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Call for Nomination: 2002 CSS Awards

Contributed by: Panos Antsaklis, antsaklis.1@nd.edu

Calls for Nominations for the 2002 CSS Awards

The society offers four major awards each year in addition to the two
student conference paper awards. Brief descriptions of these four
awards and calls for nominations are included below.  Further
information on Control Systems Society sponsored awards can be
obtained from the IEEE Control Systems Society Awards web page:
http://www.ieeecss.org/awards/. Note that it is now possible to
also submit nominations using the on-line nominations forms available
on the web, which are accessible from the CSS Awards web page.

CSS Technology Award
Nominations are solicited for the 2002 IEEE Control Systems
Technology Award.  This annual award is given for outstanding
contributions to control systems technology, either in design and
implementation or in project management.  It may be conferred on
either an individual or a team.  The award is presented at the annual
CSS awards ceremonies held at the IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control.  The deadline for nominations is 15 May, 2002.  Please send
nominations, together with supporting documentation, to the Chair of
the CSS Technology Award Committee, Dr. Suresh M. Joshi, Mail Stop
161, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681, USA, Tel: 757 864
6608, Fax: 757 864 7797, s.m.joshi@larc.nasa.gov

George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award
Every year, the CSS presents up to three outstanding paper awards to
authors of papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic
Control during the preceding two calendar years.  This outstanding
paper award is based on originality, potential impact on the
theoretical foundations of control, importance and practical
significance in applications, and clarity.  The award is named after
George S. Axelby, founding editor of the Transactions.  Nominations
are solicited for the 2002 award from papers published in IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control from January 2000 through December
2001 (Volumes 45 and 46).  The award is presented at the annual CSS
awards ceremonies held at the IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control.  The deadline for nominations is 15 May, 2002.  Nominations
should be sent to the Chair of the Axelby Award Committee, Professor
Abraham Haddad, ECE Dept. (L352), Northwestern University, Evanston,
IL 60208-3118, Tel 847 491 3641, Fax 847 491 4455,
ahaddad@ece.northwestern.edu

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award
This annual award is selected among papers that appeared in IEEE
Transactions on Control Systems Technology during the previous two
years, 2000-2001 (Volumes 8 and 9), based on originality, relevance
of the application, clarity of exposition, and demonstrated impact on
control systems technology.  At most one award per year is presented
at the annual CSS awards ceremonies held at the IEEE Conference on
Decision and Control.  The award consists of a plaque (one for each
author).  The deadline for nominations is 15 May, 2002.  Nominations
should be sent to the Chair of the TCST Outstanding Paper Award
Committee, Professor Mark Spong, Coordinated Science Lab., 1308 West
Main St., University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, Tel: 217 333
4281, Fax: 217 244 1653, spong@lagrange.csl.uiuc.edu

IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award
This annual award is selected from articles and columns that appeared
in IEEE Control Systems Magazine during the previous two years,
2000-2001 (Volumes 20 and 21), based on the impact on and benefit to
CSS members.  At most one award per year is presented at the annual
CSS awards ceremonies held at the IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control.  The award consists of a plaque (one for each author).  The
deadline for nominations is 15 May, 2002.  Nominations should be sent
to the Chair of the CSM Outstanding Paper Award Committee, Professor
Stephen Yurkovich, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Ohio
State University, 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1272, USA,
Tel: 614 292 2586, Fax 614 292 7596, email: yurkovich.1@osu.edu


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2002 UKACC Lecture Series

Contributed by: Sophie Curwen, scurwen@iee.org.uk

2002 UKACC Annual Lecture Series

The annual UKACC Lecture will take place on Tuesday, 30 April at the IMechE, 
London.  Starting at 6pm, the talk on ‘Using System Dynamics Modelling to 
Understand and Address the Systemic Issues on Complex Engineering Projects‘ 
will be given by Dr David Stupples, Senior Partner at PA Consulting Group.  
Full details are can be found here:

http://www.iee.org/OnComms/pn/controlconcepts/Lecture.cfm.

The Lecture is free and guests are very welcome.


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3.2 6th Workshop on Dynamics and Computation Belgium

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6th Workshop on Dynamics and Computation, Belgium

Contributed by: Vincent Blondel, blondel@inma.ucl.ac.be

                     Call For Participation
             6th Workshop on Dynamics and Computation
                 FROM ROBOTICS TO QUANTUM CONTROL
                        Brussels, Belgium
                         July 1-2, 2002
               http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/dynamics/

OVERVIEW
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together students and researchers
from the computer science, dynamical systems, and control communities on
the general theme of dynamic manipulation.

The first day of the workshop will be an introductory minicourse by 
Professor Roger Brockett (Harvard University, USA). The second day will
consist of invited talks. All talks will be in tutorial format and informal
discussions between the participants will be encouraged throughout the two
days.

This is the sixth in a series of annual workshops held in Belgium
on topics related to dynamical systems. The goal of this series is
to gather researchers from different disciplines around the general
theme of dynamical systems in a casual and informal athmosphere,
see http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~blondel/workshops/ for previous editions.

PROGRAM
July 1. One day introductory minicourse:
- Roger Brockett, Harvard University (USA).
  Dynamical systems as computers: quantum mechanical and neuronal realizations
July 2. Invited lectures by:
- P. Rouchon, Ecole des Mines de Paris (France).
  Flatness based motion planning of quantum oscillators
- K. Lynch, Northwestern University (USA).
  Control Issues in Underactuated Robotic Manipulation
- U. Helmke, Wuerzburg University (Germany).
  Optimization on Lie Groups: Applications in NMR Spectroscopy
- Y. Chitour (TBC), Université de Paris-Sud (France)
  Manipulation of rolling bodies : continuous and discrete problems
- G. Turicini, Inria Rocquencourt (France).
  Quantum control: from controllability to algorithms

REGISTRATION
There are no registration fees. Registration is by email. If you wish
to participate in the workshop, please send your name and surname,
affiliation and email address to dynamics@inma.ucl.ac.be. The closing
date for registrations is June 15th, 2002.

VENUE
The workshop will be held in central Brussels (Belgium). Details about 
the exact location will be available in April.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Vincent Blondel, University of Louvain, Belgium
Pierre Rouchon, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France
Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Liege, Belgium


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3.3 Control Training Site - Summer School

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Control Training Site - Summer School

Contributed by: F. Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, lamnabhi@lss.supelec.fr

Summer School on Mathematical Control Theory
Warsaw, Poland
2-20 September 2002

In the framework of the Control Training Site (CTS), three to twelve months of
full fellowship support are available for any doctoral student who is a
national of a Member State of the European Community or an Associated State.
The host research teams are the ones listed on the CTS Web page
http://www.supelec.fr/lss/CTS 

In particular, any CTS-fellow will have the opportunity to attend the Summer
School on Mathematical Control Theory, Warsaw, 2-20 September 2002, Poland
http://www.impan.gov.pl/BC/02Control.html


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3.4 International Workshop on Uncertain Dynamical Systems

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International Workshop on Uncertain Dynamical Systems

Contributed by: Constantino Lagoa, lagoa@engr.psu.edu

              IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control
          International Workshop on UNCERTAIN DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
                         July 18-20 2002. 

The workshop will commence immediately prior to the opening of the 
15th World Congress of IFAC in  Barcellona, Spain and will be held at 
Hotel Cidadela, Cascais, Portugal, during the period July 18-20 2002.
 
SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP
The International Workshop on UNCERTAIN DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS at Cascais 
('02) continues a tradition  of approximately half a dozen workshops, 
spanning two decades from Tegernsee ('84) to  Hong Kong ('99).   The
workshop brings together  leading researchers in a format  combining 
tutorials, invited contributions and  opportunities for   discussion.   
The earliest workshops were held to promote  research  on parametric 
robust control  and  have  more  recently  broadened  to reflect the 
changing face of research in uncertain systems.     For example, the 
tutorials at Hong Kong ('99) covered  topics ranging from randomized 
algorithms  to  multirate systems.   The workshop objective  is   to 
support the scope of the IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control

Scope:   Robust control system analysis and design, robust stability, 
and the connection between model  quality and guaranteed performance 
bounds for feedback systems.   Includes computational issues related
to complexity and solvability of robust controllers  as  well as the 
interaction   and  compromise  between  problem   specification  and 
achievable performance. Considers the relationships between modeling,
identification,  model   quality,   and   eventual  feedback control 
behavior.

OUTLINE
The workshop will consist of five tutorial lectures and 23 invited 
presentations. 

Tutorial Lectures:
- Advances in Robust Synthesis for Multivariable Control
  M. Athans, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal and M.I.T., USA
- A Short History of Robust Control
  Peter Dorato, University of New Mexico
- To be announced
  A.A. Stoorvogel, Delft University of Technology 
- The Curse of the Continuum and How to Avoid It
  A. S. Morse, Yale University
- Robust Model Predictive Control
  D. Q. Mayne, Imperial College, London.
             
