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Change of Address: Aman Behal

Contributed by: Aman Behal, abehal@mail.ucf.edu

I am jointly with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
(SEECS) and the NanoScience Technology Center (NSTC) at the University of 
Central Florida in Orlando. My new address is:

12424 Research Parkway
Suite 400
Orlando, FL 32826
407-882-2820 (Voice)
407-882-2819 (Fax)
email: abehal@mail.ucf.edu

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1.2 Change of Address: Ansgar Rehm

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Change of Address: Ansgar Rehm

Contributed by: Ansgar Rehm, a.rehm@fh-osnabrueck.de

I have taken up a new position at the 
University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrück. 
My new address is: 

Ansgar Rehm
Fachhochschule Osnabrück
University of Applied Sciences
Institute of Automation Technology/
Lab for Control and Digital Signal Processing

Albrechtstr. 30,
D-49076 Osnabrück, Germany
Tel.: +49-541-969-2156
email: a.rehm@fh-osnabrueck.de

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1.3 Change of Address: Paulo Tabuada

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Change of Address: Paulo Tabuada

Contributed by: Paulo Tabuada, tabuada@ee.ucla.edu

I have joined the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of
California at Los Angeles since September 1st. My new coordinates are:

Paulo Tabuada
UCLA Electrical Engineering Dept.
66-147F Engineering IV Building
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594

Tel: 310-794-4266
Fax: 310-206-4685
E-mail: tabuada@ee.ucla.edu
Url: http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~tabuada/

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1.4 Change of Address: Vincent Winstead

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Change of Address: Vincent Winstead

Contributed by: Vincent Winstead, vincent.winstead@mnsu.edu

I have taken a new position at Minnesota State University-Mankato.  My new 
address is:

Prof. Vincent Winstead
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Technology
Minnesota State University-Mankato
112 Trafton Science Center C
Mankato, MN  56001
Ph:  +1(507) 389-5456
Fax:  +1(507) 389-6280
e-mail:  vincent.winstead@mnsu.edu

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NSF Funding Opportunity

Contributed by: Mario Rotea, mrotea@nsf.gov

The Engineering Directorate at the NSF has released the first Emerging 
Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) solicitation, which may be 
viewed at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06596/nsf06596.htm

The EFRI Solicitation (NSF 06-596) focuses on two new interdisciplinary 
areas for FY 2007: (1) Auto-reconfigurable Engineered Systems Enabled by 
Cyberinfrastructure (ARES-CI) and (2) Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering 
(CBE). The solicitation contains details about these areas and contact 
information for the Program Directors that are leading the efforts. The 
solicitation provides the opportunity to establish up to 11 awards in FY 
2007 for up to four years at $500,000 per year, pending the availability of 
funds.

An information workshop is scheduled for September 19, 2006, 1:00-3:00 p.m. 
(EDT). The purpose of this workshop is to inform the community about the 
goals of the solicitation and to respond to questions from potential 
applicants. The primary vehicle for information in this workshop is webcast 
via the internet. Registration is required 24 hours in advance of the 
meeting for participation either via webcast. You may find the information 
about this workshop and how to register by visiting the EFRI Website 
www.nsf.gov/eng/efri

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2007 AACC Awards Nominations due November 1, 2006

Contributed by: Pradeep Misra, pradeep.misra@wright.edu

2007 AACC Awards Nominations due NOVERMBER 1, 2006

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/

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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3.2 2007 SIAM Prizes - Open Calls for Nominations

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2007 SIAM Prizes - Open Calls for Nominations

Contributed by: J. M. Littleton, littleton@siam.org

The following SIAM prizes will be awarded in 2007 and currently have open
calls for nominations.  Calls for nominations can be found at
www.siam.org/prizes/nominations.php.

* SIAM/ACM PRIZE IN CSE
  Nominations due Sept. 30
To be presented at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and
Engineering (CSE07), Feb 19-23, 2007.

* JURGEN MOSER LECTURE
  Nominations due Oct. 2
* J. D. CRAWFORD PRIZE
  Nominations due Oct. 15
Both to be presented at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical
Systems (DS07), May 28-June 1, 2007.

Please address inquiries to:

J. M. Littleton
SIAM
E-mail: littleton@siam.org
Telephone:  +1-215-382-9800 ext. 303
Fax:  +1-215-386-7999

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Aircraft System Identification - Theory and Practice

Contributed by: Gene Morelli, e.a.morelli@larc.nasa.gov

This book provides a comprehensive overview of both the theoretical 
underpinnings and the practical application of aircraft modeling based on 
experimental data – also known as aircraft system identification. Much of the 
material comes from the authors’ own research and teaching activities at NASA 
Langley involving real-world applications of system identification to 
aircraft. The book uses actual flight test and wind tunnel data for examples, 
and is intended to be a resource for researchers and practicing engineers, as 
well as a textbook for postgraduate and senior level courses.  

All aspects of the aircraft system identification problem are covered: model 
postulation, experiment design, instrumentation, data compatibility analysis, 
model structure determination, state and parameter estimation, and model 
validation.  The methods described in the book have been successfully applied 
to projects such as flight envelope expansion for new or modified aircraft, 
verification and correction of results from wind-tunnel tests or analytic 
methods such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), control system design and 
refinement, stability analysis, simulation development, flying qualities 
assessment, and accident investigation, among others.  

The book includes SIDPAC (System IDentification Programs for AirCraft), 
version 2.0, a software toolbox written in MATLAB®.  SIDPAC is composed of 
many different tools that use a variety of methods to perform tasks related 
to aircraft system identification, experiment design, signal processing, data 
analysis, and modeling.  The methods implemented in SIDPAC are explained in 
the book, so that the reader can apply SIDPAC tools with confidence to solve 
system identification problems.  SIDPAC was first released to the public in 
January 2001, and is currently in use at over 60 different organizations in 
government, industry, and academia.  


Table of Contents: 

Introduction
Elements of System Theory
Mathematical Model of an Aircraft 
Outline of Estimation Theory
Regression Methods
Maximum Likelihood Methods
Frequency Domain Methods
Real-Time Parameter Estimation 
Experiment Design
Data Compatibility
Data Analysis
MATLAB® Software
Appendices
Index


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4.2 Fuzzy Modeling and Fuzzy Control

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Fuzzy Modeling and Fuzzy Control

Contributed by: Regina Gorenshteyn, Birkhauser Boston, ReginaG@birkhauser.com

Date: 29 Aug 2006
From: Regina Gorenshteyn (ReginaG@birkhauser.com)
Subject: Book: Fuzzy Modeling and Fuzzy Control

Fuzzy Modeling and Fuzzy Control

Huaguang Zhang, Northeastern University, Liaoning, China
Derong Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Forthcoming - October 2006 / 432 pp. / 161 illus. / Hardcover / $89.95 / 
ISBN: 0-8176-4491-1 / Birkhaeuser
Series - Control Engineering

Fuzzy logic methodology has been proven effective in dealing with complex 
nonlinear systems containing uncertainties that are otherwise difficult to 
model. Technology based on this methodology has been applied to many real-
world problems, especially in the area of consumer products. This book 
presents the first unified and thorough treatment of fuzzy modeling and 
fuzzy control, providing necessary tools for the control of complex 
nonlinear systems. Careful consideration is given to questions concerning 
model complexity, model precision, and computing time.

In addition to being an excellent reference for electrical, computer, 
chemical, industrial, civil, manufacturing, mechanical and aeronautical 
engineers, the book may also be appropriate for classroom use in a graduate 
course in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer 
science. Applied mathematicians, control engineers, computer scientists, and 
physicists will benefit from the presentation as well.


Table of Contents: 

Preface * Fuzzy Set Theory and Rough Set Theory * Identification of the 
Takagi–Sugeno Fuzzy Model * Fuzzy Model Identification Based on Rough Set 
Data Analysis * Identification of the Fuzzy Hyperbolic Model * Basic Methods 
for Fuzzy Inference and Control * Fuzzy Inference and Control Methods 
Involving Two Kinds of Uncertainties * Fuzzy Control Schemes via a Fuzzy 
Performance Evaluator * Multivariable Predictive Control Based on the T–S 
Fuzzy Model * Adaptive Control Methods Based on Fuzzy Basis Function Vectors 
* Controller Design Based on the Fuzzy Hyperbolic Model * Fuzzy H-infinity 
Filter Design for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems with Multiple Time Delays 
* Chaotification of the Fuzzy Hyperbolic Model * Feedforward Fuzzy Control 
Approach Using the Fourier Integral * Index

For a full description of the book and ordering information, please visit:  
http://www.springer.com/0-8176-4491-1



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4.3 Solution Manual for: Adaptive Control Design and Analysis

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Solution Manual for: Adaptive Control Design and Analysis

Contributed by: Gang Tao, gt9s@virginia.edu

The solution manual for the end-of-chapter problems of the book
"Adaptive Control Design and Analysis" (author: Gang Tao, published
by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. in June 2003; ISBN 0-471-27452-6) has
been available from the author. Interested instructors can send an
email to gt9s@virginia.edu, to ask for a soft copy of it.

This book presents and analyzes some common and effective adaptive
control design approaches, including model reference adaptive control,
adaptive pole placement control, and adaptive backstepping control.
The book addresses both continuous-time and discrete-time adaptive
control designs and their analysis; deals with both single-input,
single-output and multi-input, multi-output systems; and employs both
state feedback and output feedback. Design and analysis of various
adaptive control systems are presented in a systematic and unified
framework. The book is a collection of lectures on system modeling and
stability, adaptive control formulation and design, stability and
robustness analysis, and adaptive system illustration and comparison,
aimed at reflecting the state of the art in adaptive control as well
as at presenting its fundamentals. It is a comprehensive book which
can be used as either an academic textbook or technical reference for
graduate students, researchers, engineers, and interested
undergraduate students in the fields of engineering, computer science,
applied mathematics and others, who have prerequisites in linear
systems and feedback control at the undergraduate level.

