E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing
ISSUE No. 86 October 1, 1995
E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing
ISSUE No. 86, Part 1, October 1, 1995
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
Contents
1. Editorial
2. Personals
3. General announcements
3.1 Announcement Sagant Corporation
3.2 SCAD Update
4. Positions
4.1 Fac. position department mechanical engineering, Minnesota
4.2 Ph.D. position Delft University of Technology
4.3 Research fellow control systems theory, Loughborough Univ.
4.4 Prof. and chair ECE department Iowa State University
4.5 Postdoctoral fellowship, University of Maryland
4.6 Ph.D. position control and inf. laboratory, Univ. of Illinois
4.7 Faculty position in aerospace engineering and mech., Minnesota
4.8 Postdoctoral fellowship, University of New South Wales,
Australia
4.9 Ph.D. position USC
5. Books
5.1 Non-linear and Mixed-integer Optimization, C.A. Floudas
5.2 Robust Adaptive Control, P. Ioanna, J. Sun
5.3 Neural Network Engineering in Dynamic Control Systems
K. J. Hunt, G. W. Irwin and K. Warwick, Eds.
5.4 H-infinity Optimal Control and Related Minimax Design Problems
A Dynamic Game Approach, T. Basar and P. Bernhard
5.5 Errata, The Total Least Squares Problem
6. Journals
6.1 CFP Journal on VLSI and Signal Processing: special issue
6.2 TOC LAA Vol. 229
6.3 TOC Circuits, systems and signal processing, Vol. 14:5
6.4 TOC SIAM J. Control and Optimization, Vol. 33:6
6.5 TOC Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 15:3
6.6 TOC Automatica, Vol. 31:11
6.7 The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (ELA)
6.8 Associate Editors MCSS
6.9 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control on WWW
7. Conferences
7.1 MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS-96
>>>>>>> NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINES <<<<<<
7.2 Workshop Verification & Control of Hybrid Systems, New Brunswick
7.3 Financial aid for 13th IFAC World congress
7.4 Householder Meeting on Numerical Algebra, Pontresina
7.5 CFP 6th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, Ames, Iowa
7.6 Announcement 34th IEEE CDC
7.7 Data Compression Conference '96, Snowbird, Utah
7.8 Information 1995 IFAC/IMACS, Bled
7.9 CFP 11th Int. Conf. on Systems Engineering, Las Vegas
7.10 CFP Joint IEEE CCA/ISIC/CASCD
7.11 2nd international workshop Total Least Squares and Errors in
Variables Modeling, Leuven
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Contributed by: Reza Ghanadan
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
Member of Technical Staff (MTS),
Active Structural Control group at AT&T Bell Labs:
My new address is:
AT&T Bell Laboratories
1919 S. Eads Street, 1A-351
Arlington, VA 22202
Phone: (703) 271-7357 (voice)
(703) 271-7676 (fax)
E-mail: ghanadan@crystl.attmail.com
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Contributed by: Sergey Chemishkian
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
FROM :
Engineering Research Center
American University of Armenia
TO: Sergey Chemishkian
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Dept.
University of Arizona
Tucson AZ 85721
USA
phone: (520) 621-2777
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Contributed by: Wolf Kohn
FOR RELEASE 9/5/95
SAGENT CORPORATION ANNOUNCES CONTRACT WITH THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM
Six-month-old Bellevue firm will work to automate use of distributed
systems Sagent Corporation, a six-month-old company with headquarters
in Bellevue, Washington, has been awarded a contract by the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the U.S. Department of
Commerce. The contract, titled "Cost-based Generation of Scalable,
Reliable, Real-Time Software Components, " extends for two years,
committing ATP funds of $1.9 million with a cost share of $168,000.
The technology area of the contract is component-based software. It
addresses the problems faced by business and industry in the creation
of "virtual enterprises" -- problems associated with the design and
operation of distributed networks of computers and information
systems. Virtual enterprises, multipurpose entities formed for the
manufacturing, design, marketing and financing of products or
services, are increasingly attractive to a wide range of users.
Manufacturing firms, for example, are studying strategies for
automating, via computer networks, the procedures which manage and
control the connections between their operations and those of their
suppliers. International banking firms are also seeking technologies
for automating their networks, to coordinate activities among
far-flung branch offices in the highly dynamic world of international
finance. Other examples include medical informatics, shop floor
control, and inventory. Sagent technology, "multiple autonomous
decision makers," has been specifically conceived to address these
kinds of situations. Its goal is to synchronize the many events in a
network to ensure that they happen in the proper order, and that data
remain consistent throughout the network. A breakthrough in
theoretical mathematics by the principals of Sagent -- Dr. Wolf Kohn,
Chief Technology Officer, and Dr. Anil Nerode, Chief Executive Officer
-- offers the possibility of obtaining very fast solutions to large
problems of this type. According to Dr. Kohn, "the NIST funding will
support research aimed at both simplifying the development and
maintenance of complex real-time distributed systems, and lowering the
costs of establishing and operating such systems. We are very pleased
that NIST has recognized the importance of this work with this ATP
contract."
CONTACT: DR. WOLF KOHN
Email: Internet wk@sagent.com
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Contributed by Raimund J. Ober
Xu Huang
UPDATE ON SCAD DATABASE --
September 1995
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Systems and Control Archive at Dallas
gopher: gopher.utdallas.edu
ftp address: ftp.utdallas.edu
IP number: 129.110.10.14
Worldwide web: URL: http://scad.utdallas.edu/scad/
queries (email): scad@utdallas.edu
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NEW DEVELOPMENTS:
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With our change of hardware we had the opportunity to revamp
the SCAD web site. In particular we have
- new interface to the Books database.
- new interface to the Conferences database.
- new interface to the Eletter database.
- new interface to the Journals database with links to
publishers information and contents pages.
- new interface to the Positions database.
- search facilities to most of our databases.
new pages:
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we also have added the following new pages:
- Education
- Hardware
- Publishers
Please provide us with information about further links etc.
to make these and our other pages as useful as possible.
NEW URL for SCAD
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Please remember the URL change which is in effect for one
month now:
http://scad.utdallas.edu/scad/
New contents:
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eletters:
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Number: 85
Links to systems and control groups:
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The following new link has been added:
Sweden: Royal Institute of Technology
Division of Optimization and Systems Theory.
SCAD ADDRESS LIST:
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Recently we have started an address list for systems
and control people.
More than 310 people have added their addresses to the list.
To register your, simply:
- go to SCAD
- go to the ADDRESS LIST link
- click: add your address
- fill in the form.
You can check out addresses by using the search facility or
by scanning through the full list.
!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE, Add your Address to the SCAD ADDRESS LIST !!!!!!!!!!!
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How to access scad:
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1.) Using gopher:
Type
gopher -p 1/research/scad gopher.utdallas.edu
or
gopher gopher.utdallas.edu
Select `UT-Dallas Research' and then `Systems and Control Archive at
Dallas'
2.) Using ftp:
ftp ftp.utdallas.edu
Then cd /pub/scad
3.) Using Worldwide Web:
URL: http://scad.utdallas.edu/scad/
More detailed instructions can be obtained by sending an email to
scad@utdallas.edu
After accessing SCAD you can find a README file which contains
more information about SCAD.
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Contributed by: Kim A. Stelson
FACULTY POSITION AVAILABLE
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of
Minnesota invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in
the areas of system dynamics, vibration, or control of mechanical
systems. Appointments at the Associate or Full Professor level may be
considered for exceptionally well qualified individuals. An earned
doctorate in mechanical engineering or a closely related discipline is
required. Applicants should have an interest in teaching and in
conducting sponsored research. The candidates should have a strong
theoretical background and an experimental research orientation.
Please submit a letter of application, CV, and three letters of reference
to:
Search Committee, IT 366
c/o Ms. K. Suzanne Sower
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota
111 Church Street, S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
The deadline for the receipt of applications including letters of recommen-
dation is December 31, 1995. The University of Minnesota is an equal
opportunity educator and employer.
Kim A. Stelson
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota
111 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
U.S.A.
tel. (612) 625-6528
fax. (612) 625-8884 or (612) 624-1398
Internet: kstelson@me.umn.edu
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Contributed by: Willem L. de Koning
PhD position in Control at the Delft University of Technology, depart-
ment of Mathematics and Informatics, group of Mathematical System Theory.
The department of Applied Physics and the department of Mathematics and
Informatics of Delft University of Technology have started a project for
the development of a Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) which can produce
distortion free images of a surface with atomic resolution, and which can
be used for high precision lithography. The PhD student will be respon-
sible for the modelling of the STM, the design of the control system and
its implementation, in close cooperation with the other researchers in the
project.
The PhD position is for four years. After one year an evaluation will
take place to decide whether the position will be continued. Gross monthly
salary starts at DFL 2078.- for the first year and increases to DFL 3710.-
for the fourth year.
Interested persons with a firm background in system theory and/or control,
are invited to submit their CV and gradings to:
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W.L. De Koning Phone: +31-15-784989
Dept. of Techn. Math. and Inform. Fax : +31-15-787209
Delft University of Technology Email: w.l.dekoning@math.tudelft.nl
P.O. Box 5031, 2600GA Delft
The Netherlands
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Contributed by Clive Pugh (A.C.Pugh@lut.ac.uk):
LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
RESEARCH FELLOW/ASSOCIATE
in
Control Systems Theory
A Research Associate/Fellow in the Department of Mathematical Sciences is
required for an approximate period of two years to commence on 1 January
1996 or as soon as possible thereafter. The project which is EPSRC funded
concerns the investigation of matrix transformations of equivalence in the
theory of nonregular linear differential/algebraic systems.
The successful candidate will be expected to have a Ph.D. or research
experience in linear/algebraic control systems theory, although a candidate
with similar qualifications in linear mathematics or dynamical systems
theory would also be suitable.
Salary will be within the Research Grade 1A scale (=A314,317-=A321,519 per
annum), depending on qualifications and experience with the exact length of
the appointment being determined by the salary level.
For an application form and further details contact Dr. A.C. Pugh,
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology,
Loughborough, Leics, LE11 3TU, U.K., or Tel: (01509) 223190, E-mail
A.C.Pugh@lut.ac.uk quoting reference 95/169/MA. Closing date for
applications is 31 October 1995.
Dr. A.C. Pugh
Reader in Linear Systems Theory and Head of Department
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Loughborough University of Technology
Loughborough
Leics.
