Message from the Coordinator

The study day we had in Mons last week was, in my opinion, one of the best ever. More than 170 DYSCO members attended. I have heard enthusiastic comments from several attendants, which indicates that my opinion was shared by many. I believe we had superb presentations and that the quality of the posters was as high as ever. I wish to thank the team of Alain Vande Wouwer for the smooth organisation of that study day. I also thank the lecturers for their great presentations, and the poster presenters for the high quality of their work.

Several people have asked for the slides of the presentations. You can download them all by going to the Study Day of May 28, 2009 on the DYSCO website.

Thanks again to all.

Michel Gevers
DYSCO coordinator

Staff Movements and Visitors

UCL

Juan Paulo Garcia (PhD student, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico) will stay at CESAME from June 2 until July 31. He will work with Denis Dochain on the topic modelling and control of reaction systems.

Cristina Stoica (SUPELEC) will visit CESAME from June 9 until July 3. She will work with Vincent Wertz and Emile Simon on the topic commande prédictive robuste.

Kyle Gallivan (Florida State University) will stay with us during this month of June, being invited by P.-A. Absil.

UGent-SYSTeMS

Varun Choudhary (IIT Roorkee, India) will stay at the SYSTeMS group from May 16th till July 19th, 2009, to work on voltage control for electrical distribution networks with wind power generators under the supervision of Prof. René Boel.

VUB-ELEC

Mikaya Lumori, University of San Diego, CA, USA: from 29/5/2009 until 27/08/2009.

Kaushik Mahata, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia: from 20/06/2009 until 04/07/2009.

Theses Defences

ULg-SYST

Public defense of the PhD thesis of Michel Journée : Geometric algorithms for component analysis with a view to gene expression analysis, on Thursday June 4, at 3pm, Institut Montefiore, B28, Université de Liège.

ULB

Public defence of the PhD thesis of Valérie Grosfils : Modélisation et estimation paramétrique pour les procédés de chromatographie à lit mobile simulé, on Tuesday June 30, at 5.30 pm, room UB4.132 (Solbosch Campus of ULB, Building U, door B, level 4, room 132).

Seminars

UCL
  • June 4, 2009 - 16:30 - Bât. Euler
    Pierre ROUCHON (Ecole des Mines, Paris), Colloquium CESAME-MAPA, Fonctions Gevrey et contrôle frontière de certaines EDP.
  • June 12, 2009 - 11:00 - Bât. Euler
    Marco CAMPI (Dept. of Electrical Engineering for Automation - University of Brescia), The Scenario Technology: A Viable Approach to Robust Optimization.
KUL 1
  • June 5, 2009 - 14:00 - Room ESAT 00.57
    SISTA Seminar : Jorge Lopez (Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Spain), Links between geometric L1 and L2-SVMs.
  • June 10, 2009 - 11:00 - Room ESAT 02.58
    SISTA Seminar : Lieven De Clercq, Updating existing logistic regression models for use in different settings : overview of methods and application to ovarian tumor classification.
  • June 10, 2009 - 16:00 - Room ESAT 00.57
    SISTA Seminar : Tillmann Falck, Using structure in LS-SVMs for the identification of Wiener-Hammerstein systems.
  • June 17, 2009 - 11:00 - Room ESAT 00.57
    SISTA Seminar : Ben Van Calster, AUC-based model selection for diagnostic models.
  • June 17, 2009 - 16:00 - Room ESAT 00.57
    SISTA Seminar : Kris De Brabanter, Least Squares Support Vector Machines for large data sets : A fixed size approach.
  • June 23, 2009 - 15:00 - Room ESAT, Aud. A.
    OPTEC Seminar : Marcello Farina, Distributed state estimation with moving horizon observers.
  • June 23, 2009 - 16:00 - Room ESAT, Aud. A.
    OPTEC Seminar : James B. Rawlings, Paul A. Elfers (Dept. Chemical and Biological Engineering, UW Madison), Optimal dynamic operation of chemical processes : assessment of the last 20 years and current research opportunities.
UGent-SYSTeMS

SYSTeMS dialogues
Schedule: at 3pm at the SYSTeMS Research Group, Universiteit Gent.
Address: Technologiepark Zwijnaarde 914, 9052 Zwijnaarde.

  • June 3, 2009 - Stefan Haar, It's Concurrency's Fault ! Diagnosing fault events in Nonsequential Behaviour.
  • June 19, 2009 - Filip Hermans, Imprecise Markov trees.
  • June 24, 2009 - Ramona Hodrea, Development and Validation of a MISO Model-based Predictive Closed-loop System to guide Patient-individualized ICU Sedation.
  • June 29, 2009 - Keivan Shariatmadar, Dealing with uncertainty via a probability box in a fuzzy linear system.

