Message of the Coordinators

We had a great study day a few weeks ago in Namur: the UNamur team had put together a very nice program with top quality speakers covering a diversity of topics with a nice balance between theory and practice. Many thanks to the local organizers for a smooth organization, to the participants for carefully preparing their posters and to the speakers for turning it into a successful event.

In this newsletter you will find information of two additional events organized by partners of our network in the areas of Queueing Theory and of Data-driven Modeling, which we invite you to attend.


Vincent Blondel and Paul Van Dooren
DYSCO coordinators


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Staff Movements and Visitors

KUL
  • 16/06/2014 : Zhara Karevan (PhD), supervisor Johan Suykens.
VUB
  • Two new PhD students joined ELEC : Gabriel Hollander and Vladimir Lazov.
  • Mussa Bshara will visit us from June 2 until June 8, 2014.
UMons
  • On the 12th of May, Prof. Daniel Coutinho (UFSC, Florianopolis, Brazil) visited the team for a one-week research stay, in the framework of a CNPQ-FNRS project.
  • On the 15th of May, Prof. Jean-Sébastien Deschênes (UQR, Rimouski, Québec) was also visiting our group in the framework of a WBI-Quebec project, for a 1-week research stay.

Seminars

KUL
  • June 2, 2014 - 11h-16h - Aud. Tweede Hoofdwet, Thermotechnisch Instituut, Kasteelpark Arenberg 41, Heverlee
    Borbala Hunyadi, symposium Advances in signal processing form neuroimage of epilepsy and PhD defense Learning from structured EEG and fMRI data supporting the diagnosis of epilepsy.
  • June 3, 2014 - 16h45-17h30 - ESAT, room 00.62
    Petr Tichavsky (Inst. Information Theory and Automation, Prague), New approaches to CANDECOMP/PARAFAC tensor decomposition.
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.

Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks

The SOCN Graduate School 2014-2015 programme will be available soon.

Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools

First European Conference on Queueing Theory (ECQT 2014) : August 20-22, 2014, Ghent, Belgium

After three successful Madrid Conferences on Queueing Theory (MCQT), organized by our beloved colleague Jesús Artalejo, it was decided to continue the MCQT conferences in a European context. The First European Conference on Queueing Theory (ECQT 2014) takes place in the beautiful city of Ghent (Belgium) and aims to be a meeting place where scientists and technicians in the field can find a discussion forum to promote research, encourage interaction and exchange ideas. The conference is open to all trends in queueing theory, including the development of the theory, methodology advances, computational aspects and applications.

Keynote speakers

  • Mariana Olvera (Columbia University)
  • Philippe Robert (INRIA)
  • Michel Mandjes (University of Amsterdam)

Conference website

Further information is provided at the conference website http://ecqt2014.ugent.be

ECQT 2014 organizing committee

  • General Chair: Herwig Bruneel (Ghent University, Belgium)
  • TPC Chairs: Onno Boxma (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) and Joris Walraevens (Ghent University, Belgium)
  • Local Organizing Committee Chair: Sabine Wittevrongel (Ghent University, Belgium)

Although the official registration deadline has already passed, please contact the organizing committee at ecqt2014@telin.ugent.be if you want to participate.

BIL 2014, Local Workshop on Data-driven Modeling Methods and Applications : July 14-15, 2014, Leuven, Belgium

The local workshop on Data-driven Modeling Methods and Applications will focus on progress in data-driven modeling methods and will put emphasis also on applications in chemical engineering. The aim of this workshop is bringing together researchers from different communities, to present new progress in system modeling and outline potential applications in industry. Finding new synergies along these areas, both at the level of theory and applications, is one of the main objectives. This workshop also aims at developing a sustainable research cooperation between Chinese and Belgian universities in the related areas.

The topics of this workshop include but are not limited to

  • Data-driven modeling methods
  • Fault detection and process monitoring
  • System identification
  • Model predictive control.

Program

A tentative program is available at http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/stadius/bil2014/. Organized sessions are on optimization methods, modeling and control, identification and fault detection, and data-driven modeling and learning. The possibility is still offered to submit a title and short abstract in order to participate also in the poster session. A few submissions will also be selected for oral presentation and be included in the final program.

Abstract submission

A title and short abstract can be submitted by email to Xiaolin Huang <xiaolin.huang@esat.kuleuven.be>.

Registration

Participation in the workshop is free of charge. However, registration is needed for attending and participating in the workshop.