The book has 10 chapters:

Chapter 1  Introduction
Chapter 2  Systems Theory
Chapter 3  Adaptive Parameter Estimation
Chapter 4  Adaptive State Feedback Control
Chapter 5  Continuous-Time Model Reference Adaptive Control
Chapter 6  Discrete-Time Model Reference Adaptive Control
Chapter 7  Indirect Adaptive Control
Chapter 8  A Comparison Study
Chapter 9  Multivariable Adaptive Control
Chapter 10  Adaptive Control of Systems with Nonlinearities

The solution manual has solutions to representative problems in
Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, which were used in a graduate course
taught by the author for recent years.

For more inforamtion, please see

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~gt9s/books.html#D
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471274526.html

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4.4 Wind Turbine Control Systems

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Wind Turbine Control Systems

Contributed by: Ricardo Julian Mantz, mantz@ing.unlp.edu.ar

Title: Wind Turbine Control Systems. Principles, Modelling and Gain 
Scheduling Design.
Authors: F. D. Bianchi, H. De Battista and R. J. Mantz
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (2006) 
ISBN: 1846284929 

Modern wind turbines generally operate at variable speed in order to maximise 
conversion efficiency below rated power and to reduce loading on the drive-
train. In addition, pitch control of the blades is usually employed to limit 
the energy captured during operation above rated wind speed. The higher 
complexity of variable-speed variable-pitch turbines is offset by the 
benefits of control flexibility, namely higher conversion efficiency, better 
power quality, longer useful life; because of the immediate impact of control 
on the cost of wind energy, reliable high-performance controllers are 
essential in making wind technology competitive.
In Wind Turbine Control Systems the application of linear parameter varying 
(LPV) gain scheduling techniques to the control of wind energy conversion 
systems is emphasised. This recent reformulation of the classical gain 
scheduling problem allows a straightforward design procedure and simple 
controller implementation. The book provides a thorough coverage of wind 
turbine control, including:
• an overview of the principles of wind energy conversion;
• the control-oriented modelling of wind turbines;
• an in-deph analysis of the most common control strategies;
• the design of LPV gain-scheduled controllers for both fixed- and variable-
pitch, variable-speed wind turbines.
Wind Turbine Control Systems is primarily intended for researchers and 
students with a control background wishing to expand their knowledge of wind 
energy systems. The book will be useful to scientists in the field of control 
theory looking to apply their innovative control ideas to this appealing 
control problem and will also interest practising engineers dealing with wind 
technology, who will benefit from the comprehensive coverage of the theoretic 
control topics, the simplicity of the models and the use of commonly 
available control algorithms.

Contents

1 Introduction 
Control of Wind Energy Conversion Systems.   Gain Scheduling Techniques.  
Robust Control of WECS.  Outline of the Book. 

2 The Wind and Wind Turbines 
The Wind.  The Source of Winds.  Mean Wind Speed.  Energy in the Wind.  
Turbulence.  The Wind Turbines.  Types of Rotors.  Wind Turbine 
Aerodynamics.  Force, Torque and Power.  Wind Speed Experienced by the 
Turbine.  Deterministic Component.  Stochastic Component.  

3 Modelling of WECS 
WECS Description.  Mechanical Subsystem.  Aerodynamic Subsystem.  Electrical 
Subsystem.  Directly Coupled Squirrel-cage Induction Generator.  Stator-
controlled Squirrel-cage Induction Generator.  Rotor-controlled Doubly-fed 
Induction Generator.  Pitch Subsystem.  Model of the Entire WECS.  Effective 
Wind Model.  Mean Wind Speed Model.  Turbulence Model.  Effective Wind 
Speed.  Effective Wind Speed Simulations.  

4 Control Objectives and Strategies 
Control Objectives.  Energy Capture.  Mechanical Loads.  Power Quality.  
Modes of Operation Control Strategies.  Fixed-speed Fixed-pitch.  Fixed-speed
Variable-pitch. Variable-speed Fixed-pitch.  Variable-speed Variable-pitch.
Some Options to the Previous Control Strategies 

5 Control of Variable-speed Fixed-pitch Wind Turbines 
Introduction to LPV Gain Scheduling Techniques. LPV Model of Fixed-pitch WECS.
Open-loop Characteristics. LPV Gain Scheduling Control. Controller Objectives.
Controller Schemes. The Controller Design Issue.  Preliminary Control.
Control with Damping Injection.  Dealing with Uncertainties.  Performance
Assessment of other Variable-speed. Fixed-pitch Control Strategies.

6 Control of Variable-speed Variable-pitch Wind Turbines.  
LPV Model of Variable-pitch WECS.  Open-loop Characteristics.  LPV Gain 
Scheduling Control.  Controller Schemes.  Modified Control Strategy for 
Improved Controllability.  The Controller Design Issue.  Control in the High 
Wind Speed Region.  Control in the Low Wind Speed Region.  Control over the 
Full Range of Operational Wind Speeds.  Effects of Uncertainties.

8. Linear Matrix Inequalities 
Definition.   Semidefinite Programming.  Properties. 

9. Gain Scheduling Techniques and LPV Systems 
Gain Scheduling Techniques.  LPV Systems.  Stability.  Performance.  
Synthesis of LPV Gain Scheduling Controllers.  Synthesis Procedures. 
Computational Considerations.  Problem Setup.  LPV Descriptions of Nonlinear 
Systems.  Robust LPV Gain Scheduling Control. Robust Stability.  Robust 
Performance.  Synthesis with Scaling Matrices.   

10. Quasi-LPV Model and Control. 

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CFP: 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" has been
extended to 31 October 2006. 
 
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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5.2 CFP: IEEE RAS Mag. Special issue on walking and running biped robots

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CFP: IEEE RAS Mag. Special issue on walking and running biped robots

Contributed by: E.R. Westervelt, westervelt.4@osu.edu

IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Magazine
Special Issue on Walking and Running Biped Robots

Anthropomorphic fascination and the advantages of biped locomotion in
environments with discontinuous support are among the reasons why walking and
running biped robots have become a popular area of research. Other important
reasons include the potential impact on the development of human assistive
devices and as a vehicle for the development of novel design and control
methodologies. Research in the field may be roughly divided into several
categories based upon the biped's characteristics: two-dimensional bipeds,
with motions taking place in only the sagittal plane, versus three-dimensional
bipeds, with motions taking place in and out of the sagittal plane; minimalist
bipeds, which have a minimal number of degrees of freedom, versus
anthropomorphic bipeds, which have a large number of degrees of freedom; and
bipeds with passively stable gaits versus bipeds with gaits that are actively
controlled. The goal of this special issue is to provide an overview of the
current research across the field.

Scope of the special issue:  The special issue's scope is the locomotion
aspects of walking and running biped robots.  The issue will address both the
design and control of such mechanisms.  We are soliciting papers that will
provide a balanced overview of current research in the field with
contributions that are representative of the current work taking place across
the world. Submissions sought are limited to those that address the locomotion
aspects of biped robots. Within this limitation, specific examples include,
but are not limited to, a review of biped locomotion research highlighting
current challenges, passive robot design and analysis, active robot design,
and control strategies for two-dimensional and three-dimensional walking,
running, and stumble recovery.

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2006
Submission URL: http://ras.papercept.net/journals/ram/

Guest editors: E.R. Westervelt and C. Canudas de Wit

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

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

Contributed by: Mingjun Zhang, mingjunzhang@ieee.org

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

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

Important Dates:

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

Guest Editors:

Mingjun Zhang
Agilent Technologies 
mingjunzhang@ieee.org

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

Channing Robertson
Stanford University
chanbo@stanford.edu

Chiming Wei
John Hopkins University 
cmwei@jhmi.edu 

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

Babak Ziaie
Purdue University
bziaie@purdue.edu

Paper Submission:

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

Please address inquiries to mingjunzhang@ieee.org.


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5.4 Contents: Circuits Systems and Signal Processing

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Contents: Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing

Contributed by: Regina Gorenshteyn, ReginaG@birkhauser.com

Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing
Volume 25, Issue 4

* 2-Norm Based Recursive Design of Transmultiplexers with Designable Filter 
Length \ Yang Shi, Fend Ding, and Tongwen Chen

* Improved Robust Techniques for Multiuser Detection in Non-Gaussian 
Channels \ T. Anil Kumar and K. Deergha Rao

* Design of Suboptimal Constrained Nonlinear Quadratic Regulator via 
Invariant Sets Switching \ Tao Zou, Shaoyuan Li, and Baocang Ding

* A Linear CMOS Voltage-to-Current Converter \ Roger Yubtzuan Chen, Seng-
Fong Lin, and Ming-Shian Wu

* Blind Channel Equalization Using Second-Order Statistics: A Necessary and 
Sufficient Condition \ A. Naveed, I. M. Qureshi, T. A. Cheema, and M. A. S. 
Choudhry

* H-infinity Filter Design for Uncertain Discrete-Time Singular Systems via 
Normal Transformation \ Ching-Min Lee and I-Kong Fong

* Design of an Improved CMOS Phase/Frequency Detector \ Roger Yubtzuan Chen, 
Hong-Yu Huang, and Ming-Yu Hsieh 

* ICCII-Based Voltage-Mode Filter with Single Input and Six Outputs 
Employing Grounded Capacitors \ Shahram Minaei, Erkan Yuce, and Oguzhan 
Cicekoglu

* Product Moments of Kibble's Bivariate Gamma Distribution \ Saralees 
Nadarajah and Samuel Kotz

For ordering information as well as electronic back issues, please visit: 
http://www.springer.com/journal/34

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5.5 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  : 10
Date   : Oct-2006

Table of Contents:

Special Issue on The Seventh Workshop On Discrete Event Systems (WODES2004),
Reims, France, 22-24 September 2004

Janan Zaytoon and Christos G. Cassandras, Introduction to the WODES2004
Special Issue, Pages 1125-1126.

