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Newsletter
October 2006

1. Personals
2. General Announcements
3. Awards Honors
 3.12007 AACC Award Nominations due NOVERMBER 1 2006
4. Books
 4.1Introduction to Advanced Scientific Softwares and Toolboxes
 4.2On-line version of Mathematical Control Theory
 4.3Student Solutions Manual for Design of Nonlinear Control Systems
5. Journals
 5.1Advanced Control Systems in Automotive Applications
 5.2Call For Papers: ELEKTRIK Special Issue on Swarm Robotics
 5.3Contents: Asian Journal of Control
 5.4Contents: Automatica November 2006
 5.5Contents: Automatica September 2006
 5.6Contents: Circuits Systems and Signal Processing
 5.7Contents: Control Engineering Practice
 5.8Contents: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
 5.9Contents: IEE Proceedings Control Theory and Applications
 5.10Contents: International Journal of Control
 5.11Contents: International Journal of Control and Intelligent Systems
 5.12Contents: International Journal of General Systems
 5.13Contents: International Journal of Systems Science
 5.14Contents: JDCS
 5.15Contents: Journal on MCSS
 5.16Contents: Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing
 5.17Contents: Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory
6. Conferences
 6.117th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control In Aerospace
 6.22007 European Control Conference-Deadline Extension
 6.32007 International Conference on Control and Automation
 6.44th International Symposium on Neural Networks Nanjing China June 2006
 6.57th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems
 6.6Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing 2007
 6.7ICAT2006 - International Conference on Automotive Technologies
 6.8The 26th Chinese Control Conference
7. Workshops
 7.1Beyond SCADA: Networked Embedded Control for Cyber Physical Systems
 7.2Invited Session at IFAC DCDS 2007
 7.3Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology
8. Positions
 8.1Faculty: Cornell University USA
 8.2Faculty: Lehigh University USA
 8.3Faculty: University of Bremen Germany
 8.4Faculty: University of California Santa Cruz USA
 8.5Faculty: University of New Mexico USA
 8.6MEng: Cork Institute of Technology Ireland
 8.7Manufacturing Controls Engineer: GM Michigan USA
 8.8PhD: EPFL Switzerland
 8.9PhD: K.U. Leuven ESAT-SCD Belgium
 8.10PhD: TU Delft Netherlands
 8.11PhD: The University of New South Wales at ADFA Canberra Australia
 8.12PhD: Tokyo Institute of Technology
 8.13PhD: UTSA USA
 8.14PhD: Universita del Sannio Italy
 8.15PhD: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Spain
 8.16PhD: University of Houston USA
 8.17Post-Doc: Sabanci Univ. Turkey
 8.18Post-Doc: University of Newcastle Australia
 8.19Visiting Faculty: Ajou University Korea

1. Personals
2. General Announcements
3. Awards Honors
    3.1 2007 AACC Award Nominations due NOVERMBER 1 2006
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    2007 AACC Award Nominations due NOVERMBER 1, 2006
    
    Contributed by: Pradeep Misra, pradeep.misra@wright.edu
    
    Submission site: http://awards.paperplaza.net
    Further information & nominations forms; http://www.a2c2.org/awards
    
    Nominations for the five AACC (American Automatic Control Council) awards
    to be presented in 2007 are now being solicited. The awards consist of a
    certificate and an honorarium, and they will be presented at the Awards
    Luncheon during the 2007 ACC to be held in New York, NY.
    
    Nomination packages should be prepared in accordance with the AACC Award
    Nomination Form and include the following:
    Biographical information, a statement identifying and evaluating the
    accomplishments on which the nomination is based (not to exceed two double
    spaced pages), a minimum of three and a maximum of five reference letters, a
    current list of publications and patents, and any additional supporting
    material that could have bearing on the award. Please submit the nomination
    electronically (see instructions on www.a2c2.org/awards/) by Nov. 1, 2006.
    
    ****Nomination Forms**** may be downloaded from http://www.a2c2.org/awards/
    
    The scope of various awards is given below:
    
    Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award. For distinguished career
    contributions to the theory or applications of automatic control. The nominee
    is to have spent a significant part of his or her career in the United
    States. Posthumous nominations are not allowed.
    
    Donald P. Eckman Award. For outstanding accomplishments by a young engineer
    in the field of automatic control. Nominees must be younger than 35 years on
    January 1 of the year of award. The award is based on contributions made
    while the nominee was a resident of the United States.
    
    John R. Ragazzini Award. For outstanding contributions to automatic control
    education in any form. The awardee normally is a teacher, but there is no
    formal requirement that nominees be members of a university faculty.
    
    Control Engineering Practice Award. For significant contributions to the
    advancement of control practice including the application and implementation
    of innovative control concepts, methodology, and technology, for the
    planning, design, manufacture, and operation of control systems.
    
    O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award. For the best two papers presented at the
    previous American Control Conference. The papers must have been presented by
    the author or a co-author at the conference. Selection criteria include
    quality of the written and oral presentation, technical contribution,
    timeliness, and practicality, with one award emphasizing contributions to
    theory and the other emphasizing significant or innovative applications.
    
    
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4. Books
    4.1 Introduction to Advanced Scientific Softwares and Toolboxes
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    Introduction to Advanced Scientific Softwares and Toolboxes
    
    Contributed by: R. Rajesh, kollamrajeshr@ieee.org
    
    We invite contributions in the form of tutorials for the book titled 
          "Introduction to Advanced Scientific Softwares and Toolboxes" 
    to be published by International Association of Engineers. 
    
    Topics of interest (not limited to)
    1. Tutorials of software’s/ toolboxes clearly explaining the use, 
    applications and advantages with sufficient examples.
    2. Developments of innovative software’s/toolboxes. In this case, the authors 
    have to explain how it can be used to solve problems.
    3. Papers considering original research and successful new applications to 
    real-world problems using the toolboxes/scientific software’s are also 
    welcome, but the authors would have to make a detailed description of how 
    they are making usa of the toolboxes /software’s.
    
    Toolboxes of interest include, but are not limited to Genetic Algorithm, 
    Neural Network, Control Systems, Bioinformatics, Fuzzy Logic, Speech 
    Synthesis and Recognition, Virtual reality, Image Processing, and Simulink.
    
    Scientific Softwares of interest include, but are not limited to Matlab, IDL, 
    and Mathematica
    Important Dates
    Submission of paper due:    30th November 2006
    Notification of acceptance: 30th December 2006
    Camera Ready Copy due:      30th January  2007
    
    SUBMISSION
    Authors should submit their tutorials electronically, in PDF/PS format to 
    kollamrajeshr@ieee.org with the subject indicating "Submission to book". 
    
    All submitted tutorials must be prepared in the standard format (template and 
    style files for LaTeX can be obtained by sending an email to 
    kollamrajeshr@ieee.org). It should not exceed 15 pages including figures, 
    references and appendices.
    
    Submitted tutorials must be original and not submitted for concurrent 
    consideration elsewhere. All subiitted tutorials will be subject to the 
    standard refereeing process and evaluated on originality, relevance, 
    significance, and readability. There are no page charges for tutorials/papers 
    that appear in the book. Please contact the editor for any clarification.
    
    It will be highly appreciated if you circulate this call for book chapters to 
    your colleagues. 
    
      Dr. R. Rajesh 
      Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
      Bharathiar University 
      Coimbatore - 641046 
      India 
      kollamrajeshr@ieee.org 
    
    
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    4.2 On-line version of Mathematical Control Theory
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    On-line version of Mathematical Control Theory
    
    Contributed by: Eduardo Sontag, sontag@math.rutgers.edu
    
    The website http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~sontag/mct.html now links to an
    on-line (pdf) copy, freely accessible, of:
    
    Eduardo D. Sontag
    Mathematical Control Theory: Deterministic Finite Dimensional Systems.
    Second Edition, Springer, New York, 1998. (531+xvi pages, ISBN 0-387-984895)
    Series: Textbooks in Applied Mathematics, Number 6
    
    The current version is a plain pdf file.  A hyperlinked version is in
    preparation.
    
    (Please note that the book is still copyrighted by Springer-Verlag.  Springer
    has kindly allowed a copy to be placed on the web, as a reference and for ease
    of web searches.)
    
    
    
    
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    4.3 Student Solutions Manual for Design of Nonlinear Control Systems
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    Student Solutions Manual for Design of Nonlinear Control Systems
    
    Contributed by: Valery D. Yurkevich, yurkev@ieee.org
    
    A student solutions manual along with a set of Matlab-Simulink files for the 
    book ``Design of nonlinear control systems with the highest derivative in 
    feedback'' (World Scientific, 2004, 352 p., ISBN: 981-238-899-0) can be 
    downloaded from http://ac.cs.nstu.ru/~yurkev/books.html
    
    
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5. Journals
    5.1 Advanced Control Systems in Automotive Applications
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    Advanced Control Systems in Automotive Applications
    
    Contributed by: Yuri Vershinin, y.vershinin@coventry.ac.uk
    
    Call for Papers
    
    Special Issue on: "Advanced Control Systems in Automotive Applications" of 
    International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control (IJMIC).
    
    Recent advances in control theory, microelectronics, navigation and 
    telecommunication systems have created new opportunities to improve the 
    performance of automobiles in terms of fuel economy, emissions reduction, 
    driver comfort, traffic management and safety. 
    
    Radar-based Adaptive Cruise Control systems allow one to increase the safety 
    of driving and improve ride comfort. GPS navigation systems provide accurate 
    continuously updated information about the vehicle position and velocity. The 
    information from telemetry and navigation systems can be used for vehicle 
    tracking, road congestion analysis and optimal traffic control. The 
    implementation on a vehicle of an active suspension system with preview 
    action allows a driver to achieve higher speed on rough terrain. Optimal air-
    fuel ratio control for both diesel and spark ignition engines results in 
    emissions reduction and improvements in fuel economy.
    
    The subject area includes, but is not limited to:
    
    - Linear and non-linear control systems in automotive applications;
    - Adaptive, optimal and hybrid control;
    - Wheel slip control and ABS;
    - Semi-active and active suspension systems;
    - Torque control strategies for spark ignition and diesel engines;
    - Engine management systems for minimization of fuel consumption and 
    emissions reduction;
    - Air-fuel ratio control for stoichiometric operation with a three way 
    catalytic converter;
    - Application of fuzzy-logic, neural networks and artificial intelligence 
    algorithms;
    - Information management via a Controller Area Network (CAN);
    - Design and simulation of powertrain models;
    - Intelligent Transportation Systems;
    - Automotive telemetry and telematics;
    - Sensor/data fusion systems design; 
    - Sliding mode control systems; 
    - Engine model identification and parameters estimation;
    - Automotive fault tolerance systems design.
    
    Notes for Intending Authors:
    
    Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently 
    under consideration for publication elsewhere.
    All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, 
    sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are 
    available on the Papers Submission section under Author Guidelines
    http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=30
    
       	Editors and Notes:
    
    Please send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail 
    (details in Author Guidelines) to the following:
    
    Email: y.vershinin@coventry.ac.uk
    
    Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title 
    of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor.
    
