Message of the Coordinator

Our next DYSCO study day will be held in Mons on May 24 (see the program here); do not miss it!

Some of you may have heard that our colleague Rodolphe Sepulchre is moving to the University of Cambridge. Rodolphe is the promotor of the team in Liège and has been a key contributor to our network for a quarter century (!). In his message below he urges us to "take nothing for granted". On behalf of our community I would like to thank Rodolphe for all what he has brought to our network and to many of us, and wish him all the best for his new position.

Thanks Rodolphe!

Vincent Blondel
DYSCO coordinator


Take nothing for granted!

2013 will be a special year for me since I recently accepted a professorship in the department of engineering Cambridge University (division of information engineering, control group). I will start there next September. Until recently, I took for granted that my current university was the place to be for the rest of my career.

A professional move is an occasion to pause, contemplating for a moment the past and the future.

Looking at the past, I cannot stress enough the importance of our research network. The IAP program existed when I started my PhD in 1990, and it has been part of my scientific environment since then. It shaped my scientific identity in systems and control but at the same time it has been the seed of repeated ventures to neighboring areas because of its interdisciplinary flavor. Many of us take this environment for granted. But such a unique gift does not exist in many places in the world and can only be the result of constantly reinventing and reinvesting its very existence. Which is primarily a network of individuals, meaning much more than securing a financial budget. Take nothing for granted!

Looking at the future and returning from a two-week trip to China, I have seen there an academic environment that evolves at light speed. It could be that it resembled last year to the environment of my early years but that it will resemble next year to something we will have a lot to learn from. Most of our current collaborations are geared towards west, for good reasons. Should we take this for granted? Should we consider an Indian and a Chinese partner in the next phase of our IAP?

Systmod will of course continue its active participation in DYSCO, perhaps with a cambridgean zest. I wish the very best to the future of our research network and take this opportunity to warmfully thank those past and present invididuals who worked hard to make it a place where excellence and friendship live in close harmony. Take nothing for granted!

I have nothing to show close to the beautiful sculptures that Joos shared with us in last month newsletter but I promise you a funny picture as soon as I will have joined a Cambridge choir ;-)

Rodolphe Sepulchre

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Staff Movements and Visitors

UCL
  • Vladimir Protassov (University of Moscou) will be at UCL between May 20 and June 18, 2013 to work on the topic "numerical methods for hybrid systems engineering" with Y. Nesterov and R. Jungers.
  • Siddhant Mittal (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) will perform an internship at INMA between May 6 and July 17, 2013. He will work with Easter Selvan Suviseshamuthu and Pierre-Antoine Absil.
KUL

Staff

  • Nejem Huleihel (PhD), promotor M. Moonen, 01/05/2013
  • Marko Seslija (Postdoc), promotor J. Suykens, 01/05/2013
  • Niccolo Antonello (PhD), promotor M. Moonen, 01/05/2013
VUB
  • Rishi Relan (15/04/2013 – 09/06/2013), Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, Rolls Royce University Technology Centre
  • Sandor Kolumban (15/4 until 1/6/2013), Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  • Per Hägg (15/4 until 7/6/2013), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Hin Kwan Wong (2/4 until 16/4/2013), University of Warwick, School of Engineering, Wales, UK
UNamur
  • Fernando PERUANI, Lab. J.A.Dieudonné Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis (France). He will mainly work on complex networks and epidemic models with L. Tabourier and R. Lambiotte. (May 27-29, 2013)
  • Emmanuel WITRANT, University Joseph Fourier, Control Systems Department (DAUTO), GIPSA-lab, Grenoble (France). He will mainly work with J. Winkin in the framework of a Tournesol project on Boundary control of Hyperbolic Systems. (June 10-12, 2013)

Seminars

UCL
  • April 3, 2013 - 14:00 - Euler seminar room
    Alessandro Astolfi (Imperial College London), Model Reduction by Moment Matching.
  • April 16, 2013 - 14:00 - Euler seminar room
    Romain Hollanders (UCL), Policy Iteration has exponential complexity for solving Markov Decision Processes. But there is more to the story...
  • April 19, 2013 - 11:00 - Euler seminar room
    Nicolas Gillis (UCL), Recent Advances in Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
  • April 23, 2013 - 14:00 - Euler seminar room
    Giacomo Como (Lund University), Resilient distributed network dynamics
  • April 26, 2013 - 11:00 - Euler seminar room
    Anthony Papavasiliou (UCL), Applying High Performance Computing to Multi-Area Stochastic Unit Commitment for Renewable Energy Integration
  • April 30, 2013 - 14:00 - Euler seminar room
    Laurent Sorber (KULeuven), Computing tensor decompositions with complex and polynomial optimization
  • May 3, 2013 - 11:00 - Euler seminar room
    Hadrien Melot (University of Mons), GraPHedron and House of Graphs – tools for graph theorists
  • May 7, 2013 - 14:00 - Euler seminar room
    Mariya Ishteva (VUB), Tensors and graphical models
  • May 14, 2013 - 14:00 - Euler seminar room
    Kameshwar Poolla, The grid with intelligent periphery
VUB

ELEC Seminars take place at the department ELEC (Pleinlaan 2, Building K, 7th floor) every two weeks, normally on Thursdays in the morning. The final time and date are announced at least one week before a seminar at https://intranet.vub.ac.be/doctoral-schools/nse/team-seminars/elec-seminars/.

