Message of the Coordinator

Let me use this opportunity to remind you that one of the strongest points of our IAP network is the organization of joint activities such as the study days, the Benelux Meeting and the Graduate School.

The success of these events depends on your participation, which is why I want to particularly draw your attention to the upcoming Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control to be held in Vossemeren on March 15-17, 2011. Right now is the time to preregister for this event, which will feature plenaries by Efstratios Pistikopoulos, Michel Gevers, René van de Molengracht and José Tenreiro Machado.

The promotors are also busy preparing our Spring study day which will be held on May 16th rather than the previously announced date of May 17th. Please adapt your agendas ! We will announce the program here as soon as it is available.

I hope to see many of you at these events !

Paul Van Dooren
DYSCO coordinator

Staff Movements and Visitors

KUL 1
  • February 1, 2011 : Wei Jiang (Promotor M. Diehl)
VUB-ELEC
  • Per Landin, Academy of Technology and Built Environment, University of Gävle, Sweden: 1/2/2011 until 31/6/2011.
  • Benjamin Sanchez, Electronic and Biomedical Instrumentation Group, IEB, Barcelona, Spain: 21/2/2011 until 25/2/2011.
KUL 2
  • Kris Demarsin and Kristian Debrabant (Postdocs) left the KUL2 team. Kristian will take a position as Vertretungsprofessor at the University of Mannheim.
UMONS
  • On December 15, 2010, Micaela Benavides (Master in Electrical Engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)) joined our group as a PhD candidate. Micaela is working on modeling and state estimation in micro-algae cultures under the supervision of Alain Vande Wouwer.
  • On January 15, 2011, Guilherme Pimentel (Master in Electrical Engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)) joined our group as a PhD candidate. Guilherme is working on modeling and control of membrane reactor under the supervision of Alain Vande Wouwer and Alain Rapaport (INRA-MISTEA, Montpellier).
  • Prof. Lino O. Santos, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal, is visiting the Control Department from January 18 to 21, 2011.
  • Prof. Olivier Bernard, COMORE, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis, is visiting the Control Department on January 21, 2011.
  • Dr. Edmundo Rocha, Departamento de Ingeniería Mecatrónica, Facultad de Ingeniería, UNAM, Mexico, is visiting the Control Department from January 8 to February 12, 2011.

Seminars

KUL 1
  • February 9, 2011 - Room ESAT 01.57 - 11:00-12:00 - SISTA Seminar
    Maria Isabel Osorio, Assessment of quantification of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) signals : lineshape, baseline and residual evaluation.
  • February 16, 2011 - Room ESAT 00.62 - 11:00-12:00 - SISTA Seminar
    Diana Sima (K.U.Leuven, ESAT-SCD), Extensive comparison of baseline estimation methods in magnetic resonance spectroscopic signals.
  • February 22, 2011 - Room ESAT 00.68 - 15:00-16:00 - K.U.Leuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering
    Jorn Baayen (Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics (DIAM)), Tracking control with adaption of kites.
  • February 23, 2011 - 09:00-14:00 - OPTEC Kite Power Group Meeting and ERC HIGHWIND Kick-Off.

Theses Defenses

VUB-ELEC
  • Mohamed Reda Amin El-Barkouky, Use and modeling of overtone resonances in FBAR resonators operating at RF frequencies, 27 January 2011.
ULB
  • Manuel GALVEZ CARRILLO, Sensor fault diagnosis for wind-driven doubly-fed induction generators - January 5, 2011 - ULB, Campus du Solbosch.

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL

G. Bastin, J.-M. Coron, On boundary feedback stabilisation of non-uniform linear 2 × 2 hyperbolic systems over a bounded interval, submitted to Systems and Control Letters.

N. Gillis, F. Glineur, Low-Rank Matrix Approximation with Weights or Missing Data is NP-hard, submitted.

O. Devolder, F. Glineur and Y. Nesterov, First-order Methods of Smooth Convex Optimization with Inexact Oracle, submitted.

A. Browet, P.-A. Absil, P. Van Dooren, Community Detection for Hierarchical Image Segmentation, accepted for presentation at IWCIA 2011, Madrid, Spain, May 23-25, 2011.

A. Browet, P.-A. Absil, P. Van Dooren, Community Detection for Hierarchical Video Segmentation, submitted to IMACS 2011, Marrakesh, Morocco, May 18-21, 2011.

