Message from the Coordinator
Let me first wish you all a great start for 2009!
2008 has been a very successful year for our network. So let me just hope that in 2009 we will keep our high productivity and continue to make of our network a place that so many leaders in our field wish to visit.
As for the coming events, let me remind you that a new graduate school course starts in early February (see the Graduate School section of this Newsletter) and do not forget to register for the 2009 Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control. And if you have forgotten to submit your abstract, please rush.
Best wishes to you all.
Michel Gevers
Coordinator of the DYSCO network
Staff Movements and Visitors
UCL
Balazs CSAJI (University of Budapest) joined the INMA department on January 6th. As a post doctoral researcher, he will work for one year with Prof. Vincent Blondel and his team on the topic Graphs and Datamining.
UGent-SYSTeMS
On January 13, ir. Herman Y. Sutarto (Indonesia) will start doctoral research, under the supervision of Prof. R. Boel, on Distributed estimation and control, applied to road traffic.
On January 20, ir. Mohamad Moradzadeh (Iran) will start doctoral research, under the supervision of Prof. R. Boel, on Distributed estimation and control, applied to electrical power systems.
KUL 2
Yerzy Gawad, from the Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza, Krakow, Poland, has started on January 1 as a postdoc in KUL2. He will work in collaboration with Dirk Roose on numerical methods for multiscale problems.
ULB
Dr. Niu Hongxing (East China University of Sciences and Technology, Shanghai) has joined the team of Philippe Bogaerts to work on animal cell culture modelling and optimization for 2 years.
Dr. Boulaid Boulkroune (Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy) has joined the team of Michel Kinnaert to work on model-based fault detection and isolation for 6 months.
Theses Defences
UGent-SYSTeMS
On Friday the 23th of January, Erik Quaeghebeur will have the public defence of his PhD thesis (supervised by Gert de Cooman & Dirk Aeyels), entitled "Learning from samples using coherent lower previsions". The defence will take place in the Jozef Plateau-auditorium (Faculty of Engineering, Jozef Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Gent) and will start at 16:00. Everybody is welcome to attend (in Dutch). More information can be found at the following page : http://users.ugent.be/~equaeghe/verdediging.php.
Seminars
KUL 1
- 12 January 2009 : 16h-17h
K.U.Leuven seminars on Optimization in Engineering : David Anisi (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) : Cooperative Surveillance with Multiple Unmanned Ground Vehicles. - 13 January 2009 : 17h-18h
Simon Stevin Lecture on Optimization in Engineering : Martin P. Bendsoe (Technical University of Denmark) : Topology Optimization of Multiphysics Systems - Successes and Challenges
REGISTRATION ENCOURAGED : please send an e-mail with the subject "STEVIN" to optec.secretariaat@esat.kuleuven.be if you intend to participate to the event. - 16 January 2009 : 14h00-15h00, room ESAT 00.62
K.U.Leuven SISTA seminar : David Looney (Imperial College London) : Heterogeneous data fusion using empirical mode decomposition.
ULg-SYST
- Friday 23/01/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore : W. ROSEHART (University of Calgary) : Optimization, uncertainty, and complementarity based modeling in power system dynamic performance management.
- Friday 06/02/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore : M.J.S. Barão (INESC-ID and Universidade de Evora) : Optimization on discrete probability spaces and applications.
- Friday 13/02/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore : J.-M. Coron (Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut Universitaire de France) : Control of navigable channels.
- Friday 20/02/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore : Bernard Maschke (Université de Lyon) (title to be defined).
