Message of the Coordinator
Dear DYSCO members,
As you know, the promotors and workpackage coordinators are now quite busy preparing the new proposal for the next version of DYSCO. So if they ask you to contribute to this new proposal in any way, please reply promptly; it will help us to finalize the proposal in optimal conditions. And we think that our chances to get the extension of this IAP funding is quite high, so let us keep our fingers crossed ...
Meanwhile the end of the current IAP is getting closer. The last study day of our IAP will be organized by Joos Vandewalle and Dirk Roose of the K.U.Leuven groups. It will be held at the Thermotechnisch Instituut, Kasteelpark Arenberg, Heverlee on Tuesday November 29th.
We will have two excellent invited speakers: Larry Biegler from Carnegie Mellon University (optimization, nonlinear process control), and Henk Nijmeijer from T.U.Eindhoven (nonlinear dynamical control systems). More information on the program will follow as soon as it is available, but please book this date already in your agenda.
I also want to point out that the new program of our Graduate School is already available on the web, and that you can already sign up for any of the courses. Below you will find some information about the first course which already starts in October.
Paul Van Dooren
DYSCO coordinator
Staff Movements and Visitors
UCL
- Xuansheng Wang (School of Mathematical Sciences, Xiamen University, People's Republic of China), PhD student, joined us in May 2011 for a one-year research stay. He works under the supervision of François Glineur and Paul Van Dooren.
- Federico Gularte (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain), post-doc researcher, joined us on September 1 for a one-year research stay. He will work on the topic "Computer-aided food processes for control engineering" under the supervision of Denis Dochain.
- Alexandre Bazanella (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil) will visit us from 5 to 9 September. He will work with Michel Gevers.
KUL 1
- 15/09/2011 : Yipeng Liu (postdoc), promotor S. Van Huffel.
- 26/09/2011 : Marin Matija, promotor J. Suykens.
KUL 2
- Suat Gumussoy (postdoc, working with Wim Michiels) has left the KUL2 team.
- KUL2 welcomes Gijs Hilhorst (PhD student, supervisors Jan Swevers, Wim Michiels and Goele Pipeleers).
Seminars
KUL 1
- September 7, 2011 - 11:00-12:00, Room ESAT - Aud. A : K.U.Leuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering
Deterministic Global Optimization of Dynamic Systems: State-of-the-Art and Opportunities by Benoit Chachuat (Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London). - September 22, 2011 - 15:00, Room ESAT 00.62 : KULeuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering
Convex Tensor Decomposition with Performance Guarantee by Ryota Tomioka (University of Tokyo).
Theses defenses
KUL 1
- September 7, 2011, 17:00, Room ESAT – Aud A : "Robust Optimization of Dynamic Systems", Boris Houska (K.U. Leuven, ESAT-SCD)
- September 16, 2011, 10:00, Room ESAT – Aud A : "Efficient numerical methods for moving horizon estimation", Niels Haverbeke (K.U. Leuven, ESAT-SCD)
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
K. A. Gallivan, C. Qi, P.-A. Absil, A Riemannian Dennis-Moré condition, Submitted, 2011.
V.A. Traag, P. Van Dooren, Y. Nesterov, Narrow scope for resolution-limit-free community detection, Phys. Rev. E 84, 016114, 2011.
Z. Zhang, X. Wang and Q. Xin, A New Performance Metric for Construction of Robust and Efficient Wireless Backbone Network, IEEE Transactions on Computers, accepted, 2011.
Q. Xin, J.-C. Delvenne, Z. Zhang, W. He, Improved Compact Routing Scheme with Applications in Static Sensor Networks and Internet, Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conferences on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, (Invited Paper), IEEE CPSCom 2011, accepted.
Q. Xin, Faster Treasure Hunt and Better Strongly Universal Exploration Sequences, invited to Theoretical Computer Science, submitted, 2011.
Q. Xin, F. Manne et al., Almost Optimal Distributed M2M Multicasting in Wireless Mesh Networks, submitted to Theoretical Computer Science, 2011.
