Message of the Coordinator

Let me first wish you the very best for 2011 and let us hope it will bring us good news about the future of the IAP programme.

May I therefore remind you to express your support for this programme via the petition that was initiated by Philippe Mettens, Chairman of the SPP Belgian Federal Science Policy ? For this, you just need to fill in the petition that you will find on

http://www.belspo.be/belspo/home/petition_en.stm

In 2008, a similar petition addressed to the Prime Minister concerning the survival of the IAP programme collected more than 11000 signatures and was critical in saving the programme at that time.

Don't forget to mark the following dates in your agendas : the next IAP day is planned in Liège on May 16th, rather than the originally proposed date of May 17th; the graduate school course of Karl Sigmund will take place in February (see below) and the Benelux Meeting in Systems and Control will be held from March 15 to 17 in Vossemeren (see the previous newsletter).

Best wishes to all of you.

Paul Van Dooren
Coordinator of DYSCO

Staff Movements and Visitors

UCL
  • We welcome Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore). From now on, he will be working with Philippe Lefèvre and his team as a research associate within the framework of an "IRSIB Brains Back to Brussels" convention.
  • Manuel Lopez (associate professor, Universidad de Sevilla) arrived on January 3 and will stay with us until March 31, 2011. He will work with Jean-Charles Delvenne on the topic "Stability of systems with wireless interconnections - consensus approach".
VUB-ELEC
  • Visitors
    • Dr. David Westwick, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada: January 2011 - June 2011.
    • Prasanth Thummala, India: 8/1/2011 - 1/4/2011.
    • Per Landin (PhD student, Cotutelle agreement between VUB-Dept. ELEC / University of Gavle / KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm): 1/2/2011 - 30/6/2011.
  • New PhD Student
    • David Oliva Uribe (since 1/1/2011).

Seminars

KUL 1
  • January 10 or 11, 2011 - 15:30-16:00 - K.U.Leuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering
    Mario Zanon : Motion Planning (for a Forklift) with Algorithms Based on Optimal Control.
  • January 19, 2011 - 10:00–11:00 - room ESAT 00.62 - SISTA Seminar
    Milica Milosevic (K.U. Leuven, ESAT-SCD) : Simultaneous facial EMG & fMRI recordings.
  • January 19, 2011 - 11:00-12:00, room ESAT Aud. A - SISTA Seminar
    Dr. Emre Yaksi (Neuroelectronics Research Flanders (NERF)) : Electrical coupling between olfactory glomeruli.

Theses Defenses

KUL 1
  • Pieter Busschaert, December 16, 2010 : Characterization of microbiological risks in the food chain. Promotors: Prof Jan Van Impe (KUL), Prof Mieke Uyttendaele (UGent), Prof Annemie Geeraerd (KUL).
  • Joachim Taelman, January 11, 2011 - 17:00 - Aud. Arenberg Castle, Leuven : Analyse van electrofysiologische signalen tijdens stress monitoring.
VUB-ELEC
  • Veerle Beelaerts, Time series reconstruction of environmental proxy records. The defense will take place on Tuesday January 11th, in room D.0.08, on the ground floor of building D on the campus of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel at Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Elsene.
  • Lynn Bos, Multirate Cascaded Delta Sigma Converters for Wireless Applications. The defense will be held at 5pm on Monday January 17th in room D.2.01, located in building D on the campus of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel at Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Elsene.

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL

F. Zamorano, A. Vande Wouwer, G. Bastin, A detailed metabolic flux analysis of an undetermined network of CHO cells, Journal of Biotechnology, Vol.150(4), 2010, pp. 497 - 508.

P. Van Dooren, K.A. Gallivan, P.-A. Absil, H2-optimal model reduction with higher order poles, accepted for SIAM J. Matr. Anal. Appl., 2010.

