Message from the Coordinator
Nothing spectacular to report on after a quiet, pleasant and white Christmas holiday. Of course, the weeks to come will see a surge of activity, at least for the team of promotors of DYSCO, since we will be actively preparing the report that will serve as the basis for the evaluation of our network by a team of international experts. All academic members at least will be requested to participate in some way or another in this exercise.
And for now, I wish you all a productive and successful 2010.
Michel Gevers
DYSCO coordinator
Staff Movements and Visitors
UCL-INMA
- Mariya ISHTEVA, post-doc (K.U.Leuven), joined us on the 4th of January for a one-year stay. She will work with Pierre-Antoine Absil on the topic "Numerical tensor techniques for data analysis".
VUB-ELEC
- David Rijlaarsdam, Eindhoven University of Technology, Control and Systems Technology: from 1/1/2010 until 31/12/2010.
KUL 2
- We welcome Zhen WU (PhD Student, promotor Wim Michiels).
Theses Defences
KUL 1
- Nina Moelants, Optimising the Sustainable Performance of Compact Individual Wastewater Treatment Systems, December 21, 2009. Supervisors: Jan Van Impe and Ilse Smets.
- Jan Luts, Classification of brain tumors based on magnetic resonance spectroscopy, January 27, 2010, 1:30 pm, Aud. Arenberg Castle, Leuven. Supervisor : Sabine Van Huffel.
Seminars
KUL 1
- January 6, 2010 - 11:00 in Room ESAT 00.62 - SISTA Seminar
Vanya Van Belle, On the use of a clinical kernel in survival analysis. - January 13, 2010 - 11:00 in Room ESAT 00.62 - SISTA Seminar
Maria Isabel Osorio, The influence of line-shape and baseline on quantification of in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) signals.
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL-INMA
Devolder O., Glineur F., Nesterov Y., Convergence of Polynomial Approximations for Infinite-Dimensional Optimization Problems, Book of Abstracts of the 14th Belgian-French-German Conference on Optimization, Leuven, 14-18 September, 2009, p.103.
Glineur F., Quadratic approximation of some convex optimization problems using the arithmetic-geometric mean iteration, Book of Abstracts of the 14th Belgian-French-German Conference on Optimization, Leuven, 14-18 September, 2009, p.105.
Chares R., Glineur F., Variable reduction for interior-point methods using partial minimization, Book of Abstracts of the 14th Belgian-French-German Conference on Optimization, Leuven, 14-18 September, 2009, p.117.
Galouzeau de Villepin T., Dochain D., Bols Ch.-M., Modélisation d'un procédé de compostage en pile statique, to appear in Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés.
Favache A., Dochain D., Power-Shaping Control of an Exothermic Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR), Proc. ADCHEM 2009, 2009, p.35.
Favache A., Dochain D., Maschke B., A geometric perspective to open irreversible thermodynamic systems: GENERIC, Matrix and port-contact systems, 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, 16-18 December, 2009.
Rapaport A., Dochain D., Harmand J., Long run coexistence in the chemostat with multiple species, Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol.257, n°2009, 2009, pp.252-259.
Borckmans P., Absil P.-A., Fast Oriented Bounding Box Computation Using Particle Swarm Optimization, submitted to ESANN 2010
Blondel V., Hendrickx J., Tsitsiklis J., On Krause's consensus formation model with state-dependent connectivity, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol.54, n°11, 2009, pp.2586-2597.
Fidan B., Hendrickx J., Anderson B.D.O., Edge Contraction Based Maintenance of Rigidity in Multi-Agent Formations During Agent Loss, Proceedings of the 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 24-26, 2009, pp.422-427.
Hendrickx J., Olshevsky A., Tsitsiklis J., Distributed Anonymous Function Computation in Information Fusion and Multiagent Systems, to appear in the Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Illinois, September 2009.
