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Recent Special Issues
Transactions on Automatic Control, vol.
54, no. 5, May 2009
- Positive Polynomials in Control
- Guest Editors: Graziano Chesi, Didier Henrion
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- Positive polynomials are at the heart of many methods
used in control systems. This special issue contributes by exploring the
extent to which positive polynomials are currently exploited and can be
further exploited in control systems, overviewing relevant application
areas, and identifying their potential and their limitations in both theoretical
and practical uses.
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Transactions on Automatic Control, vol.
53, no. 1, January 2008
- Joint Special Issue on Systems Biology
- Guest Editors: Mustafa Khammash, M. Vidyasagar, Claire
Tomlin
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- Systems biology can be defined as the study of organisms,
or parts of an organism, viewed as an interconnection of various subsystems
serving a variety of biological functions. A biological system can be studied
at several levels of complexity and aggregation, such as genes, proteins,
pathways, and cells. Central to the study of systems biology is the notion
of dynamics, one of the characteristics that distinguishes it from computational
biology. This joint special issue consists of papers that cover fundamental
concepts and issues in systems biology, including analysis of biological
networks, dynamics of signaling and regulatory networks, dynamic modeling
and identification of biological networks, and modeling, design, and construction
of biological circuits.
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Transactions on Automatic Control, vol.
51, no. 6, June 2006
- Symbolic Methods for Complex Control Systems
- Guest Editors: Magnus Egerstedt, Emilio Frazzoli, George
J. Pappas
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- This special issue targets a better understanding and
design of continuous signal to finite symbol mappings for control purposes.
These include abstracting continuous dynamics to symbolic control descriptions,
instruction selection and coding in finite-bandwidth control applications,
and applying formal language theory to the continuous systems domain.
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Transactions on Automatic Control, vol.
50, no. 10, October 2005
- System Identification
- Guest Editors: Lennart Ljung, Antonio Vicino
The topic of System Identification has been a surprisingly
vivid and resilient research area in the control community over many years.
Thirteen years after the publication of a 1992 special issue edited by
Robert Kosut, Graham Goodwin and Mike Polis, this new special issue gives
a broad perspective of the state of the art on the subject of system identification
of linear as well as non-linear models.
Transactions on Automatic Control, vol.
49, no. 9, September 2004
- Networked Control Systems
- Guest Editors: Panos Antsaklis, John Baillieul
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- This special issue deals with systems comprised of actuators,
sensors, and controllers whose operation is coordinated through some form
of communication network. The system elements are typically spatially isolated
from one another, operating in an asynchronous manner and communicating
over a wide area via both wired and wireless links. The topics covered
in the issue include studying the relationship between closed loop stability
and communications constraints on the feedback channels, ad hoc network
formation and mobility, consensus problems for networks of dynamic agents
with fixed and switching topologies, and information flow and stability
of distributed control in autonomous vehicle formations.
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Transactions on Automatic Control, vol.
49, no. 3, March 2004
- Stochastic Control Methods in Financial Engineering
- Guest Editors: Mark Davis, Robert
Elliott, Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
- This special issue presents recent advances in the Mathematics
of Finance and related new problems in stochastic systems and control theory.
Topics covered include the study of arbitrage, hedging, pricing, consumption/investment
optimization, incomplete and/or constrained markets, equilibrium, differential
information, and the term-structure of interest rates.
Transactions on Automatic Control, vol.
48, no. 10, October 2003
- New Directions in Nonlinear Control
- Guest Editors: Wei Lin, John Baillieul,
and Anthony Bloch
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- This special issue offers a broad perspective of the
present state-of-the-art in nonlinear feedback design and an up-to-date
account of the most recent advances and progress in the field of nonlinear
control. Contributed papers point out new, challenging and promising research
directions, where many outstanding issues remain unsolved.
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Transactions on Automatic Control, vol.
48, no. 8, August 2003
- Performance Limitations and Design Tradeoffs in
Feedback Control
- Guest Editors: Jie Chen and Rick
Middleton
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- This special issue addresses issues and results brought
up by recent developments in nonlinear or time varying systems, more complex
control architectures than unity feedback, and research on performance
limitations, advanced by new problem and application areas and by developments
in novel design techniques and methods.