C.G. Baker, K.A. Gallivan, P. Van Dooren, Low-Rank Incremental Methods for Computing Dominant Singular Subspaces, submitted to Linear Algebra and its Applications.

T. P. Cason, P.-A. Absil, P. Van Dooren, Iterative Methods for Low Rank Approximation of Graph Similarity Matrices, submitted to Linear Algebra and its Applications

A. Browet, P. Van Dooren, P.-A. Absil, Community detection for image segmentation, submitted to the 14th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA'11), Madrid, Spain.

F. Zamorano, A. Vande Wouwer, G. Bastin, Metabolic Flux Analysis of CHO-320 Cells: Undetermined Network and Effect of Measurement Errors, Paper FrPostersT3, in Proceedings IFAC-CAB2010 Conference, Leuven, Belgium, July 2010, 2010.

R. M. Jungers, The synchronizing probability function of an automaton, submitted.

A. A. Ahmadi, R. M. Jungers, P. A. Parrilo and M. Roozbehani, Analysis of the Joint Spectral Radius via Lyapunov Functions on Path-Complete Graphs, submitted.

B. Cs. Csáji, R. M. Jungers and V. D. Blondel, Pagerank optimization by edge selection, submitted.

V. Protasov and R. M. Jungers, Fast algorithms for the p-radius computation, submitted.

Y. Nesterov, Barrier subgradient method, Mathematical Programming, 2010, DOI: 10.1007/s10107-010-0421-3.

M. Ishteva, P.-A. Absil, S. Van Huffel, L. De Lathauwer, Best low multilinear rank approximation of higher-order tensors, based on the Riemannian trust-region scheme, accepted for publication in SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX).

C. Casenave, C. Prieur, Controllability of SISO Volterra Models via Diffusive Representation, submitted for presentation at IFAC World Wongress 2011, Milano, Italy, August 2011.

C. Casenave, C. Prieur, G. Montseny, Controllability of SISO Volterra Models via Diffusive Representation, submitted to Systems and Control Letters, 2010.

V. Traag, A. Browet, F. Calabrese, F. Morlot, Social Event Detection in Massive Mobile Phone Data Using Probabilistic Location Inference, submitted for presentation at Mobisys 2011, Washington DC, June 28 - July 1, 2011.

B. Abouzaïd, J. Winkin, V. Wertz, Positive Stabilization of Infinite-Dimensional Linear Systems, Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, USA, December 15-17, 2010, pp. 845-850.

KUL 1

A. Potschka, F. Logist, J. Van Impe, H.G. Bock, Tracing the Pareto frontier in bi-objective optimization problems by ODE techniques, Numerical Algorithms, accepted for publication, 2010.

Lopez J., De Brabanter K., Dorronsoro J.R., Suykens J.A.K, Sparse LS-SVMs with L0-Norm Minimization, Internal Report 10-255, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Khalid A., Condous G., Kirk E., Van Calster B., Timmerman D., Van Huffel S., D'Hooghe T., Bourne T.H., What is the value of ultrasound in the assessment of women with possible underlying polycystic ovarian syndrome ?, Internal Report 10-256, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010. Accepted for publication in Human Reproduction.

Mehrkanoon S., Jiang L., Alzate C., Suykens J., Symbolic computing of LS-SVM based models, Internal Report 10-257, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Van Belle V., Decock J., Hendrickx W., Brouckaert O., Pintens S., Moerman P., Wildiers H., Paridaens R., Christiaens M.R., Van Huffel S., Neven P., Short term prognostic index for breast cancer: NPI or Lpi, Pathology Research International, Special Issue on Pathology of Breast Carcinoma : Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Therapeutic Issues and Challenges, Jan. 2011, pp. 1-7.