E.W. Endsley, E.E. Almeida and D.M. Tilbury, Modular finite state machines:
Development and application to reconfigurable manufacturing cell controller
generation, Pages 1127-1142.

Jean-Marc Roussel and Jean-Marc Faure, Designing dependable logic controllers
using algebraic specifications, Pages 1143-1155.

Arash Vahidi, Martin Fabian and Bengt Lennartson, Efficient supervisory
synthesis of large systems, Pages 1157-1167.

L.E. Holloway, Jeffrey Ashley and Yu Gong, Applying automated control
synthesis methods to condition systems requiring state observers, Pages
1169-1181.

Sebastian Panek, Olaf Stursberg and Sebastian Engell, Efficient synthesis of
production schedules by optimization of timed automata, Pages 1183-1197.

T.J.J. van den Boom and B. De Schutter, Modelling and control of discrete
event systems using switching max-plus-linear systems, Pages 1199-1211.

Mariagrazia Dotoli and Maria Pia Fanti, An urban traffic network model via
coloured timed Petri nets, Pages 1213-1229.

M.P. Fanti, A. Giua and C. Seatzu, Monitor design for colored Petri nets: An
application to deadlock prevention in railway networks, Pages 1231-1247.

Masakazu Adachi, Toshimitsu Ushio and Yoshitaka Ukawa, Design of
user-interface without automation surprises for discrete event systems, Pages
1249-1258.

Zhi Han, Alongkrit Chutinan and Bruce H. Krogh, ACTL strong negation and its
application to hybrid systems verification, Pages 1259-1267.

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5.6 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: 7   Date: July 2006
		
Design of Feedback Controls Supporting TCP Based on the State–Space Approach
Page(s):  1085- 1085

Design of feedback controls supporting TCP based on the state-space approach
Ki Baek Kim
Page(s):  1086- 1099

Time-optimal control of a particle in a dielectrophoretic system
Dong Eui Chang; Petit, N.; Rouchon, P.
Page(s):  1100- 1114

A pseudospectral method for the optimal control of constrained feedback
linearizable systems
Qi Gong; Wei Kang; Ross, I.M.
Page(s):  1115- 1129

Systems with counterclockwise input-output dynamics
Angeli, D.
Page(s):  1130- 1143

Bounded error identification of systems with time-varying parameters
Bravo, J.M.; Alamo, T.; Camacho, E.F.
Page(s):  1144- 1150

Remarks on control design with degree constraint
Georgiou, T.T.; Lindquist, A.
Page(s):  1150- 1156

A theoretical study of different leader roles in networks
Wei Wang; Slotine, J.-J.E.
Page(s):  1156- 1161

An exact stability analysis test for single-parameter polynomially-dependent
linear systems
Tsiotras, P.; Bliman, P.-A.
Page(s):  1161- 1164

An improved procedure in detecting the stability robustness of systems with
uncertain delay
Olgac, N.; Sipahi, R.
Page(s):  1164- 1165

A constructive approach to local stabilization of nonlinear systems by dynamic
output feedback
Pengnian Chen; Daizhan Cheng; Zhong-Ping Jiang
Page(s):  1166- 1171

A differential-algebraic approach to speed estimation in an induction motor
Mengwei Li; Chiasson, J.; Bodson, M.; Tolbert, L.M.
Page(s):  1172- 1177

Global practical stabilization of planar linear systems in the presence of
actuator saturation and input additive disturbance
Haijun Fang; Zongli Lin
Page(s):  1177- 1184

Error feedback and a servomechanism problem for uncertain nonlinear systems
Hao Lei; Wei Lin
Page(s):  1184- 1189

Quantization, time delays, and nonlinear stabilization
Liberzon, D.
Page(s):  1190- 1195

Continuous-time Hammerstein system identification from sampled data
Greblicki, W.
Page(s):  1195- 1200

Robust nonlinear control associating robust feedback linearization and H/sub
/spl infin// control
Franco, A.L.D.; Bourles, H.; De Pieri, E.R.; Guillard, H.
Page(s):  1200- 1207

Synchronization and convergence of linear dynamics in random directed networks
Chai Wah Wu
Page(s):  1207- 1210

H/sub /spl infin// observer design for lipschitz nonlinear systems
Pertew, A.M.; Marquez, H.J.; Zhao, Q.
Page(s):  1211- 1216

Thermodynamics: A Dynamical Systems Approach
Haddad, W.M.; Chellaboina, V.S.; Nersesov, S.
Page(s):  1217- 1225

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5.7 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

Special Section on Hybrid Systems:

Editorial
		
Tools for the analysis and design of communication networks with Markovian 
dynamics
A. Leizarowitz, R. Stanojevic and R. Shorten    			

Modelling and analysis of stochastic hybrid systems
J.P. Hespanha    	

Transient performance, estimator resetting and filtering in nonlinear 
multiple model adaptive backstepping control
J. Hansen and T.A. Johansen    			

Decentralised adaptive control with partial communication
K.S. Narendra, N. Oleng and S. Mukhopadhyay    			
	
State estimation for hybrid systems: applications to aircraft tracking
I. Hwang, H. Balakrishnan and C. Tomlin    			

Relaxed dynamic programming in switching systems
A. Rantzer    

Sampling-based planning, control and verification of hybrid systems
M.S. Branicky, M.M. Curtiss, J. Levine and S. Morgan    		
	
Learning by doing -- systematic abstraction refinement for hybrid control 
synthesis
T. Moor, J.M. Davoren and J. Raisch  

Regular papers:  			

Robust Kalman filtering with perturbation estimation process for uncertain 
systems
S.J. Kwon    			

Sets of stabilising PID controllers for second-order integrating processes 
with time delay
L. Ou, W. Zhang and D. Gu    		
	
Position control of a single-link flexible manipulator using H�‡ -based PID 
control
M.-T. Ho and Y.-W. Tu    	

New stability criterion for a class of linear systems with time-varying delay 
and nonlinear perturbations
Z. Zuo and Y. Wang    

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5.8 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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5.9 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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5.10 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 10	
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00207721.asp

A parametric frequency domain approach to decoupling with coupled rows 
J. Deutscher

A geometry-based algorithm for the stability of planar switching systems 
Luca Greco, Fabrizio Tocchini, Mario Innocenti

Optimal activation policies for continuous scanning observations in 
parameter estimation of distributed systems 
Maciej Patan

Global exponential stability analysis for neutral delay-differential 
systems: an LMI approach 
M. Liu

Active fault tolerant control using state-space self-tuning control approach 
J. Sh.-H. Tsai, Y.-Y. Lee, P. Cofie, L.-S. Shieh, X. M. Chen

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

Editor-in-Chief
Professor Peter Fleming
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering,
University of Sheffield 
ijss@sheffield.ac.uk


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5.11 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
Address of e-Journal: http//:www.e-ndst.kiev.ua
Volume 6, Number 2, 2006.

CONTENTS

Contents Minimal Representations, Controllability and Free Energies in a Heat 
Conductor with Memory,
A.M. Caucci,   p. 111 

Dynamics of a Spinning Rocket with Internal Mass Flow,  
F.O. Eke, T. Tran and J. Sookgaew,   p. 129 

Robust Dynamic Parameter-Dependent Output Feedback Control of Uncertain 
Parameter-Dependent State-Delayed Systems,  
H.R. Karimi,   p. 143 

Stability of Delay Systems with Quadratic Nonlinearities,  
D. Khusainov, A. Ivanov and I. Grytsay,   p. 159 

A New Approach for Dynamic Analysis of Composite Beam with an 
Interply Crack,
V.Y. Perel,   p. 171 

A Periodic Version of Lie Series for Normal Mode Dynamics,  
V.N. Pilipchuk,   p. 187 

Stability Conditions and Stability Boundaries of a SHARON Bioreactor 
Model with Multiple Equilibrium Points,  
M. Sbarciog, E.I.P. Volcke, M. Loccufier and E. Noldus,   p. 191 

Existence of Nonoscillatory Solution of High-Order Nonlinear Difference 
Equation, 
Xiaozhu Zhong, Jingcui Liang, Yan Shi, Donghua Wang and Lixia Ge,   p. 205
 
For submission and subscription information please contact the Editor-in-
Chief of ND&ST: 
Professor A.A.Martynyuk
Institute of Mechanics,
Nesterov str., 3 
Kiev-57, 03680 MSP
UKRAINE
e-mail: anmart@stability.kiev.ua

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5.12 Contents: atp international

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Contents: atp international

Contributed by: Birgit Vogel-Heuser, vogel-heuser@uni-kassel.de

atp international
Volume 4, 2006, issue 2

IFAC 50
R. Lauber
History of the German Association for Measurement and Industrial Automation
(IFAC NMO) p. 16-21

Reviewed Papers

Safety / Networks
J. Moyne, B. Triden, A. Thomas, K. Schroeder and D.M. Tilbury
Cost function and tradeoff analysis of dedicated vs. shared networks for 
safety and control systems  p. 22-31

J. Boercsoek
Advanced 2004-processing architecture for safety systems  p. 32-38

Application / Logistic
D. Reznik
The omega sorter: Item sorting at high-rates and low speed p. 39-45

Engineering
D. Schaefer
A generic approach to variant design in electrical engineering CAD p. 46-50

Automation survey
C. Cardeira, A.W. Colombo, R. Schoop
Wireless solutions for automation requirements  p. 51-58

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10th Symposium on Computer Applications on Biotechnology, CAB 2007

Contributed by: Jaime Moreno, JMorenoP@ii.unam.mx

Biosystems Engineering for Bioprocesses
4-6 June 2007
Cancun, Mexico
 
http://www.cab2007.org

The symposium on Computer Applications in Biotechnology (CAB2007), organized 
by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC, http://www.ifac-
control.org/ ), aims to stimulate contacts between specialists active in 
academic research and industrial development in all major areas in 
biotechnology, where computers are used to aid bioprocess design, 
supervision, diagnosis, operation, optimization and control.