  • April 11, 2013 - 10:30-11:30
    Nicolas Gillis (UCL), Recent Advances in Nonnegative Matrix Factorization.
  • April 25, 2013 - 11:00-11:30
    Ebrahim Louarroudi (Department ELEC), Harmonic Impedance Spectra Measurements of time-varying in vivo Myocardium
  • May 2, 2013 - 11:00-11:30
    Jan Goos (Department ELEC), Estimation of Linear Parameter-Varying affine State Space Models using Synchronised Periodic Input and Scheduling Signals.
ULg

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

UNamur
  • April 16, 2013, 1 pm, Salle de Conférence du Département de Mathématique (room E25), 2nd floor of the Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Sociales et de Gestion building, Rempart de la Vierge 8, Namur.
    Fulvio FORNI (ULg, Montefiore institute, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), Contraction theory for incremental stability of dynamical systems.
  • April 30, 2013, 1 pm, Salle de Conférence du Département de Mathématique (room E25), 2nd floor of the Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Sociales et de Gestion building, Rempart de la Vierge 8, Namur.
    Habib DIMASSI (UNamur, naXys), Synchronisation des systèmes chaotiques par observateurs et applications à la transmission d'informations.
  • May 7, 2013, 1 pm, Salle de Conférence du Département de Mathématique (room E25), 2nd floor of the Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Sociales et de Gestion building, Rempart de la Vierge 8, Namur.
    Jérémy DEHAYE (UNamur, naXys), Modelling, Analysis and LQ-Optimal Control of Boundary Control Systems with Boundary Observation.
  • May 28, 2013, 1 pm, Salle de Conférence du Département de Mathématique (room E25), 2nd floor of the Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Sociales et de Gestion building, Rempart de la Vierge 8, Namur.
    Fernando PERUANI (Lab. J.A.Dieudonné Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France), Fluctuations in epidemic models: from complex networks to lattice models, and from mean-field approaches to field equations.
  • June 4, 2013, 1 pm, Salle de Conférence du Département de Mathématique (room E25), 2nd floor of the Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Sociales et de Gestion building, Rempart de la Vierge 8, Namur.
    Sophie BEREAU (Louvain School of Management, Finance Dep., UCL), Title to be announced later.
  • June 18, 2013, 1 pm, Salle de Conférence du Département de Mathématique (room E25), 2nd floor of the Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Sociales et de Gestion building, Rempart de la Vierge 8, Namur.
    Bernard DE SAEDELEER (Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, UCL), Title to be announced later.

Theses defenses

VUB
  • Griet Monteyne, Identification in Nuclear and Thermal Energy. Moderator Temperature Coefficient Estimation via Noise Analysis and Black-Box Modeling of Heat Transfer, Doctoral dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, April 22, 2013. Promoters: Prof. Dr. ir. Gerd Vandersteen and Prof. Dr. ir. Peter Baeten.

Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks

The SOCN Graduate School 2013-2014 programme is currently in preparation.

Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools

PAI DYSCO Study Day : UMons, May 24, 2013

The program of this day can be found here : DYSCO Study Day.

Big data: theoretical and practical challenges

May, 14-15, 2013

IHP, Paris

Science and business are becoming increasingly driven by large amounts of data. This creates new practical and theoretical challenges, at the interface between statistics and computer science. The goal of the workshop is to bring together world-leaders in all aspects of large-scale inference, including computer scientists, statisticians and mathematicians, and explore the challenges and opportunities offered by Big data analysis.

The workshop will be held on May 14-15, 2013, at the Institut Henri Poincaré, located downtown Paris, is organized by Francis Bach and Michael Jordan, and is funded by the Fondation de Sciences Mathematiques de Paris and INRIA.

Invited speakers

  • Alexandre d'Aspremont, CNRS - Ecole Polytechnique
  • Francis Bach, INRIA - ENS
  • Leon Bottou, Microsoft Research
  • Alfred Hero, University of Michigan
  • Chris Holmes, Oxford University
  • Piotr Indyk, MIT
  • Michael Jordan, U.C. Berkeley
  • Lester Mackey, Stanford University
  • Michael Mahoney, Stanford University
  • Eric Moulines, Telecom Paristech
  • Sonia Petrone, Università Bocconi
  • Slav Petrov, Google
  • Ion Stoica, U.C. Berkeley
  • Martin Wainwright, U.C. Berkeley

More information and registration (free but mandatory): http://bigdata2013.sciencesconf.org/

Biomed workshop performance of clinical prediction models

May 16, 2013

KU Leuven, ESAT, Room 00.62, 14h-17h

The programme can be downloaded here

DISC Summer School : Modeling and Control of Distributed Parameter Systems

Conferentiehotel Drienerburght (Enschede), The Netherlands

June 17-20, 2013

The organizers have the pleasure to invite you to participate in the DISC Summer School on "Control of Partial Differential Equations", which is scheduled to take place from June 17-20, 2013, at “Conferentiehotel Drienerburght”, Enschede (University of Twente), The Netherlands.