Q. Xin and F. Manne, Latency-Optimal Communication in Wireless Mesh Networks, submitted to Algorithmica, 2011.
W. Feng, J. Cao, L. Yang, Q. Xin and J. Li, Interference-Aware Cooperative QoS Routing in Multi-hop Wireless Networks, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2011.
Q. Xin, X. Yao and W. He, Energy Optimal Selection of Access Points in Wireless Sensor Networks, invited to Mathematical and Computer Modelling, submitted, 2011.
KUL 1
De Vos M., Cherian P.J., Deburchgraeve W., Swarte R.M., Govaert P. Van Huffel S. and Visser G.H., Automated neonatal brain monitoring, in Chapter of Neonatal Monitoring Technologies: Design for Integrated Solutions, (Chen W., and Bambang Oetomo S. and Feijs L., eds.), IGI Global (Hershey, Pennsylvania (USA)), 2011, pp. 1-15.
Serizel R., Integrated active noise control and noise reduction in hearing aids, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Jun. 2011, 187 p.
Bonilla J., Structure and conexity exploitation in nonlinear chemical process modeling and estimation, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), May 2011, 216 p.
Ngo K., Digital signal processing algorithms for noise reduction, dynamic range compression, and feedback cancellation in hearing aids, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Jul. 2011, 193 p.
Bottomley C., Van Belle V., Pexsters A., Papageorghiou A., Mukri F., Kirk E., Van Huffel S., Timmerman D., Bourne T., A model and scoring system to predict outcome of intrauterine pregnancies of uncertain viability, Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol. 37, no. 5, 2011, pp. 588-595.
Bisitz T., Hohmann V., Spriet A., Madhu N., Wouters J., Moonen M., Charakterisiering von feedback-management-systemen in kommerziellen horgeraten, in Abstract of the 14. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Audiologie Lärm und Gehör'', Jena, Germany, Mar. 2011, pp. 76.
Houska B., Robust Optimization of Dynamic Systems, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Aug. 2011, 304 p.
Mijovic B., De Vos M., Matic V., Van Huffel S., Independent Component Analysis as a Preprocessing step for Data Compression of Neonatal EEG, in Proc. of the 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'11), Boston, MA, Aug. 2011.
Osorio Garcia M.I., Croitor Sava A., Sima D.M., Nielsen F.U., Himmelreich U., Van Huffel S., Quantification improvements of 1H MRS signals, in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, (Kim DH., ed.), INTECH open access publisher (Rijeka, Croatia), 2011, pp. 1-26.
UGent-SYSTeMS
Mihaylova, Lyudmila; Hegyi, Andreas; Boel, Rene K.; Gning, El hadji Amadou, Parallelized Particle and Gaussian Sum Particle Filters for Large Scale Freeway Traffic Systems, accepted for publication as a regular paper in Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Nicolae Marinica, Rene Boel, ''Particle filter for platoon based models of urban traffic, In Proc. of the 15th WSEAS International Conference on Systems, July 2011, Corfu, Greece.
Nicolae Marinica, Rene Boel, Particle Filter State Estimator for Large Urban Networks, Australian Control Conference 2011, November 2011, Melbourne, Australia.
VUB-ELEC
T. Ivanov, B.D.O. Anderson, P.-A. Absil and M. Gevers, Information inequality for estimation of transfer functions: main results, Proceedings 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano (Italy), Aug. 28-Sept. 2, 2011.
Griet Monteyne, Peter Baeten, Johan Schoukens, Guidelines to determine the optimal variables for the MTC measurement by noise analysis, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 38, No. 9 (2011), pp. 1924-1929
Griet Monteyne, Peter Baeten, Johan Schoukens, Study of the bias of the MTC estimate by noise analysis due to the presence of feedback, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 38, No. 9 (2011), pp. 1964-1967
Veerle Beelaerts, Maite Bauwens, Emma Versteegh, Frank Dehairs, Rik Pintelon, Periodic Time-Series Modeling of Environmental Proxy Records with Guaranteed Positive Growth Rate Estimation, Mathematical Geosciences (2011) DOI 10.1007/s11004-011-9352-7
M. Van de Walle, T. De Troyer, J. Schoukens, Experimental validati on of a new frequency-domain flutter speed prediction algorithm using a simplified linear aeroelastic model, IFASD 2011, 15th International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics, Paris, June 26-29, 2011, 9pp.