In 2007, the 10th CAB symposium will be organized in coordination with the 
8th DYCOPS (Dynamics and Control of Process Systems) IFAC symposium, that 
will be held also in Cancun, on June 6-8, in the same facilities. The idea 
is to enable the interaction between the chemical and biotechnology process 
systems engineering communities. A reduced fee is offered for participants 
that attend both symposia.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

      Systems Biology
      Metabolic Engineering
      Modelling and Identification
      Parameter and State Estimation
      Fault Diagnosis and Monitoring 
      Data Mining Tools
      Sensors and Soft Sensors
      Bioinformatics
      Dynamics and Control
      Downstream Processing
      Integrated Bioprocessing
      Scheduling, Coordination, Optimization
      Life Cycle Analysis
      Applications: 
           Microbial technology, 
           mammalian, insect and plant cell technology, 
           gene therapy, 
           pharmaceutical processes, 
           food engineering,   
           bulk chemicals production, 
           environmental processes (wastewater, bioremediation, ...)

Authors should submit the full english version of their manuscripts 
electronically online through the CAB 2007 manuscript submission site. See 
the homepage http://www.cab2007.org for details. General inquiries should be 
addressed to the Program Chair, Professor Jaime Moreno, at the Universidad 
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, (secretariat@cab2007.org). 

Important Dates
Draft papers submission :         27 October 2006
Notification of Acceptance :      30 January 2007
Final camera-Ready Manuscript :   16 March 2007
Early registration :              16 March 2007
Symposium :                       4-6 June 2007 

For more information, please visit:
http://www.cab2007.org

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6.2 15th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation

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15th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation

Contributed by: Kimon Valavanis, kvalavan@cse.usf.edu

The 15th  Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED'07) 
will be held for the first time in Athens, Greece, at the

Divani Caravel Hotel
June 27-29, 2007
Athens, Greece

Workshops and Tutorials will be presented on Tuesday, June 26.

MED'07 is sponsored by the Mediterranean Control Association and it is 
jointly co-sponsored by the IEEE CSS and IEEE RAS. The conference will 
provide a unique opportunity for the academic and industrial community 
to address new challenges, share solutions and discuss future research 
directions. A broad range of topics is proposed, following current 
trends of combining control/systems theory with software/communication 
technologies, as well as new developments in robotics and mechatronics, 
with the goal of strengthening cooperation of control and automation 
scientists with industry. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Adaptive control, Aerospace control, Agents and agent-based systems,
Biologically inspired systems, Computational Intelligence, Computer controlled
systems, Computing and communications, Decentralized control, Discrete event
systems, Distributed systems, Education and training, Embedded control
systems, Fuzzy systems, Genetic,evolutionary computation, Hybrid systems,
Image processing, Industrial automation, manufacturing, Intelligent control
systems, Intelligent transportation systems, Linear systems, Marine control,
Modeling and simulation, Neural networks, Non-linear systems, Optimization,
Petri Nets, Power systems, Predictive control, Process control, Real-time
control, Robotics, Robust control, Spectral estimation, Swarms, Unmanned
Systems,Virtual reality.

Paper Submission
Papers must be submitted electronically by January 15, 2007, via the Web 
upload system only. The guidelines are given at the MED'07 Web site: 
http://med07.rasip.fer.hr. Papers should be submitted in standard IEEE 
Transactions format. The first page of the paper, centered on the top below 
the top margin, should include the paper title, the authors' names and 
their affiliations, an abstract, and keywords. Six pages are allowed for 
each paper. Up to two additional pages will be permitted for a charge of 
$125 per additional page. Illustrations and references are included in the 
page count. Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process, coordinated 
by the Program Chairs and the IPC. Authors will be notified of acceptance or 
rejection by  March 10, 2007. Accepted papers in final form must be received 
by the Publication Chair no later than March 31, 2007. 

Proposals for invited sessions and workshops - tutorials should contain 
the title of the session, a list of four to five speakers, and extended 
summaries (2000 words) of their presentations. Proposals must be sent by 
e-mail to the corresponding Chairs by January 15, 2007.

For more information about the Conference please contact the Program Chair.

Proceedings
It is anticipated that the MED'07 Proceedings will be available via the
ieeeexplore system after the conference, as were the MED'05 and MED'06
Proceedings.  Proceedings of earlier MED conferences are available at
http://www.nd.edu/~pantsakl/MCA/conferences.htm. 

Important Dates

January 15, 2007:	Contributed, papers, invited session proposals, 
		Workshop / Tutorial proposals, Due. 
March 10, 2007:	Notification of Acceptance/Rejection.
March 31, 2007:	Final, Camera Ready Papers, Due.

OFFICIAL SITE:  http://med07.rasip.fer.hr. 

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6.3 1st IEEE Multi-Conferenence on Systems and Control

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1st IEEE Multi-Conferenence on Systems and Control

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

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

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

ISIC
ISIC brings together the international community of researchers and
practitioners to discuss the latest advancements and future 
directions in the areas of intelligent systems and advanced control. The 
conference welcomes paper submissions from researchers, practitioners and 
students, and will cover myriad topics in control methods based on 
biological, learning, and embedded cooperative systems, including, but not 
limited to the following:

AI and expert systems, distributed intelligence Biological learning control 
systems, Distributed/decentralized intelligent control Distributed and 
embedded systems, large scale systems, Distributed or decentralized control 
methods Embedded intelligent control, Hybrid dynamical systems control, 
pattern discovery Intelligent control of networked dynamic systems, 
intelligent control of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks Machine learning 
Multiagent based planning, control and intelligence Neural networks, fuzzy 
logic and genetic algorithms, Next generation intelligent control 
architectures and methods Probabilistic approaches, knowledge-based sensor 
fusion, Swarm intelligence, learning and control 

CCA
The CCA brings together the international community of researchers 
and practitioners to discuss the latest advancements and future directions 
in the areas of intelligent systems and advanced control. The conference
welcomes paper submissions from researchers, practitioners and 
students, and will cover myriad topics in control techniques and 
applications, including, but not limited to the following:

Agricultural systems Aerospace and automotive systems 
Biological and pharmaceutical processes Biomedical and chemical processes 
Discrete event systems Distributed intelligent networked systems 
Fault diagnosis  Fault tolerant control 
Fuzzy and neural control, Petri nets Hybrid systems 
Integrated control and supervision Mathematical modeling 
Marine systems Mechanical systems and robotics 
Mechatronic systems Metal processing 
Mining systems Power systems 
Predictive and adaptive control Robust control 
System identification Transportation systems 
Telecommunications Vehicular and traffic control 

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

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

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

Important Dates

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

For more information, please visit:
http://msc2007.nus.edu.sg/cca2007.htm

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6.4 2007 European Control Conference

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2007 European Control Conference

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
Notification of acceptance/ non-acceptance
     1 February 2007
Deadline for final manuscripts submission
     1 April 2007

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

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

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

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6.5 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

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 the field of 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 indicate 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 be 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 organiser'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) and organise
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 organiser 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 8th Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems DYCOPS 2007

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8th Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, DYCOPS 2007

Contributed by: Jaime Moreno, JMorenoP@ii.unam.mx

6-8 June 2007
Cancun, Mexico
http://www.dycops2007.org

The symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems (DYCOPS 2007), 
organized by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC, 
http://www.ifac-control.org/ ), will bring together scientists and engineers 
from universities, R & D laboratories, vendor companies and the process 
industries to focus attention on new methodologies and challenging 
applications within Process Systems Engineering in the light of industrial 
contexts and trends.

In 2007, the 8th DYCOPS symposium will be organized in coordination with the 
10th CAB (Computer Applications in Biotechnology) IFAC symposium, that will 
be held also in Cancun, on June 4-6, in the same facilities. The idea is to 
enable the interaction between the chemical and biotechnology process 
systems engineering communities. A reduced fee is offered for participants 
that attend both symposia.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

      Process Control and Optimization
      Interaction Between Design and Control
      Integration between Scheduling and Control 
      Modeling and Identification
      Batch Process Modeling and Control
      Model-based Estimation and Control
      Sensors, Filtering and Data Integration
      Process and Performance Monitoring
      Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety

Authors should submit the full english version of their manuscripts 
electronically online through the DYCOPS 2007 manuscript submission site. 
See the homepage http://www.dycops2007.org for details. General inquiries 
should be addressed to the Program Chair, Professor Jesus Alvarez, at the 
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico, (secretariat@dycops2007.org). 

Important Dates
Draft papers submission :         27 October 2006
Notification of Acceptance :      30 January 2007
Final camera-Ready Manuscript :   16 March 2007
Early registration :              16 March 2007
Symposium :                       6-8 June 2007 

For more information, please visit:
http://www.dycops2007.org

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6.7 Electrical Machines and Drives Conference

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Electrical Machines and Drives Conference

Contributed by: Okyay Kaynak, okyay.kaynak@boun.edu.tr

IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference - IEMDC 2007.
Antalya, Turkey
May 3-5, 2007.
http://www.iemdc07.org

This conference is supported by IEEE

* Industrial Electronics Society
* Industry Applications Society
* Power Electronics Society
* Power Engineering Society

The proceedings will be posted on IEEE Xplore and be indexed in EI.
The deadline for submission of summaries is October 30th, 2006.