    Guest Editors: Giorgio Rizzoni and Vadim Utkin (The Ohio State University, 
    USA), and Yuri Vershinin (Coventry University, UK).
    
      	Important Dates:
    
    Closing date: 6 November 2006
    
    
    
    
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    5.2 Call For Papers: ELEKTRIK Special Issue on Swarm Robotics
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    Call For Papers: ELEKTRIK Special Issue on Swarm Robotics
    
    Contributed by: Veysel Gazi, vgazi@etu.edu.tr
    
    The submission deadline for ELEKTRIK (The Turkish Journal of Electrical 
    Engineering and Computer Sciences) Special Issue on "Swarm Robotics" of 31 
    October 2006 is approaching. 
     
    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 October 2006 
    Notification of acceptance/rejection:  31 January 2006 
    
    For further information, in addition to the guest editor, please contact 
    Prof. Dr. Kemal Leblebicioðlu, (kleb@metu.edu.tr) Editor-in-Chief 
    Middle East Technical University 
    Electrical - Electronic Engineering Dept. 
    06531, Ankara - Turkey, Fax: +90 (312) 210-1261,  
    http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/elektrik/
    
    
    
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    5.3 Contents: Asian Journal of Control
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    Contents: Asian Journal of Control
    
    Contributed by: Li-Chen Fu, lichen@ntu.edu.tw
    
    Asian Journal of Control
    Vol. 8, No. 3     September, 2006
    
    CONTENTS
    Special issue for ¡§New Trend in Automotive Powertrain Systems¡¨
    Regular:
    1. Paper Title: An Integrated Software Environment for Powertrain
                    Feasibility Assessment Using Optimization and Optimal Control
           Authors: Ilya Kolmanovsky, Jing Sun, and N. Sivashankar
    
    2. Paper Title: Modeling and Solving Engine Intake Manifold with Turbo 
                    Charger for Predictive Control
           Authors: Long Xie, Harutoshi Ogai, Yasuaki Inoue, and Akira Ohata
    
    3. Paper Title: Development of CVT Control System and Its Use for Fuel-
                    Efficient Operation of Engine
           Authors: Kazuataka Adachi, Yoshimasa Ochi, and Kimio Kanai
    
    4. Paper Title: Reduced Order Robust Gain Scheduling Control of Diesel APU  
                    for Series Hybrid Vehicles
           Authors: He Bin, Ouyang Minggao, and Li Jiangqiu
    
    Brief:
    1. Paper Title: Automotive Powertrain Control: A Survey
           Authors: Jeffrey A. Cook, Jing Sun, Julia H. Buckland, Ilya V. 
                    Kolmanovsky, Huei Peng, and Jessy W. Grizzle
    
    2. Paper Title: Design of Anti-Slip Controller for Electric Vehicle with
                    Adhesion Status Analyzer Based on EV Simulator
           Authors: Lianbing Li
    
    3. Paper Title: On-Line Detection of State-of-Charge in Lead Acid Battery  
                    using Radial Basis Function Neural Network
           Authors: Yoshifumi Morita, Sou Yamamoto,Sun Hee Lee, and Naoki Mizuno
    
    4. Paper Title: Optimal Control of Parallel Hybrid Electric Vehicles Based 
                    on Theory of Switched System
           Authors: Licun Fang and Shiyin Qin
    
    Special issue for ¡§Control Biology-Emerging Field of Life Science that
    Connects Biology and Control¡¨
    Regular:
    1. Paper Title: On Robust Stability and Sensitivity of Circadian Rhythms
           Authors: Kazuto Ogawa, Nao Takekawa, Kenko Uchida, and Shigenobu
                    Shibata
    
    2. Paper Title: Optimal Switching in Structured Treatment Interruption for
                    HIV Therapy
           Authors: Won Hee Kim, Han Byul Chung, and Chung Choo Chung
    
    3. Paper Title: Dynamic Studies on Human Body Sway by Using a Simple Model 
                    with Special Concerns on the Pelvic and Muscle Roles
           Authors: Yifa Jiang, Sachio Nagasaki, Matsura You, and Jilin Zhou
    
    
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    5.4 Contents: Automatica November 2006
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    Contents: Automatica, November, 2006
    
    Contributed by: Becky Lonberger, rebeccal@uiuc.edu
    
    Contents: Automatica, November, 2006
    Volume 42, Issue 11
    
    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
    
    Berç Rüstem and Tamer Basar
    CALL FOR PAPERS for an Automatica Special Issue on Stochastic Modeling,
    Control, and Robust Optimization at the Crossroads of Engineering,
    Environmental Economics, and Finance
    
    Regular papers
    
    X. Fan, T. Alpcan, M. Arcak, T. J. Wen, and T. Basar
    A passivity approach to game-theoretic CDMA power control
    
    Sergio Galeani and Andrew R. Teel
    On a performance-robustness trade-off intrinsic to the natural anti-windup
    problem
    
    Brief papers
    
    Said Oucheriah
    Robust exponential convergence of a class of linear delayed systems with
    bounded controllers and disturbances
    
    Kenneth Hsu, Carlo Novara, Tyrone Vincent, Mario Milanese, and Kameshwar
    Poolla
    Parametric and nonparametric curve fitting
    
    Robert Orsi, Uwe Helmke, and John B. Moore
    A Newton-like method for solving rank constrained linear matrix
    inequalities
    
    Thierry Floquet and Jean-Pierre Barbot
    State and unknown input estimation for linear discrete-time systems
    
    Weihai Zhang, Huanshui Zhang, and Bor-Sen Chen
    Stochastic  $H2/H_infnty$  control with  (x,u,v)-dependent noise: finite
    horizon case
    
    A. Chaillet and A. Loria
    Necessary and sufficient conditions for uniform semiglobal practical
    asymptotic stability: application to cascaded systems
    
    Imad M. Jaimoukha, Zhenhai Li, and Vasilios Papakos
    A matrix factorization solution to the H_minus/H_infinity fault detection
    problem
    
    Bartek Roszak and Mireille E. Broucke
    Necessary and sufficient conditions for reachability on a simplex
    
    Zhisheng Duan, Jingxin Zhang, Cishen Zhang, and Edorado Mosca
    Robust $H_2$ and $H_\infty$ filtering for uncertain linear systems
    
    B. M. Quine
    A derivative-free implementation of the extended Kalman filter
    
    Amir G. Aghdam, Edward J. Davison, and Rafael
    Becerril-Arreola
    Structural modification of systems using discretization and generalized
    sampled-data hold functions
    
    Naim Bajcinca
    Design of robust PID controllers using decoupling at singular frequencies
    
    J.Zeng and R. A. de Callafon
    Control relevant estimation of plant and disturbance dynamics
    
    Arvin Dehghani, Alexander Lanzon, and Brian D. O. Anderson
    $H_infnty$ design to generalize internal model control
    
    Mark Cannon, Marko Bacic, and Basil Kouvaritakis
    Dynamic non-minimum phase compensation for SISO nonlinear, affine in the
    input systems
    
    Andrea Serrani
    Rejection of harmonic disturbances at the controller input via hybrid
    adaptive external models
    
    Eduardo D. Sontag and Madalena Chaves
    Exact computation of amplification for a class of nonlinear systems
    arising from cellular signaling pathways
    
    Jorge Cortés
    Finite-time convergent gradient flows with applications to network
    consensus
    
    Zhan Shu, James Lam, and Shengyuan Xu
    Robust stabilization of Markovian delay systems with delay-dependent
    exponential estimates
    
    Yoram Halevi
    On the class of reduced order models obtainable by projection
    
    Masayuki Sato
    Filter design for LPV systems using quadratically parameter-dependent
    Lyapunov functions
    
    Technical communiques
    
    Lisheng Hu, Peng Shi, and Paul M. Frank
    Robust sampled-data control for Markovian jump linear systems
    
    Svante Gunnarsson and Mikael Norrlöf
    On the disturbance properties of high order 
    iterative learning control algorithms
    
    
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    5.5 Contents: Automatica September 2006
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    Contents: Automatica, September 2006
    
    Contributed by: Becky Lonberger, rebeccal@uiuc.edu
    
    Contents: Automatica, October, 2006
    Volume 42, Issue 10
    
    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
    
    Regular papers
    
    Alessandro de Rinaldis, Romeo Ortega, and Mark Spong
    A compensator for attenuation of wave reflections in long cable
    actuator--plant interconnections with guaranteed stability
    
    Marcello Montanari, Sergei Peresada, Andrea Tilli, and Alberto Tonielli
    A speed-sensorless indirect field-oriented control for induction motors
    based on high gain speed estimation
    
    X. Bombois, G. Scorletti, M. Gevers, P.M.J. Van
    den Hof, and R. Hildebrand
    Least costly identification experiment for control
    
    Frederic Mazenc, Michael Malisoff, and Marcio de Queiroz
    Further results on strict Lyapunov functions for rapidly time-varying
    nonlinear systems
    
    Dragan B. Daèiæ and Petar V. Kokotoviæ
    Path-following for linear systems with unstable zero dynamics
    
    Yasushi Iwatani and Shinji Hara
    Stability tests and stabilization for piecewise linear systems based on
    poles and zeros of
     subsystems
    
    Brief papers
    
    Delin Chu and Paul Van Dooren
    A novel numerical method for the exact model matching problem with
    stability
    
    Michael Margaliot and Christos Yfoulis
    Absolute stability of third-order systems: a numerical algorithm
    
    K. D. Do and J. Pan
    Global robust adaptive path following of underactuated ships
    
    Kapil G. Gadkar, Radhakrishnan Mahadevan, and
    Francis J. Doyle III
    Optimal genetic manipulations in batch bioreactor control
    
    Umut Orguner and Mübeccel Demirekler
    An online sequential algorithm for the estimation of transition
    probabilities for jump Markov linear systems
    
    J.M. Bravo, T. Alamo, and E.F. Camacho
    Robust MPC of constrained discrete-time nonlinear systems based on
    approximated reachable sets
    
    Huijun Wu and Jitao Sun
    p-Moment stability of stochastic differential equations with impulsive
    jump and Markovian switching
    
    Su-Hau Hsu and Li-Chen Fu
    A fully adaptive decentralized control of robot manipulators
    
    Xi-ming Sun, Jun Zhao, and David J. Hill
    Stability and $L_2$-gain analysis for switched delay systems: a
    delay-dependent method
    
    V. Cerone and D. Regruto
    Parameter bounds evaluation of Wiener models with noninvertible polynomial
    nonlinearities
    
    H. Lei and Wei Lin
    Universal adaptive control of nonlinear systems with unknown growth rate
    by output feedback
    
    Hiroshi Shinozaki and Takehiro Mori
    Robust stability analysis of linear time-delay systems by Lambert $W$
    function: some extreme point results
    
    D. Nesic and A.R. Teel
    Stabilization of sampled-data nonlinear systems via backstepping on their
    Euler approximate model
    
    Technical communiques
    
    Yuanxin Wu, Dewen Hu, Meiping Wu, Xiaoping Hu, and Tao Wu
    
    Observability analysis of rotation estimation by fusing inertial and
    line-based visual anformation: a revisit
    
    Claudio De Persis
    Nonlinear Stabilizability via encoded feedback: the case of integral ISS
    systems
    