LE11 3TU
Tel. 01509-223190 or 01509-222273
=46ax. 01509-211869
E-Mail A.C.Pugh@lut.ac.uk
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Contributed by: Mustafa Khammash, Iowa State University
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
PROFESSOR AND CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Iowa State University invites applicants for the position of Professor
and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (E CPE)
Department. Candidates must have an earned doctorate in Electrical
Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field, with
subsequent professional achievement and experience sufficient to
qualify for the rank of Professor with tenure. Applicants must have a
strong record in teaching, research, and outreach, and have excellent
communication and management skills. Candidates must have a strong
commitment to maintaining an excellent undergraduate program, while
enhancing faculty and graduate-level research and outreach activities.
Previous industrial and administrative experience is desirable.
The Department offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degree programs in both
electrical engineering and computer engineering with 47 full-time
faculty, 250 graduate students, and 900 undergraduate students. The
Department maintains a strong undergraduate program with well-equipped
instructional laboratories and has active research-oriented graduate
programs in the areas of power, communications, signal processing,
control and systems theory, microelectronics, computer engineering,
VLSI, applied electromagnetics, and nondestructive evaluation. The
Department is extensively involved in cooperative research with the
University's Institute for Physical Research and Technology centers in
microelectronics, nondestructive evaluation, computational and applied
mathematics, advanced manufacturing, materials processing, integrated
materials, amorphous semiconductors, advanced technology development,
and theoretical and applied physics. Further information is available
on the World-Wide Web at http://www.ee.iastate.edu/.
The appointment is to begin July 1, 1996. Review of applications will
begin on November 1, 1995, and continue until the position is filled.
Letters of application, including a detailed curriculum vitae, names
and addresses of four references and supporting documentation, should
be mailed to: Dr. John R. Clem, DEO Search Committee Chair,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State
University, 201 Coover Hall, Ames, IA 50011.
Iowa State is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
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Contributed by: Susan Frazier
The Institute for Systems Research would like to post a notice about our
Post-Doctoral Fellowship Opportunities on the E-LETTER. The text is as
follows:
Post-Doctoral Fellowships
For Ph.D. recipients in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics and
related areas.
Institute for Systems Research Sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Engineering Research Center Program, the University of Maryland, Harvard
University, and Industry
The Institute for Systems Research is an interdisciplinary research
unit of the University of Maryland and Harvard University. Located at
the University of Maryland, College Park, the Institute generates
fundamental knowledge and technologies of integrated design for
control of complex engineering systems.
The following thrust areas are emphasized:
Intelligent Control Systems
Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems
Systems Integration Methodology
The Institute's research programs are at the forefront of advances in
modern systems engineering, and they incorporate sophisticated
analytical and computational methods with progressive experimental and
modeling techniques.
A multi-disciplinary team of outstanding scientists and engineers is
pursuing in-depth studies in the implications and applications of
modern computer technology to control and communication systems
technologies. Extensive industrial collaboration is an integral part
of the program.
The ISR's research projects encompass a diverse set of systems
problems; they include intelligent control of processes,
electromechanical motion control, wireless communication networks,
high-speed satellite and terrestrial communication networks,
telemedicine systems, and virtual factories for the manufacture of
electromechanical devices.
Departments participating in the research of Institute for Systems Research
include:
Aerospace Engineering
Business & Management
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Materials and Nuclear Engineering
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
FELLOWSHIPS
The ISR Post-Doctoral Fellowships are available for recipients of Ph.D.
degrees who have interests in systems engineering and its applications.
Candidates must have received their degrees by August 31 of the same year
that the fellowship begins. Typically, fellowships are effective from
September through August. Academic excellence and outstanding potential
for basic research weigh heavily in fellowship selection.
Benefits
ISR Post-Doctoral Fellows enjoy the unique opportunity of participating in
state-of-the-art research in systems engineering. Exceptional opportunities
exist for research in collaboration with leading industrial and government
research laboratories. Appointments offer generous stipends (approximately
40K per year) and provide excellent benefits. They are typically for one
year and are renewable up to a second year based on performance and the
availability of funds.
Application
To be considered for a post-doctoral appointment, applicants must submit
the following materials:
curriculum vitae including a list of publications, statement of research
interests and goals, including the reason one wishes to participate in this
program, sample publications, three letters of recommendation, a transcript
from the institution where the Ph.D. was (or will be) earned showing grades
in courses taken.
All materials must be received by the Institute for Systems Research by
January 15th to qualify candidates for fall consideration. Send materials
to:
Institute for Systems Research
A.V. Williams Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Attn: Post-Doctoral Fellowship Review Committee
ISR's WWW server address: http://www.isr.umd.edu/
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Contributed by: Stephen S.T. Yau
Ph.D. Research Assistantship
CONTROL AND INFORMATION LABORATORY
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS, STATISTICS, AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
Applications are invited for the above position, available from
mid August 1996, for two years, to work with Professor Stephen Yau
toward a Ph.D. degree on a project funded by the U.S. Army which
tackles the real-time performance problem of nonlinear filter.
The salary will be approximately US$10,000 for nine months
plus tuition. Summer financial support is usually available.
Candidates should have strong background in Ordinary Differential
Equations and parallel computing. A bachelor degree in Mathematics
or EE (or related fields) is required. A master's degree is
preferred. Since the funding is from U.S. Army, candidates must
have U.S. citizenship.
Please apply for admission directly to the graduate program of
Department of Mathematics
Statistics and Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
851 South Morgan Street
M/C 249, Chicago, IL 60607-7045
U.S.A.
and contact Professor Stephen S.T. Yau about your interest in the
position.
Tel and Fax: 312-996-3065 (Professor Stephen S.T. Yau)
email: yau@uic.edu
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Contributed by: Gary Balas, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics,
University of Minnesota, balas@aem.umn.edu
AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Faculty Position in Dynamics, Aerospace Systems and Control
The Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics seeks to fill an
untenured, tenure-track faculty position at the assistant or associate
professor level in dynamics, aerospace systems and control. The intent
is to hire at the assistant professor rank. However, exceptional candidates
with several years of research and teaching experience may be considered
for appointment at the rank of untenured associate professor. Applications
are invited in all areas and particularly in areas that complement the
current research activities within the department and that bridge current
and emerging fields.
Research activities in dynamics and controls presently emphasize
robust control and optimization. Areas of current interest include
feedback control as applied to aircraft, missiles and structures, air
traffic management, optimal trajectories, and the use of smart
materials in control. The department has available a large variety of
experimental and computational facilities. Faculty and students also
have access to the latest diagnostic equipment in other departments
and interdisciplinary centers. The department has close ties with the
Control Science and Dynamical Systems Center and the Institute for
Mathematics and its Applications and has a strong participation in the
Army High Performance Computing Research Center and the Minnesota
Supercomputer Institute, which have state-of-the-art computational
resources. Information about the department, its faculty, and current
research programs may be obtained by writing to the address given
below and is also available at: http://www.aem.umn.edu/
Applicants must have an earned doctorate in an appropriate field by
the date of appointment; experience beyond the doctorate degree is
desirable. The successful candidate will participate in all aspects
of the departmentUs mission, including teaching at the undergraduate
and graduate levels, supervision of undergraduate and graduate
students, service responsibilities, and will be expected to develop an
independent, externally-funded research program. It is anticipated
that the appointment will begin in September, 1996. Applicants should
send a letter of application, detailed resume, and the names of three
references to:
Search Committee
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
University of Minnesota
107 Akerman Hall
110 Union Street S. E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Applications must be postmarked no later than December 15, 1995.
The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity employer and educator and
specifically invites and encourages applications from women and minorities.
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Contributed by: irp@routh.ee.adfa.oz.au (Ian Richard Petersen)
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW POSITION IN CONTROL THEORY AVAILABLE
(RE-ADVERTISED)
RESEARCH STAFF LEVEL A
Department of Electrical Engineering
University College, University of New South Wales
Australian Defence Force Academy
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA
This position is funded by the Australian Research Council under the
grant: "Robust Control for Uncertain Systems with Integral Quadratic
Constraints" and will involve carrying out research in conjunction
with Associate Professor I.R. Petersen. The successful applicant will
be appointed for a period of two years.
Applicants should have a Ph.D in Engineering or Mathematics with a
specialisation in Control Theory. They should also have a demonstrated
ability to carry out research in one or more of the following areas:
Robust Control; The Control of Uncertain Systems; H infinity Optimal
Control; Stochastic Control; Differential Games;
Salary: In the range $Aust 37,345 - $Aust 40,087 (1$Aust ~= $US 0.75)
Further information can be obtained from Ian Petersen on email
irp@ee.adfa.oz.au or FAX 61 6 2688443. Applications close 20 Oct 1995.
Written applications should be sent to
Asst. College Secretary (Personnel) University College,
University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy,
Northcott Drive, Canberra ACT 2600 AUSTRALIA
Alternatively, applications can be sent directly to Ian Petersen via email
or FAX.
Applications should include the names, addresses, and email or FAX numbers
of two referees.
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Contributed by: Professor Petros Ioannou
Graduate Assistantship (somewhere)
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A position for a graduate assistantship is available starting October
1, 1995. The candidate should be a minority and a USA citizen. He/She
should have interest in experimental and analytical work, and have
good background and training in the following areas:
Mechanical design
Finite element modeling (familiarity with NASTRAN is very desireable)
Mathematical modeling, simulation, control
Compensation is $13/hr, up to about $8000.00/year .
For more information contact:
Prof. Petros Ioannou
ioannou@bode.usc.edu
(213) 740 4452
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Contributed by: C. A. Floudas
Dear Colleagues :
I would like to bring to your attention the publication of my textbook
"Nonlinear and Mixed Integer Optimization : Fundamentals and Applications"
by Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016,
(ISBN : 0-19-510056-5; List price : $75.00; 460 pp.).
This book will be available on September 22, 1995.
A brief description is attached.
C.A. Floudas
Professor
NONLINEAR AND MIXED-INTEGER OPTIMIZATION :
Fundamentals and Applications
by
Christodoulos A. Floudas
Department of Chemical Engineering
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5263, USA
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
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Nonlinear and Mixed Integer Optimization addresses the problem of
optimizing an objective function subject to equality and inequality
constraints in the presence of continuous and integer variables.
These optimization models have many applications in
engineering and applied science problems and this is the primary
motivation for the plethora of theoretical and algorithmic developments
that we have been experiencing during the last two decades.
This book aims at presenting the fundamentals of
nonlinear and mixed integer optimization, and their applications
in the important area of process synthesis in chemical engineering.
The first chapter introduces the reader to the generic formulations
of this class of optimization problems
and presents a number of illustrative applications.
For the remaining chapters, the book contains the following three main
parts:
Part 1 : Fundamentals of Convex Analysis and Nonlinear Optimization
Part 2 : Fundamentals of Mixed Integer Optimization
Part 3 : Applications in Process Synthesis
Part 1, comprised of three chapters, focuses on the fundamentals
of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization.
Part 2, comprised of two chapters, addresses the fundamentals and
algorithms for mixed-integer linear and nonlinear optimization models.
