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Change of Address: Hai Lin

Contributed by: Hai Lin, elelh@nus.edu.sg

My new contact information is:

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Block E4, Level 5, Room 48 
4 Engineering Drive 3 
Singapore 117576 
National University of Singapore

E-Mail: elelh@nus.edu.sg

With Best Regards,
Hai Lin 




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1.2 Change of Address: Maurice Heemels

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Change of Address: Maurice Heemels

Contributed by: Maurice Heemels, m.heemels@tue.nl

Dr. ir. Maurice Heemels

Associate Professor 			Research Fellow 

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven	        Embedded Systems Institute
Dept. Mechanical Engineering		
Control System Technology Group

P.O. Box 513, 56OO MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Building: W-hoog 0.140
Tel: +31 (0) 40 247 3361
http://www.dct.tue.nl/
e-mail: m.heemels@tue.nl


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1.3 Change of Address: Peter Kootsookos

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Change of Address: Peter Kootsookos

Contributed by: Peter Kootsookos, p.kootsookos@ieee.org

My new contact details:

Peter J. Kootsookos
Central Engineering
UTC Fire & Security
9 Farm Springs Road
Farmington, CT 06032
USA

E-mail: peter.kootsookos@fs.utc.com
Telephone: (860) 284 3236
Fax:       (860) 660 8616


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Summer School: Fast Estimation and Identification

Contributed by: Michel Fliess, Michel.Fliess@polytechnique.edu

Summer School - September 11-15, 2006 - Grenoble, France
FAST ESTIMATION AND IDENTIFICATION METHODS IN CONTROL AND SIGNAL

Main speakers: M. Fliess, C. Join, J. Masse, M. Mboup, J. Reger, J. Rudolph, 
K. Schlacher, H. Sira-Ramirez, A. Voda

Audience: PhD students, academic researchers, engineers

In automatic control, in signal processing, and in numerous other fields of 
applied sciences, identification and estimation techniques play a prominent 
role. This summer school is devoted to new fast methods which allow:

1. closed-loop parametric identification for linear and nonlinear systems,
2. nonlinear state estimation,
3. fault diagnosis and accomodation for linear and nonlinear systems,
4. noise removal, symbol by symbol demodulation, polynomial phase signal 
estimation, nonstationary signal analysis, change point detection.

The goal of this summer school is to present in a coherent and pedagogical 
fashion the basic tools. Several concrete case-studies will be thoroughly 
presented. Many sessions will be devoted to computer exercises in order to 
provide all the participants with a working knowledge of this new methodology.

For registration and for further information please refer to the webpage:
http://www.lag.ensieg.inpg.fr/ecole-ete-auto/index.html


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2.2 Summer School: University of Leicester UK

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Summer School: University of Leicester, UK

Contributed by: Guido Herrmann, gh17@le.ac.uk

MATHEMATICS FOR ROBUST AND NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS 17 - 23 September 2006

The School is aimed primarily at PhD students in control and related
subjects but will also be suitable for practising (industrial)
engineers wanting to understand the scope and limitations of
advanced control methods.

http://www.le.ac.uk/engineering/research/groups/control/menu.html

We have expert speakers from Leicester, around the UK (Keith Glover,
Roger Goodall, Robert Harrison, Nicos Karcanias, David Limebeer,
Eugene Ryan, Alan Zinober & Argyrios Zolotas) and two international
guest speakers (Pablo Iglesias & Anders Rantzer).

There will be formal lectures, hands-on sessions, case studies,
tutorials and plenty of opportunities to network.


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Autonomous Mobile Robots: Sensing, Control, Decision-Making, and Applications

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

S.S. Ge and F.L. Lewis, Editors, Autonomous Mobile Robots: Sensing, Control, 
Decision-Making, and Applications, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2006. ISBN:/0-8493-
3748-8/Price/$169.95/Pages: 736

To bring forth a generation of truly autonomous and intelligent robotic 
systems that will meld effortlessly into the human society involves research 
and development on several levels, from robot perception, to control, to 
abstract reasoning. This book tries for the first time to provide a 
comprehensive treatment of autonomous mobile systems, ranging from 
fundamental technical issues to practical system integration and 
applications. Five distinct parts of the book, each consisting of several 
chapters, emphasize the different aspects of autonomous mobile systems, 
starting from sensors and control, and gradually moving up the cognitive 
ladder to planning and decision making, finally ending with the integration 
of the four modules in application case studies of autonomous systems. This 
book is primarily intended for researchers, engineers, and graduate students 
involved in all aspects of autonomous mobile robot systems design and 
development. Undergraduate students may also find the book useful, as a 
complementary reading, in providing a general outlook of the various issues 
and levels involved in autonomous robotic system design. 


Table of Contents:

I	Sensors and Sensor Fusion
Chapter 1	Visual Guidance for Autonomous Vehicles: Capability and Challenges 
by Andrew Shacklock, Jian Xu, and Han Wang
Chapter 2	Millimeter Wave RADAR Power-Range Spectra Interpretation for 
Multiple Feature Detection by Martin Adams and Ebi Jose
Chapter 3	Data Fusion via Kalman Filter: GPS and INS by Jingrong Cheng, Yu 
Lu, Elmer R. Thomas, and Jay A. Farrell
Chapter 4	Landmarks and Triangulation in Navigation by 
Huosheng Hu, Julian Ryde, and Jiali Shen

II	Modeling and Control
Chapter 5	Stabilization of Nonholonomic Systems
By Alessandro Astolfi
Chapter 6	Adaptive Neural-Fuzzy Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots
By Fan Hong, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Frank L. Lewis, and Tong Heng Lee
Chapter 7	Adaptive Control of Mobile Robots Including Actuator Dynamics
By Zhuping Wang, Chun-Yi Su, and Shuzhi Sam Ge
Chapter 8	Unified Control Design for Autonomous Car-Like Vehicle Tracking 
Maneuvers by Danwei Wang and Minhtuan Pham

III	Map Building and Path Planning
Chapter 9	Map Building and SLAM Algorithms by José A. Castellanos, José 
Neira, and Juan D. Tardós
Chapter 10	Motion Planning: Recent Developments by Héctor H. González-
Bańos, David Hsu, and Jean-Claude Latombe
Chapter 11	Multi-Robot Cooperation by Rafael Fierro, Luiz Chaimowicz, 
and Vijay Kumar

IV	Decision Making and Autonomy
Chapter 12	Knowledge Representation and Decision Making for Mobile 
Robots by Elena Messina and Stephen Balakirsky
Chapter 13	Algorithms for Planning under Uncertainty in Prediction 
and Sensing byJason M. O’Kane, Benjamín Tovar, Peng Cheng, and Steven M. 
LaValle
Chapter 14	Behavior-Based Coordination in Multi-Robot Systems by 
Chris Jones and Maja J. Matari´c

V	System Integration and Applications
Chapter 15	Integration for Complex Consumer Robotic Systems: Case 
Studies and Analysis by Mario E. Munich, James P. Ostrowski, and Paolo 
Pirjanian
Chapter 16	Automotive Systems/Robotic Vehicles by Michel R. Parent 
and Stéphane R. Petti
Chapter 17	Intelligent Systems by Sesh Commuri, James S. Albus, and 
Anthony Barbera

For more information and ordering visit:
http://www.crcpress.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?
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4.2 Fundamentals of Signals and Systems Using the Web and MATLAB Third Edition

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Fundamentals of Signals and Systems Using the Web and MATLAB, Third Edition

Contributed by: Edward W. Kamen, circle2us@yahoo.com

Fundamentals of Signals and Systems Using the Web and MATLAB, Third Edition by
Edward W. Kamen and Bonnie S. Heck.

Pearson Prentice Hall. 
ISBN: 0-13-168737-9; 2007 (to appear in July 2006): 650 pages.

With the presentation at an introductory level, this book contains a
comprehensive treatment of continuous-time and discrete-time signals and
systems, with demos on the textbook website, data downloaded from the Web, and
illustrations of numerous MATLAB® commands for the solution of a wide range of
problems arising in engineering and in other fields such as financial data
analysis. The third edition is a major revision of the previous edition in
that the degree of mathematical complexity has been reduced, practical
applications involving downloaded data and other illustrations have been
added, and the material has been reorganized in a significant way so that the
flexibility in using the book in a one-quarter or one-semester course should
be greatly enhanced. Highlights of the revised content of the third edition
include the following: 

1. The presentation has been simplified by deletion or rewrite of various
mathematical parts of the previous edition, and by inclusion of new
illustrations that should give additional insight into the meaning and
significance of the mathematical formulations covered in the text. Summaries
have been added at the end of the chapters to highlight the material covered
in the chapters. 
2. The core of the new edition consists of Chapters 1–7, most of which an
instructor should be able to cover in a one-quarter course. For a one-semester
course, an instructor should be able to cover the material in Chapters 1–7 and
then select material on filtering, controls, and/or the state representation
that can be found in Chapters 8–11. 
3. The new edition contains practical applications that use actual data
downloaded from the Web. It is shown how the data can be downloaded and then
imported into MATLAB for analysis by techniques covered in the text. The focus
is on the problem of data analysis in the presence of noise, which often
arises in engineering, business and finance, and other fields. Details are
given on the analysis of stock price data with the objective of determining if
the trend in the stock price is up or down. 
4. The new edition contains a major enhancement of the MATLAB component. In
particular, the MATLAB Symbolic Math Toolbox that is available in the Student
Version (7.0.1) of MATLAB is used throughout the text to complement and
simplify various computational aspects of the theory and examples given in the
book. Many examples are given that illustrate how this tool can be used to
solve differential equations and to evaluate integrals for computing system
responses and Fourier and Laplace transforms and inverse transforms, including 
inverse z-transforms. Simulink is also used to build system models and
simulate system behavior. 
5. The textbook website (address to be given) developed by Bonnie Heck has
been updated with the inclusion of additional worked problems, all the data
files and M-files for the third edition, and other new materials. Also on the
website are the online demos previously mentioned and a tutorial on MATLAB. 
6. The material on control systems has been enhanced and includes the addition
of the description of a digital control lab project based on a LEGO®
MINDSTORMS® kit. The lab project provides students with a “hands-on”
experience in designing and implementing digital controllers for a dc motor. 

Table of Contents

1.  Fundamental Concepts 
2.  Time-Domain Models of Systems
3.  The Fourier Series and Fourier Transform 
4.  Fourier Analysis of Discrete-Time Signals 
5.  Fourier Analysis of Systems 
6.  The Laplace Transform and the Transfer Function Representation 
7.  The z-Transform and Discrete-Time Systems 
8.  Analysis of Continuous-Time Systems by Use of the Transfer Function 
9.  Application to Control 
10. Design of Digital Filters and Controllers 
11. State Representation 
Appendix A  Brief Review of Complex Variables
Appendix B  Brief Review of Matrices 
Bibliography

For more information:
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4.3 Fuzzy Controller Design: Theory and Applications

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Fuzzy Controller Design: Theory and Applications

Contributed by: Stjepan Bogdan, stjepan.bogdan@fer.hr

Fuzzy Controller Design: Theory and Applications
ISBN:0-8493-3747-X
DK6032 - CRC Press, Taylor&Francis Group

Fuzzy control methods are critical for meeting the demands of complex
nonlinear systems. They bestow robust, adaptive, and self-correcting character
to complex systems that demand high stability and functionality beyond the
capabilities of traditional methods. A thorough treatise on the theory of
fuzzy logic control is out of place on the design bench. That is why Fuzzy
Controller Design: Theory and Applications offers laboratory- and
industry-tested algorithms, techniques, and formulations of real-world
problems for immediate implementation. 

With surgical precision, the authors carefully select the fundamental elements
of fuzzy logic control theory necessary to formulate effective and efficient
designs. The book supplies a springboard of knowledge, punctuated with
examples worked out in MATLAB®/SIMULINK®, from which newcomers to the field
can dive directly into applications. It systematically covers the design of
hybrid, adaptive, and self-learning fuzzy control structures along with
strategies for fuzzy controller design suitable for on-line and off-line
operation. Examples occupy an entire chapter, with a section devoted to the
simulation of an electro-hydraulic servo system. The final chapter explores
industrial applications with emphasis on techniques for fuzzy controller
implementation and different implementation platforms for various applications.

With proven methods based on more than a decade of experience, Fuzzy
Controller Design: Theory and Applications is a concise guide to the
methodology, design steps, and formulations for effective control solutions.

Offering practical insight for solving problems in practice, this book ...