The invitation is aimed at research students and staff members of DISC, and other researchers and engineers engaged in the systems and control area. Distinguished speakers will each present a series of tutorial lectures.

Since more than 250 years partial differential equations (pde’s) are used to model physical behaviour. However, this is most often done under the assumption of no external signals. Only since the sixties and seventies of the last century mathematical theory has been developed to cope with pde’s with (boundary) control and observations. These results combined with the increase in computer power makes it nowadays possible to study practical (engineering) problems modelled by pde’s, Examples of such are; controlling the water levels in a river and estimation of the spatial temperature distribution in a room.

Many physical systems can be formulated using a Hamiltonian framework. The Hamiltonian can for instance be the energy of the system. Stabilizing the system could be done be driving the Hamiltonian to zero. Thus having such a physical quantity at our disposal can simplify the controller design considerably.

Once a controller is designed we normally have to approximate the system in order to (numerically) test the closed loop behaviour. This approximation has to be done with care, since for instance, in the approximated system the Hamiltonian may not increase.

Lecturers

The main program will consist of various speakers. Keynote lectures will be given by:

  • Georges Bastin, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • Laurent Lefèvre, Laboratoire de Conception et d'Intégration des Systèmes, Valence, France
  • Alessandro Macchelli, University of Bologna, Italy
  • Timo Reis, University of Hamburg, Germany
  • Onno Bokhove, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Registration

The registration fee, which includes boarding and lodging, is

850,- Euro for non-DISC members

550,- Euro for DISC-students and DISC-members

The school is limited to 50 participants based on a first-come first-serve policy. The registration deadline is June 1, 2013.

All details about the Summer school, including a preliminary program, are available on the DISC website.

You can register at the following website: https://disc-forum.nl

Non DISC members can also send an email to: secr@disc.tudelft.nl (Please mention your full name and university including address).

For further information, please contact the DISC administrative office: Saskia van der Meer (s.m.vandermeer@tudelft.nl) or the organizers: Hans Zwart (h.j.zwart@utwente.nl) and Birgit Jacob (jacob@math.uni-wuppertal.de)

8th Workshop on Control of Distributed Parameter Systems, July 1-5, 2013, Craiova, Romania

Web site : http://math.ucv.ro/wcdps/index.html

Protocells: Back to the Future - September 3, 2013, Taormina, Italy

Workshop organized by T. Carletti (UNamur) in the framework of the European Conference on Artificial Life, Sept. 2-6, 2013, Taormina, Italy.

Web site : http://www.unamur.be/en/sci/naxys/pb2f

Cultural and opinion dynamics: Modeling, Experiments and Challenges for the future, September 18, 2013, Barcelona, Spain

Workshop organized by T. Carletti (UNamur) in the framework of the European Conference on Complex Systems, Sept. 16-20, 2013, Barcelona, Spain.

Web site : http://www.unamur.be/en/sci/naxys/eccs2013

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL

Georges Bastin, Jean-Michel Coron, Brigitte d’Andréa-Novel, Paul Suvarov, Alain VandeWouwer, and Achim Kienle, Stability analysis of switching hyperbolic systems: the example of SMB chromatography, Submitted IEEE-CDC2013 Conference

Nicolas Boumal, Amit Singer and P.-A. Absil, Robust estimation of rotations from relative measurements by maximum likelihood, submitted, 2013

M. Gevers, A.S. Bazanella, D.F. Coutinho and S. Dasgupta, Identifiability and Excitation of Polynomial Systems, submitted to 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, December 2013.

A. De Cock, M. Gevers and J. Schoukens, A preliminary study on Optimal Input Design for Nonlinear Systems, submitted to 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, December 2013.

R. Hildebrand and M. Gevers, Central Extensions in Closed-loop Optimal Experiment Design, submitted to 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, December 2013.

