)
 Reliability and Malfunction Analysis 
 Green and Human-Friendly Manufacturing 
 Manufacturing Process Modeling and Control 


PAPERS
Long Papers;  8 page-camera-ready-mats in Proceedings. 
              To be reviewed on the basis of a Complete Manuscript 
              with a 150 words Abstract 
Short Papers: 4 page-camera-ready-mats
              To be reviewed on the basis of a 800 Words Summary

Due Date:     November 30, 1993 

Send four copies of Manuscripts and Abstract (for Long Paper) or
the Summary (Short Paper) to the program chairpersons;

          from U.S. and Canada to;
          Prof. David E. Hardt (hardt@mit.edu)
          Department of Mechanical Engineering
          M.I.T.
          Room 35-234 
          Cambridge, MA 02139 
          U.S.A.

          from Japan, other Pacific Rim Countries( including China, Russia, 
          Korea), Europe, Africa, Middle East, India and so on to;
          Prof. Tsuneo Yoshikawa (yoshi@mech.kyoto-u.ac.jp) 
          c/o The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers 
          Kinki-chiho Hatsumei Center 
          Yoshida-Kawahara-Cho 14 
          Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606 
          JAPAN 

Please send us your information by postal mail by using the following format. 
(or please send to  SJK29502@mgw.shijokyo.or.jp by E-mail) 
********************************************************************************
Return to : 

Prof. Susumu Fujii
c/o The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers 
Kinki-chiho Hatsumei Center 
Yoshida-Kawahara-Cho 14 
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606, JAPAN


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contributed by: VSLT94@disna.dis.unina.it (VSLT94 Secretariat)

                              Workshop on
                          ROBUST CONTROL VIA
                VARIABLE STRUCTURE & LYAPUNOV TECHNIQUES

                 September 1994, Benevento, Italy

Aim of the Workshop is to bring together researchers working on robust
analysis and control via variable structure techniques or their
continuous counterparts (often) based on Lyapunov's methods.
   This Workshop will be the third of a series.  The first one was held
in Sarajevo, in former Yugoslavia, in March 1990 and the second one in
Sheffield, England, in September 1992. This edition will be held in
Italy in September 1994, *probably* in Benevento, a historical town 70
km from Naples where a new university with a school of engineering has
been recently established.  The Universities of Salerno and Naples will
be among the sponsors.  A week-end in Ischia, the well-known island in
the Gulf of Naples, will be part of the cultural and social events.
   Topics of interest will be roughly the same as for the previous
workshops.  Here is a non-exhaustive list:
     o  Variable structure systems
     o  Lyapunov analysis and control
     o  Analysis and robust control of uncertain (time-varying) systems
     o  Implementation
   Definite dates of the Workshop and deadlines will be announced in a
call for papers, which will be issued this September.
   The Workshop will last three days.  In order to favor discussion, as
well as exchange and blending of ideas, organizers would prefer to have
(relatively) long presentations and no parallel sessions.  Papers will
be accepted on the basis of peer evaluation of an extended draft.
   Workshop proceedings will be published; moreover, organizers will
select the best papers and dispose of their publication in a book after
a further writing and reviewing process (a similar procedure applied for
the workshop in Sheffield whose selected proceedings will be published
by Springer-Verlag).

ORGANIZATION:

     Franco Garofalo (program)   E-mail: garofalo@vaxna1.na.infn.it
     Luigi Glielmo   (program)   E-mail: glielmo@vaxna1.na.infn.it
     Francesco Amato             E-mail: amato@disna.dis.unina.it

     Address:
     VSLT94                      E-mail: vslt94@disna.dis.unina.it
     Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
     Universita` di Napoli "Federico II"
     Via Claudio 21, 80125 Napoli, Italy
     Tel: +39(81)768-3169; +39(81)768-3181;  Fax: +39(81)768-3186

   We expect to use e-mail extensively in the organization of the
Workshop. To be included in our e-mailing list, please send us a
message.