    Richard J. La and Priya Ranjan
    Stability of a rate control system with averaged feedback and network
    delay
    
    Xinggang Yan, Sarah K. Spurgeon, and Christopher Edwards
    Decentralised sliding mode control for nonminimum phase interconnected
    systems based on a reduced-order compensator
    
    Book reviews
    
    Mario di Bernardo
    Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Process Systems, by K.M. Hangos, J.
    Bokor and G. Szederkényi
    
    Errata
    
    Paulo Tabuada and George J. Pappas
    Erratum for paper: "Hierarchical trajectory refinement for a class of
    nonlinear systems"
    
    
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    5.6 Contents: Circuits Systems and Signal Processing
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    Contents: Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing
    
    Contributed by: Regina Gorenshteyn, Birkhauser Boston, reginag@birkhauser.com
    
    Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing
    Volume 25, Issue 5
    
    Table of Contents:
    
    * Stability and Performance of Single-Bit Sigma-Delta Modulators Operated in 
    Quasi-Sliding Mode \ Shiang-Hwua Yu and Jwu-Sheng Hu
    
    * Multiobjective Filtering for Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems with Nonzero 
    Initial Conditions Based on Convex Optimization \ Lei Guo, Fuwen Yang, and 
    Jian-Cheng Fang
    
    * A Transformation Method from Voltage-Mode OP-Amp-RC Circuits to Current-
    Mode Gm-C Circuits \ Rania F. Ahmed, Inas A. Awad, and Ahmed M. Soliman
    
    * Robust H-infinity Filtering of Delayed Singular Systems with Linear 
    Fractional Parametric Uncertainties \ Baoyong Zhang, Shaosheng Zhou, and 
    Dongsheng Du
    
    * Design of Digital FIR Filters Using Differential Evolution Algorithm \ 
    Nurhan Karaboga and Bahadir Cetinkaya
    
    * Shifted Switching Plane Design for Third-Order Systems with Elastic and 
    Conventional Input Constraints \ Andrzej Bartoszewicz and Aleksandra Nowacka
    
    
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    5.7 Contents: Control Engineering Practice
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    Contents: Control Engineering Practice
    
    Contributed by: Fernando Camisani, cep@up.ac.za
    
    Journal: Control Engineering Practice
    Volume : 14
    Issue  : 11
    Date   : Nov-2006
    
    Table of Contents:
    
    M. Yong, P. Yongzhen and U. Jeppsson, Dynamic evaluation of integrated control
    strategies for enhanced nitrogen removal in activated sludge processes, Pages
    1269-1278.
    
    P. Antonini, G. Ippoliti and S. Longhi, Learning control of mobile robots
    using a multiprocessor system, Pages 1279-1295.
    
    Mariagrazia Dotoli, Maria Pia Fanti and Carlo Meloni, A signal timing plan
    formulation for urban traffic control, Pages 1297-1311.
    
    L. Baghli, I. Al-Rouh and A. Rezzoug, Signal analysis and identification for
    induction motor sensorless control, Pages 1313-1324.
    
    Bin-Hong Shen and Mi-Ching Tsai, Robust dynamic stiffness design of linear
    servomotor drives, Pages 1325-1336.
    
    N. Eva Wu, Sudha Thavamani, Youmin Zhang and Mogens Blanke, Sensor fault
    masking of a ship propulsion system, Pages 1337-1345.
    
    Peter J. Gawthrop and Liuping Wang, Intermittent predictive control of an
    inverted pendulum, Pages 1347-1356.
    
    Yale Zhang and Michael S. Dudzic, Industrial application of multivariate SPC
    to continuous caster start-up operations for breakout prevention, Pages
    1357-1375.
    
    Haomin Lin and John E. McInroy, Disturbance attenuation in precise hexapod
    pointing using positive force feedback, Pages 1377-1386.
    
    G. De Tommasi, F. Piccolo, A. Pironti and F. Sartori, A flexible software for
    real-time control in nuclear fusion experiments, Pages 1387-1393.
    
    
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    5.8 Contents: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
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    Contents: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
    
    Contributed by: C. Stewart, trac@bu.edu
    
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
    Volume: 51  Issue: 8   Date: Aug. 2006
    	
    Impulse Control: Boolean Programming and Numerical Algorithms
    Page(s):  1229- 1229
    
    Impulse control: Boolean programming and numerical algorithms
    Kyung, K.H.
    Page(s):  1230- 1248
    
    Relaxing dynamic programming
    Lincoln, B.; Rantzer, A.
    Page(s):  1249- 1260
    
    Towards a multiresolution approach to linear control
    Girard, A.
    Page(s):  1261- 1270
    
    Stability of linear systems with interval time delays excluding zero
    Knospe, C.R.; Roozbehani, M.
    Page(s):  1271- 1288
    
    Robust rendezvous for mobile autonomous agents via proximity graphs in
    arbitrary dimensions
    Cortes, J.; Martinez, S.; Bullo, F.
    Page(s):  1289- 1298
    
    Asymptotic variance of closed-loop subspace identification methods
    Chiuso, A.
    Page(s):  1299- 1314
    
    Information flow and its relation to stability of the motion of vehicles in a
    rigid formation
    Yadlapalli, S.K.; Darbha, S.; Rajagopal, K.R.
    Page(s):  1315- 1319
    
    On performance limitation in tracking a sinusoid
    Weizhou Su; Li Qiu; Jie Chen
    Page(s):  1320- 1325
    
    Analysis of a second-order sliding-mode algorithm in presence of input delays
    Levaggi, L.; Punta, E.
    Page(s):  1325- 1332
    
    Optimality of first-order ILC among higher order ILC
    Saab, S.S.
    Page(s):  1332- 1336
    
    State estimation in stochastic hybrid Systems with sparse observations
    Cinquemani, E.; Micheli, M.
    Page(s):  1337- 1342
    
    H/sub /spl infin// design with first-order controllers
    Tantaris, R.N.; Keel, L.H.; Bhattacharyya, S.P.
    Page(s):  1343- 1347
    
    On H/sub 2/ control of systems with multiple I/O delays
    Moelja, A.A.; Meinsma, G.; Kuipers, J.
    Page(s):  1347- 1354
    
    Robust Kalman filter for descriptor systems
    Ishihara, J.Y.; Terra, M.H.; Campos, J.C.T.
    Page(s):  1354
    
    Stabilization of a chain of integrators with an unknown delay in the input by
    adaptive output feedback
    Ho-Lim Choi; Jong-Tae Lim
    Page(s):  1359- 1363
    
    Stability analysis and stabilization of systems presenting nested saturations
    Tarbouriech, S.; Prieur, C.; da Silva, J.M.G., Jr.
    Page(s):  1364- 1371
    
    A numerical analysis of the Nash strategy for weakly coupled large-scale systems
    Mukaidani, H.
    Page(s):  1371- 1377
    
    On overshoot and nonminimum phase zeros
    Stewart, J.; Davison, D.E.
    Page(s):  1378- 1382
    
    Stochastic stability of Ito differential equations with semi-Markovian jump
    parameters
    Zhenting Hou; Jiaowan Luo; Peng Shi; Sing Kiong Nguang
    Page(s):  1383- 1387
    
    On the observability of linear differential-algebraic systems with delays
    Marchenko, V.M.; Poddubnaya, O.N.; Zaczkiewicz, Z.
    Page(s):  1387- 1392
    
    Stability of TCP/RED systems in AQM routers
    Liansheng Tan; Wei Zhang; Gang Peng; Guanrong Chen
    Page(s):  1393- 1398
    
    Robust explicit MPC based on approximate multiparametric convex programming
    de la Pena, D.M.; Bemporad, A.; Filippi, C.
    Page(s):  1399- 1403
    
    Comments on "On the global stability of Delayed neural Networks"
    Chuandong Li; Xiaofeng Liao
    Page(s):  1403- 1404
    
    Correction to "Quadratic stability and stabilization of dynamic interval Systems"
    Wei-Jie Mao; Jian Chu
    Page(s):  1404- 1405
    Biomimicry for Optimization, Control and Automation
    Page(s):  1406- 1406
    
    Special issue on systems biology
    Page(s):  1407- 1407
    
    Quality without compromise
    Page(s):  1408- 1408
    
    
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    5.9 Contents: IEE Proceedings Control Theory and Applications
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    Contents: IEE Proceedings Control Theory and Applications
    
    Contributed by: Lee Baldwin, lbaldwin@theiet.org
    
    Journal: CTA: IEE Proceedings Control Theory & Applications	
    
    Volume: 153	Year: 	2006	Issue: 6 (November)
    
    Development and experimental evaluation of a fixed-gain nonlinear control for 
    a low-cost pneumatic actuator
    M. Karpenko and N. Sepehri    			
    	
    Robust stabilisation and passivity of nonlinear systems with structural 
    uncertainty
    X.-S. Cai and Z.-Z. Han    			
    	
    Adaptive fuzzy CMAC control for a class of nonlinear systems with smooth 
    compensation
    T.-F. Wu, P.-S. Tsai, F.-R. Chang and L.-S. Wang    			
    	
    Guaranteed cost control of linear systems over networks with state and input 
    quantisations
    D. Yue, C. Peng and G.Y. Tang    			
    	
    Less conservative D-stability test for polytopic systems using linearly 
    parameter-dependent Lyapunov functions
    C. Lin, Q.-G. Wang and T.-H. Lee    			
    	
    PI auto-tuning during a single transient
    D.W. Clarke    			
    	
    Stability analysis for a class of switched large-scale time-delay systems via 
    time-switched method
    J.-S. Chiou    			
    	
    Delay-dependent robust stabilisation of discrete-time systems with time-
    varying delay
    X.G. Liu, R.R. Martin, M. Wu and M.L. Tang    			
    	
    Stability analysis and control of non-standard nonlinear singularly perturbed 
    system
    H.-L. Choi, J.-W. Son and J.-T. Lim    			
    	
    Robust adaptive deadzone compensation of DC servo system
    W. Zhonghua, Y. Bo, C. Lin and Z. Shusheng			
    	
    Analogue realisation of fractional-order integrator, differentiator and 
    fractional PIᚙ�semi;Dµ controller
    A. Charef    			
    	
    Multirate interacting multiple model particle filter for terrain-based ground 
    target tracking
    L. Hong, N. Cui, M. Bakich and J.R. Layne    			
    	
    Feedback linearisation of uncertain nonlinear systems with time delay
    H.-S. Shin, H.-L. Choi and J.-T. Lim    			
    	
    Design of sliding mode control for nonlinear stochastic systems subject to 
    actuator nonlinearity
    Y. Niu and D.W.C. Ho    			
    	
    Discrete fuzzy control of time-delay affine Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models with 
    H쫼�semi999꾩�semi; constraint
    W.-J. Chang and W. Chang    
    
    
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    5.10 Contents: International Journal of Control
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    Contents: International Journal of Control
    
    Contributed by: Russell Stevens, russell.stevens@tandf.co.uk
    
    Volume 79, Issue 12
    www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00207179.asp
    
    Decentralized and adaptive control of nonlinear fluid flow networks
    Olga I. Koroleva, Miroslav Krstić, Geert W. Schmid-Schönbein
    
