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Change of Address for Peter Benner

Contributed by: Peter Benner, benner@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de

Dear colleagues, please note my new coordinates:

 Prof. Dr. Peter Benner
 Mathematik in Industrie und Technik 
 Fakultaet fuer Mathematik
 TU Chemnitz
 D-09107 Chemnitz
 Germany

 Phone : (+49) (0)371-531-8367, -2659 (secretary)
 Fax   : (+49) (0)371-531-2657
 E-mail: benner@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de
 URL   : http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~benner


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D.P. Garg receives Edwin F. Church Medal

Contributed by: Manish Kumar, manish@duke.edu

THE EDWIN F. CHURCH MEDAL, established in 1972, is awarded annually to an 
individual who has rendered service in increasing the value, importance and 
appeal of mechanical engineering education. This year, the medal was awarded 
to Prof. Devendra P. Garg at the 2003 ASME Internation Congress and 
Exposition held in Washington, DC from November 16 to November 21. The 
citation of the award read as follows:

"DEVENDRA P. GARG, Ph.D., professor, Duke University (Durham, N.C.), for 
outstanding leadership in the academic community and the ASME Dynamic Systems 
and Control Division, and for exemplary contributions to the technical 
programs of the U.S. government, particularly the National Science Foundation 
and the Army Research Office."


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2.2 E.J. Davison receives 2003 Killam Prize

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E.J. Davison receives 2003 Killam Prize

Contributed by: Li Qiu, eeqiu@ust.hk

Professor Edward J. Davison of the Systems Control Group, University of 
Toronto, was awarded the 2003 Killam Prize, Canada's most distinguished
award for career achievements in engineering, sciences and humanities.

For the news release, see webpage

http://www.canadacouncil.ca/news/pressreleases/co0311-e.asp


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2.3 IEEE Award Deadlines

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IEEE Award Deadlines

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

Please note that JANUARY 31st, 2004 is the deadline for nominations
for the 2004 IEEE awards sponsored by the Control Systems Society:
the IEEE Control Systems Field Award,
and the IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award.
Nominations may be submitted using the web (http://www.ieeecss.org/awards/).

Also note that the Deadline for the IEEE Fellow nominations is March 15.
Check the CSS awards website (http://www.ieeecss.org/awards/) for the 
deadlines of the AACC and IFAC awards.


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2003 Hurwitz lecturer at ETH: Graham Goodwin

Contributed by: Pablo A. Parrilo, parrilo@control.ee.ethz.ch

In commemoration of Adolf Hurwitz' seminal contributions, the Automatic
Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich has established in 1999 the Hurwitz Memorial
Lectureship, where leading researchers in the control field are invited to ETH
to deliver a special presentation. Past Hurwitz lecturers were S. Shankar
Sastry, University of California at Berkeley, and Stephen Boyd, Stanford
University.

We are pleased to announce that this year's lecturer will be Graham Goodwin,
Univ. Newcastle. On December 16th and 17th, he will be delivering two
lectures, on "Finite Alphabet Control and Estimation" and "Constrained
Estimation".

For a summary of Goodwin's presentations, and background information about the
series, see: 
  http://control.ee.ethz.ch/hurwitz/2003.msql
  http://control.ee.ethz.ch/hurwitz/

Starting this year, the lectures will be broadcast live on the web, and
archived for posterior viewing. For detailed information follow the links 
above.


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3.2 Workshops on Future Directions in Nonlinear Control of Mechanical Systems

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Workshops on Future Directions in Nonlinear Control of Mechanical Systems

Contributed by: Mark W. Spong, mspong@uiuc.edu

Proceedings of the 2002 and 2003 Workshops on Future Directions in Nonlinear 
Control of Mechanical Systems are available online at

http://robot0.ge.uiuc.edu/~spong/workshop.html  (for the 2002 Proceedings)
http://robot0.ge.uuc.edu/~spong/workshop03.html (for the 2003 Proceedings)

These Workshops were held on October 5, 2002, and October 4, 2003,
respectively, in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of 
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Support for the workshops was provided by the 
U.S. Office of Naval Research grant N00014-02-01-0762 and by the National 
Science Foundation grant NSF ECS-0228869 and is gratefully acknowledged.


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Chair: Boise State University, USA

Contributed by: Cheryl B. Schrader, schrader@ieee.org

Boise State University invites applications and nominations for the position 
of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Chair (see 
http://coen.boisestate.edu). A chair is sought to lead the Department in 
enhancing research and educational programs and establishing a Ph.D. degree 
program. Preferred qualifications include a strong record of research and 
scholarly activity, and proven leadership, communication, and administrative 
skills. An earned Ph.D. in electrical or computer engineering or a closely 
related field is required.

The Department offers an ABET accredited B.S. degree in electrical 
engineering and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering. Boise 
State University is the largest university in Idaho with an enrollment of 
18,000+ students. The University is located in Idaho’s capital city and 
largest metropolitan area, which serves as the state’s center for 
government, technology, business, health care, & culture. See http://boise.org

Qualified applicants should send a CV, one-page statement of professional 
interests, and contact information for at least three professional 
references to: ECE Chair Search Committee, 1910 University Drive, MS 2100, 
Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, 83725. Review of applications will 
begin on January 5, 2004 and will continue until the position is filled. 
Boise State University is strongly committed to achieving excellence through 
cultural diversity. The University actively encourages applications and 
nominations of women, persons of color, and members of other underrepresented
groups. EOE/AA Institution, Veterans preference may be applicable.


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4.2 Faculty: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Canada

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Faculty: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada

Contributed by: Lahcen Saydy, lahcen.saydy@polymtl.ca

The Electrical Engineering Department at École Polytechnique de Montréal 
invites applications for tenure track positions at the rank of Assistant or 
Associate Professor. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, 
Electrical Network and Energy Systems, VLSI Design, Microwave and Millimeter- 
Wave Integrated Circuits Technology, Telecommunication and Mecatronics 
(Embedded and Onboard Systems).

The department seeks individuals who can assume leadership roles in teaching, 
research and outreach. The new professors will be required to teach at both 
the undergraduate and the graduate levels, supervise graduate students and 
demonstrate strong interpersonal skills in order to favor close 
collaborations with existing research groups. 

Candidates must have earned a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering or in a 
related engineering discipline. Industrial experience is desirable. The 
teaching language is French. The search will continue until the positions are 
filled. Candidates should send a CV, selected reprints/preprints of previous 
or current research contributions, names and addresses of three references 
and a brief statement outlining their research and teaching goals to:

Professor Richard Hurteau, chairman
Electrical Engineering Department
Ecole Polytechnique
P.O. Box 6079, Station Centre-ville
Montreal (Quebec), Canada
H3C 3A7
Email: richard.hurteau@polymtl.ca

Following Canadian immigration requirements, priority will be given to 
citizens and permanent residents of Canada.
Ecole Polytechnique is committed to employment equity.


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4.3 Faculty: Feng Chia University Taiwan

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Faculty: Feng Chia University, Taiwan

Contributed by: Ya-Jane Chen, yjchen@fcu.edu.tw

The Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at Feng Chia 
University cordially invites world wide applications for faculty positions 
beginning Fall, 2004. Several positions are available with ranks as 
Assistant, Associate, and Full Professors based on individual 
qualifications. The positions require strong commitment to excellence in 
teaching, research, and service.

Located in Taichung, Taiwan with all year round mild climate and a 
convenient transportation network, Feng Chia University is a decent campus 
for dedicated information engineering and computer science professionals. 
For information about the university, visit our website www.fcu.edu.tw.

Please mail curriculum vitae, copy of the self-evaluated best publication, 
and three letters of recommendation to:

Faculty Recruiting Committee Chair
Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science
Feng Chia University
100 Wenhwa Road, Taichung 407, Taiwan.

Email submissions are also acceptable by addressing to:
recruit@pine.iecs.fcu.edu.tw

For more detail regarding our current research interests, facilities, 
faculties and students, please refer to our website at:
http://www.iecs.fcu.edu.tw



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4.4 Faculty: Texas A&M University USA

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Faculty: Texas A&M University USA

Contributed by: John Valasek, valasek@aero.tamu.edu

The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University has been 
designated as a Signature Program in the Dwight Look College of Engineering. 
As part of the University’s Vision 2020 long range plan, the department will 
be adding nine new faculty over the next four years. The Department invites 
applications for five new tenure-track positions at the Assistant or
Associate Professor levels.

Candidates applying for these positions are expected to have a strong 
commitment to teaching excellence at the undergraduate and graduate levels, a 
demonstrable research capability that will enable the candidate to develop an 
externally funded, independent research program and publish in leading 
scholarly journals.  The successful candidate should be prepared to 
collaborate with colleagues, develop new multidisciplinary research 
initiatives, and participate in on-going research projects. Relevant work
experience is desired.

Applicants must have earned a doctorate in aerospace engineering or a closely 
related field. Information on these positions and the Department of Aerospace 
Engineering can be found at http://aero.tamu.edu. Applicants should submit a 
detailed resume along with a brief statement of their interests that includes 
their vision for research and teaching, and the names and addresses of five
references to the search committee chairman listed below.

Position 1:  Autonomous Intelligent Aerospace Systems - We seek individuals 
with basic strengths in aerospace vehicle dynamics and control who have 
expertise in system modeling and autonomous control systems for aircraft, 
UAVs, spacecraft, or robotics.  Expertise in one or more of the following 
areas will be preferred: Reconfigurable fault tolerant-control, neural 
networks, and rules-based reasoning, smart sensors, inference, intelligent 
agents, pattern recognition, and multi-resolution analysis.  Preference will 
be given to candidates who have shown balance between analysis, computation, 
and experiment.

Position 2:  Space Systems – We seek individuals with basic backgrounds in 
astrodynamics who have expertise in one or more of the following areas: Space 
mission and trajectory design, spacecraft design, space sensor systems, 
including signal analysis and image processing, and dynamical systems theory. 
Preference will be given to candidates who have balance between basic
analysis and application of design methodologies for spacecraft, spacecraft 
sensors and actuators, and space missions.