Lemke C., Schuck Jr. A., Antoine J-P., Sima D.M., Metabolite-sensitive analysis of magnetic resonance spectroscopic signals using the continuous wavelet transform, Internal Report 10-259, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Popa E., Karras D.A., Mertzios B.G., Sima D.M., de Beer R., van Ormondt D., Graveron-Demilly D., Semi-parametric estimation without searching in function space. Application to in vivo metabolite quantitation, Internal Report 10-260, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Lou X., Suykens J.A.K., Enhanced synchronizability of coupled oscillators: an adaptive switching method, Internal Report 10-261, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Lou X., Suykens J.A.K., Stability of coupled local minimizers within the Lagrange programming network framework, Internal Report 10-262, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Forouzan A.R., Moonen M., Maes J., Guenach M., Robust dynamic spectrum management level 2 for VDSL2 in the presence of unmanaged lines, Internal Report 10-263, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Varon C., Alzate C., Suykens J.A.K., Debosscher J., Kernel Spectral Clustering of Time Series in the CoRoT Exoplanet Database, Internal Report 10-264, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

UGent-SYSTeMS

Mohammad Moradzadeh, Rene Boel, Distributed Voltage Control in Electrical Power Systems, Accepted for the 30th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, March 15-17, 2011, Lommel, Belgium.

Mohammad Moradzadeh, Rene Boel, Hybrid Modeling of Power Systems for Coordinated Voltage Control, International Journal on Technical and Physical Problems of Engineering (IJTPE), Issue 5, December 2010, No 4, Vol 1, pp 32-40.

Andres Hernandez, Clara Ionescu, Robin De Keyser, Application of a Novel PID auto-tuner to a lung function test device, International conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices (BIODEVICES 2011), 26-29 January 2011, Rome, Italy.

Yu Zhong, Bart Wyns, Robain De Keyser, Gregory Pinte, Julian Stoev, Implementation of Genetic Based Learning Classifier System on Wet Clutch System, Accepted for the 30th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, March 15-17, 2011, Lommel, Belgium.

VUB-ELEC

Laurent Vanbeylen, Rik Pintelon, Blind Maximum-likelihood Identification of Wiener and Hammerstein Nonlinear Block Structures, Chapter 17 in book: Block-oriented Nonlinear System Identification, LNCIS 404, pp. 273-291, Editors: F. Giri & E.-W.Bai, Springer-Verlag Berlin Hiedelberg 2010.

Lieve Lauwers, Johan Schoukens, Identification of Wiener-Hammertein Systems Using the Best Linear Approximation, Chapter 13 in book: Block-oriented Nonlinear System Identification, LNCIS 404, pp. 209-225, Editors: F. Giri & E.-W.Bai, Springer-Verlag Berlin Hiedelberg 2010.

Johan Schoukens, Rik Pintelon, Study of the Variance of Parametric Estimates of the Best Linear Approximation of Nonlinear Systems, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 59, No. 12, December 2010, pp. 3156-3167.

A. Geis, Y. Rolain, G. Vandersteen, An 0.045mm2 0.1-6GHz reconfigurable multi-band, multi-gain LNA for SDR, 2010 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, Annaheim, California, May 23-28, 2010, pp. 123-126.

Y. Rolain, J. Schoukens, R. Pintelon, L. De Locht, G. Vandersteen, A VNA based broadband loadpull for non-parametric 2-port Best Linear Approximation Modelling, 75th ARFTG, Annaheim, California, May 23-28, 2010, pp. 34-38.

Griet Monteyne, Peter Baeten, Johan Schoukens, Influence of feedback on the MTC estimate by noise analysis, Proceedings of the 7th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC & HMIT 2010), Las Vegas, Nevada, November 7-11, 2010, pp. 662-669.

Griet Monteyne, Peter Baeten, Johan Schoukens, Study of the precision of the MTC estimate by noise analysis, Proceedings of the 7th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC & HMIT 2010), Las Vegas, Nevada, November 7-11, 2010, pp. 617-625.

John Lataire, Rik Pintelon, Parametric Frequency Domain Identification of a Time-Varying System as a Time-dependent Weighted Sum of Time-Invariant Systems, 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, USA, December 15-17, 2010, pp. 2029-2034.

