Message from the Coordinator
The next DYSCO study day will take place on 14 November 2008 at the Palais des Académies/Paleis der Academiën in Brussels. It is located at 1, rue Ducale/ Hertogstraat 1, 1000 Brussels. Please take note of this date in your agenda. The study day will be organized by the ULB team, with support from FPMs. The team of promotors is presently setting up an interesting programme of plenary speakers. We will soon invite poster contributions from the different teams.
We are also working on the update of the DYSCO webpage that lists the PhD students and post-docs from all teams, together with their thesis subject, the name of the promotor(s) and a short abstract. See http://www.uclouvain.be/sites/dysco/PhDStudentsAndPost-Docs/A
If you are a PhD student or post-doc, please check that you appear on this page and that the information is correct and up-to-date. If not, please inform the promotor of your team.
Michel Gevers
DYSCO coordinator
Staff Movements and Visitors
UCL
On October 1st, we will welcome two new PhD students funded by FNRS : Chia-Tche Chang, who is going to work with V. Blondel and his team, and Samuel Melchior, who is going to work with P. Van Dooren and V. Legat.
Jari Saramäki, from the Helsinki University of Technology, will spend the month of October at CESAME. He will work with V. Blondel and his team.
Pierre BORCKMANS will join us on 13 October 2008, in the framework of a Concerted Research Action. He will work with P-A Absil and P. Van Dooren.
KUL 1
Arrivals this month :
- Ivan Gligorijevic (Promotor S. Van Huffel)
- Lieven De Clercq (Promotor S. Van Huffel)
- Joel Andersson (Promotor M. Diehl)
- Li Beier (Promotor M. Moonen)
- Amir Forouzan(Promotor M. Moonen), postdoc
Visit of Guest Professor Prof. Erik Verriest from 01/09/08 until 31/12/2008
Tina Theys left KUL1/BioTeC and started working at Groep T - Associatie K.U.Leuven on October 1st, 2008.
VUB-ELEC
New ELEC member: PhD student El-Barkouky Mohamed (promoter Yves Rolain), from 1/10/2008.
Theses Defences
For the record (none this month).
Seminars
UCL
On Tuesday 30 September (14:00), at the Euler auditorium, Robert DAVID will give a seminar entitled Modélisation dynamique et commande des procédés d'épuration biologique des eaux usées à boues activées.
Within the framework of the research group "Large Graphs and Networks", Dr. Jari Saramäki, from the Helsinki University of Technology, will give on October 1st (11:00), at the Euler auditorim, a seminar entitled Emergence of communities in social networks.
KUL 1
09/10/08 room ESAT 00.62 : Seminars on Optimization in Engineering Erik Verriest "Maximally smooth transfers : Gluskabi Raccordations"
15/10/08 Aud. Arenberg Castle, Heverlee - Simon Stevin Lecture on Optimization in Engineering Aharon Ben-Tal (Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology) "Robust Solutions of uncertainty affected conic optimization problems"
More information can be found here : http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/scd/events.php
FPMs
On November 17, 2008 (14:00), Dr Isabel Rocha (University of Minho) will give two seminars for our final year undergraduate and doctorate students:
1) Metabolic Engineering strategies aided by Systems Biology
2) Modelling and Optimization of fed-batch fermentation processes
On November 24 and 25, 2008 (14:00) Dr. Lino Santos (Coimbra University) will give two seminars for our final year undergraduate and doctorate students:
1) Unscented Kalman filtering and its applications to chemical processes (November 24)
2) An introduction to model predictive control (November 25)
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
Badler JB, Lefèvre P, Missal M, Anticipatory pursuit is influenced by a concurrent timing task, Journal of Vision, in press, 2008.