Part 3, consisting of four chapters, deals with important application
areas in chemical engineering.
The main objectives in the preparation of this book
are (i) to acquaint the reader with the basics of convex analysis
and nonlinear optimization without presenting the proofs of the theoretical
results and the algorithmic deatails, which can be found in several other
textbooks, (ii) to introduce the reader to the elementary notions of mixed-
integer linear optimization first and to the theory and methods of mixed-
integer nonlinear optimization next, which are not discussed in other
textbooks, and (iii) to consider several key application areas of chemical
engineering process synthesis and design in which the mixed-integer nonlinear
optimization models and methods apply naturally.
This book has been prepared keeping in mind that it can be used as a textbook
and as a reference. It can be used as a textbook on the fundamentals of non-
linear and mixed-integer optimization, and as a reference for special topics
in the mixed-integer nonlinear optimization part and the presented
application
areas.
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Contributed by: P. Ioannou & J. Sun
NEW TEXBOOK
Robust Adaptive Control
by
Petros Ioannou
Jing Sun
INTRODUCTION
The area of adaptive control has grown to be one of the richest in
terms of algorithms, design techniques, analytical tools, and
modifications. To an outsider, however, the field of adaptive control
may appear as a collection of unrelated tricks and modifications.
Robust Adaptive Control reduces the confusion and difficulty in
understanding the design, analysis, and robustness of a wide class
of adaptive control for continuous-time plants.
Presented in a tutorial style, this book unifies, simplifies, and
presents most of the existing techniques for designing and analyzing
adaptive control systems. Tables offer descriptions of adaptive
control schemes. Techniques and algorithms are displayed for on-line
fitting of dynamic and static models to data generated by real systems.
Topics include:
* Models for Dynamic Systems
* Stability
* On-line Paramenter Estimation
* Parameter Identifiers and Adaptive Observers
* Model Reference Adaptive Control
* Adaptive Pole Placement Control
* Robust Adaptive Law
* Robust Adaptive Control Schemes
The diskette included with Robust Adaptive Control helps the reader more
fully understand some of the implementation aspects of adaptive Systems.
The book is written to be used as a textbook for classes dealing with
Nonlinear systems and stability, Identification, Adaptive Control and
Robustness. A solution manual is available for instructors.
Table of Contents:
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Preface
List of Acronyms
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Control System Design Steps
1.2 Adaptive Control
1.3 A Brief History
Chapter 2 Models for Dynamic Systems
2.1 Introduction
2.2 State-space Models
2.3 Input/Output Models
2.4 Plant Parametric Models
2.5 Problems
Chapter 3 Stability
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Preliminaries
3.3 Input/Output Stability
3.4 Lyapunov Stability
3.5 Positive Real Functions and Stability
3.6 Stability of LTI Feedback Systems
3.7 Problems
Chapter 4 On-line Parameter Estimation
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Simple Examples
4.3 Adaptive Laws with Normalization
4.4 Adaptive Laws with Projection
4.5 Bilinear Parametric Model
4.6 Hybrid Adaptive Laws
4.7 Summary of Adaptive Laws
4.8 Parameter Convergence Proofs
4.9 Problems
Chapter 5 Parameter Identifiers and Adaptive Observers
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Parameter Identifiers
5.3 Adaptive Observers
5.4 Adaptive Observer with Auxiliary Input
5.5 Adaptive Observers for Nonminimal Plant Models
5.6 Paramter Convergence Proofs
5.7 Problems
Chapter 6 Model Reference Adaptive Control
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Simple Direct MRAC Schemes
6.3 MRC for SISO plants
6.4 Direct MRAC with Unnormalized Adaptive Laws
6.5 Direct MRAC with Normalized Adaptive Laws
6.6 Indirect MRAC
6.7 Relaxation of Assumptions in MRAC
6.8 Stability Proofs of MRAC Schemes
6.9 Problems
Chapter 7 Adaptive Pole Placement Control
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Simple APPC Schemes
7.3 PPC: Known Plant Parameters
7.4 Indirect APPC Schemes
7.5 Hybrid APPC Schemes
7.6 Stabilizability Issues and Modified APPC
7.7 Stability Proofs
7.8 Problems
Chapter 8 Rpbust Adaptive Laws
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Plant Uncertainties and Robust Control
8.3 Instability Phenomena in Adaptive Systems
8.4 Modifications for Robustness: Simple Examples
8.5 Robust Adaptive Laws
8.6 Summary of Robust Adaptive Laws
8.7 Problems
Chapter 9 Robust Adaptive Control Schemes
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Robust Identifiers and Adaptive Observers
9.3 Robust MRAC
9.4 Performance Improvement of MRAC
9.5 Robust APPC Schemes
9.6 Adaptive Control of LTV Plants
9.7 Adaptive Control for Multivariable Plants
9.8 Stability Proofs of Robust MRAC Schemes
9.9 Stability Proofs of Robust APPC Schemes
9.10 Problems
Appendices:
A Swapping Lemmas
B: Optimization Techniques
Bibliography
Index
825 pages, hardcover
ISBN 0-13-439100-4
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Order from: Prentice Hall PTR
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Jing Sun jsun@fmsrlu.srl.ford.com
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Contributed by: Ken Hunt
Announcing a New Publication
H-infinity Optimal Control and Related Minimax Design Problems
A Dynamic Game Approach
Second Edition
Tamer Basar and Pierre Bernhard
-From the Backcover-
One of the major concentrated activities of the past decade in control theory
has been the development of the so-called ``H-infinity optimal control
theory,'' which addresses the issue of worst-case controller design for
linear plants subject to unknown disturbances and plant uncertainties.
Among different time-domain approaches to this class of worst-case design
problems, the one that uses the framework of dynamic (differential) game
theory stands out to be the most natural. Using this framework, the
authors present in this book a complete theory that encompasses
continuous-time as well as discrete-time systems, finite as well as infinite
horizons,and several different measurement schemes. They also discuss
extensions of the linear theory to nonlinear systems, and derivation of
lower dimensional controllers for systems with regularly and singularly
perturbed dynamics.
This is the second edition of a 1991 book with the same title, which, besides
featuring a more streamlined presentation of the results included in the
first edition, and at places under more refined conditions, also contains
substantial new material, reflecting new developments in the field. Among
these are the nonlinear theory; connections between H-infinity optimal
control and risk sensitive stochastic control problems; H-infinity filtering
for linear and nonlinear systems; and robustness considerations in the
presence of regular and singular perturbations.
The authors believe that the theory is now at a stage where it can easily be
incorporated into a second-level graduate course in a control curriculum,
that would follow a basic course in linear control theory covering
LQ and LQG designs. For the most part, the only prerequisite for the book is
a basic knowledge of linear control theory. No background in differential
games, or game theory in general, is required, as the requisite concepts and
results have been developed in the book at the appropriate level.
Ordering information:
Title: H-infinity optimal control and related minimax design problems
Second Edition
Authors: Tamer Basar and Pierre Bernhard
Date: August 1995
No. pages: 411
Publisher: Birkhauser
Series: Systems and Control: Foundations and Applications
ISBN: 0-8176-3814-8 (USA and Canada)
3-7643-3814-8 (Europe)
By mail: For USA and Canada: | In Europe:
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USA |
By phone: 1-800-777-4643 in the USA ( 201/ 348-4033 in NJ)
Table of Contents and Preface can be found on the Web page located at:
http://black.csl.uiuc.edu/~tbasar/birkhauserbook.html
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Contributed by: Sabine Van Huffel
ERRATA LIST available of the following book:
The Total Least Squares Problem: Computational Aspects and Analysis
Sabine Van Huffel and Joos Vandewalle
SIAM, Philadelphia, 1991
Now that our book is being reprinted, I would like to tell you that a
list of errata for the first print of our book is available by
anonymous ftp. Just ftp ftp.esat.kuleuven.ac.be, cd
pub/SISTA/vanhuffel, and get tlserrata.ps.Z.
Regards,
Sabine Van Huffel
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Contributed by Yu Hen Hu (hu@engr.wisc.edu)
CALL FOR PAPERS
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Journal on VLSI Signal Processing Special Issue on
Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems
As the field of signal processing matures, its research results are
being ever-increasingly applied to the development of solutions of
signal processing problems that integrate some combination of
algorithms, hardware, and software, according to some underlying
principles, into a system. One broad example of this activity is the
wide variety of tasks performed in the hardware, software domains to
move a proven research algorithm from a large non-real-time general
purpose computing environment to a small, cost-effective, real time
implementation. Such work integrates a solution by pulling together
technology from across the multiple domains of signal processing,
computer science, and system engineering.
This proposed special issue seeks to illuminate the underlying
principles of signal processing solution engineering, explore means to
cross-apply these principles from on implementation to another, and
advance and publicize the availability of tools and techniques for the
realization of efficient signal processing systems. The unique
challenge that these special_issue contributors face is in trying to
discern the underlying principles of solution engineering from on
implementation that could be applied to other systems. Signal
processing basic research results are by their nature broadly
applicable in a variety of systems -- signal processing system results
are more difficult to cross-apply.
Guest Editors
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John Ackenhusen Yu Hen Hu
ERIM Univ. of Wisconsin
P. O. Box 134001 Dept. of ECE
Ann Arbor, MI 48113-4001 Madison, WI 53706-1691
USA USA
email: ackenhus@erim.org email: hu@engr.wisc.edu
All manuscript are subject to anonymous peer review. Please send FIVE copies
of your submission before October 15, 1995 to
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Journals Editorial Office,
101 Philip Drive, Assinippi Park,
Norwell, MA 02061
U. S. A.
with a cover letter indicating the manuscript is submitted to the
Journal of VLSI Signal Processing special issue on
"Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems".
A Kluwer LaTeX journal style file may be obtained via anonymous FTP from
ftp.std.com under the directory Kluwer/styles/journals. See the
README file for additional instructions.