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6.8 IEEE Southeast Conference 2007

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IEEE Southeast Conference 2007

Contributed by: Gang Tao, gt9s@virginia.edu

IEEE Southeast Conference 2007
March 22-25, 2007, Richmond, Virginia, USA
http://www.southeastcon.org/2007

SoutheastCon is the annual IEEE Region 3 Technical, Professional, and
Student Conference. It brings together electrical, computer and other
engineering and science professionals, faculty and students to share
the latest information through technical sessions, tutorials, and
exhibits. It is the most influential conference in Region 3 for
promoting awareness of the technical contributions made by our
profession to the advancement of engineering and science and to the
community. Attendance and technical program participation from areas
outside IEEE Region 3 are also cordially encouraged and welcomed.

Scopes of the Technical Conference:

The SoutheastCon 2007 invites prospective authors to submit their
technical work on all aspects of engineering, science, and technology
of current interest, to the conference. The conference's technical
program includes (but not limited to):
Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering
General Engineering and Industrial Applications
Education, Technology and Globalization
Financial Planning in Engineering Profession
Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Intelligent Systems and Control
Networks and Distributed Systems
Nanotechnology and Microelectronics
Circuits and Devices
Communications and Information Systems
Computing and Real-Time systems

The SoutheastCon 2007 will feature the presentations of technical
papers as well as tutorial sessions and workshops.

Technical Paper Submission Instructions:

The submission and review of technical papers for the SoutheastCon
2007 will be handled by the conference's Paper Submission and Review
System, accessible from the website at
http://www.softconf.com/start/secon07.
Some important submission dates are
- Author's paper submission deadline: November 1, 2006
- Abstract submission deadline: December 1, 2006
- Review submission deadline: December 15, 2006
- Notification to authors: January 5, 2007
- Camera-ready manuscript deadline: January 31, 2007

For additional information, please contact the Technical Conference
Co-Chair Gang Tao at: gt9s@virginia.edu.

Tutorial and Workshop Proposal Submission Instructions:

The proposal should include the tutorial or workshop objectives,
a brief description (500 words), an outline, proposed length, and
a short professional resume of the instructor.

Please send proposals for tutorials and workshops to the Technical
Conference Co-Chair Jan Helge Bohn at: bohn@ieee.org, by November 1,
2006. Tutorial and workshop presentation materials and handouts are
due by January 31, 2007.

For more information, please visit the technical conference webpage:
http://www.southeastcon.org/2007/technical/






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6.9 SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications

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SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications

Contributed by: Arthur J. Krener, ajkrener@ucdavis.edu

SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications, CT07
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport
June 29- July 1, 2007

Sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory SIAG/CT

The field of control theory is central to a wide range of aeronautic,
aerospace, industrial, automotive and advanced technological systems and
increasingly recognized as fundamental for emerging fields ranging from
nanotechnology to cell regulation. In addition to its ubiquity for process
regulation in the physical sciences, control concepts now pervade the
biological, computer, and social sciences. This conference will showcase a
wide range of topics in control and systems theory. The topics and
applications include real-time optimization and data assimilation, cellular
and biological regulation, control techniques for financial mathematics,
cooperative control for unmanned autonomous vehicles, biomedical control, risk
sensitive control and filtering, control of smart systems, flow control and
quantum control. This conference is a continuation of a series of meetings
started 1989 in San Francisco.  In 2007 it will return to San Francisco.
More information about the conference can be found at
http://www.siam.org/meetings/ct07/

About the Location
The Hyatt Regency Hotel is a luxurious AAA Four-Diamond hotel located on San
Francisco Bay, two miles from San Francisco Airport.  There is free shuttle
service between the hotel and the airport.  At the airport there is convenient
Bay Area Rapid Transit service to downtown San Francisco.  More information
about the hotel can be found at
http://sanfranciscoairport.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp 

Conference Themes
Adaptive Control
Control and Computation
Control and Identification of Distributed Parameter Systems
Control of Biological Systems, Cellular and Biological Regulation
Control of Networks
Control of Nonlinear Systems
Control of Smart Material Systems
Control Techniques for Financial Mathematics
Cooperative Control for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
Fluid Flow Control
Industrial Applications
Internet Control
Learning in Control
Nonlinear Filtering and Identification
Optimization in Control and Systems Theory
Quantum Control and Estimation
Real-time Control, Optimization and Data Assimilation
Robust Control
Stochastic and Risk Sensitive Control

Organizing Committee 
Arthur J. Krener, Co-Chair, UC, Davis and Naval Postgraduate School
Ralph Smith, Co-Chair, North Carolina State University

Deadlines to Remember
Deadline for submission of minisymposium proposals
November 28, 2006
Deadline for submission of minisymposium and contributed abstracts
December 28, 2006
For more details visit http://www.siam.org/meetings/ct07/participation.php 

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6.10 Special Sessions for ACC 2007

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Special Sessions for ACC 2007

Contributed by: Danny Abramovitch, daniel_abramovitch@agilent.com

This is a reminder for those of you interested in submitting a proposal for a
special session, either the traditional ones or the new demonstration
sessions. 

The demonstration session format is a departure from the interactive session
in that participation in the session is coupled with a paper in a regular
session. Thus, the speaker will get a chance to present the idea behind what
they are demonstrating as well as share it interactively. Authors submitting
papers in regular or invited sessions may simultaneously submit proposals to
demonstrate their results after their talks in a special interactive
demonstration session. It's experimental, but should be a fun way to present
research results. Please send me email if you have any questions.

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2nd International Workshop on Networked Control Systems

Contributed by: Alessandro Casavola, casavola@dsi.unifi.it

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

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

WORKSHOP LANGUAGE
The official language of the workshop is English.

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

For further information, please see 
http://www.strep-necst.org/2ndWorkshop

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7.2 A Conference in Honor of Rafail Z. Khasminskii

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A Conference in Honor of Rafail Z. Khasminskii

Contributed by: George Yin, gyin@math.wayne.edu

Asymptotic Analysis in Stochastic Processes, Nonparametric Estimation, 
and Related Problems

A Conference in Honor of Rafail Z. Khasminskii on the 
Occasion of His 75th Birthday

September 15-17, 2006
Wayne State University (WSU), Detroit, MI
http://www.math.wayne.edu/~conf/

Confirmed invited speakers include
Eugene B. Dynkin (Cornell Univ.),
Mark Freidlin (Univ. of Maryland),
Ildar A. Ibragimov (Russian Academy of Sci.),
Rafail Z. Khasminskii (WSU),
Nicolai Krylov (Univ. of Minnesota),
Harold J. Kushner (Brown Univ.),
Oleg Lepsky (Universite de Provence, Marseille),
Robert Liptser (Tel Aviv Univ.),
Stanislav Molchanov (Univ. of North Carolina),
Michael Nussbaum (Cornell University),
George Papanicolaou (Stanford Univ.),
Boris Rozovskii (Univ. of Southern California),
Anatoli Skorokhod (Michigan State Univ.),
Alexander Wentzell (Tulane Univ.).

The organizing committee includes:
Pao-Liu Chow  (WSU),
Mark Freidlin (Univ. of Maryland),
Nicolai Krylov (Univ. of Minnesota),
Boris Mordukhovich  (WSU),
Boris Rozovskii (Univ. of Southern California),
George Yin (WSU)

For further information, please see
http://www.math.wayne.edu/~conf/

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7.3 Course on LMI optimisation

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Course on LMI optimisation

Contributed by: Didier Henrion, henrion@laas.fr

Course on LMI optimisation by Didier Henrion (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse,
France, and FEL-CVUT, Prague, Czech Republic), University of Dortmund,
Germany, 25-27 October 2006

This three-day intensive course is organized by the Process Control
Laboratory of the University of Dortmund, in cooperation with the
Graduate School of Production Engineering and Logistics. It consists
of four three-hour lectures and one three-hour interactive lab.
The course is given in English. It is free of charge and open to
external participants.

The course is aimed at advanced Master and PhD students as well as
researchers interested in optimisation and its engineering
applications. It covers latest achievements in linear matrix
inequality (LMI) optimisation and semidefinite programming, with a
focus on lifting and projection techniques to solve nonconvex
polynomial optimisation problems, as well as applications in
control engineering.

Please contact Didier Henrion (henrion@laas.fr) if you are interested
in attending the course. For more information see also
http://www.laas.fr/~henrion/courses/dortmund06


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7.4 Identification in Closed Loop

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Identification in Closed Loop

Contributed by: I.D. Landau, landau@lag.ensieg.inpg.fr

IEEE 2006 CCA/CACSD/ISIC Workshop

Identification in Closed Loop - a Powerful Design and Tuning Tool
(Theory, Algorithms and Applications)

I.D. Landau
Laboratoire d’Automatique de Grenoble (CNRS/INPG), France
http://landau-bookic.lag.ensieg.inpg.fr/english

Date: October 3, 2006,  Place : Munich, Germany, Workshop Type:  Full day 

Goals:
To provide a comprehensive presentation of the techniques for plant model 
identification in closed loop operation. 
To illustrate these techniques by several applications.

Synopsis:
System identification in closed loop operation has witnessed a very 
important development in the last ten years. Two main reasons motivated this 
development: the frequent requirement for system identification in closed 
loop (either because the system is unstable or have important drift in open 
loop operation or because a controller exists already), and the important 
discovery that models identified in closed loop are generally better, for 
control design, than those identified in open loop (provided that 
appropriate algorithms are used). Identification in closed loop is also a 
very useful tool for controller reduction.
    
Objectives:
Provide a global view upon the subject;
Present the most efficient algorithms for identification in closed loop;
Present the methodology for identification in closed loop as applied in 
practice;
Illustrate the methodology by several applications (a flexible transmission, 
an active suspension);
Present a methodology for controller complexity reduction with applications.