KUL 1
J. Bonilla, M. Diehl, B. De Moor and J. Van Impe, A convexity-based homotopy method for nonlinear optimization in model predictive control, 2008, Submitted
A.M. Cappuyns, K. Bernaerts, S.C. De Keersmaecker, J. Vanderleyden and J.F. Van Impe, AI-2 type quorum sensing of Salmonella Typhimurium: hypotheses testing on the basis of macroscopic data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Food Microbiology, Ghent University (Belgium), September 11-12, 2008
Busschaert P., Valero A., Vermeulen A., Jacxsens L., Goh K.K., De Loy A., Devlieghere F., Geeraerd A.H., Uyttendaele M., Van Impe J.F., Evaluation of the contamination of Listeria monocytogenes in 3 categories of ready-to-eat foods based on data from end product testing, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Food Microbiology, Ghent University (Belgium), September 11-12, 2008
Vandeput S., Verheyden B., Aubert A.E., Van Huffel S., Nonlinear Heart Rate Variability in a Healthy Population: Influence of Age, Internal Report 08-135, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008. Proc. of the 35th Annual Computers in Cardiology (CinC2008).
Van Belle V., Pelckmans K., Suykens J.A.K., Van Huffel S., Additive survival least squares support vector machines, Internal Report 08-136, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Huyck B., De Brabanter J., Logist F., Van Impe J., De Moor B., Identification and Modelling of a Distillation Column, in 27th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control - Book of Abstracts , Heeze, The Netherlands, Mar. 2008, 17 p.
Serizel R., Moonen M., Wouters J., Jensen S.H., Combined Active Noise Control and noise reduction in Hearing Aid, Internal Report 08-138, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008. Accepted for publication in Proc. of the 11th International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC), Seattle, USA, Sep. 2008.
Vanderperren K., Hunyadi B., De Vos M., Mennes M., Wouters H., Vanrumste B., Stiers P., Lagae L., Van Huffel S., Reduction of alpha distortion in event related potentials, Internal Report 08-139, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Sima D., Rodríguez Díaz A., Van Huffel S., Modeling the macromolecular background in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopic signals, in Proc. of the 4th European Medical and Biomedical Engineering congress (eMBEC), Antwerp, Belgium, Nov. 2008.
Alaerts J., Luts H., Van Dun B., Desloovere C., Wouters J., Latencies of auditory steady-state responses recorded in early infancy, Internal Report 08-142, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Navasca C., De Lathauwer L., Kindermann S., Swamp Reducing Technique for Tensor Decomposition, in Proc. of the16th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2008), Lausanne, Switzerland, Aug. 2008, 4 p.
Karfoul A., Albera L., De Lathauwer L., Canonical Decomposition of Even Higher Order Cumulant Arrays for Blind Underdetermined Mixture Identification, in Proc. of the Fifth IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2008), Darmstadt, Germany, Jul. 2008, pp. 501-505.
Necoara I., Suykens J.A.K., An interior-point Lagrangian decomposition method for separable convex optimization, Internal Report 08-150, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Tsiaflakis P., Yi Y., Chiang M., Moonen M., Green DSL: Energy-Efficient DSM, Internal Report 08-151, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
De Moor B., Stem sells !, Geniaal. , Tijdschrift van de Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen, K.U.Leuven, Sep. 2008, 2 p.
Eneman K., Luts H., Wouters J., Büchler M., Dillier N., Dreschler W., Froehlich M., Grimm G., Hohmann V., Houben R., Leijon A., Lombard A., Mauler D., Moonen M., Puder H., Schulte M., Spriet A., Vormann M., Evaluation of signal enhancement algorithms for hearing instruments, in Proc. of the 16th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2008), Lausanne, Switzerland, Aug. 2008, pp. 1-5.
Van Meerbergen G., Moonen M., Multi-rate filter bank representations of RS and BCH Codes, Internal Report 08-154, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.
García-Gómez J., Luts J., Julià-Sapé M., Krooshof P., Tortajada S., Vicente J., Melssen W., Fuster-García E., Olier I., Postma G., Monleón D., Moreno-Torres A., Pujol J., Candiota A.-P., Martínez-Bisbal M.C., Suykens J.A.K., Buydens L., Celda B., Van Huffel S., Arús C., Robles M., Multiproject-multicenter evaluation of automatic brain tumor classification by magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Internal Report 08-155, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008. Accepted for publication in MAGMA Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine.