David Rijlaarsdam, Pieter Nuij, Johan Schoukens and Maarten Steinbuch, Frequency Domain Based Friction Compensation - Industrial Application to Transmission Electron Microscopes, 2011 American Control Conference on O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 29-July 01, 2011, pp. 4093-4098
Clara Ionescu, Johan Schoukens and Robin De Keyser, Detecting and analyzing non-linear effects in respiratory impedance measurements, 2011 American Control Conference on O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 29-July 01, 2011, pp. 5412-5417
E. Louarroudi, J. Lataire and R. Pintelon, Frequency domain total least squares identification of linear, periodically time-varying systems from noisy input-output data, Proceedings 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano (Italy), Aug. 28-Sept. 2, 2011
J. Lataire, R. Pintelon, Frequency domain errors-in-variables identification of a time-varying, discrete time system, Proceedings 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano (Italy), Aug. 28-Sept. 2, 2011.
Anne Van Mulders, Laurent Vanbeylen, Johan Schoukens, Identification of systems with localized nonlinearity: from state-space to block-structured models, European Research Network on System Identification workshop (ERNSI 2011), Nice (France), 25-28 September 2011
Koen Tiels, Johan Schoukens, Parameter reduction of a Wiener model using the best linear approximation, European Research Network on System Identification workshop (ERNSI 2011), Nice (France), 25-28 September 2011
Griet Monteyne, Diana Ugryumova and Gerd Vandersteen, Under modeling and Border effect of Local Polynomial method, European Research Network on System Identification workshop (ERNSI 2011), Nice (France), 25-28 September 2011
Laurent Vanbeylen, Comparison of some efficient black- and grey-box nonlinear model structures, European Research Network on System Identification workshop (ERNSI 2011), Nice (France), 25-28 September 2011
Maarten Schoukens, Yves Rolain, Gerd Vandersteen, One-step identification of parallel Hammerstein systems, European Research Network on System Identification workshop (ERNSI 2011), Nice (France), 25-28 September 2011
Anna Marconato and Johan Schoukens, On the use of Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines for the identification of nonlinear state space models, European Research Network on System Identification workshop (ERNSI 2011), Nice (France), 25-28 September 2011
KUL 2
Arbter, R.; Beraud, J. M.; Binetruy, C. et al, Experimental determination of the permeability of textiles: a benchmark exercise, Composites A, Applied Science and Manufacturing, volume 42, issue 9, pages 1157-1168, 2011.
Corveleyn, S.; Vandewalle, S., A polynomial response surface approach for the solution of fuzzy elliptic partial differential equations, De Roeck, Guido; Degrande, Geert; Lombaert, Geert; Müller, Gerhard (eds.), EURODYN 2011, Leuven, Belgium, 4-6 July 2011, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Structural Dynamics, pages 3049-3055.
Deckers, K.; Lubinsky, D., Christoffel functions and universality limits for orthogonal rational functions, Analysis and Applications, 2011 (Accepted).
Frederix, Y.; Samaey, G.; Roose, D., An analysis of noise propagation in the multiscale simulation of coarse Fokker-Planck equations, ESAIM, Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis, volume 45, issue 3, pages 541-561, 2011.
Gumussoy, S., Coprime inner/outer factorization of SISO time-delay systems and FIR structure of their optimal H-infinity controllers, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2011 (Accepted).
Gumussoy, S.; Michiels, W., Fixed-order strong H-infinity control of interconnected systems with time-delays, World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, Milano, Italy, 28 August-2 September 2011.
Gumussoy, S.; Michiels, W., On the sensitivity of the H-infinity norm of interconnected systems with time-delays, World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, Milano, Italy, 28 August-2 September 2011.
Gumussoy, S.; Michiels, W., Root locus for SISO dead-time systems: a continuation based approach, Automatica, 2011 (Accepted).