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL

F. Crevecoeur, J-L Thonnard, P. Lefèvre, Forward models of inertial loads in weightlessness, Neuroscience, 161, 589–598, 2009.

B. Vandereycken, P.-A. Absil, S. Vandewalle, Embedded geometry of the set of symmetric positive semidefinite matrices of fixed rank, submitted to IEEE SSP2009, 2009.

P.-A. Absil, M. Ishteva, L. De Lathauwer, S. Van Huffel, A geometric Newton method for Oja's vector field, Neural Computation, 21(5), pp. 1415-1433, 2009.

H. Akçay, Subspace-based identification from nonuniformly spaced frequency-response measurements without noise covariance information, submitted to Automatica, 2009.

B. C. Csáji, L. Monostori, Adaptive Approaches to Distributed Resource Allocation, Production Systems and Information Engineering, Vol. 5, pp. 3-18, 2009.

KUL 1

Agudelo M., Espinosa J., De Moor B., Acceleration of POD models with polynomial nonlinearities, Internal Report 09-81, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.

Diehl M., Ferreau H.J., Haverbeke N., Efficient Numerical Methods for Nonlinear MPC and Moving Horizon Estimation, in Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, (Magni L., Allgower F., and Raimondo D.M., eds.), vol. 1 of mph {1}, (Pavia, Italy), 2008, pp. 1-24.

Haverbeke N., Diehl M., De Moor B., A Structure Exploiting Interior-Point Method for Moving Horizon Estimation, Internal Report 09-84a, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.

Mijovic B., Silva M., Van den Bergh B.R.H., Allegaert K., Aerts J.M., Berckmans D., Van Huffel S., Assessment of pain expression in infant cry signals using Empirical Mode Decomposition, Internal Report 09-86, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.

Mijovic B., Taelman J., Gligorijevic I., Van Huffel S., Combining Empirical Mode Decomposition with Independent Component Analysis for Single-Channel Signal Analysis, Internal Report 09-87, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.

Dimitrov D., Wieber P.-B., Stasse O., Ferreau H.J., Diedam H., An Optimized Linear Model Predictive Control Solver for Online Walking Motion Generation, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan, May 2009.

Ortner P., Bergmann R., Ferreau H.J., del Re L., Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of a Diesel Engine Airpath, in Proc. of the IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimisation (CAO), Agora, Finland, May 2009.

Alberer D., Kirchsteiger H., del Re L., Ferreau H.J., Diehl M., Receding horizon optimal control of Wiener systems by application of an asymmetric cost function, in Proc. of the IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimisation (CAO), Agora, Finland, May 2009.

Croitor Sava A., Sima D., Poullet J.B., Van Huffel S., Exploiting Spatial Information for Estimating Metabolite Concentration in MRSI, in Proc. of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 17 (ISMRM), Honolulu, Hawaii, Apr. 2009, 4280 p.

Serizel R., Moonen M., Wouters J., Jensen S.H., A Weighted Approach for Integrated Active Noise Control and Noise Reduction in Hearing Aids, Internal Report 09-92, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009. Accepted for publication in The 17th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2009), Glasgow, Scotland, Aug. 2009.

Markovsky I., Sima D., Van Huffel S., Generalizations of the total least squares problem, Internal Report 09-93, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.

Chumerin N., Manyakov N.V., Combaz A., Suykens J.A.K., Yazicioglu R.F., Torfs T., Merken P., Neves H.P., Van Hoof C., Van Hulle M.M., P300 detection based on Feature Extraction in on-line Brain-Computer Interface, Internal Report 09-96, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.

Signoretto M., Pelckmans K., De Lathauwer L., Suykens J.A.K., Data-Dependent Norm Adaptation for Sparse Recovery in Kernel Ensembles Learning, Internal Report 09-97, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.

Tsiaflakis P., Yi Y., Chiang M., Moonen M., Fair Greening for DSL Broadband Access, Internal Report 09-101, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009. Accepted for publication in Proceedings GreenMetrics Workshop at ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance, Seattle, WA, USA, June 15, 2009.

Alzate C., Support Vector Methods for Unsupervised Learning, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), May 2009, 175 p.

Barhumi I., Moonen M., Time-Varying FIR equalization for MIMO transmission over doubly selective channels, Internal Report 09-106, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009, 9 p.

UGent-SYSTeMS

W. De Mulder, S. Schliebs, R. Boel, M. Kuiper, Initialization Depence of Clustering Algorithms, Eds. M. Köppen et al. , Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.

