Message of the Coordinator

First I would like to wish all members of the DYSCO network, and in particular the newcomers - 23 of them are listed in this newsletter -, a great start for this new academic year.

The kick-off meeting for your network will take place on Monday October 8. On the day after that, all DYSCO members are invited to attend the JojoFest to celebrate our dear colleague Georges Bastin. If you are still thirsty for science and fun after that, DYSCO members are also invited to participate in a day long workshop on contraction analysis in Louvain-la-Neuve. Make sure to attend if you want to find out how the area looks after 15 years of contraction.

The program for these activities are all available here.
Please make sure to register in time!

I wish you all a wonderful start for 2012-2013.

Vincent Blondel
DYSCO coordinator


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The newsletter Dysco News is the monthly newsletter of the Belgian Interuniversity Attraction Pole "Dynamical systems, control and optimization" (DYSCO) funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office. The DYSCO network includes partners at UCL, KUL, UGent, VUB, ULg, UMons, FUNDP, and international partners at Stanford, Princeton and MIT. It is the Belgian National member of IFAC. The newsletter contains information on research activities (visitors, seminars, publications, vacancies, etc.) related to dynamical systems, control and optimization. Subscription is free and open to anyone: subscribe here, or unsubscribe.


Staff Movements and Visitors

KUL

Staff :

  • Greg Horn (PhD student), promotor M. Diehl, 12/07/2012

Visitors :

  • Sonja Rauski : promotor M. Diehl (01/09/2012-28/02/2013)
  • Arsin Gruenig : promotor M. Diehl (01/09/2012-28/02/2013)
  • Vryan Palma : promotor M. Diehl (24/09/2012-23/12/2012)
VUB

Staff :

  • Adam Cooman (1/08/2012)
  • Matthias Caenepeel (1/09/2012)
  • Hannes Maes (15/09/2012)

Visitors :

  • Rafael Karrer, Technical University Vienna, IAESTE student (24/08/2012-04/10/2012)
  • Luka Hafner, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, IAESTE student (01/09/2012-17/12/2012)
  • Robert Kucera, IAESTE student (03/09/2012-17/12/2012)
  • Sandor Kolumban, PhD student Budapest University of Technology (17/09/2012-16/10/2012)
ULg

PhD students :

  • Barbel MAUS (Thesis advisor : Kristel Van Steen)
  • Kirill BESSONOW (Thesis advisor : Kristel Van Steen)
  • Jestinah MAHACHIE JOHN (Thesis advisor : Kristel Van Steen)
  • François VAN LISHOUT (Thesis advisor : Kristel Van Steen)
  • Quentin GEMINE (Thesis advisor: D. Ernst)
  • Sébastien MATHIEU (Thesis advisors : Q. Louveaux and D. Ernst)
  • Arnaud-Aymeric GIBAULT NOWAK (Thesis advisor : D. Ernst)
  • Michael CASTRONOVO (Thesis advisor : D. Ernst)

Postdocs :

  • Efthymios KARANGELOS has joined the Systmod Research Unit as a post doc for working in the field of Smart Grids (Host : D. Ernst)
  • Vân Anh HUYNH-THU will work on the item Machine learning-based approaches for the inference of gene regulatory networks. Hosts : P. Geurts and L. Wehenkel.
FUNDP
  • naXys is receiving for a short stay Dave Murray-Rust from the University of Edinburgh, from the 29th of August to the 1st of September. Dave holds a PhD in Informatics, works with Agent-Based modeling and he is interested in social interactions and musical experiments. More at http://www.mo-seph.com/academic.
  • Lucien Zihindula, Université Catholique de Bukavu (Congo), is visiting naXys for six weeks starting on the 1rst of September. He will work notably with André Füzfa on applications of Hopf fibration in differential geometry.

Seminars

UCL
  • November 16, 2012 - 11:00 - Euler seminar room
    Samuel Martin (University of Grenoble, France), Coordination and robustness in dynamical multi-agents systems
KUL
  • September 4, 2012 – 11:30-12:30 - SISTA Seminar, ESAT 00.62
    Dana Lahat (Tel-Aviv University), Second-Order Multidimensional ICA : theory and methods
  • September 20, 2012 – 14:00 - KU Leuven Seminar on Optimization in Engineering, ESAT 02.58
    Anna Marconato (title to be announced)
  • September 27, 2012 – 10:30-11:30 - SISTA Seminar, ESAT 02.58
    Jan Luts (School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney), Real-time semiparametric regression.
ULg

Systmod weekly seminars normally take place on each Friday, 11am. They are announced on this webpage.

FUNDP
  • Thursday the 30th August at 12h50-13h50, Salle de conférences (n° 210), 2nd floor Department of Mathematics, Rempart de la Vierge 8, FUNDP, Namur : Agent Based Models of Socio-ecological systems, by Dave Murray-Rust from the Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability, University of Edinburgh.
  • Tuesday the 4th September at 15h, room MA2 (E22), 2nd floor Department of Mathematics, Rempart de la Vierge 8, FUNDP, Namur : Fibrations de Hopf et applications: Constructions d'illustrations explicites à usage didactique pour le cas de la sphère S3, by Lucien Zihindula, Université Catholique de Bukavu (Congo).