The basic reference for supporting the workshop is:
I.D. Landau, G. Zito: "Digital Control Systems – Design, Identification and 
Implementation", Springer, London, 2005.

Matlab/Scilab files implementing the various algorithms which will be 
presented can be downloaded freely from:
http://landau-bookic.lag.ensieg.inpg.fr\english

For more details and registration consult: 
http:// www.elet.polimi.it/conferences/cca06/

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7.5 National Workshop on Aviation Software Systems

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National Workshop on Aviation Software Systems

Contributed by: Claire Tomlin, tomlin@stanford.edu

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to encourage you to preregister for the National Workshop on
Aviation Software Systems: Design for Certifiably Dependable Systems,
scheduled for October 5-6, 2006 in Alexandria, VA, and to submit a position
paper for your participation.

The event is being sponsored by:
Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
(NITRD) Program's High Confidence Software and Systems (HCSS) Coordinating
Group (CG) of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC).

Please visit the webpage at
        http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/hcssas/
for more details and instructions.

The final workshop is by invitation. We encourage potential participants to
submit a 1-2 page position paper. This will aid the organizers in ensuring
that the attendees and topics are well matched. Once position papers are
evaluated, notification to authors will be sent.

Government representatives interested in being invited to attend as
observers are asked to submit a brief bio with a few sentences describing
your interest in HCSS-AS to the organizers.

IMPORTANT DATES:
September 1, 2006:      Submission deadline
September 8, 2006:      Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
October 5-6, 2006:      Workshop dates

We look forward to your response, and I encourage you to contact one of us
with any questions you may have.

Organizers:
Claire J. Tomlin, Stanford/UC Berkeley
R. John Hansman, MIT
Jonathan Sprinkle, UC Berkeley

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7.6 Training Course: Applied Control Techniques

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Training Course: Applied Control Techniques

Contributed by: H. Eder , actgmbh@compuserve.com

APPLIED CONTROL TECHNIQUES - 
a training course for process control and operations professionals on 
practical use of basic and advanced controls and on controller performance 
optimization. 

	Next offering: October 9 - 13, 2006,  Brussels, Belgium. 

Newcomers gain extensive, sound knowledge in the practical and most effective 
use of standard and advanced techniques and experienced users the extra know-
how for handling complex and difficult situations and to achieve better 
performance in shorter time. The course is fully practice oriented and 
delivers exceptional know-how in an easy understandable way, with many 
examples of successful applications but also pitfalls and their resolutions. 
It covers also special, little known techniques that are simple but powerful. 
Many realistic PC exercises with our award winning software TOPAS deepen the 
understanding. All work is done in small groups with an exceptionally 
experienced instructor.

Main topics:  Process dynamics, measurements & signals, sampling & filtering, 
basic control concepts.  PID principles - configuration - tuning (load/
setpoint, tight/average level control), single loop vs. cascade control, 
advanced PID topics, feedforward-, constraint-, multivariable- , inferential 
control, RGA, introduction to model based control, optimization, incentive 
calculation, application design and implementation, performance analysis.

For more information and to register see http://www.act-control.com  
and look at TRAINING or contact 
Hans H. Eder
ACT - Brussels office, 
Phone & fax (+32)-2-767-0895, 
e-mail: actgmbh@compuserve.com  

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Faculty: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

Contributed by: M. Akbarzadeh, akbarzadeh@ieee.org

The Systems and Control Engineering Group at the Ferdowsi University of
Mashhad invites applications from Iranian nationals for tenure track faculty
positions in control theory and applications, aerospace engineering,
biomedical engineering, system identification, fault diagnosis and related
areas. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. degree and have a strong commitment to
undergraduate/graduate engineering education and research.  

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad is the oldest and most prestigious research
university in east of Iran. The graduate school admits top quality students to
the M.S. and Ph.D. programs. The application package must include (1) Detailed
curriculum vitae, (2) Statement of research and teaching, and (3) Names and
contact details of three references. The interested candidates should send the
application package to

Dr. M. Akbarzadeh,
Systems and Control Engineering Graduate Committee, 
Department of Electrical Engineering, 
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran 91775-1111

and also by email to akbarzadeh@ieee.org.

The last date for applications is December 15, 2006. 
For details about the university, visit FUM website: http://www.um.ac.ir/

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8.2 Faculty: University of Newcastle AU

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Faculty: University of Newcastle, AU

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

Applications are invited from suitable and qualified researchers for two
fixed-term research faculty positions at the University of Newcastle,
Australia. Applicants should possess, or be close to completion of, a Ph.D. in
a relevant area and have a proven background in some aspect of control of hard
disk drives, or nano-positioning systems. The successful applicant will join a
multidisciplinary team, and will have the opportunity to collaborate with
other Ph.D. students and researchers. One of the projects is funded by an
Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant that is aimed at
developing new control design methodologies for Dual-Stage Hard Disk Drives.
The second project is funded by the ARC Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and
Control. Interested persons should contact Reza Moheimani before 13 October
2006 for conditions of employment. The salary will be at the Academic Level B
($63,785-$75,746, plus superannuation). 

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8.3 Faculty: University of Waterloo Canada

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Faculty: University of Waterloo, Canada

Contributed by: Dan Davison, ddavison@uwaterloo.ca

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of
Waterloo is expanding and currently has more than a dozen openings
including one specifically in the "control and mechatronics" area. 
For more information and a link to the online application page, please 
visit http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/Home/positions/ECEpositions.htm

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8.4 Faculty: Wright State University USA

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Faculty: Wright State University, USA

Contributed by: Lang Hong, lang.hong@wright.edu

The Department of Electrical Engineering at Wright State University, Dayton, 
Ohio invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions at all levels.  
Exceptional candidates are being sought in all areas in electrical 
engineering, wireless engineering, RFIC design, VLSI, nanotechnologies, 
intelligent sensors, sensor signal exploitation, and intelligent control.  
Applicants must anticipate an earned Ph.D. in electrical or computer 
engineering or closely related discipline by the start date.  Applicants for 
assistant professor are expected to show propensity for scholarship, 
generating research programs, and teaching.  Consideration for higher ranks 
requires significant additional experience and demonstrated proficiency in 
scholarship, sponsored research, and teaching commensurate with the levels of 
performance described in the department bylaws.  Departmental information, 
including a link to the bylaws, is available at www.engineering.wright.edu/ee.  
Submit application with a brief statement of research and teaching interests; 
a complete vita; names and contact information of 3 references; and supporting 
information to Chair, Faculty Search Committee (Ad Code), Dept. of Electrical 
Engineering, WSU, Dayton, OH 45435.  Review of applications will begin 
10/27/2006.  WSU is an AA/EO Employer.

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8.5 PhD: Johannes Kepler University Linz AT

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PhD: Johannes Kepler University Linz, AT

Contributed by: L. del Re, luigi.delre@jku.at

In the framework of a research project on structural identification of 
complex systems (in particular, engine emissions) we have an opening from now 
for a PhD student with a control or mathematical background, with at least 
basic understanding of classical (linear) system identification. Structure 
identification is concerned with finding an analytical description of a 
nonlinear system described only by data, and usually consists in a 
combination of data preprocessing (to obtain a numerically well posed 
problem), formula estimation and selection (typically using forward selection 
or genetic programming) and parameter estimation. Working place is Linz, at 
the Mechatronics Fachbereich, Institute of Design and Control of 
Mechatronical Systems, http://desreg.jku.at

Please send your application until October 2nd to
Michaela.Beneder@jku.at
 

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8.6 PhD: Leiden University NL

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PhD: Leiden University, NL

Contributed by: Remko Stuik, stuik@strw.leidenuniv.nl

Leiden Observatory invites applications for a PhD position “Control in
Adaptive Optics” within the astronomical instrumentation group, in close
collaboration with TNO and TU Delft. Leiden Observatory and TNO are involved
in numerous ground- and space-based instrumentation projects
(http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/research/instrumentation.php and
http://www.tno.nl/industrie_en_techniek). The current position is provided in
the context of the development and implementation of novel reconstruction
algorithms. Advanced AO systems using either natural guide stars or laser
guide star(s) are being developed for various new projects, among others the
MUSE and GLAS projects. A common trend in these projects is the need for
better correction over a larger field of view, at shorter wavelengths and
requiring more advanced and optimized algorithms. The current position aims at
the development of new and innovative AO algorithms and at demonstrating these
algorithms both in the lab—on the Leiden AO test bench HORATIO and the TNO AO
test bed—as well as on sky. This project will, in part, be an extension
of the work on optimized control done in the context of the “Knowledge Center
for Aperture Synthesis” (KAS).

The on-sky demonstration is expected to take place on the WHT AO system
NAOMI, for which the real-time control system is currently being upgraded.
Part of the tasks will be a direct involvement in this upgrade, which will
allow for a better understanding of the AO system and will help in the next
step where a full AO test bench might be implemented. The successful candidate
is also expected to take part in the scientific exploitation of the data
currently being collected with AO assisted IFUs, specifically OASIS and
SINFONI, where a strong link exists with the current work of Prof. De Zeeuw,
Prof. Franx and Dr. Van Der Werf.

Applications should contain the applicant's CV, a short introductory letter,
and a detailed description of the applicant's academic achievements, including
grades and prior research experience. Applicants should also arrange at least
one letter of recommendation to be sent independently. We prefer electronic
submissions for both applications and recommendation letters. Selection will
start on September 1, although positions will remain open until a suitable
person has been found. For more information, please contact Dr. Stuik at the
above e-mail or at the phone number +31 71 527 5572.

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8.7 PhD: Prairie View A and M University USA

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PhD: Prairie View A and M University, USA

Contributed by: yongpeng zhang, ypzhang@pvamu.edu

One PhD Research Assistantship is opening in Department of Electrical & 
Computer Engineering at Prairie View A&M University starting from Spring 
2007. 