Submit application materials to: Dr. John Junkins, Chair of Aerospace Systems 
Search Committee and George J. Eppright Chair Professor, Department of 
Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, 3141 TAMU, College Station, TX 
77843-3141, Junkins@tamu.edu.

Applications will be considered until the positions are filled.  Women and 
minorities are especially encouraged to apply.  Texas A&M University is an 
Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.


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4.5 Faculty Position: Embry-Riddle AZ USA

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Faculty Position: Embry-Riddle, AZ, USA

Contributed by: Steve Kahne, kahne@erau.edu

Computer Engineering - tenure track position
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Prescott, AZ

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, invites applications
for a tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level
available in Fall 2004. The successful candidate should have an earned
doctorate in Computer Engineering or a closely related field. Interest and
ability to teach undergraduate electrical and computer engineering courses and
laboratories is essential. Preferred areas of expertise include data
networks, telecommunications, and software tools.  Industrial and/or
teaching experience would strengthen a candidate's credentials.

Embry-Riddle is a small, residential university in the mountains of Arizona
where faculty/student interaction is highly valued and is a central theme of
the campus. The department is part of the College of Engineering that also
includes a large aerospace engineering department and a department of
computer science.  There are many opportunities for inter-departmental
teaching and research.  Prescott is rated as one of the most livable areas
in the Southwest and at 5000 above sea level has a mild climate, clean air
and pristine wilderness areas close by.

Send detailed vita information and contact information for three
professional references to Professor Stephen Kahne, Chair, Search Committee,
c/o HR Department, ERAU, 3700 Willow Creek Road, Prescott, AZ 86301. Contact
Professor Kahne at Kahne@erau.edu for further information.  Review of
applications will begin immediately. ERAU is an equal opportunity employer
and particularly encourages applications from women and minorities.


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4.6 Grad Student Research Assoc: University of Patras Greece

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Grad Student, Research Assoc: University of Patras, Greece

Contributed by: John Lygeros, lygeros@ee.upatras.gr

Graduate Student/Research Associate Position
University of Patras, Greece

Funding is available to support a full time graduate student or research
associate to conduct research on the application of automatic control methods
to problems of collision avoidance in air traffic management. The work is
supported by a research project funded by Eurocontrol Experimental Centre. The
position is for three years and available immediately. The successful
candidate is expected to have a degree in engineering, computer science,
mathematics, or related field and experience with automatic control
techniques. For more information please contact 

Dr John Lygeros
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Patras
Patra, GR26500, GREECE
email: lygeros@ee.upatras.gr
Tel.: +30 2610 996458
Fax.: +30 2610 991812


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4.7 PhD: University of Liverpool UK

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PhD: University of Liverpool, UK

Contributed by: D.J.Walker, djwalker@liv.ac.uk

Applications are invited from UK/EU nationals for an EPSRC-funded PhD project 
studentship on flight control and aircraft modelling.

The student will work on the development and testing of aircraft control laws 
for handling qualities improvement, envelope protection and structural load 
alleviation, using control techniques such as H-infinity and LMI 
optimization. The student will join a group with leading expertise in flight 
control, dynamics, handling qualities, and simulation, based in Liverpool's 
5* rated Engineering Department. (For further information on the group, see 
http://www.flightlab.liv.ac.uk/). Liverpool's advanced six-axis flight 
simulator will provide state-of-the-art piloted simulation capabilities, and 
will be used to support the research.

Qualifications and Experience
- 1st or upper 2nd class degree in an appropriate
  branch of engineering or mathematics;
- Good knowledge of control, dynamics, simulation.

Applicants should complete a form, available at 
http://www.liv.ac.uk/~djwalker/PGAF.doc and email this, along with a c.v. and 
covering letter to pgrecruitment@liv.ac.uk, with a copy to djwalker@liv.ac.uk.

Closing Date: 5 January 2004

Dr D.J.Walker
Engineering Dept.
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, L69 3GH, U.K.
0151 794 4808


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4.8 PhD: University of Sheffield UK

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PhD: University of Sheffield, UK

Contributed by: Rita Beech, r.beech@sheffield.ac.uk

Two E-Science PhD Studentships in Grid Computing 

The Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering (ACSE) [5* Grade on 
the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise] is currently involved on a number of 
e-Science Grid Computing projects. The Grid, or Internet 2 as it is sometimes 
known, is a collection of distributed, possibly heterogeneous computing 
resources which can be used as an ensemble to execute reliably, securely and 
on-time, large-scale applications. First developed in the scientific 
community, the Grid is now moving towards a mainstream challenge of reliable, 
robust, scaleable and secure distributed systems.

ACSE is working within an e-Science project, DAME (Distributed Aircraft 
Maintenance Environment), contributing expertise in Decision Support, 
Modelling, Simulation and Workflow Optimisation. DAME is a flagship pilot 
project funded by EPSRC and is a collaborative project involving York, Oxford 
and Leeds Universities as well as industrial partners Rolls-Royce PLC and
Data Systems and Solutions Ltd (see http://www.shef.ac.uk/acse/utc/dame/ ). 

Two PhD Research Studentships (36 months) with bursary of BP 9000 per annum
are available (UK residential status required) to start immediately within
the DAME project on the general research themes of, "Decision Support for
Diagnosis in Aerospace" and "Medical Applications Using Data Mining Via The 
Grid". 

Candidates must have a minimum of a BSc/BEng (Hons) class 2:1 in an 
engineering or a related science subject. Computer programming skills would 
be desirable, and an interest in Artificial Intelligence and/or Data Mining 
would be helpful. 

Those interested should send a covering letter and a resume (CV) to 
p.fleming@sheffield.ac.uk by email (with subject heading: DAME Studentship) 
or if by post to
Professor PJ Fleming
Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering
The University of Sheffield
Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD


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4.9 Post-Doc: Boston University USA

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Post-Doc: Boston University, USA

Contributed by: Tim Gardner, tgardner@bu.edu

Postdoctoral fellowship available to develop inference and control 
algorithms for regulatory functions in complex genetic networks (see Science 
301:102-105, 2003).  Methods developed may include linear, nonlinear and 
probabilistic learning and control techniques using both steady-state and 
time-series data.  Key challenges of the project include high noise, high 
demensionality, and limited sample sizes.  Techniques developed will be 
applied to current problems in drug discovery and bioremediation.  

Applicant will utilize existing gene and biochemical data sets, and will 
work closely with researchers collecting large-scale measurements of gene 
responses to stress and respiratory changes in bacteria.  Expertise in 
multivariate systems, dynamical systems, control theory, system 
identification and statistical learning is critical.  Familiarity with basic 
biology, bioinformatics tools and databases is desirable.  Applicants must 
have a PhD in engineering, computer science, physics, or related discipline. 

Competitive salary and benefits.  Start date: anytime until 9/1/04.

Applicants should send a brief statement of research interests, a CV, and 
names of three references to: 

Dr. Timothy S. Gardner
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
44 Cummington St. 
Boston, MA  02215

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4.10 Post-Doc: Monash University Australia

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Post-Doc: Monash University, Australia

Contributed by: Jingxin Zhang, jingxin.zhang@eng.monash.edu.au

A postdoctoral research fellow position is available in the Department of 
Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Australia.

The applicants are expected to have strong background and experience in 
control and/or signal processing, preferably in one of the following areas: 
robust control and filtering, multirate signal processing and filter bank 
design, spectral estimation.  

The position is supported by Australian Research Council’s Discovery Project 
Grant, initially for one year with the possibility of further extension 
dependent on the progress of research. 

Applicants should send full curriculum vitae to Dr Jingxin Zhang at 
jingxin.zhang@eng.monash.edu.au or Department of Electrical and Computer 
Systems Engineering, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Vic 3800, 
Australia.


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4.11 Post Doc: Swiss Federal Laboratories Switzerland

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Post Doc: Swiss Federal Laboratories, Switzerland

Contributed by: Stan Pietrzko, stanislaw.pietrzko@empa.ch

The main goal of this research is Active Control of Smart Materials and 
Structures. The candidate should have expertise in at least two of the 
following areas: modelling and control of smart materials and structures, 
active and passive noise and vibration control, analytical, advanced FEM 
modelling and experimental mechanics, advanced composite materials and 
structures, DSP’s, MEMS, FPGA's. The credentials of the candidate include a 
balanced theoretical and experimental background in his/her Ph.D. research in 
a speciality area listed above. The candidate will be responsible for 
conducting multi-disciplinary research on smart materials and structures; 
collaborating with and eventually leading on proposal preparation efforts; 
advising of graduate students. Informal enquires may be made to Dr S.J. 
Pietrzko, EMPA - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and 
Research, Ueberlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland, E-Mail: 
stanislaw.pietrzko@empa.ch 


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4.12 Principle Engineer: UTRC USA

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Principle Engineer: UTRC, USA

Contributed by: Greg Luther, luthergg@utrc.utc.com

The Systems Department at the United Technologies Research Center
(UTRC) invites applications for a senior position in diagnostics and
prognostics. The candidate must be a strong technical leader with
experience, and an understanding of the state-of-the-art in signal
estimation and analysis as well as decision analysis, probability and
statistics.

Experience leading projects to produce impact by integrating well
developed teaming and communications skills with experience in project
planning and management are desirable.  Expertise is also desirable in
one or more of the following areas: modeling, simulation, controls,
mechanics, and fluid-thermal systems.  Training or experience in
product reliability, wireless sensing networks, and software process
are also a plus. 

The successful candidate will have demonstrated ability to capitalize
on innovative, business-driven opportunities that are enabled by
diagnostics and prognostics technologies. The candidate will help to
identify these opportunities and to assist in the acquisition of
external contracts using experience gained working with government
funding agencies, generating value propositions, and creating
strategic road maps. The minimal educational requirements are a Ph.D.
in engineering, applied mathematics or physics with 5 years of
experience, or a M.Sc.  supplemented by 10 years of industrial
research experience.