ASSOCIATED TECHNICAL EVENTS
Mediterranean Control Conference 2002, Lisbon; 9 - 12 July
IFAC 15th World Congress, 2002, Barcelona Spain; 21 - 26 July

GENERAL INFORMATION
The preliminary program, as well as registration and accommodation
information, is available at
http://eeilserv.ee.psu.edu/lagoa/workshop/

Constantino Lagoa
 Local Organizer
Franco Blanchini         
 Workshop Chair
Christopher V. Hollot
 Chair of IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control


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3.5 Matlab Toolbox for Model-on-Demand

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Matlab Toolbox for Model-on-Demand

Contributed by: Daniel E. Rivera, daniel.rivera@asu.edu

Matlab Toolbox for Model-on-Demand for Estimation and Control

Model-on-Demand (MoD) is a scalable, "data-mining" technology inspired
by ideas from local modeling and database systems technology.  Local models
generated by the MoD predictor rely on subsets of data, relevant to the
region of interest, to determine a model as needed.  Joint research efforts
in the Division of Automatic Control at Linköping University, Sweden, and
the Control Systems Engineering Laboratory at Arizona State University have
shown that a MoD-based identification approach can provide performance
rivaling that of global models (such as nonlinear ARX models, wavelets,
fuzzy models, and neural networks) while requiring substantially less
detailed knowledge of model structure from the user and involving much 
more reliable numerical computations. MoD-based Model Predictive Control
(MoDMPC) incorporates the features of many modern MPC formulations and
offers nonlinear control performance without demanding a sophisticated
nonlinear dynamic modeling exercise.

We are pleased to announce the release of a Model-on-Demand Estimation/
Model-on-Demand Model Predictive Control Toolbox for MATLAB.  The toolbox
is available free of charge from the ASU-CSEL website. Program requirements
and instructions for requesting the software can be found in 
http://www.eas.asu.edu/~csel/ under the Software frame.  The package
includes:
 * An interactive GUI for visualization and validation of MoD models 
 * A Simulink library of MoDMPC controllers 
 * A context sensitive web-based help file
   (http://www.eas.asu.edu/~csel/guihelp/help.html)
 * A step-by-step web-based demo file
   (http://www.eas.asu.edu/~csel/guihelp/demo.html)
The package allows researchers and practitioners a flexible, user-friendly 
means for evaluating data-centric nonlinear models and controllers, starting 
from identification data and culminating in easy-to-use Simulink control 
blocks for closed-loop simulation studies.  Papers and citations on the
principles behind the toolbox can be found at:
 http://www.eas.asu.edu/~csel/pubs.htm 
 http://www.control.isy.liu.se/publications/  (search under the name Stenman)

Additional information on the toolbox can be obtained either by contacting 
Martin W. Braun (martin.braun@asu.edu) or
Daniel E. Rivera (daniel.rivera@asu.edu)


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3.6 Request for Tutorial Workshop Proposals: ISIC 03

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Request for Tutorial Workshop Proposals: ISIC 03

Contributed by: Kevin L. Moore, moorek@ece.usu.edu

Proposals are solicited for full-day and half-day tutorial workshops to be 
held in conjunction with the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent 
Control (ISIC'03), to be held Oct 5-8, 2003 at the Westin Galleria in Houston 
Texas. Workshops will be held on Sunday, Oct. 5. Workshops that would be of 
attractive to practicing engineers are of particular interest, as are 
workshops on the topics of embedded software for complex systems,  NN/fuzzy 
control, distributed intelligence, and industrial applications of intelligent 
control. Proposals for ISIC'03 workshops should be sent electronically to 
 Kevin Moore 
 ISIC'03 Workshop Chair
 moorek@ece.usu.edu
and should include the following: (1) title for the proposed workshop;
(2) suggested workshop length (half-day or full-day); (3) list of
presenters; (4) brief (one sentence) statement of the workshop goal;
(5) brief (one paragraph) synopsis of the workshop content; and
(6) outline of major topics.


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3.7 Requirements Specification in Imaging Systems

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Requirements Specification in Imaging Systems

Contributed by: Colin Neill, cjn6@psu.edu

Dear Colleague:

The Advanced Software Engineering Group at Penn State University, Great 
Valley Graduate Center is conducting research on a broad range of issues 
involving best practices in Software Requirements Specification. Because a 
high rate of response from qualified individuals is needed to insure the 
accuracy of the results, your participation in this survey is respectfully 
requested. It will only take you approximately 7 minutes to complete the 
survey. It can be found at:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/cjn6/survey.html

If you would like to receive updates and survey results, please include your 
contact information at the end of the survey. In any case, your individual 
responses will be as confidential as the Internet allows.

Thank you in advance for your participation. Please direct any questions you 
have to:
 Dr. Phillip A. Laplante (plaplante@psu.edu)
 Dr. Colin J. Neill (cjn6@psu.edu)


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3.8 Seminar: Integrated Building Control

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Seminar: Integrated Building Control

Contributed by: Sophie Curwen, scurwen@iee.org.uk

IEE Seminar - Open systems technologies for integrated building control
Wednesday 15 May, Birmingham, UK

This meeting will aim to bring together proponents of different protocols - 
both suppliers and end users - from various sides of the building services 
industry in order to compare the different approaches and explore possible 
areas of convergence. This is an event of great importance to anyone with an 
interest in the rapidly expanding Building Automation sector.
More info can be found at: http://www.iee.org/Events/c15may02.cfm


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3.9 Short Course: Dyn Traffic Flow Modelling and Control

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Short Course: Dyn Traffic Flow Modelling and Control

Contributed by: Markos Papageorgiou, markos@dssl.tuc.gr

Technical University of Crete
Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory
Chania 73100, Greece

DYNAMIC TRAFFIC FLOW MODELLING AND CONTROL
http://www2.dssl.tuc.gr/en/ShortCourse/4thShortCourse.htm

Lecturer:	Prof. Markos Papageorgiou
Date:		27-31 May 2002
Location:	Chania (Crete), Greece
Fee:		1.200 EURO (for graduate students: 800 EURO )
(20% reduction is granted in case of more than one participation from the 
same institution)

Scope
The design, analysis, and evaluation of Intelligent Transportation Systems 
(ITS) requires a good knowledge of traffic flow modelling and control 
techniques as well as of powerful methodologies from the areas of 
optimisation, control, networks, and dynamic systems. The purpose of the 
intensive 5-day course is to cover the basic theory and tools necessary for 
efficient design and evaluation of ITS on highway networks. The course will 
begin with traffic flow modelling and validation that includes a coverage of 
the various traffic flow models, the modelling of traffic networks, and 
simulation tools. Measurement devices and estimation problems in traffic 
networks, that include automatic incident detection and O-D estimation, will 
be presented and discussed. The state-of-the art techniques on freeway 
control, road traffic control, and integrated control employing ramp 
metering, signal control, and route guidance via application of modern 
optimisation, control, and estimation techniques, together with several case 
studies will be presented. Some 40 exercises will be used for consolidation 
of the provided knowledge. Extensive written material, including all 
transparency copies, will be handed out.

Who Should Attend
Graduate students, engineers, researchers, consultants, and government 
employees who are interested in improving their understanding of advanced 
traffic flow modelling and control tools and in becoming familiar with their 
application in ITS. 

For More Information
To take more information (Detailed Course Contents, About the Lecturer, Fee 
and Registration Form, Location, Accommodation, Evaluation of previous 
courses) please visit the site 
http://www2.dssl.tuc.gr/en/ShortCourse/4thShortCourse.htm


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3.10 Summer School on Nonsmooth Dynamics

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Summer School on Nonsmooth Dynamics

Contributed by: Bernard Brogliato, Bernard.Brogliato@inrialpes.fr

Call for Participation
Summer School on Non-Smooth Dynamics
Lyon, France

A summer school on Non-smooth Dynamics (with an emphasis on Nonsmooth
Mechanical Systems) will be organised in the French Alpes during the first
week of June 2002. Most of the speakers (if not all) will speak in English.
All the informations (contents, speakers, registration, fees, etc) can
be found at 
http://maply.univ-lyon1.fr/dynimpact


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3.11 Workshop: Fault Detection and Isolation in NL Systems

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Workshop: Fault Detection and Isolation in NL Systems

Contributed by: Michel Kinnaert, kinnaert@labauto.ulb.ac.be

Workshop on Fault Detection and Isolation in Nonlinear Systems

A one-day Tutorial Workshop will be organized on July 20, 2002 during the 
15th IFAC World Congress to be held in Barcelona, Spain 
(http://www.ifac2002.org/).

Workshop goal
To give an overview of the recent developments in the area of model-based 
fault detection and isolation for nonlinear systems with a view to predictive 
maintenance, advanced process monitoring, or fault tolerant control. 
 
Synopsis of the workshop
Automatic fault detection and isolation (FDI) systems aim at detecting 
process malfunction, determining the faulty components and possibly the 
importance of the faults.   Such systems can be applied to condition based 
maintenance,  as advanced on-line monitoring systems or in fault tolerant 
control. The basic idea behind model based FDI is to check, either on-line or 
off-line, whether measured process data exhibit the behavior corresponding to 
a model of the process in normal (or fault free) working mode.  When a change 
from nominal operation is detected, methods based on parameter tracking, on 
distance measures between data and models of potential faulty behaviors, or 
on disturbance rejection can be used for fault isolation.  To be able to 
detect incipient faults, accurate models that are valid in the whole process 
working range (including set point changes and faulty working modes) are 
needed.  One often has to resort to nonlinear models  to achieve this goal.  
Such models can take different forms: 
- Analytical models based on physical laws in which the unknown 
  parameters are identified from process measurements.  Bilinear models and 
  nonlinear systems that are observable for any input can be considered as 
  specific classes of such models.
- Black box models like neural networks, Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models,...

In the morning lectures, FDI methods based essentially on the first class of 
models are considered.  They resort to a combination of so-called residual 
generators and statistical change detection and isolation tests.  The latter 
are presented at the beginning of the lecture, and their use for residual 
evaluation is explained for each type of residual generator.  Various 
illustrative examples are provided.  In the afternoon lectures, methods for 
FDI based on the second class of models are presented and illustrated on 
industrial data.  A way to embed a fault detection, estimation and isolation 
system into a controller so that fault accommodation is achieved is also 
explained.