W. De Mulder, N. Van Thuyne, R. Boel, M. Kuiper, K-means and C-means: Dependence of Clusterings and Cluster Quality Measures on Initial Parameters, submitted.

L. Mihaylova, Amadou Gning, Viktor Doychinov, Rene Boel, Parallelized Gaussian Mixture Filtering for Vehicular Traffic Estimation, submitted.

F. Petit, M. Loccufier, Torsional vibrations on a hopper dredger due to transient vibrations, accepted for presentation, Proceedings of the ASME 2009 IDETC/CIE 2009, 22nd Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise, August 30-September 2, 2009, San Diego, USA.

M. Sbarciog, M. Loccufier, E. Noldus, Optimization of a Microorganisms Growth Process, accepted for presentation at the 7th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Aalborg, Denmark, 12-14 August 2009.

VUB-ELEC

A. de Brauwere, F. De Ridder, O. Gourgue, J. Lambrechts, R. Comblen, R. Pintelon, J. Passerat, P. Servais, M. Eskens, W. Bayens, T. Kärnä, B. de Brye, E. Deleersnijder, Design of a sampling strategy to optimally calibrate a reactive transport model: Exploring the potential for Escherichia coli in the Scheldt Estuary, Environmental Modelling & Software 24 (2009), pp. 969-981.

J. Lataire, R. Pintelon, Estimating a Nonparametric Colored-Noise Model for Linear Slowly Time-Varying Systems, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 58, No. 5, May 2009, pp. 1535-1545.

J. Schoukens, J. Lataire, R. Pintelon, G. Vandersteen, T. Dobrowiecki, Robustness Issues of the Best Linear Approximation of a Nonlinear System, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 58, No. 5, May 2009, pp. 1737-1745.

S. Bronckers, A Novel Methodology to Predict the Impact of Substrate Noise in Complex Analog/RF Circuits, presentation at tutorial workshop "Self-Interference and Co-Habitation Considereations in Complex SoC and SiP Integrated Circuits", organised by IEEE RFIC 2009, Boston, Massachusetts, June 7-9, 2009.

L. Bos, G. Vandersteen, J. Ryckaert, P. Rombouts, Y. Rolain, G. van der Plas, A Multirate 3.4-to-6.8mW 85-to-66dB DR GSM/Bluetooth/UMTS Cascade DT DSM in 90nm Digital CMOS, 2009 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 09), USA, San Francisco, February 8-12, 2009.

K. Scheir, G. Vandersteen, Y. Rolain, P. Wambacq, A 57-to-66GHz Quadrature PLL in 45nm Digital CMOS, 2009 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 09), USA, San Francisco, February 8-12, 2009.

KUL 2

Verleye B., Morren G., Lomov S., Sol H., Verpoest I., Roose D., User-friendly permeability predicting software for technical textiles, Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, 13(2), 19-27, 2009.

Bultheel A., Daruis L., González-Vera P., Quadrature formulas on the unit circle with prescribed nodes and maximal domain of validity, Journal of computational and applied mathematics, 2009.

Lasarow A., ''Einige Aussagen über paraorthogonale rationale Matrixfunktionen auf der Einheitskreislinie, Lie-Gruppen, symplektische Geometrie und J-Theorie von V.P. Potapov'', Leipzig (Germany), 6-8 May 2009.

Bultheel A., Book review Numerical methods for special functions (A. Gil, J. Segura, N.M. Temme), In: Journal of approximation theory.

Maes J., Bultheel A., A convergent finite element method with adaptive sqrt(3) refinement, TW Reports, TW539, 31 pp. Leuven, Belgium: Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, 2009.

ULB

Delwiche Th., Aberkane S., Catoire L., Torfs S. and Kinnaert M., Design of static output feedback controller for bilateral teleoperation., to appear in the Proceedings of SYROCO09, 2009.

Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools

ULg-SYST

Introduction to Lie groups and homogeneous spaces, minicourse by Christian Lageman.
Dates & schedule : July 13, 15, 17 9:00-12:00.

The goal of this course is to provide an introduction into Lie groups and homogeneous spaces for doctoral students and researchers in engineering.

This course will take place at the Montefiore Institute, Université de Liège, 4000 Liège Sart-Tilman.

If you would like to attend the course or/and to receive more information about its contents, please send an email to christian.lageman@montefiore.ulg.ac.be.

IAP Contact Persons

UCL-INMAIsabelle Hisette
KUL 1Ida Tassens, Kristel Bernaerts
UGent-SYSTeMSMargot Roels
VUB-ELECAnn Pintelon
KUL 2Wim Michiels, Jan Swevers
ULg-SYSTRodolphe Sepulchre
ULBMichel Kinnaert
FPMsAlain Vande Wouwer

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