The mission of UTRC is impact through innovation. UTRC partners with
the other UTC business units to impact organic growth of the
Corporation through disruptive innovation, which is manifested in both
new products and new processes. To realize this mission UTRC also
partners with the best research organizations in the world providing
opportunities for external collaboration. The operating units of UTC
include Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky Aircraft, Otis Elevators, Carrier,
Hamilton-Sundstrand aerospace products and UTC Power, including UTC
Fuel Cells and combined heat and power products.

The Systems department enables innovations in products, services,
operations and logistics at the systems level through a focus on
producing total integrated solutions targeted at new and increasing
revenue for UTC. Opportunities are identified and their value realized
through systems engineering. The emphasis in the department is placed
on understanding how systems operate, clarifying the interactions that
exist among subsystems and components and specifying these interfaces
to ensure robust products. These issues are considered across all
stages of the product life cycle including concept generation,
prototype design, volume production, field utilization and field
service. The department has strong competencies rooted in mathematical
modeling of UTC products and processes. The models are validated in
world-class prototyping and experimental facilities and used as a
basis for conceptual design, system optimization and validation. The
department has expertise in energy systems, HVAC systems, chemical
process systems, combustion dynamics, noise and vibration, dynamic
systems and controls, diagnostics and prognostics, operations
research, numerical and computational methods, and embedded systems.
This expertise teams across all phases of the systems engineering
process: architecture specifications; identification of physical
mechanisms; subsystems and component interactions; mathematical
modeling at varying fidelities; simulation and analysis to quantify
system performance and robustness; design of necessary control
systems; and finally, prototype design, fabrication, test and
validation.

The Optimization and Diagnostics group works within integrated product
development teams in a concurrent engineering process to design,
analyze and implement diagnostics and prognostics algorithms for
systems and conduct model-based analyses for new products and
processes. UTRC has a strong tradition in controls that is currently
being accelerated with the strategic focus on system-level innovation
of new products. Fuel cell power plants and advanced fuel processing
systems, building combined heat and power systems, advanced HVAC
systems, industrial gas turbines and aircraft engines, and elevator
control systems are all being studied.

For more information please contact

Dr. Gregory G. Luther
Systems Department Group Leader
Optimization and Diagnostics Group
LutherGG@utrc.utc.edu, (860)-610-2188 



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Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control 2003

Contributed by: Oded Maler, maler@imag.fr

Some extra copies of the proceedings of HSCC03, Prague (Springer LNCS 2623) 
are available at discount prices. The table of contents can be found at 
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/hybrid/hscc2003.html .
Purchase form can be retrieved at http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~maler/facture-
hscc.txt  


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5.2 Mathematics of Internet Congestion Control

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Mathematics of Internet Congestion Control

Contributed by: Seth Barnes, barnes@birkhauser.com

The Mathematics of Internet Congestion Control
R. Srikant, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
December 2003 / 176 pp. / 19 illus. / Hardcover / $54.95 / ISBN: 0-8176-3227-
1 
Series: Systems and Control: Foundations and Applications 

Congestion control algorithms were implemented for the Internet nearly two 
decades ago, but mathematical models of congestion control in such a large-
scale network are relatively new. This text presents models for the 
development of new protocols that can help make Internet data transfers 
virtually loss- and delay-free. Introduced are tools from optimization, 
control theory, and stochastic processes integral to the study of congestion 
control algorithms.

Intended for graduate students and researchers in systems theory and computer 
science, the text assumes basic knowledge of first-year, graduate-level 
control theory, optimization, and stochastic processes, but the key 
prerequisites are summarized in an appendix for quick reference. The work's 
wide range of applications to the study of both new and existing protocols 
and control algorithms make the book of interest to researchers and students 
concerned with many aspects of large-scale information flow on the Internet.

Table of Contents:

Introduction * Resource Allocation * Congestion Control: A Decentralized 
Solution to the Resource Allocation Problem * Relationship to Current 
Internet Protocols * Linear Analysis with Delay: The Single Link Case * 
Linear Analysis with Delay: The Network Case * Global Stability for a Single 
Link and Single Flow * Stochastic Models and their Deterministic Limits * 
Connection-Level Models * Real-Time Sources and Distributed Admission Control 
* Conclusions * Bibliography * Index


For a full book description, as well as ordering information, please visit: 
http://www.birkhauser.com/detail.tpl?isbn=0817632271



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5.3 Multivariable Control Systems - An Engineering Approach

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Multivariable Control Systems - An Engineering Approach

Contributed by: Pedro Albertos, pedro@aii.upv.es

Multivariable Control Systems. An Engineering Approach
Series: Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing 
Albertos, P., Sala, A. 
2004, XVIII, 340 p. 68 illus., Softcover 
ISBN: 1-85233-738-9 
Recommended Retail Price: EUR 69.95
www.springeronline.com

Multivariable control techniques solve issues of complex specification
and modelling errors elegantly but the complexity of the underlying
mathematics is much higher than presented in traditional single-input,
single-output control courses. Multivariable Control Systems focuses
on control design with continual references to the practical aspects
of implementation. While the concepts of multivariable control are
justified, the book emphasises the need to maintain student interest
and motivation over exhaustively rigorous mathematical proof. Tools
of analysis and representation are always developed as methods for
achieving a final control system design and evaluation. 

Features:  design implementation clearly laid out using extensive
reference to Matlab; combined consideration of systems (plant) andh
signals (mainly disturbances) in a fluent but simple presentation; 
step-by-step approach from the objectives of multivariable control to
the solution of complete design problems. 

Multivariable Control Systems is an ideal text for masters students,
students beginning their Ph.D. or for final-year undergraduates looking
for more depth than provided by introductory textbooks. It will also
interest the control engineer practising in industry and seeking to
implement robust or multivariable control solutions to plant problems
in as straightforward a manner as possible.

Table of content:
 Introduction to Multivariable Control
 Linear System Representation: models and equivalence
 Linear system analysis
 Solutions to the control problem
 Decentralised and decoupled control
 Fundamentals of centralised closed-loop control
 Optimisation-based control
 Designing for robustness
 Implementation and other issues

A number of appendices complements the content:
 Summary of SISO systems analysis
 Matrices
 Signal and system norms
 Optimisation
 Multivariable statistics
 Robust control analysis and synthesis


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5.4 Real-Time Optimization by Extremum Seeking Control

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Real-Time Optimization by Extremum Seeking Control

Contributed by: Kartik B. Ariyur, kartik.ariyur@honeywell.com

Title: Real-Time Optimization by Extremum Seeking Control
Authors: Kartik B. Ariyur and Miroslav Krstic
ISBN: 0471468592
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Table of Contents:
Part I: Theory
 1. SISO Scheme and Linear Analysis
 2. Multiparameter Extremum Seeking
 3. Slope Seeking
 4. Discrete Time Extremum Seeking
 5. Nonlinear Analysis
 6. Limit Cycle Minimization

Part II: Applications
 7. Antilock Braking
 8. Bioreactors
 9. Formation Flight
10. Combustion Instabilities
11. Compressor Instabilities: Part I
12. Compressor Instabilities: Part II

Extremum seeking, a popular tool in control applications in the 1940s-1960s,
has seen a return as an exciting research topic and industrial real-time
optimization tool in the 1990's. Extremum seeking is also a method of
adaptive control but it does not fit into the classical paradigm or model
reference and related schemes, which deal with the problem of stabilization
of a known reference trajectory or set point. 

A second distinction between classical adaptive control and extremum seeking
is that the latter is not model based. As such, it provides a rigorous, high
performance alternative to control methods involving neural networks. Its
non-model based character explains the resurgence in popularity of extremum
seeking in the last half a decade: the recent applications in fluid flow,
combustion, and biomedical systems are all characterized by complex,
unreliable models.

Extremum seeking is applicable in situations where there is a nonlinearity
in the control problem, and the nonlinearity has a local minimum or a
maximum. The nonlinearity may be in the plant, as a physical nonlinearity,
possibly manifesting itself through an equilibrium map, or it may be in the
control objective, added to the system through a cost functional of an
optimization problem. Hence, one can use extremum seeking both for tuning a
set point to achieve an optimal value of the output, or for tuning parameters
of a feedback law. The parameter space can be multivariable, a case we cover
extensively in this book.

This book overviews the efforts made over the last seven years to put
extremum seeking on a rigorous analytical footing and to make improvement of
performance in extremum seeking schemes systematic. Stability guidelines that
have been developed are applicable not only to static maps but also to
systems that combine static maps with dynamics in virtually any form, with
the single restriction that the dynamics be open loop stable. The main
accomplishment during the recent period, to which this book is dedicated, is
achieving convergence to the optimum on a time scale comparable to the time
scale of the plant dynamics. In other words, one does not have to try one set
of parameters, wait for the plant transient to settle, try another set of
parameters, wait again, compare the results, try again, and so on. The
convergence of the parameters (set points, gains, etc.) occurs over a period
comparable to the length of the plant transients.


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5.5 Robust Control: The Parametric Approach

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Robust Control: The Parametric Approach

Contributed by: L.H. Keel, keel@gauss.tsuniv.edu

Robust Control: The Parametric Approach by
S.P.Bhattacharyya, H.Chapellat and L.H.Keel
is available for reference and free download at 
http://ee.tamu.edu/People/bios/bhatt/RobustControl.htm 

The book, previously published by Prentice Hall (1995, ISBN 0-13-781576-X),
describes fundamental results in the area of robust control under real
parameter uncertainty and includes a rigorous treatment of Kharitonov's
Theorem, the Edge Theorem, the Generalized Kharitonov Theorem, the Mutilinear
Mapping Theorem, Mixed Structured-Unstructured Uncertainty problems, Robust
Absolute Stability, the computation of real parametric stability margins,
several useful extremal results along with applications to control design.

It contains numerous exercises, a fairly extensive and complete set of
references and a Foreword by the late Russian control scientist Academician
Yaakov Tsypkin. A review of the book appeared in Automatica Vol. 36, No. 10,
October 2000, pp. 1561-1566.