List of workshop presenters : 
Michel Kinnaert, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Thomas Parisini, University of Trieste, Italy
Ron J. Patton, The University of Hull, UK
Marios M. Polycarpou, University of Cincinnati, USA
Silvio Simani, University of Ferrara, Italy
Qinghua Zhang, IRISA-INRIA, France

For more details, please visit
http://www.ifac2002.org/advprogram//tutorials/tw7.htm


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Director ISR, Univ of Maryland, USA

Contributed by: Eyad H. Abed, abed@isr.umd.edu

Applications/nominations are invited for the ISR Director position. The
Director provides academic/administrative leadership for ISR. ISR was
established by a 1985 National Science Foundation grant as one of six
original Engineering Research Centers.  Now a regularly budgeted institute,
it is a joint activity involving six UM colleges. ISR has 43 joint
appointment faculty and 260 graduate students conducting research on
intelligent control, signal processing/communications,
manufacturing/transportation systems, and information technology through 14
labs. ISR has active programs in cross-disciplinary education,
university/industrial liaison, and offers an MS in Systems Engineering.
Annual revenues exceed $15M.

Candidates should have a doctorate and be eligible for senior faculty
appointment in a participating department. The new Director will provide
intellectual leadership to identify new research directions, coordinate
emerging programmatic opportunities with faculty interests and organize
efforts to develop project funding from government/industry.  Applications
should include a Curriculum Vitae and names, addresses, and telephone
numbers of at least four references.  For best consideration,
applications/nominations should be received by May 1, 2002.  Send to Dr.
George E. Dieter, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742.
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4.2 Faculty: Concordia Univ Canada

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Faculty: Concordia Univ, Canada

Contributed by: Chun-Yi Su, cysu@me.concordia.ca

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Concordia University
Montreal, PQ, Canada

The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Concordia 
University is inviting applications for full-time tenure-track faculty 
positions at the Assistant or Associate Professor level.  The areas of 
interest include, but are not limited to: design, manufacturing, materials, 
aerospace, controls, vehicles,thermo-fluids, and industrial engineering. 
Strong information technology and computer expertise will be considered an 
asset. Preferred starting date: June 1, 2002.

The Department offers accredited B.Eng., M.Eng, M.A.Sc, and Ph.D. programs in 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering as well as an M.Eng. program in
Aerospace Engineering. The Department has well established and well funded 
faculty research activities with three strong research centers focusing on 
Industrial Control, Vehicle Engineering and Composites and an Institute for 
Aerospace Design and Innovation which is supported by the major aerospace 
industries in Montreal. Faculty members in the Department have close 
relationships with local industry and their strong research activities enjoy 
excellent support from manufacturing and other industries in Montreal and 
surrounding areas. Further information about the Department can be obtained 
from our web site: http://www.me.concordia.ca/ 

Candidates should have a Bachelor’s and a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical or 
Industrial Engineering, or in a related discipline. Knowledge of state of the 
art tools in the field is considered essential. The successful candidate is 
expected to provide strong leadership in his/her discipline, conduct
research, teach undergraduate courses and teach/develop graduate courses
in his/her area of expertise. Industrial experience and knowledge of French
will be considered assets. Membership or eligibility for membership in the
professional engineering association in Quebec or another Canadian province
is an essential requirement. 

Applications should consist of a letter of intent, a curriculum vitae, a list 
of publications, a statement of research and teaching interests, and three 
letters of reference. Review of applications will continue until positions
are filled. Applications should be sent as soon as possible to: 

Dr. R. Bhat, Professor and Chair 
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 
Concordia University, Room H549 
1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West 
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8 

or e-mail to mieng@vax2.concordia.ca. 

This advertisement is simultaneously directed to Canadian citizens, permanent 
residents of Canada and non-Canadians. In accordance with Canadian immigration
requirements, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent 
residents. Concordia University is committed to Employment Equity and 
encourages applications from women, aboriginal peoples, visible minorities, 
and disabled persons.


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4.3 Faculty: Florida Atlantic Univ USA

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Faculty: Florida Atlantic Univ, USA

Contributed by: Alexander Leonessa, aleo@seatech.fau.edu

The Department of Ocean Engineering
Florida Atlantic University 

The Department of Ocean Engineering at Florida Atlantic University is 
expanding, and several tenure track faculty positions are available.  A focus 
is being placed in filling these positions with individuals whose experience 
and expertise pertain to one or more of the following areas: ocean 
engineering, underwater acoustics, oceanography, fluid mechanics, signal 
processing, and underwater vehicles. The Department offers BS, MS, and Ph.D. 
degree programs in Ocean Engineering with specialization at the graduate 
level in acoustics, autonomous underwater vehicles, fluid mechanics, and 
marine materials and corrosion.  The faculty is committed to funded research 
programs in the above areas. 

The Department invites applications for tenure track positions at both the 
junior and senior levels from individuals with an earned doctorate in 
engineering or related sciences and who possess a strong capability in and an 
affinity for research and a commitment to teaching excellence in disciplines 
relevant to the applicant’s expertise.  For details of the FAU Ocean 
Engineering programs, please visit http://www.oe.fau.edu.  

To receive consideration, applicants should submit a complete resume and the 
names of at least three references to Paula Behul, Director of Equal 
Opportunity Programs, Administration Building Room 291, Florida Atlantic 
University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991.  Screening of 
applications will begin on April 1, 2002 and continue until the positions are 
filled.  Florida Atlantic University is an Equal 
Opportunity/Access/Affirmative Action Institution.


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4.4 Faculty: Iowa State Univ USA

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Faculty: Iowa State Univ, USA

Contributed by: Murti V. Salapaka, murti@iastate.edu

Faculty Position in Control and Dynamical Systems
Electrical Engineering Department
Iowa State University

There is a faculty position open in the Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Department in the control and dynamical systems area. Hiring at all levels 
will be considered. Further information can be obtained at 
http://www3.ee.iastate.edu/deptinfo/newsevents/positions.htm.

An electronic submission can be made by emailing required documents to 
murti@iastate.edu


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4.5 Faculty: Univ of Arizona USA

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Faculty: Univ of Arizona, USA

Contributed by: Eniko T. Enikov, Enikov@engr.arizona.edu

Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor—Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

The Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering invites applications 
and nominations for tenure track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant, 
Associate or Full Professor.  Senior positions will be considered for 
applicants with exceptional stature and professional record.  Applicants in 
all areas of mechanical and aerospace engineering will be considered but 
preference will be given to candidates with expertise in biomedical 
engineering, controls, MEMS, nanotechnology, optical engineering, and space 
exploration.  Candidates with expertise at the interface of two or more of 
these areas are especially encouraged to apply.  The Department offers 
excellent opportunities to interact with the Arizona Health Sciences Center, 
the Optical Sciences Center, and the Department of Planetary Sciences, all of 
which enjoy international recognition as centers for cutting-edge research 
and world-class academic programs.  Successful candidates will be expected to 
teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels and to establish active 
research programs.  Required qualifications are a Ph.D. degree in Aerospace 
and Mechanical Engineering or closely related discipline, and demonstrated 
research potential or accomplishments.  Previous teaching experience is 
desirable.  Review of materials will begin March 29, 2002 and will continue 
until the positions are filled.  Please submit a cover letter including a 
statement of professional interests and goals, curriculum vitae, and names 
and contact information of three professional references to: 

Prof. John G. Williams, Chair 
AME Faculty Search Committee
 The University of Arizona
 1130 N. Mountain
 P.O. Box 210119
 Tucson, AZ 85721-0119

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4.6 PDF: National Chiao-Tung Univ Taiwan

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PDF: National Chiao-Tung Univ, Taiwan

Contributed by: Prof. Lon-Kou Chang, lkchang@cc.nctu.edu.tw

National Chiao-Tung Uni.
Electrical and Control Eng.

This Post-Doctoral position is supported by NSC, Taiwan, for four years.
The research subjects are in the areas of 
(i)  Power Electronics in switching power supply design and 
     soft switching design.
(ii) High Voltage/High Current Power IC Design.

Start Date: May start from 2002/4/1

For more informations and contact

Lon-Kou Chang
Associated Professor
Department of Electrical and Control Engineering
National Chiao Tung University
1001 Ta Hsueh Road, Hsinchu, 300-10
Taiwan, R.O.C.


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4.7 PDF: Oregon Health and Science Univ USA

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PDF: Oregon Health and Science Univ, USA

Contributed by: Eric A. Wan, ericwan@ece.ogi.edu

The OGI School or Science and Engineering at OHSU has an opening for a 
post-doctoral research associate to participate in an interdisciplinary UAV 
controls project.  

Project overview:
This project involves the design and implementation of nonlinear 
reconfigurable controllers that exploit the coupled dynamics between a 
vehicle model (e.g., helicopter) and adaptive models of the environment. New 
model-predictive control techniques are developed to perform on-line 
optimization of vehicle control trajectories under dynamic and situational
constraints. 

Now entering the 3rd year of this project, the main focus is on 1) increased 
simulation realism for ship-based VTOL, and 2) demonstration of the 
approaches using an instrumented RC helicopter.  The successful candidate
will work closely with an interdisciplinary team of software and control
engineers, with specific responsibility for various aspects pertaining to
vehicle and aerodynamic modeling, and system integration.

Home page: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/PacSoft/projects/sec/

Requirements: Candidate should have a Ph.D. with strong expertise in flight 
dynamics modeling for rotorcraft, including rotor and airframe aerodynamics.  
A background in control fundamentals, and hardware experience is also
desired. Salary range $45,000 - $55,000 plus benefits.

Location:  OHSU's OGI School of Science and Engineering campus is in 
Hillsboro, Oregon, approximately 11 miles west of downtown Portland.