Delvenne J.-Ch., Ivanov T., A Characterisation of Solution Sets of LTI Differential Equations, Proceedings of CDC'09, Shanghai, China, 2009.
Fraikin C., Van Dooren P., Similarity matrices for colored graphs, Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society, Vol. 16(4), pp.705-722, 2009.
Mastronardi N., Tyrtyshnikov E., Van Dooren P., A fast algorithm for updating and downsizing the dominant kernel principal components, submitted to SIAM J. Matrix Analysis and its applications, 2009.
de Kerchove C., Van Dooren P., Iterative Filtering in Reputation Systems, to appear in SIAM J. Matrix Analysis and its applications, 2009.
Orban de Xivry J.-J., Coppe S., Lefèvre Ph., Missal M., Biological motion drives perception and action, to appear in Journal of Vision.
Chang C.-T., Gorissen B., Melchior S., Fast computation of the minimal oriented bounding box on the rotation group SO(3), submitted to ACM Transactions on Graphics.
Cason T., Absil P.-A., Van Dooren P., Iterative Methods for Low Rank Approximation of Graph Similarity Matrices, 7th International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs, Leuven, Belgium, 2009.
Ivanov T., Gevers M., Parametrization Invariant Covariance Quantification in Identification of Transfer Functions for Linear Systems, 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China, December 2009.
David R., Dochain D., Mouret J.-R., Vande Wouwer A., Sablayrolles J.-M., Dynamical modeling of alcoholic fermentation and its link with nitrogen consumption, submitted to CAB 2010 (Leuven).
KUL 1
Van den Broeck R., Van Dierdonck J., Caerts B., Bisson S., Kregersman B., Nijskens P., Dotremont C., Van Impe J.F., Smets I.Y., The impact of deflocculation-reflocculation on fouling in membrane bioreactors, to appear in Separation and Purification Technology, 2009.
Busschaert P., Geeraerd A.H., Uyttendaele M., Van Impe J.F., Keeping variability and uncertainty separated in sensitivity analysis: risk assessment of Listeria monocytogenes in deli meats, accepted for presentation at the 11th European Symposium on Statistical Methods for the Food Industry. (Agrostat 2010), Italy, February 24-26, 2010.
Verhulst A.J., Cappuyns A.M., Van Derlinden E., Bernaerts K., Van Impe J.F., Unravelling microbial growth dynamics through individual-based modelling: initialisation of the inoculum, accepted for presentation at the 11th European Symposium on Statistical Methods for the Food Industry (Agrostat 2010), Italy, February 24-26, 2010.
Bonilla J., Diehl M., Logist F., De Moor B., Van Impe J., A Convex Approximation for Parameter Estimation Involving Parameter-Affine Dynamic Models, Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, December 16-18, 2009, pp. 4670-4675.
Houska B., Logist F., Van Impe J.F., Diehl M., Approximate robust optimization of time-periodic stationary states with application to biochemical processes, Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, December 16-18, 2009, pp. 6280-6285.
Busschaert P., Geeraerd A.H., Uyttendaele M., Van Impe J.F., Sensitivity analysis of Campylobacter spp. in poultry based meat preparations, Book of Abstracts III - International Conference on Environmental, Industrial and Applied Microbiology (BioMicroWorld 2009), Lisbon (Portugal), December 2-4, 2009, p. 484.
Cornet I., Van Derlinden E., Cappuyns A.M., Ramakers S., Van Impe J.F., Heat stress adaptation of Escherichia coli under dynamic conditions: effect of inoculum size and heating rate, Book of Abstracts - III International Conference on Environmental, Industrial and Applied Microbiology (BioMicroWorld 2009), Lisbon (Portugal), December 2-4, 2009, p. 303.
Velliou E.G., Van Derlinden E., Cappuyns A.M., Vermeulen A., Nikolaidou E., Geeraerd A.H., Devlieghere F., Van Impe J.F., Quantifying the effect of (in)organic acids on the thermal inactivation of Escherichia coli, Book of Abstracts III - International Conference on Environmental, Industrial and Applied Microbiology (BioMicroWorld 2009), Lisbon (Portugal), December 2-4, 2009, p. 341.