Theses defenses

UCL
  • Thomas Cason, Role extraction in networks. Promotors : P-A Absil, P. Van Dooren. September 5, 2012 - 16:00, in Auditorium BARB 94, Place Sainte Barbe, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.
  • Emile Simon, A perspective for optimization in systems and control: from LMIs to derivative-free methods. Promotor : Vincent Wertz. September 21, 2012 - 16:30 in Auditorium BARB 94, Place Sainte Barbe, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.
FUNDP

On Friday the 28th of September, Patrick Laloyaux will have his public defence of his PhD thesis (supervised by Prof. Annick Sartenaer) entitled Développements de nouvelles méthodes d'optimisation pour l'assimilation de données en océanographie. See the following Web site for more detail : http://agenda.fundp.ac.be/upevent.2012-08-14.7490244933

Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks

The SOCN Graduate School 2012-2013 programme is available on-line : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/

The next course is entitled Real-Time Optimization of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems. It will be given by Martin Guay (Queen's University, Canada) and Denis Dochain (UCL) on September 24, 26, 28 and October 1, 3, 5, 2012 (9:15-12:15) at UCL, Bâtiment Euler, 4 av. Georges Lemaître, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (room A002, ground floor).

More information about this course : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/Courses/Courses2012-1

On-line registrations are welcome via this form.

Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools

PAI VII DYSCO Study Day (Kickoff Meeting), JojoFest and workshop : 8, 9 and 10 October 2012

The program of these three days can be found here : DYSCO Study Day and JojoFest.

Do not forget to register !

Workshop on Modern Nonparametric methods for time series, reliability and optimization

Date : 10/09/2012 – 12/09/2012
Venue : Boardhouse, J. Vandenbemptlaan 6, Heverlee
Web site : http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~sistawww/mnm/index.php

Call for papers : Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks

November 8-9, 2012 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Interdisciplinary workshop for researchers working on information and decisions in social networks.

This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from different communities working on information propagation and decision making in social networks to investigate both rigorous models that highlight capabilities and limitations of such networks as well as empirical and simulations studies of how people exchange information, influence each other, make decisions and develop social interactions.

The workshop is organized by the virtual center Connection Science and Engineering, a multidisciplinary and interdepartmental MIT center that focuses on developing an integrated framework for the study of the connected world we live in. The center is hosted jointly by Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Media Lab, and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

Registration is now open. Please visit the workshop website http://wids.lids.mit.edu/ for more information. We have limited seating available and registration will be processed on a first-come first-serve basis.

Organizers :
Vincent Blondel, UCLouvain (Belgium) and LIDS, MIT
Costis Daskalakis, CSAIL, MIT
David Gamarnik, Sloan School, MIT
Asu Ozdaglar, LIDS, MIT
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Media Lab, MIT
Devavrat Shah, LIDS, MIT
John Tsitsiklis, LIDS, MIT

European Conference on Complex Systems - ECCS 2012

Brussels, 3-7 September 2012, ULB campus

Several members of DYSCO (UCL and FUNDP teams) are participating in this conference as active members of the organizing committee and as scientific contributors.

The conference will cover the following main topics:

  • Foundations of Complex Systems
  • Complexity, Information and Computation
  • Prediction, Policy and Planning, Environment
  • Biological Complexity
  • Interacting Populations, Collective Behavior
  • Social Systems, Economics and Finance

See the ECCS 2012 website for more information.

Call for papers : Special Issue on Fractional Order Modelling and Control in Mechatronic Applications

Journal of Mechatronics (Elsevier)

Editor-in-Chief: Prof Dr Maarten STEINBUCH (TUEindhoven, The Netherlands)

Guest Editors : Dr Clara M. Ionescu (Ghent University), Prof Dr Ricardo Caponneto (University of Catania, Italy), Prof Dr Yang Quan Chen (Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation (MESA) Lab, USA)

The aim of this special issue is to present to the mechatronics research community the usefulness of these tools in a pragmatic context and to stimulate their application. It is in our belief that this special issue will be the milestone of a significant trend in the future of mechatronics.

Topics of this special issue include applications of mechanics, electronics, computing, control engineering, molecular engineering (from nanochemistry and biology), and optical engineering, which, combined, make possible the generation of simpler, more economical, reliable and versatile systems.

For more information, follow this link.

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL

White O, Lefèvre P, Wing AM, Bracewell RM, Thonnard JL, Active collisions in altered gravity reveal eye-hand coordination strategies, PLoS ONE, in press, 2012.

Julien M. Hendrickx and John Tsitsiklis, Convergence of type-symmetric and cut-balanced consensus seeking systems, To appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2012.