Johan Schoukens, Yves Rolain, Rik Pintelon, On the Use of Parametric and Non-Parametric Noise-models in time- and frequency domain System Identification, 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, USA, December 15-17, 2010, pp. 316-321.

Tillmann Falck, Johan A.K. Suykens, Johan Schoukens, Bart De Moor, Nuclear Norm Regularization for Overparametrized Hammerstein Systems, 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, USA, December 15-17, 2010, pp. 7202-7207.

KUL 2

Osipov Nikolay N., Cools Ronald, Noskov Michael V., Extremal lattices and the construction of lattice rules, Applied Mathematics and Computation, volume 217, issue 9, pages 4397-4407, 2011.

Goovaerts Marc, Vandewalle Stefan, Van Daele Marnix, Special Issue: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics (ICCAM-2008), Ghent, Belgium, 7-11 July, 2008, Preface, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, volume 234, issue 4, page 949, 2010.

Mallela Venkata Rama Rao, Pownuk Andrzej, Vandewalle Stefan, Moens David, Transient response of structures with uncertain structural parameters, Structural Safety, volume 32, issue 6, pages 449-460, 2010.

Michiels Wim, Spectrum based stability analysis and stabilization of systems described by delay differential algebraic equations, TW Reports, volume TW582, 22 pages, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, December 2010.

Van Barel Marc, Van Assche Walter, Gonzalez-Vera Pablo, Levrie Paul, Rolling Waves in Leuven 2008: An International Workshop on the occasion of Adhemar Bultheel's 60th birthday - Preface, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, volume 235, issue 4, pages 879-881, 2010.

Vannieuwenhoven Nick, Meerbergen Karl, IMF: An incomplete multifrontal LU-factorization for element-structured sparse linear systems, TW Reports, volume TW581, 34 pages, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, December 2010.

ULB

M. Galvez-Carrillo, M. Kinnaert, Sensor fault detection and isolation in doubly-fed induction generators accounting for parameter variations, Renewable Energy, vol 36, pp 1447-1457, 2011.

B. Boulkroune, M. Galvez-Carrillo, M. Kinnaert, Robust sensor fault detection and isolation for a doubly-fed induction generator, In Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp 1600-1606.

Y. Dehouck, J.-M. Kwasigroch, D. Gilis, M. Rooman, ''PoPMuSiC 2.1 : a web server for the estimation of protein stability changes upon mutation and sequence optimality'', submitted, 2010.

B. Boulkroune, M. Galvez-Carrillo, M. Kinnaert, Combined signal and model-based sensor fault diagnosis for a doubly-fed induction generator, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 2010.

Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks

The SOCN Graduate School 2010-2011 programme is available on-line : http://sites-test.uclouvain.be/socn/.

The next course, entitled "Game dynamics and the Evolution of Cooperation", will be given by Karl SIGMUND (University of Vienna, Austria) on February 7, 9, 11, 21, 23, 25, 2011 (9:15-12:15) at K.U.Leuven, Building ESAT, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, B-3001 Heverlee (room 00.62).

More information about this course : http://sites-test.uclouvain.be/socn/Courses/Courses2010-2

On-line registrations are welcome via this form.

Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools

Graduate course - Optimization on matrix manifolds

Dates: 14-18 February 2011
Venue: EECI Graduate School on Control in Paris

Lecturers:

  • Pierre-Antoine Absil (Université catholique de Louvain)
  • Rodolphe Sepulchre (Université de Liège)

For more information, please refer to the course web page : http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~absil/EECI2011/

The registration form, as well as the full programme of the HYCON-EECI Graduate School for Spring 2011, are available from http://www.eeci-institute.eu/GSC2011.

We would appreciate it if you could pass this information to any person who might be interested.

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
UMONSAlain Vande Wouwer

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