    Decentralized robust stabilization for large-scale feedforward non-linear 
    systems
    X. Ye, J. Huang, H. Unbehauen
    
    Decentralized output regulation of a class of nonlinear systems
    Veysel Gazi and Kevin M. Passino
    
    On the construction of static stabilizers and static output trackers for 
    dynamically linearizable systems, related results and applications 
    H. Rodríguez, A. Astolfi, R. Ortega
    
    Decentralized adaptive output feedback control via input/output inversion
    Naira Hovakimyan, Eugene Lavretsky, Anthony Calise, Ramachandra Sattigeri
    
    The parametric characteristic of frequency response functions for nonlinear 
    systems
    Xing Jian Jing, Zi Qiang Lang, Stephen A. Billings, Geofrey R. Tomlinson
    
    Finite settling time stabilisation for multivariable discrete-time systems: 
    a polynomial equation approach 
    E. Milonidis and N. Karcanias
    
    Balance-based adaptive control of a neutralisation process 
    Jacek Czeczot
    
    Rational stabilising commutative controllers: parameterisation and 
    characterisation of degrees of freedom
    M. V. Moreira, J. C. Basilio, B. Kouvaritakis
    
    A feedback control scheme for multiple independent dynamic non-point agents 
    Dimos V. Dimarogonas and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
    
    Robust controller design based on reduced order plants
    A. B. Özgüler and A. N. Gündeş
    
    Stochastic adaptive backstepping controller design by introducing dynamic 
    signal and changing supply function
    Z.-J. Wu, X.-J. Xie, S.-Y. Zhang
    
    An analysis and design method for systems with structural uncertainty
    X. Cai, Z. Han, X. Wang
    
    Design of scalar functional observers of order less than (ν − 1)
    H. Trinh, T. D. Tran, S. Nahavandi
    
    For submission and subscription information please visit the Journal’s 
    homepage at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00207179.asp
    
    Editor-in-Chief
    Professor Eric Rogers
    School of Electronics and Computer Science
    University of Southampton
    etar@ecs.soton.ac.uk
    
    
    
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    5.11 Contents: International Journal of Control and Intelligent Systems
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    Contents: International Journal of Control and Intelligent Systems
    
    Contributed by: Ying Wang, ywang@mech.ubc.ca
    
    Soil Dynamic Properties Determination: A Neurofuzzy System Approach	, 
    S.R. García, M.P. Romo, J. Figueroa-Nazuno
    Start Page:1
    
    An Improved Robust Adaptive Fuzzy Controller for MIMO Systems
    N. Essounbouli, A. Hamzaoui,J. Zaytoon
    Start Page:12
    
    Learning-Enhanced Generalized Predictive Control for Systems with Periodic
    Disturbances
    K.K. Tan, S.N. Huang, T.H. Lee
    Start Page:22
    
    Auto-Tuning of Adaptive Control with Dead Zone
    M. Kosaka, H. Shibata
    Start Page:30
    
    Stabilizing Discrete Finite-Horizon H裸�semi999 Control with Guaranteed
    Infinite Norm Bound
    J. Zou, Y.P. Gupta
    Start Page:37
    
    Design of Multiobjective H裸�semi999 Loop-Shaping SISO Control Systems by
    Fuzzy Logic
    M.F. Selekwa, E.G. Collins, Jr.
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    Robust Output Feedback Control for Discrete Time-Delay Uncertain Systems
    P. Shi, Z. Lin, Y. Shi 
    Start Page:57
    
    Ram Position Control in Plastic Injection Molding Machines with Higher-Order
    Iterative Learning
    X. Li, G. Ouyang, X.P. Guan, R. Du	
    64
    
    Kalman Filtering with Statistical State Constraints
    T.L. Chia, D. Simon, H.J. Chizeck
    Start Page:73
    
    Optimal Fusion Distributed Filter for Discrete Multichannel ARMA Signals
    S.L. Sun
    Start Page:80
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    5.12 Contents: International Journal of General Systems
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    Contents: International Journal of General Systems
    
    Contributed by: Russell Stevens, russell.stevens@tandf.co.uk
    
    Volume 35, Issue 3 - Special Issue: Analysis and Control of Complex Systems
    	
    www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03081079.asp
    
    Multi-network evolutionary systems and automatic decomposition of complex 
    problems 
    V.R. Khare, X. Yao, B. Sendhoff
    
    Integrated decision and control of human-engineered complex systems 
    D. K. Tolani, A. Ray, J. F. Horn
    
    Observer design for complex systems in the presence of uncertainties, 
    nonlinearities and distributed delays
    D. P. Goodall, Z. Wang
    
    Modelling complex systems for project planning: a semiotics motivated method 
    K. Liu, L. Sun, S. Tan
    
    Understanding the complexity of refactoring in software systems: a tool-
    based approach 
    Deepak Advani, Youssef Hassoun, Steve Counsell
    
    An adaptive social network-inspired approach to resource discovery for the 
    complex grid systems 
    L. Gao, Y. Ding, H. Ying
    
    Attention as the control system of the brain 
    J. G. Taylor
    
    For submission and subscription information please visit the Journal’s 
    homepage at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03081079.asp
    
    Editor-in-Chief
    Dr George Klir
    gensyst@binghamton.edu 
    Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering 
    Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science 
    State University of New York
    
    
    
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    5.13 Contents: International Journal of Systems Science
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    Contents: International Journal of Systems Science
    
    Contributed by: Russell Stevens, russell.stevens@tandf.co.uk
    
    Volume 37, Issue 13	
    www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00207721.asp
    
    Special issue on advances in data mining and its applications
    
    Editorial 
    Zhao Yang Dong, Xue Li, Shuliang Wang
    
    Hierarchical grouping of association rules and its application to a real-
    world domain 
    A. An, S. Khan, X. Huang
    
    Modeling support changes in streaming item sets 
    Vasudha Bhatnagar and Sarabjeet Kochhar
    
    Fitness assessment of document model
    Ding-Yi Chen, Xue Li, Zhao Yang Dong, Xia Chen
    
    Text learning for user profiling in e-commerce
    M. Degemmis, P. Lops, S. Ferilli, N. Di Mauro, T. M. A. Basile, G. Semeraro
    
    Mining associations between web stock news volumes and stock prices
    X. Liang
    
    Integration of gene functional diversity for effective cancer detection
    Yonghong Peng
    
    FE-CIDIM: fast ensemble of CIDIM classifiers
    Gonzalo Ramos-jiménez, José del Campo-Ávila, Rafael Morales-Bueno
    
    A chemotactic-based model for spatial activity recognition
    D. E. Riedel, S. Venkatesh, W. Liu
    
    Structural damage detection by integrating independent component analysis 
    and support vector machine
    Huazhu Song, Luo Zhong, Bo Han
    
    Extraction of classification rules characterized by ellipsoidal regions 
    using soft-computing techniques
    Dianhui Wang and T. S. Dillon
    
    Data mining and simulation: a grey relationship demonstration
    Desheng Wu, David L. Olson, Zhao Yang Dong
    
    ICLUS: A robust and scalable clustering model for time series via 
    independent component analysis
    Edmond H. C. Wu and Philip L. H. Yu
    
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    Editor-in-Chief
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    Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering,
    University of Sheffield 
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    5.14 Contents: JDCS
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    Contents: JDCS
    
    Contributed by: Yuri L. Sachkov, sachkov@sys.botik.ru
    
    JOURNAL OF DYNAMICAL  AND CONTROL SYSTEMS Incorporating Dynamics and Control
    http://www.springerlink.com/content/1573-8698/
    
    Vol 12, No. 4  October 2006
    CONTENTS
    
    
    
    A Qualitative Approach to Markovian Equilibrium on Optimal Growth under
    Uncertainty,L. G. T. Carpio 451--464 
    
    Ergodic Hyperbolic Attractors of Endomorphisms, Da-Quan Jiang and Min Qian,
    465--488 
    
    Positive Quadratic Differential Forms: Topological Equivalence Through
    Newton Polyhedra, C. Gutierrez, R. D. S. Oliveira, and M. A. Teixeira,
    489--516  
    
    Navier--Stokes Equation on the Rectangle: Controllability by Means of
    Low Mode Forcing, S. S. Rodrigues, 517--562 
    
    A Local Field of Extremals for Optimal Control Problems with State
    Constraints of Relative Degree 1, H. Schaettler, 563--599 
    
    
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    5.15 Contents: Journal on MCSS
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    Contents: Journal on MCSS
    
    Contributed by: Jan H. van Schuppen , mcss@cwi.nl
    
    MCSS, Volume 18 (2006), Number 3
    
    A. Quadrat,
    On a generalization of the Youla-Kucera parametrizarion. Part II: The
    lattice approach  to MIMO systems
    MCSS 18 (2006), 199-235.
    
    I. Karafyllis,
    Stabilization by means of time-varying hybrid feedback.
    MCSS 18 (2006), 236-259.
    
    L. Miller,
    On the controllability of anomalous diffusions generated by the fractional
    Laplacian.
    MCSS 18 (2006), 260-271.
    
    S. Hadd, A. Idrissi and A. Rhandi,
    The regular linear systems associated with the shift semigroups and
    application to control linear systems with delay.
    MCSS 18 (2006), 272-291.
    
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    of its papers are available from the publisher Springer at:
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    5.16 Contents: Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing
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    Contents; Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing
    
    Contributed by: N. K. Bose, nkb1@psu.edu
    
    Multimensional Systems and Signal Processing
    Volume 17, Issue 4, October 2006
    
    Table of Contents:
    
    Editorial              
    N. K. Bose
    
    Multidimensional filtering approaches for pre-processing thermal images
    Maria del C. Valdes, Minoru Inamura, J. D. R. Valera, Yao Lu
    
    A hierarchical design methodology for full-search block matching motion estimation
    Mohamed Rehan, M. Watheq El-Kharashi, Fayez Gebali
    
    
    Multiresolution approximation scale and time-shift subspaces
    Nhan Levan, Carlos S. Kubrusly
    
    ISSN: 0923-6082 (print version)
    ISSN: 1573-0824 (electronic version)
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    5.17 Contents: Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory
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    Contents: Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory
    
    Contributed by: C. Cruz-Hernandez, ccruz@cicese.mx
    
    Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory: An International Journal of
    Research and Surveys 
    Volume:       6   
    Issue:        3
    Year:         2006 
    http://www.e-ndst.kiev.ua/
    
    CONTENTS
    
    Mixed Semidefinite and Second-Order Cone Optimization Approach 
    for the Hankel Matrix Approximation Problem,  
    Mohammed M. Alshahrani and Suliman S. Al-Homidan,      p. 211
    
    Lagrangian Duality Algorithms for Finding a Global Optimal Solution to 
    Mathematical Programs with Affine Equilibrium Constraints,  
    Pham Ngoc Anh and Le Dung Muu, p. 225
    
    Thermal Stresses in a Hexagonal Region with an Elliptical Hole,  
    Sukhwinder Kaur Bhullar,   p. 245
    Contents:  
    Duality in Distributed-Parameter Control of Nonconvex and 
    Nonconservative Dynamical Systems with Applications,
    David Yang Gao,   p. 257
    
    On a Class of Strongly Nonlinear Impulsive Differential Equation 
    with Time Delay,    
    W. Wei, S.H. Hou and K.L. Teo,    p. 281
    
    The Matrix-Geometric Solution of the M/Ek/1 Queue with Balking and 
    State-Dependent Service
    Dequan Yue, Chunyan Li and Wuyi Yue,   ,  p. 295  
    
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    6.1 17th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control In Aerospace
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    17th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control In Aerospace
    
    Contributed by: Nicole Imbert, aca2007@onecert.fr
    
    17th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace
    June 25-29, 2007
    Toulouse France
    http://aca2007.onera.fr
    
    The symposium is organized By ONERA (Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches
    Aerospatiales), IFAC and SEE.
    It is sponsored by IFAC TC on Aerospace, with co-Sponsoring of IFAC TC on
    Computers, Communications and Telematics, on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles,
    on Linear Control Systems, on Non-Linear Control Systems, on Robust Control,
    on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems.
    