Wu T., Karsmakers P., Van hamme H., Van Compernolle D., Comparison of Variable Selection Methods and Classifiers for Native Accent Identification, Internal Report 08-157, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008. Accepted for publication in Proc. of INTERSPEECH 2008.
Bertrand A., Moonen M., A new convergence theorem for relaxed fixed point iteration and its application to the computation of Nash equilibria, Internal Report 08-158, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Barjas Blanco T., Evaluation of river flood regulation by means of model predictive control, in Proc. of the 4th Internation Symposium on Flood Defence, Toronto, Canada, May 2008, pp. 80.1-80.8.
Vanderhaegen J., De Smet D., Meyns B., Van De Velde M., Van Huffel S., Naulaers G., Surgical closure of the patent ductus arteriosus and its effect on the cerebral tissue oxygenation, Internal Report 08-161, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008. Accepted for publication in Acta Paediatrica.
Baes M., Bouligand and Clarke subdifferentials of spectral mappings in Euclidean Jordan algebras, Internal Report 08-162, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Baes M., Semidefinite representability of the trace of totally positive Laurent polynomial matrix functions, Internal Report 08-163, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Baes M., Estimate sequence methods, Internal Report 08-164, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Osorio M., Sima D., Poullet J-B., van Ormondt D., Van Huffel S., Improvement of lineshape estimation for MRS signals, in Proc. of the 2008 IEEE International workshop on Imaging, systems and techniques (IST 2008), Chania, Greece, Sep. 2008, pp. 326-329.
VUB-ELEC
Lieve Lauwers, Johan Schoukens, Rik Pintelon and Martin Enqvist, A Nonlinear Block Structure Identification Procedure Using Frequency Response Function Measurements, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 57, No. 10, October 2008, pp. 2257-2264
Tom D'haene and Rik Pintelon, Passivity Enforcement of Transfer Functions, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 57, No. 10, October 2008, pp. 2181-2187
KUL 2
A. Bultheel, R. Cruz-Barroso and M. Van Barel, On Gauss-type quadrature formulas with prescribed nodes anywhere on the real line, Technical Report TW530, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, September 2008.
A. Bultheel, L. Daruis and P. González-Vera, Quadrature formulas on the unit circle with prescribed nodes and maximal domain of validity, 2008, submitted.
H. Huijberts, W. Michiels and H. Nijmeijer, Stabilisability via time-delayed feedback: an eigenvalue optimisation approach, SIAM Journal of Applied Dynamical Systems, accepted.
D. Huybrechs and R. Cools, Generalized Gaussian quadrature for singular and nearly singular integrals, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 2008, accepted.
K. Meerbergen, The Quadratic Arnoldi method for the solution of the quadratic eigenvalue problem, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Applic., 2008, accepted.
W. Michiels, T. Vhylidal, H. Huijberts and H. Nijmeijer, Stabilizability and stability robustness of state derivative feedback controllers, SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization, 2008, accepted.
W. Michiels, E. Fridman and S.-I. Niculescu, Robustness assessment via stability radii in delay parameters, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, accepted.
T. Vyhlidal, W. Michiels, P. McGahan and P. Zitek, ''Stability impact of small delays in state derivative feedback applied to vibration suppression'', Control Engineering Practice, 2008, accepted.
ULB
M. Galvez and M. Kinnaert, Model-based sensor fault detection and isolation in balanced three-phase signals, Internal report, to be submitted to SYSID.
FPMs
R. David, A. Vande Wouwer, J.-L. Vasel, I. Queinnec, Robust control of the activated sludge process, accepted for publication in Biotechnology Progress.
Joëlle Tilmanne, Jérôme Urbain, Mayuresh V. Kothare, Alain Vande Wouwer, Sanjeev V. Kothare, Algorithms for Sleep-Wake Identification using Actigraphy: A Comparative Study and New Results, accepted for publication in Journal of Sleep Research.
J. Demeyer and B. Gosselin, Glottis segmentation with a high speed glottography: A new approach, Liege Image Days 2008 Proceedings, 12-13 March 2008, p 14.