D’Huys P.J., Lule I., Bernaerts K., Anné J., Van Impe J.F., Amino acid uptake profiling of Streptomyces lividans batch fermentations, Book of Abstracts - III International Conference on Environmental, Industrial and Applied Microbiology (BioMicroWorld 2009), Lisbon (Portugal), December 2-4, 2009, p. 371.
Verhulst A.J., Cappuyns A.M., Van Derlinden E., Bernaerts K., Van Impe J.F., A critical view on a theory coupling cell growth and DNA replication initiation through individual-based modelling, Book of Abstracts III International Conference on Environmental, Industrial and Applied Microbiology (BioMicroWorld2009), Lisbon (Portugal), December 2-4, 2009, p. 456.
Van Derlinden E., Van Impe J.F., Quantifying the heterogeneous response of E. coli at temperatures close to the maximum growth temperature, Book of Abstracts - III International Conference on Environmental, Industrial and Applied Microbiology (BioMicroWorld 2009), Lisbon (Portugal), December 2-4, 2009, p. 482.
Van den Broeck R., Moelants N., Everts K., Van Impe J.F., Smets I.Y., Temperature correction factor for maximum specific oxygen uptake rate (SOURmax) measurements, Proceedings of the 10th IWA Instrumentation, Control & Automation (ICA) conference 2009, Cairns (Australia), June 14-17, 2009, CD-ROM, 8 p.
Van den Broeck R., Van Dierdonck J., Caerts B., Bisson I., Kregersman B., Nijskens P., Dotremont C., Van Impe J.F., Smets I.Y., The impact of (synthetic) influents on bioflocculation in membrane bioreactors, Proceedings of the IWA Membrane Technology Conference & Exhibition 2009, Beijing (China), September 1-3, 2009, CD-ROM, 6 p.
Van den Broeck R., Van Dierdonck J., Caerts B., Kregersman B., Nijskens P., Dotremont C., Van Impe J.F., Smets I.Y., The impact of the ratio of (monovalent/polyvalent) cations in the influent on bioflocculation in membrane bioreactors, Proceedings of the 1st IWA BeNeLux Regional Young Water Professionals Conference, Eindhoven (Nederland), September 30 - October 2, 2009, CD-ROM, 6 p.
Bonilla J., Logist F., Diehl M., De Moor B., Van Impe J., A suboptimal solution to nonconvex optimal control problems involving input affine dynamic models, Internal Report 09-241, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009
Vandeput S., Verheyden B., Aubert A.E., Van Huffel S., Linear and nonlinear heart rate variability analysis of astronauts before and after spaceflight to the ISS, Internal Report 09-242, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
Liu X.H., De Lathauwer L., Janssens F., De Moor B., Hybrid Clustering on Multiple Information Sources via HOSVD, Internal Report 09-245, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
Ishteva M., Absil P.-A., Van Huffel S., De Lathauwer L., Best low multilinear rank approximation with conjugate gradients, Internal Report 09-246, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
Ishteva M., Absil P.-A., Van Huffel S., De Lathauwer L., Local minima of the best low multilinear rank approximation of higher-order tensors, Internal Report 09-247, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
De Lathauwer L., Algebraic Methods after Prewhitening, Internal Report 09-250, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009. Accepted for publication in P. Comon, C. Jutten (Eds.), Handbook of Blind Source Separation, Independent Component Analysis and Applications, Academic Press.
Comon P., De Lathauwer L., Algebraic Identification of Underdetermined Mixtures, Internal Report 09-251, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009. Accepted for publication in P. Comon, C. Jutten (Eds.), Handbook of Blind Source Separation, Independent Component Analysis and Applications, Academic Press.