Denies, Jonathan ; Dehez, Bruno ; Glineur, François ; Ben Ahmed, Hamid, Genetic algorithm-based topology optimization: Performance improvement through dynamic evolution of the population size, 2012 International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion (SPEEDAM 2012) (Sorrento, Italy, du 20/06/2012 au 22/06/2012). In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion, 2012. 978-1-4673-1299-8, p. 1033-1038.

S. Easter Selvan, A. Chattopadhyay, U. Amato, P.-A. Absil, Range-based non-orthogonal ICA using cross-entropy method, Proceedings of the 20th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2012), Bruges, Belgium, 25-27 April 2012, pp. 519-524, 2012.

Luke B. Winternitz, André L. Tits, P.-A. Absil, Addressing rank degeneracy in constraint-reduced interior-point methods for linear optimization, Technical Report, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, February 2012 (submitted).

P.-A. Absil, Michiel E. Hochstenbach, A differential-geometric look at the Jacobi-Davidson framework, Festschrift in Honor of Uwe Helmke, 2012 (submitted).

Devavrat Shah, Kyomin Jung, Vincent D. Blondel, A meta algorithm making centralized graph computation faster, distributed and at times better, Submitted, 2012.

Balázs Csáji, Arnaud Browet, Vincent A. Traag, Jean-Charles Delvenne, Etienne Huens, Paul Van Dooren, Zbigniew Smoreda, Vincent D. Blondel, Exploring the Mobility of Mobile Phone Users, Submitted, 2012.

Sophie Hautphenne, Gautier Krings, Jean-Charles Delvenne, Vincent D. Blondel, Sensitivity analysis in epidemic models, Submitted, 2012.

Chia-Tche Chang, Vincent D. Blondel, A numerical comparison of approximation algorithms for the joint spectral radius, Submitted, 2012.

Chia-Tche Chang, Vincent D. Blondel, A genetic based algorithm for fast approximations of the joint spectral radius, Submitted, 2012.

Luis E. C. Rocha, Adeline Decuyper, Vincent D. Blondel, Epidemics on a stochastic model of temporal network, Submitted, 2012.

Vincent Blondel, Alexandre Olshevsky, On the cost of deciding consensus, Submitted, 2012. arXiv: 1203.3167

Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, César A. Hidalgo, Michel Verleysen, Vincent Blondel, Spotted in the crowd: Mobility data as a digital fingerprint, Submitted, 2012.

M. Lopez-Martinez, J.-C. Delvenne, V.D. Blondel, Optimal Sampling Time for Consensus in Time-Delayed Networked Systems, Submitted 2012.

Mihai Cucuringu, Vincent D. Blondel, Paul Van Dooren, Extracting spatial information from networks with low-order eigenvectors, Submitted, 2012. arXiv:1111.0920

Gautier M Krings, Márton Karsai, Sebastian Bernharsson, Vincent D Blondel and Jari Saramäki, Effects of time window size and placement on the structure of aggregated networks, EPJ Data Science 1:4, 2012.

Balázs Csáji, Raphaël M. Jungers, Vincent D. Blondel, PageRank optimization by edge selection, To appear in: Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2012.

Francesco Calabrese, Zbigniew Smoreda, Vincent D. Blondel, Carlo Ratti, The interplay between telecommunications and face-to-face interactions, PLoS ONE 6(7): e20814, 2011.

Vincent D. Blondel, Mert Gurbuzbalaban, Alexandre Megretski, Michael Overton, Explicit solutions for root optimization of a polynomial family with one affine constraint, To appear in: IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control, 2012.

P.-A. Absil, Luca Amodei, Gilles Meyer, Two Newton methods on the manifold of fixed-rank matrices endowed with Riemannian quotient geometries, submitted, 2012.

David, Robert ; Dochain, Denis ; Mouret, Jean-Roch ; Vande Wouwer, Alain ; Sablayrolles, Jean-Marie, Modeling of the aromatic profile of wine: main-kinetics description, XIIIe Congrès de la Société Française de Génie des Procédés (SFGP 2011) (Lille, France, du 29/11/2011 au 1/12/2011). In: Récents Progrès en Génie des Procédés, Vol. 101 (2011). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/114115

David, Robert ; Dochain, Denis ; Mouret, Jean-Roch ; Vande Wouwer, Alain ; Sablayrolles, Jean-Marie, Modeling of the aromatic profile in wine-making fermentation: the backbone equations, IFAC World Congress (Milano, Italy, du 28/08/2011 au 02/09/2011), 10597-10602. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/87867

Dochain, Denis, Advanced methods for the control of food processes: the case of bioconversion in a fed-batch reactor, In: D. Caldwell, Robotics and automation in the food industry: Current and future technologies (Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition; 236), Woodhead Publishing: Cambridge, UK, 2013, p. 226-264. 978-1845698010 (Accepté/Sous presse). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/114059