Important dates

  • Deadline abstract submission: July 1, 2014
  • Deadline registration: July 7, 2014
  • Workshop BIL 2014: July 14-15, 2014

Organizing committee

  • Johan Suykens, Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven
  • Shuning Wang, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University
  • Xiaolin Huang, Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven
  • Siamak Mehrkanoon, Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven

For further information see http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/stadius/bil2014/

Awards

Each year, SIAM awards three outstanding papers published in SIAM journals. This year our colleague Yurii Nesterov received one of these awards for his paper Efficiency of Coordinate Descent Methods on Huge-Scale Optimization Problems, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Vol. 22(2), 2012.

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL

Frasca, Paolo; Hendrickx, Julien. On the mean square error of randomized averaging algorithms. In: Automatica, Vol. 49, no. 8, p. 2496-2501 (2013). doi:10.1016/j.automatica.2013.04.035. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/127513

Huang, Wen; Gallivan, Kyle, A.; Srivastava, Anuj; Absil, Pierre-Antoine. Riemannian Optimization for Elastic Shape Analysis. MTNS 2014 (Groningen, The Netherlands, 07/07/2014 - 11/07/2014). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/143354

Bastin, Georges; Coron, Jean-Michel; d'Andréa-Novel, Brigitte; Suvarov, Paul; Vande Wouwer, Alain; Kienle, Achim. Stability analysis of switching hyperbolic systems: the example of SMB chromatography. ECC 2014 (Strasbourg, France, 24/06/2014 - 27/06/2014). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/143206

Bastin, Georges; Coron, Jean-Michel. Stability conditions for 1-D quasi-linear hyperbolic systems under dynamic feedback boundary control. HYP2014 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 28/07/2014 - 1/08/2014). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/143207

Vankeerberghen, Guillaume; Hendrickx, Julien; Jungers, Raphaël M.; Wolsey, Laurence. An efficient technique for solving the scheduling of appliances in smart-homes. ACC 2014 (Portland, OR, 4/06/2014 - 6/06/2014). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/144075

Chevalier, Pierre-Yves; Hendrickx, Julien; Jungers, Raphaël M.. A switched Systems approach to the decidability of consensus. MTNS 2014 (Groningen, The Netherlands, 07/07/2014 - 11/07/2014). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/144074

Vankeerberghen, Guillaume; Hendrickx, Julien; Jungers, Raphaël M. JSR: a toolbox for computing the Joint Spectral Radius. HSCC 2014 (Berlin, Germany, 15/04/2014 - 17/04/2014). In: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/144076

Delvenne, Jean-Charles; Sandberg, Henrik. Towards a thermodynamics of control: Entropy, energy and Kalman filtering. CDC 2013 (Florence, Italy, 10/12/2013 - 13/12/2013). In: IEEE 52nd Annual Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE, 2013, 978-1-4673-5714-2, 3109-3114. doi:10.1109/CDC.2013.6760357. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/143726

KUL

Kozma A., Distributed optimization methods for large scale optimal control, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Feb. 2014, 176 p.

Willemen T., Varon C., Haex B., Vander Sloten J., Van Huffel S., Assessment of Different Methodologies to Include Temporal Information in Classifying Episodes of Sleep Apnea Based on Single-Lead Electrocardiogram, Internal Report 14-82, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.

Sorber L., Willemen T., Van Barel M., De Lathauwer L., Van Huffel S., A Tensor-Based Autoencoder for Detection of Heart Beats in Multimodal Data, Internal Report 14-83, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.

Claesen M., De Smet F., Suykens J. A. K., De Moor B., Efficient Ensemble Learning With Support Vector Machines

Popovic D., Sifrim A., Moschopoulos C., Moreau Y., De Moor B., Estimating Random Forest feature importance using a genetic algorithm approach, Internal Report 14-88, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014. Accepted for publication in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.

Popovic D., Sifrim A., Davis J., Moreau Y., De Moor B., Improving performance of the eXtasy model by hierarchical sampling, Internal Report 14-89, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics - 9th IAPR International Conference (PRIB 2014).