T. Drugman, T. Dubuisson, A. Moinet, N. d'Alessandro, T. Dutoit, Voice Source Estimation Robustness : A comparison of glottal source estimation techniques sensitivity, to appear in Proceedings of SIGMAP 08, 2008.
T. Drugman, T. Dubuisson, A. Moinet, N. d'Alessandro, T. Dutoit, Voice source parameters estimation by fitting the glottal formant and the inverse filtering open phase, to appear in Proceedings of EUSIPCO 08, 2008.
Graduate School
UCL
The Graduate School 2008-2009 will start on 6 October 2008 with a lecture on the topic Control and Nonlinearity given by Jean-Michel CORON (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, France)
For more details, see : Graduate School
VUB-ELEC
Annoucement of the 2nd VUB-Doctoral school on Identification on Nonlinear Dynamic Systems: 18 May - 12 June 2009
The department ELEC of the VUB, organizes a 4 weeks doctoral school (from the 18th of May 2009 till the 12th of June 2009) to give an intensive training on advanced modelling and simulation techniques of (non)linear dynamic systems, starting from experimental data. Half of the time will be spent on courses/exercises, the other half on a project to get hands-on experience. The material teached during the courses and exercises will be put into practice during a clearly defined project, in order to get hands-on experience. Half of the time will be spent on courses/exercises, the other half on a project to get hands-on experience. The participants should have a good basic knowledge in system theory and signal processing.
The course covers the following topics:
- A basic introduction to system identification,
- Identification of dynamic systems,
- Measuring and modelling of nonlinear systems,
- Simulation tools for nonlinear systems,
- Design and characterization of high-frequency (nonlinear) systems (optional: intended for those with an interest in microwave systems).
A general introduction to the program and a detailed overview of the courses content is given at the webpage http://wwwir.vub.ac.be/elec/doctoralschool.htm. The maximum number of participants will be restricted to 15 researchers. Participation to this workshop offers a number of advantages. Besides the training, it can also be the start of a collaboration. To some of the participants we can offer a one year grants to start a research collaboration, or even a full four years grant for a (joint) PhD. Interested candidates are invited to send their curriculum vitae, together with a short motivation why they would like to follow this course, and this before the 17th of January 2009. They can also express their interest in the possibility for a longer cooperation. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to have more information: email: Ludwig Delocht or Johan Schoukens
Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools
UCL
CESAME took part to the ERNSI 2008 workshop in System Identification, October 1-3, 2008, Sigtuna, Sweden with several communications:
- M. Gevers, T. Ivanov: Applications of real rational modules in system identification.
- H. Akçay: Synthesis of complete orthonormal fractional bases.
VUB-ELEC
VUB-ELEC took part to the ERNSI 2008 workshop in System Identification, October 1-3, 2008, Sigtuna, Sweden with several communications:
- John Lataire, Rik Pintelon: How fast is a time-varying system varying?
- Laurent Vanbeylen, Rik Pintelon, Pieter de Groen: Blind Maximum Likelihood Identification of Wiener Systems with Measurement Noise.
- Kurt Barbé, Wendy Van Moer and Yves Rolain: Using ANOVA in a microwave Round-robin comparison.
- Ludwig De Locht, Gerd Vandersteen and Yves Rolain: Identification of the Nonlinear Circuit Contributions Caused by Multitone Excitation.
- Johan Schoukens, Kurt Barbé, Laurent Vanbeylen and Rik Pintelon: Study of the nonlinear induced variability in linear system identification.
IAP Contact Persons
| UCL-INMA | Isabelle Hisette |
| KUL 1 | Ida Tassens, Kristel Bernaerts |
| UGent-SYSTeMS | Margot Roels |
| VUB-ELEC | Ann Pintelon |
| KUL 2 | Wim Michiels, Jan Swevers |
| ULg-SYST | Rodolphe Sepulchre |
| ULB | Michel Kinnaert |
| FPMs | Alain Vande Wouwer |