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4.8 PDF: Univ of Barcelona Spain

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PDF: Univ of Barcelona, Spain

Contributed by: Santiago Marco, santi@el.ub.es

PDF Position on signal procesing for smart instrumentation
University of Barcelona,
Spain

A post doc position at the Department of Electronics of the University of 
Barcelona is available. The contract could be up to 5 years long. Research 
would be mainly centered in signal processing for electronic noses: signal 
classification, multivariate regression, drift rejection methods, signal 
detection, etc. Please contact as soon as possible.


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4.9 PhD Position: Computational Methods for Active Flow Control UK

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PhD Position: Computational Methods for Active Flow Control, UK

Contributed by: K.G. Woodgate, k.woodgate@ic.ac.uk

Applications are invited for a three-year PhD studentship beginning in 
October 2002. Active methods for flow control use measurements of flow 
properties such as shear stress and pressure fluctuations to effect subtle 
changes in the boundary conditions of a flow by means of actuation such as 
sucking or blowing at the boundary layer. This project is concerned with the 
question of how to design feedback control laws for such a situation to 
achieve goals such as the reduction of near-wall turbulence, reduction of 
drag and delay of transition from laminar to turbulent flow. The project
will involve the development and investigation of
 - computational methods for the construction of linear models of the 
   Navier-Stokes equations,
 - model order reduction techniques to yield feasible models amenable to 
   feedback control design, and
 - control law design and validation (in simulation) via robust and 
   adaptive techniques
and will be funded by a British government (EPSRC) grant. Eligibility for 
such grants is subject to EPSRC regulations on British nationality and/or 
residence. Applicants should have, or shortly expect to obtain, the 
equivalent of a first or upper second class degree in an applied mathematics 
or engineering discipline. A background in modern control and/or optimization 
theory and the use of computational tools such as Matlab/Maple, etc. is 
advantageous. 

Send a current curriculum vitae, either by s- or e-mail to:
 Dr K.G. Woodgate
 Department of Aeronautics
 Imperial College
 Prince Consort Road
 London SW7 2BY, UK
 +44(0)207 594 5053

Positions are open to residents of UK


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4.10 PhD Positions: Technnical Univ Delft and Twente NL

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PhD Positions: Technnical Univ, Delft and Twente, NL

Contributed by: Prof. M. Verhaegen, M.Verhaegen@its.tudelft.nl

Two Ph.D. positions supported by the Dutch National Science foundation
(STW) and in collaboration with companies like Leuven Measurement Systems,
SKF, NLR, DAF, etc are presently available in the Control Cystems Engineering
group of the Delft University of Technology (Prof. M. Verhaegen) and in the
Applied Mechanics and Polymer research group of the University of Twente
(Prof. A. de Boer).

For more information please consult the web page:
http://lcewww.et.tudelft.nl/People/vacancies.html

Prof. M. Verhaegen
Project Leader


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4.11 Research Associate: Univ of Cambridge UK

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Research Associate: Univ of Cambridge, UK

Contributed by: John Lygeros, jl290@eng.cam.ac.uk

A position exists at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge,
for a Research Associate to work on stochastic analysis with applications to
air traffic management systems. The position is funded by the European
Commission under project HYBRIDGE, IST-2001-32460. The aim is to develop
techniques for the analysis and control of stochastic hybrid systems. These
techniques will be used to analyse and enhance the safety of the air traffic
management system. The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in automatic
control, stochastic systems, or closely related field. Preference will be
given to candidates with experience in hybrid systems, air traffic management,
stochastic analysis and control, or randomised optimisation.

The post is currently available. The appointment will be for a period of up to
three years. Starting salary is on the RA1A scale, in the range BP 20,807 to
BP 31,489 p.a. (including benefits).

Send a letter of application, a CV with list of publications, and the names
and contact information of three references (or contact for further
information) to:
 Dr John Lygeros, 
 Department of Engineering, 
 Trumpington Street, 
 Cambridge, CB2 1PZ
 Tel +44 (0)1223 332 770 
 Fax +44 (0)1223 332 662
 email jl290@eng.cam.ac.uk


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4.12 Research Position: Model-based Computing and Constraint Solving

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Research Position: Model-based Computing and Constraint Solving

Contributed by: Markus Fromherz, fromherz@parc.com

Palo Alto Research Center
Systems and Practices Laboratory 
California, USA

The Systems and Practices Laboratory at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) 
is looking for researchers at the PhD level (or equivalent experience) to 
join us in a team effort to develop concepts and software for embedded
model-based computing.

Our problems are typically large-scale or distributed hybrid constrained
optimization problems, and our applications are in the real-time, embedded
scheduling and control domains. A candidate should have expertise in the
implementation of modern constraint solving and optimization techniques, 
plus experience in one or more of the following: modeling and reasoning for 
distributed systems, real-time embedded/distributed solving, planning and 
scheduling, embedded systems/programming, and model-predictive or intelligent 
control.

This research effort is part of PARC's thrust in Smart Matter, which is 
creating the ability to embed large numbers of sensors, actuators, and 
computation in the world around us. Researchers will be working in an 
energetic multi-disciplinary team seeking to solve both basic and applied 
research problems.

To apply, please submit a cover letter explaining your interest, a resume, 
URLs or copies of publications, and reference letters if possible. Please 
apply by email to spljobs@parc.com (subject: MBC Position Application). If 
you prefer to submit hard copy, please fax it to +1-650-812-4027. 
Applications will be processed as received, and positions will be filled as 
suitable candidates are identified. PARC is an Equal Employment Opportunity 
company committed to workforce diversity.


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Embedded C

Contributed by: Michael J. Pont, m.pont@le.ac.uk

Embedded C
by Michael J. Pont ISBN 0-201-79523-X

Use of embedded processors in passenger cars, mobile phones, medical medical 
equipment, aerospace systems and defence systems is widespread, and even 
everyday domestic appliances such as dish washers, televisions, washing 
machines and video recorders now include at least one such device.  There is 
a large - and growing - international demand for programmers with ‘embedded’ 
skills, and many desktop developers are starting to move into this important 
area.  

Because most embedded projects have severe cost constraints, they tend to use 
low-cost processors like the 8051 family of devices considered in this book.  
These popular chips have very limited resources available: most such devices 
have around 256 bytes (not megabytes) of RAM, and the available processor 
power is around 1000 times less than that of a desktop processor.  As a 
result, developing embedded software presents significant new challenges, 
even for experienced desktop programmers.

If you have some programming experience - in C, C++ or Java - then this book 
and its accompanying CD will help make your move to the embedded world as 
quick and painless as possible.  

The book and CD have the following key features:

* Covers key techniques required in all embedded systems in detail, including 
  the control of port pins and the reading of switches.
* Presents a complete embedded operating system which uses less than 1% of
  the available processor power of an embedded 8051 microcontroller.  
* Covers the microcontroller serial interface, which is widely used for 
  debugging embedded systems, as well as for system maintenance and in data
  acquisition applications.
* Includes a substantial and realistic case study.
* Uses 100% C code: no knowledge of assembly language is needed. An industry-
  standard C compiler from Keil Software is also included on the CD, along
  with copies of the source code from the book.
* Includes a copy of the Keil hardware simulator for the 8051 microcontroller
  on the CD.

If you are about to write your first embedded program - or have been 
struggling to learn about this important area - this book will save you
weeks of effort.


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5.2 Linear Control Systems

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Linear Control Systems

Contributed by: Branislav Kisacanin, b.kisacanin@ieee.org

Linear Control Systems with solved problems and MATLAB examples
by Branislav Kisacanin and Gyan C. Agarwal
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York, 2002
Hardcover - 396 pages
ISBN: 0306467437

Anyone seeking a gentle introduction to the methods of modern control 
theory and engineering, written at the level of a first-year graduate 
course, should consider this book seriously. It contains: 

1. A generous historical overview of automatic control, from 
   Ancient Greece to the 1970s, when this discipline matured 
   into an essential field for electrical, mechanical, aerospace, 
   chemical, and biomedical engineers, as well as mathematicians, 
   and more recently, computer scientists; 
2. A balanced presentation of the relevant theory: the main 
   state-space methods for description, analysis, and design 
   of linear control systems are derived, without overwhelming 
   theoretical arguments; 
3. Over 250 solved and exercise problems for both continuous- and 
   discrete-time systems, often including MATLAB simulations; and 
4. Appendixes on MATLAB, advanced matrix theory, and the history 
   of mathematical tools such as differential calculus, transform 
   methods, and linear algebra. 

Another noteworthy feature is the frequent use of an inverted 
pendulum on a cart to illustrate the most important concepts of 
automatic control, such as: 

1. Linearization and discretization; 
2. Stability, controllability, and observability;
3. State feedback, controller design, and optimal control; and
4. Observer design, reduced order observers, and Kalman filtering.

Most of the problems are given with solutions or MATLAB simulations. 
All MATLAB programs from the book are available on the enclosed CD. 
Whether the book is used as a textbook or as a self-study guide, the 
knowledge gained from it will be an excellent platform for students 
and practising engineers to explore further the recent developments 
and applications of control theory.

Contents:
Foreword. 
Preface. 
I: Theory of linear control systems. 
    1. Historical overview of automatic control. 
    2. Modern control theory. 
II: Solved problems. 
    3. Continuous linear systems. 
    4. Discrete linear systems.
    5. Exercise problems. 
III: Appendixes. 
Bibliography. 
Index.

