Message of the Coordinator
I'd like to remind you all about the IAP study day organized in het Pand in Gent on November 12th by the UGent team. This team was expanded recently with a group in queuing theory. The full program can be found here and promises to be very interesting. This is an ideal opportunity to hear more about queueing sytems and their connections to the research topics of DYSCO. I hope to see many of you there.
Paul Van Dooren
Coordinator of DYSCO
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Staff Movements and Visitors
KUL
- 1 November 2014 : Supinya Piamongsant, PhD student, promotor Bart De Moor.
VUB
- 11-14 November 2014 : Tadeusz Dobrowiecki (BUTE, Budapest). Topic: discussions on nonlinear averaging methods to improve the estimation of the Best Linear approximation.
- 1-5 December 2014 : Istvan Kollar (BUTE, Budapest) and Paolo Carbone (University of Perugia). Topics: "Improving the information matrix of quantized data by adding noise" and "Dual sine testing of high resolution ADC's".
Theses defenses
UCL
- Benoît Delhaye defended his thesis entitled Skin mechanics involved in dynamic touch on October 31, 2014. His supervisors are Philippe Lefèvre and Jean-Louis Thonnard.
KUL
- Dusan Popovic, A computational framework for prioritization of disease-causing mutations, 06/11/2014 at 2 PM in Auditorium De Molen (room 00.07), Kasteelpark Arenberg 50, 3001 Heverlee.
- Dries Telen, Numerical methodologies and algorithms for optimal experiment design in the (bio)chemical industry, 20/11/2014 at 5 PM in Promotiezaal, Universiteitshal, Naamsestraat 22, 3000 Leuven. Promoters: Jan Van Impe, Filip Logist and Moritz Diehl.
- Mattia Vallerio, Towards sustainable operation in the (bio)chemical industry: a framework for computer-aided multi-objective decision-making, 21/11/2014 at 10:00, Promotiezaal, Universiteitshal, Naamsestraat 22, 3000 Leuven. Promoters: Jan Van Impe and Filip Logist.
Seminars
UCL
- November 18, 2014 – 14:00, Euler seminar room
Maurice Queyranne (UCL and University of British Columbia), Optimal pits and optimal transportation. - November 25, 2014 – 14:00, Euler seminar room
Benedikt Wirth (University of Münster), A Discrete Geodesic Calculus for Shape Space Applications.
KUL
- November 20-21, 2014 : Mini symposium : Computer-aided process engineering for modeling, control and optimization in the (bio)chemical industry: the quest for efficient, clean and safe solutions.
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.
Vacancies
Two vacancies at the University of Cambridge
Two University Lectureships: (1) Lecturer in Control Engineering; (2) Lecturer in Information Engineering and Medical Neuroscience.
For more information, click here.
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
Boumal, Nicolas; Cheng, Xiuyuan. Expected performance bounds for estimation on graphs from random relative measurements. In: Systems & Control Letters (2014). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/137539
Ego, Caroline; Orban de Xivry, Jean-Jacques; Nassogne, Marie-Cécile; Yüksel, Demet; Lefèvre, Philippe. Spontaneous improvement in oculomotor function of children with cerebral palsy. In: Research in Developmental Disabilities (2014). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/151738
Yu. Nesterov, S. Shpirko. Primal-dual subgradient methods for huge-scale linear conic problems. In: SIOPT, 24 (3), p. 1444-1457 (2014).
Yu. Nesterov, A. Nemirovski. Finding the stationary states of Markov chains by iterative methods. In: Applied Mathematics and Computation, DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2014.04.053 (2014).
KUL
Feng Y., Yang Y., Zhao Y., Lv S., Suykens J., Learning with Kernelized Elastic Net Regularization, Internal Report 14-158, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.
Varon C., Alao M., Minter J., Stapleton M., Thomson S., Jaecques S., Brunner-La Rocca H.P., Van Huffel S., Effect of Telehealth on Self-Care Behavior of Heart Failure Patients, in Proc. of the 41st Annual Computing in Cardiology (CinC), Cambridge, USA, Sep. 2014, 4 p.