- Presents clear, practical, easy-to-use methods for designing and
implementing fuzzy control systems
- Addresses the heuristic nature of fuzzy controller design and methods to
overcome the resulting problems
- Examines the design of hybrid, adaptive, and self-learning fuzzy control
structures
- Explains original concepts and methods such as phase-plane-based initial
presetting, sensitivity model-based self-organization, and PLC-based
implementation
- Provides easy-to-follow worked examples in MATLAB®

Audience
Electrical engineers in controls, power electronics, and electrical drives;
researchers in intelligent systems, controls, and fuzzy systems;
manufacturers, designers, and users of embedded systems, control electronics,
and process control systems.

Contents

INTRODUCTION

FUZZY CONTROLLER DESIGN
Fuzzy Sets
Linguistic Variables
Fuzzy Rules
Fuzzy Controller Structure
Fuzzy Controller Stability
References

INITIAL SETTING OF FUZZY CONTROLLERS
Fuzzy Emulation of P-I-D Control Algorithms
Model Reference Based Initial Setting of Fuzzy Controllers
Phase Plane-Based Initial Setting of Fuzzy Controllers
Practical Examples: Initial Setting of a Fuzzy Controller
References

COMPLEX FUZZY CONTROLLER STRUCTURES
Hybrid Fuzzy Control
Adaptive Fuzzy Control
References

SELF-ORGANIZING FUZZY CONTROLLER
Self-Organizing Fuzzy Control Based on the Direct Lyapunov Method
Self-Organizing Fuzzy Control Based on the Hurwitz Stability Criteria
Self-Organizing Fuzzy Control Based on Sensitivity Functions
References

FUZZY CONTROLLERS AS MATLAB SUPERBLOCKS
Features of MATLAB Fuzzy Logic Toolbox
Hybrid Fuzzy Controller Super-Block for Matlab
Polynomial-Based PSLFLC Matlab Super-Block
Sensitivity Model-Based SLFLC MATLAB Super-Block
Design Project: Fuzzy Control of an Electro-Hydraulic Servo System
References

IMPLEMENTATION OF FUZZY CONTROLLERS FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
Brief Overview of Industrial Fuzzy Controllers
Implementation Platforms for Industrial Fuzzy Logic Controllers
Examples of Fuzzy Controller Applications in Process Control
References


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4.4 Group Coordination and Cooperative Control

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Group Coordination and Cooperative Control

Contributed by: Tommy Gravdahl, Tommy.Gravdahl@itk.ntnu.no

Group Coordination and Cooperative Control
Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences , Vol. 336 
Pettersen, K.Y.; Gravdahl, J.T.; Nijmeijer, H. (Eds.) 
2006, XII, 311 p., 92 illus., Softcover.
ISBN: 3-540-33468-8

Group coordination and cooperative control are topics that are currently 
receiving a lot of interest in a variety of research communities, including 
biology, robotics, communications and sensor networks, artificial 
intelligence, automatic control etc. Coordinating the motion of a group of 
relatively simple and inexpensive agents can cover a larger operational area 
and achieve complex tasks that exceed the abilities of one single agent. 
Group coordination and cooperative control are enabling technologies for 
applications such as teams of cooperative robots performing demining 
operations, aerospace formation flying for imaging and survey operations, 
fleets of AUVs doing oceanographic surveys and environmental surveillance, 
and ships doing coordinated towing operations. 
Inspired by the progress in the field, a workshop on Group Coordination and 
Cooperative Control was organised in Tromsř, Norway, 2006. The objective of 
this workshop was to focus on the control theoretic challenges that group 
coordination and cooperation raise. By bringing together a small number of 
researchers in control systems, providing an intimate ambience with 
presentations of recent results and discussions of theoretical challenges, 
industrial needs, unresolved problems and future research directions, the 
aim was to lay the ground for future research and cooperation on the topics 
of Group Coordination and Cooperative control.
This volume contains the contributions of the workshop. The contributions 
cover a wide range of subjects and the book is an up-to-date text on the 
newer trends in group coordination and formation control.

More information: http://www.springer.com/east/home/engineering?SGWID=5-175-
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4.5 Intelligent Fault Diagnosis

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Intelligent Fault Diagnosis

Contributed by: F.L. Lewis, Lewis@uta.edu

New Book:  G. Vachtsevanos, F.L. Lewis, M. Roemer, A. Hess, B. 
Wu, “Intelligent Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis for Engineering Systems,” 
John Wiley, New York, 2006.

ISBN: 0-471-72999-X
Website: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-
047172999X,descCd-emf_form.html

	Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) and Prognostics and Health 
Management (PHM) have emerged over the past years as significant 
technologies that make an impact on both military and commercial machinery 
maintenance practices.  We have witnessed a true paradigm shift in the way 
complex dynamical systems (aircraft and spacecraft, shipboard systems, 
industrial and manufacturing processes, etc.) are designed, monitored and 
maintained.  Automated intelligent fault diagnosis and failure prognosis of 
the failing component’s remaining useful life as well as logistics support 
activities required to maintain, repair or overhaul such critical systems 
require the active contribution from multiple disciplines. This book 
presents a unified approach to this challenging topic and introduces 
emerging technologies that have been proven to provide substantial benefits 
to the maintenance and reliability community.

This book provides a comprehensive textbook treatment of Intelligent Fault 
Diagnosis and Prognosis for Engineering Systems based on years of work at 
Georgia Tech Impact Technologies and other major R&D organizations on 
government and industry contracts dealing with actual industrial and 
aerospace systems. Case studies are given of diagnostic and prognostic 
system design for actual industrial and aerospace systems. The Prologue is 
written by Andy Hess, the recognized guru of PHM and head of the JSF Program 
Office. Mr. Hess provides an insightful perspective of the history, 
significance and future directions of this exciting new technology.  Chapter 
1 is an Introduction to diagnosis and prognosis, including a historical 
perspective in designing fault diagnostic and prognostic systems.  Chapter 2 
presents a systems approach to CBM/PHM including trade studies, failure 
modes and effects criticality analysis, and performance assessment 
techniques.  Chapter 3 considers sensors and sensing strategies, including 
sensor placement, wireless sensor networks, and smart sensors.  Chapter 4 
gives mathematical tools for signal processing and data base management, 
including signal pre-processing, feature or Condition Indicator selection 
and extraction, vibration monitoring and data analysis, database management 
schemas, and fusion and integration technologies.

Chapter 5 treats fault diagnosis, presenting a diagnostic framework, and the 
basic diagnostic approaches of historical data methods, data-driven fault 
classification and decision-making, and physical model based methods.  Also 
included are model based reasoning, case based reasoning, and a diagnostic 
framework for electrical/electronic systems.  Chapter 6 treats fault 
prognosis, covering model-based, probability-based, and data driven 
prediction techniques with special emphasis on Bayesian estimation 
methodologies that combine effectively physics-based fatigue or failure 
models with measurements. Chapter 7 presents fault diagnosis and prognosis 
performance metrics, PHM/CBM requirements definitions, effectiveness 
metrics, and cost-benefit analysis of CBM and PHM Systems.  Chapter 8 deals 
with logistics and support of systems in operation, including product 
support architecture, knowledge bases, and maintenance scheduling 
strategies.  An appendix gives software useful for CBM/PHM.  


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4.6 Nonlinear H2H-Infinity Constrained Feedback Control

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Nonlinear H2,H-Infinity Constrained Feedback Control

Contributed by: Frank L. Lewis, Lewis@uta.edu

New Book:  M. Abu-Khalaf, Jie Huang, and F.L. Lewis, “Nonlinear H2/H-
Infinity Constrained Feedback Control: A Practical Design Approach Using 
Neural Networks,” Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006.
ISBN: 1-84628-349-3 
Website: http://www.springer.com/east/home/engineering?SGWID=5-175-22-
133288565-0 
 
Table of Contents:

    Chapter 1:  Preliminaries and Introduction.- 
    Chapter 2:  Policy Iterations and H2 Constrained State Feedback Control. 
    Chapter 3:  Nearly H2 Optimal Neural Network for Constrained Input 
                Systems.
    Chapter 4:  Policy Iterations and H-infinity Constrained State Feedback 
                Control.
    Chapter 5:  Nearly H-infinity Optimal Neural Network for Constrained 
                Input Systems.
    Chapter 6:  Taylor Series Approach to Solving HJI Equation.- 
    Chapter 7:  An Algorithm to Solve Discrete HJI Equation Arising from 
                Discrete Nonlinear H-infinity Control Problem. 
    Chapter 8:  H-infinity Static Output Feedback.
 
This book presents computationally effective and rigorous methods for 
solving control design equations in the Hamilton-Jacobi class for nonlinear 
systems, including H2 optimal control and H-infinity control. The approach 
taken is the approximation of the value functions of the HJ equations by 
nonlinear network structures such as neural networks. It is known that 
neural networks have many properties, some of them remarkable and none more 
important than the “universal function approximation property”. In this 
book, we use neural networks to solve HJ equations to obtain nearly optimal 
solutions.  The convergence of the solutions and the guaranteed performance 
properties of the controllers derived from them are rigorously shown using 
mathematical analysis techniques.
 
The result of the nearly optimal solution procedures provided in this book 
is an extension to modern nonlinear systems of accepted and proven results 
like those already known for linear systems. Included are optimal controls 
design for nonlinear systems, H-infinity design for nonlinear systems, 
constrained-input controllers including minimum-time design for nonlinear 
systems, and other results that are essential for effective utilization of 
the full envelope of capabilities of modern systems.
 
The book is organized into eight chapters. In Chapter 1, preliminarily 
results from four main areas are collected. These results can be thought of 
as the building blocks upon which the rest of the book relies. Chapter 2 
introduces the policy iterations technique to constrained nonlinear optimal 
control systems. It is shown that one can solve the optimal control problem 
by iterative optimization. Chapter 3 introduces neural network training as a 
means to solve the iterative optimizations introduced in Chapter 2. Both 
Chapter 2 and 3 therefore introduce neural networks to the solution of 
optimal control problems for constrained nonlinear systems by using 
iterative optimization techniques based on policy iterations, dynamic 
programming principles, function approximation, and neural network training.
 
In Chapter 4, the application of reinforcement learning to zero-sum games 
appearing in H-infinity control is discussed. The result is an iterative 
optimization technique that solves the zero-sum game. Chapter 5 shows an 
implementation of neural networks to the solution of the iterative 
optimization problems for the case of zero-sum games.  In Chapters 6 and 7, 
a systematic approach to the solution of the value function for the case of 
zero-sum games is shown in both continuous time and discrete time 
respectively. In this case, unlike the previous chapters, the solution is 
aimed at directly without using neural networks or iterative optimizations.  
Chapter 8 addresses constraints on the measured output. The static output 
feedback control for H-infinity control is treated. An iterative method to 
solve for the static output feedback gain for the case of linear systems is 
presented. The work in Chapter 8 is based on collaborative research with 
Jyotirmay Gadewadikar who contributed this chapter.  Simulations presented 
in this book are implemented using The MathWorks MATLAB software package.


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Asian Journal of Control: Special Issue CFP

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

A Special Issue on  "Networked Embedded Hybrid Control Systems"
http://www.ajc.org.tw

     Embedded systems and software are a key enabling technology for the 
recent vast increase in functionality of a huge list of engineering 
applications such as avionics, veitronics (automotive electronics), 
manufacturing systems, power networks, medical devices and transportation 
systems. The recent explosion in the number of processors for delivering 
greater functionality automation and efficiency provided have set the stage 
for  a new set of advances in the design and analysis of networked embedded 
control systems. In turn the control of network embedded systems requires a 
deeper understanding on the nature of interactions between the computational 
and physical worlds. Concomitantly, there has also been a great deal of 
excitement and activity in the area of sensor networks for distributed, real-
time monitoring of the physical world. By and large, the use of these sensor 
networks has thus far been limited to sensing and monitoring the 
environment: that is to say that the ˇ§loop has been closedˇ¨ only in a 
relatively small number of applications. Closing the loop around these 
networked, embedded devices, will necessitate the  computational processes 
in these computing devices to interact with the dynamics of the processes 
being controlled. This, in turn, will result in the need to design and 
analyze hybrid control systems. As a consequence, models of computation 
required to design and analyze the closed loop systems will need to have a 
hierarchy of layerings of finite state discrete computation and infinite 
state dynamical systems. We refer to these as hybrid systems. Additionally, 
the wireless (and wired) networking of the embedded processors will result 
in the need for analysis of networked embedded hybrid control systems.

     The design of network embedded hybrid control systems is challenging
owing to the hybrid dynamics of the systems, concurrency and the need for 
establishing real time guarantees for communication protocols (which for the 
most part are best effort protocols at the current time), and probabilistic 
issues arising from the networking protocols and the wireless medium. 
Furthermore, the design is driven by multi-objective optimization criteria 
and by semantically imprecise specifications of their performance.