Georges Bastin and Isabelle Cassiers, Modelling the balanced transition to a sustainable economy, paper submitted to Ecological Economics, 2013

Andrew E. Teschendorff, Emilie Renard and Pierre-Antoine Absil, Supervised normalisation of large-scale omic data sets using Blind Source Separation, submitted, 2013

Wen Huang, P.-A. Absil, K. A. Gallivan, A Riemannian symmetric rank-one trust-region method, submitted, 2013

Mastronardi, Nicola; Van Dooren, Paul, The Antitriangular Factorization of Symmetric Matrices. In: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Vol. 34, no.1, p. 173-196 (2013). doi:10.1137/110858860. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/125544

Suviseshamuthu, Easter Selvan; Borckmans, Pierre; Chattopadhyay, Amit; Absil, Pierre-Antoine, Spherical Mesh Adaptive Direct Search for Separating Quasi-uncorrelated Sources by Range-based Independent Component Analysis. In: Neural Computation, (2013). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/125701

Zamorano, Francisco; Vande Wouwer, Alain; Jungers, Raphaël M.; Bastin, Georges, Dynamic metabolic models of CHO cell cultures through minimal sets of elementary flux modes. In: Journal of Biotechnology, Vol. 164, no.3, p. 409-422 (2013). doi:10.1016/j.jbiotec.2012.05.005. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127328

Cucuringu, Mihai; Blondel, Vincent; Van Dooren, Paul, Extracting spatial information from networks with low-order eigenvectors. In: Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, Vol. 87, no. 3, p. 032803 (2013). doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.87.032803. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/124322

Boumal, Nicolas, On intrinsic Cramér-Rao bounds for Riemannian submanifolds and quotient manifolds. In: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 61, no.7, p. 1809-1821 (2013). doi:10.1109/TSP.2013.2242068. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127329

de Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre; Hidalgo, César A.; Verleysen, Michel; Blondel, Vincent, Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility. In: Scientific Reports, Vol. 3, no.1376, p. 1-5 (March 2013). doi:10.1038/srep01376. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127341

Frasca, Paolo; Hendrickx, Julien, On the mean square error of randomized averaging algorithms. In: Automatica, (2013). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127513

Gillis, Nicolas; Glineur, François, A continuous characterization of the maximum-edge biclique problem. In: Journal of Global Optimization, (March 2013). doi:10.1007/s10898-013-0053-2 (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127804

Wang, T.; Glineur, François; Louveaux, Jérôme; Vandendorpe, Luc, Weighted Sum Rate Maximization for Downlink OFDMA with Subcarrier-pair based Opportunistic DF Relaying. In: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, (February 2013). doi:10.1109/TSP.2013.2245326 (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127803

Vandereycken, Bart; Absil, Pierre-Antoine; Vandewalle, Stefan, A Riemannian geometry with complete geodesics for the set of positive semidefinite matrices of fixed rank. In: IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, no. 33, p. 481-514 (2013). doi:10.1093/imanum/drs006. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/107986

Ego, Caroline; Orban de Xivry, Jean-Jacques; Nassogne, Marie-Cécile; Yüksel, Demet; Lefèvre, Philippe, The saccadic system does not compensate for the immaturity of the smooth pursuit system during visual tracking in children. In: Journal of Neurophysiology, (2013). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127805

Winternitz, Luke B.; Tits, André L.; Absil, Pierre-Antoine, Addressing rank degeneracy in constraint-reduced interior-point methods for linear optimization. In: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, (2013). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127852

Devolder, Olivier; Glineur, François; Nesterov, Yurii, First-Order Methods of Smooth Convex Optimization with Inexact Oracle. In: Mathematical Programming, (2013). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127861

Hioe, D.; Hudon, Nicolas; Bao, J., Interaction Analysis and Geometric Interconnection Decoupling for Networks of Process Systems. In: AIChE Journal, (2013). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127866

Tjakra, J. D.; Bao, J.; Hudon, Nicolas; Yang, R., Collective Dynamics Modeling of Polydisperse Particulate Systems via Markov Chains. In: Chemical Engineering Research & Design, (2013). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127867

Hoang, Ngoc Ha; Dochain, Denis, A thermodynamic approach to the passive boundary control of tubular reactors. Accepted for presentation at the 9th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS) (Toulouse, France, 4-6/09/2013). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127844

Casenave, Céline; Dochain, Denis; Alvarez, Graciela; Arellano, Marcela; Benkhelifa, Hayat; Leducq, Denis, Control of a nonlinear ice cream crystallization process. Accepted for presentation at the 9th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS) (Toulouse, France, 4-6/09/2013). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127851

Hudon, Nicolas; Dochain, Denis; Guay, Martin, Feedback Stabilization of Metriplectic Systems. Accepted for presentation at the IFAC Workshop on Thermodynamic Foundations of Mathematical Systems Theory (TFMST 2013) (Lyon, France, 13-16/07/2013). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127853

Guay, Martin; Dhaliwal, Samandeep; Dochain, Denis, A time-varying extremum-seeking control approach. Accepted for presentation at the 2013 American Control Conference (Washington DC, 17-19/06/2013). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127862

Absil, Pierre-Antoine; Mahony, Robert; Trumpf, Jochen, An extrinsic look at the Riemannian Hessian. Accepted for presentation at Geometric Science of Information (GSI2013) (Paris, France, 28-30/08/2013). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127864

Hudon, Nicolas; Bao, J., Dissipative-based Dynamic State Feedback Design using a Geometric Decomposition. Accepted for presentation at the 2013 American Control Conference (Washington DC, 17-19/06/2013). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127868