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5.6 Synchronizacion of mechanical systems

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Synchronizacion of mechanical systems

Contributed by: Alejandro Rodriguez-Angeles, arangele@imp.mx

Synchronizacion of mechanical systems
by Henk Nijmeijer (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) & 
Alejandro Rodriguez-Angeles (Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo IMP, Mexico) 
World Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science, Series A - Vol. 46
ISBN 981-238-605-X
World Scientific Publishing
http://www.wspc.com.sg/books/engineering/5391.html

The main goal of this book is to prove analytically and validate
experimentally that synchronization in multi-composed mechanical systems can 
be achieved in the case of partial knowledge of the state vector of the 
systems, i.e. when only positions are measured. For this purpose, 
synchronization schemes based on interconnections between the systems, 
feedback controllers and observers are proposed. Because mechanical systems 
include a large variety of systems, and since it is impossible to address all
of them, the book focuses on robot manipulators. Nonetheless the ideas
developed here can be extended to other mechanical systems, such as mobile
robots, motors and generators. 

Contents: 
 Preliminaries 
 External Synchronization of Rigid Joint Robots 
 External Synchronization of Flexible Joint Robots 
 Mutual Synchronization of Rigid Joint Robots 
 An Experimental Case Study 
 Synchronization in Other Mechanical Systems


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Contents: Asian Journal of Control

Contributed by: Li-Chen Fu, lichen@ntu.edu.tw

Asian Journal of Control
Vol. 5, No. 4, December, 2003

Regular:
1. Title:Robustness Analysis on Sliding Mode Control of Induction Motor
  Author:H. Chekireb, M. Tadjine and M. Djemai
2. Title:Robust Vibration Control for Flexible Arms Using the Sliding
         Mode Method
  Author:Xinkai Chen, Chun-Yi Su and Toshio Fukuda
3. Title:Stabilization of Switched Linear Systems
  Author:Lijun Zhang, Daizhan Cheng and Jiang B. Liu
4. Title:Frequency Domain Analysis of Fast and Slow Motions in Sliding Modes 
  Author:Igor Boiko
5. Title:Optimal and Robust Sliding Mode Control for Linear Systems with
         Multiple Time Delays in Control Input
  Author:Michael Basin, Leonid Fridman, Jesus Rodriguez-Gonzalez and Pedro
         Acosta
6. Title:Sliding Modes, ˇµ-Modulators, and Generalized Proportional Integral
         Control of Linear Systems
  Author:Hebertt Sira-Ramirez
7. Title:An Asymptotic Second-Order Smooth Sliding Mode Control
  Author:Yuri B. Shtessel, Ilya A. Shkolnikov and Mark D. J. Brown

8. Title:Model-Reference Output-Feedback Sliding Mode Controller for a Class
         of Multivariable Nonlinear Systems
  Author:Liu Hsu, Ramon R. Costa and jose Paulo Vilela Soares da Cunha
9. Title:Universal Output-Feedback SISO Controllers
  Author:Arie Levant
10. Title:Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control with Piecewise Linear Switching Manifold
   Author:Mariagrazia Dotoli
11. Title:Sliding Mode Control Synthesis of Uncertain Time-Delay Systems
   Author:Y. Orlow, W. Perruquetti and J. P. Richard
12. Title:Implicit Triangular Observer form Dedicated to a Sliding Mode
          Observer for Systems with Unknown Inputs
   Author:T. Boukhobza, M. Djemai and J. P. Barbot
13. Title:Output-Feedback Control of Container Cranes: A Comparative Analysis
   Author:Giorgio Bartolini, Alessandro Pisano and Elio Usai

Brief:
14.Title:Second Order Sliding Mode Control of a Diesel Engine
  Author:M. Khalid Khan, Keng Boon Goh and Sarah K. Spurgeon
15. Title:A Combined Sliding Mode-Generalized PI Control Scheme for Swinging
          up and Balancing the Inertia Wheel Pendulum
   Author:Victor M. Hernandez
16.Title:Second-Order Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Decomposed Control
          of Uncertain Multivariable Systems
   Author:Yong Feng, Xuemei Zheng and Xinghuo Yu


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6.2 Contents: Automatica December 2003

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Contents: Automatica, December 2003

Contributed by: H. Kwakernaak, automatica@autsubmit.com

Contents: Automatica, November, 2003
Volume 39, Issue 11

For the cumulative table of contents 1963-present and new submissions
visit http://www.autsubmit.com

Regular papers

W. P. Heath
The variation of non-parametric estimates in closed-loop

P. M. Mäkilä
Squared and absolute errors in optimal approximation of nonlinear systems

Brief papers

Hu Shousong, Zhu Qixin
Stochastic optimal control and analysis of stability of networked control
systems with long delay

M. Kordt, J. Ackermann
Aircraft load allevation by robust yaw - lateral decoupling

J. Stefanovski
Polynomial J-spectral factorization in minimal state space

R. Guidorzi, R. Diversi
Minimal representations of MIMO time-varying systems and realization of
cyclostationary models

Jong-Koo Park, Hee Yong Youn
Dynamic anti-windup based control method for state constrained systems

P. Krishnamurthy, F. Khorrami
Decentralized control and disturbance attenuation for large-scale
nonlinear systems in generalized output-feedback canonical form

A.C.M. Ran
Necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of
J-spectral factorization for para-Hermitian rational matrix functions

V. Hagenmeyer, E. Delaleau
Robustness analysis of exact feedback linearization based on differential
flatness

F. Dusonchet, M-O. Hongler
Optimal hysteresis for a class of deterministic deteriorating two-armed
bandit problem with switching costs

Yu-Ping Tian, Xinghuo Yu
Robust learning control for a class of nonlinear systems with periodic and
aperiodic uncertainties

P. Hippe
Windup prevention for unstable systems

Xidong Tang, Gang Tao, S. M. Joshi
Adaptive actuator failure compensation for parametric strict feedback systems
and an aircraft application

Xiaohua Xia
Estimation of HIV/AIDS parameters

M. Bonilla Estrada, M. Malabre
On the control of linear systems having internal variations

W.L. De Koning
Digital optimal reduced-order control of pulse-width-modulated switched
linear systems

Technical communiques

E. Fridman, U. Shaked
On reachable sets for linear systems with delay and bounded peak inputs

Book reviews

E. G. Collins, Jr.
Fuzzy control systems design and analysis: A linear matrix inequality
approach, by Kazuo Tanaka and Hua O. Wang

T. Watanabe
A unified algebraic approach to linear control design, by Robert E.
Skelton, Tetsuya Iwasaki and Karolos M. Grigoriadis

Genshe Chen, J. B. Cruz, Jr.
Advances in aircraft flight control, by Mark B. Tischler


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6.3 Contents: Automatica November 2003

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Contents: Automatica, November 2003

Contributed by: H. Kwakernaak, automatica@autsubmit.com

Contents: Automatica, November, 2003
Volume 39, Issue 11

For the cumulative table of contents 1963-present and new submissions
visit http://www.autsubmit.com

Regular papers

W. P. Heath
The variation of non-parametric estimates in closed-loop

P. M. Mäkilä
Squared and absolute errors in optimal approximation of nonlinear systems

Brief papers

Hu Shousong, Zhu Qixin
Stochastic optimal control and analysis of stability of networked control
systems with long delay

M. Kordt, J. Ackermann
Aircraft load allevation by robust yaw - lateral decoupling

J. Stefanovski
Polynomial J-spectral factorization in minimal state space

R. Guidorzi, R. Diversi
Minimal representations of MIMO time-varying systems and realization of
cyclostationary models

Jong-Koo Park, Hee Yong Youn
Dynamic anti-windup based control method for state constrained systems

P. Krishnamurthy, F. Khorrami
Decentralized control and disturbance attenuation for large-scale
nonlinear systems in generalized output-feedback canonical form

A.C.M. Ran
Necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of
J-spectral factorization for para-Hermitian rational matrix functions

V. Hagenmeyer, E. Delaleau
Robustness analysis of exact feedback linearization based on differential
flatness

F. Dusonchet, M-O. Hongler
Optimal hysteresis for a class of deterministic deteriorating two-armed
bandit problem with switching costs

Yu-Ping Tian, Xinghuo Yu
Robust learning control for a class of nonlinear systems with periodic and
aperiodic uncertainties

P. Hippe
Windup prevention for unstable systems

Xidong Tang, Gang Tao, S. M. Joshi
Adaptive actuator failure compensation
for parametric strict feedback systems
and an aircraft application

Xiaohua Xia
Estimation of HIV/AIDS parameters

M. Bonilla Estrada, M. Malabre
On the control of linear systems having internal variations

W.L. De Koning
Digital optimal reduced-order control of pulse-width-modulated switched
linear systems

Technical communiques

E. Fridman, U. Shaked
On reachable sets for linear systems with delay and bounded peak inputs

Book reviews

E. G. Collins, Jr.
Fuzzy control systems design and analysis: A linear matrix inequality
approach, by Kazuo Tanaka and Hua O. Wang

T. Watanabe
A unified algebraic approach to linear control design, by Robert E.
Skelton, Tetsuya Iwasaki and Karolos M. Grigoriadis

Genshe Chen, J. B. Cruz, Jr.
Advances in aircraft flight control, by Mark B. Tischler




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6.4 Contents: Control Engineering Practice

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Contents: Control Engineering Practice

Contributed by: A. H. Glattfelder, ifacjcep@control.ee.ethz.ch

Control Engineering Practice
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 1-119 (January 2004)

Optimal control of urban drainage systems. A case study, Pages 1-9
G. Cembrano, J. Quevedo, M. Salamero, V. Puig, J. Figueras, J. Marti

A novel method for mixture viscosity control based on change detection,
Pages 11-22
T. Svantesson, G. Olsson

Diagnosis of automotive electronic throttle control systems, Pages 23-30
R. Conatser, J. Wagner, S. Ganta, I. Walker

Frequency adaptive control technique for rejecting periodic runout, Pages
31-40
J.-J. Liu, Y.-P. Yang

Power control of a doubly fed induction machine via output feedback, Pages
41-57
S. Peresada, A. Tilli, A. Tonielli

Diagnosis of acidification states in an anaerobic wastewater treatment plant
using a fuzzy-based expert system, Pages 59-64
E.F. Carrasco, J. Rodriguez, A. Punal, E. Roca, J.M. Lema