- Friday 27/02/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore : Lionel Pournin (EPFL) (title to be defined)
For updates, please visit : http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/services/stochastic/new/doku.php?id=events
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
Vincent D. Blondel, Hycon handbook on hybrid systems and control, Section 4.8, Cambridge University Press, 2008
Matthieu Sainlez, P.-A. Absil, Andrew E. Teschendorff, Gene expression data analysis using spatiotemporal blind source separation, submitted, 2008
Leclercq Guillaume, Blohm Gunnar, Lefèvre Philippe, Visuomotor velocity transformations for visually guided manual tracking, In: Proceedings of the European Congress of the International Federation for Medical and Biomedical Engineering 2008, Antwerpen, Belgium, November 2008
Marc Van Barel, Raf Vandebril, Paul Van Dooren, Implicit double shift QR-algorithm for companion matrices, submitted to Numerische Mathematik, 2008
R. M. Jungers and V. Protasov, Counterexamples to the CPE conjecture, to appear in SIMAX, 2009
Francine Blanchet-Sadri, Raphaël M. Jungers and Justin Palumbo, Testing avoidability on sets of partial words is hard, to appear in Theoretical Computer Science, 2009
Jean Cardinal, Samuel Fiorini, Gwenaël Joret, Raphaël M. Jungers and J. Ian Munro, An Efficient Algorithm for Partial Order Production, submitted, 2008
Raphaël M. Jungers, Francisca Zamorano, Vincent Blondel, Alain Vande Wouwer, Georges Bastin, A fast algorithm for computing a minimal decomposition of a metabolic flux vector in terms of elementary flux vectors, to appear in the Proceedings of Mathmod 2009, Wien, 2009
Coppe S., Orban de Xivry J.J., Missal M., Lefevre P., Biological motion input to the oculomotor system, Proceedings of the 4th European Congress of Biomedical Engineering, Antwerp 2008
C. G. Baker, P.-A. Absil, K. A. Gallivan, An implicit trust-region method on Riemannian manifolds, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, 28(4), pp. 665-689, 2008
Lefèvre P, Crevecoeur F, Lobet S and Thonnard JL, A comparison between naïve and expert subjects in a ball throwing task, Archives of Spaggbowl, 136(141): 148-160, 2008
Bleyenheuft Y, Lefèvre P, Thonnard JL, Predictive mechanisms control grip force after impact in self-triggered perturbations, Journal of Motor Behavior, in press, 2009
KUL 1
Doclo S., Gannot S., Moonen M., Spriet A., Acoustic beamforming for hearing aid applications, in Chapter 10 of Handbook on Array Processing and Sensor Networks, (Haykin S., and Ray Liu K.J., eds.), Wiley (Hoboken, New Jersey USA), 2009, pp. 1-34.
Pelckmans K., Suykens J.A.K., Transductively Learning from Positive Examples Only, Internal Report 08-212, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Komarov M.A., Osipov G.V., Suykens J.A.K., Rabinovich M.I., Emergence of slow rhythms in neural microcircuits: bifurcations and stability, Internal Report 08-213, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Taelman J., Vandeput S., Spaepen S., Van Huffel S., Influence of mental stress on heart rate and heart rate variability, in Proc. of the 4th European Medical and Biomedical Engineering congress (eMBEC), Antwerp, Belgium, Nov. 2008.
van Waterschoot T., Moonen M., Comparative evaluation of howling detection criteria in notch-filter-based howling suppression, Internal Report 08-216, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Kirk E., Papageorghiou A., Van Calster B., Condous G., Cowans N., Van Huffel S., Timmerman D., Spencer K., Bourne T., The use of serum inhibin A and activin A levels in predicting the outcome of pregnancies of unknown location, Internal Report 08-217, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008. Accepted for publication in Human Reproduction.
Van den Bergh B.R.H., Van Calster B., Diurnal cortisol profiles and evening cortisol in post-pubertal adolescents scoring high on the Children's Depression Inventory, Internal Report 08-218, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008. Accepted for publication in Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Bertrand A., Moonen M., Robust distributed noise reduction in hearing aids with external acoustic sensor nodes, Internal Report 08-220, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Blinowska K., Müller-Putz G., Kaiser V., Astolfi L., Vanderperren K., Van Huffel S., Lemieux L., Multi-modal imaging of human brain activity: rational, biophysical aspects and modes of integration, Internal Report 08-221, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
Vandewalle J., Trajkovic L., Theodoridis S., Introduction and outline of the special issue on circuits and systems education : experiences, challenges and views, Internal Report 08-226, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008. Accepted for publication in IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 2009.
Giacobello D., Christensen M.G., Dahl J., Holdt Jensen S., Moonen M., Joint estimation of short-term and long-term predictors in speech coders, Internal Report 08-227, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of ICASSP 2009.
Liu J., Vanhaute H., Moonen M., Efficient computation of symbol statistics from bit a priori information in turbo receivers, Internal Report 08-228, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008. Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Communications.
Zhang J.X., Christensen M.G., Dahl J., Holdt Jensen S., Moonen M., Robust implementation of the music algorithm, Internal Report 08-229, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of ICASSP 2009.
Zhang J.X., Christensen M.G., Dahl J., Holdt Jensen S., Moonen M., Sub-band implementation of the harmonic music algorithm, Internal Report 08-230, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of ICASSP 2009.
Vandewalle J., Froyen L., Naar een oriënteringsproef voor technologie en wetenschap, Delta, Tijdschrift voor Hoger Onderwijs, vol. 20, Dec. 2008, pp. 15-17.