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Contributed by: Richard Brualdi
LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Contents Volume 229, November 1, 1995
Krzysztof C. Kiwiel (Warsaw, Poland)
Iterative Schemes for the Least 2-Norm Solution of Piecewise
Linear Programs 1
Changqin Xu (Heifei, Anhui, People's Republic of China)
Bellman's Inequality 9
Isabel Faria (Lisboa, Portugal)
Multiplicity of Integer Roots of Polynomials of Graphs 15
F. A. Arlinghaus (Youngstown, Ohio), L. N. Vaserstein
(University Park, Pennsylvania), and Hong You
(Changchun, People's Republic of China)
Products of Involutory Matrices Over Rings 37
Carmine Di Fiore and Paolo Zellini (Roma, Italy)
Matrix Decompositions Using Displacement Rank and
Classes of Commutative Matrix Algebras 49
Khalide Jbilou (Villeneuve d'Ascq, France)
Projection-Minimization Methods for Nonsymmetric Linear Systems 101
Jin-Hsien Wang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China)
Sums and Products of Two Quadratic Matrices 127
John A. Holbrook (Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
Interpenetration of Ellipsoids and the Polynomial Bound of a
Matrix 151
H. Hu (DeKalb, Illinois)
Positive Definite Constrained Least-Squares Estimation of Matrices 167
Yixun Shi (Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania)
Solving Linear Systems Involved in Constrained Optimization 175
Author Index 191
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Contributed by A.H. Zemanian (zeman@sbee.sunysb.edu)
Table of Contents for:
CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING
Vol. 14, No. 5, 1995
On the robustness of stability for uncertain large-scale systems
subject to multiple time delays,
Tzuu-Hseng S. Li, Chien-Hua Lee, and Fan-Chu Kung
Stability of the quantized LMS algorithm,
Tamal Bose and David A. Trautman
Improved fast polynomial transform algorithm for cyclic convolutions,
Albert Ming Loh and Wan-Chi Siu
A new approach to speech segmentation based on the maximum likelihood,
Z.M. Saric and S.R. Turajlic
Maximally linear FIR digital differentiators,
J. Le Bihan
An efficient bit-serial FIR filter architecture,
Yong Ching Lim, Joseph B. Evans, and Bede Liu
A simple method for estimating the spectrum of exponentially damped
sinusoidal signals,
Muhammad Taher Abuelma'atti
Generating a PRSA with triangular symmetry,
Anjum Ali and Charles A. Halijak
On the concentrated stochastic likelihood function in array
signal processing,
Petre Stoica and Arye Nehorai
On limit cycles of second-order sigma-delta modulators
with constant input,
David P. Brown
Nonlinear AR modeling,
L.R. Hunt, R.D.DeGroat, and D.A. Linebarger
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Contributed by: thomas@siam.org
SIAM JOURNAL ON CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION
NOVEMBER 1995 Volume 33, Number 6
CONTENTS
Rendezvous Search on the Line with Indistinguishable Players
Edward J. Anderson and Skander Essegaier
Optimal Programs on Infinite Horizon 1
A. J. Zaslavski
Optimal Programs on Infinite Horizon 2
A. J. Zaslavski
COCOLOG: A Conditional Observer and Controller Logic for Finite
Machines
Peter E. Caines and Suning Wang
Remarks on Nonlinear Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: An
Application of the Splitting-up Method
Noriaki Nagase
Solution of Optimal Control Problems by a Pointwise Projected
Newton Method
C. T. Kelley and E. W. Sachs
On the Adaptive Control of Jump Parameter Systems via Nonlinear
Filtering
Peter E. Caines and Ji-Feng Zhang
Periodic Stability of Nonlinear Flexible Systems with Damping
Koichiro Naito
Identification for Parabolic Distributed Parameter Systems with
Constraints on the Parameters and the State
Wenhuan Yu
A Convex Approach to the Mixed H_2/H_infinity Control Problem for
Discrete-Time Uncertain Systems
J. C. Geromel, P. L. D. Peres, and S. R. Souza
Finite-Dimensional Risk-Sensitive Control Problem
Alain Bensoussan and Robert J. Elliott
On the Topology of the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker Set under Mangasarian-
Fromovitz Constraint Qualification
Harald Gunzel
Pontryagin Maximum Principle for Semilinear and Quasilinear
Parabolic Equations with Pointwise State Constraints
Bei Hu and Jiongmin Yong
Risk-Sensitive Control on an Infinite Time Horizon
Wendell H. Fleming and William M. McEneaney
Parallel Gradient Distribution in Unconstrained Optimization
O. L. Mangasarian
The Continuum-Armed Bandit Problem
Rajeev Agrawal
Forms of Optimal Solutions for Separated Continuous Linear Programs
Malcolm C. Pullan
Author Index
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Contributed by: Yvonne Campfens Y.CAMPFENS@elsevier.nl
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Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Vol. 15, No. 3, August 1995
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Contents:
Y. Jin and F. Hai-rong
Forward displacement analysis of the decahedral
variable geometry truss manipulator
E. Stella and A. Distante
Self-location of a mobile robot by estimation of
camera parameters
H. Zhuang A self-calibration approach to extrinsic parameter
estimation of stereo cameras
G. Feng A compensating scheme for robot tracking based on
neural networks
G.D. van Albada, J.M. Lagerberg, A. Visser and L.O. Hertberger
A low-cost pose measuring system for robot calibration
C. Hofner and G. Schmidt
Path planning and guidance techniques for an autonomous
mobile cleaning robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 14
(1995) 199-212 (Erratum)
Calendar
More information on the journal can be found at its titlepage on the
World Wide Web, URL: http://www.elsevier.nl.
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Contributed by Huibert Kwakernaak
AUTOMATICA
Table of contents
November, 1995 Issue 31:11
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Editorials
H. Kwakernaak Some statistics about AUTOMATICA authors
Regular Papers
R. Rebarber, S. Townley Robustness and continuity of the spectrum for
uncertain distributed parameter systems
A.G. Partanen, R.R. Bitmead The application of an iterative
identification
and controller design to a sugar crane
crushing mill
G. Nahapetian, Wei Ren Uncertainty structures in adaptive and robust
stabilization
Zhuquan Zang, R. R. Bitmead, Iterative weighted least squares
M. Gevers identification and weighted LQG control
design
R. Marino, S. Peresada, P. Nonlinear adaptive control of permanent
Tomei magnet step motors
M. Valasek, N. Olgac Efficient eigenvalue assignments for general
linear MIMO systems
W.S.Lee, B.D.O.Anderson, On some key issues in the windsurfer approach
I.M.Y.Mareels, R.L.Kosut to adaptive robust control
R. S. Smith Model validation for robust control: An
experimental process control application
Brief Papers
A. V. Savkin, I. R. Petersen An uncertainty averaging approach to optimal
guaranteed cost control of uncertain systems
with structured uncertainty
G. Meinsma Unstable and nonproper weights in H-infinity
control
A. Yesildirek, F.L. Lewis Feedback linearization using neural networks
P. Lucibello Output zeroing with internal stability by
learning
M. Letizia Corradini, G. A mimo variable structure model of the
Orlando controller of voluntary arm movements: An
identification study
Book Reviews
J. C. Willems M. Green and D. J. N. Limebeer: Linear robust
control
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Contributed by: Hershkowitz Daniel
ILAS, the International Linear Algebra Society, announces a new electronic
scholarly journal, as an outlet for high quality articles on Linear
Algebra and its applications.
The journal is called:
The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (ELA).
Articles are electronically submitted. Refereeing of articles is
conventional and of high-standards, and is being carried out
electronically. Posting of articles will be immediate following
acceptance and filling out copyright forms.
ELA can be accessed in the World Wide Web at its main site in the Technion,
Israel at the URL
http://gauss.technion.ac.il/iic/ela
or at its mirror sites in the University of Chemnitz, Germany, Temple
University, Philadelphia, or at the university of Lisbon, Portugal,
at the URLs
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/ftp-home/.m/fs75/math.technion.ac.il/iic/ELA
or
http://www.math.temple.edu/iic/ela
or
http://alf1.cc.fc.ul.pt/iic/ela/
respectively.
The Editorial Board consists of: Editors-in-Chief:
Daniel Hershkowitz (Technion, Haifa)
Volker Mehrmann (Chemnitz)
Advisory Editors:
Chandler Davis (Toronto)
Israel Gohberg (Tel Aviv)
Thomas J. Laffey (Belfield, Dublin)
Richard S. Varga (Kent)
Associate Editors:
Daniel B. Szyld (Temple U., Philadelphia)
ILAS journals are supervised by the ILAS Journals Committee, consisting of:
Richard A. Brualdi
Daniel Hershkowitz (for ELA)
Roger Horn
Steve Leon (for IMAGE)
Hans Schneider (chair)
Robert C. Thompson
Submissions to ELA are welcome. Submission information can be found in
these addresses in the WWW, or accessed via anonymous ftp from
math.technion.ac.il in the directory iic/ela.
Subscription is free to ILAS members.
If you want to receive free electronic announcements with titles and
abstracts of new postings, send an electronic message to
ela@math.technion.ac.il .
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Contributed by: Jan H. van Schuppen (J.H.van.Schuppen@cwi.nl)
MCSS WELCOMES NEW ASSOCIATE EDITORS
The Editorial Board of the journal Mathematics of
Control, Signals, and Systems (MCSS) has been extended
with four new Associate Editors:
- J.-M. Coron
(Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, Cachan, France)
- M.R. James
(Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)
- V. Kharitonov
(St. Petersburg University, St. Petersburg, Russia
/temporarily at CINVESTAB-IPN, Mexico, D.F., Mexico)
- A. Rantzer
(Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden)
The Editors are happy that these capable and outstanding
researchers are willing to assist with the operation of
the journal.
Information on MCSS including tables of contents is
available at its home pages:
- http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/departments/BS3/mcss.html
- http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~sontag/mcss.html
Papers must be submitted to:
J.H. van Schuppen (Co-Editor MCSS)
CWI
P.O. Box 94079
1090 GB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Bradley Dickinson, Eduardo Sontag, Jan van Schuppen (Editors)
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Contributed by: John Baillieul, Editor-in-Chief,
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
World Wide Web pages for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Beginning in October, various information about the IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control will be available on line. Included in this will be
the Table of Contents for the current issue and complete addresses for
the Editorial Board.
The access will be through the World Wide Web. It may take a few more weeks
to be fully implemented, but you may preview what will be available either
by going to the IEEE home page (URL: http://www.ieee.org) or by examining
the home page of the Transactions itself. The URL is
http://eng.bu.edu/~johnb/ieeetrans.html
Enjoy.
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Contributed by: Christopher I. Byrnes
MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS-96
The Ritz Carlton Hotel,
St.Louis, Missouri June 24-28, 1996
Call for papers and second announcement
>>>>>> NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINES <<<<<<<
MTNS - 96 will be held from June 24 to 28, 1996, at the Ritz Carlton Hotel.
Contributed papers and invited sessions for MTNS - 96 are hereby solicited in
all traditional areas involving mathematics of networks and systems as well
as emerging fields in engineering and mathematics with potential impact in
circuits, automatic control systems, and signal processing. Such topics
include, but are not limited to:
- Adaptive Control - Algebraic Systems Theory - Applications of Algebraic
and Differential Geometry in Systems Theory - Avionics - Computation and
Control - Computational Fluid Dynamics - Distributed Parameter and Infinite
Dimensional Systems - Flexible and Distributed Parameter Systems - Flow
Control - Image Processing - Information Networking - Mathematical Theory
of Networks and Circuits - Materials Science and Engineering - Modeling and
Algorithmic Issues in Intelligent Control - Multivariable and Large-Scale
Systems - Nonlinear Filtering and Control - Nonlinear Systems and Control -
Numerical and Symbolic Computations in Systems Theory - Operator Theoretic
and Geometric Methods in Circuits and Systems Theory - Optimization in
Systems Design - Process Control - Robotics - Robust Control - Signal
Processing - Stochastic Systems Theory-Stochastic Control and Estimation
- System Identification - Visionics - VLSI Design - Wavelets.