Guay, Martin; Hudon, Nicolas; Höffner, K., Geometric Decomposition and Potential-based Representation of Nonlinear Systems. Accepted for presentation at the 2013 American Control Conference (Washington DC, 17-19/06/2013). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127869

Guay, Martin; Hudon, Nicolas, Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems via Potential-based Realization. Accepted for presentation at the 9th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS) (Toulouse, France, 4-6/09/2013). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127870

Hudon, Nicolas; Bao, J.; Ydstie, B. E., Geometric Construction of Mixed Potentials. Accepted for presentation at the IFAC Workshop on Thermodynamics Foundations of Mathematical Systems Theory (TFMST2013) (Lyon, France, 13-16/07/2013). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127871

KUL

Breckpot M., Agudelo M., Meert P., Willems P., De Moor B., Flood control of the Demer by using Model Predictive Control, Internal Report 13-24, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Wolkerstorfer M., Tsiaflakis P., Moonen M., Statovci D., Joint power-loading and cyclic-prefix length optimization for OFDM-based power line communication, Internal Report 13-25, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013. Accepted for publication in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 1-5.

Quirynen R., Vukov M., Diehl M., Auto Generation of Implicit Integrators for Embedded NMPC with Microsecond Sampling Times, in Proceedings of the 4th IFAC Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Conference (NMPC), Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, Aug. 2012, pp. 175-180.

Quirynen R., Gros S., Diehl M., Fast auto generated ACADO integrators and application to MHE with multi-rate measurements, Internal Report 13-27, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013. Proceedings of the European Control Conference in Zurich, Switzerland on July 2013.

Gros S., Quirynen R., Diehl M., Aircraft Control Based on Fast Nonlinear MPC and Multiple-shooting, in 2012 IEEE 51st Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (CDC), Maui, Hawaii, Dec. 2012, pp. 1142 - 1147.

Quirynen R., Vukov M., Diehl M., Automatic code generation of Implicit Runge-Kutta integrators with continuous output for fast embedded optimization, Internal Report 13-29, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Jumutc V., Huang X., Suykens J.A.K., Fixed-Size Pegasos for Hinge and Pinball Loss SVM, Internal Report 13-31, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Langone R., Mall R., Suykens J.A.K., Soft Kernel Spectral Clustering, Internal Report 13-32, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Mehrkanoon S., Suykens J.A.K., Non-parallel semi-supervised classification based on kernel spectral clustering, Internal Report 13-33, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Mall R., Langone R., Suykens J.A.K., Kernel Spectral Clustering for Big Data Networks, Internal Report 13-34, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Defraene B., Mansour N., De Hertogh S., van Waterschoot T., Diehl M., Moonen M., Declipping of audio signals using perceptual compressed sensing, Internal Report 13-35, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Domanov I., De Lathauwer L., On the canonical polyadic decomposition of third-order tensors: algebraic solution in the case of a perfect fit, Internal Report 13-36, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Peluffo D., Garcia S., Langone R., Suykens J.A.K., Castellanos G., Kernel Spectral Clustering for dynamic data using Multiple Kernel Learning, Internal Report 13-37, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Serizel R., Moonen M., Van Dijk B., Wouters J., Rank-1 Approximation Based Multichannel Wiener Filtering Algorithms For Noise Reduction In Cochlear Implants, in Proc. of the38th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, May 2013.

Mijovic B., Data-Driven Multimodal Signal Processing With Applications To EEG-fMRI Fusion, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), May 2012, 216 p.

Vandewalle J., Gegevenscompressie van bij de bron, Karakter, Tijdschrift van Wetenschap, vol. 41, 2013, pp. 16-18.

Defraene B., van Waterschoot T., Diehl M., Moonen M., Embedded-optimization-based loudspeaker compensation using a generic Hammerstein loudspeaker model, Internal Report 13-43, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Signoretto M., Cevher V., Suykens J. A. K., An SVD-free Approach to a Class of Structured Low Rank Matrix Optimization Problems with Application to System Identification, Internal Report 13-44, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Van Belle V., Lisboa P., Research directions in interpretable machine learning methods, Internal Report 13-45, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013. Accepted for publication in Proc. of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Bertrand A., Moonen M., Topology-Aware Distributed Adaptation of Laplacian Weights for In-network Averaging, Internal Report 13-46, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Torrea-Duran R., Tsiaflakis P., Vandendorpe L., Moonen M., Low Complexity Autonomous Power Spectrum Allocation in LTE Heterogeneous Networks, Internal Report 13-47, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Falck T., De Moor B., Suykens J.A.K., Kernel based identification of systems with multiple outputs using nuclear norm regularization, Internal Report 13-49, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Shi L., Huang X., Suykens J.A.K., Sparse Kernel Regression with Coefficient-based lq-Regularization, Internal Report 13-50, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Caicedo A., Varon C., Suykens J., van Huffel S., Projection Matrices in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces for Kernel Principal Component Regression, Internal Report 13-51, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Huang X., Shi L., Pelckmans K., Suykens J.A.K., Convex Tube Regression, Internal Report 13-52, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Forouzan A., Moonen M., Timmers M., Guenach M., Maes J., Precursor inter-symbol interference removal by block transmission based time-reversed equalization, Internal Report 13-53, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Lindstrom Jensen T., Giacobello D., Groesball Christensen M., Jensen S.H., Moonen M., Real-time implementations of sparse linear prediction for speech processing, Internal Report 13-55, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013. Accepted for publication in ICASSP 2013.