Tandur D., Moonen M., Efficient compensation of frequency selective Tx and Rx IQ imbalances in OFDM systems, Internal Report 08-232, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008. 7th International Workshop on Multi-Carrier Systems & Solutions.
Tandur D., Moonen M., Efficient compensation of frequency selective Tx and Rx IQ imbalances in OFDM systems, Internal Report 08-233, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008. Springer Lecture Notes on Electrical Engineering.
De Smet D., Naulaers G., Ameye L., Vanderhaegen J., Lemmers P., Van Bel F., Van Huffel S., Cerebral tissue oxygenation and regional oxygen saturation can be used to study cerebral autoregulation in prematurely born infants, Internal Report 08-235, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2008.
A.M. Cappuyns, K. Bernaerts, J. Vanderleyden and J.F. Van Impe, A dynamic model for diauxic growth, overflow metabolism and AI-2 cell-cell communication of Salmonella Typhimurium based on systems biology concepts, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 102(1):280-293, 2009
J. Vanlaer, G. Gins and J.F.M. Van Impe, Fault detection in a biochemical fed-batch process, submitted to the 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa (Belgium), March 16-18, 2009.
G. Gins, J. Vanlaer and J.F.M. Van Impe, Lazy online batch-end quality estimation: is less more?, submitted to the 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa (Belgium), March 16-18, 2009.
G. Gins, J. Vanlaer and J.F.M. Van Impe, Balancing prediction quality and fault detection performance in batch process monitoring, accepted for oral presentation at the 6th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD 2009), February 11-13, 2009.
J. Vanlaer, G. Gins and J.F.M. Van Impe, Comparison of MPCAV, ARPCA, and BDPCA fault detection performance in a fed-batch penicillin fermentation process, submitted to the 7th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS 2009), June 30 - July 3, 2009.
G. Gins, J. Vanlaer and J.F.M. Van Impe, Online batch-end quality estimation: does laziness pay off?, submitted to the 7th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS 2009), June 30 - July 3, 2009.
A.J. Verhulst, K. Bernaerts and J.F.M. Van Impe, Model analysis for individual-based modeling, submitted to 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, March 16-18, 2009.
P. Busschaert, A.H. Geeraerd, M. Uyttendaele and J.F.M. Van Impe, Estimating distributions from censored microbiological contamination data for use in quantitative risk assessment, submitted to 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, March 16-18, 2009, Spa, Belgium.
A.M. Cappuyns, K. Bernaerts, S.C. De Keersmaecker, J. Vanderleyden and J. F. Van Impe, Macroscopic modeling as a tool for gaining insight in AI-2 dynamics of Salmonella Typhimurium, submitted to 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa (Belgium), March 16-18, 2009.
P.-J. D’Huys, K. Bernaerts, J. Anné, J.F. Van Impe, Quantitative characterization of Streptomyces lividans batch fermentations, submitted to the 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa (Belgium), March 16-18, 2009.
Eva Van Derlinden, Kristel Bernaerts, Jan F. M. Van Impe, Cardinal temperatures estimation via optimal dynamic experiment design for parameter estimation: validation on Z. bailii, accepted for oral presentation at the 6th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD 2009), February 11-13, 2009.
E. Van Derlinden, I. Lule, K. Bernaerts, J.F. Van Impe, Quantifying the heterogeneous heat response of E. coli under dynamic temperatures, submitted, 2009.
I. Lule, E. Van Derlinden, K. Bernaerts, J.F. Van Impe, Response of Escherichia coli to elevated temperatures: on the relation with heat and oxidative stress, submitted, 2009.
E. Van Derlinden, K. Bernaerts, J.F. Van Impe, On the comparison of OED/PE strategies for the identification of microbial kinetics, submitted to the 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, March 16-18, 2009.
E. Van Derlinden and J.F. Van Impe, Describing the heterogeneous of E. coli with a subpopulation type model, submitted to the 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, SYSID 2009, July 6-8, Saint-Malo, France.