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Transactions on Automatic Control, vol.
47, no. 6, June 2002
- Systems and Control Methods for Communication Networks
- Guest Editors: Tamer Basar and Weibo
Gong
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- This special issue provides a coherent and focused outlet
for research on the topic of systems and control methods for communication
networks, including models, congestion control and management for the efficient
operation of high speed network, queueing disciplines to guarantee quality
of service and to provide differentiated services, and control related
issues inherent to wireless networks.
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Upcoming Special Issues
Call for Papers
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL
Special Issue
on
Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), in their various shapes and forms, have
greatly facilitated and enhanced the automated, remote, and intelligent
monitoring of a large variety of physical systems. These networks consist
of a large number of typically small devices, each incorporating sensing,
processing, and wireless communications capabilities. Their use has penetrated
a plethora of application domains from industrial and building automation,
to environmental, wildlife, and health monitoring.
The control and systems community has played an important role in the
maturing of WSNs addressing issues related to their fundamental limits and
designing strategies to optimize and control their operation so as to improve
performance. Performance encompasses a variety of metrics that may vary
with the application but in all cases includes the network's energy use
which determines its usable lifetime. As WSN nodes are powered by small
batteries, energy conservation has become a very important concern. Equally
importantly, the existence of WSNs has provided a major application context
to theoretical contributions of the control community including cooperative
and distributed control, event-based monitoring, discrete-event systems,
and consensus algorithms.
What is emerging as the next step in the WSN evolution is their use not
only in monitoring but also in controlling a physical system. To that end,
some of the WSN nodes have to be augmented by integrating actuators. Actuators
can be simple devices programmed to take immediate, one-shot, action in
response to sensory input, or they can be more sophisticated entities (like
robots) that interact with their environment in more complex ways. The resulting
augmented version of WSNs is commonly referred to as Wireless Sensor and
Actuator Networks (WSANs). WSANs are therefore heterogeneous networks that
comprise of networked sensor and actuator nodes that communicate among each
other using wireless links to perform distributed sensing and actuation
tasks.
WSANs can be used to close loops over the network in a variety of applications,
such as, environmental control, event detection and suppression, home automation,
manufacturing, microclimate control, surveillance etc. The control community
has recently made important contributions in understanding control over
communication channels but this work has, for the most part, abstracted
the communication medium. A new challenge is to consider a WSAN as the communications
channel over which we seek to close control loops.
The topics relevant to this special issue include but are not limited
to:
- < Autonomous sensor networks
- < Co-design of communication protocols and control strategies
- < Architectural, modeling and simulation of WSANs
- < Autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication
- < Sensor-actuator and actuator-actuator coordination
- < Distributed control in sensor-actuator networks
- < Biologically inspired communication in WSANs
- < Applications and prototypes.
Submission Details:
All papers submitted to the special issue will be subject to peer review
in accordance with the established practices of the IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control. Papers that do not fall within the scope of the special
issue will be returned to the authors without review, to enable them to
submit them as regular papers through the normal channels.
Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts to either one of the
guest editors. The manuscript format should follow the guidelines posted
at the website: http://css.paperplaza.net/journals/tac/. Hardcopy
submissions will not be accepted.
Important dates:
- Paper submission: DEADLINE: February 1, 2010;
- Acceptance: August 2010;
- Tentative Publication: May 2011.
Guest Editors:
- Jiming Chen
- Department of Control Science and Engineering
- Zhejiang University
- Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
- E-mail: jmchen@iipc.zju.edu.cn
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- Karl H. Johansson
- ACCESS Linnaeus Center
- School of Electrical Engineering
- Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Email: kallej@kth.se
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- Stephan Olariu
- Department of Computer Science
- Old Dominion University
- Norfolk, VA 23529-0162, U.S.A.
- Email: olariu@cs.odu.edu
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- Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
- and Division of Systems Engineering
- Boston University, USA
- Email: yannisp@bu.edu
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- Ivan Stojmenovic
- School of Information Technology and Engineering
- University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada;
- Email: ivan@site.uottawa.ca
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