    Symposium Scope
    The symposium will be held in the heart of Aerospace Valley, at Toulouse, well
    known for its significant role in Europe for aeronautics and space industry,
    research and education.
    Focusing on aerospace applications, the symposium will cover all aspects of
    the dynamics, navigation and control in space and aeronautics, spanning from
    research to industrial applications.
    It will include navigation, control and guidance of aircraft, helicopters,
    missiles, satellites and probes, ELV and RLV launchers and autonomous vehicles.
    Theory and applications, analysis and design methodology, advances in
    aerospace control are especially welcome, as well as forthcoming trends and
    future research projects. 
    
    Topics
         Aircraft dynamics, control and guidance
         Helicopter dynamics, control and guidance
         UAV dynamics, control and navigation
         Spacecraft guidance navigation and control
         Launcher, RLV and ARV guidance and control
         Missile guidance, navigation and control
         Micro- and nano-aerospace vehicles
         Space robotics, including rovers
         Engine control
         Guidance and control theory
         Control algorithms implementation
         Flexible structure control
         Avionics and on-board equipments
         Flight dynamics identification
         Formation flying
         Health monitoring and diagnosis
         Decision making and autonomy
         Mission control and operations
         Sensor data fusion
         High accuracy pointing
         Aerospace student projects
    
    Calendar:
         Electronic submission begins: May 15, 2006
         Invited sessions proposals deadline: September 15, 2006
         Draft paper due: October 15, 2006
         Paper acceptance notification: February 15, 2007
         Final paper due: March 31, 2007
     
    Paper submission:
    Draft of papers must be written in English and submitted electronically on the
    paper management site, not later than October 15th, 2006. Until that date,
    modification of the paper data and uploaded PDF version will remain possible.
    The draft paper should not exceed 6 pages in two-column A4 layout required by
    Elsevier for the final paper format.
    To help authors to conform to the layout requirements, Elsevier provides a
    sample in Word (which is however not a document template) and the LaTeX class
    ifacmtg.cls is part of all recent (La)TeX distributions. If you do not find it
    on your computer, it is available on the Elsevier dedicated page or on CTAN.
    
    Invited sessions:
    Proposals for invited sessions must be submitted to the Symposium chairs until
    September 15, 2006. The following information should be provided:
             Invited session title and short topic description
             Title, authors, authors affiliations, short abstract for each of the
    4-6 foreseen invited papers.
    The papers of the selected invited sessions will follow the regular review
    procedure (draft paper submission before October 15), and will be identified
    by a specific code in the Symposium topics list.
    
    Author's & Editorial policy:
    Elsevier is the Publisher of IFAC, and detailed instructions for preparing the
    final manuscript are available on the dedicated site, which provides the
    Author's kit informations. Please be aware of the IFAC Copyright policy, which
    is recalled on the site.
    
    Oral and poster presentations:
    In order to allow the International Program Committee to build up a well
    balanced program which fits in the time-table constraints, authors will be
    asked to provide either an oral or a poster presentation. They will be
    informed when the final program is released.
    
    
    
    
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    6.2 2007 European Control Conference-Deadline Extension
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    2007 European Control Conference-Deadline Extension
    
    Contributed by: Panos Antsaklis, antsaklis.1@nd.edu
    
    European Control Conference (ECC'07)
    http://ecc07.ntua.gr/
    
    Call for Papers and Invited Sessions
    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.
    
    ECC'07 will be held on the island of Kos, Greece, from July 2 to 5, 2007. 
    
    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 check the conference website for updated information 
    regarding the acceptable format of submitted papers. 
    
    DEADLINES
    Deadline for all submissions
         1 October 2006  EXTENDED TO  Monday October 16
    Notification of acceptance/ non-acceptance
         1 February 2007
    Deadline for final manuscripts submission
         1 April 2007
    
    A. Contributed papers
    All papers submitted to ECC'07 must be in the form of regular papers written 
    in English (standard 2 column IEEE conference format) and limited to eight 
    pages. A short list of 3-5 keywords should be included. Short manuscripts less 
    than six pages will not be considered. All submissions must be done 
    electronically through the conference submission website (euca.papercept.net).
    
    B. Invited Sessions
    Proposals for invited sessions are welcomed. Each invited session consists of 
    six papers dealing with several issues of a unified theme. The proposals 
    should contain a summary statement describing the relevance and importance of 
    the session, accompanied by the full text (6-8 pages) of each invited paper. 
    Abstracts or manuscripts less than six pages will not be considered. Each 
    paper in a proposed invited session will be first individually reviewed, and 
    then the invited session will be evaluated as a whole. It is remarked that for 
    maximal continuity of the program, the International Program Committee may 
    remove a paper from an accepted invited session and replace it by a paper more 
    suitable for the session. Similarly, accepted papers from rejected invited 
    sessions may be accommodated into the regular program. All submissions must be 
    done electronically through the conference submission website 
    (euca.papercept.net). The submission of invited sessions should be made 
    according to the following three steps:
    
       1. The Organizer must submit an electronic version (pdf) of the session. 
    Papercept returns an acknowledgement with an alphanumeric code for the 
    proposed session.
       2. The Organizer notifies the Contributing Authors of their individual 
    session code.
       3. The corresponding author of each paper submits the paper online (pdf 
    format) as an invited paper using the corresponding code. Without the invited 
    session code the paper will be considered for the normal program.
    
    
    
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    6.3 2007 International Conference on Control and Automation
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    2007 International Conference on Control and Automation
    
    Contributed by: Jianliang Wang, ejlwang@ntu.edu.sg
    
    The 6th International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA2007) 30 
    May – 1 June 2007 Guangzhou, China
    
    ICCA'07 is jointly organized by the IEEE Control Systems Chapter, Singapore 
    and IEEE Control Systems Chapter, Guangzhou, China. 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 (ISTP), EI Compendex 
    and IEEE Xplore. 
    
    Topics of interest include but not limited to:
    
          Modeling of Complex Systems          Optimal Control 
          Linear Systems                       Discrete Event Systems 
          Robust and H-infinity Control        Adaptive Control 
          Nonlinear Systems and Control        Learning Systems 
          Fuzzy and Neural Systems             Intelligent and AI Based Control 
          Estimation and Identification        Real-time Systems 
          Fault Detection                      Sensor and Data Fusion 
          Process Control & Instrumentation    Robotics 
          Motion Control                       Automated Guided Vehicles 
          Flexible Manufacturing Systems       Control Education 
          Integrated Manufacturing             Control Applications 
          Factory Modeling and Automation      Process Automation 
          Petri-Nets and Applications          Man-machine Interactions 
          Micro and Nano Systems               Smart Structures 
    
    Submission of Papers:
    
    Authors should submit the full version of their manuscripts electronically 
    online through the ICCA'07 manuscript submission site http://icca.elite.sg/. 
    General inquiries should be addressed to the Program Chair, Professor Gang 
    (Gary) Feng, at the City University of Hong Kong (icca2007@ntu.edu.sg). 
    
    Proposals for invited sessions in the related areas are also solicited and 
    should be submitted through email to the Invited Session Chair, Professor 
    Yuan Wang, at Florida Atlantic University (icca2007@ntu.edu.sg). 
    
    All materials must be written in English, and a paper should be submitted 
    only if you intend to present the paper at the conference. The manuscript to 
    be submitted to the conference should contain sufficient details including 
    key concepts and novel features of the work. It should include the title, 
    authors, mailing addresses, affiliations, telephone and fax numbers and 
    email addresses.
    
    Important Dates:
    
    Paper Submission Deadline:                  November 1, 2006 
    Notification of Acceptance:                 December 31, 2006 
    Submission of Final Papers:                 March 1, 2007 
    Conference:                                 May 30-June 1, 2007 
    
    Official Website:
    
    http://www.ieee-icca.org (http://hdd.ece.nus.edu.sg/~icca07/)
    
    
    
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    6.4 4th International Symposium on Neural Networks Nanjing China June 2006
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    4th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Nanjing, China, June 2006
    
    Contributed by: Zongli Lin, zl5y@virginia.edu
    
    ISNN 2007: Fourth International Symposium on Neural Networks
    http://www.acae.cuhk.edu.hk/~isnn2007 or http://liu.ece.uic.edu/ISNN07
    June 3-7, 2007, Nanjing, China.
    
    Sponsors: Southeast University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and 
    University of Illinois at Chicago
    
    Technical Co-Sponsors: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, International
    Neural Network Society, European Neural Network Society, and Asia Pacific
    Neural Network Assembly
    
    Call for Contributed Papers and Special Sessions
    
    The Fourth International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2007) will be 
    held in Nanjing, as a sequel of ISNN 2004/ISNN 2005/ISNN 2006. Nanjing is 
    the old capital of China, a modern metropolitan with 2470-year history and 
    rich cultural heritage, featuring relaxing lifestyle, and numerous historic 
    and scenery sites. ISNN 2007 aims to provide a high-level international 
    forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the 
    art of neural network research and applications in diverse fields. The 
    symposium will feature plenary speeches given by worldwide renowned 
    scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and some special sessions 
    focusing on popular topics.
    
    PROGRAM TOPICS
    Mathematics of neural systems; Approximation theory; Learning theory; 
    Stability and convergence analysis; Computational neuroscience; Connectionist 
    cognitive science; Feedforward networks; Recurrent neural networks; 
    Self-organizing networks; Cellular neural networks; Fuzzy neural networks; 
    Evolving neural networks; Hybrid neural networks; Associative memories; 
    Learning algorithms; Probabilistic and information-theoretic methods; 
    Neurodynamics; Kernel methods; Projection pursuit methods; Principal and 
    independent component analysis; Time series analysis; Signal processing and 
    blind source separation; Image processing and computer vision; Data mining; 
    Optimization methods; Pattern recognition; Telecommunications; Power systems; 
    Robotics and control systems; Diagnostics and quality control; Financial 
    engineering; Neuroinformatics and Bioinformatics; Biomedical and industrial 
    applications; Hardware implementation
    
    PAPER SUBMISSION
    Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers (6 pages 
    normally and 10 pages maximum) by the submission deadline through the online 
    submission system. Potential organizers are also invited to enlist five or 
    more papers with cohesive topics to form special sessions. The submission of 
    a paper implies that the paper is original and has not been submitted under 
    review or copyright protected elsewhere and will be presented by an author 
    if accepted. All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field 
    based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and clarity. 
    The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise their 
    papers and take consideration of the referees' comments and suggestions. All 
    papers accepted by and presented at ISNN2007 will be published by Springer 
    as multiple volumes of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (approval pending) 
    which are indexed by SCI-Expanded.
    