We also encourage contributions in the application areas of: - Aerospace -
Biomedical Engineering Sciences - Communication - Manufacturing - Materials
Science and Engineering - Process Control - Transportation.
Papers: Submit an extended abstract (4-5 pages) in duplicate by January 15,
1995. The abstract should preferably contain a history and motivation of the
problem, a precise statement of results together with indications of the
techniques involved, and a representative bibliography. Notice of acceptance
for presentation will be given by March 1, 1996.
Send Extended Abstracts to: Prof. Biswa Datta Department of Mathematical
Sciences Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115 tel.: (815) 753-6759
fax: (815) 753-1112, email dattab@math.niu.edu
Special Sessions: Submit proposals for special sessions, containing the title
of the session and the names and affiliations of the speakers by January 15,
1996. Normally a session should contain four speakers, each given half an
hour, but other arrangements can be made by contacting Clyde F. Martin.
Send proposals for Special Sessions to: Prof. Clyde F. Martin Department of
Mathematics Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX 79409 tel.: (806) 742-1511
fax: (806) 742-1112, email: gqcfm@ttacs1.ttu.edu
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline January 15, 1996
Acceptance Notification March 1, 1996
Early Registration April 15, 1996
Conference June 24-28, 1996
Program Committee: Andrei Agrachev, Moscow, Linda Allen, Lubbock, Radhakisan
Baheti, Washington, D.C. John Baillieul, Boston, Anthony M. Bloch, Ann Arbor,
Peter E. Caines, Montreal Stephen A. Campbell, Raleigh Peter E. Crouch, Tempe
Ruth Curtain, Groningen, Leonid Faybusovitch, South Bend, Bijoy Ghosh, St.
Louis, Eugenio Hernandez, Madrid, Belinda King, Portland, P.S. Krishnaprasad,
College Park, Bernard C. Levy, Davis, David Limebeer, London, John Lund,
Bozeman, Stephen Marcus, College Park George Meyer, Mountain View, Michael
I.
Miller, St. Louis, Joseph O*Sullivan, St. Louis, Bozenna Pasik-Duncan,
Lawrence, Withold Respondek, Warsaw, Eduardo D. Sontag, New Brunswick, Gianna
Stefani, Firenze/Napoli, Paul van Dooren, Urbana, Alex Wang, Lubbock, Jan C.
Willems, Groningen, Kevin Wise, St. Louis, Bostwick F. Wyman, Columbus,
Yutaka Yamamoto, Kyoto.
Organizing Committee: H.T. Banks, Raleigh, Roger Brockett, Cambridge, Patrick
Dewilde, Delft, Harry Dym, Rehovot, Diederich Hinrichsen, Bremen, Bronislaw
Jakubzcyk, Warsaw, Song Jian, Bejing, M.A. Kaashoek, Amsterdam, Hidenori
Kimura, Tokyo, Arthur Krener, Davis, Alexander B. Kurzhansky, Moscow,
Reinhard Mennicken, Regensburg, William Shadwick, Toronto, Donald L. Snyder,
St. Louis, Tzyh-Jong Tarn, St. Louis,
Symposium Chairs: Christopher I. Byrnes, St. Louis, Biswa Nath Datta, DeKalb,
Clyde F. Martin, Lubbock.
Steering Committee: Christopher I. Byrnes, St. Louis, Charles A. Desoer,
Berkeley, Patrick Dewilde, Delft, Paul van Dooren, Urbana, Harry H. Dym,
Rehovot, Michel Fliess, Gif-sur-Yvette, Paul Fuhrmann, Beer Sheva, Yves
Genin, Louvain, Israel Gohberg, Tel Aviv, Michael Hazewinkel, Amsterdam,
Uwe Helmke, Regensburg J. William Helton, La Jolla, Alberto Isidori, Rome,
Marinus A. Kaashoek, Amsterdam, Hidenori Kimura, Osaka, Shinzo Kodama,
Osaka, Arthur J. Krener, Davis Alexander B. Kurzhansky, Moscow, Anders
Lindquist, Stockholm, Clyde F. Martin, Lubbock, Reinhard Mennicken,
Regensburg Robert W. Newcomb, College Park, Giorgio Picci, Padova,
Alexander C. M. Ran, Amsterdam, Jan H. van Schuppen, Amsterdam, Tzyh-Jong
Tarn, St. Louis, Jan C. Willems, Groningen, George Zames, Montreal, Arman
H. Zemanian, Stony Brook.
MTNS-96 Conference Information: The International Symposium on the
Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) is organized biannually.
Previous meetings were held in College Park, Maryland, USA (1973),
Montreal, Canada (1975), Lubbock, Texas, USA (1977), Delft, Netherlands
(1979), Santa Monica, California, USA (1981), Beer Sheva, Israel (1983),
Stockholm, Sweden (1985), Phoenix, Arizona, USA (1987), Amsterdam,
Netherlands (1989), Kobe, Japan (1991), and Regensburg, Germany (1993).
For further in formation contact: Christopher I. Byrnes, Dean School of
Engineering and Applied Science Washington University Campus Box 1163 St.
Louis, MO 63130-4899
email: mtns96@seas.wustl.edu http://www.seas.wustl.edu/~mtns96/
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Contributed by: Eduardo Sontag
WORKSHOP ON VERIFICATION AND CONTROL OF HYBRID SYSTEMS
Sponsored by DIMACS and SYCON
October 22-25, 1995
New Brunswick, New Jersey
FULL INFORMATION is available via the Web, through the URL:
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~sontag/sycon/sycon.html
This workshop is co-organized by DIMACS, a Science and Technology
Center funded by the National Science Foundation, and SYCON, the Rutgers
University Center dedicated to research in control theory.
Organizing Committee:
Rajeev Alur (alur@research.att.com)
Thomas A. Henzinger (tah@cs.cornell.edu)
Eduardo Sontag (sontag@control.rutgers.edu)
The program features invited and contributed lectures.
The keynote speakers will be:
S. Sastry, University of California at Berkeley
"A game theoretic viewpoint to verification problems for hybrid systems"
R. Brockett, Harvard University
"Resource allocation for real-time control"
A. Pnueli, The Weizmann Institute of Science
"Hybrid systems: the computer science view"
N. Lynch, MIT
"Modelling and verification of automated
transit systems, using timed automata, invariants and simulations"
The speakers include:
Z. Manna, Stanford University, A. Pnueli, Weizmann Institute
A. Benveniste, INRIA-IRISA
V. Gupta, XEROX PARC, R. Jagadeesan, Loyola
V.A. Saraswat, D. Bobrow, XEROX PARC
A.K. Mackworth, U of British Columbia
H.J. Sussmann, Rutgers
M.K. Ghosh, Indian Inst Science, S.I. Marcus, Maryland, A. Arapostathis,
Texas
W. Kohn, Sagent Corporation, A. Nerode, Cornell, J.B. Remmel, UCSD
H.B. Weinberg, N. Lynch, MIT
R. de Lemos, Newcastle, J. Hall, York, UK
M. Sintzoff, Universite Catholique de Louvain
A. Deshpande, D. Godbole, A. Gollu, P. Varaiya, Berkeley
J.-M. Godhavn, T. Lauvdal, O. Egeland, Norwegian Inst Tech
J.A. Haddon, D.N. Godbole, A. Deshpande, J. Lygeros, Berkeley
S.K. Mitter, V. Borkar, V. Chandru, MIT
Z. Artstein, Weizmann
M.S. Branicky, MIT
T.I. Seidman, U of Maryland Baltimore County
Pei-Hsin Ho, INTEL
N. Halbwachs, VERIMAG
R. Alur, R.P. Kurshan, AT&T Bell Labs
K.G. Larsen, Aalborg University
P.E. Caines, Y.-J. Wei, McGill
V.D. Dimitriadis, N. Shah, C.C. Pantelides, Imperial College
L.E. Holloway, University of Kentucky at Lexington
X. Qiwen, H. Weidong, United Nations University, Macau
J.-E. Stromberg, S. Nadjm-Tehrani, Linkoping University
W. Ji, H. Weidong, The United Nations University, Macau
C. Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory
O. Maler, VERIMAG, A. Pnueli, Weizmann
D. Sinclair, Dublin City University
S. Narain, Bellcore
P. Ramadge, Princeton University
V.K. Garg, D. Cofer, Texas
M.A. Shayman, Maryland, R. Kumar, Kentucky
A. Puri, P. Varaiya, Berkeley, V. Borkar, Indian Institute of Science
T.A. Henzinger, H. Wong-Toi, Cornell
K. Cerans, J. Viksna, University of Latvia
I. Hoffmann, K.-U. Klatt, University of Dortmund
M. Kourjanski, P. Varaiya, Berkeley
H.S. Park, Kangwon National University, Y.S. Kim, W.H. Kwon, Seoul Nat Univ
C.G. Cassandras, University of Massachusetts
P. Antsaklis, University of Notre Dame
B. Krogh, Carnegie Mellon, J. Cury, Santa Catarina, T. Niinomi, Mitsubishi
S. Bailey, R.L. Grossman, L. Gu, D. Hanley, University of Illinois/Chicago
N. Lynch, MIT, F. Vaandrager, CWI
Z. Chaochen, Technical University of Denmark
A.P. Ravn, Technical University of Denmark
A. Bouajjani, VERIMAG
C. Bett, M. Lemmon, University of Notre Dame
A. Savkin, R.J. Evans, Melbourne, I.R. Petersen, Australian Defence Academy
J. Raisch, S. O'Young, University of Stuttgart
K.G. Larsen, Aalborg University, P. Pettersson, W. Yi, Uppsala University
Y. Zhang, A.K. Mackworth, University of British Columbia
K.G. Larsen, Aalborg University, B. Steffen, Passau, C. Weise, Aachen
Registration
Please email to Pat Toci at toci@dimacs.rutgers.edu (908-445-5930).
There is no registration fee.
Information
It is recommended that participants arriving by plane fly into Newark
Airport. Flying into Kennedy or La Guardia can add more than an hour
to the travel time.