Qazi O., van Dijk B., Moonen M., Wouters J., Understanding the effect of noise on electrical stimulation sequences in cochlear implants and its impact on speech intelligibility, Internal Report 13-56, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013. Accepted for publication in Hearing Research.

Widjaja D., Caicedo A., Vlemincx E., Van Diest I., Van Huffel S., Separation of respiratory influences from the tachogram: a methodological evaluation, Internal Report 13-59, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Mehrkanoon S., Mehrkanoon S.D., Suykens J.A.K., Parameter estimation of delay differential equations: an integration-free LS-SVM approach, Internal Report 13-60, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Hassani A., Bertrand A., Moonen M., Distributed node-specific direction-of-arrival estimation in wireless acoustic sensor networks, Internal Report 13-61, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Liu Y., De Vos M., Gligorijevic I., Matic V., Li Y., Van Huffel S., Multi-Structural Signal Recovery for Biomedical Compressive Sensing, Internal Report 13-62, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Van Hoorde K., Vergouwe Y., Timmerman D., Van Huffel S., Steyerberg E.W., Van Calster B., Simple dichotomous updating methods improved the validity of polytomous models, Internal Report 13-63, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013. Accepted for publication in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.

Zanon M., Frasch J. V., Diehl M., Nonlinear Moving Horizon Estimation for Combined State and Friction Coefficient Estimation in Autonomous Driving, Internal Report 13-64, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013. Proceedings of the European Control Conference, 2013.

Frasch J. V., Gray A. J., Zanon M., Ferreau H. J., Sager S., Borrelli F., Diehl M., An Auto-generated Nonlinear MPC Algorithm for Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance of Ground Vehicles, Internal Report 13-65, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013. Proceedings of the European Control Conference, 2013.

Zanon M., Gros S., Diehl M., Rotational Start-up of Tethered Airplanes Based on Nonlinear MPC and MHE, Internal Report 13-66, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013. Proceedings of the European Control Conference, 2013.

Zanon M., Gros S., Diehl M., A Lyapunov Function for Periodic Economic Optimizing Model Predictive Control, Internal Report 13-67, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Zanon M., Gros S., Diehl M., Control of Rigid-Airfoil Airborne Wind Energy Systems, Internal Report 13-68, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Gros S., Zanon M., Diehl M., Orbit Control for a Power Generating Airfoil Based on Nonlinear MPC, in Proc. of the American Control Conference, 2012 (ACC), Montreal, Canada, Jun. 2012, pp. 137-142.

Gros S., Zanon M., Vukov M., Diehl M., Nonlinear MPC and MHE for Mechanical Multi-Body Systems with Application to Fast Tethered Airplanes, in Proc. of the Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Conference (NMPC), Leeuwenhorst, Netherlands, Aug. 2012, pp. 86-93.

Gros S., Diehl M., Attitude Estimation Based on Inertial and Position Measurements, in Proc. of the IEEE 51st Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Maui, Hawaii, Dec. 2012, pp. 1758 - 1763.

Gros S., Diehl M., A Relaxation Strategy for the Optimization of Airborne Wind Energy Systems, Internal Report 13-72, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013. European Control Conference.

Gros S., Zanon M., Diehl M., Control of Airborne Wind Energy Systems Based on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control & Moving Horizon Estimation, Internal Report 13-73, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013. European Control Conference.

Gros S., Diehl M., NMPC based on Huber Penalty Functions to Handle Large Deviations of Quadrature States, Internal Report 13-74, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Gros S., Diehl M., An Economic NMPC Formulation for Wind Turbine Control, Internal Report 13-75, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Gros S., Vukov M., Diehl M., A Real-time MHE and NMPC Scheme for the Control of Multi-Mega Watts Wind Turbines, Internal Report 13-76, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Gros S., Diehl M., Modeling of Airborne Wind Energy Systems in Natural Coordinates, Internal Report 13-77, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

De Moor B., Hendrikx P.', International curricula and student mobility, LERU, Advice paper, vol. 12, Apr. 2013, pp. 1-24.

De Moor B., Een ingenieur over Leven na Letteren, Jaarboek : Letteren, 2013, pp. 1-4.