Dochain, Denis, Irreversible Thermodynamics and Its Link with Process Control, Conférence Internationale Francophone d’Automatique (CIFA 2012) (Grenoble, France, du 4/07/2012 au 6/07/2012). In: Proceedings of CIFA 2012, 2012, p. 143-154. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/114054

Maclean, Heather ; Dochain, Denis ; Waters, Geoffrey ; Stasiak, Michael ; Dixon, Mike ; Van Der Straeten, Dominique, A Simple Mass Balance Model for Lettuce - the Water Balance, 16th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2012) (Brussels, Belgium, du 11/07/2012 au 13/07/2012). In: Proceedings of SYSID 2012, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/114056

Casenave, Céline ; Dochain, Denis ; Alvarez, Graciela ; Benkhelifa, Hayat ; Flick, Denis ; Leducq, Denis, Steady-state and stability analysis of a population balance based nonlinear ice cream crystallization model, 2012 American Control Conference (ACC 2012) (Montréal, Canada, du 27/06/2012 au 29/06/2012). In: Proceedings of ACC 2012, 2012. 978-1-4577-1094-0/12, p. 6461-6466. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/114057

Dochain, Denis ; De Leenheer, Patrick ; Rapaport, Alain, About transgressive over-yielding in the chemostat, 7th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MathMod 2012) (Vienna, Austria, du 15/02/2012 au 17/02/2012). In: Proceedings of MathMod 2012, 2012, p. MS10-1. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/114058

David, Robert ; Dochain, Denis ; Mouret, Jean-Roch ; Van de Wouwer, Alain ; Sablayrolles, Jean-Marie, Modeling of the boost effect originated by nitrogen addition during wine-making fermentation, 20th Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation (MED) (Barcelona, Spain, du 3/07/2012 au 06/07/2012). In: Proceedings of MED 2012, IEEE, 2012. 978-1-4673-2530-1, p. 353-358. doi:10.1109/MED.2012.6265663. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/114120

Maclean, Heather ; Dochain, Denis ; Waters, Geoffrey ; Stasiak, Michael ; Dixon, Mike ; Van Der Straeten, Dominique, A model development approach to ensure identifiability of a simple mass balance model for photosynthesis and respiration in a plant growth chamber, In: Ecological Modelling, Vol. 246, p. 105-118 (2012). doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.07.021. http://hdl.handle.net/2078/114053

KUL

Breckpot M., Agudelo M., De Moor B., Flood control with Model Predictive Control for river systems with water reservoirs, Internal Report 12-111, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.

Serizel R., Moonen M., Wouters J., Jensen S. H., Binaural Integrated Active Noise Control and Noise Reduction in Hearing Aids, Internal Report 12-113, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.

Huang X., Matijas M., Suykens J.A.K., Hinging Hyperplanes for Time-Series Segmentation, Internal Report 12-114, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.

Llorente R., Morant M., Duplicy J., Uguen B., Romme J., Hauden J., Cartaxo A., Puche J., Krause A., van Waterschoot T., Lostanlen Y., Banales R., Real-time ultra-wideband spectrum management in critical civil infrastructures: UCELLS project, Internal Report 12-116, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012. Accepted for publication in Proc. Future Network & Mobile Summit 2012.

van Waterschoot T., Moonen M., Distributed estimation and equalization of room acoustics in a wireless acoustic sensor network, Internal Report 12-117, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012. Accepted for publication in Proc. 20th European Signal Process. Conf. (EUSIPCO '12).

Aerts W., Joosen P., Widjaja D., Varon C., Vandeput S., Van Huffel S., Aubert A.E., Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Variability under Moon, Mars and Zero Gravity Conditions during Parabolic Flights, Internal Report 12-119, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Joint Life Science Meeting 'Life in Space for Life on Earth'.

Aerts W., Joosen P., Widjaja D., Varon C., Vandeput S., Van Huffel S., Aubert A.E., Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Variability under Moon, Mars and Zero Gravity Conditions during Parabolic Flights, Internal Report 12-120, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.

Jansen K., Vandeput S., Van Huffel S., Lagae L., Cardiac autonomic dysfunction in West syndrome, Internal Report 12-123, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012. Accepted for publication in Epilepsy Research.

Langone R., Alzate C. and Suykens J. A. K., Kernel Spectral Clustering with Memory Effect, Internal Report 12-124, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.

Sternberg J., Goit J., Gros S., Meyers J., Diehl M., Robust and Stable Periodic Flight of Power Generating Kite Systems in Turbulent Wind Flow Field, Internal Report 12-125, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012. Accepted for publication in Proccedings for the 15th IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimization.

Wolkenstorfer M., Moonen M., Statovci D., Multiuser spectrum balancing under inter)carrier interference, Internal Report 12-127, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012. Accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Letters.

Vandewalle J., Shortcuts in Circuits and Systems Education. With a case study of the Thévenin/Helmholtz and Norton/Mayer Equivalents, in Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2012), Seoul, Korea, May 2012, pp. 2925-2928.