V.A. Traag, P. Van Dooren, Y. Nesterov, Indirect Reciprocity Through Gossiping Can Lead to Cooperative Clusters, accepted for presentation at IEEE Alife 2011, Paris, France, April 11–15, 2011.

H. Akçay, Frequency domain subspace-based identification of discrete-time power spectra from uniformly spaced measurements, Automatica, 47, 2011, p. 363-367.

KUL 1

Van Belle V., Non-linear survival models and their applications within breast cancer prognosis, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Dec. 2010, 210 p., Lirias number: 283142.

Varon C., Alzate C., Suykens J.A.K., Debosscher J., Kernel Spectral Clustering of Time Series in the CoRoT Exoplanet Database, Internal Report 11-01, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011, Lirias number: 283142.

Cooreman C., Sclocco R., Tana M. G., Vanderperren K., Visani E., Panzica F., Franceschetti S., Van Huffel S., Cerutti S., Bianchi A. M., BOLD Correlates of Alpha and Beta EEG-Rhythm during a Motor Task, Internal Report 11-03, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Osorio Garcia M., Sima D., Nielsen F., Dresselaers T., Van Leuven F., Himmelreich U., Van Huffel S., Quantification of in vivo 1H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) signals with baseline and lineshape estimation, Internal Report 11-05, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Osorio Garcia M., Sima D., Nielsen F., Himmelreich U., Van Huffel S., Damping factor constraints and metabolite profile selection influence magnetic resonance spectroscopy data quantification, Internal Report 11-06, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Lintermans A., Van Calster B., Van Hoydonck M., Pans S., Verhaeghe J., Westhovens R., Wildiers H., Paridaens R., Dieudonne A.S., Leunen K., Christiaens M.R., Neven P., Aromatase inhibitor induced loss of grip strength is body mass index dependent suggesting an effect on the growth hormone - insulin-like growth factor-I axis, Internal Report 11-07, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011. Accepted for publication in Annals of Oncology, Lirias number: 282334.

Roislien J., Van Calster B., Hjelmesaeth J., Parathyroid hormone is a mediator for the metabolic syndrome in the morbidly obese: a cross-sectional study, Internal Report 11-08, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Van Calster B., Van Belle V., Vergouwe Y., Timmerman D., Van Huffel S., Steyerberg E.S., Extending the concordance probability to nominal and ordinal polytomous outcomes: The Polytomous Discrimination Index, Internal Report 11-09, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Steyerberg E.W., Pencina M.J., Lingsma H.F., Kattan M.W., Vickers A.J., Van Calster B., Assessing the incremental value of diagnostic markers: a review and illustration, Internal Report 11-10, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Van Calster B., Van Holsbeke C., Valentin L., Zhang J., Jurkovic D., Lissoni A.A., Testa A.C, Czekierdowski A., Fischerova D., Domali E., Van de Putte G., Vergote I., Van Huffel S., Bourne T., Timmerman D., Interpreting serum CA-125 levels in patients with ovarian and other adnexal masses: a multicenter observational study on 3511 patients, Internal Report 11-11, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Van den Bosch T., Van Schoubroeck D., Van Calster B., Cornelis A., Timmerman D., Pre-sampling ultrasound evaluation and assessment of the tissue yield during sampling improves the diagnostic reliability of office endometrial biopsy, Internal Report 11-12, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Taelman J., Analysis of electrophysiological measurements during stress monitoring, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Jan. 2011, 200 p., Lirias number: 288902.

Ferreau H.J., Houska B., Geebelen K., Diehl M., Real-Time Control of a Kite-Carousel using an Auto-Generated Nonlinear MPC Algorithm, Internal Report 11-14, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Ferreau H.J., Houska B., Geebelen K., Diehl M., CAGP ? A Critical Assessment of Candidate Gene Prioritization, Internal Report 11-15, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Rocha P., Willems J.C., Markovian properties of 2D behavioral systems described by PDE's: the scalar case, Internal Report 11-19, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.

Reis T., Willems J.C., A balancing approach to the realization of systems with internal passivity and reciprocity, Systems & Control Letters, vol. 60, no. 1, Jan. 2010, pp. 69-74, Lirias number: 294627.

Willems J.C., Terminals and ports, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, vol. 10, no. 4, Dec. 2010, pp. 8-16, Lirias number: 294628.