Varon C., Montalto A., Jansen K., Lagae L., Marinazzo D., Faes L., Van Huffel S., Interictal Cardiorespiratory Variability in Temporal Lobe and Absence Epilepsy in Childhood, Internal Report 14-161, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.
Lin L.G, Nonlinear control systems. A State-Dependent (differential) Riccati Equation Approach, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Sep. 2014, 154 p.
Installe A., Van den Bosch T., De Moor B., Timmerman D., Studying inter-rater agreement of sonographic video clips using Clinical Data Miner.
Installe A., Van den Bosch T., Suykens J., Kaijser J., Van Holsbeke C., De Moor B. and Timmerman D., Feasibility of the automation of clinical diagnostic model research.
Installe A., Van den Bosch T., Bourne T., De Moor B., Timmerman D., User satisfaction with the Clinical Data Miner electronic data capture software.
Debals O., Van Barel M., De Lathauwer L., Blind Signal Separation of Rational Functions using Loewner-based Tensorization, Internal Report 14-167, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.
Li L., Huang X., Suykens J.A.K., Signal Recovery for Jointly Sparse Vectors with Diff erent Sensing Matrices, Internal Report 14-168, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014. Accepted for publication in Signal Processing.
Xi X., Huang X., Suykens J.A.K., Wang S., Coordinate Descent Algorithm for Ramp Loss Linear Programming Support Vector Machines, Internal Report 14-171, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.
Milosevic M., Van de Vel A., Bonroy B., Ceulemans B., Lagae L., Vanrumste B., Van Huffel S., Detection of epileptic convulsions from accelerometry signals through machine learning approach, in Proc. of the IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Reims, France, Sep. 2014, pp. 1-6.
Milosevic M., Van de Vel A., Cuppens K., Bonroy B., Ceulemans B., Lagae L., Vanrumste B., Van Huffel S., Feature selection methods for accelerometry-based seizure detection in epileptic children, Internal Report 14-173, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.
Frandi E., Nanculef R., Suykens J., Complexity Issues and Randomization Strategies in Frank-Wolfe Algorithms for Machine Learning, Internal Report 14-174, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.
Liu Y., De Vos M., Van Huffel S., Compressive sensing of multi-channel EEG signals : The simulaneous cosparsity and low rank optimization, Internal Report 14-176, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.
Van Hoorde K., Van Huffel S., Timmerman D., Van Calster B., A spine-based tool to access and visualize the calibration of multiclass risk predictions, Internal Report 14-177, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.
M. Baka, E. Noriega Fernández, L. Mertens, E. Van Derlinden, J. Van Impe 2014. Protective role of indigenous Leuconostoc carnosum against Listeria monocytogenes on vacuum packed Frankfurter sausages at suboptimal temperatures. Food Research International (Accepted for publication).
D. Telen, D. Vercammen, F. Logist and J. Van Impe 2014. Robustifying optimal experiment design for nonlinear, dynamic (bio)chemical systems, Computers and Chemical Engineering 71: 415-425.
VUB
De Caigny, J., R. Pintelon, J. F. Camino, J. Swevers, Interpolated modeling of LPV systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 22, No. 6, November 2014, pp. 2232 - 2246.
S. Rhode, K. Usevich, I. Markovsky, and F. Gauterin, A recursive restricted total least-squares algorithm, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 62, No. 21, November 2014, pp. 5652 – 5662.
Benjamin Sanchez, Ebrahim Louarroudi, Rik Pintelon, Time–frequency analysis of time-varying in vivo myocardial impedance, Measurement 56, October 2014, pp. 19-29.
IAP Contact Persons
| UCL | Isabelle Hisette |
| KUL | Ida Tassens |
| UGent | Margot Roels |
| VUB | Ann Pintelon |
| ULg | Sophie Cimino |
| UMons | Laurent Dewasme |
| UNamur | Joseph Winkin |