Llorente R., Morant M., Duplicy J., van Waterschoot T., Le Nir V., Moonen M., Puche J., Romme J., Sensing and fingerprinting of ultra-wide band radio in UCELLS project, Internal Report 09-252, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
Ishteva M., Numerical methods for the best low multilinear rank approximation of higher-order tensors, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Dec. 2009, 141 p.
Bertrand A., Moonen M., Blind separation of non-negative source signals using multiplicative updates and subspace projection, Internal Report 09-256, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
Sahhaf S., Degraeve R., Cho M., De Brabanter K., Roussel Ph.J., Zahid M.B., Groeseneken G., Detailed Analysis of Charge Pumping and IdVg Hysteresis for Profiling Traps in SiO2/HfSiO(N), Internal Report 10-01, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.
Luts J., Ojeda F., Van de Plas R., De Moor B., Van Huffel S., Suykens J.A.K., A tutorial on support vector machine-based methods for classification problems in chemometrics, Internal Report 10-02, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.
Falck T., Signoretto M., Suykens J.A.K., De Moor B., A two stage algorithm for kernel based partially linear modeling with orthogonality constraints, Internal Report 10-03, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.
Liu X., Yu S., Janssens F., Glänzel W., Moreau Y., De Moor B., Weighted Hybrid Clustering by Combining Text Mining and Bibliometrics on Large-Scale Journal Database, Internal Report 10-04, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010. Accepted for publication in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Lirias number: 252655.
Vanderhaegen J., Naulaers G., Van Huffel S., Vanhole C., Allegaert K., Cerebral and systemic hemodynamic effects of intravenous bolus administration of propofol in neonates, Neonatology, vol. 98, Jan. 2010, pp. 57-63.
Francart T., Van den Bogaert T., Moonen M., Wouters J., Amplification of interaural level differences improves sound localization in acoustic simulations of bimodal hearing, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 126, no. 6, Dec. 2009, pp. 3209-3213.
Silva M., Mijovic B., Van den Bergh B.R.H., Allegaert K., Aerts J.M., Van Huffel S., Berckmans D., Decoupling between fundamental frequency and energy envelope of neonate cries, Internal Report 10-08, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010. Accepted for publication in Early Human Development.
VUB-ELEC
Pintelon R., Barbé K., Vandersteen G., Schoukens J., Noise leakage suppression in FRF measurements using periodic signals, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Austin, Texas (USA), May 4-6, 2010.
Schoukens J., Pintelon R., Vandersteen G., Rolain Y., Design of excitation signals for nonparametric measurements on MIMO-systems in the presence of nonlinear distortions, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Austin, Texas (USA), May 4-6, 2010.
Van Moer W., Pintelon R. , Compensating out of band nonlinear distortions, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Austin, Texas (USA), May 4-6, 2010.
