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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

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

 

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

 

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.

 

Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 47, no. 6, June 2002

Systems and Control Methods for Communication Networks

Guest Editors: Tamer Basar and Weibo Gong

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Upcoming Special Issues

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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS: PART-I

Joint Special Issue

on

Systems Biology

 

The twenty first century is often predicted to be the century of biology. Seminal events such as the mapping of the human genome in 2001

have captured the imagination of not only the scientific community but also the public at large. Nowadays biology is widely perceived to

be as much of an "information-based" science as it is an "experiment-based" science. Advances in experimental techniques have caused

various databases such as the PDB and Genbank to double in size every nine months. This rapid increase outstrips the advances in

computation predicted by Moore's law, to the effect that the size of computers will double and the cost of computation will halve every

eighteen months. Thus one cannot depend merely on "pure" computational power to understand complex biological systems. New and

holistic approaches are needed to make sense of such systems.

 

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. Thus, one may choose to study a gene regulatory network, or the absorption of a protein through a cellular

membrane, or even more complicated phenomena. Clearly each of the systems is extremely complex in and by itself, and at the same time,

forms a building block of the next level of systems. Central to the study of systems biology is the notion of dynamics. Indeed, it is fair to

say that the notion of dynamics, and an explicit role for time as a parameter controlling the evolution of the biological system at hand, is

one of the characteristics that distinguishes systems biology from computational biology.

 

In view of the importance of systems biology, the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and

Systems, Part-I have come together to organize a special issue on the subject. Specific topics that fall under the purview of the proposed

special issue would include, but not be limited to the following:

· Systems and control analysis of biological networks

· Dynamics of signaling and regulatory networks

· Methods and algorithms for biological network analysis

· Dynamic modeling and identification of biological networks at different levels of organization

· Control design motifs in biology

· Modeling, design, and construction of biological circuits (synthetic biology)

 

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 and the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part-I. 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 the paper through the normal channels.

In view of the fact that many readers of the Transactions may be unfamiliar with biology, authors are encouraged to include a fairly

detailed "Introduction" in their papers, and place the problems under study in proper context. However, in order to qualify for publication

each paper must contain a significant amount of original contributions.

Since manuscript processing will be handled by TCAS-I, prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts by following the

guidelines posted at the website: http://tcas1.polito.it . Hardcopy submissions will not be accepted.

 

Deadlines: Paper submission: New Deadline: January 22, 2007; Paper acceptance: June 2007; Publication: January 2008

 

Guest Editors:

Mustafa Khammash

Director, Center for Control,

Dynamical-Systems & Computation

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

U. of California at Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Phone: 805-893-4967

Fax: 805-893-8651

khammash@engr.ucsb.edu

 

M. Vidyasagar

Executive Vice President

Tata Consultancy Services

No. 1, Software Units Layout, Madhapur

Hyderabad 500081, India

Tel: +91 40 6667 3001

Fax: +91 40 6667 2222

M.Vidyasagar@tcs.com

 

Claire Tomlin

Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305

Tel: (650) 723 5164

Fax: (650) 723 3738

tomlin@stanford.edu

 

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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL

Special Issue

on

Positive Polynomials in Control

Positive polynomials are at the heart of innumerable methods recently developed in control systems. This very fast growth goes back to the 90s when sum of squares relaxations were firstly introduced for establishing the positivity of polynomials thanks to the simultaneous development of dedicated tools for solving linear matrix inequality problems. From then on, positive polynomials have been usefully exploited in fundamental problems such as stability, robustness, and performance, for both analysis and synthesis, coming as natural extension of the pioneering techniques based on Lyapunov stability theory and quadratic functions, and allowing for the development of state of the art methods.

While the passage to the next generation of methods involving positive non-polynomial functions is still far, the development of theory and tools based on positive polynomials has reached a solid level. This special issue aims to identify to what extent positive polynomials are currently exploited and can be further exploited in control systems, attempting to provide a complete overview of their application area as well as outline their potentialities and limitations in both theoretical and practical uses. The target of this collection of works on positive polynomials is to identify the state of the art of this young and promising field.

Specific topics that fall under the purview of this special issue would include, but not be limited to, the following:

Positive polynomials in hybrid systems, nonlinear systems, and uncertain systems;

Stability, robustness, and performance based on positive polynomials;

Optimization in control systems via positive polynomials;

Theoretical and numerical issues of positive polynomials.

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://control.bu.edu/ieee. Hardcopy submissions will not be accepted.

Important dates:

Paper submission: DEADLINE: July 1, 2007;

Acceptance: December 2007;

Tentative Publication: September 2008.

Guest Editors:

Graziano Chesi

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering

University of Hong Kong

Pokfulam Road

Hong Kong

Phone: +852-28578482

Fax: +852-25598738

chesi@eee.hku.hk

Didier Henrion

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

LAAS-CNRS

7 Av Col Roche

31077 Toulouse

France

Phone: +33-561336308

Fax: +33-561336969

henrion@laas.fr

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