Widjaja D., Vlemincx E., Van Huffel S., Stress Classification by Separation of Respiratory Modulations in Heart Rate Variability using Orthogonal Subspace Projection, Internal Report 13-81, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013. Accepted for publication in Proc. of the 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

Avonds Y., Liu Y., Van Huffel S., Simultaneous Greedy Analysis Pursuit for Compressive Sensing of Multi-Channel ECG Signals, Internal Report 13-82, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

Mall R., Langone R., Suykens J.A.K., Self-Tuned Kernel Spectral Clustering for Large Scale Networks, Internal Report 13-86, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.

T. Coenen, W. Van de Moortel, F. Logist, J. Luyten, J.F.M. Van Impe, J. Degrève, Modeling and geometry optimization of photochemical reactors: single- and multi-lamp reactors for UV-H2O2 AOP systems, Chemical Engineering Science, date of acceptance: March 2013

Kathleen Boons, Eva Van Derlinden, Laurence Mertens, Charlotte C. David, Johan Hofkens, and Jan F. Van Impe, Behavior of Escherichia coli in a heterogeneous gelatin-dextran mixture, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, date of acceptance: February 2013

D. Telen, F. Logist, E. Van Derlinden and J. Van Impe, On the trade-off between experimental effort and information content in optimal experimental design for calibrating a predictive microbiology model, Journal de la Société Française de Statistique, date of acceptance: April 2013

D. Telen, B. Houska, F. Logist, E. Van Derlinden, M. Diehl and J. Van Impe, Optimal Experiment Design under Process Noise using Riccati Differential Equations, Journal of Process Control 23 (4): 613-629, 2013.

G. Gins, Jef Vanlaer, P. Van den Kerkhof, and J.F.M. Van Impe, Extending statistical models for batch-end quality prediction to batch control, 13th Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM 2013, New York, July 16-21, 2013 (Accepted)

F. Logist, T. Coenen, I. Stamati, D. Telen, M. Vallerio, J. Van Impe, Multi-objective optimisation of dynamic (bio)chemical processes, 22nd International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Málaga (Spain) , 17-21 June 2013 (Accepted)

UGent

N.E. Marinica, A. Sarlette and R.K. Boel, Distributed particle filter for urban traffic networks using a platoon based model, Provisionally accepted by IEEE J. Intelligent Transportation Systems

A. Sarlette, Performance limitations for distributed systems via spatial-frequency Bode integrals, Accepted for the European Control Conference 2013

Jasper De Bock and Gert de Cooman, Allowing for Probability Zero in Credal Networks under Epistemic Irrelevance, Accepted for publication in the proceedings of ISIPTA '13, 2-5 July 2013, Compiègne, France.

Jasper De Bock and Gert de Cooman, Credal Networks under Epistemic Irrelevance using Sets of Desirable Gambles, Accepted for publication in the proceedings of ISIPTA '13, 2-5 July 2013, Compiègne, France.

Jasper De Bock and Gert de Cooman, Extreme Lower Previsions and Minkowski Indecomposability, Accepted for publication in the proceedings of ECSQARU 2013, 7-10 July 2013, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Arthur Van Camp, Gert de Cooman, Modelling practical certainty and its link with classical propositional logic, Accepted for publication in the proceedings of ISIPTA '13, 2-5 July 2013, Compiègne, France.

VUB

Diana Ugryumova, Gerd Vandersteen, Bart Huyck, Filip Logist, Jan van Impe, and Bart De Moor, Identification of a Non-Insulated Distillation Column From Transient Response Data, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Volume 62 , Issue 5, 2013

R. Pintelon, E. Louarroudi, J. Lataire, Detection and Quantification of the Influence of Time Variation in Closed-Loop Frequency-Response-Function Measurements, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 853-863

B. Sanchez, E. Louarroudi, E. Jorge, J. Cinca, R. Bragos, R. Pintelon, A new measuring and identification approach for time-varying bioimpedance using multisine electical impedance spectroscopy, Physiological Measurement, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 339-357, 2013

O. Olarte, W. Van Moer, K. Barbé, Y. Van Ingelgem, A. Hubin, Frequency Domain Identification of Glucose Aqueous Solutions at Physiological Levels, Journal Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, Vol. 15, No. S1, February, 2013.

J. Lataire, E. Louarroudi and R. Pintelon, Detecting a time-varying behavior in frequency response function measurements, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 61, No. 8, pp. 2132-2143, 2012

Michel Gevers, Matthias Caenepeel, Johan Schoukens, Experiment design for the identification of a simple Wiener system, IEEE 51st Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 10-13 Dec. 2012, pp. 7333 – 7338

Sven Verguts, Oscar Olarte, Wendy Van Moer, Kurt Barbé, Yves Van Ingelgem, Annick Hubin, Frequency Domain Identification toward Non-Invasive Glucose Measurements, Bioelectrochemistry 2013, 12th Topical Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry and XXII International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics of the Bioelectrochemical Society, Bochum, Germany, March 17-21, 2013