    IMPORTANT DATES
          Special session proposals deadline: November 1, 2006
          Paper submission deadline: November 15, 2006
          Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2006
          Camera-ready copy and author registration: January 15, 2007
    
    GENERAL CHAIR:
    Derong Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and Yanshan
    University, China
    
    GENERAL CO-CHAIR:
    Marios M. Polycarpou, University of Cyprus
    
    ORGANIZING CHAIR:
    Shumin Fei, Southeast University, China
    
    
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    6.5 7th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems
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    7th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems
    
    Contributed by: Fernando Camisani, noc@nolcos2007.org.za
    
    www.nolcos2007.org.za
    
    We would like to apologize if this message is received in duplicate, but
    please take note of the deadline (8 December 2006) of special session
    proposals.
    
    The IFAC NOLCOS symposium is a continuing series of symposia that were
    previously held in Capri (I) 1988, Bordeaux (F) 1992, Lake Tahoe (USA) 1995,
    Enschede (NL) 1998, Saint-Petersburg (RUS) 2001, and Stuttgart (DE) 2004. 
    
    Nonlinear control systems have gained importance in many industrial areas and
    research has undergone significant developments recently. There are
    significant challenges in various fields of nonlinear control. NOLCOS 2007
    will address these challenges with its focus on latest developments in theory
    and application of nonlinear control systems as well as related areas of
    research and engineering.
    
    Acknowledged as the major international gathering of leading experts in
    industry and academia in nonlinear control, NOLCOS aims at
    strengthening contacts between academia and industry to build up new networks
    and cultivate existing relations. High-level speakers will present the global
    spectrum of nonlinear control systems, state-of-the-art applications and
    developing directions.
    
    The paper submission site for NOLCOS 2007 can be found by following the Paper
    Submission link from www.nolcos2007.org.za . Alternatively, visit the
    submission site directly at
    http://www.nolcos2007.org.za/start/www/NOLCOS2007/submit.html .
    
    Submit manuscripts according to the following prescribed format:
    
    -Please submit your draft paper (A4 size) with 6 pages in English before
    December 21, 2006.
    
    -The draft paper should clearly show the merits of the new contributions,
    the relevance to the topics and areas of NOLCOS 2007 and related literature to
    allow a fair reviewing procedure by the International Program Committee. 
    
    -Only unpublished material may be submitted. Papers should be prepared in
    accordance with the IFAC-Elsevier style (style files are available on the
    conference homepage).
    
    -Please structure the first page as follows: (1) title, (2) each
    author's name and affiliation, (3) abstract (up to 300 words), 
    (4) up to 10 keywords. 
    
    -Acceptable file formats are Word, PDF and PS. Draft and final papers should
    be submitted electronically via the official homepage of NOLCOS 2007.
    
    -For users of Latex, style files found under the heading "Preparing IFAC
    papers with LaTeX " at the Elsevier website can aid manuscript preparation. 
    
    -For users of Word, a style file is available for download on the conference
    web site.
    
    -Authors who have been invited to submit their paper as part of a special
    session are required to indicate the organizer's name and the session title in
    the covering letter when they submit their papers. A sub-area chair will
    handle the reviewing process.
    
    -Persons wishing to organize a special session need to write a proposal and
    send it to the IPC chair, Prof. X. Xia, (ipc@nolcos2007.org.za), before the
    8th of December 2006,  and organize the authors to submit their papers to the
    IPC via the submission page. A sub-area chair will handle the reviewing
    process. The assigned sub-area chair could contact the organizer for potential
    reviewers.
    
    Kind Regards
    Prof. Xiaohua Xia,
    IPC Chair: NOLCOS 2007 (ipc@nolcos2007.org.za)
    Prof. Fernando R. Camisani-Calzolari (noc@nolcos2007.org.za)
    NOC Chair: NOLCOS 2007
    
    
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    6.6 Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing 2007
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    Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing 2007
    
    Contributed by: Robin Qiu, robinqiu@psu.edu
    
    FAIM 2007  Announcement and Call for Abstracts
    
    June 18-20, 2007 ?Philadelphia, USA
    http://www.faim2007.org/   or   http://faim2007.ssglobal.org/
    
    Abstracts Due:  November 20, 2006
    
    The 17th International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent 
    Manufacturing (2007 FAIM) focuses on current research, best practices and 
    future trends within the areas of global competitiveness, and rapidly 
    advancing technologies in flexible automation, information management, and 
    intelligent manufacturing. The conference provides a forum for both 
    researchers and practitioners in the above fields to share the latest 
    research, developments and practices in the areas of the conference scope.  
    
    Topics include, but are not limited to:
    Simulation; Manufacturing Systems; Manufacturing Processes and Technology; 
    Bio. Engineering; Medical Equipment and Healthcare Systems; Product 
    Development and Concurrent Engineering; Business Process Management and 
    Re-Engineering; Global Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Logistics; Lean and 
    Agile Manufacturing, and Best Practices; Manufacturing Enterprise Computing 
    and Integration; Industrial Automation and Process Control; Production 
    Planning and Scheduling; MES/CAD/CAM/FMS/CIM; Robotics and Factory Systems; 
    Sensor-Based Process Monitoring and Remote Control; Artificial Intelligence in 
    Manufacturing; Quality Control and Total Quality Management; IT and Internet 
    Applications and E-Manufacturing; Human Factors and Workforce in 
    Manufacturing; Environmental, Health and Safety Engineering; Sustainability, 
    Education, and Training; Rapid Prototyping; Materials Technology; Services 
    Science, Management, and Engineering; Other Relevant Topics
    
    Conference Chair:  Professor Robin G. Qiu, Penn State, USA
    Email:  robinqiu@psu.edu
    
    Co-chairs:  Professor William G. Sullivan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & 
    State University; Professor Munir Ahmad, University of Teesside, 
    Middlesbrough, U.K.; Professor Richard Wysk, Pennsylvania State University; 
    Professor David Russell, Penn State Great Valley.  
    
    Conference Secretaries:  Elayna McReynolds, exm148@psu.edu; Jean Stefanski, 
    jos12@psu.edu; Betty McAdams, bxm28@psu.edu; Ursula Thompson, umt1@psu.edu 
    
    Special sessions are welcome. Please contact Prof. Gina Tang at 
    tang@rowan.edu or Prof. Kathryn Jablokow at kwl3@psu.edu.
    
    Tutorials and workshops are welcome. Please contact Jeff Tew at 
    jeffrey.tew@gm.com or J.B. Zhang at jbzhang@SIMTech.a-star.edu.sg.
    
    Other inquiries, please contact the General Chair: Prof. Robin Qiu at 
    robinqiu@psu.edu.
    
    Important Dates:
    
    Nov. 20, 2006     Deadline for submission of paper abstracts. 
    Jan. 20, 2007     Deadline for submission of full papers. 
    Mar. 20, 2007     Acceptance/Rejection notification
    Apr. 20, 2007     Final camera-ready papers due
    
    
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    6.7 ICAT2006 - International Conference on Automotive Technologies
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    ICAT2006 - International Conference on Automotive Technologies
    
    Contributed by: Emre Kose, koseemre@boun.edu.tr
    
    ICAT2006 - International Conference on Automotive Technologies
    
    Hyatt Regency Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey. November 17, 2006.
    
    The third of the series International Conference on Automotive Technologies, 
    ICAT 2006 will be held in November 17, 2006 in Istanbul, organized by Ford 
    Otomotiv Sanayii (Ford Otosan) with the participation of European Union 6th 
    Framework Program, Istanbul Technical University, Automotive Manufacturers 
    Association, AutomotiveTechnologies Research Center and Sabanci University. 
    The main theme of this conference is "A Roadmap for the Future in Automotive 
    Technologies."
    
    The conference will consist of a total of six sessions, held two at a time. 
    Following a joint opening session, the technical sessions are
    
    2a) Advanced Combustion Engines
    2b) Workshop on Powertrain Modeling, Control and HIL Testing – A
    
    3a) European Organizations on Automotive Research
    3b) Workshop on Powertrain Modeling, Control and HIL Testing – B
    
    4a) Advanced Fuel and Oil Technology
    4b) Active Safety Systems
    
    For participation information, please refer to www.icatconf.org. 
    
    
    
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    6.8 The 26th Chinese Control Conference
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    The 26th Chinese Control Conference
    
    Contributed by: Yi Huang, yhuang@amss.ac.cn
    
    The 26th Chinese Control conference (CCC¡¯07) will be held in July 26-31,2007
    http://sise.csu.edu.cn/ccc07/indexdp.htm  
    
    The Chinese Control Conference (CCC) is an annual international conference 
    organized by Tech. Com. on Control Theory, CAA. It provides a forum for 
    scientists and engineers over the world to present their new theoretical 
    results and techniques in the field of systems and control. The conference 
    consists of pre-conference workshops, plenary talks, and poster sessions 
    etc. for academic exchanges. CCC¡¯07 will be held in Zhangjiajie, a 
    beautiful sightseeing spot in the western part of Hunan, China. 
    
    All submissions (including papers, proposals of invited sessions) must be 
    done electronically through the conference submission website 
    (http://ccc.amss.ac.cn/pms ). 
    
    DEADLINES
    Deadline for all submissions: March 1, 2007
    Notification of acceptance/ non-acceptance: April 15, 2007
    Deadline for final manuscripts submission: May 10, 2007
    
    A.Contributed papers
    All papers submitted to CCC'07 must be in the form of regular papers written 
    in Chinese or English (standard 2 column IEEE conference format) and limited 
    to eight pages. All submissions must be done electronically through the 
    conference submission website (http://ccc.amss.ac.cn/pms).
     
    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 title and the abstract (6-8 pages) of 
    each invited paper. 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.
    
    Please check the conference website for updated information regarding the 
    acceptable format of submitted papers.
    
    
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7. Workshops
    7.1 Beyond SCADA: Networked Embedded Control for Cyber Physical Systems
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    Beyond SCADA: Networked Embedded Control for Cyber Physical Systems
    
    Contributed by: Bruce H. Krogh, krogh@ece.cmu.edu
    
    National Workshop on Beyond SCADA: Networked Embedded Control for Cyber
    Physical Systems (HCSS-NEC4CPS)
    
    	November 8-9, 2006
    	Sheraton Station Square
    	Pittsburgh, PA
    
    IMPORTANT DATES
    - October 13, 2006: 2-page position paper deadline (extended from September. 29)
    - October 17, 2006: Invitations issued
    - November 8-9, 2006: Workshop
    
    WORKSHOP WEB SITE
    http://trust.eecs.berkeley.edu/scada/
    
    INVITATION FOR POSITION PAPERS
    The High Confidence Software and Systems (HCSS) Coordinating Group (CG) of the
    Federal Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD) Subcommittee,
    Committee on Technology of the National Science and Technology Council invites
    you to submit a brief position paper for a workshop entitled Beyond SCADA:
    Networked Embedded Control for Cyber Physical Systems (HCSS-NEC4CPS). The
    Federal government recognizes that the development of high integrity,
    high-confidence software and systems for networked sensing, monitoring, and
    control is crucial for the future of the nation’s industries and critical
    infrastructures.
    