Ogura M., Yamamoto Y., Willems J.C., On the dissipativity of pseudorational behaviors, in Proc. of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, USA, Dec. 2010, pp. 1737-1742, Lirias number: 294629.

Yamamoto Y., Willems J.C., Ogura M., Pseudorational behaviors and Bezoutians, in Proc. of the Proceedings of the 19th symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Budapest, Hungary, Jul. 2010, pp. 1917-1921, Lirias number: 294630.

Kuehl P., Diehl M., Kraus T., Schloeder J., Bock H.G., A real-time algorithm for moving horizon state and parameter estimation, Computers and Chemical Engineering, vol. 35, no. 1, Jan. 2011, pp. 71-83, Lirias number: 294631.

UGent-SYSTeMS

M. Moradzadeh, L. Bhojwani, R. Boel, Coordinated Voltage Control via Distributed Model Predictive Control, Accepted for the 23rd IEEE Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC), 23-25 May 2011, Mainyang, China.

E. Quaeghebeur, K. Shariatmadar, G. de Cooman, A constrained optimization problem under uncertainty, Submitted to Fuzzy Sets and Systems.

C. Ionescu, R. Hodrea, R. De Keyser, Variable time-delay estimation for anesthesia control during intensive care, IEEE Trans Biomedical Engineering, 58(2), DOI 10.1109/TBME.2010.2088121, pp. 363-369, 2011.

P. Matgen, M. Montanari, R. Hostache, L. Pfister, L. Hoffmann, D. Plaza, V. Pauwels, G. De Lannoy, R. De Keyser, H. Savenije, Towards the sequential assimilation of SAR-derived water stages into hydraulic model using the Particle Filter: proof of concept, Hydrol. Eart Syst Sci., 14, pp. 1773-1785, 2010.

S. Orjuela, D. Van Daele, F. Rooms, R. De Keyser, W. Philips, Analysing Carpet Wear, SPIE Newsroom, article nr x40831, ISSN 1818-2259, 2 pages, 2010.

S. Orjuela, E. Vansteenkiste, F. Rooms, S. De Meulemeester, R. De Keyser, W. Philips, Feature extraction of the wear label of carpets by using a novel 3D scanner, Int Conf on Optics, Photonics and Digital Technologies for Multimedia Applications, ISBN 9780819481962, Vol 7723, 9 pages, Brussels, Belgium, 2010.

S. Orjuela, E. Vansteenkiste, F. Rooms, S. De Meulemeester, R. De Keyser, W. Philips, A comparison between intensity and depth images for extracting features related to wear labels in carpets, in Int Conf on Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXIII, SPIE Optical Eng and Applications, ISSN 0277-786X, ISBN 9780819482945, 8 pages, Vol 7798, Washington, USA, 2010.

S. Orjuela, E. Vansteenkiste, F. Rooms, S. De Meulemeester, R. De Keyser, W. Philips, Texture wear analysis in textile floor coverings by using depth information, in XV Simposio de Tratamiento de Senales, Imagenes y Vision Artificial (STSIVA), pp. 101-106, ISBN 9789588060965, Bogota, Colombia, 2010.

S. Orjuela, E. Vansteenkiste, F. Rooms, S. De Meulemeester, R. De Keyser, W. Philips, Automated wear label assessment in carpets by using local binary pattern statistics on depth and intensity images, IEEE Latinscom & Andescom (Latino-American Conf on Communications), ISBN, 9781424467426, 5 pages, New York, USA, 2010.

VUB-ELEC

Zhi Li, M. Wedrowski, P. Bruyndonckx, G. Vandersteen, Nonlinear least-squares modeling of 3D interaction position in a monolithic scintillator block, Phys. Med. Biol. 55 (2010) 6515–6532.

L. Lauwers, K. Barbé, W. Van Moer, R. Pintelon, Analyzing Rice distributed functional MRI data: a Bayesian approach, Meas. Sci. Technol. Vol. 21, No. 11 (2010) 115804 (12pp).

K. Barbe, R. Pintelon, J. Schoukens, L. Lauwers, Improved Variance Estimates of FRF Measurements in the Presence of Nonlinear Distortions Via Overlap, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 300-309, 2011.

K. Barbé, R. Pintelon, G. Vandersteen, Finite Record Effects of the Errors-in-Variables Estimator for Linear Dynamic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 642-654, 2011.