Bertrand A., Moonen M., Distributed computation of the Fiedler vector with application to topology inference in ad hoc networks, Internal Report 12-129, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.

Van Calster B., Van Belle V., Vergouwe Y., Steyerberg E.W., Discrimination ability of prediction models for ordinal outcomes: Relationships between existing measures and a new measure, Internal Report 12-130, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012. Accepted for publication in Biometrical Journal.

Van Belle V., Neven P., Harvey V., Van Huffel S., Suykens J.A.K., Boyd S., Interval coded survival model for the prognosis of breast cancer patients, Internal Report 12-131, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.

Van Belle V., Lisboa P., White box RBF classifiers with component selection, Internal Report 12-132, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.

Van den Broeck B., Bertrand A., Karsmakers P., Vanrumste B., Van hamme H., Moonen M., Time-domain GCC-phat sound source localization for small microphone arrays, Internal Report 12-133, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012. Accepted for publication in Proc. EDERC 2012.

Agudelo M., Viaene P., Blyth L., De Moor B., Application of data assimilation techniques to the air quality model AURORA, Internal Report 12-134, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.

Bottomley C., Van Belle V., Kirk E., Van Huffel S., Timmerman D., Bourne T., Accurate prediction of pregnancy viability by means of a simple scoring system, Internal Report 12-135, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012. Accepted for publication in Human Reproduction.

Ugryumova D., Vandersteen G., Huyck B., Logist F., Van Impe J., De Moor B., Identification and Modeling of Distillation Columns From Transient Response Data, in Proc. of the IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I²MTC 2012), Graz, Austria, May 2012, pp. 2098 - 2103.

Giacobello D., Christensen M.G., Murthi M.N., Jensen S.H., Moonen M., Stable 1-norm error minimization based linear predictors for speech modeling, Internal Report 12-140, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.

Li Y., Sima D., Van Cauter S., Croitor Sava A., Himmelreich U., Pi Y., Van Huffel S., Unsupervised Nosologic Imaging for Glioma Diagnosis, Internal Report 12-142, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.

Van Cauter S., Sima D.M., Luts J., ter Beek L., Ribbens A., Peeters R.R., Osorio Garcia M.I., Li Y., Sunaert S., Van Gool S.W., Van Huffel S., Himmelreich U., Reproducibility of rapid short echo time CSI at 3T for clinical applications, Internal Report 12-143, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Huang X., Mehrkanoon S., and Suykens J.A.K., Support Vector Machines with Piecewise Linear Feature Mapping, Internal Report 12-145, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.

Jumutc V., Suykens J.A.K., Supervised Novelty Detection, Internal Report 12-146, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.

Mall R., Suykens J.A.K., Sparse Variations to Fixed-Size Least Squares Support Vector Machines for Large Scale Data, Internal Report 12-147, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.

Mehrkanoon S., Suykens J.A.K., LS-SVM based solution for delay differential equations, Internal Report 12-148, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.

Langone R., Suykens J.A.K., Community detection using Kernel Spectral Clustering with memory, Internal Report 12-149, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.

Frederix, Katrijn; Van Barel, Marc, Sparse spectral clustering method based on the incomplete Cholesky decomposition, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, volume 237, issue 1, pages 145-161, 2013

A. N. Yzelman, Albert-Jan; Roose, Dirk, High-level strategies for parallel shared-memory sparse matrix-vector multiplication, TW Reports, volume TW614, 26 pages, Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, June 2012

Achtsis, Nico; Nuyens, Dirk, A component-by-component construction for the trigonometric degree, Plaskota, Leszek; Wozniakowski, Henryk (eds.), Ninth International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing, Warsaw, 15-20 August 2010, Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2010, pages 235-253, Springer, 2012

Adcock, Ben; Huybrechs, Daan; Martín-Vaquero, Jesús, On the numerical stability of Fourier extensions, TW Reports, volume TW615, 33 pages, Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, June 2012

Atak, Onur; Bergen, Bart; Huybrechs, Daan; Pluymers, Bert; Desmet, Wim, Coupling of Boundary Element and Wave Based Methods for the efficient solution of complex multiple scattering problems, Journal of Computational Physics, 2012 (Submitted)

Atak, Onur; Huybrechs, Daan; Pluymers, Bert; Desmet, Wim, A hybrid Boundary Element - Wave Based Method for 3D acoustic multiple scattering problems, ISMA2012 International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, Leuven, 17-19 September 2012 (Accepted)

Bultheel, Adhemar; González-Vera, Pablo; Hendriksen, Erik; Njåstad, Olav, Quadratures associated with pseudo-orthogonal rational functions on the real half line with poles in [-?,0], Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2012 (Accepted)