     The goal of this special issue is to provide a forum for control 
researchers to submit  their latest research results in the area of 
networked embedded hybrid control systems, including theory, design methods, 
simulation, tools and applications of new modeling frameworks, analysis 
techniques, design tools, testing (verification and validation) methods, and 
optimization techniques for networked embedded control systems.. This 
includes, in particular, the evolution of SCADA/DCS (Supervisory Control And 
Data Acquisition/Distributed Control Systems), control of communication 
networks and the control of physical infrastructure systems

Guest Editors : 
Prof. T. John Koo
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
U.S.A.
Tel: (615) 322-2338 
Fax: (615) 343-6702
E-mail: john.koo@vanderbilt.edu

Prof. Shankar Sastry
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California,
U.S.A.
Tel: (510) 643-2200
Fax: (510) 643-2356
E-mail: sastry@eecs.berkeley.edu

Important Dates : 
April 15, 2006     Call for Papers
October 15, 2006   Deadline for Paper Submission
March 1, 2007      Completion of First Review
June 1, 2007       Completion of Final Review
December 31, 2007  Publication

Potential authors are strongly encouraged to upload the electronic file of
their manuscript (in Postscript or PDF format) through on-line submission 
interface on the journal website http://www.ajc.org.tw. In case you 
encounter any submission problem, you are free to contact Prof. Li-Chen Fu, 
Editor-in-Chief of Asian Journal of Control at the following address: 

Prof. Li-Chen Fu 
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, EE II-524
National Taiwan University
Taipei 10617, Taiwan 
Tel : +886-2-2362-2209 
Fax: +886-2-2365-7887 
Email: lichen@ntu.edu.tw

Submission of a manuscript signifies that it has been neither copyrighted, 
published, nor submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. All 
submission should include a title page containing the title of the paper, 
full names and affiliations, complete postal and electronic address, phone 
and fax numbers, an abstract and a list of keywords. The contacting author 
should be clearly identified. For more detailed information about manuscript 
preparation, please visit the web site of Asian Journal of Control at 
http://www.ajc.org.tw.


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5.2 CFP: IEEE T-ASE Special Issue on Drug Delivery Automation

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CFP: IEEE T-ASE Special Issue on Drug Delivery Automation

Contributed by: Mingjun Zhang, mingjunzhang@ieee.org

Drug delivery has attracted many researchers in recent years from the medical 
and engineering communities. It is one of the fastest growing healthcare 
sectors. The goal of drug delivery is to control the delivery, speed, and 
release of a drug without harming other tissues. This requires consideration 
of drug side-effects as well as dynamics and stability of the drug, which may 
be affected by delivery devices and systems. Approaches for drug delivery 
have advanced from traditional approaches to many new methods using novel 
materials and new physical or chemical effects. Recently, the focus of drug 
delivery system research has been moving towards the micro-/nano-scale. 
Automation is essential for this new phase of drug delivery, and requires 
efficient integration of automation principles with medical practices. The 
central theme of this Special Issue is recent progress in automation for drug 
delivery. This special issue aims to publish original, significant and 
visionary automation papers describing scientific methods and technologies 
that improve efficiency, productivity, quality and reliability of drug 
delivery. Special attention will be paid to papers focusing on integrating 
automation science with biological and medical principles, and to solve 
practical drug delivery problems, such as MEMS and NEMS based systems for 
drug delivery, distributed systems for drug delivery, sensor-network-based 
systems for drug delivery. Submissions of scientific results from experts in 
academia and industry worldwide are strongly encouraged. Topics to be covered 
include, but are not limited to,

* MEMS and NEMS based systems for drug delivery.
* Sensor network based systems for drug delivery.
* Intelligent distributed systems for drug delivery.
* Advanced systems for controlled drug release.
* Dynamics and control of drug delivery processes.
* Mathematical modelling of drug delivery processes.
* Control methods for micro-/nano-scale drug delivery.

Important Dates:

* January 1, 2007: paper submission deadline.
* May 1, 2007: completion of the first round review.
* September 1, 2007: completion of the second round review.
* December 1, 2007: final manuscripts due.
* April 2008: tentative publication date.

Guest Editors:

Mingjun Zhang
Agilent Technologies 
mingjunzhang@ieee.org

Liwei Lin
University of California 
lwlin@me.berkeley.edu

Channing Robertson
Stanford University
chanbo@stanford.edu

Chiming Wei
John Hopkins University 
cmwei@jhmi.edu 

T. C. Yih
University of Texas 
tc.yih@utsa.edu 

Babak Ziaie
Purdue University
bziaie@purdue.edu

Paper Submission:

All papers are to be submitted through the IEEEˇŻs Manuscript Central for 
Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/t-ase. Please select "Special Issue" under 
Manuscript Category of your submission. All manuscripts must be prepared 
according to the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 
publication guidelines http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~ieeetase/. All papers will 
be reviewed following the standard IEEE T-ASE review process.

Please address inquiries to mingjunzhang@ieee.org.



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5.3 CFP: Special Issue of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems

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CFP: Special Issue of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems

Contributed by: Carla Seatzu, seatzu@diee.unica.it

Call for Papers
Special Issue of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems:
“Discrete Event Methodologies for Hybrid Systems”

Guest Editors: C. Cassandras, A. Giua, C. Seatzu, J. Zaytoon

Recent technological innovations have caused an ever increasing interest in 
the study of hybrid systems. The distinguishing feature of hybrid systems is 
the interaction between continuous-time dynamics (governed by differential 
or difference equations), and discrete dynamics and logic rules (described 
by temporal logic, finite state machines, if-then-else conditions, discrete 
events, etc.). The growing interest by both academia and industry in hybrid 
systems is motivated not only by theoretical challenges, but mainly by their 
ability to model, analyse and synthesize controllers in a large variety of 
application areas.

However, hybrid dynamics are often so complex that a satisfactory feedback 
controller cannot be synthesized by using analytical tools similar to those 
that pertain to linear systems or to certain classes of nonlinear smooth 
systems. Heuristic design procedures usually require trial and error 
sessions, extensive testing, are time consuming, costly and often inadequate 
to deal with the complexity of the hybrid control problem properly. 

This special issue aims to present recent approaches that have been 
developed within the discrete event community and that can be used for the 
analysis and control of hybrid systems. Both logical and performance 
approaches are within the scope of the issue. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
•	Abstraction, model equivalence and bisimulation techniques
•	Supervisory control of hybrid systems
•	Control with communication
•	Quantized systems
•	Discrete event and hybrid simulation
•	Markov jump linear systems
•	Fluid models

Interested authors are invited to contact one of the guest editors and to 
submit full papers to Discrete Event Dynamic Systems by October 1st 2006 
(http://www.springer.com/journal/10626/).

Christos G. Cassandras (cgc@bu.edu)
Alessandro Giua (giua@diee.unica.it)
Carla Seatzu (seatzu@diee.unica.it)
Janan Zaytoon (janan.zaytoon@univ-reims.fr)


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5.4 Call For Papers: Dynamics and Control in Sciences and Engineering

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Call For Papers: Dynamics and Control in Sciences and Engineering

Contributed by: Meram Hassan, meram.hassan@hindawi.com

"Mathematical Problems in Engineering" announces a Special Issue on
"Dynamics and Control in Sciences and Engineering"

Call for Papers

The aim of this solicitation is to encourage both scientists and engineers to 
present discussions of somerecent developments in the area of dynamics and 
control in all branches of science and engineering.

The subject of dynamics and control systems is wonderfully broad and has 
important applications in fieldsranging from several engineering branches, 
physics, and computer science to the life sciences, sociologyand finance. So, 
this special issue of MPE is designed to present the state-of-the-art 
research and thelatest theoretical, numerical, and practical achievements to 
contribute to the advancement of this field in asignificant way.

We encourage original research papers which combine theory, computation, and 
empirical data. Specifically topics of interest, include, but are not limited 
to:

o Dynamic stability, local and global methods, bifurcation and chaos in 
  dynamical systems, controland chaos control of dynamical systems, 
  synchronization of dynamical systems.
o Multibody dynamics, structural dynamics, delay and random  
systems,nonsmoothdynamics and control.
o Assymptotic methods in dynamical systems.
o Microelectromechanical systems, nonlinear normal modes, Lie groups.
o Aerospace science, ocean sciences, fluid-solid interactions, aeroelasticity 
  phenomena.
o System modeling and identification, friction and damping, original  
numerical and computational methods.
o Man-machine interactions.
o Dynamics in life sciences, bioengineering and medicine.

Authors should follow the MPE manuscript format described at the journal 
website http://www.hindawi.com/GetJournal.aspx?journal=MPE. Prospective 
authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through 
the MPE's manuscript tracking system at http://www.hindawi.com/mts/, 
according to the following timetable. 

Manuscript Due  October 1, 2006  
Acceptance Notification  February 1, 2007  
Final Manuscript Due  May 1, 2007  
Publication Date  3rd Quarter, 2007  

Guest Editor:
José Manoel Balthazar, Department of Statistics, Applied Mathematics and 
Computation, State University of Sao Paulo at Rio Claro, CEP 13500-230, Rio 
Claro, Sao Paulo, Brazil


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5.5 Call For Papers: ELEKTRIK Special Issue on Swarm Robotics

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Call For Papers: ELEKTRIK Special Issue on Swarm Robotics

Contributed by: Veysel Gazi, vgazi@etu.edu.tr

ELEKTRIK 
The Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 
Announces a Special Issue on "Swarm Robotics"
 
Sponsored by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey 
(TUBITAK) and the Chamber of Electrical Engineers (EMO), ELEKTRIK is an 
international journal on all aspects of electrical engineering and computer 
sciences. This special issue, scheduled to be published in July 2007, will 
contain both invited and contributed papers. 
 
Submission of papers 
Prospective authors may submit their manuscripts to the guest editor and/or 
the Editor-in-Chief given below with a statement that the submission is 
intended for this special issue. Only word/latex documents or PDF files via 
email submission will be accepted (please follow the regular guidelines of 
ELEKTRIK).   
 
Topics
Possible topics for the issue include but are not limited to
* Modeling and analysis (Lyapunov, graph theoretic, game theoretic methods, 
etc.)
* Coordination and control (decentralized, cooperative, noncooperative, etc.)
* Formation control (stabilization, reconfiguration, coverage algorithms, 
etc)
* Self-organization, self-assembling
* Synchronization, consensus seeking, rendezvous
* Evolutionary algorithms
* Emergent behavior (gathering, aggregation, flocking, schooling, etc.)
* Swarm communication, service discovery, ad-hoc networks
* Swarm intelligence
* Applications 

Guest Editor 
Dr. Veysel Gazi 
TOBB University of Economics and Technology 
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering 
Sogutozu Caddesi, No: 43, Sogutozu 06560 Ankara, TURKEY 
Tel: +90 (312) 292-4079, Fax: +90 (312) 292-4091 
Email: vgazi@etu.edu.tr
 
Important Dates 
Final date for submission of manuscripts:  31 August 2006 
Notification of acceptance/rejection:  31 December 2006 

For further information, in addition to the guest editor, please contact 
Prof. Dr. Kemal Leblebiciođlu, (kleb@metu.edu.tr) Editor-in-Chief 
Middle East Technical University 
Electrical - Electronic Engineering Dept. 
06531, Ankara - Turkey, Fax: +90 (312) 210-1261,  
http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/elektrik/



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5.6 Contents: Automatica

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Contents: Automatica

Contributed by: Becky Lonberger, rebeccal@uiuc.edu

Contents: Automatica, August, 2006
Volume 42, Issue 8

To consult the cumulative table of contents 1965-present, to view the list
of recently accepted papers or to submit a paper visit
http://www.autsubmit.com

Editorials

Suresh P. Sethi and Qing Zhang
Introduction to the special issue on optimal control applications to
management sciences

Special issue papers

Gila E. Fruchter, Eugene D. Jaffe, and Israel D. Nebenzahl
Dynamic brand-image-based production location decisions

Peter M. Kort, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Richard F. Hartl, Gustav Feichtinger
Brand image and brand dilution in the fashion
industry

Alain Haurie and Francesco Moresino
A stochastic control model of economic growth with environmental disaster
prevention

Steffen Jřrgensen, Peter M. Kort, and Georges Zaccour
Advertising an event

Ying-Ju Chen and Sridhar Seshadri
Supply chain structure and demand risk

Dario Bauso, Franco Blanchini, and Raffaele Pesenti
Robust control strategies for multi--inventory systems with average flow
constraints

Mike Chen, In-Koo Cho, and Sean Meyn
Reliability by design in distributed power transmission networks

R. Bhar, C. Chiarella, H. Hung, and W. Runggaldier
The volatility of the instantaneous spot interest rate implied by
arbitrage pricing - A dynamic bayesian approach

Graham C. Goodwin, María M. Seron, Richard Middleton, Meimei Zhan, Bryan
Henness
Receding horizon control applied to optimal mine planning