The candidate is expected to demonstrate strong mathematics background, 
programming capability, and hands-on skill in experiment. The successful 
candidate will work on PAM/PWM digital controller design for mechatronics 
system sponsored by US Army Research Office. 

A Bachelor's degree in broadly defined areas of control system, motor drive, 
or digital signal processing is required, and a Master's degree in relevant 
fields is preferred. 

Interested students are suggested to browse http://ece.pvamu.edu/PHD/ to 
apply for admission, and then contact Prof. Yongpeng Zhang at 
ypzhang@pvamu.edu for potential financial support. 

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8.8 PhD: University of Hawaii USA

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PhD: University of Hawaii, USA

Contributed by: Gurdal Arslan, gurdal@hawaii.edu

A Research Assistant position is available as part of an NSF Award "CAREER: 
Cooperative Systems Design - Stochastic Games Approach". The research 
component of this project involves developing concepts, methods, algorithms, 
and simulation platforms for the analysis and synthesis of "Cooperative 
Systems", loosely defined as large-scale systems designed to achieve system-
level goals via self-interested autonomous decision makers; see the project 
abstract at http://www2.hawaii.edu/~gurdal/. If you are mathematically 
inclined and interested in pursuing graduate studies on this topic, apply to 
the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering at University of Hawaii, 
Manoa, at http://www-ee.eng.hawaii.edu/ and e-mail your CV to 
gurdal@hawaii.edu

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8.9 PhD: University of Texas San Antonio USA

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PhD: University of Texas San Antonio, USA

Contributed by: Bruce Smith, Ph.D., Bruce.Smith@utsa.edu

PhD Student Research Assistantships are available starting
Fall 07.  The research will involve the development of novel
imaging systems for medicine and for homeland security.

Background: UNIX, numerical methods, programming, signal processing.

Students must apply to the PhD program before February 1, 2007
and comply with the graduate school application requirements
provided at:

http://www.utsa.edu/graduate

Questions? Send email to: Bruce.Smith@utsa.edu or
phone: (210) 458-5512.

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8.10 PhD Post-Doc: University of Melbourne AU

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PhD, Post-Doc: University of Melbourne, AU

Contributed by: Slaven Marusic, slaven@unimelb.edu.au

A number of post-doc positions and one PhD scholarship are now available in
the areas of Sensor Networks and Biomedical Engineering respectively.

The Research Fellows and PhD candidate will work under the direction of
A/Professor M. Palaniswami, convener of ARC Research Network on Intelligent
Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information processing (ISSNIP) at the Electrical
and Electronic Engineering Department. The incumbents are expected to
undertake research in collaboration with other staff and students in the
Department and in collaboration with staff and students from research network
participants. 

The Sensor Network post-docs will be expected to develop and implement new
learning and security algorithms for application in sensor networks. The
candidate should have a sound knowledge of implementation issues in Sensor
Networks. Together with a PhD degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. Electrical
Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or relevant inter-disciplinary
topic), the candidate should have strong analytical skills, good communication
skills and experience in the application of designed algorithms on sensor
hardware.

The Biomedical Engineering post-doc and PhD candidate, respectively, will
conduct research in the areas of biomedical signal processing and machine
learning. The successful applicants will be expected to develop new signal
processing algorithms for the diagnosis of sleep apnoea. Together with a PhD
degree (for post-doc) in a relevant discipline (e.g. Electrical Engineering,
Computer Science, Mathematics), the applicants will have strong analytical
skills, good communication skills and experience in biomedical signal processing.

For further details regarding this position and the application process, see:
http://www.sensornetworks.net.au

For enquiries contact:
Palaniswami. Email: swami@ee.unimelb.edu.au

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8.11 Post-Doc: JPL-NASA USA

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Post-Doc: JPL-NASA, USA

Contributed by: Ashit Talukder, Ashit.Talukder@jpl.nasa.gov

NASA Post-Doctoral Fellow Opening at Jet Propulsion Laboratory / NASA 

CONTACT: Dr. Ashit Talukder, Jet Propulsion Lab/NASA	
Ashit.Talukder@jpl.nasa.gov

DESIRED STARTING DATE & DURATION: Immediate opening (8/2006); Duration of 3 
years or more 

CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENTS: U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent resident (green 
card), or J-1 visa

LOCATION: Jet Propulsion Laboratory / NASA, Los Angeles, California

RESEARCH TOPICS SUMMARY: Machine learning, Pattern recognition, Signal 
Processing, Image & Video Processing, Wavelets, Control Theory, 
Optimization, Resource Allocation & Management, Artificial Intelligence, 
Mathematics, Statistics, Data Mining, Sensor Networks, Networks and Wireless 
Communications (MANETS), RF circuit design

Degree Requirements: Ideal candidate should have a Ph.D. degree with a core 
CS, EE, ECE, Mathematics, Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering, Systems 
Engineering, or related field.

DESCRIPTION OF RESEARCH 
The NASA Post-Doc will develop new in-situ pattern recognition & control 
capabilities for multiple remote and in-situ sensors that will enable 
multisensor fusion and significantly improve the ability to make autonomous 
decisions for science, defense based on such distributed, disparate 
observations. Such capability will allow better, faster, and more accurate 
detection and tracking of maritime and terrestrial events on Earth, and will 
enable sensor webs for space observation systems in the future. The NASA 
Post-Doc will work on ongoing efforts in the R&D areas of:
*	Novel distributed sensor fusion machine learning, pattern 
recognition, and image processing algorithms for spatio-temporal event 
detection and tracking from multiple sensors
*	Alg. development of co-registration techniques for distributed 
remote and in-situ sensory observations
*	Coordinated event detection, adaptive communication and networking 
for mobile ad-hoc networks 
*	Distributed control and resource management techniques of autonomous 
sensor webs for terrestrial and maritime observations using Model Predictive 
Control and Markov Decision Process AI solutions 
*	Circuit design & development of new RF microcontroller-based nodes 
with adaptive bandwidth, frequency
 
The Post-Doc Fellow will actively publish in peer-reviewed journals, attend 
PI meetings on current funded projects to understand NASA and DoD needs in 
autonomous systems, and present research seminars at JPL and international 
peer reviewed science and technology conferences. Candidate will also 
participate in educational outreach efforts to academia and the general 
community. 

Post-Doc Research Skills Required: 
Candidates should be knowledgeable in image and signal processing, pattern 
recognition, and machine learning, control systems, resource allocation, 
optimization theory, networking theory, and AI. Should have a strong 
background in mathematics, linear algebra, optimization theory, and 
statistics. Should be familiar with all/most of these topics through 
courses, projects, research, and industrial experience if applicable. Should 
have strong fundamental knowledge of control theory, nonlinear control, and 
optimization theory, including linear programming, quadratic programming, 
gradient descent techniques, Genetic Algorithms, etc.  Knowledge of Markov 
Decision Processes, decision trees, and AI in general is a plus. 

Additional Skills Desired: Experience programming in C/C++, MATLAB, Java on 
PC and Unix environments.  Experience with embedded systems, handheld 
programming using embedded Visual C++, and real-time OS programming is 
desirable. Knowledgeable in circuit theory including analysis and synthesis 
with practical background in board-level design for embedded system 
applications. Experience with RF, micro-power, digital and analog circuits 
with emphasis on design, analysis and testing of circuits for readout of low-
level analog signals in a remote environment. Experience with circuit 
building, PCBs, including soldering, etc. Familiarity with RF circuits, RF 
theory, and Orcad schematic capture for implementation of custom designs as 
part of a sensor monitoring and modeling platform. The candidates may apply 
these tools for implementation of custom hardware designs.

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8.12 Post-Doc: Monash University AU

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Post-Doc: Monash University, AU

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

Research opportunity with a leading Australian Engineering Research University

Appointment: for 1 year 
Closing date: Friday 29 September 2006 

Monash Engineering is a leading engineering faculty both nationally and
internationally and is consistently ranked as one of the top engineering
faculties within Australia’s elite Group of 8 Universities.  

The research activities within the Faculty range from fundamental studies to
research with a strong applications orientation. Research ranges across the
engineering spectrum from biomedical engineering and robotics to railway
engineering and catchment hydrology.  Cross disciplinary research centres have
been established to promote research in emerging areas that go beyond
traditional boundaries.  Working at the leading edge of research, staff are
investigating advanced composite materials for lightweight high-strength
applications, the next generation of telecommunications, vision systems for
mobile robots, “intelligent” artificial human limbs and nanotechnology. 
Further details on specific research areas can be found within each
department’s website.

Monash Engineering is pleased to offer Engineering Research Fellowships to
recent PhD graduates to join the research staff for a one year period.  The
positions will be offered at Academic level A, currently AUD$56,574-AUD$60,728
per annum.

Applicants will need to demonstrate:
    * research excellence in an area consistent with Monash Engineering
profile (including Systems, Control and Signal Processing)
    * a publication record in high ranked journals
    * potential to be successful when applying for competitive grant applications
    * a commitment to developing a career as an academic staff member with an
international reputation in their Engineering field.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES: 
Download application form from
http://www.eng.monash.edu.au/research/download/fellowship-appform.doc and
enter information as requested.

SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION:
An electronic copy of the full application must be emailed to:
helen.clarke@eng.monash.edu.au by Friday 29 September 2006.

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8.13 Post-Doc: Rutgers and Sanofi-Aventis USA

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Post-Doc: Rutgers and Sanofi-Aventis, USA

Contributed by: Eduardo Sontag, sontag@math.rutgers.edu

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION
Rutgers University/sanofi-aventis Collaboration in Biological Modeling

A Postdoctoral position is available for the purpose of using dynamical models
of signaling pathways in order to understand mechanisms of drug action.  This
position is a one-year appointment, and can be started immediately.