Gumussoy, S.; Michiels, W., Fixed-order H-infinity control for interconnected systems using delay differential algebraic equations, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2011 (Accepted).
Jarlebring, E.; Michiels, W., Analyzing the convergence factor of residual inverse iteration, BIT, 2011 (Accepted)
Jarlebring, E.; Michiels, W.; Meerbergen, K., The infinite Arnoldi method and an application to time-delay systems with distributed delay, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, 2011 (Accepted).
Jarlebring, E.; Michiels, W.; Meerbergen, K., A linear eigenvalue algorithm for the nonlinear eigenvalue problem, Numerische Mathematik, 2011 (Submitted).
Kvaal, S.; Jarlebring, E.; Michiels, W., Computing singularities of perturbation series, Physical Review A, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, volume 83, 2011.
Michiels, W.; Jarlebring, E.; Meerbergen, K., Krylov based model order reduction of time-delay systems, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 2011 (Accepted).
Poppe, K.; Cools, R., In search for good Chebyshev lattices, TW Reports, volume TW598, 11 pages, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, July 2011.
Tran Dinh, Q.; Gumussoy, S.; Michiels, W.; Diehl, M., Combining convex-concave decompositions and linearization approaches for solving BMIs, with application to static output feedback, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2011 (Accepted).
Verleye, B.; Henri, P.; Wuyts, R.; Lapenta, G.; Meerbergen, K., Implementation of a 2D electrostatic particle in cell algorithm in Unified Parallel C with dynamic load-balancing, Vazquez, Mariano (ed.), ParCFD, Barcelona, 16-20 June 2011, Proceedings of the 23rd Interational Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Verleye, B.; Lomov, S.; Roose, D., Modelling of the permeability of non-crimp fabrics for composites, Lomov, S. V. (ed.), Non-crimp Fabric Composites: Manufacturing, Properties and Applications, Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2011.
Verleye, B.; Walbran, W. A.; Bickerton, S.; Kelly, P. A., Simulation and experimental validation of force controlled compression resin transfer molding, Journal of Composite Materials, volume 45, issue 7, pages 815-829, 2011.
Jarlebring, E.; Kvaal, S.; Michiels, W.', Computing all pairs (lambda,mu) such that lambda is a double eigenvalue of A+mu B'', SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 2010 (Accepted).
ULB
Emanuele Garone, Francesco Tedesco, Alessandro Casavola, Sensorless Supervision of Linear Dynamical Systems: The Feed-Forward Command Governor Approach, Automatica, Volume 47, Issue 7, July 2011, pp. 1294-1303.
Emanuele Garone, Roberto Naldi, Alessandro Casavola, A Traveling Salesman Problem for a Class of Carrier-Vehicle System, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Volume 34, No. 4, July–August 2011, pp. 1272-1276.
Jaroslav Albert and Marianne Rooman, Dynamic modeling of gene expression in prokaryotes: application to glucose-lactose diauxie in Escherichia coli, Syst Synth Biol 5 (2011) 33-43.
Gerd Patrick Bienert, Damien Cavez, Arnaud Besserer, Marie Berny, Dimitri Gilis, Marianne Rooman and François Chaumont, A conserved cysteine residue involved in disulphide bond formation between plant plasma membrane aquaporin monomers controls oligomer stability, submitted (2011).
Alessandro Casavola, Emanuele Garone, Francesco Tedesco, Distributed Reference Management Strategies for a Networked Water Distribution System, IFAC World Congress, Milan 2011.
Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks
The SOCN Graduate School 2011-2012 programme is available on-line : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/
The next course is entitled Topics in Mathematical and Systems Biology. It will be given by Patrick DE LEENHEER (University of Florida, USA) and Eric BULLINGER (Université de Liège) on October 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 2011 (9:15-12:15) at UCL, bâtiment Euler, 4 av. Georges Lemaître, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (seminar room).
More information about this course : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/Courses/Courses2011-1
On-line registrations are welcome via this form.
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 |
| UMONS | Alain Vande Wouwer |