K. Zhang, X. Q. Yang, and K. L. Teo
Augmented Lagrangian method applied to American option pricing

A. Bemporad, D. Muńoz de la Peńa, P. Piazzesi
Optimal control of investments for quality of supply improvement in
electrical energy distribution networks

Abhijit Gosavi
A risk-sensitive approach to total productive maintenance

Alessandra Buratto, Luca Grosset, and Bruno Viscolani
Advertising channel selection in a segmented market

J. Mukuddem-Petersen and M.A. Petersen
Bank management via stochastic optimal control

Takamichi Hosoda and Stephen M. Disney
The governing dynamics of supply chains: The impact of altruistic
behaviour

J.D. Schwartz, W. Wang, and D.E. Rivera
Simulation-based optimization of process control policies for inventory
management in supply chains

Luis Rodrigues and El-Kebir Boukas
Piecewise-linear $H_infty$ controller synthesis with applications to
inventory control of switched production systems

Kalyan Raman
Boundary value problems in stochastic optimal control of advertising

Gaalman Gerard
Bullwhip reduction for ARMA demand: the proportional order-up-to policy
versus the full-state-feedback policy


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5.7 Contents: Circuits Systems and Signal Processing

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Contents: Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing

Contributed by: Regina Gorenshteyn, reginag@birkhauser.com

Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing
Volume 25, Issue 3

Table of Contents:

* Nonlinear Transient and Distortion Analysis via Frequency Domain Volterra 
Series, Junjie Yang and Sheldon X.-D. Tan

* Performance Study of Adaptive Filtering in Bispectrum Signal 
Reconstruction, Alexander V. Totsky, Dmitriy V. Fevralev, Vladimir V. 
Lukin, Vladimir Ya. Katkovnik, Dmitriy V. Paliy, Karen O. Egiazarian, 
Oleksiy B. Pogrebnyak, and Jaakko T. Astola

* Implementation of SDTV Video Encoder with Real-Time Constant and Variable 
Bit-Rate Control, Luo Ning, Chen Li, Fang Xiangzhong, and Zhang Wenjun

* An Improved Adaptive Algorithm for Constrained Notch Filters with 
Guaranteed Stability, Jiong Zhou and Gang Li

* Online Algorithm of Blind Source Separation Based on Conjugate Gradient 
Method, Xizhong Shen, Xizhi Shi, and Guang Meng

* Modeling and Estimation of Wireless OFDM Channels by Using Time-Frequency 
Analysis, Aydin Akan and Luis F. Chaparro

* Nonintrusive Iris Image Extraction for Iris Recognition-Based Biometric 
Identification, Sarp Ertuerk

* Blind Unitary Prewhitening with a Real-Valued Eigendecomposition, Sergiy 
A. Vorobyov

* Nonlinear Devices Acting as SNR Amplifiers for a Harmonic Signal in Noise,
Francois Chapeau-Blondeau and David Rousseau

For ordering information as well as electronic back issues, please visit: 
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5.8 Contents: Control Engineering Practice

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Contents: Control Engineering Practice

Contributed by: Fernando Camisani, cep@up.ac.za

Journal: Control Engineering Practice
ISSN   : 0967-0661
Volume : 14
Issue  : 8
Date   : Aug-2006

Table of Contents:

Simulation of humidity control and greenhouse temperature tracking in a growth
chamber using a passive air conditioning unit, R. Tawegoum, R. Teixeira, G.
Chasseriaux, pp 853-861

On active acceleration control of vibration isolation systems, W.H. Zhu, B.
Tryggvason, J.C. Piedboeuf, pp 863-873

Control of a planar space robot: Theory and experiments, T. Narikiyo, M.
Ohmiya, pp 875-883

Detection of incipient failures by using an H"2-norm criterion: Application to
railway switching points, E. Zattoni, pp 885-895

Sensor fault tolerant control using sliding mode observers, C. Edwards, C.P.
Tan, pp 897-908

Hierarchical optimal force-position-contour control of machining processes, Y.
Tang, R.G. Landers, S.N. Balakrishnan, pp 909-922

A study on tracking position control of an electropneumatic system using
backstepping design, M. Smaoui, X. Brun, D. Thomasset, pp 923-933

Advanced control algorithms embedded in a programmable logic controller, S.
Gerksic, G. Dolanc, D. Vrancic, J. Kocijan, S. Strmcnik, S. Blazic, I.,
Skrjanc, Z. Marinsek, M. Bozicek, A. Stathaki, R. King, M. Hadjiski K.,
Boshnakov, pp 935-948

Performance comparison of controllers acting on a batch pulp digester using
Monte Carlo modelling, C. Sandrock, P. de Vaal, D. Weightman, pp 949-958

Modelling, on-line state estimation and fuzzy control of production scale
fed-batch baker's yeast fermentation, C. Karakuzu, M. Turker, S. Ozturk, pp
959-974

A methodology based on distributed object-oriented technologies for providing
remote access to industrial plants, I. Calvo, M. Marcos, D. Orive, I.
Sarachaga, pp 975-990


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5.9 Contents: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

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Contents: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

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

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Volume: 51  Issue: 5   Date: May 2006

Optimal Control of Continuous-Time Switched Affine Systems
Seatzu, C.; Corona, D.; Giua, A.; Bemporad, A., Page(s):  726- 741

The Scenario Approach to Robust Control Design
Calafiore, G.C.; Campi, M.C., Page(s):  742- 753

Control of Nondeterministic Discrete-Event Systems for Bisimulation
Equivalence
Zhou, C.; Kumar, R.; Jiang, S., Page(s):  754- 765

Utility Maximization for Communication Networks With Multipath Routing
Lin, X.; Shroff, N.B., Page(s):  766- 781

Nonblocking Supervisory Control of State Tree Structures
Ma, C.; Wonham, W.M., Page(s):  782- 793

On the Supervisory Control of Multiagent Product Systems
Romanovski, I.; Caines, P.E., Page(s):  794- 799

On Minimal Representations of Petri Net Languages
Sreenivas, R.S., Page(s):  799- 804

Solution to the Second-Order Sylvester Matrix Equation$MVF^2+DVF+KV=BW$
Duan, G.-R.; Zhou, B., Page(s):  805- 809

A Unified Setting for Decoupling With Preview and Fixed-Lag Smoothing in the
Geometric Context
Marro, G.; Prattichizzo, D.; Zattoni, E., Page(s):  809- 813

Applying Discrete-Time Proportional Integral Observers for State and
Disturbance Estimations
Chang, J.-L., Page(s):  814- 818

Generalized Quadratic Stability for Continuous-Time Singular Systems With
Nonlinear Perturbation
Lu, G.; Ho, D.W.C., Page(s):  818- 823

Optimal Estimation for Continuous-Time Systems With Delayed Measurements
Zhang, H.; Lu, X.; Cheng, D., Page(s):  823- 827

$C^ast $–Algebra of Strong Limit Power Functions
Zhang, C.; Meng, C., Page(s):  828- 831

On the Stability of Constrained MPC Without Terminal Constraint
Limon, D.; Alamo, T.; Salas, F.; Camacho, E.F., Page(s):  832- 836

Robust Stability and Stabilization of Uncertain Discrete-Time Markovian Jump
Linear Systems
de Souza, C.E., Page(s):  836- 841

On Some Norms for Descriptor Systems
Stykel, T.
Page(s):  842- 847

A Noncooperative Game Approach to OSNR Optimization in Optical Networks
Pavel, L., Page(s):  848- 852

Analysis and Design of Integral Sliding Manifolds for Systems With Unmatched
Perturbations
Castanos, F.; Fridman, L., Page(s):  853- 858

Adaptive Finite-Time Control of Nonlinear Systems With Parametric Uncertainty
Hong, Y.; Wang, J.; Cheng, D., Page(s):  858- 862

Circuit Allocation in All Optical Networks With Average Packet Delay Cost
Criterion
Rosberg, Z., Page(s):  862- 867

Design of$ell _1$-Optimal Controllers With Flexible Disturbance Rejection Level
Cadotte, P.; Mannor, S.; Michalska, H.; Boulet, B., Page(s):  868- 873

Asymptotic Tracking for Constrained Monotone Systems
Chisci, L.; Falugi, P., Page(s):  873- 879

Global Finite-Time Stabilization by Dynamic Output Feedback for a Class of
Continuous Nonlinear Systems
Li, J.; Qian, C., Page(s):  879- 884

Stability of Systems With Uncertain Delays: A New “Complete”
Lyapunov–Krasovskii Functional
Fridman, E., Page(s):  885- 890

Descriptor Discretized Lyapunov Functional Method: Analysis and Design
Fridman, E., Page(s):  890- 897

A Note on Spectral Conditions for Positive Realness of
Single-Input–Single-Output Systems With Strictly Proper Transfer Functions
Zeheb, E.; Shorten, R., Page(s):  897- 900

Optimal Control of a Failure-Prone Machine Under Random Demand
Kogan, K.; Lou, S.; Herbon, A., Page(s):  900- 905

Optimal Production and Backordering Policy in Failure-Prone Manufacturing Systems
Song, D.-P., Page(s):  906- 911

Delay-Robust Supervisory Control of Discrete-Event Systems With Bounded
Communication Delays
Park, S.-J.; Cho, K.-H., Page(s):  911- 915

Discrete-Time Markov Jump Linear Systems
Page(s):  916- 917


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5.10 Contents: International Journal of Control

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Contents: International Journal of Control

Contributed by: Russell Stevens, russell.stevens@tandf.co.uk

Volume 79, Issue 8
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00207179.asp

A hierarchical discretized-parameter polynomial adaptive estimator for non-
linearly parameterized systems
C. Cao, A. Annaswamy

Geometric characterization of multivariable quadratically stabilizing 
quantizers
H. Haimovich, M. M. Seron, G. C. Goodwin

On the regular feedback interconnection problem
V. Lomadze

Cascade generalized predictive controller: two in one 
I. Benyó, J. Kovács, M. Paloranta, U. Kortela

Analytical performance prediction for robust constrained model predictive 
control
A. Richards, L. Breger, J. P. How

Extended Jacobian inverse kinematics algorithm for nonholonomic mobile robots
K. Tchoń, J. Jakubiak

Asymptotic tracking with prescribed transient behaviour for linear systems 
A. Ilchmann, E. P. Ryan

On upper bounds on worst-case H2 performance obtained with dynamic 
multipliers 
G. O. Corręa, D. M. Sales

Relaxed pass profile controllability of discrete linear repetitive processes
Ł. Hładowski, K. Gałkowski, D. H. Owens, E. Rogers

An ILMI approach to robust static output feedback sliding mode control 
J. Xiang, W. Wei, H. Su

A new method for the design of energy transfer filters
X. Wu, Z. Q. Lang, S. A. Billings

Hybrid static output feedback stabilization of two-dimensional LTI systems: 
a geometric method
G. Zhai, H. Kondo, J. Imae, T. Kobayashi

For submission and subscription information please visit the Journal’s 
homepage at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00207179.asp

Editor-in-Chief
Professor Eric Rogers
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
etar@ecs.soton.ac.uk



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5.11 Contents: International Journal of General Systems

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Contents: International Journal of General Systems

Contributed by: Russell Stevens, russell.stevens@tandf.co.uk

Volume 35, Issue 1		
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03081079.asp

On designing robust controllers under randomly varying sensor delay with 
variance constraints 
Z. Wang, Y. Liu, F. Yang, X. Liu

On generalized induced linguistic aggregation operators 
Z. Xu

Disaggregated total uncertainty measure for creedal sets
J. Abellán, G.J. Klir, S. Moral

Novel fuzzy inference system (FIS) analysis and design based on lattice 
theory. Part I: Working principles 
V. G. Kaburlasos, A. Kehagias

Category-theoretic analysis of the notion of complementarity for quantum 
systems 
E. Zafiris

Learning networks for tornado detection 
T. B. Trafalis, B. Santosa, M. B. Richman

CodonO: a new informatics method for measuring synonymous codon usage bias 
within and across genomes 
X.-F. Wan, J. Zhou, D. Xu

For submission and subscription information please visit the Journal’s 
homepage at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03081079.asp

Editor-in-Chief
Dr George Klir
gensyst@binghamton.edu 
Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering 
Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science 
State University of New York



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5.12 Contents: International Journal of Systems Science

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Contents: International Journal of Systems Science

Contributed by: Russell Stevens, russell.stevens@tandf.co.uk

Volume 37, Issue 4	
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00207721.asp

Robust adaptive output-feedback control for a class of nonlinear systems 
with general uncertainties 
R. Y. Ruan, C. L. Yang, Z. M. Wang, Y. Z. Li

Conditions on input disturbance suppression for multivariable nonlinear 
systems on the basis of feedforward passivity 
S. W. Su, J. Bao, P. L. Lee

A backward recursive algorithm for inventory lot-size models with power-form 
demand and shortages 
H.-L. Yang

Singularly perturbed unified time systems with low sensitivity to model 
reduction using delta operators 
K.-H. Shim, M. E. Sawan

Optimization of raw material procurement at pulp or paper mills – the 
influence of weather-related risks 
D. Hultqvist, L. Olsson

For submission and subscription information please visit the Journal’s 
homepage at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00207721.asp

Editor-in-Chief
Professor Peter Fleming
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering,
University of Sheffield 
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5.13 Contents: Journal MCSS

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Contents: Journal MCSS

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems (MCSS)

Volume 18 (2006), Number 2

A. Marigo,
Optimal input sets for time minimality in quantized control.
MCSS 18 (2006), 101-146.

A. Quadrat,
The lattice approach to analysis and synthesis problems.
MCSS 18 (2006), 147-186.

A. Rodkina and M. Basin,
On delay-dependent stability for a class of nonlinear stochastic 
delay-differential equations.
MCSS 18 (2006), 187-197.