Verbeeck N., Yang J., De Moor B., Caprioli R.M., Waelkens E., Van de Plas R., Deeper Insights Through Integration: Linking Imaging Mass Spectrometry Data with Anatomical Data

Verbeeck N., El Aalamat Y., De Moor B., Waelkens E. and Van de Plas R., Automated Discovery of Inter-tissue Differential Patterns in Mass Spectral Imaging Data Using Group Independent Component Analysis (GICA)

Verbeeck N., De Moor B., Waelkens E., Van de Plas R., Improved Peak Picking for Mass Spectral Imaging by Integrating Localized Wavelet Information

Verbeeck N., Van de Plas R., De Moor B., Waelkens E., Improved Wavelet Analysis of MSI Data for Feature Selection and Data Compression through Incorporation of Spatial Information

Varon C., Jansen K., Lagae L., Faes L., Van Huffel S., Transient behavior of cardiorespiratory interactions towards the onset of epileptic seizures, Internal Report 14-96, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.

Yang Y., Feng Y., Suykens J.A.K., Robust Low Rank Tensor Recovery with Regularized Redescending M-Estimator, Internal Report 14-97, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.

Huyck B., De Brabanter J., De Moor B., Van Impe J., Logist F., Online model predictive control of industrial processes using low level control hardware : a pilot-scale distillation column case study, Control Engineering Practice, vol. 28, 2014, pp. 34-48.

Testa A., Kaijser J., Wynants L., Fischerova D., Van Holsbeke C., Franchi D., Savelli L., Epstein L., Czekierdowski A., Guerriero S., Fruscio R., Leone F., Vergote I., Bourne T., Valentin L., Van Calster B., Timmerman D., Strategies to diagnose ovarian cancer : new evidence from phase 3 of the multicentre international IOTA study, Internal Report 14-99, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014. Accepted for publication in British Journal of Cancer.

Mall R., Suykens J.A.K., KSC-net: Community Detection for Big Data Networks, in Big Data: Algorithms, Analytics, and Applications, (Li K., Jiang H., Yang L., and Cuzzocrea A., eds.), CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. (Boca Raton, USA), 2014, pp. 1-20.

Domanov I. and De Lathauwer L., Generic uniqueness conditions for the canonical polyadic decomposition and INDSCAL, Internal Report 14-102, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.

Ignace L.M.M. Tack, Filip Logist, Estefania Noriega Fernandez, Jan F.M. Van Impe, An individual-based modeling approach to simulate the effects of cellular nutrient competition on Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 colony behavior and interactions in aerobic structured food systems, Food Microbiology, 2014. (Accepted for publication)

Torstein Skåra, Vasilis P Valdramidis, Jan Thomas Rosnes, Estefanía Noriega, Jan FM Van Impe, A novel model to assess the efficacy of steam surface pasteurization of cooked surimi gels inoculated with realistic levels of Listeria innocua, Food Microbiology, 2014. (Accepted for publication)

Ignace Tack, Filip Logist, Estefania Noriega Fernandez, Jan Van Impe, An individual-based model for anaerobic dynamics of Escherichia coli colonies, FOODSIM 2014, Brest, June 23-25, accepted for presentation.

S. Akkermans, E. Noriega, F. Logist, J.F.M. Van Impe, Extending a novel class of predictive models to describe the effect of pH on microbial growth, FOODSIM 2014, Brest, June 23-25, accepted for presentation.

VUB

I. Markovsky and K. Usevich, Nonlinearly structured low-rank approximation, Chapter in “Low-Rank and Sparse Modeling for Visual Analysis”. Springer, 2014. Yun Raymond Fu, editor - in press.

L. Fernández Macía, R. Pintelon, A. Hubin, A new modeling method for determining electrochemical parameters from LSV experiments using the stochastic noise. Part II: Experimental validation, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Vol. 720–721, 15 April 2014, pp. 147-155.

Barbé Kurt, Yuriy Kurylyak and Francesco Lamonaca, Logistic ordinal regression for the calibration of oscillometric blood pressure monitors, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Vol. 11, pp. 89-96, May 2014.

E. Louarroudi , J. Lataire, R. Pintelon, P. Janssens, J. Swevers, Frequency domain, parametric estimation of the evolution of the time-varying dynamics of periodically time-varying systems from noisy input–output observations, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 47, No. 1–2, 3 August 2014, pp. 151-174.

J. Ertveldt, J. Lataire, R. Pintelon, S. Vanlanduit, Frequency-domain identification of time-varying systems for analysis and prediction of aeroelastic flutter, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 47, No. 1–2, 3 August 2014, pp. 225-242.