    The purpose of the HCSS-NEC4CPS workshop is to provide an open, working forum
    for leaders and visionaries from industry, government, research laboratories,
    and academia, with the goal of developing a roadmap to overcome crucial
    software and systems issues and challenges facing the specification, design,
    deployment, and testing of networked embedded distributed sensing, monitoring,
    and control systems for cyber physical systems. In addition, the workshop will
    serve the goals of bringing together practitioners (from government and
    industry) with the academic community interested in high confidence systems
    technologies and mathematical and computational techniques for networked
    embedded distributed sensing, monitoring, and control. The workshop will also
    address the issues of education, discussing possible methodologies to bring
    such novel concepts to the university classroom.
    
    By submitting a position paper, you will have an opportunity to provide
    technical facts and information that potentially can help shape the future
    direction of HCSS-NEC4CPS. Due to the workshop’s ambitious schedule, position
    papers are requested by Friday, October 13, 2006. The position papers will be
    used to select invitees to the workshop, which is scheduled for November 8-9,
    2006. Invitees will have the opportunity to provide further input to the
    HCSS-NEC4CPS roadmap.
    
    Application domains of interest include:
    	- Automotive Systems
    	- Building and Environment
    	- Chemical Process Control
    	- Manufacturing Systems
    	- Electrical Energy Systems
    	- Oil & Natural Ga
    	- Transportation Networks
    	- Water Distribution Systems
    
    WORKSHOP INVITATIONS
    Attendance at the workshop is by invitation only. We encourage potential
    participants to submit a brief position paper following the guidelines set
    forth below and specifically addressing topics listed above. This will assist
    the organizers in ensuring that the attendees will cover the requested topics.
    
    POSITION PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
    Position papers should be 1-2 pages in length using the style of the author's
    choice. Each position paper should address at least one of the workshop topics
    listed above, and should address each of the following three questions in the
    context of the position paper:
    	1. What are the most important challenges?
    	2. What are the most important information technology research needs?
    	3. What is a possible roadmap for the next 5 to10 years?
    In addition, each position paper should include at most a half-page bio,
    organization/affiliation, e-mail address, and phone number for each author.
    Position papers should be addressed to the attention of the HCSS- NEC4CPS
    Workshop Program Committee and submitted as directed below: by Friday, October
    13, 2006.
    
    Please submit position papers via email to Bruno Sinopoli
    (sinopoli@eecs.berkeley.edu).
    
    Note that submitted position papers will be available on-line and authors are
    advised not to include any proprietary information that they do not want to
    disseminate to the public.
    
    FURTHER INFORMATION
    The workshop website provides up-to-date information:  
    
    WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
    	Shankar Sastry	UC Berkeley (Co-chair)
    	Bruce H. Krogh	Carnegie Mellon University (Co-chair)
    	Marija Ilic 		Carnegie Mellon University (Co-chair)
    
    HCSS CG SPONSOR AGENCIES
    	Helen Gill (NSF, HCSS Co-Chair)
    	Brad Martin (NSA, HCSS Co-Chair)
    	Al Wavering (NIST)
    
    
    
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    7.2 Invited Session at IFAC DCDS 2007
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    Invited Session at IFAC DCDS 2007
    
    Contributed by: Naly Rakoto, rakoto@emn.fr
    
    We are planning to organize an invited session on 
      "Diagnosis of Discrete Event Systems: Theory and Applications"
    at the forthcoming 2007 IFAC Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete 
    Systems (DCDS 2007). The aim of the invited session is to present new 
    results from both the theoretical and the application-oriented research 
    field of Diagnosis of Discrete Event Systems (DES). The general diagnosis 
    problem of  DES deals with the detection or identification of particular 
    events which are fully or partially unobservable. The topics of the invited 
    session include, but are not limited to:
    - fault detection and isolation
    - monitoring and diagnosis of DES, 
    - applications of DES diagnosis for recovery and reconfiguration
    - DES diagnosis applications
    - DES recovery, and
    - DES reconfiguration.
     
    We would like to invite you to submit a paper to this invited session.
    The first IFAC Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems
    (DCDS 2007) will be held in Paris-Cachan, France on June 13-15, 2007.
    The web page of DCDS 2007 is located at:
    http://www.lurpa.ens-cachan.fr/dcds07/
    
    The deadline for submission of full papers (PS, PDF, or word file) 
    is on January 8, 2007, and all the papers should be submitted through
    the web application server at the following address:
    http://www.lurpa.ens-cachan.fr/dcds07/
    
    To be included in preprints and proceedings, papers are limited to 
    6 pages and have to conform to IFAC instructions which can be found at:
    http://www.elsevier.com/hompage/saf/ifac/site/IPV%20overview.htm
    
    We would appreciate you letting us know about your interest in
    participating and contributing a paper at your earliest convenience so
    that we can initiate the submission process. Please send an e-mail to
    one of the organizers to express your interest.
    
    We are looking forward for your contribution to this invited session.
     
    Shigemasa Takai (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan, takai@kit.ac.jp)
    Naly Rakoto (Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France, rakoto@emn.fr)
    
    
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    7.3 Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology
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    Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology
    
    Contributed by: John Lygeros, lygeros@control.ee.ethz.ch
    
    Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology
    45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Tuesday, December 12, 2006
    San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
    
    Organizers:
      Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate
      Dip. di Informatica e Sistemistica, University of Pavia 
      giancarlo.ferrari@unipv.it
      www-rocq.inria.fr/who/Giancarlo.Ferrari-Trecate/
    
      John Lygeros
      Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich
      lygeros@control.ee.ethz.ch
      www.control.ee.ethz.ch/
    
    Scope: Mathematical modeling of biochemical networks has attracted
    considerable attention in recent years and is recognized as one of the major
    challenges facing the biology research community today. The models available
    in the literature can be classified into two families: models with purely
    continuous dynamics (e.g. models for the evolution of concentrations of
    proteins in terms of ordinary differential equations) and models with purely
    discrete dynamics (e.g. graph models of the interdependencies in a regulatory
    network, Boolean networks). The recognition that hybrid dynamics can play an
    important role in biochemical systems has led a number of researchers to
    investigate how methods developed for hybrid systems in other areas (such as
    embedded systems and air traffic management) can be extended to biological
    systems. In this workshop we will highlight recent developments in this area
    and outline the exciting research directions to which they give rise.
    
    Program: The workshop will cover one full day. The following speakers will
    present their work in this area:
    - G. Batt (Boston University): “Validation of genetic regutatory network models”
    - C. Belta (Boston University): “Automatic tuning of synthetic gene networks”
    - G. Ferrari-Trecate (University of Pavia): “Data-driven hybrid modeling of
    genetic regulatory networks”
    - J. Hespanha (U.C. Santa Barbara): “Stochastic hybrid models of biochemical
    processes”
    - J. Lygeros (ETH, Zurich): “An overview of the use of hybrid models in
    biochemical networks”
    - Z. Lygerou (University of Patras): “Stochastic hybrid models for DNA
    replication”
    - E. Sontag, M. Chavez (Rutgers University): “Piecewise linear systems and
    asynchronous methods for robustness analysis of Boolean models”
    - C. Tomlin (U.C. Berkeley & Stanford University): “Using hybrid system
    analysis to help decode protein regulatory networks”
    
    Proceedings: Copies of all the presentations and related publications will be
    made available to the workshop participants on a CD-ROM.
    
    For registration and Conference Information please visit
    http://www.ieeecss.org/CAB/conferences/cdc2006/
    
    In association with the European Commission project HYGEIA FP6-NEST-4995
    www.hygeiaweb.gr
    
    
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8. Positions
    8.1 Faculty: Cornell University USA
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    Faculty: Cornell University, USA
    
    Contributed by: G. Giles, vig1@cornell.edu
    
    SIBLEY SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY, 
    Ithaca, New York invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in 
    dynamics, systems and controls.  Applicants must hold a doctorate in an 
    appropriate field, must have demonstrated an ability to conduct outstanding 
    research, and show promise for excellent teaching.  We anticipate filling the 
    position at the Assistant Professor level, but applications at other levels 
    will be considered; salary and rank are commensurate with qualifications and 
    experience.
    
    We seek outstanding theoretical and/or applied applicants in areas such as 
    robotics and autonomous systems; aerospace systems; networked and embedded 
    systems; MEMS; and bioinspired controls.  
    
    Faculty with other related interests are welcome to apply.  Faculty in this 
    area have ample opportunities to collaborate with university programs such as 
    the IGERT Program on Nonlinear Systems; the Cornell Theory Center; the Cornell 
    Nanofabrication Facility; and the New Life Science Initiative, among many 
    others.
    
    The Sibley School, and the College of Engineering at Cornell embrace diversity 
    and seek candidates who will create a climate that attracts students of all 
    races, nationalities and genders.  We strongly encourage women and 
    underrepresented minorities to apply.  Applicants should submit a curriculum 
    vitae, a research statement, a teaching statement, and complete contact 
    information for at least three references to:
    
    Dynamics, Systems, and Controls Search Committee
    Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    105 Upson Hall
    Cornell University
    Ithaca, NY   14853
    
    Cornell University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer; 
    qualified women and minority candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.  
    Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.  All applications 
    received by November 30, 2006 will receive full consideration.
    
    
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    8.2 Faculty: Lehigh University USA
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    Faculty: Lehigh University, USA
    
    Contributed by: Mayuresh V. Kothare, mayuresh.kothare@lehigh.edu
    
    The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering  at Lehigh University 
    invites applications for a Full or Associate Professor. We welcome 
    applications from individuals with strong backgrounds in any ISE-relevant 
    discipline, including industrial engineering, operations research, systems 
    engineering, and computer science.  Candidates with a strong background in 
    high-performance computing and/or large-scale optimization with interests in 
    financial engineering or bioinformatics/health care are especially encouraged 
    to apply. The candidate must demonstrate a strong commitment to undergraduate 
    and graduate education, conduct an active research program with strong 
    external support, and be willing to explore interdisciplinary research 
    opportunities within the college and university. 
    
    The department is undergoing significant growth in various area of 
    operations research and computing. Current research thrusts include (1) 
    optimization, (2) high-performance computing, (3) manufacturing, production, 
    and logistics, (4) information systems, and (5) stochastic processes. Recent 
    hires at the junior level have joined the Department in these and related 
    areas with specializations in parallel algorithms, grid computing, 
    mathematical programming, robust optimization, telecommunications, 
    and supply chain analysis.
    