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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5.14 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 416, Issue 1, Pages 1-214 (1 July 2006)
Special Issue devoted to the Haifa 2005 conference on matrix theory
Edited by Abraham Berman, Leonid Lerer and Raphael Loewy
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5653-2006-995839998-623403

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1) Lists of Editors
Pages ii-iii

2) Preface to the 2005 Haifa Matrix Theory Conference Proceedings
Page 1, Abraham Berman, Leonid Lerer and Raphael Loewy

3) Determinant of the distance matrix of a tree with matrix weights
Pages 2-7, R.B. Bapat

4) A simultaneous reconstruction of missing data in DNA microarrays
Pages 8-28, Shmuel Friedland, Amir Niknejad and Laura Chihara

5) Nonnegative matrix factorization for spectral data analysis
Pages 29-47, V. Paul Pauca, J. Piper and Robert J. Plemmons

6) On the uniqueness of overcomplete dictionaries, and a practical way to 
retrieve them
Pages 48-67, Michal Aharon, Michael Elad and Alfred M. Bruckstein

7) Bounding the gap between extremal Laplacian eigenvalues of graphs
Pages 68-74, Felix Goldberg

8) The geometry of linear separability in data sets
Pages 75-87, Adi Ben-Israel and Yuri Levin

9) On single and double Soules matrices
Pages 88-110, Mei Q. Chen, Lixing Han and Michael Neumann

10) Computational acceleration of projection algorithms for the linear best 
approximation problem
Pages 111-123, Yair Censor

11) Nonsingularity of matrices associated with classes of arithmetical 
functions on lcm-closed sets
Pages 124-134, Shaofang Hong

12) A preconditioned GMRES for complex dense linear systems from 
electromagnetic wave scattering problems
Pages 135-147, Angelika Bunse-Gerstner and Ignacio Gutiérrez-Cańas

13) Nonnegative realization of spectra having negative real parts
Pages 148-159, Thomas J. Laffey and Helena Smigoc

14) The Bezoutian, state space realizations and Fisher˙˙s information matrix 
of an ARMA process
Pages 160-174, André Klein and Peter Spreij

15) On the second eigenvalue of matrices associated with TCP
Pages 175-183, Abraham Berman, Thomas Laffey, Arie Leizarowitz and Robert
Shorten

16) The distance between two convex sets
Pages 184-213, Achiya Dax

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Linear Algebra and its Applications
Volume 416, Issues 2-3, Page 215-1104 (15 July 2006)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5653-2006-995839997-624303

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1) Lists of Editors
Pages ii-iii

2) Control solvability of interval systems of max-separable linear equations
Pages 215-223, Helena My˙˙ková

3) On multi-index assignment polytopes
Pages 224-241, G. Appa, D. Magos and I. Mourtos

4) Basic classes of matrices with respect to quaternionic indefinite inner 
product spaces
Pages 242-269, D. Alpay, A.C.M. Ran and L. Rodman

5) Nonnegative matrix factorization and I-divergence alternating minimization
Pages 270-287, Lorenzo Finesso and Peter Spreij

6) Minimal blocks of binary even-weight vectors
Pages 288-297, Joseph P.S. Kung

7) The integral 3-harmonic graphs
Pages 298-312, Miroslav Petrovi˙˙, Bojana Borovi˙˙anin and Zoran
Radosavljevi˙˙

8) A dynamic thick restarted semi-refined ABLE algorithm for computing a few 
selected eigentriplets of large nonsymmetric matrices
Pages 313-335, Gang Wu

9) Two inverse eigenvalue problems for a special kind of matrices
Pages 336-347, Juan Peng, Xi-Yan Hu and Lei Zhang

10) On the nullspace, the rangespace and the characteristic polynomial of 
Euclidean distance matrices
Pages 348-354, A.Y. Alfakih

11) Some composition determinants
Pages 355-364
J.M. Brunat, C. Krattenthaler, A. Lascoux and A. Montes

12) A variance inequality ensuring that a pre-distance matrix is Euclidean
Pages 365-372, Jacques Bénasséni

13) L -functions for line graphs of semiregular bipartite graphs
Pages 373-388, Iwao Sato

14) Inexact inverse iteration for symmetric matrices
Pages 389-413, Jörg Berns-Müller, Ivan G. Graham and Alastair Spence

15) Structure of isometry group of bilinear spaces
Pages 414-436, Dragomir ˙˙. ˙˙okovi˙˙

16) The Q -property of composite transformations and the P -property of Stein-
type transformations on self-dual and symmetric cones
Pages 437-451, Roman Sznajder and M. Seetharama Gowda

17) Weyl˙˙Titchmarsh theory for a class of discrete linear Hamiltonian systems
Pages 452-519, Yuming Shi

18) Ill-posedness with respect to the solvability in linear optimization
Pages 520-540, M.J. Cánovas, M.A. López, J. Parra and F.J. Toledo

19) Ando˙˙Hiai inequality and Furuta inequality
Pages 541-545, Masatoshi Fujii and Eizaburo Kamei

20) A note on the boundary of the set where the decreasingly ordered spectra 
of symmetric doubly stochastic matrices lie
Pages 546-558, Bassam Mourad

21) Lie triple derivations of nest algebras
Pages 559-567, Jian-Hua Zhang, Bao-Wei Wu and Huai-Xin Cao

22) Rank one preserving R -linear maps on spaces of self-adjoint operators on 
complex Hilbert spaces
Pages 568-579, Hong You, Shaowu Liu and Guodong Zhang

23) On Euclidean algebra of hermitian operators on a quaternionic Hilbert space
Pages 580-587, Rok Stra˙˙ek

24) Additive rank-one preservers on block triangular matrix spaces
Pages 588-607, W.L. Chooi and M.H. Lim

25) Some results on structured M -matrices with an application to wireless 
communications
Pages 608-614, Jiu Ding, Wallace Pye and Lian Zhao

26) Iterated linear maps on a cone and Denjoy˙˙Wolff theorems
Pages 615-626, Brian Lins and Roger Nussbaum

27) On least squares g-inverses and minimum norm g-inverses of a bordered 
matrix
Pages 627-642, Wenbin Guo, Musheng Wei and Mingjie Wang

28) Geometry of block triangular matrices over a division ring
Pages 643-676, Li-Ping Huang and Yong-Yu Cai

29) Approximate singular values of the fractional difference and summation 
operators
Pages 677-687, Prabir Burman

30) An extension of Kantorovich inequality to n -operators via the geometric 
mean by Ando˙˙Li˙˙Mathias
Pages 688-695, Takeaki Yamazaki

31) Asymptotic spectral properties of totally symmetric multilevel Toeplitz 
matrices
Pages 696-709, William F. Trench

32) Generalized Riccati equations arising in stochastic games
Pages 710-723, Michael McAsey and Libin Mou

33) More results on singular value inequalities of matrices
Pages 724-729, Yunxing Tao

34) On the ergodic principle for Markov and quadratic stochastic processes 
and its relations
Pages 730-741, Nasir Ganikhodjaev, Hasan Akin and Farrukh Mukhamedov

35) A perturbation bound for the eigenvalues of a singular diagonalizable 
matrix
Pages 742-744, Stanley C. Eisenstat

36) Greedy pathlengths and small world graphs
Pages 745-758, Desmond J. Higham

37) Bounds for Levinger˙˙s function of nonnegative almost skew-symmetric 
matrices
Pages 759-772, Panayiotis J. Psarrakos and Michael J. Tsatsomeros

38) A note on definition of matrix convex functions
Pages 773-775, Oleg E. Tikhonov

39) Eigenvalues of graphs and a simple proof of a theorem of Greenberg
Pages 776-782, Sebastian M. Cioab˙˙

40) Realizability criterion for the symmetric nonnegative inverse eigenvalue 
problem
Pages 783-794, Ricardo L. Soto

41) A procedure of Chvátal for testing feasibility in linear programming and 
matrix scaling
Pages 795-798, Yi Jin and Bahman Kalantari

42) A q -analogue of the distance matrix of a tree
Pages 799-814, R.B. Bapat, A.K. Lal and Sukanta Pati

43) Optimization of generalized mean square error in signal processing and 
communication
Pages 815-834, William W. Hager, Yong Liu and Tan F. Wong

44) The inverse problems of the determinantal regions of ray pattern and 
complex sign pattern matrices
Pages 835-843, Jia-Yu Shao, Yue Liu and Ling-Zhi Ren

45) Applications of a Brauer theorem in the nonnegative inverse eigenvalue 
problem
Pages 844-856, Ricardo L. Soto and Oscar Rojo

46) Three coefficients of a polynomial can determine its ˙˙ -instability
Pages 857-867, Alberto Borobia and Sebastián Dormido

47) On the range of a Hadamard power of a positive semidefinite matrix
Pages 868-871, Xiaosong Sun, Xiankun Du and Dayan Liu

48) On a unification result by A.R. Sourour concerning commutators and 
products of involutions
Pages 872-879, J.D. Botha

49) The determinant of AA ˙˙ A A for a Leonard pair A , A
Pages 880-889, Kazumasa Nomura and Paul Terwilliger

50) Matrix versions of some classical inequalities
Pages 890-907, Jean-Christophe Bourin

51) Local 2-cocycles of nest subalgebras of factor von Neumann algebras
Pages 908-916, Jian-Hua Zhang, Shan Feng and Rui-Hua Wu

52) Bijective matrix algebra
Pages 917-944, Nicholas A. Loehr and Anthony Mendes

53) Similarity vs unitary similarity and perturbation analysis of sign 
characteristics: Complex and real indefinite inner products
Pages 945-1009, Leiba Rodman

54) Canonical forms for complex matrix congruence and congruence
Pages 1010-1032, Roger A. Horn and Vladimir V. Sergeichuk

55) Regularity and the generalized adjacency spectra of graphs
Pages 1033-1037, Andrey A. Chesnokov and Willem H. Haemers

56) Commuting graphs of some subsets in simple rings
Pages 1038-1047, S. Akbari and P. Raja

57) Some results on the index of unicyclic graphs
Pages 1048-1059, Francesco Belardo, Enzo Maria Li Marzi and Slobodan K. Simi˙˙

58) A characterization of solutions of the discrete-time algebraic Riccati 
equation based on quadratic difference forms
Pages 1060-1082, Chiaki Kojima, Kiyotsugu Takaba, Osamu Kaneko and Paolo
Rapisarda

59) On sufficient conditions for the total positivity and for the multiple 
positivity of matrices
Pages 1083-1097, Olga M. Katkova and Anna M. Vishnyakova

60) Spectra and Pseudospectra: The Behavior of Nonnormal Matrices and 
Operators by Lloyd N. Trefethen and
Mark Embree, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2005, xvii + 
606 pages, ISBN 0-691-11946-5.
Pages 1098-1101, Albrecht Böttcher

61) Author index, Pages 1102-1104


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1st IEEE Multi-Conferenence on Systems and Control

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

http://msc2007.nus.edu.sg/

The inagural IEEE Multiconference on Systems and Control will host the 22nd
IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC) held, together
with the 16th IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA), at the Suntec
City Convention Centre in Singapore from 1-3 October 2007.

ISIC
ISIC brings together the international community of researchers and
practitioners to discuss the latest advancements and future 
directions in the areas of intelligent systems and advanced control. The 
conference welcomes paper submissions from researchers, practitioners and 
students, and will cover myriad topics in control methods based on 
biological, learning, and embedded cooperative systems.:

CCA
The CCA brings together the international community of researchers 
and practitioners to discuss the latest advancements and future directions 
in the areas of intelligent systems and advanced control. The conference 
welcomes paper submissions from researchers, practitioners and students, and 
will cover myriad topics in control techniques and applications.

