Message of the Coordinator

I'd like to thank all the members of DYSCO who expressed their support of the IAP programme via the petition prepared by the IAP Taskforce of the FRWB/CFPS (Federale Raad voor Wetenschapsbeleid/Conseil Fédéral de la Politique Scientifique). This petition was signed by about 5000 researchers and was handed over to the federal co-negociators Kris Peeters and Charles Michel by André De Leenheer and Michel Gevers. You can find more about it on the following link.

Your signatures show your support to the IAP Programme of BELSPO. Let us hope it will have an effect on the political decisions in this matter.

I also want to remind you about the next IAP study day, announced below in the newsletter. I hope to see many of you there !

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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, UNamur, and international partners at Stanford, Princeton and MIT. Subscription is free and open to anyone: subscribe here, or unsubscribe.

Staff Movements and Visitors

UCL

• Staff

• Visitors
  • Alexandre Mauroy (October 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015) is a visiting researcher from ULg (host: Prof. J. Hendrickx). His research interests include dynamical systems, control theory, and operator-theoretic methods.

KUL

• Staff

VUB

• Visitors
  • István Kollár, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME): 6-10 Oktober 2014
• Staff

Theses defenses

UCL

• Arnaud Browet defended his thesis entitled Algorithms for community and role detection in networks on September 30, 2014. His supervisors are Paul Van Dooren and Pierre-Antoine Absil.

VUB

• Ebrahim Louarroudi, Frequency Domain Measurement and Identification of Weakly Nonlinear Time-Periodic Systems, Doctoral Dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, September 2014.

Seminars

KUL

• October 8, 2014 - 10:00-13:00 - OPTEC Seminar, ESAT room 00.62
  Geert Gins, Current challenges for data mining in chemical industry and Lieven De Lathauwer, Tensor methods for signal processing and data analysis.

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 is currently being drawn up.

Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools

PAI DYSCO Study Day: Gent, November 12, 2014

The program of this day can be found here.

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL

Guay, Martin; Moshksar, Ehsan; Dochain, Denis. A constrained extremum-seeking control approach. In: International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, p. 32 (2014). doi:10.1002/rnc (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/150615

Delhaye, Benoit; Lefčvre, Philippe; Thonnard, Jean-Louis. Dynamics of fingertip contact during the onset of tangential slip. In: Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Vol. 11 (2014). doi:10.1098/rsif.2014.0698. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/150629

Casenave, Céline; Dochain, Denis; Harmand, Jérôme; Perez, Marc; Rapaport, Alain; Sablayrolles, Jean-Marie. Control of a Multi-Stage Continuous Fermentor for the study of the wine fermentation. IFAC World Congress 2014 (Cape Town, South Africa, 24/08/2014 - 29/08/2014). In: Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2014, p. 6192-6197. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/150421

Hoang, Ngoc Ha; Dochain, Denis; Ydstie, B. Erik. Partial inventory control of the CSTR via reaction-dependent generalized inventories. IFAC World Congress 2014 (Cape Town, South Africa, 24/08/2014 - 29/08/2014). In: Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2014, p. 9123-9128. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/150423

Guay, Martin; Dochain, Denis. A proportional integral extremum-seeking control approach. IFAC World Congress 2014 (Cape Town, South Africa, 24/08/2014 - 29/08/2014). In: Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2014, p. 377-382. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/150432

Alcaraz-Gonzalez, Victor; Dochain, Denis; Gonzalez-Alvarez, Victor. Passive control of a Two-stages Anaerobic Digestion Process. XVI Congreso Latinoamericano de Control Automático (CLCA 2014) (Cancun, Quitana Roo, Mexico, 14/10/2014 - 17/10/2014). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/150419

Hoang, Ngoc Ha; Dochain, Denis; Hudon, Nicolas. A thermodynamic approach towards Lyapunov based control of reaction rate. IFAC World Congress 2014 (Cape Town, South Africa, 24/08/2014 - 29/08/2014). In: Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2014, p. 9117-9122. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/150426

Hudon, Nicolas; Dochain, Denis; Guay, Martin. Passivity and Passive Feedback Stabilization for a Class of Mixed Potential Systems. IFAC World Congress 2014 (Cape Town, South Africa, 24/08/2014 - 29/08/2014). In: Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2014, 9105-9110. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/140632

KUL

M. Baka, E. Noriega Fernández, L. Mertens, E. Van Derlinden, J. Van Impe, Protective role of indigenous Leuconostoc carnosum against Listeria monocytogenes on vacuum packed Frankfurter sausages at suboptimal temperatures. Food Research International, 2014 (Accepted for publication).

B. Houska, D. Telen, F. Logist, M. Diehl and J. Van Impe, An economic objective for optimal experiment design of nonlinear dynamic processes. Automatica, 2014 (Accepted for publication).

I.L.M.M. Tack, F. Logist, E. Noriega Fernández, J.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).

K. Boons, E. Noriega Fernández, R. Van den Broeck, C.C. David, J. Hofkens and J.F. Van Impe, Effect of microstructure on population growth parameters of Escherichia coli in gelatin-dextran systems. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 80 (17): 5330-5339, 2014 (Accepted for publication).