    Established in 1926, the ISE Department currently has 15 full-time 
    faculty members, 130 undergraduates and 120 graduate students, about 
    50 of which are Ph.D. students. We offer comprehensive research and 
    education programs at the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. levels. The ISE faculty 
    maintains an outstanding international reputation in a variety of research 
    areas. Active research topics include discrete optimization, high performance 
    computing, financial optimization, telecommunications, and a variety of topics 
    in logistics and supply chain analysis. The Department maintains excellent 
    computational and laboratory facilities, including a 64-processor Beowulf 
    cluster for parallel computing. Annual research expenditures exceed $3.5 
    million. The Department has extensive interdisciplinary ties with the business 
    school through the Center for Value Chain Research and finance and mathematics 
    departments through the Analytical Finance program.
    
    Review of applications will begin December 1, 2006 and will continue until 
    the position is filled. Send a statement of research and teaching interests, a 
    curriculum vita, representative research paper(s), names and addresses of at 
    least three references, and a cover letter to Professor Robert H. Storer, 
    Search Committee Chair, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mohler 
    Laboratory, 200 West Packer Ave., Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 
    18015-1582. The department web site is www.lehigh.edu/inime/ .
    
    Lehigh University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer 
    and provides equal opportunity on the basis of merit without discrimination 
    because of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, age, 
    handicap, gender, sexual orientation, or union membership. 
    
    
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    8.3 Faculty: University of Bremen Germany
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    Faculty: University of Bremen, Germany
    
    Contributed by: Axel Graeser, ag@iat.uni-bremen.de
    
    University of Bremen, Department 1
    Physics/ Electrical Engineering and Information
    
    Professor for “System Dynamics and Control”
    
    The professorship is to be assigned as a permanent position at the Institute 
    of Automation at the soonest date. Decisions about the salary grade (W3/W2) 
    will be made during the appointment proceedings.
    
    The successful candidate is supposed to give lectures on System Dynamics and 
    Control. Concerning research, he/she is expected to demonstrate major 
    activities on the fields of modern control systems(e.g. non-linear control 
    systems, knowledge-based control, robust control, adaptive control, 
    mechatronics, hybrid systems, event-driven systems) and to be able to 
    ascertain new methodical approaches.
    
    Applicants should have successfully completed own research- or development-
    projects, preferably in cooperation with the industry. Experiences in 
    obtaining third-party funds and in collaborating with international projects 
    are also required.
    
    He/she will take part in the basic education of the study courses Electrical 
    Engineering and Systems Engineering. The courses of the main study course 
    Electrical Engineering, of the master course Information and Automation 
    Engineering and of the master course Systems Engineering are to be lectured 
    in English. In addition, didactic experience is expected as well.
    
    Engagement-conditions beside general legal conditions regarding officials are:
    •	Diploma or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a corresponding area
    •	Corresponding research activities in some of the mentioned areas
    •	Further scientific achievements
    •	Qualification for teaching
    
    The University of Bremen particularly encourages women to apply to enhance 
    the number of women working in the domain of science. Disabled persons are 
    given priority at basically same professional and personal aptitude.
    
    Please, submit your application together with the usual documents and by 
    stating the reference number until 7th October 2006. More information are are 
    published at www.stellen.uni-bremen.de  
    
    UNIVERSITÄT BREMEN
    Fachbereich 1
    Postfach 330 440
    28334 Bremen
    Reference number: P 234/06
    
    
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    8.4 Faculty: University of California Santa Cruz USA
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    Faculty: University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
    
    Contributed by: Hongyun Wang, hongwang@soe.ucsc.edu
    
    University of California, Santa Cruz
    Applied Mathematics-Control Theory
    Assistant Professor # 419-07
    
    UC Santa Cruz Applied Mathematics and Statistics invites outstanding 
    applicants for the following tenure-track faculty position within the rapidly 
    growing Baskin School of Engineering: Assistant Professor of Applied  
    Mathematics with preference for candidates specializing in Control Theory 
    Applications.
    
    Applicants should submit a curriculum vita, a statement of research plans; a 
    statement of teaching interests, 3--5 selected publications (URLs or PDF 
    format preferred), and ensure that at least three confidential letters of 
    recommendation are sent directly to the search committee.  We strongly 
    encourage electronic submission of your materials.  Directions are given
    at http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/jobs/faculty/apply/.  All letters will be
    treated as confidential documents; please direct your references to UCSC's 
    confidentiality statement at http://www2.ucsc.edu/ahr/policies/confstm.htm
    
    Visit http://www2.ucsc.edu/ahr/employment/bulletin/06-07/426-07.pdf
    for a detailed job description and application instructions.
    Please refer to the position number #419-07 in all correspondence
    and materials. To ensure full consideration, application should arrive
    by December 11, 2006. UCSC is an EEO/AA/IRCA employer.
    
    
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    8.5 Faculty: University of New Mexico USA
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    Faculty: University of New Mexico, USA
    
    Contributed by: Chaouki T Abdallah, chaouki@ece.unm.edu
    
    The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the 
    University of New Mexico invites applications for a full-time tenure-track 
    position at the Assistant/Associate Professor level to begin in the Fall 
    2007. Candidates should be in the general area of Systems and Controls, with 
    specific areas of interest including, but not limited to, hybrid and 
    embedded systems, nonlinear controls, intelligent systems, reconfigurable 
    systems, robotics, coordination in systems and networks, and control applied 
    to biological and neurosystems.  Interested applicants must send a resume, a 
    1-2 page signed statement of teaching and research interests, and a list of 
    at least 3 references to the Chair of the search committee via e-mail to:
    controls@ece.unm.edu For more information about the ECE Department at the 
    University of New Mexico please visit our web site at: www.ece.unm.edu
    
    
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    8.6 MEng: Cork Institute of Technology Ireland
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    MEng: Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
    
    Contributed by: Marcin T. Cychowski, mcychowski@cit.ie
    
    Project: A Virtual Training Environment for Temporal Bone Surgery
    
    A research position is available immediately in the Advanced Control Group at 
    Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland in the area of Biomedical Engineering. 
    The project involves the development of a virtual training facility for 
    temporal bone surgery. The duration of the project will be two years and 
    eventually lead to a Master of Engineering degree in Electronic Engineering. 
    
    A suitable candidate is expected to have a good honours degree in electronic 
    engineering and a demonstrable fluency in applied electronics. Experience in 
    computer programming in C/C++ is essential as this is the preferred 
    development language within the research group. Knowledge of MATLAB and/or 
    some vision or image processing experience would be a distinct advantage.
    
    For more information, please contact:
    
    Dr. Joe Connell
    Advanced Control Group
    Department of Electronic Engineering,
    Cork Institute of Technology,
    Cork, IRELAND.
    
    E-mail: jconnell@cit.ie
    Phone: +353-21-4326429
    Webpage: www.acg.cit.ie
    
    
    
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    8.7 Manufacturing Controls Engineer: GM Michigan USA
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    Manufacturing Controls Engineer: GM, Michigan, USA
    
    Contributed by: Dawn Tilbury, tilbury@umich.edu
    
    For more information, please contact Chengyin Yuan, chengyin.yuan@gm.com
    
    Here at the GM R&D Center we are currently seeking strong candidates in the
    following areas:  Virtual Launch and Manufacturing, Plant-floor Systems and
    Control. I would appreciate it if you could forward the attached job
    descriptions to students or researchers in your group who may be interested in
    a position with GM R&D. Please have them send their current resume along with
    a cover letter to jorge.arinez@gm.com describing their backgrounds and
    indicating which position they would be interested in.
    
    GM R&D Seeks Candidates for Virtual Manufacturing & Plant-floor Systems and
    Control:
    
    The Manufacturing Systems Research Lab at General Motors R&D Center is
    searching for Research Engineers in the area of plant-floor systems and
    controls to strengthen its Advanced and Virtual/Digital Manufacturing
    capabilities. These are exciting growth areas at GM R&D where researchers will
    be part of a young, dynamic team that is focused on improving GM’s plant
    operations. Assignments will vary depending on background, but they will be
    expected to provide immediate technical and professional leadership in
    assignments of strategic importance to GM R&D. The research will also
    contribute to GM's efforts to improve and upgrade its manufacturing systems
    core capabilities. Researchers are also expected to counsel GM engineering
    management on manufacturing engineering process, practice and tool
    improvements, as well as carry out leadership roles in GM programs and/or
    projects. They will likely represent GM in a variety of research activities
    with contractors and academic collaborators, at other GM Centers and GM
    Headquarters, and at other agencies and technical organizations. In addition,
    researchers are expected to develop a strong record of invention, publishing
    and presenting.
    
    The specific research focus of plant-floor systems and controls is on
    improving manufacturing processes and operations using available real-time
    data. In this area, the candidate will contribute to the development novel
    algorithms, models, and tools that can be implemented in current or future
    plant-floor systems. A successful candidate should have background and
    experience in manufacturing systems analysis (simulation and optimization) as
    well as strong skills in the area of industrial supervisory control systems. A
    good understanding of plant-floor networks and data communication is also
    highly desirable.
    
    EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
    
    - Ph.D. in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering from Top Tier University    
    (Required)
    - Dissertation/Focus in Controls Systems/Manufacturing Systems (Required)
    - Minimum GPA 3.5/4.0
    
    KEY JOB ELEMENTS:
    
    - Experience in experimental and theoretical advanced modeling & simulation
    techniques
    - Generate innovative ideas and conduct research programs in the area of
    control design and validation of plant-floor systems and controls with
    emphasis on real-time sensing and control for automotive manufacturing plants
    - Execute technical assignments in a resourceful, solid, and timely manner
    with minimal supervision
    - Work well with fellow researchers, divisions, centers, operational groups,
    plant personnel and universities
    - Maintain state-of-art technical skills and knowledge
    - Develop working relationships with internal and external subject matter 
    experts
    - Proposes and evaluates exercisable solutions for multilevel/multi objective
    optimization of complex systems
    - Effectively communicate and document results through internal and external
    publications
    
    REQUIRED SKILLS
    - Understanding of engineering theory and principles of manufacturing 
    operations
    - Understanding of the fundamental concepts of modeling and analysis for logic
    controllers of manufacturing equipment.
    - Demonstrated technical and professional skills in job-related area
    - Expertise in simulation tools e.g. Matlab/Simulink, Simul8, Arena, AutoMod
    and/or Delmia
    - Excellent communication and teamwork skills
    - Proven record of high impact publications in peer-reviewed journals
    
    PREFERRED SKILLS:
    - Minor in industrial engineering or operations research
    - Practical experience in manufacturing control system design
    - Good computer skills
    - Basic knowledge of interface protocol between PLC and PC based applications
    - Working knowledge in control specification for manufacturing systems
    - Manufacturing engineering experience: basic manufacturing processes, quality
    engineering, planning, scheduling, shop floor control, lean manufacturing
    - Ability to identify and assess state-of-the-art players among suppliers,
    academics, other labs
    - Strong background in controls: remote monitoring, sensing, and adaptive
    control strategies and algorithms, hardware/software for PLC and PC-based
    machine controls, supervisory control and human-machine interfaces design in
    manufacturing applications
    - Software: database design and integration, software development skills: OO
    tools and design (UML), Java, JSP, ASP, C++, Visual Basic, XML/XSL, .NET,
    ActiveX, OLE COM/DCOM, OPC, client-server/web-based computing, distributed and
    centralized computing models
    
    
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