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contributed by: Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (aggk@eecs.nwu.edu)


            **ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS**

Visual Communications and Image Processing '94 (VCIP '94)

Cooperating Organizations:
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP)

Conference Chair:
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern Univ.

Technical Committee:
Ali N. Akansu, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Dimitris Anastassiou, Columbia Univ. 
Rashid Ansari, Bell Communications Research
Michel Barlaud, Univ. of Nice/Sophia Antipolis (France)
Jan Biemond, Delft Univ. of Technology (The Netherlands) 
Alan C. Bovik, Univ. of Texas/Austin
Rama Chellappa, Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Eric Dubois, INRS-Telecommunications (Canada)
Nikolas P. Galatsanos, Illinois Institute of Technology 
Allen Gersho, Univ. of California/Santa Barbara 
John I. Goutsias, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Hsueh-Ming Hang, National Chiao Tung Univ. (Taiwan China)
Homer H. Chen, AT&T Bell Labs.
T. Russell Hsing, Bell Communications Research
Thomas S. Huang, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
Jae-Kyoon Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
(Korea) 
Toshio Koga, NEC Corp. (Japan)
Murat Kunt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland)
Jae S. Lim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Xinggang Lin, Tsinghua Univ. (China)
Petros Maragos, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nasser M. Nasrabadi, SUNY/Buffalo
Takashi Okagaki, Univ. of Minnesota Medical School
Michael Orchard, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
William A. Pearlman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Eli Peli, Schepens Eye Research Institute
Peter Pirsch, Univ. Hannover (Germany)
Sarah A. Rajala, North Carolina State Univ.
Ronald W. Schafer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mark J. T. Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael Strintzis, Aristotelian Univ. of Thessaloniki (Greece) 
Andrew G. Tescher, Lockheed Palo Alto Research Lab.
Kou-Hu Tzou, COMSAT Labs.
John W. Woods, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Lance T. Wu, Industrial Technology Research Institute (Taiwan China)
Yehoshua Y. Zeevi, Technion--Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)

Europe Liaison:
Prof. Jan Biemond
Delft Univ. of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering
Mekelweg 4, P.O. Box 5031
Phone: 031-15-784-695
Fax: 031-15-783-622
e-mail: Biemond@et.tudelft.nl

Asia Liaison:
Dr. Toshi Koga
NEC Corp. 
Second Transmission Division
1753, Shimonumabe, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Japan  211.
Phone : +81 44 435 5535
Fax   : +81 44 435 5662
e-mail: koga@trdv1.trd.tmg.nec.co.jp


Visual communications and image processing have become engineering
areas that attract interdisciplinary research interest and lead to
significant developments for technology and science.  This conference
is designed as a forum for presenting important research results in
these fields. Original and unpublished material of novel techniques and
new developments is solicited on the following and related topics:

A. Visual Communications
     1. still image coding
     2. video sequence coding
     3. model-based image coding
     4. very low bit rate coding
     5. motion estimation for video coding
     6. TV, HDTV and super HDTV
     7. packet video
     8. picture archiving and communications systems
     9. parallel processing hardware
     10. special topics

B. Image Processing and Analysis
     1. image filtering, enhancement, and restoration
     2. feature extraction
     3. image segmentation
     4. object recognition
     5. biomedical image processing
     6. VLSI implementation and system architectures
     7. morphological image processing
     8. fractals and wavelets
     9. special topics

C. Image Sequence Analysis
     1. motion analysis
     2. filtering, restoration, interpolation
     3. multiscale image sequence analysis
     4. computer vision topics in image sequence analysis
     5. special topics

Best Student Paper Awards
At this meeting, two awards will be presented to the best papers
submitted by students. To qualify for these awards, each consisting of
a cash prize and a plaque, the candidate must be the principal author.
A letter from the student's adviser stating that the major work was
done by the student must accompany the final manuscript in order to be
considered by the award committee. 

SPIE gratefully acknowledges Lockheed Corp. and NEC Corp. for
their generous sponsorship of these awards.