Optimal-setting control for complicated industrial processes and ist
application study, Pages 65-74
Z. Wang, Q. Wu, T. Chai

Modular approach to parameter estimation in geared and linear resonant
systems, Pages 75-86
J.G. O'Donovan, R.C. Kavanagh, J.M.D. Murphy, M.G. Egan

In-orbit thruster calibration techniques and experiment results with
UoSAT-12, Pages 87-98
S.-F. Wu, W.H. Steyn, R.E. Bordany

ProcGraph: a procedure-oriented graphical notation for process-control
software specification, Pages 99-111
G. Godena

Milestone report for area 7 industrial applications, Pages 113-119
T.M. Avoy, S.L.J. Jounela, R. Patton, M. Perrier, H. Weber, C. Georgakis


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6.5 Contents: European Journal of Control

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Contents: European Journal of Control

Contributed by: Danila Ferrara, ejc@elet.polimi.it

Contents: European Journal of Control
Vol.9, Nb.5, 2003

On Optimal Control Approach for Hybrid Systems
P. Riedinger, C. Iung, F. Kratz

Discussion on "An Optimal Control Approach for Hybrid Sistems" 
M. Alamir and S. A. Attia
 
Discussion on "An Optimal Control Approach for Hybrid Sistems" 
Anil Nerode
 
Final Comments by the Authors

Case Studies Using Linear Matrix Inequalities for Optimal Anti-Windup 
Synthesis
G. Grimm, I. Postlethwaite, A. R. Teel, M. C. Turner, L. Zaccarian 
 
A New Class of Decentralized Estimators for Large-Scale Systems
M.H. Kazemi, M. Karrari and M.B. Menhaj

Adaptive Learning Control for Feedback Linearizable Systems
D. Del Vecchio, R. Marino and P. Tomei

Discussion on "Adaptive Learning Control for Feedback Linearizable Systems"
In-Jong Ha and Joo-Yung Lee and Byung-Gyo Han

Robust Design of Predictive Controllers in Presence of Unmodeled Dynamics
M. Canale and M. Milanese 

Discussion on "Robust Design of Predictive Controllers in Presence of 
Unmodeled Dynamics" 
Raymond A. de Callafon
 
Final Comments by the Authors
 
Operational description and statistical analysis of linear periodic systems 
on the unbounded interval -infty < t < infty 
B.P. Lampe and E.N. Rosenwasser

Discussion on "Operational description and statistical analysis of linear 
periodic systems on the unbounded interval -infty < t < infty"
Koichi Hidaka

Letter to the Editor
H. Prochŕzka

Final Comments by the Authors


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6.6 Contents: IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology

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Contents: IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology

Contributed by: Misha Skliar, mikhail.skliar@utah.edu

Contents: IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology
November 2003, Vol. 11, No. 6

Editorial
Welcoming New Editor In Chief,	M. Bodson

Regular Papers

Experimental Quantitative Comparison Of Different Control Architectures For 
Master-Slave Teleoperation
        I. Aliaga, A. Rubio, And E. Sanchez

A Soft Computing Approach To Fuzzy Sky-Hook Control Of Semiactive Suspension
        R. Caponetto, O. Diamante, G. Fargione, A. Risitano, And D. Tringali

Gain-Scheduled Wheel Slip Control In Automotive Brake Systems
        T. A. Johansen, I. Petersen, J. Kalkkuhl, And J. Ludemann

Pid Controller Tuning Using Bode's Integrals
        A. Karimi, D. Garcia, And R. Longchamp

Robust Backstepping Control For Slew Maneuver Using Nonlinear Tracking 
Function
        K.-S. Kim And Y. Kim

Modeling And   Control For Switched Linear Parameter-Varying Missile 
Autopilot
	S. Lim And J. How

Power Management Strategy For A Parallel Hybrid Electric Truck
        C.-C. Lin, H. Peng. J. W. Grizzle, And J.-M Kang

Fuel Efficient Rudder And Propeller Control Allocation For Marine Craft:  
Experiments With A Model Ship
        K.-P. Lindegaard And T. I. Fossen

On The Use Of Flexural Wave Propagation Experiments For Identification Of 
Complex Modulus
        K. Mahata, S. Mousavi, T. Soderstrom, M. Mossberg, U. Valdek, And L. 
Hillstrom

Indirect Stator Flux-Oriented Output Feedback Control Of A Doubly-Fed 
Induction Machine
        S. Peresada, A. Tili, And A. Tonielli

Zero- And Low-Bias Control Designs For Active Magnetic Bearings
        P. Tsiotras And B. C. Wilson

Two Antennas Gps-Aided Ins For Attitude Determination
        Y. Yang And J. A. Farrell

Time-Optimal Control Of A Single-Dof Mechanical System Considering Actuator 
Dynamics
        Y.-O. Kim And I.-J. Ha

An Approach To Dual-Stage Servo Design In Computer Disk Drives
        Y.-H. Kim And S.-H Lee

Breif Papers

Adaptive Tracking And Regulation Of A Wheeled Mobile Robot With 
Controller/Update Law Madularity
	W. E. Dixon, M. S. De Queiroz, D. M. Dawson, And T.J. Flynn

Design Of A Class Of Nonlinear Controllers Via State Dependent Riccati 
Equation
	E. B. Erdem And A. G. Alleyne

A Family Of Switching Control Strategies For The Reduction Of Torque Ripple 
In Dtc
	G. Escobar, A. M. Stankovic, E. Galvan, J. M. Carrasco, And R. Ortega

An Experimental Compatrison Of Several Rwm Controllers For A Single-Phase Ac-
Dc Converter
	 D. Karagiannis, E. Mendes, A. Astolfi, And R. Ortega

An H-Infinity Control Design Methodology Dedcated To The Active Control Of 
Vehicle Longitudinal Oscillations
	D. Lefebvre, P. Chevrel, And S. Richard

Simultaneouse On-Line Identification Of Rational Dynamics And Time Delat: A 
Correlation-Based Approach
        A. B. Rad, W. L. Lo, And K. M. Tsang


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6.7 Contents: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

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Contents: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Contributed by: C. Stewart, trac@bu.edu

Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
Volume: 48,   Issue: 11,   Year: Nov. 2003

l infin -bounded robustness for nonlinear systems: analysis and synthesis
Shoudong Huang; James, M.R., Page(s): 1875- 1891

System identification using binary sensors
Le Yi Wang; Ji-Feng Zhang; Yin, G.G., Page(s): 1892- 1907

Backstepping control of linear time-varying systems with known and unknown
parameters
Youping Zhang; Fidan, B.; Ioannou, P.A., Page(s): 1908- 1925

Well-posedness analysis of switch-driven piecewise affine systems
Imura, J., Page(s): 1926- 1935

Markov nets: probabilistic models for distributed and concurrent systems
Benveniste, A.; Fabre, E.; Haar, S., Page(s): 1936- 1950

Two-person zero-sum markov games: receding horizon approach
Hyeong Soo Chang; Marcus, S.I., Page(s): 1951- 1961

Design of T-liveness enforcing supervisors in petri nets
Iordache, M.V.; Antsaklis, P.J., Page(s): 1962- 1974

Control of lti systems subject to unanticipated extreme perturbations using
self-tuning 3-term switching controllers
Chang, M.H.; Davison, E.J., Page(s): 1975- 1985

Finite-dimensional observers for delay systems
Fiagbedzi, Y.A.; Cherid, A., Page(s): 1986- 1990

Probabilistic enhancement of classical robustness margins: a class of
nonsymmetric distributions
Lagoa, C.M., Page(s): 1990- 1994

Deciding co-observability is pspace-complete
Rohloff, K.; Tae-Sic Yoo; Lafortune, S., Page(s): 1995- 1999

2dof controller parametrization for systems with a single i/o delay
Mirkin, L.; Qing-Chang Zhong, Page(s): 1999- 2004

Adaptive neural network control of nonlinear systems with unknown time delays
Shuzhi Sam Ge; Fan Hong; Tong Heng Lee, Page(s): 2004- 2010

A coupled nonlinear spacecraft attitude controller and observer with an
unknown constant gyro bias and gyro noise
Thienel, J.; Sanner, R.M., Page(s): 2011- 2015

Intrinsic difficulties in stochastic control of unstable convolution
operators on Z
Makila, P.M., Page(s): 2015- 2019

Recursive estimation methods for discrete systems
Kueiming Lo; Kimura, H., Page(s): 2019- 2024

Stable, scalable, fair congestion control and aqm schemes that achieve high
utilization in the internet
Kunniyur, S.S.; Srikant, R., Page(s): 2024- 2029

Stable prediction for unstable independent models
Rossiter, J.A., Page(s): 2029- 2035

Synthesis of supervisors enforcing general linear constraints in petri nets
Iordache, M.V.; Antsaklis, P.J., Page(s): 2036- 2039

Root-mean-square gains of switched linear systems
Hespanha, J.P., Page(s): 2040- 2045

Simultaneous pole placement of discrete-time plants using a -periodic
controller
Das, S.K.; Kar, P.K., Page(s): 2045- 2050

Eigenvalue-based algorithms for testing positive realness of siso systems
Weiguo Gao; Yishao Zhou, Page(s): 2051- 2055

Online exact differentiation and notion of asymptotic algebraic observers
Ibrir, S., Page(s): 2055- 2060

On the design of robust controllers for arbitrary uncertainty structures
Lagoa, C.M.; Xiang Li; Sznaier, M., Page(s): 2061- 2065

Invariant subspaces for lpv systems and their applications
Balas, G.; Bokor, J.; Szabo, Z., Page(s): 2065- 2069

Robust pi controller design satisfying sensitivity and uncertainty 
specifications
Yaniv, O.; Nagurka, M., Page(s): 2069- 2072

Comments on "an lmi-based approach for robust stabilization of uncertain 
stochastic systems with time-varying delays"
Huijun Gao; Changhong Wang; Lu Zhao, Page(s): 2073- 2074

Software-Enabled Control: Information Technology for Dynamical Systems
[Book Review]
Samad, T.; Balas, G., Page(s): 2075- 2076


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6.8 Contents: Int Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing

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Contents: Int Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing

Contributed by: Graham Woodward, technology_uk@wiley.co.uk

International Journal of Adaptive Control & Signal Processing
Volume 17, Issues 7-9, 2003
Online ISSN: 1099-1115 Print ISSN: 0890-6327
Visit www.interscience.wiley.com for more information.