The conference proceedings will be included in the ISI Proceedings, EI
Compendex Database, and IEEE Xplore.

Important Dates
Invited Session Proposal Submission : 15 November 2006 
Conference/Invited Session Paper Submission : 15 November 2006 
Notification of Acceptance : 15 April 2007 
Final Camera-Ready Manuscript : 15 May 2007 

For more information, please visit:
http://msc2007.nus.edu.sg/


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6.2 2007 International Conference on Control and Automation

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2007 International Conference on Control and Automation

Contributed by: Jianliang Wang, ejlwang@ntu.edu.sg

The 6th International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA2007)
30 May – 1 June 2007
Guangzhou, China

ICCA'07 is jointly organized by the IEEE Control Systems Chapter, Singapore 
and IEEE Control Systems Chapter. It is to create a forum for scientists and 
practicing engineers throughout the world to present the latest research 
findings and ideas in the areas of control and automation. 

Three keynote speeches to be conducted by well known experts in the area, 
Professors John Baillieul (IEEE Fellow), Hanfu Chen (IEEE Fellow) and David 
Hill (IEEE Fellow), have been arranged for the conference.

The Proceedings of ICCA are indexed by ISI Proceedings, EI Compendex and 
IEEE Xplore. 

Topics of interest include but not limited to:

      Modeling of Complex Systems          Optimal Control 
      Linear Systems                       Discrete Event Systems 
      Robust and H-infinity Control        Adaptive Control 
      Nonlinear Systems and Control        Learning Systems 
      Fuzzy and Neural Systems             Intelligent and AI Based Control 
      Estimation and Identification        Real-time Systems 
      Fault Detection                      Sensor and Data Fusion 
      Process Control & Instrumentation    Robotics 
      Motion Control                       Automated Guided Vehicles 
      Flexible Manufacturing Systems       Control Education 
      Integrated Manufacturing             Control Applications 
      Factory Modeling and Automation      Process Automation 
      Petri-Nets and Applications          Man-machine Interactions 
      Micro and Nano Systems               Smart Structures 

Submission of Papers:

Authors should submit the full version of their manuscripts electronically 
online through the ICCA'07 manuscript submission site http://icca.elite.sg/. 
General inquiries should be addressed to the Program Chair, Professor Gang 
(Gary) Feng, at the City University of Hong Kong (icca2007@ntu.edu.sg). 

Proposals for invited sessions in the related areas are also solicited and 
should be submitted through email to the Invited Session Chair, Professor 
Yuan Wang, at Florida Atlantic University (icca2007@ntu.edu.sg). 

All materials must be written in English, and a paper should be submitted 
only if you intend to present the paper at the conference. The manuscript to 
be submitted to the conference should contain sufficient details including 
key concepts and novel features of the work. It should include the title, 
authors, mailing addresses, affiliations, telephone and fax numbers and 
email addresses.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline:                  November 1, 2006 
Notification of Acceptance:                 December 31, 2006 
Submission of Final Papers:                 March 1, 2007 
Conference:                                 May 30-June 1, 2007 

Official Website:

http://www.ieee-icca.org (http://hdd.ece.nus.edu.sg/~icca07/)


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6.3 Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems

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Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems

Contributed by: Radhakant Padhi, padhi@aero.iisc.ernet.in

International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of 
Dynamical Systems (ACODS'2007)
February 01-02, 2007
http://www.aero.iisc.ernet.in/acods2007 

The aim of ACODS’2007, to be held at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 
India, is to bring together engineers, scientist and academics working in 
advanced areas of control and optimization of dynamical systems. The theme 
of the conference is broad enough to encompass both theory and applications. 
Application areas include, but are not restricted to robotics, aerospace 
vehicles, manufacturing, process control, computer aided control, biomedical 
engineering, automation, and mechanical and electrical systems. Papers are 
invited in these and other areas where control and optimization of dynamical 
systems plays an important role.

Indian Institute of Science, established in 1909, is widely recognized to be 
the best and most prolific scientific institute for advanced research in 
India. The Department of Aerospace Engineering, which is hosting the 
conference, has an active group of researchers in the area of control and 
optimization. Besides, Bangalore is one of the most vibrant cities in India, 
located in the middle of many historical tourist places.

Contributed papers are invited in two categories: Regular (8 pages) and 
short (4 pages). The regular papers are expected to describe fairly detailed 
account of completed work and the short papers will cover preliminary 
results or new ideas. The papers will be reviewed with the same rigour as 
other well-established international conferences. Our aim is to maintain the 
highest quality in accepted papers. The proceeding of ACODS’2007 will be 
brought out in a CD and will be available to each registered participant.

Key Dates
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Deadline for paper submissions       : 31 August, 2006
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection : 31 October, 2006
Final manuscript submission deadline : 30 November, 2006
Author registration fee deadline     : 15 December, 2006
Conference dates                     : 01-02 February, 2007

Paper submission guidelines
---------------------------
Papers should be in the double column format on A4 size paper, with 10pt. 
typeface. As a guideline, please refer to a standard format used for IEEE 
conferences. Pdf file of the paper only should be submitted. Please adhere 
to limits of 8 pages (for regular papers) and 4 pages (for short papers). In 
addition, on a separate sheet, please put the title, author names, abstract, 
contact address and email. Email  both documents in a zipped folder labeled 
with the first author’s name  to ACODS2007@aero.iisc.ernet.in. Total size of 
the folder should be below 8MB.

Contact Information
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The organizing committee, ACODS’2007
ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
560 012, India.

Phone: +91-80-23600525, 22932503, 22932760 
Fax:   +91-80-23601279 
E-mail: ACODS2007@aero.iisc.ernet.in

For more details, please visit: http://www.aero.iisc.ernet.in/acods2007 
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6.4 European Control Conference 2007

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European Control Conference 2007

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

European Control Conference (ECC’07)  
http://ecc07.ntua.gr/

ECC'07 continues the tradition of the control conferences of the European
Union Control Association (EUCA). Original high-quality papers dealing with
the theory and practice of systems and control are invited for presentation. 

All submissions must be done electronically through the conference submission
website (euca.papercept.net). Besides contributed papers and invited session
papers, the conference will also include plenary and semiplenary papers and
minitutorials. Please consult the conference website (http://ecc07.ntua.gr/)
for updated information.  

DEADLINES

Deadline for all submissions
	1 October 2006
Notification of acceptance/ non-acceptance
	1 February 2007
Deadline for final manuscripts submission
	1 April 2007

A. Contributed papers

All papers submitted to ECC'07 must be in the form of regular papers written
in English (standard 2 column IEEE conference format) and limited to eight
pages. A short list of 3-5 keywords should be included. Short manuscripts less
than six pages will not be considered. All submissions must be done
electronically through the conference submission website (euca.papercept.net).

B. Invited Sessions
Proposals for invited sessions are welcomed. Each invited session consists of
six papers dealing with several issues of a unified theme. The proposals
should contain a summary statement describing the relevance and importance of
the session, accompanied by the full text (6-8 pages) of each invited paper.
Abstracts or manuscripts less than six pages will not be considered. Each
paper in a proposed invited session will be first individually reviewed, and
then the invited session will be evaluated as a whole. It is remarked that for
maximal continuity of the program, the International Program Committee may
remove a paper from an accepted invited session and replace it by a paper more
suitable for the session. Similarly, accepted papers from rejected invited
sessions may be accommodated into the regular program. All submissions must be
done electronically through the conference submission website
(euca.papercept.net). The submission of invited sessions should be made
according to the following three steps:

   1. The Organizer must submit an electronic version (pdf) of the session.
Papercept returns an acknowledgement with an alphanumeric code for the
proposed session.
   2. The Organizer notifies the Contributing Authors of their individual
session code.
   3. The corresponding author of each paper submits the paper online (pdf
format) as an invited paper using the corresponding code. Without the invited
session code the paper will be considered for the normal program. 


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6.5 Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control 2007

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Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control 2007

Contributed by: Alberto Bemporad, hscc07@dii.unisi.it

10th International Conference on
HYBRID SYSTEMS: COMPUTATION AND CONTROL
Pisa, Italy
April 3-5, 2007

http://hscc07.dii.unisi.it

The conference, tenth in a series of succesful annual meetings, is dedicated 
to research in embedded reactive systems involving the interplay between 
symbolic/switching and continuous dynamical behaviors. Academic as well 
industrial researchers are invited to exchange information on the latest 
developments of applications and theoretical advancements in the design, 
analysis, control, optimization, and implementation of hybrid systems, with 
particular attention to embedded and networked control systems. The 
conference is a forum for all aspects of hybrid systems, including:

- Models of heterogeneous systems
- Computability and complexity issues
- Real-time computing and control
- Embedded and resource-aware control
- Control and estimation over wireless networks
- Tools for analysis, verification, control, and design
- Programming languages support and implementation
- Applications, including automotive, communication networks, avionics, 
energy systems, transportation networks, biology and other sciences, 
manufacturing, and robotics

Accepted regular papers will be allotted 14 pages each in a volume to be 
published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 
series.

Submission of short papers (6 pages) accompanying a poster presentation will 
also be peer reviewed for inclusion in the conference proceedings.

Important Dates
October 9, 2006:   Deadline for paper submission (regular and short papers)
December 19, 2006: Submission of final manuscript
February 5, 2007:  Deadline for poster and hands-on demo submission

Alberto Bemporad, Antonio Bicchi, and Giorgio Buttazzo
HSCC'07 General Chairs


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6.6 International Symposium on Problems of Automation

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International Symposium on Problems of Automation

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

Convegno Internazionale sui Problemi dell'Automatismo
Symposium International sur les Problčmes de l'Automation
International Symposium on Problems of Automation
Internationales Symposium über Probleme der Automation

In April 1956, a conference was organized, which can be considered the “big 
bang” of modern control science in Italy.  This was the Convegno
Internazionale sui Problemi dell’Automatismo. The conference was held in Milan 
under the aegis of   CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), with a large 
number of participants, from Italian and foreign universities, as well as from 
companies operating in the automation sector, research and development 
institutes. Mr. Giovanni Gronchi, the President of the Italian Republic, 
attended the closing ceremony of the conference. 

Fifty years later, a celebration day with a similar spirit will take place at 
the Politecnico di Milano. The meeting will feature historical addresses, 
lectures of introductory type, and tutorials of large interest.  The objective 
is to outline the contribution of automatic control to the development of 
science and technology in the XX centuryand to discuss the main lines of the 
future developments that the XXI Century can bring with.

Distinguished Speakers: 
· S. Barabaschi, The Early Years of Automatic Control in Italy 
(former President of ESTA - European Science and Technology Assembly)    
· G. Goodwin, Digital Control: Past, Present and Future 
(University of Newcastle, Australia) 
· H. Kimura, Control Issues in Life Sciences 
(Laboratory Head of Biological Control System Lab. at RIKEN, Nagoya, Japan) 
· G. Marro, The Geometric Approach to Control 
(Universitŕ di Bologna) 

Round table:
L. D’Alessandro
President ANIPLA - Associazione Nazionale Italiana Per L’Automazione

F. Gagliardi
President AEIT - Federazione Italiana di Elettrotecnica, Elettronica, 
Automazione, Informatica e Telecomunicazioni

A. Vicino
President of CIRA - Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca in Automatica

For more information:
http://www.elet.polimi.it/CIRA/convnaz/2ndCIPA/


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6.7 Travel Support Programs at the next CDC 2006 Conference

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Travel Support Programs at the next CDC 2006 Conference

Contributed by: Maria Elena Valcher, meme@dei.unipd.it

TRAVEL SUPPORT PROGRAMS AT THE CDC 2006

1. Student Travel Support Program  
The Student Travel Support of CDC 2006 is meant to enable promising students 
to attend the conference, present their papers and become more integrated into 
their scientific community. Funds from IEEE Control System Society (CSS) and 
anticipated funds from National Science Foundation of U.S. (NSF) will be used 
to cover Student (or Regular, if needed) registration.  Depending on the 
number of applications, modest levels of additional support, toward defraying 
costs of attendance and travel, might be available. 
 
In order to be eligible, each applicant (i) must be an author or co-author of 
a paper accepted for presentation at CDC 2006, (ii) must present (at least) 
one paper at the conference. (iii) In order to be eligible for CSS funds, an 
applicant must be a (student) member of both IEEE and CSS, at the time of the 
application. In order to be eligible for the anticipated NSF funds, an 
applicant must be a student studying at an institution within the U.S.  For 
the NSF funds, priority will be given to IEEE-CSS members.  Students studying 
in the U.S. who are not IEEE-CSS members may be considered for support, with 
NSF funds, only after decisions on IEEE-CSS members' requests are finalized 
and funds are still available. 