KUL 2

Bultheel Adhemar, Book review Apocalypes when? Calculating how long the human race will survive (W. Wells), BMS-NCM News, volume 81, pages 1-2, Belgian Mathematical Society, January 2011.

Bultheel Adhemar, Book reviews Five-minute mathematics (E. Behrends) and A mathematical medley, fifty easy pieces of mathematics (G.F. Szpiro), BMS-NCM News, volume 81, pages 3-4, Belgian Mathematical Society, January 2011.

Gumussoy Suat, On the relative stability of closed-loop SISO dead-time systems: non-imaginary axis case, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 2011 (Accepted).

Vandereycken Bart, Riemannian and Multilevel Optimization for Rank-Constrained Matrix Problems with Applications to Lyapunov Equations, PhD Thesis, Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen, December 2010, Vandewalle, Stefan (supervisor).

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.

Vyhlidal Tomas, Michiels Wim, MacGahan Paul, Synthesis of a strongly stable state-derivatie controller for a time delay system using constrained nonsmooth optimization, IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, volume 27, issue 4, pages 437-455, 2010.

Cools Ronald, Poppe Koen, Chebyshev lattices, a unifying framework for cubature with Chebyshev weight function, BIT Numerical Mathematics, 2011, accepted.

ULB

T. Konopka, Automated analysis of biological oscillator models using mode decomposition, submitted (2010).

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

UMONS

C. Vilas, A. Vande Wouwer, Combination of Multi-Model Predictive Control and the Wave Theory for the Control of Simulated Moving Bed Plants, Chemical Engineering Science 66 (2011), 632-641.

J. Mailier, A. Delmotte, M. Cloutier, M. Jolicoeur, A. Vande Wouwer, Parametric sensitivity analysis and reduction of a detailed nutritional model of plant cell cultures, Biotechnology & Bioengineering (2011, in press).

M. Duvinage, T. Castermans, T. Dutoit, Control of a lower limb active prosthesis with eye movement sequences, accepted for presentation at the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain, 2011, Paris, France.

M. Duvinage, T. Castermans, T. Hoellinger, J. Reumaux, Human Walk Modeled by PCPG to Control a Lower Limb Neuroprosthesis by High-Level Commands, accepted for presentation at the 2nd International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2011, Orlando, USA.

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 course "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

In March, Roberto TEMPO will give a course entitled Randomized Algorithms for Systems and Control: Theory and Applications.
More information about this course : http://sites-test.uclouvain.be/socn/Courses/Courses2010-3

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.

Vacancies

Université de Liège, Belgium
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Institut Montefiore)
http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/

The department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at ULg invites applications for three full-time faculty positions in Computer Science:

  • Algorithms for large-scale systems (distributed systems, large-scale data mining, information networks, communication networks, ...)
  • Algorithms for systems in interaction with their physical environment (computer vision, multimedia signal analysis, sensor and actuator networks, fusion of physical and heterogenous data, autonomous systems, intelligent systems, ...)
  • Distributed computer systems and security (data security management, cryptography, cybersecurity, computer networks and distributed computing security, …)

Applicants should demonstrate a strong commitment to research and teaching. They should have a doctoral degree, a high-level research experience in at least one of the targeted areas, and a recognized scientific publication record. Appointment level will depend on the candidates and their records of accomplishment. Applicants should be able to teach in English but are also expected to teach in French, possibly after a transition period.

Founded in 1817, the Université de Liège offers a complete range of university courses at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. It is divided into nine faculties and schools: Philosophy and Letters; Law and School of Criminology; Sciences; Medicine; Applied Sciences; Veterinary Medicine; Psychology and Educational Sciences; HEC Management School-ULg; and the Institute for Human and Social Sciences.

Within the Faculté des Sciences appliquées (school of engineering), the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science offers several programs to undergraduate and graduate students. Teaching and research areas include electrical engineering, computer science and biomedical engineering. The department has a strong tradition of excellence and is committed to offer an international and attractive environment for research and teaching.

Further information about the positions can be obtained from Professor Rodolphe Sepulchre, Email: r.sepulchre@ulg.ac.be.

For fullest consideration, applications should be sent by March 31st, 2011. However, the positions will remain open until filled.

Applicants are invited to follow the application procedure described at http://www.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
UMONSAlain Vande Wouwer

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