Available at:
    Amazon             www.amazon.com
    Barnes and Noble   www.bn.com
    Kluwer/Plenum      www.wkap.com


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5.3 Synthesis and Control of Discrete Event Systems

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Synthesis and Control of Discrete Event Systems

Contributed by: Benoit Caillaud, Benoit.Caillaud@irisa.fr

Synthesis and Control of Discrete Event Systems
Benoit Caillaud, Philippe Darondeau, Luciano Lavagno, Xiaolan Xie (Eds.)
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-7639-0
January 2002 , 238 pp.

http://www.kap.nl/prod/b/0-7923-7639-0

Contents and Contributors:
Part I: Decentralized Systems and Control.
- Recent Advances on the Control of Partially-Observed Discrete-Event Systems;
  S. Lafortune, K. Rohloff, Tae-Sic Yoo.
- From Global Specifications to Distributed Implementations;
  M. Mukund.
- Problems and Examples of Decentralized Observation and Control;
  A. Puri, S. Tripakis, P. Varaiya.
- Towards Synthesis of ACMs;
  A. Yakovlev, Fei Xia.
- STCT: An Efficient Algorithm for Supervisory Control Design;
  Zhonghua Zhang, W.M. Wonham.

Part II: Modular Design.
- Towards Modular Synthesis of EN Systems;
  L. Bernardinello, C. Ferigato, L. Pomello.
- Adaptive Supervisory Control;
  R.K. Boel.
- Modelling with Petri Modules;
  G. Juhas, R. Lorenz.

Part III: Petri Net Supervision.
- Optimal Petri Net Monitor Design;
  F. Basile, P. Chiacchio, A. Giua.
- Live and Maximally Permissive Controller Synthesis Using Theory of Regions;
  A. Ghaffari, N. Rezg, X. Xie.
- Design of Observers/Controllers for DES Using PNs;
  A. Giua, C. Seatzu.

Part IV: Nonblocking, Liveness and Concurrency.
- Implementation Considerations in Supervisory Control;
  P. Dietrich, R. Malik, W.M. Wonham, B.A. Brandin.
- Liveness Enforcing Supervision for Sequential Resource Allocation Systems;
  S.A. Reveliotis.
- Looking for Diamonds;
  M. Bednarczyk, P. Darondeau.


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CFP: Control Engineering Practice

Contributed by: Reza Moheimani, reza@ee.newcastle.edu.au

Special Issue on Emerging Technologies for Active Noise
and Vibration Control Systems

In many industrial applications, noise and vibration are important problems.
The conventional method of treatment is to redesign the system or to use
passive damping. The former could be a costly exercise, while the latter is
only effective at higher frequencies. Active noise and vibration control
(ANVC) systems are viable technologies to fill this low-frequency gap.

This special issue is aimed at sketching a broad perspective of the field
by collecting high quality papers related to emerging technologies for ANVC
systems. Some of the areas of interest are:
* Novel transducers, such as smart material transducers and MEMS for ANVC
  systems.
* Emerging Industrial applications of ANVC systems.
* Spatial control of vibration and noise.
* Robust control of vibration and noise.
* Active structural control.
* Active control of structure-borne sound.
* Active control of vibration transmission.

Only contributions which have practical results obtained from laboratory
scale or industrial scale apparatus will be included. Papers must contain
high-quality original contributions and be prepared in accordance with the
standards of Control Engineering Practice.

Seven copies of the complete manuscript should be submitted by
September 1, 2002 to one of the Guest Editors below:

Reza Moheimani
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308
Australia
Email: reza@ee.newcastle.edu.au
Tel: +61-2-49216030

Ian Petersen
School of Electrical Engineering
Australian Defence Force Academy
University College, University of New South Wales
Canberra, ACT 2600
Australia
Email: irp@ee.adfa.edu.au
Tel: +61-2-6268446

Hemanshu Pota
School of Electrical Engineering
Australian Defence Force Academy
University College, University of New South Wales
Canberra, ACT 2600
Australia
Email: h-pota@adfa.edu.au
Tel: +61-2-62688197


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6.2 CFP: Int Journal of Computer Research

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CFP: Int Journal of Computer Research

Contributed by: Phil Laplante, plaplante@psu.edu

Call for Papers
International Journal of Computing Research
Special issue on Biocomputing

Editor: Phillip A. Laplante, Penn State University

Papers are solicited for a special issue of International Journal of Computer 
Research devoted to Biocomputing.   Biocomputing uses the principles and 
tools of computer science to model or algorithmically specify complex 
biological information systems and computational systems with life-like 
capabilities.  Biocomputing systems include virtual systems using traditional 
materials and computer designs that, in the future, could be implemented in 
alternate materials, such as carbon.   The interdisciplinary field of 
Biocomputing has manifested numerous government multi-agency programs, 
including the Human Genome Project, the High Performance Computing & 
Communications (HPCC) initiative, the Human Brain Project, and other related 
programs such as the National Information Infrastructure and Digital 
Libraries initiatives, which have strong bio-related components.   

For this Special Issue original research is sought in the topic areas of:
 - Biological models of computing such as 
 - Genetic algorithms
 - Neural networks
 - Cellular automata
 - Special computer architectures for Biocomputing
 - Biomaterials in computing
 - Genomic models
 - Other related topics
Of particular interest is work related to the aforementioned government 
initiatives.

Prior to sending submissions, please query with a 100-200 word abstract (by 
April, 30 2002) to:
 Dr. Phillip A. Laplante, P.E.
 Associate Professor/Software Engineering
 Penn State University
 Great Valley Graduate Center
 30 Swedesboro Road
 Malvern, PA  19355-1443
 plaplante@psu.edu

Deadlines
Abstract due: 		April 30, 2002
Final paper submission	August 1, 2002
Reviews completed	November 1, 2002
Final papers due	December 1, 2002


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6.3 CFP: Int Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

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CFP: Int Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Contributed by: Ton J.J. van den Boom, T.J.J.vandenBoom@ITS.TUDelft.nl

Call for papers for a special issue on
"ADVANCES IN CONSTRAINED LINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL"
in the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.

Model predictive control (MPC) is currently one of the most widely used 
advanced control design method in the process industry. MPC provides many 
attractive features: it is applicable to multi-input multi-output systems, it 
can handle constraints on inputs and outputs in a systematic way, it is 
capable of tracking pre-scheduled reference signals, and it is an easy-to-
tune method. 

In recent years research have been focused on the analysis of feasibility, 
stability and robustness properties in constrained MPC on linear dynamic 
systems. Another challenging topic in constrained MPC is the explicit 
description of the controller. Important are the study of controller 
complexity and performance degradation in the case of controller complexity 
reduction.

Following these and many other new developments in the field, a special issue 
of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control will be devoted 
to "Advances in Constrained Linear Model Predictive Control". The main 
objective of this special issue is to gather a peer-reviewed collection of 
high-quality papers in the area of constrained MPC on linear dynamic systems.

Topics covered in the special issue may include, but are not limited to, the 
following:
- Analysis of stability and robustness properties.
  Feasibility and priority in constrained optimization.
- Explicit solutions to constrained MPC problems.
- Analysis and reduction of controller complexity
- MPC on large-scale systems.
- MPC on time-varying systems.
- Applications or application oriented papers, exhibiting
  originality with reasonable theory involved.

Important dates:
  October 1, 2002: Deadline for paper submission
  February 1, 2003: Completion of first review cycle
  June 15, 2003: Completion of final review cycle
  October 2003: Publication of the Special Issue

Interested authors are kindly invited to submit their full papers 
lectronically as ps-file or pdf-file to the Guest Editor before October 1st, 
2002.

Guest Editor:
  dr. Ton J.J. van den Boom
  Control Systems Engineering Group
  Delft University of Technology
  P.O.Box 5031,
  NL-2600 GA Delft,
  The Netherlands
  Phone: +31-15-2784052
  Fax: +31-15-2786679
  Email: T.J.J.vandenBoom@its.tudelft.nl



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6.4 CFP: Mutlimedia Tools and Applications

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CFP: Mutlimedia Tools and Applications

Contributed by: Phil Laplante, plaplante@psu.edu

MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
An International Journal
     
Special Issue on: Image and Video Coding Techniques

Multimedia Tools and Applications is planning a special issue on Image and 
Video Coding Techniques.  Interested authors are invited to submit
manuscripts based on recent results. Topics of interest consist of, but are 
not limited to:
- Standards (e.g. JPEG-2000, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-21)
- Video over the Internet 
- Wavelet-based techniques
- Object-based analysis-synthesis 
- Syntactic and grammar-based techniques
- Vector quantization 
- Fractal image coding 
- Other techniques

Submission Procedures:
All manuscripts are subject to review. Submitted manuscripts should not have 
been previously published or being currently submitted for publication 
elsewhere. For full submission instructions visit the website at: 
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1380-7501

To be considered for this special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications, 
prospective authors should submit their manuscript(s) by August 1, 2002:

Guest Editor:
 Phillip Laplante
 Penn State University
 Great Valley Graduate Center
 30 East Swedesford Road
 Malvern, PA 19355-1443
 plaplante@ psu.edu 

Deadlines	  
August 1, 2002:   Submission of manuscript. 
November 1, 2002: Notification of acceptance. 
December 1, 2002: Final version of the manuscript, including the artwork, 
author(s) biographical information, and signed copyright forms are due.


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6.5 CFP: Special Issue of Int Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

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CFP: Special Issue of Int Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Contributed by: Mario Milanese, milanese@polito.it

CALL FOR PAPERS for a Special Issue of
The International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, on
"Robust control design from data: direct and model based approaches"

The typical problem a control designer has to face in most practical
situations can be briefly described as follows: a control law has to be
designed, able to drive a plant to reach given performance specifications.
The plant typically is not known, but some prior information on it is
available and it is possible to perform some kind of input-output
measurements. The classical approach consists in building a mathematical
model of the plant, on the basis of available information on it (priors
and measurements) and then designing a control that meets the desired
performance specifications for the identified model. However, in this way
it is not taken into account that any identified model is only an
approximation of the actual plant. Indeed, the performance that can be
actually achieved on the plant may be poor, according to the size of the
modeling error, and even closed loop stability may be missed.