De Greef, Jonas; Shen, Yichen; Hahn, Christophe; Lomov, Stepan; Roose, Dirk; Verleye, Bart; Verpoest, Ignace, Efficient generation of the voxel description of textile geometries for the computation of the permeability, Bickerton, Simon; Kelly, Piaras (eds.), FPCM, Auckland, 9-12 July 2012, Proceedings of the 11th FPCM Conference, pages 60-67

De Samblanx, Gorik; De Smedt, Floris; Struyf, Lars; Beckers, Sander; Vennekens, Joost; Goedemé, Toon, CPCPU: Coreful Programming on the CPU. Why a CPU can benefit from massive multithreading, International conference on pervasive and embedded computing and communication systems - PECCS 2012, Rome, Italy, 24-26 February 2012, Proceedings PECCS 2012 (Accepted)

De Smedt, Floris; Struyf, Lars; Beckers, Sander; Vennekens, Joost; De Samblanx, Gorik; Goedemé, Toon, Is the game worth the candle? Evaluation of OpenCL for object detection algorithm optimization, International conference on pervasive and embedded computing and communication systems - PECCS 2012, Rome, Italy, 24-26 February 2012, Proceedings PECCS 2012 (Accepted)

Deckers, Karl; Bultheel, Adhemar, Rational interpolation: I. Least square convergence, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, volume 395, issue 2, pages 455-464, 2012

Deckers, Karl; Bultheel, Adhemar, Rational interpolation: II. Quadrature and convergence, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 2012 (Accepted)

Fritzsche, Bernd; Kirstein, Bernd; Lasarow, Andreas, On canonical solutions of a moment problem for rational matrix-valued functions, Alpay, Daniel; Kirstein, Bernd (eds.), Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, volume 226, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2012

Govignon, Quentin; Maes, Lucas; Verleye, Bart; Bickerton, Simon; Kelly, Piaras, A 2.5D simulation of the filling and post-filling stages of the resin infusion process, Bickerton, Simon; Kelly, Piaras (eds.), FPCM, Proceedings of the 11th FPCM Conference, pages 294-301, 2012

Le, Thanh Hieu; Sorber, Laurent; Van Barel, Marc, The Pythagoras number of real sum of squares polynomials and sum of square magnitudes of polynomials, Calcolo, 2012 (Accepted)

Nuyens, Dirk; Waterhouse, Ben J., A global adaptive quasi-Monte Carlo algorithm for functions of low truncation dimension applied to problems from finance, Plaskota, Leszek; Wozniakowski, Henryk (eds.), Ninth International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing, Warsaw, 15-20 August 2010, Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2010, pages 589-607, Springer, 2012

Poppe, Koen; Cools, Ronald, In search for good Chebyshev lattices, Wozniakowski, Henryk; Plaskota, Leszek (eds.), International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing, Warsaw, Poland, 16-20 August 2010, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, volume 23, Springer-Verlag, 2012

Poppe, Koen; Cools, Ronald; Vandewoestyne, Bart, Error handling in Fortran 2003, Fortran Forum, volume 31, issue 2, pages 7-19, August 2012

Tant, Jeroen; Michiels, Wim; Driesen, Johan, Event-Driven Simulation of Power Electronics in the Complementarity Systems Framework, IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Kyoto, Japan, 10-13 June 2012, 13th IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), 2012, IEEE

Vannieuwenhoven, Nick; Vandebril, Raf; Meerbergen, Karl, A new truncation strategy for the higher-order singular value decomposition of tensors, 2012 SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Valencia, Spain, June 18-22, 2012

Verleye, Bart; Nuyens, Dirk; Walbran, Andrew; Gan, Ming, Uncertainty quantification in Liquid Composite Moulding processes, Bickerton, Simon; Kelly, Piaras (eds.), FPCM, Auckland, 9-12 July 2012, Proceedings of the 11th FPCM Conference, pages 265-271

Yue, Yao; Meerbergen, Karl, Using Krylov-Pade Model Order Reduction for Accelerating Design Optimization of Structures and Vibrations in the Frequency Domain, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, volume 90, issue 10, pages 1207-1232, 2012

Jarlebring, Elias; Damm, Tobias; Michiels, Wim, Model reduction of time-delay systems using position balancing and delay Lyapunov equations, Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems, 2011 (Accepted)

UGent

A. Sarlette and P. Rouchon, Robust open-loop stabilization of Fock states by time-varying quantum interactions, Proc. 4th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control, Bertinoro / Italy, August 2012

A. Sarlette, Z. Leghtas, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond, and P. Rouchon, Stabilization of nonclassical states of one- and two-mode radiation fields by reservoir engineering, Phys. Rev. A 86, 012114 – Published 23 July 2012, URL: http://pra.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v86/i1/e012114

Mohammad Moradzadeh, Rene Boel and Lieven Vandevelde, Voltage Coordination in Multi-Area Power Systems via Distributed Model Predictive Control, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, In press, 2012.

Mohammad Moradzadeh and Rene Boel, Voltage Coordination via Communication in Large-Scale Multi-Area Power Systems, Part I: Principal, Advanced Materials Research, vol. 433-440, pp. 7175-7182, 2012.