Past DIMACS workshops have quite pleasantly used the Comfort Inn and
the Holiday Inn, both in South Plainfield, New Jersey--they are next
to each other. The Comfort Inn gives participants of DIMACS workshops
the special rate of $47.00 ($52.00 if two guests share a room), and
the Holiday Inn gives DIMACS the special rate of $60.00 per room
(includes a continental breakfast). The Comfort Inn's phone number is
908-561-4488. The Holiday Inn's phone number is 908-753-5500.
The Comfort Inn provides free van service to and from Newark Airport.
You need to give them a 24-hour notice. To travel between Newark
Airport and the Holiday Inn, we recommend ICS Van Service,
800-225-4427 (from inside the United States) or 908-566-0795. The rate
is $23.00 per person. It must be booked in advance. From the New York
airports, participants may take the Grayline Air (bus) Shuttle
(800-451-0455) to Newark Airport, and then ICS Van service from there.
The first day of the workshop (October 22) will be held at the Holiday
Inn. All workshop events on October 23-25 will take place at DIMACS,
located in the CoRE Building of Rutgers University, Busch Campus, in
Piscataway, New Jersey. Both the Comfort Inn and the Holiday Inn
provide free van service to and from DIMACS. Participants arriving to
DIMACS by car need a parking permit. Parking permits will be available
in the hotels and at the registration table. Please be sure to park in
Lot 64.
For further questions regarding local transportation and accomodations, or to
obtain detailed driving directions to the hotels and to DIMACS, contact Pat
Toci at toci@dimacs.rutgers.edu (908-445-5930).
The participation of graduate students at the workshop is strongly
encouraged. DIMACS provides funds to partially reimburse the cost of
travel and accommodation for students. If you are a full-time student
and wish to be considered for travel support, please mark the
registration form appropriately. (The support level per person will
depend on the number of student participants.)
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Contributed by: Peter B. Luh
FINANCIAL AID INFORMATION FOR THE 13TH WORLD CONGRESS OF
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL
A. AUTHORS FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Financial Aid for Attending IFAC '96
The 13th World Congress of International Federation of Automatic
Control will be held in San Francisco, California, USA, from June 30 to July
5, 1996. Limited funds are expected to be available from a few foundations
to assist a small number of authors who would not otherwise be able to
attend the Congress. The awards will be of the order $1000 each, with
reduced Congress registration fees. Applications are restricted to authors
from developing countries which are National Member Organizations of IFAC.
Please send applications including
1. Name
2. Title, affiliation, and full address (including mailing
address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail address)
3. Paper number, title, author(s), and abstract of the paper
submitted, and suggested symposium and technical area(s)
4. A short statement of about 200 words justifying the need
for support
to
Professor Peter B. Luh
University of Connecticut
Dept. of Electrical & Systems Engineering
Storrs, CT 06269-3157
USA
Phone: (860) 486-4821
Fax: (860) 486-2447
E-mail: Luh@farside.ese.uconn.edu
(Please note the change of Storrs' area code from (203) to (860).
The cutoff date for the old area code is Oct. 4, 1996.)
Applications must be received by October 20, 1995, and electronic
submissions are strongly encouraged.
Awards will be based on the acceptance of the papers, review
ratings, the proven need, and contributions to the Congress, and are limited
to one author per paper. The selection will be made by the Financial Aid
Subcommittee. Notifications of award including the dollar amount will be
made in December 1995. The funds will be used to partially reimburse
expenses with receipts for transportation, lodging or meals after the
Congress. Other conditions required by the foundations donating the funds
may apply.
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B. STUDENT AUTHORS FROM U.S. UNIVERSITIES
Financial Aid for U.S. Students Attending IFAC '96
The 13th World Congress of International Federation of Automatic
Control will be held in San Francisco, California, USA, from June 30 to July
5, 1996. Limited funds are expected to be available from National Science
Foundation to assist a small number of student authors from
U.S. universities to attend the Congress. Please send applications
including
1. Name
2. Title, affiliation, full address (including mailing
address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail address), and
name of the advisor
3. Paper number, title, author(s), and abstract of the paper
submitted, and suggested symposium and technical areas
4. A short statement of about 200 words justifying the need
for support
to
Professor Peter B. Luh
University of Connecticut
Dept. of Electrical & Systems Engineering
Storrs, CT 06269-3157
P: (860) 486-4821
F: (860) 486-2447
E: Luh@farside.ese.uconn.edu
(Please note the change of Storrs' area code from (203) to (860).
The cutoff date for the old area code is Oct. 4, 1996.)
Application must be received by October 20, 1995, and electronic submissions
are strongly encouraged.
Awards will be based on the acceptance of the papers, review
ratings, and the proven need, and are limited to one author per paper. The
selection will be made by the Financial Aid Subcommittee. Notifications of
award including the dollar amount will be made in December 1995. The fund
will be used to partially reimburse expenses with receipts for
transportation, lodging or meals after the Congress.
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Contributed by: Dianne O'Leary (oleary@cs.umd.edu)
THE HOUSEHOLDER MEETING ON NUMERICAL ALGEBRA
The Householder Meeting on Numerical Algebra will be held
Monday June 17 - Friday June 21, 1996 in Pontresina, Switzerland,
at the Kronenhof. More complete information about the meeting and
the Householder Prize can be found at the Website
http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/oleary
and these files are also available via ftp from
cs.umd.edu in directory pub/faculty/oleary.
This meeting is the thirteenth in a series, previously called
the Gatlinburg Symposia. The name honors Alston S. Householder,
one of the pioneers in numerical linear algebra and organizer
of the first four meetings. The meeting has traditionally been
held in an isolated location and is very informal in style.
Each attendee is given the opportunity to present a talk, but
a talk is not mandatory. The format of the meeting includes
scheduled presentations during the day and more informal
evening sessions that are organized on-site. Spirited
discussion is encouraged.
At the meeting, the Householder VII prize will be awarded for
the best thesis in numerical algebra written since 1 January 1993.
We hope that the meeting will be attended by recent entrants
into numerical algebra as well as more experienced researchers.
We encourage attendance by core numerical linear algebra
researchers, matrix theoreticians, and people in applications
such as optimization, signal processing, control, etc.
The Program Committee welcomes your contribution. The meeting
facility in Pontresina holds only 125 people, however, so attendance
may need to be limited. We are seeking funding to provide financial
assistance to recent Ph.Ds and others who might need it.
For full consideration, the committee must receive your abstract
by 5 January 1996. Please use the format described in the "abstract"
file on the Website and ftpsite. The committee expects to complete the
list of attendees and scheduled presentations by 15 February 1996.
After reading the files in the Website or ftpsite, if you have any
questions about local arrangements, please contact Martin Gutknecht:
mhg@ips.id.ethz.ch. Other questions can be directed to
house-request@cs.umd.edu.
The Program Committee:
A. Bjorck
A. Bunse-Gerstner
T. Chan
C. Davis
A. George
N. Higham
D. O'Leary (chair)
B. Parlett
G. W. Stewart
P. Van Dooren
C. Van Loan
M. Gutknecht (ex officio)
W. Gander (ex officio)
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Contributed by Yu Hen Hu (hu@engr.wisc.edu)
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* SecondCall for Papers *
* The Sixth Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI *
* March 22-23, 1996, Ames, Iowa, USA *
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sponsored by Iowa State University
IEEE Computer Society,
in cooperation with IEEE Circuits and Systems Society,
IEEE Signal Processing Society
ACM SIGDA
The sixth Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI will be hosted by Iowa State
University at Ames, Iowa. The purpose of the symposium is to provide
a relaxed atmosphere for exchange of ideas and to promote research in
the field of VLSI. Original and unpublished articles on all aspects
of VLSI are invited. Both theoretical and experimental contributions
are welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
1. Physical Design 7. Hardware/Software Codesign
2. Synthesis and Verification 8. Field Programmable Gate Arrays
3. Testing, Design for Testability 9. Multichip Modules
4. Low Power Design 10. Analog and Mixed Signal ICs
5. High-level Synthesis 11. Specialized VLSI Architectures
6. High Frequency Circuit Design 12. Applications (HDTV, ATM, etc.)
Paper Submissions:
Prospective authors are invited to submit FOUR copies of a review
package including: (a) A Title Page containing title, most relevant
topic number(s), name and affiliations of all author(s), telephone number,
fax number and e-mail address of the contact person. (b) A 100-word
Abstract.
(c) A Manuscript, not exceeding 4,000 words, clearly stating its
contributions.
Special Sessions:
Proposals are solicited for organized sessions on a common theme.
Proposals should be submitted with a list of papers to be included
by October 2, 1995 for an initial approval. All papers submitted to
special sessions will be reviewed using the same guideline as
submissions to regular sessions.
Tutorials:
Tutorial sessions are planned for March 21 1995. Two page proposals
on topics of current interest in VLSI are solicited.
Deadline for Paper Submissions:
Important Dates:
Special Session Proposals due: 2 October, 1995
Deadline for Paper Submissions: 10 November, 1995
Notification of Acceptance: 20 December, 1995
Camera-Ready Papers due: 19 January, 1996
Send All Submissions to:
Liang-Fang Chao, GLS-VLSI '96
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Iowa State University Phone: (515) 294-4192
201 Coover Hall E-mail: lfc@iastate.edu
Ames, IA 50011, USA Fax:(515) 294-8432
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Steering Committee
N. Sherwani (Intel)
Program Committee Co-chairs:
Liang-Fang Chao (Iowa State U.) Yu Hen Hu (U. of Wisconsin)
Program Committee Members:
Jacob Abraham (U. of Texas, Austin)
Vishwani D. Agrawa (AT T Bell Labs)
Magdy A. Bayoumi (U. of Southwestern Louisiana)
Sreejit Chakravart (SUNY, Buffalo)
Mark Greenstreet (U. of British Columbia)
Larry Jones (Motorola)
David Knapp (Synopsys)
Keshab K. Parhi (U. of Minnesota)
Miodrag Potkonjak (C&C Research Labs., NEC)
Robert M. Owens (Penn State U.)
Alice Parker (U. of Southern California)
Irith Pomeranz (U. of Iowa)
Edwin Sha (U. of Notre Dame)
Naveed Sherwani (Intel)
Steve Trimberger (Xilinx)
D. F. Wong (U. of Texas, Austin)
Special Sessions Publicity
Sachin Sapatnekar (Iowa State U.) Marwan Hassoun (Iowa State U.)
Local Arrangements
Edward Lee (Iowa State U.) Akhilesh Tyagi (Iowa State U.)
Industrial Liasons
Delaine Sather (Rockwell) Jer-Jaw Hsu (Cadence)
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Contributed by: F. L. Lewis
THE 34TH IEEE CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL
New Orleans Hilton Riverside
New Orleans, Louisiana
December 13-15, 1995
ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION
The 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) will
take place 13-15 Dec. 1995 at the New Orleans Hilton Riverside, New
Orleans, Louisiana. Tutorial workshops will precede the conference
on Monday and Tuesday, December 11 and 12. The CDC is the annual
meeting of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), conducted in
cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
(SIAM) and the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA). The
IEEE Control Systems Society was founded in 1954 and today it has
over 12,500 members from 65 countries around the world; it is
dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of systems
and control.