Two approaches have been recently proposed to face these problems. The first
one consists in identifying not a single model, but building the set of
systems able to explain measured data, often indicated as unfalsifyed
system set. This set is then approximated by a model set, described by a
nominal model and a bound on the modeling error, computed in such a way that
the approximated model set includes (as tightly as possible) the unfalsifyed
system set. The uncertainty model set derived in this way is then used for
designing a robust controller and evaluating the performances that can be
guaranteed when applied to the actual plant. As an alternative, methods have
been proposed to directly design the control, without explicitly identifying
a model, but aiming to identify directly the controller. The role of
unfalsified models is replaced by unfalsified controls, based on the idea
that undesirable controls can be avoided through a check of consistency among
the data, candidate controllers and performance specifications.

This has led to recent research in identification of uncertainty model sets;
representation of the set of models unfalsified by data and its approximation
by reduced order model sets guaranteeing inclusion; identification of model
sets suitable for robust control design; direct unfalsified controller design;
interplay between identification and control; unifying concepts and frameworks
for system identification and learning control, etc. Many important questions
remain open, such as, to mention a few:
- tightness in trading between model/controller complexity and robust
  performances
- relationship between different direct and model based methods proposed in
  the literature
- use of learning methods for model sets and robust control theory in the
  design of adaptive controllers.
- robust design from data in presence of system nonlinearities and/or input
  saturation.

The aim of the Special Issue is to stimulate further contributions on these
open questions for both direct and model based approaches, in order  to build
a more widely applicable theory of robust control design from data.

The authors should submit their contributions electronically as ps-file or
pdf- file to the Guest Editor at the address: rcfd@polito.it

Important Dates:
August 31, 2002: Deadline for paper submission
November 30, 2002: Completion of first review cycle
January 31, 2002: Completion of final review cycle
March 31, 2002: Final paper due
July 2003: Publication of the Special Issue

Guest Editor:
Mario Milanese
Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino ITALY
Email:milanese@polito.it
FAX:+39.011.5647099


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6.6 Contents: Automatica

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Contents: Automatica

Contributed by: Huibert Kwakernaak, automatica@math.utwente.nl

			     Table of contents
June, 2002					   Volume 38, Issue 6

Editorials

Stephen Kahne
Harold Chestnut, First IFAC President

Regular papers

P-F. Quet, B. Ataslar, A. Iftar, H. Ozbay, S. Kalyanaraman and T. Kang
Rate-based flow controllers for communication networks in the presence of
uncertain time-varying multiple time-delays

X-R. Cao, Z. Ren, S. Bhatnagar, M. Fu, S. Marcus
A time aggregation approach to Markov decision processes

V. A. Ugrinovskii, I. R. Petersen
Robust output feedback stabilization via risk-sensitive control

M. Sznaier, T. Amishima, P. A. Parrilo, J. Tierno
A convex approach to robust H2 performance analysis

Er-Wei Bai
A blind approach to the Wiener-Hammerstein model identification

A. V. Patel, B. M. Mohan
Analytical structures and analysis of the simplest fuzzy PI controllers

M. A. Nayfeh, E. H. Abed
High-gain feedback control of rotating stall in axial flow compressors

Li-Zhi Liao, Duan Li
Adaptive differential dynamic programming for multiobjective optimal
control

Brief papers

Michele Pavon, Harald K. Wimmer
Suboptimal Markovian smoothing estimates based on continuous curves of
solutions of the algebraic Riccati inequality

Gang Tao, Shuhao Chen, Suresh M. Joshi
An adaptive control scheme for systems with unknown actuator failures

H. Oku, H. Kimura
Recursive 4SID algorithms using gradient type subspace tracking

K. H. Johansson
Interaction bounds in multivariable control systems

D. Li, S. L. Shah, T. Chen
Analysis of dual-rate inferential control systems

H. H. J. Bloemen, T. J. J. van den Boom, H. B. Verbruggen
Optimizing the end-point state-weighting matrix in model-based predictive
control

Xing Zhu, Yeng Chai Soh, L. Xie
Design and analysis of discrete-time robust Kalman filters

Technical communiques

Luc Jaulin
Nonlinear bounded-error state estimation of continuous-time systems

J-K. Park, D-R. Shin and T.M. Chung
Dynamic observers for linear time-invariant systems

Book reviews

S. E. Lyshevski
Automotive control systems, by U. Kiencke and L. Nielsen

Jin Jiang
Robust model-based fault diagnosis for dynamic systems, by Jei Chen and
Ron J. Patton

Hassan K. Khalil
Output regulation of uncertain nonlinear systems, by C. I. Byrnes, F. D.
Priscoli and A. Isidori

P. Tomei
Adaptive control, by I. D. Landau, R. Lozano and M. M'Saad

Errata

H. Kwakernaak
Rectification - List of Reviewers for Automatica 2001


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6.7 Contents: Control Engineering Practice April 2002

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Contents: Control Engineering Practice, April 2002

Contributed by: George W Irwin, g.irwin@ee.qub.ac.uk

Journal: Control Engineering Practice
ISSN   : 0967-0661
Volume : 10
Issue  : 4
Date   : Apr-2002

Visit the journal at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/00123

Two-valve control of a large steam turbine
W. Bolek, J. Sasiadek, T. Wisniewski
pp 365-377

Impedance control of a robotic gripper for cooperation with humans
A. Dutta, G. Obinata
pp 379-389

Crone control of a nonlinear hydraulic actuator
V. Pommier, J. Sabatier, P. Lanusse, A. Oustaloup
pp 391-402

Case studies on closed-loop identification for MPC
Y. Zhu, F. Butoyi
pp 403-417

Distributed quantitative and qualitative fault diagnosis: railway
junction case study
C. Roberts, H.P.B. Dassanayake, N. Lehrasab, C.J. Goodman
pp 419-429

SPECIAL SECTION on FUTURE TRENDS IN AUTOMATION IN MINERAL AND METAL PROCESSING
I.K. Craig
pp 431-432

Expert control and fault diagnosis of the leaching process in a zinc
hydrometallurgy plant
M. Wu, J.-H. She, M. Nakano, W. Gui
pp 433-442

Level control of cascade coupled flotation tanks
B. Stenlund, A. Medvedev
pp 443-448

A simulation study of coal blending control using a fuzzy logic ash
monitor
S. Cierpisz, A. Heyduk
pp 449-456

Current control of a three-phase submerged arc ferrosilicon furnace
A.S. Hauksdottir, A. Gestsson, A. Vesteinsson
pp 457-463

Motion control of liquid container considering an inclined transfer
path
K. Yano, S. Higashikawa, K. Terashima
pp 465-472

Application of neural-network for improving accuracy of roll-force
model in hot-rolling mill
D. Lee, Y. Lee
pp 473-478


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6.8 Contents: Control Engineering Practice March 2002

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Contents: Control Engineering Practice, March 2002

Contributed by: George W Irwin, g.irwin@ee.qub.ac.uk

IFAC Journal: CONTROL ENGINEERING PRACTICE
Volume: 10
Issue: 3
Date: Mar-2002

Stochastic optimisation based control of boundary layer transition
W. MacCormack, O.R. Tutty, E. Rogers, P.A. Nelson
pp 243-260

Robustness analysis of an integrated flight and propulsion control
system using @m and the @n-gap metric
S.L. Gatley, D.G. Bates, M.J. Hayes, I. Postlethwaite
pp 261-275

Minimally invasive estimation of systemic vascular parameters for
artificial heart control
Y.-C. Yu, J.R. Boston, M.A. Simaan, J.F. Antaki
pp 277-285

A system approach for control development of lower-limbs training
machines
S. Moughamir, J. Zaytoon, N. Manamanni, L. Afilal
pp 287-299

Application of minimum crest factor multisinusoidal signals for
''plant-friendly'' identification of nonlinear process systems
M.W. Braun, R. Ortiz-Mojica, D.E. Rivera
pp 301-313

MIMO closed-loop identification of an MSW incinerator
M. Leskens, L.B.M. Van Kessel, P.M.J. Van den Hof
pp 315-326

Robust observer-based monitoring of a hydraulic actuator in a vehicle
power transmission control system
J.-O. Hahn, J.-W. Hur, Y.M. Cho, K.I. Lee
pp 327-335

Parameter-dependent Lyapunov functions applied to analysis of
induction motor stability
S. Cauet, L. Rambault, O. Bachelier, D. Mehdi
pp 337-345

Experimental investigation of human and machine-vision arrangements
in inspection tasks
C. Sylla
pp 347-361


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6.9 Contents: Engineering Applications of AI

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Contents: Engineering Applications of AI

Contributed by: Clarence de Silva, desilva@mech.ubc.ca

ISSN   : 0952-1976
Volume : 14
Issue  : 5
Date   : Oct-2001

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Continuous action reinforcement learning automata and their
application to adaptive digital filter design
M.N. Howell, T.J. Gordon
pp 549-561

Reinforcement learning control of nonlinear multi-link system
I.O. Bucak, M.A. Zohdy
pp 563-575

Adaptive reconstruction of free-form surfaces using Bernstein basis
function networks
G.K. Knopf, J. Kofman
pp 577-588

An expert control system using neural networks for the electrolytic
process in zinc hydrometallurgy
M. Wu, J.-H. She, M. Nakano
pp 589-598

