Message of the Coordinators
Let us first wish you the very best for 2014 and let us hope it will bring us yet another productive year for our network !
We use the opportunity to remind you about the upcoming Benelux Meeting in Systems and Control which will be held from March 25 to 27 in Heijen. Notice that the deadline for submitting your abstracts to this conference is January 20th ! Other events we wish to draw your attention to are the next graduate school course in Statistical Machine Learning (organized in Louvain-la-Neuve in February) and the FNRS graduate school course "Math and Complex" (organized in Namur in March). You will find more about it below. We hope many of you will participate in these events.
Best wishes to all of you.
Vincent Blondel and Paul Van Dooren
DYSCO coordinators
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Staff Movements and Visitors
KUL
- Emanuele Frandi, postdoc, Host J. Suykens, January 1st, 2014.
Seminars
UCL
- January 7, 2014 – 10:00, Euler seminar room
Frédéric Launay (Université de Poitiers, France), Synchronisation du chaos et Ordonnancement pour les réseaux sans fil
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/.
ULg
Systmod weekly seminars normally take place on each Friday, 11am. They are announced on this webpage.
UNamur
Unless otherwise stated, naXys weekly seminars take place on each Tuesday, 1pm, in the Salle de Conférence (room E25), Department of Mathematics, 2nd floor of the Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Sociales et de Gestion building, Rempart de la Vierge 8, Namur. They are announced on this webpage.
Thesis defenses
KUL
Pieter Van den Kerkhof, Statistical Process Monitoring for Fault Detection & Diagnosis in (Bio)chemical Processes, Friday 10/01/2014 17:00, Auditorium Wolfspoort - Huis Bethlehem- Schapenstraat 34, 3000 Leuven.
Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks
The SOCN Graduate School 2013-2014 programme is available here : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/
The next course is entitled Statistical machine learning. It will be given by Guillaume OBOZINSKI (Ecole des Ponts - ParisTech) on February 10, 12, 14, 17, 19, 21, 2014 (9:00-12:00) 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/Courses2013-3
On-line registrations are welcome via this form.
Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools
UNamur
FNRS Graduate Schools MATH and COMPLEX
Course title : Inverse problems and environment : some new tools for atmospheric studies
Dates : March 10-12, 2014
Place: University of Namur
More info: http://www.graduatecollegescience.be/detail.php?lang=en&id=evt_668
Local organizers: Joseph Winkin and Timoteo Carletti
Scientific coordinator: Emmanuel Witrant
Keynote speakers: Anne De Wit, Sander Houweling, Maarten Krol, Franck Pattyn, Annick Sartenaer, Stefan Vandewalle, Emmanuel Witrant.
Global warming is now unequivocal, as mentioned in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (November 2013). This climate change can be monitored and analyzed, for example, by understanding the warming of the atmosphere and the recent evolution of greenhouse gas. The complexity of the dynamics and the sparsity of the measurements (e.g. direct measurements of the atmosphere or trace gas measurements in ice cores) necessitate advanced methods to reconstruct the past events. The aim of this school is to introduce recent modeling and inverse techniques for solving such key environmental problems with high societal impact. It will emphasize the need for an interdisciplinary approach involving environmental science, optimization, numerical analysis and signal processing. The classes are intended for a broad audience with basic mathematical background (e.g. calculus and differential equations).
33rd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : Announcement
The Organizing Committee has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the 33rd Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control to be held in Centerparcs Heijderbos, Heijen, The Netherlands, on March 25 – 27, 2014.
The aim of this meeting is to promote research activities and cooperation between researchers in Systems and Control. It is the thirty-third in a series of annual conferences that are held alternately in Belgium and The Netherlands. The meeting takes place under the auspices of the Dutch Institute of Systems and Control (DISC) and the Belgian Federation of Automatic Control (BIRA-IBRA), and is sponsored by the “Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek” (NWO).
Invited Speakers
The Scientific Program includes two interesting plenary speakers, namely:
- Professor Lorenzo Marconi, University of Bologna, Italy (Title: Robust Output Regulation for Continuous-Time and Hybrid Systems).
- Professor Jacquelien Scherpen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (title to be announced).
In addition, there will be a Minicourse by Professor Christos Cassandras, Boston University, Boston, USA (title to be announced).
Call for papers
Contributions are now being invited. Each submission consists of a one page abstract of the contribution and must be headed with the title, the names and affiliations of the authors, and the complete mailing address (including electronic mail address) of the corresponding author. We use web based on-line electronic submissions of contributed abstracts. The electronic submission procedure consists of filling out the electronic Submission Form. For each contributed abstract this form must be completed and submitted electronically. Only electronic submissions are accepted.