D. Telen, D. Vercammen, F. Logist and J. Van Impe, Robustifying optimal experiment design for nonlinear, dynamic (bio)chemical systems. Computers and Chemical Engineering, 2014 (Accepted for publication).

E. Noriega Fernández, E.G. Velliou, E. Van Derlinden, L. Mertens, J.F.M. Van Impe, Role of growth morphology in the formulation of NaCl-based selective media for injury detection of Escherichia coli, Salmonella Typhimurium and Listeria innocua. Food Research International 64: 402 - 411, 2014.

T. Skĺra, V.P. Valdramidis, J.T. Rosnes, E. Noriega Fernández and J.F.M. 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).

I. Stamati, F. Logist, E. Van Derlinden, J.-P. Gauchi and J. Van Impe, Optimal experiment design for discriminating between microbial growth models as function of suboptimal temperature. Mathematical Biosciences 250: 69-80, 2014.

Signoretto M., Langone R., Pontil M. and Suykens J.A.K., Graph Based Regularization for Multilinear Multitask Learning, Internal Report 14-138, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.

Kaijser J., Van Belle V., Van Gorp T., Sayasneh A., Vergote I., Bourne T., Van Calster B., Timmerman D., Prognostic Value of Serum HE4 Levels and Risk of Ovarian Malignancy Algorithm Scores at the Time of Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis., International Journal of gynecological Cancer, vol. 27, no. 7, Sep. 2014, pp. 1173-1180.

Van Calster B., Van Hoorde K., Valentin L., Testa A., Fischerova D., Van Holsbeke C., Savelli L., Franchi D., Epstein E., Kaijser J., Van Belle V., Czekierdowski A., Guerriero S., Fruscio R., Lanzani C., Scala F., Bourne T., Timmerman D., Iota I., Evaluating the risk of ovarian cancer prior to surgery using the ADNEX risk model: diagnostic study to differentiate between benign, borderline, stage I invasive, advanced stage invasive, and secondary metastatic tumours, Internal Report 14-144, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014. Accepted for publication in The BMJ.

Van Diest I., Verstappen K., Aubert A.E., Widjaja D., Vansteenwegen D., Vlemincx E., Inhalation/Exhalation Ratio Modulates the Effect of Slow Breathing on Heart Rate Variability and Relaxation, Internal Report 14-145, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014. Accepted for publication in Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, pp. 1-10.

Goovaerts G., Varon C., Vandenberk B., Willems R., Van Huffel S., Tensor-based Detection of T Wave Alternans in Multilead ECG Signals, in Proc. of the 41st Annual Computing in Cardiology (CinC), Cambridge, USA, Sep. 2014.

De Cooman T., Goovaerts G., Varon C., Widjaja D., Van Huffel S., Heart Beat Detection in Multimodal Data Using Signal Recognition and Beat Location Estimation, Internal Report 14-147, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014. Accepted for publication in Proc. of the 41st Annual Computing in Cardiology (CinC2014).

Kaijser J., Sayasneh A., Van Hoorde K., Ghaem-Maghami S., Bourne T., Timmerman D., Van Calster B., Preoperatief onderscheid maken tussen benigne en maligne adnexpathologie: nieuwe evidence-based adviezen voor de dagelijkse praktijk, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Obstetrie en Gynaecologie, vol. 127, Jul. 2014, pp. 274-282.

Mehrkanoon S., Agudelo M., Suykens J.A.K, Incremental multi-class semi-supervised clustering regularized by Kalman filtering, Internal Report 14-154, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.

Vanderoost J., Callens R., Vandewalle J., De Laet T., Engineering positioning test in Flanders : a powerful predictor for study success ?, in Proc. of the 42nd Annual Conference (SEFI 2014), Birmingham, UK, 2014, pp. 1-8.

Ogunfunmi T., Ramachandran R., Vandewalle J., Guest Editorial, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, vol. 14, no. 3, 2014, pp. 4-8.

Baldewijns G., Verheyden G., Vanrumste B., Croonenborghs T., Validation of the kinect for gait analysis using the GAITRite walkway, in Proc. of the EMBC , Chicago, USA, Aug. 2014, pp. 5920-5923.

VUB

Oscar Olarte, Kurt Barbé, Wendy Van Moer, Yves Van Ingelgemc, Annick Hubin, Measurement and characterization of glucose in NaCl aqueous solutions by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Vol. 14, November 2014, pp. 9-18.

S. Rhode, K. Usevich, I. Markovsky, and F. Gauterin, A recursive restricted total least-squares algorithm, Accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Signal Process.

Hannes Maes, Clara-Mihaela Ionescu, Gerd Vandersteen, Estimation of Respiratory Impedance at Low Frequencies During Spontaneous Breathing Using the Forced Oscillation Technique, 36th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, August 26-30, 2014, Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

UMons

I. Torres, A. Vande Wouwer, Optimization of VARICOL SMB processes using hybrid modeling and nonlinear programming, Computers & Chemical Engineering, 71, 4 (2014,) 1-10.

IAP Contact Persons

UCL	Isabelle Hisette
KUL	Ida Tassens
UGent	Margot Roels
VUB	Ann Pintelon
ULg	Sophie Cimino
UMons	Laurent Dewasme
UNamur	Joseph Winkin

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