This year's CDC General Chair is Panos J. Antsaklis of the
University Notre Dame, 219-631-5792, fax 219-631-4393,
antsaklis@nd.edu. The Program Chair is Edward W. Kamen of The
Georgia Institute of Technology, 404-894-2994, fax 404-853-9171,
kamen@ee.gatech.edu. Detailed information about the CDC is
available via ftp:
ftp.ecs.umass.edu
login anonymous
Change directory to: /pub/ece/CDC95/AdvProg
PROGRAM AND INFO ON 95CDC AVAILABLE AT WEB SITE
E. Sontag has placed the complete program and other CDC information (copied
from the FTP site previously announced by the organizers) into a Web site,
which may be more convenient for access than FTP. The URL is as follows:
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~sontag/95cdc.html
(Note that on non-graphic older terminals the command "lynx" may be used
instead of Mosaic or netscape in order to access Web sites.)
GENERAL INFORMATION
The city of New Orleans on the Mississippi river is well known
for its jazz music, entertainment, and unique cuisine. In New
Orleans, cultural influences from the French, Spaniards, Creole,
and Cajuns blend to create a truly unique atmosphere. The New
Orleans Hilton Riverside is located on the banks of the Mississippi
River immediately west of Canal Street. A short walk through a
landscaped Riverwalk brings one to the French Quarter, scene of New
Orleans' nightlife and musical history. A special hotel rate has
been negotiated of $110 for single or double rooms; tower rooms are
available at $145 per night.
The technical program includes 887 scientific paper
presentations in 137 sessions, covering topics in advanced control
analysis and design techniques, decision-making, and controller
implementation issues. Included are adaptive and robust control,
optimization, H-infinity and LQ techniques, nonlinear process
control, aerospace systems, intelligent control including neural
networks and fuzzy logic systems, manufacturing control, discrete
event systems, automotive control, intelligent transportation
systems, and other topics. This year the program has a new feature
consisting of a special industry track on Wednesday morning
focusing on the research needs of industry. The Proceedings will
be offered in print or on CD-ROM and are included in the
registration fee. Separate Copies of the Proceedings may be
obtained by contacting IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane,
Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA, 1-800-678-4333 (or 908-981-1393).
WORKSHOPS
Nine tutorial workshops will be offered the Monday and Tuesday
prior to the CDC, December 11 and 12. Workshop registration fees
include lecture notes. The workshop topics are:
1. "The Behavioral Approach to Systems and Control" (Monday and
Tuesday), J. C. Willems, J. C. Doyle.
2. "Variable Structure Control: Basic Theory and Applications"
(Monday), R. DeCarlo, S. Drakunov.
3. "Sensitivity Issues and Trends in System Theory" (Monday), M.
Eslami.
4. "Sensor-Referenced Control and Planning: Theory and
Applications" (Monday), T. J. Tarn, B. K. Ghosh, N. Xi.
5. "Design and Optimization of Manufacturing Systems: Modeling
Methodologies and Numerical Algorithms" (Monday), J.-M. Proth, Y.
Wardi.
6. "Automated Multivariable System Identification: Basic
Principles and Control Applications" (Tuesday), W. Larimore, N. J.
Kirkendall.
7. "Neuro-Fuzzy Systems for Modeling, Optimization and Control"
(Tuesday) G. Vachtsevanos, S. Chiu.
8. "Kohn-Nerode Approach to Multiple-Agent Hybrid Control"
(Tuesday), W. Kohn, J. James, A. Nerode.
9. "Robust Self-tuning Control Design and Industrial Applications"
(Tuesday), M. Grimble, J. Bentsman.
REGISTRATION
Advance registration for the CDC is highly recommended. The
Conference and Hotel Registration Forms are available from the ftp
site. The registration fee is $255 for IEEE/SIAM/ORSA members and
$325 for nonmembers if received prior to 3 Nov. After 3 Nov. the
fees are $320 for members and $420 for nonmembers. Student
registration is $85 for members and $110 for nonmembers.
Additional registration fees are charged for tutorial workshops
(approximately $120 for CDC attendees and $200 for nonattendees).
For more information contact Professor Cheryl B. Schrader
(schrader@voyager7.eng.utsa.edu, 210-691-5596, fax 210-691-5589).
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Contributed by: julia@hornet.onr.navy.mil
*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***
Data Compression Conference - DCC '96
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society TCCC
Snowbird, Utah -- April 1 - 3, 1996
____________________________________________________________________
All future information about DCC will be sent by email!
To be added to the email list, send email to:dcc@cs.brandeis.edu
For further info., see the web page: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~dcc
____________________________________________________________________
It is unfortunate that Passover (starting Wednesday evening, 4/3)
and Good Friday (4/5) are so close to the conference dates this
year; we were severely constrained by availability of the hotel. To
minimize the overlap, we have scheduled the Conference for Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday (with the conference ending early on Wednesday),
rather than the traditional Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and the
NASA and Industry Workshops have been combined on Thursday. This
does not happen often, and we have already reserved future DCC dates
that avoid these holidays.
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GENERAL CHAIR: J. Storer, Brandeis U.
PROGRAM CHAIR: M. Cohn, Brandeis U.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE: R. Arps (IBM), T. Bell (U. Canterbury),
J. Cleary (U. Waikato), M. Cohn (Brandeis U.), M. Effros (CalTech),
R. Giancarlo (U. Palermo), R. Gray (Stanford U.), P. Howard (AT&T),
G. Langdon (UC Santa Cruz), A. Lempel (Technion), R. Lindsay (Loral),
A. Moffat (U. Melbourne), M. Orchard (U. Illinois), J. Reif (Duke U.),
R. Renner (TRW), A. Rodriguez (Scientific Alanta),
E. Riskin (U. Washington), D. Sheinwald (IBM), J. Storer (Brandeis U.),
M. Vetterli (UC Berkeley), J. Villasenor (UCLA), I. Witten (U. Waikato),
K. Zeger (U. Illinois), J. Ziv (Technion).
THEME: An international forum for current work on data compression and
related areas. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Source
coding, quantization theory, parallel compression algorithms and hardware,
lossless and lossy compression algorithms for specific types of data
(including text, images, video, speech, music, maps, instrument data,
graphics, animation, and bit-maps), data compression standards, bi-level
coding, transform methods, wavelet and fractal techniques, string searching
and manipulation, closest-match retrieval, minimal length encoding and
applications to learning, system issues relating to data compression
(including error control, data security, indexing, and browsing), medical
imagery, scientific and space data.
SUBMISSIONS: Authors should send by surface mail (NOT fax or email) four
copies of an extended abstract of 8 to 10 pages (including affiliation,
address, phone number, and email address) by 11/10/95 to: Prof. Martin
Cohn, Computer Science Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254
questions can be sent to dcc@cs.brandeis.edu). Authors will be notified of
acceptance or rejection via email by 12/15/95. A final camera-ready draft
is due 1/15/96.
WORKSHOPS: On the day following the conference
is a Workshop on NASA and Industrial Applications;
contact Aaron Kiely (818-393-9480,aaron@shannon.jpl.nasa.gov)
or Rob Renner (310-812-4868, renner@spf.trw.com).
TRANSPORTATION / HOTEL: Delta Air Lines has special fares that do not
require Saturday night stay; call 800-241-6760 (File. No. HO562). The hotel
may be reached by limousine from Salt Lake City Airport (about $15.00).
Space is limited; rooms may NOT be available after February 1. Rooms are
$77 to $106 per night and may be occupied by up to 4 persons; dorm rooms
are $33. Call the Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, UT 84092, 800-453-3000 or
801-742-2222.
ADVANCE REGISTRATION: Includes registration reception (Sunday
evening), poster session reception (Tuesday afternoon), proceedings,
coffee breaks. The fee is $345 for IEEE or affiliate members, $395
for non-members, and $275 for students; there is an additional $100
late fee for all registrations after February 1. For registration
contact DCC Registration, Computer Science Dept., Brandeis U.,
Waltham, MA 02254
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Contributed by Jus Kocijan
Preliminary Programme and Registration Forms
1995 IFAC/IMACS
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
IN REAL-TIME CONTROL
Bled, Slovenia
November 29 - December 1, 1995
SCOPE
This workshop represents continuation of a series of 5 very
successful workshops and symposia in this field. The scope
includes the use of artificial intelligence in design,
implementation, testing, maintenance, supervision and monitoring
of real time control systems. The objective of the workshop is
to bring together control system specialists, artificial
intelligence specialists and end-users.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME:
Plenary Sessions
K.-E. Arzen (S) AI in the feedback,loop: a survey of
alternative approaches
I.Bratko (SLO) Transfer of control skill by
machine learning
R.Babuska (CZ),
H.B. Verbruggen (NL) Recent advances in fuzzy
modelling and control
P.F. Frank (D),
B. Koeppen-Seliger New developments using AI in
fault diagnosis
I.Grabec (SLO) Application of radila basis function
neural network to self-control
Regular Paper Sessions on the following topics:
* Expert system in real-time control
* Intelligent control systems modelling and simulation
* Artificial neural networks for identification and control
* Fuzzy control
* Fault detection and emergency control
* Intelligent control systems
* Intelligent robot control
Contributions:
The Technical Programme includes
* 5 plenary survey papers
* 7 regular paper sessions
* 2 poster sessions
PROGRAMME INFORMATION ADDRESS
AIRTC 1995
Dr. Jus Kocijan
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Ljubljana
Trzaska 25
61000 LJUBLJANA
Slovenia
E-mail: jus.kocijan@fer.uni-lj.si
Fax: +386 61 1264 631
Tel.: +386 61 1768 417
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INFORMATION ADDRESS
ALBATROS
Congress Tourist Agency
Ribenska 2
64260 BLED
Slovenia
Fax: +386 64 76 319
Tel.: +386 64 741 101
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Contributed by: Ashok Iyer (iyer@ee.unlv.edu)
CALL FOR PAPERS
ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS
9-11 July 1996
This series of International Conferences is jointly organized on a
rotational basis among the three Institutions, University of Nevada,
Las Vegas, USA, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland and Coventry
University, UK. The 11th International Conference on Systems Engineering
takes place at the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering, University
of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) on July 9-11, 1996
Scope of Conference
The Conference will cover the general area of Systems Engineering, with
particular emphasis being placed on applications. It is expected to
include sessions on the following themes.