Mohammad Moradzadeh and Rene Boel, Voltage Coordination via Communication in Large-Scale Multi-Area Power Systems, Part II: Simulation Results, Advanced Materials Research, vol. 433 - 440, pp. 7183-7189, 2012.

Ionescu C.M., Sabatier J., Tenreiro Machado J., (editorial) Special Issue: Fractional signals and systems, Signal, Image and Video Processing, 6(3), DOI: 10.1007/s11760-012-0313-5, 341-342, 2012

Pop C., Ionescu C.M., De Keyser R., Dulf E., Robustness evaluation of fractional order control for varying time delay processes, Signal, Image and Video Processing, Special Issue: Fractional signals and systems, DOI: 10.1007/s11760-012-0322-4, 6(3), 453-461, 2012

Pop C., Ionescu C.M., De Keyser R., Time delay compensation for the secondary processes in a multivariable carbon isotope separation unit, Chemical Engineering Science, 80, 205-218, 2012

D. A. Plaza, R. De Keyser, G. J. M. De Lannoy, L. Giustarini, P. Matgen, and V. R. N. Pauwels, The importance of parameter resampling for soil moisture data assimilation into hydrologic models using the particle filter, Special Issue: Latest advances and developments in data assimilation for operational hydrologic forecasting and water resources management, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 375-390, 2012

P. Matgen, F. Fenicia, S. Heitz, D. Plaza, R. De Keyser, V. R.N. Pauwels, W. Wagner, H. Savenije, Can ASCAT-derived soil wetness indices reduce predictive uncertainty in well-gauged areas? A comparison with in situ observed soil moisture in an assimilation application, Advances in Water Resources, 44, 49-65, 2012

Ionescu C., Machado J.T., De Keyser R., Analysis of the Respiratory Dynamics During Normal Breathing by Means of Pseudo-phase Plots and Pressure ­Volume Loops, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6163414, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2012.2187888

Ionescu C., The phase constancy in neural dynamics', IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2012.2199483

De Keyser R, Ionescu C.M., An alternative method for measuring human respiratory impedance, Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Biomedical Electronics and Devices (BIODEVICES 2012), 1-4 Feb 2012, Vilamoura, Portugal, 119-126, 2012 (citer ISI Proceedings)

De Keyser R., Ionescu C.M., The next generation of relay-based PID autotuners (PART 1): Some insights on the performance of simple relay-based PID autotuners, 28-31 March 2012, Brescia, Italy, IFAC Symposium on Advances in PID, WeB1.5, 2012

De Keyser R., Joita O., Ionescu C.M., The next generation of relay-based PID autotuners (PART 2): A simple relay based PID autotuner with specific modulus margin, 28-31 March 2012, Brescia, Italy, IFAC Symposium on Advances in PID, WeB1.6, 2012

D. Fu, A. Dutta, C.M. Ionescu, R. De Keyser, Reducing the bullwhip effect in supply chain management by applying a model predictive control ordering policy, 14th IFAC Symp on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing, 23-25 May, Bucharest, Romania, F74-F79, 2012

B. Wyns, C.M. Ionescu, D. Neamtu, R. De Keyser, J. De Meyer, M. Michielssens, An efficient closed loop control system to follow, capture and redirect daylight, 13th Int Conf on Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipment, 24-26 May, Brasov, Romania, 1058-1064, ISBN 978-1-4673-1653-8, 2012 (cited ISI Proceedings).

I(a). Nascu, I. Nascu, C.M. Ionescu, R. De Keyser, Adaptive EPSAC Predictive control of the hypnotic component in anesthesia, Preprints of the AQTR, Cluj, Romania, ISBN 978-1-4673-0703-1/12, 6 pages, 2012

Dutta A., Ionescu C.M., De Keyser R. Stoev J, Pinte G, Symens W., Robust predctive control design for optimaal wet-clutch engagement, Proc. of the American Control Conf, Montreal, Canada,27-29 June, 4576-4581, 2012, (cited ISI Proceedings)

S. Cristescu, C.M. Ionescu, B. Wyns, R. De Keyser, I. Nascu, Leader-follower string formation using cascade control for mobile robots, Preprints of the 20th Mediterranean Conf on Control & Automation, (MED), Barcelona, Spain, July 3-6, 1086-1092, 2012

Ionescu C.M., Hernandez A., De Keyser R., Relationship between anatomical structure, fractional order models and fractal dimension in the respiratory impedance of healthy patients, accepted for publication in the IFAC Int Conf on System Identification, 11-13 july 2012, Brussels, Belgium, 1425-1430, 2012 (cited ISI Proceedings)

Ionescu C.M., Dutta A., De Keyser R., Quantifying additive uncertainty in an identified multivariable model for closed loop control of depth of anesthesia, accepted for publication in the IFAC Int Conf on System Identification, 11-13 july 2012, Brussels, Belgium, 577-582, 2012 (cited ISI Proceedings)