Details for the preparation of the abstracts can be found in the Authors' Kit. We strongly suggest following the instructions on that page. We emphasize that for all contributed abstracts, the Submission Form must be filled out to make your submission formal. The deadline for receipt of contributed abstracts is January 20, 2014.
Proposals for Special Sessions consisting of four or five lectures centered around a specific topic are also solicited. Special Session Proposals should be send by email to benelux2014@tue.nl. After approval of the invited session proposal, each individual abstract in a Special Session proposal must be submitted via completion of the Submission Form.
Decisions on the conference program will be made by the Organizing Committee. Authors will be notified about the acceptance of their abstract by February 1st, 2014. Final versions of the abstracts, if necessary, are due February 15th, 2014. Abstracts will be included in a “Book of Abstracts” which will be distributed at the conference and will also be available on the web.
Advance Program
The advance program of the Benelux Meeting will not be mailed. It will be made available electronically on the conference website around March 1, 2014.
Best Junior Presentation Award
Continuing a tradition that started in 1996, the Benelux meeting will again include a competition for the Best Junior Presentation Award. Details will be provided on the conference website.
Registrations
To register for the 33th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, please complete the on-line Electronic Registration Form. Reservations are firm only when the corresponding Payment has been received. Only electronic registrations are accepted. Registration fees for the 33th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control must be paid in advance. Early registration is highly recommended. Early registrations have to be received by February 15, 2014 (23:59 GMT+1).
Organization
For communications regarding the scientific program, the conference location, or registrations, please contact one of the organizers :
Ton van den Boom, Delft University of Technology
Tel: +31.15.278.4052 - Email: a.j.j.vandenboom@tudelft.nl
Raffaella Carloni, University of Twente
Tel: +31.53.489.2817 - Email: r.carloni@utwente.nl
Mircea Lazar, Eindhoven University of Technology
Tel: +31.40.247.3795 - Email: m.lazar@tue.nl
Conference Website
http://www.benelux2014.tue.nl/
Miscellaneous
BELSPO Call for proposals - Networking activities with India
This call for proposals was issued on December 17, 2013 by BELSPO in the framework of a research and technology cooperation between Belgium and India.
The submission deadline is March 3, 2014.
More information here :
Submission file (English - Dutch)
Check list (Dutch)
Submission file (English - French)
Check list (French)
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
A. Browet, P. Van Dooren, Low-rank Similarity Measure for Role Model Extraction, submitted for presentation at MTNS 2014, July 7-11, 2014, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Melchior, Samuel; Van Dooren, Paul; Gallivan, Kyle A., Model reduction of linear time-varying systems over finite horizons. In: Applied Numerical Mathematics, Vol. 77, p. 1-10 (2013). doi:10.1016/j.apnum.2013.10.007. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/135633
Borckmans, Pierre; Suviseshamuthu, Easter Selvan; Boumal, Nicolas; Absil, Pierre-Antoine, A Riemannian Subgradient Algorithm for Economic Dispatch with Valve-Point Effect. In: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 255, p. 848-866 (January 2014). doi:10.1016/j.cam.2013.07.002. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/131393
Nesterov, Yurii, Subgradient methods for huge-scale optimization problems. In: Mathematical Programming, (May 2013). doi:10.1007/s10107-013-0686-4. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/135561
Nesterov, Yurii; Protasov, Vladimir, Optimizing the Spectral Radius. In: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Vol. 34, no.3, p. 999–1013 (2013). doi:10.1137/110850967. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/135562
Nesterov, Yurii; Nemirovski, Arkadi, Some first-order methods for l1/nuclear norm minimization. In: Acta Numerica, Vol. 22, p. 509-575 (May 2013). doi:10.1017/S096249291300007X. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/135560
Boumal, Nicolas; Singer, Amit; Absil, Pierre-Antoine; Blondel, Vincent, Cramér-Rao bounds for synchronization of rotations. In: Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications. Journal, (2013). doi:10.1093/imaiai/iat006 (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/135564
Mastronardi, Nicola; Van Dooren, Paul, An algorithm for solving the indefinite least squares problem with equality constraints. In: Bit(Lisse) : numerical mathematics, (2013). doi:10.1007/s10543-013-0452-2 (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/135632
Bastin, Georges; Coron, Jean-Michel; Tamasoiu, Simona-Oana, Stability of linear density-flow hyperbolic systems under PI boundary control. Submitted to Automatica, (December 2013). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/135680
Clavier, Thibault; Razavi-Ghods, Nima; Glineur, François; Gonzalez-Ovejero, David; de Lera Acedo, Eloy; Craeye, Christophe; Alexander, Paul, A Global-Local Synthesis Approach for Large Non-regular Arrays. In: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, (2013). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/135678
Pompili, Filippo; Gillis, Nicolas; Absil, Pierre-Antoine; Glineur, François, ONP-MF: An Orthogonal Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Algorithm with Application to Clustering. ESANN 2013 (Bruges, Belgium, 24/04/2013 - 26/04/2013). In: Proceedings of the 21st European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN 2013), 2013, 9782874190810, p. 297-302. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/135590
Lefèvre, Augustin; Glineur, François; Absil, Pierre-Antoine, A nuclear-norm based convex formulation for informed source separation. ESANN 2013 (Bruges, Belgium, 24/04/2013 - 26/04/2013). In: Proceedings of the 21st European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN 2013), 2013, 9782874190810, 101-106. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/135588
Glineur, François, Les méthodes de point intérieur. In: J. Teghem, Recherche opérationnelle - Tome 2 : Gestion de production - Modèles aléatoires - Aide multicritère , Ellipses, 2013, p. 509-538. 9782729882020. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/135636
KUL
M. Vallerio, J. Van Impe and F. Logist, Tuning of NMPC controllers via multi-objective optimisation, Computers and Chemical Engineering 61: 38-50, 2014.