The successful candidate for this position is expected to possess graduate
level training and knowledge in nonlinear dynamics and control theory,
including such areas as controllability, observability, identification, and
bifurcation analysis.  This individual should also have experience with data
fitting and analysis, including numerical methods for ODE's and PDE's, as well
as optimization techniques.  In this regard, programming ability will be
essential.  MATLAB is the computational language currently used in this
project; proficiency in MATLAB is desirable, but not required.  In addition,
the position will involve close interactions with experimental biologists,
modeling and simulating their data, as well as the pursuing theoretical
questions that arise from these analyses.  Thus, familiarity with modern
molecular and systems biology will be a definite plus.

The individual in this position will be supervised both by Dr. Eduardo Sontag
(Department of Mathematics and BioMaPS, Rutgers University) and Dr. Robert
Dinerstein (Drug Discovery, sanofi-aventis).  In this way, the postdoctoral
candidate will benefit from a combined academic/industrial experience.  The
Rutgers University campus and the sanofi-aventis research facilities are about
20 minutes apart by automobile in central New Jersey; the candidate will have
offices at both locations, but will be expected to spend the majority of their
time at sanofi-aventis.  The appointment itself will be at Rutgers.

Applicants should provide their curriculum vitae, a short letter indicating
prior research and future research goals, a link to a web page which contains
additional information about the candidate as well as preprints and reprints
of work (if available), and the names and email addresses of at least two
individuals who can be contacted for recommendations.  Please send this
information by electronic mail only to: rutgerssanof@gmail.com

RUTGERS IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and encourages
applications from women and minority-group members.

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8.14 Post-Doc: University of Leicester UK

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Post-Doc: University of Leicester, UK

Contributed by: Ian Postlethwaite, ixp@le.ac.uk

Department of Engineering
University of Leicester, UK

FLAVIIR and ASTRAEA Prjojects (Two positions, scroll down for ASTAREA)

FLAVIIR Project
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Grade 7: £27,193 to £31,525 pa
Available from October 2006 for up to 2 years

Applications are invited for a Research Associate to work on the control and 
vehicle health monitoring aspects of an integrated programme, funded by BAE 
Systems and EPSRC, aimed at the development of maintenance-free uninhabited 
air vehicles without conventional control surfaces. Applicants should have a 
good honours degree and hold a PhD in a relevant area of control engineering.

The overall integrated project includes 11 university partners covering the 
areas of Aerodynamics, Control Systems, Electromagnetics, Materials & 
Structures and Numerical Simulation. Leicester and Imperial College are the 
Control specialists. Leicester is responsible for developing control systems 
with greater autonomy for both single and multiple vehicle control. 
Coordinated control, integrated control and condition monitoring, and 
implementation issues are key aspects of this work. Leicester and Imperial 
College together will research on appropriate control systems for “flapless” 
air vehicles with many distributed actuators (eg arrays of air jets) and 
many distributed sensors (eg arrays of pressure sensors). Some of the 
developments will be flight tested on a demonstrator UAV.

ASTRAEA: Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation Assessment
===============

Grade 7: £27,193 to £31,525 pa
Available from October 2006 for 18 months

Applications are invited for a Research Associate to work on an integrated 
research project called ASTRAEA (Autonomous Systems Technology Related 
Airborne Evaluation Assessment ). Applicants should have a good honours 
degree and hold a PhD in a relevant area of control engineering.

ASTRAEA is a national programme that focuses on the technologies, systems, 
facilities and procedures that will allow autonomous vehicles to operate 
safely and routinely in the UK. It is an industry lead consortium working 
with UK Government, DTI, academia and regional bodies. Leicester's task is 
to investigate fault tolerant and reconfigurable flight control systems and 
to identify the information required in order that potentially critical 
faults do not go unnoticed until it is too late to act. This should then 
lead to an approach, or guidelines for, the clearance of flight control 
systems for autonomous air-vehicles.

Downloadable application forms and further particulars are available by 
following the link below, or in hardcopy from the Personnel Office, tel: 
0116 252 5114, fax: 0116 252 5140, email: personnel@le.ac.uk, 
www.le.ac.uk/personnel/jobs. Please note that CVs will only be accepted in 
support of a fully completed application form.  

Closing date:  Friday 22 September 2006.

Promoting equality of opportunity throughout the University

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8.15 Post-Doc: University of Melbourne Australia

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Post-Doc: University of Melbourne, Australia

Contributed by: Chung-Yao Kao, cykao@ee.unimelb.edu.au

This is a full-time (fixed term) position available for 2 years.

How To Apply: 	Applicants must complete an ¡¥Application Cover 
Sheet¡¦ found at www.hr.unimelb.edu.au/jobs/appcoversheet.rtf
Applications must address the selection criteria, quote the position 
number and include the contact details of three referees.
Applications can be forwarded to one of:
hr-applications@unimelb.edu.au 
+61 3 8344 6080
Vice-Principal (Human Resources), 
The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010

For enquiries contact:	May Ong email: m.ong@ee.unimelb.edu.au
Chung-Yao Kao email: cykao@ee.unimelb.edu.au
Michael Cantoni email: cantoni@unimelb.edu.au

Closing Date: 15 September 2006

The Research Fellow will join a team of other academic staff and 
postgraduate students working in the area of robustness analysis and control 
of distributed and networked dynamical systems. We are looking for an 
outstanding candidate with a PhD degree in Engineering or Applied 
Mathematics, and demonstrated expertise in any of the following areas: 
robustness analysis and control theory; distributed and networked control 
systems; and optimization theory and its application. The position is 
available for two years and is ideally suited to a recent PhD graduate.

For further information regarding the position, please visit the University 
website at:  http://www.hr.unimelb.edu.au/jobs/

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8.16 Research Associate: University of Sheffield UK

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Research Associate: University of Sheffield, UK

Contributed by: Andrew Mills, a.r.mills@shef.ac.uk

Research Associate
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Ref:P2525		Closing Date: 	08/09/06
Salary:		From £24,161 - £31,525 per annum.

The successful candidate will be part of the Rolls-Royce UTC at Sheffield,
working closely with industrial partners and University colleagues to develop
advanced simulation platforms based upon FPGA and FPAA technology.  Using
these developed platforms the applicant will optimise and implement
sophisticated real-time models of aerospace and automotive systems under the
DTI MOSAIC project. Applicants should hold a strong electronics or systems
engineering first degree and have a PhD or equivalent experience in a related
discipline. Good communication skills are essential. This post, available
immediately, is tenable until March 2008.

Details at: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/research.html

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8.17 Research Engineer: Idaho National Laboratory USA

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Research Engineer: Idaho National Laboratory, USA

Contributed by: Idaho National Laboratory, Denis.Asay@inl.gov

Electrical/Nuclear Engineer

Idaho National Laboratory is seeking qualified candidates to fill a staff 
research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) position.  The successful 
candidate will develop and demonstrate solutions to a variety of moderately 
large and/or complex problems related to systems technologies, including 
modeling and simulation, through the general use and application of 
design/development practices, theories, and techniques. Typical RD&D areas of 
interest may include, but not necessarily be limited to, sensor 
networks/systems, dynamic surveillance and detection, instrumentation and 
control, control system security, Reactor/Balance-Of-Plant (BOP) integration 
issues, decision systems, and on-line conditioning monitoring and anomaly 
detection and interpretation techniques with diagnostic/prognostic 
capabilities.  Additional R&D activities may involve the development of 
process and operations models, data acquisition and supervisory systems, and 
embedded sensory networks and interfaces. Main application areas are national 
security and nuclear energy systems.

Potential candidates must hold a PhD or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, 
Nuclear Engineering, or related fields.  Strong expertise or/and experience 
in systems technologies and in dynamic modeling, and analysis and application 
is desirable.  The position requires a highly motivated individual with the 
ability to work effectively in a team and under minimal supervision.  The 
candidate will participate and provide leadership in the development and 
testing of engineered solutions using current and emerging systems 
technologies and have expertise .  

We are approximately 150 miles from Sun Valley, 100 miles from Jackson Hole, 
Wyoming, and Yellowstone National Park, three of the world’s most sought 
after resort vacation destinations.  INL offers a competitive salary and 
exceptional benefits package, including Health/Dental/Life, retirement, 
vacation, tuition reimbursement, relocation assistance and much more.

Please apply on line at http://www.inl.gov/careers for job reference 
#002757.  For questions, send e-mail message to Denis Asay at 
Denis.Asay@inl.gov. 

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8.18 Technology Manager: CRCMining Australia

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Technology Manager: CRCMining, Australia

Contributed by: A. Smith, a.smith@crcmining.com.au

Manager – Technology

CRCMining is an internationally recognised, multi-million dollar mining 
research centre, based in Brisbane Australia. The Centre was established 
under the Commonwealth Government’s Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) 
Program. It has the following industry members: Anglo Coal Australia, 
AngloGold Ashanti, BHP Billiton, Caterpillar, Pilbara Iron, Komatsu 
Australia, P&H MinePro Services, Peabody Energy, Phelps Dodge, Rio Tinto.  

We are seeking a Technology Manager. For the first 3 months this position 
will be located in Brisbane Australia, thereafter in the USA for a further 2 
year period.  The principal role of the position will be to lead and 
contribute to machine control projects with a focus on product development 
including unit testing, acceptance testing and quality assurance and be the 
liaison between Australia and the USA.

Ideally the candidate will have a degree in electrical or mechanical 
engineering or closely related field, and will be technically minded with 
experience in modern control systems, design methods, embedded programming 
and large equipment.  A higher degree would be well regarded.

A very attractive salary package will be negotiated with the successful 
applicant. This is initially a full-time, fixed term appointment with the 
possibility of extension.

Please email applications to a.smith@crcmining.com.au.  
Applications close: 16 September 2006

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