KBS-aided design of tube bending processes
Z. Jin, S. Luo, X. Daniel Fang
pp 599-606

Knowledge discovery from process operational data using PCA and fuzzy
clustering
Y.M. Sebzalli, X.Z. Wang
pp 607-616

A new methodology for deriving the rule-base of a fuzzy logic
controller with a new internal structure
I. Eksin, M. Guzelkaya, F. Gurleyen
pp 617-628

Intelligent control of a rotary kiln fired with producer gas
generated from biomass
M. Jarvensivu, E. Juuso, O. Ahava
pp 629-653

Intelligent on-line quality control of washing machines using
discrete wavelet analysis features and likelihood classification
S. Goumas, M. Zervakis, A. Pouliezos, G.S. Stavrakakis
pp 655-666

Reactive scheduling using a multi-agent model: the SCEP framework
B. Archimede, T. Coudert
pp 667-683

Flexible real-time mobile robotic architecture based on behavioural
models
H. Hassan, J. Simo, A. Crespo
pp 685-702


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6.10 Contents: IEEE Trans. Automatic Control Feb-Mar 2002

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Contents: IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, Feb-Mar, 2002

Contributed by: Cheryl Stewart, cstewart@bu.edu

Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
Volume: 47 Issue: 2 , Feb. 2002

Active identification for discrete-time nonlinear control
 Part I: output-feedback systems
 Jiaxiang Zhao; Kanellakopoulos, I.
 Page(s): 210 -224

Active identification for discrete-time nonlinear control
 Part ii: strict-feedback systems
 Jiaxiang Zhao; Kanellakopoulos, I.
 Page(s): 225 -240

New results on the synthesis of PID controllers
 Silva, G.J.; Datta, A.; Bhattacharyya, S.P.
 Page(s): 241 -252

A descriptor system approach to H_inf control of linear time-delay systems
 Fridman, E.; Shaked, U.
 Page(s): 253 -270

Hierarchically accelerated dynamic programming for finite-state machines
 Gang Shen; Caines, P.E.
 Page(s): 271 -283

Learning curves for LMS and regular gaussian processes
 Hriljac, P.
 Page(s): 284 -289

Optimal control approach to production systems with inventory-level-dependent
 demand
 Khmelnitsky, E.; Gerchak, Y.
 Page(s): 289 -292

Stability analysis of continuous-time periodic systems via harmonic analysis
 Jun Zhou; Hagiwara, T.; Araki, M.
 Page(s): 292 -298

A unified approach to design dead-time compensators for stable and
integrative processes with dead-time
 Normey-Rico, J.E.; Camacho, E.F.
 Page(s): 299 -305

Normal forms for underactuated mechanical systems with symmetry
 Olfati-Saber, R.
 Page(s): 305 -308

Stability criteria of sector- and slope-restricted lur'e
systems
 PooGyeon Park
 Page(s): 308 -313

Multiuser discrete-event control with active events
 Heymann, M.; Feng Lin; Meyer, G.
 Page(s): 314 -318

Extremum seeking control for discrete-time systems
 Joon-Young Choi; Krstic, M.; Ariyur, K.B.; Lee, J.S.
 Page(s): 318 -323

Analyzing wide-band noise processes with application to control and filtering
 Bashirov, A.E.; Ugural, S.
 Page(s): 323 -327

Lyapunov equation for the stability of linear delay systems of retarded and
neutral type
 Bliman, P.-A.
 Page(s): 327 -335


Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
Volume: 47 Issue: 3, Mar. 2002

Disturbance decoupling of linear time-varying singular systems
 Xiaoping Liu; Ho, D.W.C.
 Page(s): 335 -341

Common issues in discrete optimization and discrete-event simulation
 Jacobson, S.H.; Yucesan, E.
 Page(s): 341 -345

Model validation of multirate systems from time-domain experimental data
 Li Chai; Li Qiu
 Page(s): 346 -351

On the asymptotically optimal tuning of robust controllers for systems
in the cd-algebra
 Hamalainen, T.; Pohjolainen, S.
 Page(s): 351 -358

A flat-zone modification for robust adaptive control of nonlinear
output feedback systems with unknown high-frequency gains
 Zhengtao Ding; Xudong Ye
 Page(s): 358 -363

Simultaneous stabilization of MIMO systems via robustly stabilizing a
central plant
 Saif, A.; Da-Wei Gu; Kavranoglu, D.; Postlethwaite, I.
 Page(s): 363 -369

Positive and compartmental systems
 Benvenuti, L.; Farina, L.
 Page(s): 370 -373

Active sensing policies for stochastic systems
 Shuo Liu; Holloway, L.E.
 Page(s): 373 -377

Monotonic relaxations for robust control: new characterizations
 Tuan, H.D.; Apkarian, P.
 Page(s): 378 -384

Integrated design of fault detection systems in time-frequency domain
 Hao Ye; Ding, S.X.; Guizeng Wang
 Page(s): 384 -390

Exact output tracking in decentralized adaptive control systems
 Narendra, K.S.; Oleng, N.O.
 Page(s): 390 -395

Using the bootstrap to estimate the variance in the case of undermodeling
 Tjarnstrom, F.; Lennart Ljung
 Page(s): 395 -398

Minimum entropy control of non-gaussian dynamic stochastic systems
 Hong Wang
 Page(s): 398 -403

Mesh stability of look-ahead interconnected systems
 Pant, A.; Seiler, P.; Hedrick, K.
 Page(s): 403 -407

An improvement on "delay and its time-derivative dependent robust stability of
time-delayed linear systems with uncertainty"
 Dong Yue; Sangchul Won
 Page(s): 407 -408


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6.11 Contents: JDCS

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Contents: JDCS

Contributed by: Yuri L. Sachkov, sachkov@sys.botik.ru

                   JOURNAL  OF DYNAMICAL AND CONTROL SYSTEMS
                          Vol. 8, No. 1  January 2002
                  http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1079-2724

Attitude Maneuvers which Avoid a Forbidden Direction
K. Spindler
1-22

An Euler--Lagrange Inclusion for Optimal Control Problems with
State Constraints
M.D.R. De Pinho, M.M.A. Ferreira, and F.A.C.C. Fontes
23-45

On Noncompact Minimal Sets of the Geodesic Flow
F. Dal'bo and A.N. Starkov
47-64

On the Convergence of Borel Approximants
W. Balser, D.A. Lutz, and R. Schaefke
65-92

Geometry of Jacobi Curves. I
A.A. Agrachev and I. Zelenko
93-140


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6.12 Contents: Linear Algebra and its Applications

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Contents: Linear Algebra and its Applications

Contributed by: Hans Schneider, hans@math.wisc.edu

Journal: Linear Algebra and its Applications
ISSN   : 0024-3795
Volume : 346
Issue  : 1-3
Date   : 01-May-2002

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An algorithmic version of the theorem by Latimer and MacDuffee for
2x2 integral matrices
A. Behn, A.B. Van der Merwe
pp 1-14

On the nonlinear matrix equation X+A^*F(X)A=Q: solutions and
perturbation theory
A.C.M. Ran, M.C.B. Reurings
pp 15-26

Global reduction to the Kronecker canonical form of a C^r-family of
time-invariant linear systems
X. Puerta, F. Puerta, J. Ferrer
pp 27-45

Convexity and the separability problem of quantum mechanical density matrices
A.O. Pittenger, M.H. Rubin
pp 47-71

More on matrix semigroup homomorphisms
D. Kokol-Bukovsek
pp 73-95

Pole-shifting for linear systems over commutative rings
M. Carriegos, J.A. Hermida-Alonso, T. Sanchez-Giralda
pp 97-107

Maximal graphs and graphs with maximal spectral radius
D.D. Olesky, A. Roy, P. van den Driessche
pp 109-130

Obtaining simultaneous solutions of linear subsystems of inequalities
and duals
E. Castillo, F. Jubete, R.E. Pruneda, C. Solares
pp 131-154

On matrix differential equations and abstract FG algorithm
M. Przybylska
pp 155-175

A polynomial fit preconditioner for band Toeplitz matrices in image
reconstruction
P. Favati, G. Lotti, O. Menchi
pp 177-197

Coherence invariant mappings on block triangular matrix spaces
W.L. Chooi, M.H. Lim
pp 199-238

A boundary Nevanlinna-Pick problem for a class of analytic
matrix-valued functions in the unit ball
V. Bolotnikov
pp 239-260

Irreducible, pattern k-potent ray pattern matrices
J.L. Stuart, L. Beasley, B. Shader
pp 261-271

On block completion problems for Arov-normalized j"q"q-J"q-elementary factors
B. Fritzsche, B. Kirstein, M. Mosch
pp 273-291

Author index
pp 293


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6.13 Contents: Modeling Identification and Control

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Contents: Modeling, Identification and Control

Contributed by: Lars Imsland, lsi@itk.ntnu.no

                         TABLE OF CONTENTS
Modeling, Identification and Control (MIC), Vol. 23, No. 1, January 2002


J. G. Balchen, "Editorial"
Page 1

B. Lie, "Guest Editorial"
Page 3

Aa. I. Jøsang and M. C. Melaaen, "Fluid Flow Simulations of a
Vane Separator"
 Page 5

T. A. Hauge and B. Lie, "Paper Machine Modeling at Norske 
Skog Saugbrugs: A Mechanistic Approach"
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Q. Wang, M. C. Melaaen and S. R. de Silva, "A Computational 
and Experimental Study of Fluid Flow in a De-duster"
 Page 53

Accumulated index and more information about MIC is available at 
http://www.itk.ntnu.no/mic/mic.html.