Guest Editorial (p 523-525) Alexander Horch, Guy Dumont

Evaluation of controller performance - use of models derived by subspace 
identification (p 527-552) 
S. Bezergianni, C. Georgakis 
 
Determining controller benefits via probabilistic optimization (p 553-568) 
Y. Zhou, J. F. Forbes 

Analysis of multivariable controllers using degree of freedom data (p 569-
588) 
T. J. Harris, W. Yu 
 
A pragmatic approach towards assessment of control loop performance (p 589-
608) 
B. Huang 
 
A comparison of two feedforward control structure assessment methods (p 609-
624) 
M. Petersson, K.-E. Ĺrzén, T. Hägglund 
 
A segmentation-based method for detection of stiction in control valves (p 
625-634) 
A. Stenman, F. Gustafsson, K. Forsman 
 
Process and controller performance monitoring: overview with industrial 
applications (p 635-662) 
K. A. Hoo, M. J. Piovoso, P. D. Schnelle, D. A. Rowan 
 
Performance assessment of level controllers (p 663-684) 
E. C. Horton, M. W. Foley, K. E. Kwok 
 
A relative performance monitor for process controllers (p 685-708) 
Q. Li, J.R. Whiteley, R.R. Rhinehart 
 
Controller performance assessment in set point tracking and regulatory 
control (p 709-727) 
N.F. Thornhill, B. Huang, S.L. Shah


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6.9 Contents: International Journal of Hybrid Systems

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Contents: International Journal of Hybrid Systems

Contributed by: Aghalaya S. Vatsala, Vatsala@Louisiana.edu

International Journal of Hybrid Systems
Volume 3, Number 1, March 2003

CONTENTS

Andrey V. Savkin                                       
A New Approach to Design of Networked Control Systems: H State Estimation 
via Limited Capacity Communication Channels

Grigory Agranovich and Elena Litsyn                    			
Discrete-Continuous Stabilization of Linear Continuous Systems

Gino Labinaz and Martin Guay
Viability, the Solution Set, and Fixed Point Approximation of Hybrid Systems

A. Benzaouia, E. K. Boukas and N. Daraoui
Stability of Continuous-time Linear Systems with Markovian Jumping 
Parameters and Constrained Control

V. Lakshmikantham and A.S.Vatsala    
Hybrid Impulsive Fuzzy Differential Systems

Address for submissions and subscriptions:
Professor A. S. Vatsala
Department of Mathematics
University of Louisiana at Lafayette 
Lafayette, LA 70504, U. S. A
E-Mail: vatsala@louisiana.edu
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~asv5357/journal.html


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6.10 Contents: Linear Algebra and its Applications

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Contents: Linear Algebra and its Applications

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

Linear Algebra and its Applications
Volume 377, Pages 1-297 (15 January 2004)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Numerical range of composition operators on a Hilbert space of Dirichlet
series, Pages 1-10
Catherine Finet and Herve Queffelec

Interlace polynomials, Pages 11-30
Martin Aigner and Hein van der Holst

Optimal frames for erasures, Pages 31-51
Roderick B. Holmes and Vern I. Paulsen

Central polynomials in the matrix algebra of order two, Pages 53-67
Jones Colombo and Plamen Koshlukov

Kantorovich type operator inequalities via the Specht ratio, Pages 69-81
Jun Ichi Fujii, Yuki Seo and Masaru Tominaga

Directed strongly regular graphs obtained from coherent algebras, Pages 83-109
Mikhail Klin, Akihiro Munemasa, Mikhail Muzychuk and Paul-Hermann Zieschang

Linear maps transforming H-unitary matrices, Pages 111-124
Chi-Kwong Li and Nung-Sing Sze

Generalized invertibility in two semigroups of a ring, Pages 125-139
Pedro Patricio and Roland Puystjens

Similarity invariant real linear subspaces and similarity preserving additive 
maps, Pages 141-153
Shuanping Du and Jinchuan Hou

Submultiplicativity vs subadditivity for unitarily invariant norms, Pages 155-
164
Fumio Hiai and Xingzhi Zhan

Approximation theory and matrix completions, Pages 165-179
D. Hadwin, D. R. Larson and D. Timotin

An operator inequality and self-adjointness, Pages 181-194
Bojan Magajna, Marko Petkovek and Aleksej Turnek

On the hardness of efficiently approximating maximal non-L submatrices, Pages 
195-205
Andreas Brieden and Shawn Cokus

Characterization and properties of matrices with generalized symmetry or skew 
symmetry, Pages 207-218
William F. Trench

Distribution of the eigenvalues of random block-matrices, Pages 219-240
Marianna Bolla

Sharp upper bounds on the spectral radius of graphs, Pages 241-248
Jinlong Shu and Yarong Wu

On graphs whose star complement for -2 is a path or a cycle, Pages 249-265
Francis K. Bell and Slobodan K. Simi

Rank-1 nilpotency linear preservers on nest algebras, Pages 267-290
Jianlian Cui, Maozheng Guo and Jinchuan Hou

An upper bound for the permanent of (0,1)-matrices, Pages 291-295
Heng Liang and Fengshan Bai

Author index, Page 297
Editorial board, Pages ii-iii


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6.11 Contents: Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems

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Contents: Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems

Contributed by: Jan H. van Schuppen , mcss@cwi.nl

Contents: Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems
Volume 16, numbers 2 and 3 2003

Giovanni Colombo, Paolo Dai Pra, Vlastimil Krivan and Ivo Vrkoc,
Stochastic processes for bounded noise. MCSS 16 (2003), 95-119.

Kevin A. Grasse,
Admissibility of trajectories for control systems related by smooth mappings.
MCSS 16 (2003), 120-140.

Irina F. Sivergina, Michael P. Polis and Ilya Kolmanovsky,
Source identification for parabolic equations. MCSS 16 (2003), 141-157.

Delfim F.M. Torres,
Lipschitzian regularity of the minimizing trajectories for nonlinear optimal
control problems. MCSS 16 (2003), 158-174.

S.J.L. van Eijndhoven and L.C.G.J.M. Habets,
Equivalence of convolution systems in a behavioral framework.
MCSS 16 (2003), 175-206.

S. Bohacek and E.A. Jonckheere,
Relationship between linear dynamically varying systems and jump linear
systems. MCSS 16 (2003), 207-224.

J.W. van der Woude, C. Commault and J.-M. Dion,
Zero orders and dimensions of some invariant subspaces in linear structured
systems. MCSS 16 (2003), 225-237.

Boleslaw Kacewicz,
Weighted average errors in set-membership estimation. MCSS 16 (2003), 238-253.

INFORMATION
The tables of contents of MCSS and the .pdf files 
of its papers are available from the publisher Springer at:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00498/index.htm

Information on MCSS is available also at the Editors' home pages:
www.cwi.nl/~schuppen/mcss/mcss.html
www.math.rutgers.edu/~sontag/mcss.html

Address for submissions by email or regular mail:
J.H. van Schuppen (Editor-in-Chief MCSS)
CWI
P.O.Box 94079
1090 GB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Email mcss@cwi.nl


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6.12 Contents: Optimal Control Applications and Methods

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Contents: Optimal Control Applications and Methods

Contributed by: Graham Woodward, technology_uk@wiley.co.uk

Optimal Control Applications & Methods
Volume 24, Issue 5, 2003
Online ISSN: 1099-1514, Print ISSN: 0143-2087
Visit www.interscience.wiley.com for more information

Shape sensitivities in a Navier-Stokes flow with convective and grey bodies 
radiative thermal transfer (p 237-256) 
J. Monnier 
 
Using logarithmic penalties in the shooting algorithm for optimal control 
problems (p 257-278) 
J. F. Bonnans, Th. Guilbaud 
 
Solving multi-objective dynamic optimization problems with fuzzy satisfying 
method (p 279-296) 
Cheng-Liang Chen, Chia-Yuan Chang, Daim-Yuang Sun 


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19th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control

Contributed by: S. Sam Ge, elegesz@nus.edu.sg

The 19th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, The Grand 
Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan, 2-4 September, 2004, 
http://www.mk.ces.kyutech.ac.jp/isic04/

The IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC) is an annual 
event sponsored by The IEEE Control Systems Society. The theme of ISIC'04 
is "bio-modeling, bio-control, and bio-inspired systems." The conference 
program committee solicits high-quality papers containing original 
contributions in all areas of theory and applications of intelligent 
control.  Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers 
electronically through the following web site: 
https://www.paperplaza.net/scripts/start.pl 

In your submission, the first page of each manuscript must contain the title 
of the paper, the names and affiliations of the authors and four 
keywords/phrases. In addition, please identify the corresponding author 
giving full contact information, including fax and e-mail, if available, to 
whom all communications will be sent. For more information, please contact 
the Program Chair, Tariq Samad (tariq.samad@honeywell.com).

The Program Committee also solicits proposals for invited sessions. Each 
proposal for an invited session should describe the theme and scope of the 
proposed session and how the papers form a cohesive and complementary group 
related to the session topic. One session typically contains five or six 
papers. The proposal must contain the title and theme of the session and a 
list of paper titles, names and email addresses of the corresponding authors. 
Session proposals must be submitted online through 
https://www.paperplaza.net/scripts/start.pl. 

For more information, please contact the Invited Session Chair, Chun-Yi Su, 
(cysu@me.concordia.ca). 