Lataire J., Pintelon R., Frequency Domain Tracking of Time-Varying Modes, IMAC XXVIII A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, http://www.sem.org/CONF-IMAC-TOP.asp
Widanage W.D., Schoukens J., Assigning the Nonlinear Distortions of a Two-input Single-output System, IMAC XXVIII A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, http://www.sem.org/CONF-IMAC-TOP.asp
Van Moer W., Pintelon R., Rolain Y., Measuring source-pull free nonlinear distortions: a multisine approach', Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 20 (2009) 125104 (7pp)
KUL 2
Ammar G., Reichel L., Van Barel M. (eds.), Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol. 233, issue 5, Numerical Analysis in Monterey, Monterey, CA, USA, 3-4 November 2006, Elsevier, 2010
Bultheel A., Book review Pythagoras' revenge (A. Sangalli), BMS-NCM News, volume 76, pages 1-2, 2010 (Submitted)
Bultheel A., Van Gucht P., Van Barel M., Orthogonal rational functions with real coefficients and semiseparable matrices, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, volume 233, issue 5, pages 1192-1201, 2010
Delvaux S., Van Barel M., Structures preserved by generalized inversion and Schur complementation, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Volume 432, pages 817-836, 2010
Michiels W., Gumussoy S., Characterization and computation of h-infinity norms of time-delay systems, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 2010 (Submitted)
Moelans N., Vanherpe L., Heulens J., Rodiers B., Blanpain B., Wollants P., Quantitative Phase-Field Modeling of Microstructure Evolution in Multi-Component and Multi-Phase Alloys, TMS 2010 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Hume-Rothery Symposium: Configurational Thermodynamics of Materials, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA, USA, February 14-18, 2010 (Accepted)
Piessens R., Applications of Chebyshev polynomials: from theoretical kinematics to practical computations, The Birth of Numerical Analysis, Bultheel, A., Cools, R. (eds.), Leuven, Belgium, 29-30 October 2007, pages 193-205, World Scientific, 2010
Van Liedekerke P., Ghysels P. Tijskens E., Samaey G., Roose D., Ramon H., A particle based model to simulate the micromechanics of single plant cells and aggregates, Physical Biology, 2010 (Submitted)
Vandebril R., Van Barel M., Mastronardi N., A multiple shift QRstep for structured rank matrices, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, volume 233, issue 5, pages 1326-1344, 2010
Verleye B., Lomov S.V., Long A., Verpoest I., Roose D., Permeability prediction for the meso-macro coupling in the simulation of the impregnation stage of Resin Transfer Moulding, Composites A, Applied Science and Manufacturing, volume 41, issue 1, pages 29-35, 2010
ULB
Albert J., Rooman M., Dynamic modeling of gene expression in prokaryotes: application to glucose-lactose diauxie in Escherichia coli, submitted, 2009.
Albert J., Rooman M., Interaction among the gene products contributes to the regulation of gene expression, Submitted to the 11th IFAC Symposium on Computer Applications in Biotechnology (CAB2010).
Folch B., Rooman M., Dehouck Y., Modelling thermal stability changes upon mutations in proteins with artificial neural networks, Submitted to the 11th IFAC Symposium on Computer Applications in Biotechnology (CAB2010).
Niu H., Drugmand J.-Ch., Bogaerts Ph., Simple Metabolic Modelling of Vero Cell Growth on Glucose in Fixed-bed Bioreactors, submitted to the 11th IFAC Symposium on Computer Applications in Biotechnology (CAB2010).
Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Network.
- Complex Networks : Structure and Dynamics, by Santo FORTUNATO (ISI Foundation, Torino, Italy)
Dates : February 2, 3, 5, 16, 17, 19, 2010 Schedule : 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
- 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control
Kapellerput Conference Centre, Heeze, The Netherlands, March 30 - April 1, 2010
The aim of this meeting is to promote research activities and cooperation between researchers in Systems and Control. It is the 29th in a series of annual conferences that are held alternately in Belgium and The Netherlands. The meeting takes place under the auspices of the Dutch Institute of Systems and Control (DISC) and the Belgian Federation of Automatic Control (BIRA-IBRA), and is sponsored by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO).
Please note that the extended deadline for submitting a one-page abstract is Wednesday 13 January.
Vacancies
Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
UCL invites applications for a faculty position in
Quantitative Energy Economics (GDF-SUEZ Chair)
Applicants should have a wide area of interest and a good record in research and teaching. They should have a doctoral degree, postdoctoral experience, and a recognized scientific publications record. Appointment level will depend on the candidates and their records of accomplishment.
The successful candidate will be affiliated with the newly established research institute IMMAQ and with CORE. For more information on some of the existing research activities see: http://www.uclouvain.be/en-core.html and http://www.uclouvain.be/inma.
The closing date for submitting applications is January 15, 2010. The appointment will start September 2010. Applicants are invited to follow the application procedure described at http://www.uclouvain.be/en-97537.html
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 |