MIC is now available online for subscribers and for others on a 
pay-per-view basis, at EBSCO Online, http://www.ebsco.com/online/


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10th IEEE MED2002

Contributed by: Michael Athans, athans@isr.ist.utl.pt

10th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED2002)
July 9-12, 2002, Lisbon. Portugal

TECHNICAL PROGRAM UPDATE
We have already accepted and scheduled 21 different invited sessions as well
as the 8 plenary lectures.  The present technical program will be updated 
following the review of the contributed papers (about 300).  We estimate that 
we shall eventually have 7 parallel sessions during each day of the
conference.

To find out the titles of the plenary lectures, the invited sessions and the 
invited session papers, as well as their schedule, visit

http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/med2002/technicalprogramupdate/

Michael Athans
MED2002 Program Chair


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7.2 ACA special session on Computer Algebra and Signal Processing

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ACA special session on Computer Algebra and Signal Processing

Contributed by: Markus Pueschel, pueschel@ece.cmu.edu

Applications of Computer
Volos, Greece, June 25.- 28. 

Call for participation at the special session "Application of Computer 
Algebra to Image and Signal Processing" at the conference Applications of 
Computer Algebra (ACA) 2002 in Volos, Greece, June 25.- 28. 

session call: http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~jjohnson/aca2002.html
ACA: http://math.unm.edu/ACA/2001/2001.html

Session organizers: 
Jeremy Johnson (jjohnson@mcs.derexel.edu) and 
Markus Pueschel (pueschel@ece.cmu.edu)

This is the third time we are organizing this session:
2001: http://math.unm.edu/ACA/2001/Proceedings/Sessions.html#Signal
1999: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~spiral/presentations/aca99/index.html

We are hoping that the session will provide an overview of some recent
work in this area and that the session will serve to motivate additional
work in this area. Travel support is available for eligible participants
  http://www.orcca.on.ca/~ilias/aca2002Support.html

The rates are very reasonable (see the conference web site for details).

The ACA meetings are now a highly successful meetings attracting
from 125 -- 150 researchers and students interested in applications
of computer algebra:
        1995 Albuquerque, New Mexico
        1996 Linz (RISC), Austria
        1997 Maui, Hawaii, jointly with ISSAC 97 and PASCO 97
        1998 Prague, Czech Republic
        1999 El Escorial, Spain
        2000 Saint Petersburg, Russia
        2001 Albuquerque, New Mexico


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7.3 CFP: Conf on Control Automation Robotics and Vision

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CFP: Conf on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision

Contributed by: Han Wang, hw@ntu.edu.sg

              FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
    SEVENTH  INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL, 
    AUTOMATION, ROBOTICS AND VISION (ICARCV2002)
              2 - 5 December 2002, Singapore

The conference will provide a forum for Control and Automation professionals,
manufacturing engineers and academic researchers to exchange up-to-date
technical knowledge and experiences. The conference will focus on both theory
and applications. In addition to the technical sessions, there will be
plenary, invited and tutorial sessions. 

Email: icarcv2002@ntu.edu.sg
Web: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/eee/icarcv

Important Dates:
Dead line for full paper submission:     30-4-2002
Notification of Acceptance:              31-7-2002
Submission of Camera Ready Manuscripts:  15-9-2002

Conference topics include but are not limited to the following
areas: CONTROL, AUTOMATION, ROBOTICS, COMPUTER VISION, and
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES.
		
Submission  Procedure: 
Please submit full papers, in .pdf or .ps files, to the website address
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/eee/icarcv  by  April  30,  2002.  

Three keynote speeches are as follows
1. "Applied Advanced Control"
    Professor Graham C. Goodwin, The University of Newcastle,
    Australia
2. "Vision Techniques in Medicine"
    Professor W. Eric L. Grimson, Massachusettes Institute of
    Technology, USA
3. "Coordination between Flying and Ground Robots"
    Professor Shankar Sastry, University of California at 
    Berkeley, USA

Invited Sessions: The Technical Programme Committee is soliciting proposals
for invited sessions focusing on topics of ICARCV 2002. Prospective
organisers should submit proposals to the Technical Programme Co-Chairman 
by 30 April 2002. 


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7.4 IFAC 15th World Congress Features

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IFAC 15th World Congress Features

Contributed by: Joseba Quevedo, joseba@esaii.upc.es

Call for Participation in Congress and Virtual Tracks

The XV IFAC World 
Barcelona, Spain
July 21 to 26, 2002, 

We invite you to attend and avail the opportunity for highlighting
the new directions of Automatic Control science and technology. The
Congress will mainly emphasise:

- Emergent Automatic Control Application Fields. New applications in industry 
  and services, and their technological implications.
- Social Challenge of Automation and Control Theory. Analysis of the social 
  impact of control and automation at the turn of the century.
- Use at the Congress of Advanced Information Technologies. The Congress 
  itself should be an example of how advanced information technologies can 
  promote scientific and technical exchange among worldwide specialists.

Seven plenary sessions, 1700 papers, 11 panel discussions and 15 technical 
workshops involving 2300 authors from 68 countries have been programmed for 
the seven days of the Congress.

Therefore, all those attending the IFAC World Congress b'02 will have the 
opportunity to participate in a high-level scientific and technical congress, 
to share some days with outstanding specialist in Automatic Control from all 
over the world, and will also understand why Barcelona is one of the most 
frequently visited cities on the world.

VIRTUAL TRACKS
The World Congress will be an example of how advanced information
technologies can promote scientific and technical exchange among worldwide
specialists.

IFAC b'02 allows virtual congress participation, via Internet in two
different ways: Paper pre-discussion and Open Forums.

100 papers and 6 open forums have been selected to participate in the papers 
pre-discussion and open forums of the virtual track. 

The access to the virtual track can be made through a menu form the IFAC b'02 
main website, for all registered congress participants, from April to June, 
2002.

The virtual track is an innovative idea of this IFAC World Congress.

For more information about the advance program see the web site: 
http://www.ifac2002.org


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7.5 Networked Learning in a Global Environment

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Networked Learning in a Global Environment

Contributed by: NAISO The Netherlands, nicole@gcoeurope.com

World Congress on NETWORKED LEARNING IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
Challenges and Solutions for Virtual Education
Technical University of Berlin, Germany
May 1 - 4, 2002 

Telecommunications, computer networks, multimedia technologies, and the World 
Wide Web have opened up entirely new ways of teaching and learning - across 
institutions, physical locations, countries, continents, and time zones. 
Students may work distributed worldwide and nevertheless interact in a 
virtual community. Academic programs are no longer provided by single 
institutions only but can be established by networked organizations like 
virtual universities or virtual faculties. Best-of-breed programs are created 
in the Internet by bringing together top experts from different schools in a 
virtual program. Powerful wireless technologies will accelerate these 
developments in the future. 

Distance education is no longer a matter of "learning in isolation". 
Collaborative tools like discussion groups, chatrooms, videoconferencing, 
etc. support immediate interaction between students and teachers and among 
students in virtual communities. In-company training does not require 
traveling and physical presence but can be done at the workplace. 
Geographical locations of students and teachers loose importance. Education 
in the 21st century is shifting from "real" to "virtual". Physical classes 
are more and more replaced by virtual networks of students and teachers. 

NL'2002 aims to bring together content providers, course developers, 
educators, persons responsible for academic programs or corporate education, 
platform and tools providers, researchers and system developers from academia 
and industry to exchange their ideas and experiences, to share the best 
practices and to foster further development in networked learning. 

Congress Organizer:
NAISO The Netherlands (Operating Division)
P.O. Box 1091
3360 BB Sliedrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31-184-496999
Fax: +31-184-421065
Email: nl2002@global-conf.org


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7.6 Recent Advances in Soft Computing

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Recent Advances in Soft Computing

Contributed by: Ahmad Lotfi, ahmad.lotfi@ntu.ac.uk

4th International Conference on RECENT ADVANCES IN SOFT COMPUTING
Nottingham, United Kingdom
12 & 13 December 2002
http://www.rasc2002.info

INTRODUCTION
The 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing, 
RASC2002, will be held at Nottingham Trent University, on December 12-13, 
2002. This international two-day conference is intended to provide a forum 
for researchers and engineers to report key advancements and exchange state-
of-the-art knowledge and experience in the field of “Soft Computing”.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Theory and Applications of: Fuzzy Logic and Systems, Neural Networks,
Hybrid Systems, Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Computing, Smart
Engineering, Smart Adaptive Systems, Intelligent Control Systems,
Neuro-Fuzzy Systems, Fuzzy Decision Making, Genetic Programming, Fuzzy
Modelling, Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Training, Rough Sets
and Data Mining

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Prospective authors are invited to submit an extended abstract, minimum of 1 
and maximum of 2 pages, on the topics indicated and others falling within the 
scope of the conference. Extended abstracts will be refereed by the programme 
committee of the conference. The extended abstracts will be 
published in a book accompanied by a CD containing the full papers in 
portable document format (PDF). Template files are available on the 
conference web site to help preparation of the manuscript.

All extended abstracts must be submitted by email if possible. They should be 
submitted to the Conference Secretary. Alternatively send two copies of the 
extended abstract by Fax or Mail to the Conference Secretary.

SPECIAL SESSIONS
Proposal for special sessions or workshops are welcome.  Prospective 
organisers are requested to send a session proposal to the Chair of the 
conference as soon as possible and not later than August 2, 2002. A session 
should consist of 4-5 papers. The registration fee of the session organizer 
will be waived, if at least 4 authors of invited papers register to the  
conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of Extended Abstracts:  July 12, 2002
Notification of Acceptance:  September 2, 2002
Final Manuscript Due: September 30, 2002
Special Session Prop