Deadline for all submissions: January 20, 2004 
Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 15, 2004
Deadline for final submissions: May 15, 2004

Further information: Please consult the conference web site, 
or contact the following persons:

General Chair
S. Sam Ge
National University of Singapore
E-mail: elegesz@nus.edu.sg

Program Chair 
Tariq Samad 
Honeywell Labs
E-mail: tariq.samad@honeywell.com


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7.2 2004 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

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2004 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Contributed by: David L. Pepyne, pepyne@hrl.harvard.edu

43rd IEEE Conference on Decision & Control
December 14-17, 2004
Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas
http://control.bu.edu/ieee/cdc04

The 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) will be held Tuesday 
through Friday, December 14-17, 2004 at Atlantis (a resort of "mythical" 
proportions, www.atlantis.com), Paradise Island, the Bahamas, with 
preconference workshops and tutorials to be announced. The conference is 
sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) and is organized in 
cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 
the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 
the Japanese Society for Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), and the 
European Union Control Association (EUCA). The CDC brings together an 
international community of experts to discuss the state-of-the-art, new 
research results, perspectives of future developments, and innovative 
applications relevant to control, automation, and related areas. For the most 
up to date information please continue to visit the conference website 
(http://control.bu.edu/ieee/cdc04).

KEY DATES
* Deadline for all submissions and proposals:    March 1, 2004
* Notification of Acceptance/Rejection:          July 2004
* Final manuscript submission deadline:          September 1, 2004

Call for Contributed Papers
Papers are invited in the form of regular manuscripts (allotted 6 Proceedings 
pages) and short manuscripts (allotted 2 Proceedings pages). Manuscripts must 
be submitted through the CSS conference submission website 
(http://www.paperplaza.net) and must conform to the NEW CDC POLICY (described 
below) requiring that all manuscripts be in 2-column format and meet strict 
page limits.

Call for Invited Sessions
Proposals are sought from those wishing to organize an invited session. An 
invited session consists of six papers, which should present a unifying theme 
from a diversity of viewpoints. Proposals for invited sessions are submitted 
through the CSS conference submission website (http://www.paperplaza.net), 
and must contain a Summary Statement describing the motivation and relevance 
of the proposed session, accompanied by FULL versions of each invited paper. 
Invited papers are allotted 6 Proceedings pages, and must conform to the NEW 
CDC POLICY described below; ABSTRACTS of invited papers will NOT be accepted. 
Please note that each paper in a proposed invited session will be 
individually reviewed, and that the proposed invited session itself will also 
be rated as a whole. To ensure the continuity of the program and that papers 
addressing similar issues are grouped together, at the discretion of the 
Program Committee, individual papers may be removed from a proposed session 
and replaced by appropriate contributed papers. Likewise, selected papers 
from rejected invited sessions may be placed into the regular program.

Call for Workshops/Tutorials
The Organizing Committee intends to arrange workshops and tutorials to be 
held prior to the Conference, and solicits proposals for appropriate 
subjects. Potential organizers can submit their proposals through the CSS 
conference electronic submission site (http://www.paperplaza.net).

NEW CDC POLICY
* All papers submitted to the CDC for review and publication after acceptance 
must be formatted in the standard 2-column Proceedings format. See the 
Author's Kit at the conference website (http://control.bu.edu/ieee/cdc04) for 
Word and LaTeX style files.

* For the purposes of REVIEW, regular and invited papers are limited to 8 
pages and short papers to 3 pages. Papers exceeding these limits will NOT be 
considered.

* For PUBLICATION in the Proceedings, accepted regular and invited papers are 
limited to 6 pages and short papers to 2 pages. Papers exceeding these limits 
will be published only after payment of a page overlength fee.

* All submissions (papers, invited sessions, workshops, and tutorials) must 
be done electronically through the CSS conference submission website 
(http://www.paperplaza.net).

For complete details see the conference website:
  http://control.bu.edu/ieee/cdc04
or contact the following conference organizers:

General Chair
  Christos G. Cassandras
  Department of Manufacturing Engineering
  and Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE)
  15 St. Mary's St.
  Boston University
  Brookline, MA  02446
  Tel:  (617) 353-7154
  FAX:  (617) 353-4830
  Email:  cgc@bu.edu

Program Chair,
  Weibo Gong
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  and Department of Computer Science
  University of Massachusetts
  Amherst, MA  01003
  Tel:  (413) 545-0384
  Email:  gong@ecs.umass.edu


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7.3 23rd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control

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23rd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control

Contributed by: Bram de Jager, A.G.de.Jager@wfw.wtb.tue.nl

23rd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control
Helvoirt, The Netherlands, March 17-19, 2004
http://bmsc.wtb.tue.nl

The 23rd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control will take place from March 17
to March 19, 2004, in "Conference Hotel Guldenberg" in Helvoirt (The
Netherlands). The meeting aims to promote research activities and cooperation
between researchers in Systems and Control.

The technical program consists of
  1 Invited plenary lectures
     - Bassam Bamieh (Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
       * Distributed control in large actuator/sensor arrays
       * Understanding and controlling turbulent shear flows
     - Fredrik Gustafsson (ISY, LiTH, Linköping, Sweden)
       * Model-based filtering for automotive safety systems
       * The particle filter and its application to positioning
  2 Minicourse on Realization of Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications
     - Bart De Moor (ESAT-SCD, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium)
       * Realization from exact observations
       * The ``noisy'' realization problem
  3 Contributed lectures covering all aspects of systems and control
    theory and its applications.

Contributions for part 3 of the program are now being invited.
A contribution consists of a one page abstract of the presentation.
Accepted abstracts will be included in a ``Book of Abstracts'' which
will be distributed at the meeting.

All further information on the meeting, submissions, registrations,
and location, can be found on the web site:
    http://bmsc.wtb.tue.nl

Important dates:
    December 31, 2003: Deadline for submitting abstracts
    January   9, 2004: Notification regarding acceptance of abstracts
    January  19, 2004: Deadline for early registration
    February 16, 2004: Deadline for final abstract submission.


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7.4 6th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems

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6th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems

Contributed by: Frank Allgower, allgower@ist.uni-stuttgart.de

IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS 2004)
September 1-3, 2004                   
Stuttgart, Germany                    
http://www.nolcos2004.uni-stuttgart.de

Deadline for electronic submission of full papers and invited session 
proposals: January 15, 2004 !!
    
NOLCOS is IFAC's prime conference specialized to the area of nonlinear 
control systems and is held every three years.
The NOLCOS 2004 symposium will take place September 1-3, 2004 in 
Stuttgart, Germany during the time of the famous Stuttgart vine 
festival. 

For the upcoming NOLCOS conference, contributed papers and invited 
sessions are solicited in all areas of nonlinear systems and control. 
See the webpage at www.nolcos2004.uni-stuttgart.de for more details.

Young researchers from the EU and "associated countries" may apply 
for a waiver of the registration fee. Please see the web-page for 
details.

Frank ALLGOWER 
Institute for Systems Theory in Engineering 
University of Stuttgart 
70550 Stuttgart, Germany 
Email: allgower@ist.uni-stuttgart.de 
or: nolcos2004@ist.uni-stuttgart.de 
Tel: +49-711-685-7734 
Fax: +49-711-685-7735



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7.5 Clustering High-Dimensional Data and its Applications

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Clustering High-Dimensional Data and its Applications

Contributed by: Jacob Kogan, kogan@math.umbc.edu

              
Clustering High-Dimensional Data and its Applications
  (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/inderjit/sdm04.html)
Hilton in the Walt Disney World Resort Lake Buena Vista, Florida
   to be Held in Conjunction with the
Third SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2004)
   (http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm04/)
April 24, 2004

The workshop is devoted to clustering high-dimensional data, which arises in
diverse applications such as text/web mining and bioinformatics.

Important Dates
Papers Due: Jan 21, 2004
Notification of Acceptance: Feb 20, 2004
Camera ready: Mar 15, 2004
Workshop: April 24, 2004

Organizers:
Inderjit Dhillon: inderjit@cs.utexas.edu
Jacob Kogan: kogan@math.umbc.edu


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7.6 European conference on Mathematics for Industry

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European conference on Mathematics for Industry

Contributed by: Pavel Kagan, congressoffice@tue.nl

EUROPEAN CONFERENCE on MATHEMATICS for INDUSTRY
June  21-25, 2004, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

The 13th ECMI conference will take place from 21-25 June 2004 in
Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The conference will be devoted to mathematical
and statistical modelling, analysis and simulation of problems arising in
a practical context. The conference is intended for mathematicians,
statisticians, scientists and engineers, both from industry and academia.
There will be invited lectures by distinguished researchers, minisymposia,
contributed papers and posters.  There will be refereed conference
proceedings, to be published by Springer Verlag.

Plenary speakers include:
S.Bisgaard, R.Helmig, J.Hinch, J.Hunt, C.Rogers, C.Rossow, F.Ruggeri,
B.Schrefler, M.Trowbridge, M.Waterman

Deadlines:
Deadline for submission of proposals for minisymposia January 30, 2004
Deadline for early-bird registration February 1, 2004 Deadline for
submission of papers and posters February 25, 2004 Notification of
acceptance of papers and posters March 25, 2004

Conference fees:
                        Regular     Early-bird (before February 1, 2004)
Participant             Eu 360      Eu 330
ECMI and ENBIS member   Eu 330      Eu 270
Student                 Eu 260      Eu 210

For further information, please consult http://www.ecmi2004.tue.nl

Address:
ECMI 2004 Conference Secretariat
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Congress Office, AUD 2.23
PO Box 513
5600 MB  Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Phone:  +31 40 2472753
Fax:    +31 40 2442489
E-mail: congressoffice@tue.nl


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7.7 FDA-IFAC Workshop FDA-04

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FDA-IFAC Workshop FDA-04

Contributed by: Jocelyn Sabatier, sabatier@lap.u-bordeaux.fr

First IFAC workshop on Fractional differentiation and its applications FDA’04
Bordeaux, France, ENSEIRB, July 19-20, 2004

This workshop aims at gathering the experts in the field of fractional
differentiation and its applications and all interested researchers, coming
from universities and industries, in order to make the point on the state of
the art and on current research lines in theory, methodology, applications
and tools.

The following areas will be covered by the workshop: representation tools,
analysis tools, synthesis tools, simulation tools, modeling, system
identification, observation, control, vibration insulation, filtering,
pattern recognition, edge detection.