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 154 (3): 95-112, 2013.
Mall R., Langone R., Suykens J.A.K., Agglomerative Hierarchical Kernel Spectral Clustering for Large Scale Networks, Internal Report 13-232, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.
Van Hoorde K., Vergouwe Y., Timmerman D., Van Huffel S., Steyerberg E.W., Van Calster B., Assessing calibration of multinomial risk prediction models, Internal Report 13-233, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.
Vervliet N., Debals O., Sorber L., De Lathauwer L., Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality using Decompositions of Incomplete Tensors, Internal Report 13-243, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.
Feng Y., Huang X., Shi L., Yang Y., Suykens J.A.K., Learning with the Maximum Correntropy Criterion Induced Losses for Regression, Internal Report 13-244, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.
Yang Y., Feng Y., Huang X., Suykens J.A.K., Rank-one Tensor Property from Rank-one Balanced-unfoldings and Applications, Internal Report 13-245, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.
Vanderloock K., Vanden Abeele V., Suykens J.A.K., Geurts L., The skweezee system: enabling the design and the programming of squeeze interactions, in Proc. of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, St Andrews, UK, Oct. 2013, pp. 521-530.
Marconato A., Sjoberg J., Suykens J.A.K., Schoukens J., Improved Initialization for Nonlinear State-Space Modeling, Internal Report 13-247, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013. Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.
VUB
Gonzales-Fuentes, L. ; Barbe, K. ; Van Moer, W. ; Bjorsell, N., Cognitive Radios: Discriminant Analysis for Automatic Signal Detection in Measured Power Spectra, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 62, No. 12, December 2013, pp. 3351-3360.
Alexander De Cock, Michel Gevers, Johan Schoukens, A preliminary study on Optimal Input Design for Nonlinear Systems, 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy, December 10-13, 2013, pp. 4931-4936.
Schoukens, Johan; Rolain, Yves; Vandersteen, Gerd; Pintelon, Rik, Study of Small Data Set Efficiency Losses in System Identification: The FIR Case, 11th IFAC International Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Control and Signal Processing (ALCOSP), July 3-5, 2013 Caen, France, pp. 68-73.
UNamur
M. E. Achhab, J. J. Winkin, Stabilization of Infinite Dimensional Systems by State Feedback with Positivity Constraints, MTNS 2014, submitted.
J. R. Dehaye, J. J. Winkin, LQ-Optimal Control by Spectral Factorization of Extended Semigroup Boundary Control Systems with Approximate Boundary Observation, Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 10-13, 2013. Florence, Italy, pp. 1071-1076.
J. R. Dehaye, J. J. Winkin, LQ-Optimal Boundary Control of Infinite-Dimensional Systems with Yosida-Type Approximate Boundary Observation, submitted.
Jean-Charles Delvenne, Renaud Lambiotte, Luis E. C. Rocha, Bottlenecks, burstiness, and fat tails regulate mixing times of non-Poissonian random walks, arXiv:1309.4155v2.
F. Gargiulo, T. Carletti, Driving forces in researchers mobility, 2 Dec 2013, 12 ed. Namur: Namur center for complex systems. 23 p. (naXys Technical Report Series; vol. 4, no. 12)
IAP Contact Persons
| UCL | Isabelle Hisette |
| KUL | Ida Tassens |
| UGent | Margot Roels |
| VUB | Ann Pintelon |
| ULg | Sophie Cimino |
| UMons | Laurent Dewasme |
| UNamur | Joseph Winkin |