Kurt Barbé, Francesco Lamonaca, Yuriy Kurylyak, Wendy Van Moer, Using the heart harmonics in the oscillometry to extract the blood pressure, IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA 2013), May 4-5, 2013, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

Lieve Lauwers, Kurt Barbé and Wendy Van Moer, Preprocessing fMRI data under correct Rice conditions, IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA 2013), May 4-5, 2013, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

Yuriy Kurylyak, Kurt Barbé, Francesco Lamonaca, Domenico Grimaldi, Wendy Van Moer, Photoplethysmogram-based Blood Pressure Evaluation using Kalman Filtering and Neural Networks, IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA 2013), May 4-5, 2013, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

Anne Van Mulders and Laurent Vanbeylen, Comparison of some initialisation methods for the identification of nonlinear state models, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Minneapolis (MN), USA, May 6-9, 2013

Anne Van Mulders and Laurent Vanbeylen, Identification of Nonlinear LFR Systems with Two Nonlinearities, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Minneapolis (MN), USA, May 6-9, 2013

Kurt Barbé, Lee Gonzales Fuentes, Lee Barford, Wendy Van Moer, Eliminating user-interaction in probability density estimation, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference -I2MTC, Minneapolis (MN), USA, May 6-9, 2013

Laurent Vanbeylen, Improved, user-friendly initialization for the identification of the nonlinear LFR block-oriented model, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Minneapolis (MN), USA, May 6-9, 2013

Oscar Olarte, Wendy Van Moer, Kurt Barbé, Yves Van Ingelgem, Annick Hubin, Influence of the type and position of the sensor on the precision of impedance glucose measurements, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Minneapolis (MN), USA, May 6-9, 2013

R. Pintelon, E. Louarroudi, and J. Lataire, FRF Measurements on Slowly Time-Varying Systems Using Multisines with Non-Uniformly Spaced Harmonics, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Minneapolis (MN), USA, May 6-9, 2013

Wendy Van Moer, Kurt Barbé, Niklas Björsell, A novel spectral subtraction technique for cognitive radios, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC, Minneapolis (MN), USA, May 6-9, 2013

L. Fernámdez Marcía, E. Tourwé, R. Pintelon, A. Hubin, A new modeling method for determining electrochemical parameters from LSV experiments using the stochastic noise. Part 1: Theory and validation, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 690 (2013), pp. 127-135

Florence Crombé, Wannes Vanderhaeghe, Corné P de Vogel, Willem J Van Wamel, Kurt Barbé, Katleen Hermans, Freddy Haesebrouck and Patrick Butaye, Serological profiles in nursery piglets colonized with Staphylococcus aureus, Veterinary Research, 2013, 44-4, 10 pages

Anne Van Mulders, Johan Schoukens, Laurent Vanbeylen, Identification of systems with localised nonlinearity: from state-space to block-structured models, Automatica 49 (5), 2013, pp. 1392-1396

Rik Pintelon and Johan Schoukens, FRF Measurement of Nonlinear Systems Operating in Closed Loop, IEEE Transactions onInstrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 62, No. 5, May 2013, pp. 1334-1345

E. Geerardyn, Y. Rolain and J. Schoukens, Design of Quasi-Logarithmic Multisine Excitations for Robust Broad Frequency Band Measurements, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 62, No. 5, May 2013, pp. 1364-1372

J. Schoukens, G. Vandersteen, R. Pintelon, Z. Emedi and Y. Rolain, Bounding the Polynomial Approximation Errors of Frequency Response Functions, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 62, No. 5, May 2013, pp. 13 46-1353

UNamur

Charlotte Beauthier, Joseph J. Winkin and Denis Dochain, Competitive coexistence in a chemostat by Input/State invariant LQ-optimal control, 52nd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2013), submitted.

Jérémy R. Dehaye, Joseph J. Winkin, Boundary control systems with Yosida type approximate boundary observation, Proceedings of 1st IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations (CPDE 2013), accepted.

Jérémy R. Dehaye, Joseph J. Winkin, LQ-optimal control by spectral factorization of extended semigroup boundary control systems with approximate boundary observation, 52nd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2013), submitted.

Till Hoffmann, Renaud Lambiotte and Mason A. Porter, Decentralized Routing on Spatial Networks with Stochastic Edge Weights, submitted.

Renaud Lambiotte and Jean-Charles Delvenne, Burstiness and spreading on temporal networks, submitted.

Vsevolod Salnikov and Renaud Lambiotte, Late for Good, Proceedings of NetMob, MIT, Boston, 2013.

V. Salnikov, D. Schien, H. Youn, R. Lambiotte and M.T. Gastner, The geography and carbon footprint of mobile phone use in Cote d’Ivoire, Proceedings of NetMob, MIT, Boston, 2013.

Michael T Schaub, Renaud Lambiotte and Mauricio Barahona, Encoding dynamics for multiscale community detection: Markov time sweeping for the map equation, Physical Review E 86, 026112, 2012.

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