O.L. Joita, De Keyser R., Validation of a simple replay-based PID autotuner with specified Modulus margin, Proc. of the IEEE-AQTR, ISBN 978-1-4673-0703-1/12, 6 pages, 2012

Dutta A., De Keyser R., Dutta A., Nopens I., Robust nonlinear extended prediction self-adaptive control (NEPSAC) of continuous bioreactors, Preprints of the 20th Mediterranean Conf on Control & Automation, Barcelona, Spain, July 3-6, 658-664, 2012

VUB

B Sanchez, G Vandersteen, R Bragos and J Schoukens, Basics of broadband impedance spectroscopy measurements using periodic excitations, Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 23, No. 10, 105501 (14pp), 2012

Diana Ugryumova, Gerd Vandersteen, Polynomial approximation errors for integrator frequency response functions, ERNSI'2012, European Research Network on System Identification, 23-26 September 2012, Maastricht, The Netherlands

'E. Zhang, R. Pintelon, J. Schoukens, On the use of non-white input for identification of errors-in-variables dynamical system'', ERNSI'2012, European Research Network on System Identification, 23-26 September 2012, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Griet Monteyne, Gerd Vandersteen, Frequency Domain Modeling of Heat Transport around Borehole Heat Exchangers, ERNSI'2012, European Research Network on System Identification, 23-26 September 2012, Maastricht, The Netherlands

John Lataire, Dario Piga, Roland Tóth, Dealing with Correlated Errors in Least-Squares Support Vector Machine Estimators, ERNSI'2012, European Research Network on System Identification, 23-26 September 2012, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Laurent Vanbeylen, Improved, user-friendly initialization method for the identification of the nonlinear LFR block-oriented model, ERNSI'2012, European Research Network on System Identification, 23-26 September 2012, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Anne Van Mulders, Laurent Vanbeylen, Identification of a nonlinear LFR block-structure with two static nonlinearities, ERNSI'2012, European Research Network on System Identification, 23-26 September 2012, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Anne Van Mulders, Laurent Vanbeylen, Anna Marconato, Accuracy-complexity trade-off of some nonlinear identification methods: benchmark case studies, ERNSI'2012, European Research Network on System Identification, 23-26 September 2012, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Egon Geerardyn, Yves Rolain, Johan Schoukens, Quasi-logarithmic Multisines for Broad Frequency Band Measurements, ERNSI'2012, European Research Network on System Identification, 23-26 September 2012, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Maarten Schoukens, Christian Lyzell, Martin Enqvist, Combining the best linear approximation and dimension reduction to identify the linear blocks of parallel Wiener systems, ERNSI'2012, European Research Network on System Identification, 23-26 September 2012, Maastricht, The Netherlands

D. Oliva Uribe, J. Schoukens, R. Stroop and J. Wallaschek, Tissue Differentiation Sensor System for Brain Tumour Resection Based on Multisine Excitation, ERNSI'2012, European Research Network on System Identification, 23-26 September 2012, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Koen Tiels, and Johan Schoukens, Iterative update of the pole locations in a Wiener-Schetzen model, ERNSI'2012, European Research Network on System Identification, 23-26 September 2012, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Anne Van Mulders, Laurent Vanbeylen and Johan Schoukens, Imposing structure on identified nonlinear state-space models, MHE Workshop 2012, OPTEC Workshop on Moving Horizon Estimation and System Identification, Leuven, August 29-30, 2012

ULg

S. Bubeck, D. Ernst and A. Garivier, Optimal discovery with probabilistic expert advice: finite time analysis and macroscopic optimality [arXiv: 1207.5259]

S. Chatzivasileiadis, D. Ernst and G. Andersson, The global grid [arXiv:1207.4096v1]

F. Maes, L. Wehenkel and D. Ernst, Meta-Learning of exploration/exploitation strategies: the multi-armed bandit case [arXiv: 1207.5208]

UMons

Mihaela Sbarciog, Ines Saraiva, Alain Vande Wouwer, Accelerating animal cell growth in perfusion mode by multivariable control: Simulation studies, Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, in press 2012.

J. Mailier, A. Vande Wouwer, Identification of Nested Biological Kinetic Models using Likelihood Ratio Tests, Chemical engineering Science, in press 2012

Mihaela Sbarciog, Jaime A. Moreno, Alain Vande Wouwer, Simple approaches to start-up anaerobic digestion systems for biogas production, IEEE 16th International conference on System theory, control and Computing - ICSTCC 2012, Sinaia, Romania, October 12-14, 2012

Matthieu Duvinage, Thierry Castermans, Mathieu Petieau, Karthik Seetharaman, Thomas Hoellinger, Guy Cheron, Thierry Dutoit, A Subjective Assessment of a P300 BCI System for Lower-Limb Rehabilitation Purposes, proceedings of the 34th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference

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