To apply, students must download and fill in the Student Travel Support 
Application Form from the CDC 2006 Travel Support web page and upload it 
through PaperPlaza. Also, the student application must be supported by a 
letter of the Student's Advisor. Failure to attend the conference and present 
a paper will disqualify the student from receiving the award.

Further details are available at the conference web page 
http://www.ieeecss.org/CAB/conferences/cdc2006/students.php

2. IEEE CSS Conference Support for Developing Countries
Under this program, the Control Systems Society aims to enable researchers 
from the Developing Countries to attend the conference, present their papers 
and become more integrated into their scientific community. The award covers 
the Conference Registration fee. Depending on the number of applications, 
modest levels of additional support, toward defraying costs of attendance and 
travel may be available.

In order to be eligible, an applicant must (i) be an IEEE member, (ii) be 
working in (or a student of) an institution of one of the Developing Countries 
at the time of his/her application for funding (See the List of Eligible 
Countries at http://www.ieeecss.org/CAB/conferences/cdc2006/students.php), 
(iii) have a paper accepted at the Conference and be the presenter of that 
paper.

To apply, authors from Developing Countries must download and fill in the 
Travel Support for the Developing Countries Application Form from the CDC 2006 
Travel Support web page and upload it through PaperPlaza.

Failure to attend the conference and present a paper will disqualify the 
applicant from receiving the award. Further details are available at the 
conference web page 
http://www.ieeecss.org/CAB/conferences/cdc2006/students.php


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2nd International Workshop on Networked Control Systems  Tolerant to Faults

Contributed by: Alessandro Casavola, casavola@deis.unical.it

Call for papers
2nd International Workshop on Networked Control Systems  Tolerant to Faults
November 23-24, 2006 – Rende, Italy
http://www.strep-necst.org/2ndWorkshop

WORKSHOP LOCATION AND SEGRETARIAT
University of Calabria
Department of Electronics, Systems and Computer Engineering
Arcavacata di Rende (CS) – 87036 Italy
http://www.deis.unical.it/
Tél : +39 0994 494724
Fax : +39 0984 494713
e-mail : 2ndnecst@deis.unical.it

WORKSHOP LANGUAGE
The official language of the workshop is English.

AIM 
The workshop will explore research opportunities in distributed and 
networked control systems with special emphasis in their fault-tolerant 
properties. Preference will be given to papers describing algorithms, 
procedures and examples showing ability in the detection and isolation of 
anomalies (variances or irregularities in the networks and/or in the system) 
and in reconfiguring the underlying control strategies.

TOPIC OF MAIN INTEREST
-  Networked Control Systems
-  Intelligent Sensors and Sensor Networks
-  Real-Time Embedded Systems
-  Industrial Communication Systems
-  Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI)
-  Active Fault-Tolerant Control (FTC)
-  Autonomous Control, Coordination & Supervision in Networked Systems
-  Distributed Wireless Networks
-  Control Reconfiguration and Allocation
-  Distributed Consensus Methods
-  Applications to: Process Control, Transport, Robotics, Intelligent 
sensors & actuators, …
-  Distributed systems
-  Human-machine interaction and teleoperation

IMPORTANT DATES
Sept  15 th , 2006 		Submission of draft papers
October 1st  , 2006 		Notification of acceptance
October 15th , 2006 		Submission final papers


SUBMISSION
Draft Papers & Special Session Proposals must be submitted in IFAC 
submission format (pdf or ps) to: e-mail : 2ndnecst@deis.unical.it


CONFERENCE PUBLICATION
All accepted  papers will be published in the conference proceedings. 
Selected papers  will be considered for journal publication.

REGISTRATION FEES
200 €   Registration by October 15th (“Early Bird”)
220 €   Registrations (up to the workshop)

The registration fees include the attendance to the workshop,  coffee 
breaks , lunches (Nov 23, Nov. 24), dinner (Nov. 24) and the Workshop 
Proceedings (book of abstracts and CDROM).

TRAVEL INFORMATION
The University of Calabria is located at Arcavacata di Rende, a village 
close to Cosenza.  It is served by the airport of Lamezia Terme with flights 
from Rome and Milan with Alitalia.  Some cut-price airlines fly to Lamezia 
Terme.  A detailed list of options to arrive at the University of Calabria 
will be provided at the workshop website.

ACCOMODATION AND LUNCHES
A small number of single or double rooms will be available inside the Campus 
at very low rates.  A list of selected hotels at a walking distance from the 
University will be also provided.  The lunches will be served at several 
cafeterias inside the Campus.

SOCIAL PROGRAM
On Saturday 25th November an all-day guided visit to Norman and Swabian 
castles in the Province of Cosenza will be organized for interested people.  
The tour includes an English-speaking local guide, bus trip and lunch in a 
typical Calabrian restaurant ("agritourism").  The tour ticket will cost an 
additional 40 Euro per person.

For further information, please see 
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7.2 4th Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis - ACD 2006

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4th Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis - ACD 2006

Contributed by: Didier Theilliol, didier.theilliol@cran.uhp-nancy.fr

4th Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis – ACD 2006

Call for Papers for contribution to the 4th Workshop on Advanced Control and
Diagnosis – ACD 2006
Nancy, France – Novembre 16-17, 2006
http://www.acd-2006.cran.uhp-nancy.fr

The 4th Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis will highlight some
particular recent results in the development of methods and tools and also 
some
prototype which are of a particular interest for academics and engineers. The
emphasis is placed on practice of those technologies, but such theoretical
researches as accompanied with practical experience/consideration will be
also welcome. The topics are: Intelligent Methods for System Identification,
Control, Fault Diagnosis, Fault Tolerance, Safety, Computational Intelligence,
Pattern Recognition, Decision, Prognostic techniques for Dependability with
applications to: industrial processes, transportation systems, intelligent
sensors and actuators, distributed systems, communication systems including
human-machine interaction and tele-operation aspects, integration prototype.

PLEASE NOTICE THE FOLLOWING DEADLINES:
September 25, 2006 Submission of draft papers 
October 24, 2006 Notification of acceptance
November 3, 2006 Submission of Camera-ready papers
November 5, 2006 Papers available on the web site
November 16-17, 2006 Workshop on ACD 2006

WITH THE PARTICIPATION:
Necst Strep project (Network control systems tolerant to faults)
Integrated European project DYNAMITE (Dynamic decisions in maintenance)

FEE STRUCTURE
Only 100 euros for Full registration including the attendance to the 
workshop, lunches (Nov 16, Nov 17), the coffee breaks and the CD-ROM
proceedings

For more details, consult the Symposium website at 
http://www.acd-2006.cran.uhp-nancy.fr


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7.3 IFAC Workshop on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Fast Systems

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IFAC Workshop on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Fast Systems

Contributed by: Mazen Alamir, mazen.alamir@inpg.fr

Call for Participation: IFAC Workshop on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
for Fast Systems
9-11 Octobre 2006, Grenoble France.

It is now well recognized that nonlinear model predictive control (NPMC) is a 
particularly suitable control strategy when highly nonlinear dynamics and high 
quality/cost requirement are to be considered.

Although these facts are application independent, it is a fact that as soon as 
applications are considered, the use of NMPC schemes has been particularly 
intensive in the case of slow processes while few implementations are reported 
for relatively fast systems. This is because, first, chemical processes 
present the above mentioned features (Nonlinearities, constraints and 
economical issues) making the use of NMPC practically unavoidable, but it also 
results from the fact that the computational needs in the implementation of 
NMPC would be incompatible with systems with relatively fast dynamics.

The aim of the workshop is to put together researchers and users of NMPC 
schemes in order to focus on the potential use of NMPC for relatively fast 
systems (mechanical systems, electrical systems, Robotics, aerospace, etc). 
This may include both theoretical formulations leading to less computational 
requirements and successful applications of NMPC schemes to rather fast 
systems.

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7.4 Maths for Engineers Summer School at the University of Leicester

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Maths for Engineers Summer School at the University of Leicester

Contributed by: Guido Herrmann, gh17@le.ac.uk

MATHEMATICS FOR ROBUST AND NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS 17 - 23
September 2006

The School is aimed primarily at PhD students in control and related
subjects but will also be suitable for practising (industrial)
engineers wanting to understand the scope and limitations of
advanced control methods.

http://www.le.ac.uk/engineering/research/groups/control/menu.html

We have expert speakers from Leicester, around the UK (Keith Glover,
Roger Goodall, Robert Harrison, Nicos Karcanias, David Limebeer,
Eugene Ryan, Alan Zinober & Argyrios Zolotas) and two international
guest speakers (Pablo Iglesias & Anders Rantzer).

There will be formal lectures, hands-on sessions, case studies,
tutorials and plenty of opportunities to network.


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Control Engineer: Honeywell, Canada

Contributed by: Greg Stewart, greg.stewart@honeywell.com

Eng/Scientist Research III (Control Engineer) – 00052654

Description
This position is responsible for development, implementation and support of 
advanced control strategies for pulp, paper and printing.  This includes 
preparation of technical specifications, performing simulations, implementing 
and coding control strategies, verifying and validating features, supporting 
systems in the field and preparing technical reports.

Qualifications 
- Master's or PhD in Engineering, usually in Electrical, Control or Chemical 
Engineering with a specialty in Control Engineering
- At least 2 years' experience in industrial process control, preferably in 
the pulp and paper industry or advanced education combined with experience in 
industrial control system development and implementation
- Preference given to candidates with strong skills in one or more of Matlab, 
Simulink, Model Predictive Control, Model Identification, Robust Control,  
Optimization, Embedded Control Systems, Linear and Nonlinear Systems
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Travel up to 25% of the time
- Self starter, goal planning and team player skills
 
Location:
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Apply online at: http://www.honeywell.com/careers/jobsearch.html
 
Additional Information 
Closing Date: 19 July, 2006   
Number of Positions: 1


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8.2 Faculty: Eindhoven University of Technology 

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Faculty: Eindhoven University of Technology 

Contributed by: Maarten Steinbuch, m.steinbuch@tue.nl

The Eindhoven University of Technology has a vacancy for an 

Assistant Professor Automotive Powertrain Modelling and Control 

within the section Control Systems Technology of the Department of 
Mechanical Engineering.

At the Eindhoven University of Technology, Automotive Technology is one of 
the focus areas where science and engineering meet. Within the Department of 
Mechanical Engineering a special Mastertrack Automotive Engineering Science 
(AES) enables students to do their master studies with a clear Automotive 
orientation. One of the AES groups is the Control Systems Technology (CST) 
group. The CST group has over 20 PhD students and 10 tenure staff members, 
and about 40 MSc students graduate per year. Research focuses on various 
fundamental issues in systems and control and mechanical design. 
Applications are oriented towards mechanical motion systems and automotive 
power trains. 

An assistant professor (UD) position in the area of automotive power trains 
is available in the CST group. This position provides opportunities to work 
on government and industry sponsored multi-disciplinary projects, to 
interact with industrial partners, and to develop new research projects in 
the areas of control methodology development and applications. Current 
projects include electromechanical CVT variator actuation, hybrid 
distribution truck power train control and optimization, a more fundamental 
research project comprising the development of tribological models and know-
how for control purposes, advanced slip control development in a CVT, 
development of (hybrid) drive train design tools with focus on layout 
optimization.

Candidates are expected to contribute to the bachelor’s and master’s 
education programs covered by the CST group. To carry out research and to 
attract PhD students, the candidate is expected to apply for external 
funding in project or contract-based research. 

Candidates are expected to have an academic background at PhD level, 
preferably in systems and control from an engineering department or within 
one of the Mechanical Engineering disciplines. Research experience in 
relevant areas is desirable. The international research achievements of the 
candidate are manifest from his or her authorship of journal and conference 
articles. In addition to scientific skills, good communication- and 
didactical skills are a necessity. 

We offer: a challenging job in a dynamic and ambitious University; a 
temporary appointment for the period of 4 years (with the possibility of a 
permanent position); gross monthly salaries are in accordance with the 
Collective Labour Agreement of the Dutch Universities (CAO NU) and are at 
least € 3024 per month (scale 11) and at most € 4705 per month (scale 12). 
Salary is based on knowledge and experience; an attractive package of fringe 
benefits (including excellent work facilities, child care and excellent 
sport facilities).