VUB-ELEC
Griet Monteyne, Michel Bruggeman, Peter Baeten, The use of noise analysis for monitoring reactor safety parameters, Presentation of poster at the 3rd Strategic Energy Forum, Autoworld Brussels, 16 December 2008
Wendy Van Moer and Yves Rolain, A Multisine Calibration for Large-Signal Broadband Measurements, IEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement, Vol. 57, N°7, July 2008, pp. 1478-1483
László Balogh and Rik Pintelon, Stable Approximation of Unstable Transfer Function Models, IEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement, Vol. 57, N°12, December 2008, pp. 2720-2726
KUL 2
Vanbiervliet J., Vandereycken B., Michiels W., Vandewalle S., Diehl M, The smoothed spectral abscissa for robust stability optimization, SIAM Journal on optimization, 2008, accepted
R. Cruz Barroso, S. Delvaux, Orthogonal Laurent polynomials on the unit circle and snake-shaped matrix factorizations, Journal of approximation theory, 2009, accepted
R. Cruz Barroso, P. González-Vera, F. Perdomo-Pio, Quadrature formulas associated with Rogers-Szegöo polynomials, Computers & mathematics with applications, volume 57, issue 2, pages 308-323, 2009
A. Bultheel, P. Van Gucht and M. Van Barel, Orthogonal rational functions with real coefficients and semiseparable matrices, J. Computational Applied Mathematics, 2008, accepted
A. Bultheel, R. Cruz-Barroso, K. Deckers and P. González-Vera, Rational Szegö quadratures associated with Chebyshev weight functions, Mathematics of Computation, 2008, accepted
F.H. Kaatz, A. Bultheel and T. Egami, Real and reciprocal space order parameters for porous arrays form image analysis, J. Materials Science, 2008, published online 16 December 2008
Graduate School on Systems, Optimization, Control and Network.
Subspace based identification in frequency domain and modelling with orthonormal bases functions, by Huseyin AKCAY (Anadolu University, Turkey)
Date : February 09, 13, 16, 20, 23, 27, 2009, 9:15-12:15.
This course will take place at CESAME, Bâtiment Euler, 4 av. G. Lemaître, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.
For more details, see : Graduate School
You can register electronically by filling in this form.
Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools
- The Organizing Committee has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control
to be held in the Domain Sol Cress, Spa, Belgium, on March 16-18, 2009.
The extended deadline for abstract submission is January 9th, 2009. Abstracts are submitted online through the conference website.
Registration opens on January 7th, 2009. Registration form and fees are provided on the conference website. Conference attendees who wish to take advantage of the early bird registration rate should register by January 30th, 2009.
For all inquiries regarding the scientific program, the conference location, or registrations, please contact the conference secretariat at : atc.dizier@aim.skynet.be, phone : +32 (0) 4 222 29 46
- CINBIOS (Centre de BioInformatique et BioModélisation - Université Libre de Bruxelles) will hold its 3rd scientific meeting on Monday January 12, 2009 at the Salle Solvay, 2NO.507, Campus Plaine, Brussels.
Program :
9h30 – 10h10 : Patrick Meyer (Machine Learning Group) Information-Theoretic Variable Selection and Network Inference from Microarray Data
10h10- 10h50 : Decio Eizirik (Laboratoire de Médecine expérimentale) Use of a systems biology approach to understand pancreatic b-cell death in Type 1 diabetes
10h50-11h10 : Coffee break
11h10-11h50 : Pierre Gaspard (Service de Physique non-linéaire et Mécanique statistique) Molecular motors and statistical thermodynamics
11h50-12h30 : Tom Lenaerts (Machine Learning Group) Protein domains as information processing units
12h30-14h : Lunch
14h00-14h40 : François Englert (Service de Physique théorique) The 24 near-instabilities of Caspar-Klug viruses
14h40-15h20 : Peter van der Gulik (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam) The missing link between prebiotic amino acids and early proteins
15h20-15h40 : Coffee break
15h40-16h20 : Wassim Abou-Jaoude (Unité de Biologie théorique et computationnelle) Oscillations, variability and frequency tuning in the p53-mdm2 network
16h20-17h00 : Christos Sotiriou (Laboratoire d'Hématologie expérimentale) How to integrate the emerging science into clinics ? Microarray techniques - are they ready for use ?
For more information concerning this meeting, please contact Marianne Rooman : mrooman@ulb.ac.be, tel. 02 650 20 67
- The 1st IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (NecSys'09) will be held in Venice (Italy) on 24-26 September 2009.
Miscellaneous
VUB-ELEC
Invitation to attend the VUB - doctoral school on Identification of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems: 18 May - 12 June 2009
The department ELEC of the VUB, organizes a 4-week doctoral school (from May 18, 2009 till June 12, 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 participants should have a good basic knowledge in system theory and signal processing. More information can be found at http://wwwtw.vub.ac.be/elec/.
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 |