Avionics
Computer Algorithms, Databases, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Networks
Control Theory, System Identification and Adaptive Control, Nonlinear
Controls
Engineered Systems for Nuclear Waste Management
Environmental Systems and Energy Systems
Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence
Geographic Information Systems
Global Position Systems
Information Theory and Communication Systems
Neural Network and Applications
Robotics and Industrial Automation
Signal Processing
Systems Engineering Education
Call For Papers
Authors wishing to contribute to the conference should send an abstract (6
copies) of their proposed contribution (approximately 1000 words) before
January 1, 1996. The abstract should be typed (double spaced) and
written in English. Refereeing of abstracts submitted before the
deadline date will take place on a regular basis. This will allow
early decisions to be taken and should assist authors in their
projected planning arrangements.
Call for Invited Sessions
The Program Committee is also soliciting proposals for invited
sessions before Jan. 1, 1996. Proposals should be submitted to
the conference secretary. Proposals should contain a complete
list of the authors, their addresses, titles and one page abstracts
of the paper, session title, and names and addresses of the
chairperson and the co-chairperson. The organizer should also
attach a cover letter describing the main theme of the proposed session.
Deadlines
Submission of Invited Sessions Jan. 1, 1996
Submission of Abstracts Jan. 1, 1996
Acceptance of papers Feb. 15, 1996
Submission of full papers Mar. 15, 1996
Conference Proceedings will be available for participants at the
conference. Consequently, deadlines for submission of papers should
be strictly respected.
Program Committee
Prof. William R. Wells (Conference Chair), UNLV
Prof. Ashok Iyer (Program Chair), UNLV
Prof. Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Monash University
Prof. Jo Dale Carothers, University of Arizona
Dr. Randy Clarksean, Argonne National Labs West
Prof. Sajal K. Das, University of North Texas
Prof. Ajoy Kumar Datta, UNLV
Dr. John T. Feddema, Sandia National Laboratory
Prof. Eric Johnson, New Mexico State University
Prof. Carl G. Looney, Univ. of Nevada, Reno
Dr. Muhilan Pandian, HRCES, UNLV
Prof. Young C. Shin, Purdue University
Prof. Sahjendra Singh, UNLV
Prof. Pradip K. Srimani, Colorado State University
Prof. Woosoon Yim, UNLV
Organizing Committee
Prof. William R. Wells, UNLV
Prof. Ashok Iyer, UNLV
Prof. Ajoy Kumar Datta, UNLV
Prof. Sahjendra Singh, UNLV
Prof. Woosoon Yim, UNLV
Journal Systems Science
Authors who are interested in having their papers considered for
publication in the Journal Systems Science, published in Poland
(in English) should submit a full paper to
Prof. J. Swaitek
Technical University of Wroclaw
Institute of Control and System Engineering
Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27
50-370 Wroclaw
Poland
Preliminary Arrangements
Conference fees, provisionally estimated at $250, include a copy of the
Conference Proceedings, the Conference Banquet, a Civic Reception
and lunch on the three conference days.
Participants will have the option of being accommodated in the University
dormitories at a nominal fee. The Conference fee is exclusive of
accommodation charges.
The working language of the Conference is English, which will be
used for all presentations, discussions and printed material.
A full social program for accompanying persons will be organized providing
sufficient numbers are interested in participating.
Abstracts and requests for further details should be sent to:
Conference Secretary
ICSE-96
Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV 89154-4005
Phone: (702) 895 3699
FAX: (702) 895 4059
email: icse96@egr.unlv.edu
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Contributed by Hitay Ozbay ozbay@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu
1996 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications
with
The IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control
and
The IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Aided
Control System Design
September 15 - 18, 1996
The Ritz-Carlton Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan, USA
Sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society
The Joint IEEE CCA/ISIC/CACSD will, for the first time, bring together
the annual International Conference on Control Applications (CCA), the
annual International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC), and the
bi-annual Symposium on Computer-Aided Control System Design
(CACSD). The general application theme for the conference is
automotive systems, although all aspects of control applications will
be featured. The four-day event, with eight parallel, full-day session
tracks intermingled between the three areas, is (tentatively)
structured as follows:
Sunday, Sept. 15: 3 CACSD tracks, 5 CCA/ISIC Workshops (in parallel)
Monday, Sept. 16: 3 CCA, 3 CACSD, 2 ISIC tracks (in parallel)
Tuesday, Sept. 17: 4 CCA, 2 CACSD, 2 ISIC tracks (in parallel)
Wednesday, Sept. 18: 4 CCA, 4 ISIC tracks (in parallel)
There will be one registration fee for the entire event.
Operating committee members are:
General Chair: Prof. Stephen Yurkovich (The Ohio State University)
Registration Chair: Prof. Pradeep Misra (Wright State University)
Finance Chair: Prof. E. Barbieri (Tulane University)
Publications Chair: Prof. O. Gonzalez (Old Dominion University)
Exhibits Chair: T. Robbins (Prentice-Hall)
Local Arrangements Chair: Prof. L. Hideg (Lawrence Tech. University)
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5th IEEE International Conference on Control Applications
CCA General Chair: Prof. Stephen Yurkovich, The Ohio State University
CCA Program Chair: Dr. Jim Winkelman, Ford Motor Company
CCA Program Vice-Chair: Dr. George Ianculescu, Rockwell International
CCA Publicity Chair: Prof. Hitay Ozbay, The Ohio State University
For general information, contact
Prof. Stephen Yurkovich, Department of Electrical Engineering,
The Ohio State Univ., 2015 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH, 43210,
Tel: 614-292-2586, Fax: 614-292-7596, Email: s.yurkovich@ieee.org.
Appropriate Topics for CCA:
Adaptive control, Nonlinear control, Sliding mode control,
System identification, Fault tolerance, Man/machine interface,
Fuzzy or Neural control, Expert systems, Distributed systems,
Physiological systems, Target tracking, Robust control,
Sensor-based control, Data fusion systems, Power electronics
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11th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control
ISIC Organizing Chair: Prof. Kevin M. Passino, The Ohio State University
ISIC Program Chair: Prof. Jay A. Farrell, Univ. of California, Riverside
ISIC Publicity Chair: Prof. Marios Polycarpou, University of Cincinnati
For general information, contact
Prof. Kevin M. Passino, Department of Electrical Engineering,
The Ohio State University, 2015 Neil Ave. Columbus, OH 43210-1272,
Tel: 614-292-5716, Fax: 614-292-7596, Email: passino@osu.edu.
Appropriate Topics for ISIC:
Architectures, Hierarchical intelligent control,
Distributed intelligent systems, Modeling intelligent systems,
Nonlinear analysis, Knowledge-based systems, Fuzzy systems/fuzzy
control, Neural networks/neural control,
Genetic algorithms / learning=B7 Applications / Implementations
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IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Aided Control System Design
CACSD Organizing Chair: Prof. Grantham Pang, University of Waterloo
CACSD Program Chair: Prof. Georg Gruebel, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen
CACSD Publicity Chair: Dr. John James, Sagent Corporation
For general information, contact
Prof. Grantham Pang,
Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Engr., University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA N2L 3G1.
Tel: 519-885-1211(ext. 3994), Fax: 519-746-3077,
Email: pang@excel2.uwaterloo.ca.
Appropriate Topics for CACSD:
Algorithms for CACSD, Software Tools for CACSD,
System Modeling and Simulation, Control System Design Methodology,
Symbolic & Numerical Computation, Data Structures for CACSD,
CACSD Support Environments, Intelligent controller design,
Design of Automotive Systems, Hybrid/Discrete-event/Real-time Systems
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Proceedings and Submissions: Conference registrants will receive the
Proceedings from all three meetings, and authors will essentially
choose the individual Proceedings volume for their paper according to
whom their submission is sent.
Submissions should identify the corresponding author, telephone, fax
and email information, and full mailing address. Organizers of invited
sessions must contact the Program Chair (see below) by Jan. 1, 1996 to
obtain information on the required invited session proposal
format. Five copies of regular papers, and invited session proposal
packages (in the proper format) are due Jan. 22, 1996, and should be
sent to the Program Chairs:
CCA Submissions (due January 22, 1996):
Dr. Jim Winkelman
Ford Motor Company
17000 Rotunda Drive, Room B-325
Dearborn, MI 48121-6010
Tel: 313-323-9135, Fax: 313-337-1768
ISIC Submissions (due January 22, 1996):
Prof. Jay A. Farrell
College of Engineering
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
Tel: 909-787-2159, Fax: 909-787-3188
Email: jay_farrell@qmail.ucr.edu
CACSD Submissions (due January 22, 1996):
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Gruebel
DLR Oberpfaffenhofen Institute for Robotics and System Dynamics
Postfach 11 16, D-82230 Wessling
GERMANY
Tel: (+49) 81 53-28-2484, Fax: (+49) 81 53-28-1441
Email: georg.gruebel@dlr.de
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Contributed by: Sabine Van Huffel
2nd International Workshop on
TLS and ERRORS-IN-VARIABLES MODELING
August 21--24, 1996
Leuven, Belgium
Announcement and Call for Papers
This interdisciplinary workshop is a continuation of a previous workshop
on ``Total Least Squares: Concepts, Algorithms, Applications'' which was
held in Leuven, Belgium, August 1991, and aims to bring together numerical
analysts, statisticians, engineers, economists, chemists, etc. in order to
discuss recent advances in Total Least Squares (TLS) techniques and
errors-in-variables modeling.
Papers are solicited for technical sessions on the following and related
topics:
TLS Concepts and Properties: structured and constrained TLS, other norms,
nonlinear errors-in-variables, curve fitting, statistical, numerical,
robustness and optimization aspects
TLS Algorithms: real-time, adaptive, recursive, iterative algorithms, based
on SVD or related decompositions, architectures, complexity, accuracy,
regularization, convergence
TLS Applications: array signal processing, model identification, spectrum
analysis, harmonic retrieval, direction finding, geology, chemistry
In particular, overview papers describing recent advances on any of the
above-mentioned topics are invited. Other topics related to TLS,
errors-in-variables modeling, and their applications are also welcome.
Authors are invited to submit four copies of an extended summary (2--4
pages)
to the workshop secretariat for review. Fax number and email should be
provided if possible. Overview papers will be presented as lecture, the
other ones in poster form. Authors of accepted contributions will be asked
to prepare a version for publication in the conference proceedings.
Submission of summary: February 15, 1996
Notification of Acceptance: April 1, 1996
Submission of camera-ready paper: July 1, 1996
Conference committee: Sabine Van Huffel (chairperson), Bart De Moor, Wayne
Fuller, Leon Gleser, Gene Golub, Bjorn Ottersten, Pete Stewart
Workshop secretariat: Ida Tassens
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, ESAT/SISTA,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Kardinaal Mercierlaan 94, B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee, Belgium
tel : 32/16/32.17.09 fax : 32/16/32.19.86
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