Control Systems Society

   


Newsletter
July 2006

1. Personals
 1.1Change of Address: Hai Lin
 1.2Change of Address: Maurice Heemels
 1.3Change of Address: Peter Kootsookos
2. General Announcements
 2.1Summer School: Fast Estimation and Identification
 2.2Summer School: University of Leicester UK
3. Awards Honors
4. Books
 4.1Autonomous Mobile Robots: Sensing Control Decision-Making and Applications
 4.2Fundamentals of Signals and Systems Using the Web and MATLAB Third Edition
 4.3Fuzzy Controller Design: Theory and Applications
 4.4Group Coordination and Cooperative Control
 4.5Intelligent Fault Diagnosis
 4.6Nonlinear H2H-Infinity Constrained Feedback Control
5. Journals
 5.1Asian Journal of Control: Special Issue CFP
 5.2CFP: IEEE T-ASE Special Issue on Drug Delivery Automation
 5.3CFP: Special Issue of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
 5.4Call For Papers: Dynamics and Control in Sciences and Engineering
 5.5Call For Papers: ELEKTRIK Special Issue on Swarm Robotics
 5.6Contents: Automatica
 5.7Contents: Circuits Systems and Signal Processing
 5.8Contents: Control Engineering Practice
 5.9Contents: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
 5.10Contents: International Journal of Control
 5.11Contents: International Journal of General Systems
 5.12Contents: International Journal of Systems Science
 5.13Contents: Journal MCSS
 5.14Contents: Linear Algebra and its Applications
6. Conferences
 6.11st IEEE Multi-Conferenence on Systems and Control
 6.22007 International Conference on Control and Automation
 6.3Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems
 6.4European Control Conference 2007
 6.5Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control 2007
 6.6International Symposium on Problems of Automation
 6.7Travel Support Programs at the next CDC 2006 Conference
7. Workshops
 7.12nd International Workshop on Networked Control Systems Tolerant to Faults
 7.24th Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis - ACD 2006
 7.3IFAC Workshop on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Fast Systems
 7.4Maths for Engineers Summer School at the University of Leicester
8. Positions
 8.1Control Engineer: Honeywell Canada
 8.2Faculty: Eindhoven University of Technology
 8.3Faculty: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay India
 8.4Faculty: Technical University of Cyprus Cyprus
 8.5Faculty: University of Southern Denmark Denmark
 8.6MS: Institute for Advanced Study Italy
 8.7PDF: Nanyang Technological University Singapore
 8.8PDF: Stellenbosch University South Africa
 8.9PhD: Eindhoven University of Technology NL
 8.10PhD PostDoc: University of Western Ontario Canada
 8.11Program Directors: National Science Foundation USA
 8.12Research Scientist: INESC-ID Portugal

1. Personals
    1.1 Change of Address: Hai Lin contribution will look in the emailed version from the preview below. If the text lines are wrapping around, please make sure to break them at appropriate place
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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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    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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    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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2. General Announcements
    2.1 Summer School: Fast Estimation and Identification contribution will look in the emailed version from the preview below. If the text lines are wrapping around, please make sure to break them at appropriate place
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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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    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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3. Awards Honors
4. Books
    4.1 Autonomous Mobile Robots: Sensing Control Decision-Making and Applications contribution will look in the emailed version from the preview below. If the text lines are wrapping around, please make sure to break them at appropriate place
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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?
    sku=DK6033&parent_id=&pc=
    
    
    
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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:
    http://vig.prenhall.com:8081/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0131687379,00.html
      
    
    
    
    
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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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    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-
    22-154406995-0
    
    
    
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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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    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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5. Journals
    5.1 Asian Journal of Control: Special Issue CFP contribution will look in the emailed version from the preview below. If the text lines are wrapping around, please make sure to break them at appropriate place
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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 contribution will look in the emailed version from the preview below. If the text lines are wrapping around, please make sure to break them at appropriate place
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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: 
    http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-40109-70-1176077-
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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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    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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    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
    
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    School of Electronics and Computer Science
    University of Southampton
    etar@ecs.soton.ac.uk
    
    
    
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    Contents: International Journal of General Systems
    
    Contributed by: Russell Stevens, russell.stevens@tandf.co.uk
    
    Volume 35, Issue 1		
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    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
    
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    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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    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
    
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    Editor-in-Chief
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    University of Sheffield 
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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
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    of its papers are available from the publisher Springer at:
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    www.math.rutgers.edu/~sontag/mcss.html
    
    Address for submissions by email or regular mail:
    J.H. van Schuppen (Editor-in-Chief MCSS)
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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7. Workshops
    7.1 2nd International Workshop on Networked Control Systems Tolerant to Faults contribution will look in the emailed version from the preview below. If the text lines are wrapping around, please make sure to break them at appropriate place
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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 
    http://www.strep-necst.org/2ndWorkshop
    
    
    
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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 tec