Young Investigator Award
An award will be given for the best paper submitted by a young
researcher who has graduated within five years from the date of the
meeting.  A letter from the researcher requesting that his/her paper be
considered must be submitted with the final manuscript, certifying
he/she meets the qualifications for the award. 

SPIE gratefully acknowledges Industrial Technology Research Institute
(ITRI) for generously sponsoring this award.

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SUBMISSION OF SUMMARIES:

Summary Due Date: 24 January 1994*   Manuscript Due Date: 20June 1994+

*Late submissions may be considered, subject to program time
availability and chairs' approval. However, due to the significant
number of submissions, chairs and committee will give first preference
to summaries sent by the due date.

+Proceedings of this conference will be published before the meeting
and available at the symposium. Manuscript due date must be strictly
observed.

Your summary should include the following:

1. SUMMARY TITLE

2. AUTHOR LISTING (principal author first)
   Full names and affiliations as they will appear in the program.

3. CORRESPONDENCE FOR EACH AUTHOR
   Mailing address, telephone, telefax, e-mail address.

4. SUBMIT TO: 
   Visual Communications and Image Processing '94

5. INDICATE:    Letter of topic (A, B, or C)
                Number of subtopic (1-10)

6. PRESENTATION
   Please indicate your preference for either "Oral Presentation" or
   "Poster Presentation".

7. SUMMARY TEXT
   500 words.

8. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY (principal author only)
   50 to 100 words.


To be considered for acceptance, you may either:
* send summary via electronic mail to Internet abstracts@mom.spie.org
  (ASCII format);
* or fax one copy to SPIE at 206/647-1445;
* or mail four copies to SPIE to:
  
  Visual Communications and Image Processing '94
  SPIE, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010

Shipping address: SPIE, 1000 20th Street, Bellingham, WA 98225
 
SPIE contact: Rosa Cays, Coordinator, Technical Programs and Education
Phone: 206/676-3290; Telex 46-7053

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contributed by: Pierre.Kabamba@um.cc.umich.edu
  


1994 American control Conference  
  
June 29 to July 1                In cooperation with IFAC  
  
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  
Prof. M. Peshkin, 1994 ACC
Mechanical Engr Dept
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, Ill 60208-3111
Phone: (708) 467-2666
Fax: (708) 491-3915
email: 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: Art Werschulz 

The Barcelona Workshop on Continuous Algorithms and Complexity will be
held October 4-6, 1993.  The workshop will take place at the Centre de
Recerca Matem\`atica, located at the Universitat Aut\`onoma de
Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.

The workshop is a part of the semester in Continuous Algorithms
and Complexity that will take place in Barcelona in the fall of 1993,
and intends to bring together researchers from traditionally different
areas of Mathematics and Computer Science who use continuous 
algorithms.

Possible but non exclusive topics are:

  Algebraic complexity
  Algebraic algorithms
  Information Based Complexity
  Lower bounds and optimal algorithms
  Models for continuous computations
  Polynomial equation solving
  Quantifier elimination
  Structure of complexity classes over the reals

Invited speakers:

  Pierre Fraigniaud (Lyon, FRANCE)
  Marek Karpinski (Bonn, GERMANY)
  Tyen--Yien Li (Michigan, U.S.A.)
  Klaus Meer (Aachen, GERMANY)
  Christian Michaux (Mons, BELGIUM)
  Erich Novak (Erlangen, GERMANY)
  Mike Shub (I.B.M. Yorktown Heights, U.S.A.)
  Steve Smale (Berkeley, U.S.A.)
  Joseph Traub (Columbia, U.S.A.)

A final announcement of this conference is available via anonymous ftp
from cs.columbia.edu, in the cacnet subdirectory.  The relevant files
are barcelona.*, with (plain) TeX, dvi, and PostScript versions being
available.  They may also be retrieved via gopher.

   Art Werschulz (8-{)}  "You can't make an ondelette without breaking waves."
   InterNet:  agw@cs.columbia.edu


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