Scope covers the following disciplines: are thus mainly concerned: Electrical
engineering (modeling of motors, modeling of transformers, skin effect);
Electronics, telecommunications (phase locking loops); Electromagnetism
(modeling of complex dielectric materials); Electrochemistry (modeling of
batteries); Thermal engineering (modeling and identification of thermal
systems); Mechanics, mechatronics (vibration insulation); Rheology (behavior
identification of materials); Automatic control (robust control, system
identification, observation and control of fractional systems); Robotics
(modeling, path tracking, path planning); Signal processing (filtering,
restoration, reconstruction, analysis of fractal noises); Image processing
(fractal environment modeling, pattern recognition, edge detection); Biology,
biophysics (electric conductance of biological systems, fractional models of
neurons, muscle modeling); Physics (analysis and modeling of diffusion
phenomenon); Economy (analysis of Stock Exchange signals).

The fractional systems searchers community lacks of recognized applications
which could be used to compare the methods and strategies that they develop.
This community also lacks of powerful softwares in the areas previously
defined. Besides the presentation of theoretical works and applications, this
workshop can thus also give rise to benchmark, testing bench and software
presentations.

By January 15th, 2004, send your draft paper (4 to 6 pages) to Professor A.
Oustaloup preferably through electronic submissions (.ps or .pdf file). Send
your file as an attachment with an electronic submission letter to:
fda04@lap.u-bordeaux.fr. If electronic submission is not possible send your
draft by mail to : Sabatier Jocelyn, LAP – Université Bordeaux I, 351 Cours
de la Libération, 33400 Talence, France.

Sessions focusing on particular topics are also invited. A special session
should comprise 4 to 6 contributions. The proposal should contain a draft
paper of each contribution should be included. Papers submitted for special
sessions are subject to the same review procedures as regular papers.

IMPORTANT DATES
January 15th, 2004: Submission of manuscript and special sessions
March 15th, 2004: Notification of acceptance
April 15th, 2004: Final manuscript and registration
July 19-20, 2004: Workshop

Please consult the conference web site http://www.lap.u-bordeaux1.fr/fda04,
or contact the FDA04 secretariat: fda04@lap.u-bordeaux1.fr


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7.8 IEEE RTAS 2004 - Special Track on Real-Time Control

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IEEE RTAS 2004 - Special Track on Real-Time Control

Contributed by: Anton Cervin, anton@control.lth.se

Special Track: IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symp
RTAS 2004
Le Royal Meridien, King Edward, Toronto, Canada, May 25-28th
Submission Deadline: January 12th, 2004
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/rtas04

Area PC Chair: Karl-Erik Ĺrzén, Lund, Sweden

RTAS 2004 seeks papers describing significant original contributions to the
broad field of embedded and open real-time computing, control, and
communication, that cover QoS issues in computation and networking, systems
integration, scheduling, operating systems, middleware, software engineering,
dependability, databases, programming languages, system development tools,
performance modeling, and performance control. Special focus is on real-time
and embedded applications ranging from industrial embedded applications such
as aeronautics and automotive systems to open multimedia, telecommunication
and mobile computing systems.

New this year is an explicit track on the role of feedback control in real-
time computing, and the interaction between computing and control systems.
Topics cover the use of real-time control methods within infrastructures as
well as end-user applications, including but not limited to the interaction
of feedback control and scheduling, nonlinear and uncertain real-time
systems, modeling and simulation of performance control, computational models
and languages for control applications, resource-constrained control or 
esource-aware control, temporal robustness, robotics, embedded and hybrid 
ystems, and hybrid control.

Important Dates:
     Submission Deadline:    Monday, January 12, 2004
     Acceptance Decisions:   Monday, March 1st, 2004
     Final Manuscript:       Friday, March 19th, 2004
     Conference:             May 25 - May 28, 2004

Papers should be 10 single-space, double column pages in 10pt font.
For paper submission and other information, see conference web site:
  http://www.cs.virginia.edu/rtas04/


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7.9 IFAC Symposium on Automation in Mining Mineral and Metal processing

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IFAC Symposium on Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal processing

Contributed by: Jean-Christophe Ponsart, Jean-Christophe.Ponsart@cran.uhp-nancy.fr

11th IFAC Symposium on Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal processing -
MMM 2004
Nancy, France - September 8-10, 2004
http://www.cran.uhp-nancy.fr/ifac-mmm2004/
mmm2004@cran.uhp-nancy.fr

Call for Papers 
The National Organizing Committee of MMM 2004 decided to extend the deadline
for submitting papers January 1, 2004.

SPONSORS
IFAC Technical Committee on Automation in Mining, Mineral & Metal Processing
IFAC Technical Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of
 Technical Processes on Control of Biotechnological Systems
SEE; CNRS; UHP-Nancy INPL-Nancy

PLEASE NOTICE THE FOLLOWING DEADLINES:
January 1, 2004      EXTENDED Submission deadline
March 15, 2004       Notification of acceptance
June 15, 2004        Final manuscripts

After Sun City (South Africa, 1995), Dusseldorf (Germany, 1998) and Tokyo
(Japan, 2001), the 11th IFAC Symposium on Automation in Mining, Mineral and
Metal processing (MMM 2004) in held in Nancy (France). The organizing
committee of the IFAC symposium MMM 2004 heartily invite all interested
researchers to submit regular papers or to organize invited sessions.

The aim of this symposium is to review the state of the art and to look at
innovations in the field of automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal
processing. In common with any other engineering fields, environmentals
problems including Recycling, Safety and Reliability considerations as well,
will be highlighted in the Symposium. However, the organizing committee
maintains the view that developments in the basic control methologies and
technologies such as measurement, instrumentation , networking, etc … are
essential to the solution of global problems. The emphasis is placed on
practice of those technologies, but such theoritical researches as accompanied
with practical experience/consideration will be also welcome.

TOPICS:
modelling identification and estimation fault diagnosis advanced control fault
tolerant control signal processing quality monitoring communication and data
management maintenance scheduling production planning, process optimisation AI
methods: expert systems, neural networks, fuzzy control

APPLICATIONS
metal processing hot/cold rolling steel making and continuous casting blast
furnaces and furnaces electro refining hydro metallurgy environment and
recycling waste water treatment mining and mineral processing grinding and
flotation measurement and instrumentation supervision new sensor technologies

For more details, consult the Symposium website at
http://www.cran.uhp-nancy.fr/ifac-mmm2004/


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7.10 Invited Papers: Special Session on Supervisory Control WODES 2004

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Invited Papers: Special Session on Supervisory Control, WODES 2004

Contributed by: N. Rakoto-Ravalontsalama, rakoto@emn.fr

Supervisory Control: Theory and Applications at WODES'2004
Reims, France, September 22-24, 2004)
http://www.univ-reims.fr/wodes04/

The Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES) will be organised for the 
7th time in Reims, France. It aims to provide researchers from different
fields (control theoreticians and control engineers, software engineers 
and computer scientists, operations research specialists) with an opportunity
to exchange information and new ideas, and to discuss new developments in 
the field of DES.

Topics of the invited session
SUPERVISORY CONTROL: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
Supervisory Control is an active area of research since the pioneering
work of Ramadge and Wonham in 1987. Many approaches have been developed,
related to controllability and observability properties; Main applications
concern manufacturing systems and telecommunication systems
The aim of the session is to present new theoretical results and original
approaches of supervisory control, new software developments as well as
implementation issues.

Organizers
Toshimistu Ushio
     Dept. of Systems Innovation
     Osaka University
     1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka,
     Osaka 560-8531, Japan
     Phone and Fax: +81-6-6850-6390
     e-mail: ushio@sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp

Naly Rakoto-Ravalontsalama
     Dept. of Automatic Control
     Ecole des Mines de Nantes (and IRCCyN)
     4, rue Alfred Kastler
     44307 Nantes Cedex 03, France
     Phone: +33 2-5185-8306
     e-mail: rakoto@emn.fr

Deadlines
- Expression of interest:            As soon as possible
  (please send an e-mail to one of the organizers)
- Title and short abstract:          December 15, 2003
- Paper submission deadline:         January  31, 2004
- Notification of acceptance:        April 20, 2004
- Final version due:                 May 25, 2004


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7.11 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation

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Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation

Contributed by: Veysel Gazi, veysel_gazi@atilim.edu.tr

Electronic submission of manuscripts to the 
12th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED'04) 
to be held between June 6-9 in Kusadasi, Turkey, is now available at
http://flrcg.rasip.fer.hr/med2004/

For more information about the conference please visit the web site 
http://mecha.ee.boun.edu.tr/med'04/



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7.12 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware

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NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware

Contributed by: David Gwaltney, david.a.gwaltney@nasa.gov

The 2004 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH-2004) builds upon  the
tradition of the successful series of NASA/DoD Workshops (the first Workshop
hosted by JPL  in Pasadena, 1999; the second Workshop hosted by NASA Ames in
Palo Alto, 2000; and the third  Workshop hosted by JPL in Long Beach in 2001)
and Conferences (2002 hosted by NASA Goddard in  Washington, DC and 2003
hosted by AMES in Chicago) on Evolvable Hardware.

Evolvable Hardware is an emerging field that applies evolution to automate 
design and adaptation of physical reconfigurable and morphable structures such
as electronic  systems, antennas, MEMS and robots. The purpose of this
conference is to bring together leading  researchers from the evolvable
hardware community, representatives of the automated design and 
programmable/reconfigurable hardware communities, technology developers and
end-users from the aerospace,  military and commercial sectors. Evolvable
hardware techniques enable self-reconfigurability, adaptability  and learning
by programmable devices and thus have the potential to  significantly increase
the functionality of deployable hardware systems.

Evolvable Hardware is expected to have major impact on deployable systems  for
space systems and defense applications that need to survive and perform at
optimal  functionality during long duration in unknown, harsh and/or changing
environments. It is also expected to greatly  enhance the capability of
systems that need modification, upgrade and learning without  interrupting
their operation.

This year's Conference will introduce two new features: early submission of 
abstracts previous to full-paper submission and the organization of Special
Sessions. 

Please see the conference website for details;
http://ehw.jpl.nasa.gov/events/nasaeh04/


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