Information: www.tue.nl, www.dct.tue.nl, www.aes.wtb.tue.nl 
Prof.dr.ir. M. Steinbuch, phone: +31 (0)40 –2475444, e-mail 
m.steinbuch@tue.nl. Personnel department, tel.: +31 (0)40 2474163, e-mail 
pzwtb@tue.nl 

Qualified candidates are cordially invited to express their interest in the 
vacancy or ask for more detailed information. Interested applicants should 
send a letter of application, a curriculum vitae and a statement of 
research, together with names and email addresses of three references to 
Mrs. Drs. A.J. Klomps, managing director, Department of Mechanical 
Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB 
Eindhoven, The Netherlands, mentioning vacancy number 35.344 (or email to 
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8.3 Faculty: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay India

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Faculty: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Contributed by: P. S. V. Nataraj, nataraj@sc.iitb.ac.in

The Systems and Control Engineering Group at the Indian Institute of 
Technology Bombay, invites applications from Indian nationals for faculty 
positions in control theory and applications, system identification, fault 
diagnosis and related areas. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. degree and have a 
strong commitment to undergraduate/graduate engineering education and 
research.  Applications with a curriculum vitae and names of at least three 
references should be sent to the Convener, Systems and Control Engineering 
Group, ACRE Building, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076 
India, and also by email to nataraj@sc.iitb.ac.in. 
For details, visit IIT Bombay website: www.iitb.ac.in
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8.4 Faculty: Technical University of Cyprus Cyprus

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Faculty: Technical University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Contributed by: Petros Ioannou, ioannou@usc.edu

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the
following academic posts at the Cyprus University of Technology.

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES 

Two (2) posts at the rank of Professor or Associate Professor or Assistant
Professor or Lecturer  in the specializations of Ad hoc Networks including
Sensor Networks particularly at the physical layer or Signal Processing or
Communications or Computer Architecture or Robotics.

All academic posts are available as from January 1st 2007.  The languages of
instruction at the University are Greek and/or Turkish.

Applicants for all academic ranks should have a doctorate. The minimum
requirements for each academic post, including publications and academic
experience, are detailed on the University’s webpage: http://www.cut.ac.cy

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

One (1) post at the rank of Professor or Associate Professor in the
specialization of Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials,
Fatigue, Fracture Mechanics, Failure Analysis and Mechanical Deformation
Processing.Strong experimental background is required.

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
(The Department places an emphasis on Infrastructure Engineering and Surveying)
One (1) post at the rank of Professor or Associate Professor in the
specializations of Geodesy or Land Planning and Development or Geoinformation
and Geographical Information Systems (GIS).
Two (2) Posts at the rank of Professor or Associate Professor in the
specializations of Infrastructure System Analysis, Design, or Risk Assessment
and Integrity Management or Transportation Planning or Road Design and
Construction.

All academic posts are available as from January 1st 2007.  The languages of
instruction at the University are Greek and/or Turkish.

Applicants for all academic ranks should have a doctorate. The minimum
requirements for each academic post, including publications and academic
experience, are detailed on the University’s webpage: http://www.cut.ac.cy.


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8.5 Faculty: University of Southern Denmark Denmark

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Faculty: University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Contributed by: Frands Voss, Voss@mci.sdu.dk

The Mads Clausen Institute for Product Innovation has 3 to 4 vacant 
positions in the field of electronics. We are looking for candidates with a 
background within the following areas
 
• Analogue electronics 
• Power
• Control engineering 
• Digital signal processing 

The complete announcement to be found at
http://www.jobs.sdu.dk/vis_stilling.php?id=2708&lang=eng


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8.6 MS: Institute for Advanced Study Italy

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MS: Institute for Advanced Study, Italy

Contributed by: Giuseppe De Nicolao, giuseppe.denicolao@unipv.it

Institute for Advanced Study, Pavia, Italy
Call for applications MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME.
International Master of Science in
METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS
Academic Year 2006-2007

The School aims to produce graduate students with outstanding scientific and
professional abilities, trained in the cultural, technical and managerial
aspects of complex systems science and its diverse applications. Students are
trained in basic and applied fields of modelling, simulation and the control
of complex entities and organizations. Also, they will be directly involved in
applied and extra-curricular activities through lecturers from, and
internships in, high-ranking companies and corporations. The areas of
specialization will include:

- Economics and Finance
- Data Analysis and Statistical Modelling
- Nano-technologies and Nano-devices
- Information and Communication Technology

The School's basic philosophy is to combine interdisciplinary methods with
practical specializations in specific fields. One of the School's primary
objectives is to launch its students into the professional world. Placement of
previous editions is 85% at 3 months from Diploma.

The School is supported by major industrial and financial partners of national
and international level. A considerable number of scholarships will be
offered to deserving students. All lectures will be held in English.

Deadline for applications: October 15, 2006.
Details are available on the web page: http://www.unipv.it/complexity/
or via the e-mail address: master_mcs@iuss.unipv.it


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8.7 PDF: Nanyang Technological University Singapore

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PDF: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Contributed by: Lihua Xie, elhxie@ntu.edu.sg

Applications are invited for one Postdoc position in the School of 
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. The 
successful applicant will be working on a research project on Real-time 
Control & Auto-Recovery funded by Agency for Science, Technology and 
Research, Republic of Singapore. 

This research aims to establish new approaches to the real-time control of 
large scale, distributed networked manufacturing systems with fault 
tolerance and self-recovery attributes. The controller actively monitors the 
equipment health status through the embedded prognosis mechanism and makes
appropriate decision to mitigate the impact or even rectify the pending 
failure. This will involve the rationalization of the feedback from the 
prognosis mechanism, real-time supervisory control decision making for
the networked manufacturing system, control under unreliable network 
environment and multi-objective optimisation.

The candidate should have research experience, a good publication record in 
the area of research of the project, and good communication skill. He/she 
should be capable of working independently and in a team. 

Application:
You should send a detailed CV, including a concise description of your 
education, research work and current research interests to Professor Lihua 
Xie via email (Email address: elhxie@ntu.edu.sg). Applications will be 
considered until the position is filled. 


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8.8 PDF: Stellenbosch University South Africa

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PDF: Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Contributed by: Cornie Scheffer, cscheffer@sun.ac.za

Postdoctoral research position in the development of biomedical devices & 
control systems: Sensor systems, signal processing, biomechatronics, bio-
MEMS, control systems, telemedicine, biomedical artificial intelligence and 
home healthcare devices. 

Location: Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
Description: 
The Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at the University of 
Stellenbosch, South Africa is currently developing the field of biomedical 
engineering as a research focus area. For this purpose postdoctoral fellows 
are required to assist with research in the topics of biomedical sensor 
systems, biomedical signal processing, biomechatronic devices, bio-MEMS 
devices, control systems, telemedicine systems, biomedical artificial 
intelligence and home healthcare devices. Currently numerous projects are 
ongoing and the department offers world-class facilities as well as the 
financial backing of a large industrial sponsor. Stellenbosch University is 
located 30 mins from Cape Town International Airport and the region is 
renowned for its pleasant surroundings and is one of the top international 
destinations. 

Postdoctoral candidates should hold a PhD or equivalent degree in 
engineering, physics or a related biomedical field. Experience in any of the 
specialised fields mentioned above is a plus. 

The salary is commensurate with research experience and education. The 
duration of the fellowship is 12 – 17 months. Interested applicants may 
contact Dr. Cornie Scheffer via email (cscheffer AT sun DOT ac DOT za) for 
information about the research position. Also visit http://www.sun.ac.za for 
more information about Stellenbosch University.

Employer: University of Stellenbosch (US)
1. The US is an equal opportunity employer. 
2. South African citizenship is not a requirement.

Contact: 
Interested applicants may contact Dr. Cornie Scheffer via email (cscheffer AT 
sun DOT ac DOT za) for information about the research position. Also visit 
http://www.sun.ac.za for more information about Stellenbosch University.

Sector: Academic
Hours: Full time 
Type: Postdoctoral fellowship 
Duration: 12-17 months 
PhD fields sought: Physical Sciences / Engineering / Biomedical
Expires: October 1, 2006


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8.9 PhD: Eindhoven University of Technology NL

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PhD: Eindhoven University of Technology, NL

Contributed by: Henk Nijmeijer, h.nijmeijer@tue.nl

PhD position on Stability, Bifurcations and Stabilisations of Invariant sets
in Differential Inclusions at the Dynamics and Control group at the Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology.
Discontinuities are present in a wide variety of systems; e.g. friction in
mechanical systems, diodes in electrical circuits or switching control
systems. Models of such systems are commonly formulated as differential
equations with discontinuous right-hand sides. Such systems can be formulated
as differential inclusions with a set-valued right-hand side when no
state-jumps occur; these systems are commonly called Filippov systems.
Equilibria, periodic and quasi-periodic solutions of differential inclusions
represent important classes of limit solutions for such systems. The
equilibria may range from one or multiple isolated equilibrium points, either
on or outside the discontinuity surfaces, to equilibrium sets located on the
discontinuity surface(s). Likewise, the (quasi-) periodic solutions can either
lie entirely in the smooth domain of the state-state space or hit (or
partially slide along) the discontinuity surface. The stability properties of
these limit solutions largely influence the global dynamics of the system.
Therefore, the first goal of the project is the development of a stability
theory for such limit solutions. A second project goal concerns the study of
non-smooth bifurcations.
Finally, non-smooth controller design will be another research theme in the
project.
For further details we refer to the website http://w3.wtb.tue.nl/nl/


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8.10 PhD PostDoc: University of Western Ontario Canada

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PhD, PostDoc: University of Western Ontario, Canada

Contributed by: Jin Jiang, jjiang@eng.uwo.ca

A number of Doctoral and Postdoctoral positions are available at the
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering to support the research
activities in the following areas:

o	Distributed Power Generation involving fuel cells
o	Fault detection and diagnosis using time-frequency techniques
o	Distributed control systems with Fieldbus and networked control
o	Reliability and risk analysis of engineering systems
o	Nonlinear control of industrial processes
o	Power system dynamics and control

Interested candidates should have relevant background in one of the above
areas and should be willing to work with industries. Full scholarships are
available for doctoral candidates and competitive remunerations are for
postdoctoral fellows.  

To apply, please send (by mail or e-mail) complete curriculum vitae with a
research plan, a list of publications/qualifications and the names & addresses
(including e-mails) of three references to

Prof. Jin Jiang
NSERC/UNENE Senior Industrial Research Chair in Control, Instrumentation and
Electric Systems for Nuclear Power Plants 
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ont.
N6A 5B9 CANADA

E-mail: jjiang@eng.uwo.ca
Fax:     (519) 850-2436


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8.11 Program Directors: National Science Foundation USA

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Program Directors: National Science Foundation, USA

Contributed by: Kishan Baheti, rbaheti@nsf.gov

The Division of Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS) of the National 
Science Foundation (NSF) has two openings for Program Directior positions in 
the integrated and hybrid systems program.  The positions are for visiting 
scientists or IPA appointments. The details are available on ECS 
web site and also can be found at the following.

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/ecs0602/ecs0602a.pdf

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/ecs0603/ecs0603.pdf


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8.12 Research Scientist: INESC-ID Portugal

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Research Scientist: INESC-ID, Portugal

Contributed by: Elisabete Rodrigues, elisabete.rodrigues@inesc-id.pt

INESC-ID is one of the largest and most dynamic research institutes in
Portugal in the areas of telecommunications, information systems and
electronics. Having recently been awarded the status of associated laboratory
by the Portuguese government, INESC-ID seeks highly qualified candidates
holding a PhD with a proven track record and ability to perform independent
research in one of the following areas: 

Communication Networks and Mobility; IP mobility and ad-hoc networks; QoS
in IP Networks; Sensor networks 

Micro, Nano and Embedded Systems; Numerical techniques for computational
electromagnetics; Analog and mixed signal IC design; Bio-sensors,
bio-actuators and bio-inspired signal processing; Computer architetures,
SoC and SiP; Reconfigurable systems
 
Spoken Language Systems; Spoken and multimodal dialog systems; Speech - to -
speech translation; Semantic processing of multimedia contents 

Information and Decision Support Systems; Security in distributed systems 
Grid computing; Web engineering; Bioinformatics and computational biology 

Interactive Virtual Environments; Intelligent agents; Multimodal interfaces;
Rendering and display of synthetic environments 

INESC-ID (http://www.inesc-id.pt) invites eligible individuals to submit their
expressions of interest, which must include an application letter, a detailed
curriculum vitae, a proposal of the activities to be developed and three
letters of reference. All documents should be sent to: Arlindo Oliveira,
INESC-ID, R. Alves Redol 9, 1000 Lisboa, Portugal. 
The position is for a fixed term contract of length up to five years in the
scope of a research project financed by the associated laboratory contract. 
Positions are continuously open, but received applications will be evaluated
at the following specific dates: 
April 30th, 2006 
June 30th, 2006 
September 30th, 2006 
November 30th, 2006 
Type of Position: Postdoctoral Position
Durations: 36 Months 
Limit Date to Reply: 30-Dec-2006
Contact: Arlindo Manuel Limede de Oliveira
Scholarship Email: elisabete.rodrigues@inesc-id.pt
Scholarship URL: http://www.inesc-id.pt
Scholarship Phone Number: 351213100241


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