De Caigny, J., R. Pintelon, J. F. Camino, J. Swevers, Interpolated modeling of LPV systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, accepted for publication.

van Berkel, M., G. Vandersteen, E. Geerardyn, R. Pintelon, H. Zwart, and M. De Baar, Frequency domain sample maximum likelihood estimation for spatially dependent parameter estimation in PDEs, Automatica, accepted for publication.

Lee Gonzales Fuentes, Kurt Barbé and Wendy Van Moer, Adaptive Noise Tracking for Cognitive Radios under more realistic operation conditions, I2MTC 2014, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Montevideo, Uruguay, May 12-15, 2014, pp. 1339-1344.

Oscar Olarte, Kurt Barbé, Wendy Van Moer and Yves Van Ingelgem, Glucose Characterization Based on Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, I2MTC 2014, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Montevideo, Uruguay, May 12-15, 2014, pp. 833-837.

Kurt Barbe, Lee Gonzales-Fuentes, and Wendy Van Moer, Monte-Carlo parameter uncertainty analysis under dynamical and operational measurement conditions, I2MTC 2014 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Montevideo, Uruguay, May 13-16, 2014, pp. 276-281.

Adam Cooman and Gerd Vandersteen, Distortion Contribution Analysis by combining the Best Linear Approximation and noise analysis, Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2014), Melbourne, Australia, June 1-5, 2014.

Goos, J., J. Lataire, and R. Pintelon, Estimation of linear parameter-varying affine state space models using synchronised periodic input and scheduling signals, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon (USA), June 4-6, 2014.

Giuseppe Polimeni, Alfonso Scarpino, Kurt Barbé, Francesco Lamonaca and Domenico Grimaldi, Evaluation of the number of PPG harmonics to assess Smartphone effectiveness, MEMEA 2014, IEEE international symposium on Medical Measurement and its Applications, Lisboa, Portugal, June 11-12, 2014.

Kurt Barbé and Lieve Lauwers, A novel t-test for low-SNR fMRI brain mapping, MEMEA 2014, IEEE international symposium on Medical Measurement and its Applications, Lisboa, Portugal, June 11-12, 2014

Lieve Lauwers and Kurt Barbé, The use of the harmonic median for fMRI signal intensity characterization, MEMEA 2014, IEEE international symposium on Medical Measurement and its Applications, Lisboa, Portugal, June 11-12, 2014.

Van Mulders, A., L. Vanbeylen and K. Usevich, Identification of a block-structured model with several sources of nonlinearity, European Control Conference, Strasbourg, France, June 24-27, 2014.

Vanbeylen, L. and A. Van Mulders, Identification method for nonlinear LFR block-oriented models with multiple inputs and outputs, European Control Conference, Strasbourg, France, June 24-27, 2014.

Ricardo Castro, Siamak Mehrkanoon, Anna Marconato, Johan Schoukens, Johan Suykens, SVD truncation schemes for fixed-size kernel models, Proceedings of the 2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2014, Beijing, China, July 6-11, 2014.

M. Ishteva and I. Markovsky, Tensor low multilinear rank approximation by structured matrix low-rank approximation, 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2014), Groningen, The Netherlands, July 7-11, 2014.

UMons

J. Moreno, A. Vande Wouwer, Special Issue: Nonlinear Modeling, Estimation and Control of Biological Systems, Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, vol.37, 2014, Editorial note, pp. 1-3.

A. Vande Wouwer, P. Saucez, C. Vilas, Simulation of ODE/PDE Models with MATLAB®, OCTAVE and SCILAB, Springer (in press).

G. Chauvon, P. Saucez, A. Vande Wouwer, Geometric Integrators in Population Balance Simulation, Accepted for the 6th International Conference on Advanced Computational Methods in Engineering ACOMEN 2014, 23-28 June, 2014, Gent, Belgium.

G. Bastin, J.M. Coron, B. d’Andréa-Novel, P. Suvarov, A. Vande Wouwer, A. Kienle, Stability analysis of switching hyperbolic systems: the example of SMB chromatography, Accepted for the European Control Conference, 24-27 June 2014, Strasbourg, France.

M. Benavides, D. Coutinho, A.-L. Hantson, J. Van Impe, A. Vande Wouwer, Gain Scheduled Luenberger Observers for Microalgal Cultures, Accepted for the European Control Conference, 24-27 June 2014, Strasbourg, France.

IAP Contact Persons

UCLIsabelle Hisette
KULIda Tassens
UGentMargot Roels
VUBAnn Pintelon
ULgSophie Cimino
UMonsLaurent Dewasme
UNamurJoseph Winkin

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