Message of the Coordinator

This month our DYSCO network organizes two important events I'd like to draw your attention to. First, there is the 34th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, which will take place from March 24 to 26. The organizing committee decided to implement some new ideas, such as two special "meet the experts" sessions. More details on the program of this meeting will be available soon on the conference website mentioned below. Another event I encourage you to attend is the next course of our Graduate School, which is the course on Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control given by Erik Verriest from Georgia Tech and which is also described below. I strongly encourage our PhD students to participate in these events.

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Staff Movements and Visitors

UCL

• Staff
  • Nikolaos Athanasopoulos, postdoc, host R. Jungers, 1/03/2015-28/02/2016.
• Visitors
  • Nicola Mastronardi (CNR, Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone"), Research Director, host P. Van Dooren, 1/03/2015-17/03/2015.
  • Martin Hemberg, postdoc, host J.-C. Delvenne, 10/03/2015-11/03/2015.
  • Vanni Noferini, postdoc, host P. Van Dooren, 4/03/2015-7/03/2015.
  • Prof. Oliver Sander (IGPM, RWTH Aachen), host P.-A. Absil, 17/03/2015-19/03/2015.
  • Prof. Froilán M. Dopico (University Carlos III of Madrid), host P. Van Dooren, 1/03/2015-17/03/2015.

KUL

• Staff
  • Michaël Fanuel, promotor J. Suykens, March 1, 2015.
  • Bertrand Gauthier (postdoc), host J. Suykens, March 1, 2015.
  • Vittorio Latorre (postdoc), host J. Suykens, March 1, 2015.
• Visitors
  • Teresa Laudadio (S. Van Huffel), 01/03/2015-13/03/2015.

VUB

• Staff
  • Jan Decuyper, PhD student.
  • Leonidas Niyonkuru, PhD student.
  • Francesco Ferranti, postdoc.
  • Jean-Philippe Noël, postdoc.
• Visitors
  • Miro Zivanovic, Universidad Publica de Navarra – Dept. Telecommunicaciones, Pamplona, Spain: from 16/2/2015 until 06/03/2015.
  • Francisco Fernandez, The Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla (IMSE), Spain: from 15/3/2015 until 17/03/2015.
  • Christophe Gaquiere, Université Lille, France: from 15/3/2015 until 17/03/2015.
  • Keith Godfrey, Warwick University, UK: from 15/3/2015 until 17/03/2015.

Theses defenses

KUL

V. Matic, Neonatal EEG signal processing, promotor S. Van Huffel. Date : 26/03/2015, 17:00.

Seminars

UCL

• March 3, 2015 – 14:00, Euler seminar room
  Froilán M. Dopico (University Carlos III of Madrid), Alan Turing and the origins of modern Gaussian elimination.
• March 10, 2015 – 14:00, Euler seminar room
  Martin Hemberg (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK), Modelling stochastic gene expression using the Master Equation.

KUL

• March 4, 2015 - 14:30 – ESAT 01.60 : OPTEC seminar
  Edwin Reynders (BWK), Rocco Langone (ESAT), Siamak Mehrkanoon (ESAT), Unsupervised and semi-supervised kernel spectral clustering for monitoring bridges.
• March 4, 2015 - 15:15 – ESAT 01.60 : OPTEC seminar
  Geert Gins (CIT), Vilen Jumutc (ESAT), Semi-supervised learning challenges in chemical engineering
• March 12, 2015 - 14:00-15:00 - Aula van de Tweede Hoofdwet, Thermotechnisch Instituut : STADIUS Seminar
  Prof. Hamid Krim (Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA), Convexity, Sparsity, Nullity and all that....in Machine Leaning & Sensor and Social Networks: A case for Topological 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 available here : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/

The next course is entitled Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control. It will be given by Erik Verriest (Georgia Institute of Technology) on March 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 2015 (9:30-12:30) 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/Courses2014-3

On-line registrations are welcome via this form.

Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools

34th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control

The 34th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control will take place in "Center Parc de Vossemeren", Lommel, Belgium, on March 24-26, 2015.

This year the meeting includes a special "meet the experts" session to which 9 and 11 senior researchers have agreed to participate.

For further information, please refer to the following web site : http://www.beneluxmeeting.eu/2015/

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL

Mastronardi, Nicola; Van Dooren, Paul. Revisiting the stability of computing the roots of a quadratic polynomial. In: Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 44, p. 73-82 (2015). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/152309

Orban De Xivry, Jean-Jacques; Lefèvre, Philippe. Formation of model-free motor memories during motor adaptation depends on perturbation schedule. In: Journal of Neurophysiology, (2015). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/156445

Coron, Jean-Michel; Bastin, Georges. Dissipative boundary conditions for one-dimensional quasi-linear hyperbolic systems: Lyapunov stability for the C1-norm. In: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, (2015). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/156470

Bastin, Georges; Coron, Jean-Michel; Tamasoiu, Simona-Oana. Stability of linear density-flow hyperbolic systems under PI boundary control. In: Automatica, Vol. 53, p. 37-42 (2015). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/135680

Fernandes, Sofia; Bastin, Georges; Vande Wouwer, Alain. Metabolic Flux Analysis of hybridoma cells: underdetermined network and influence of batch and perfusion operating modes. 8th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (Vienna, Austria, February 2015). In: Proceedings of Mathmod 2015, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/156469

Haustenne, Laurie; Bastin, Georges; Coron, Jean-Michel; Fontaine, Laetitia; Hols, Pascal. On stability analysis of genetic regulatory networks represented by delay-differential equations. 8th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (Vienna, Austria, February 2015). In: Proceedings of Mathmod 2015, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/156468

Daaou, Bachir; Dochain, Denis. High Order Sliding Mode Observer Based Extremum Seeking Controller for a Continuous Stirred Tank Bioreactor. 3rd International Conference on Control, Engineering & Information Technology (Tlemcen, Algeria, May 25-27, 2015). In: Proceedings of CEIT'2015, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/157072

KUL

M. Baka, E. Noriega Fernández, I. Stamati, F. Logist, J. Van Impe. Critical assessment of the time-to-detection method for accurate estimation of microbial growth parameters. Journal of Food Safety (Accepted for publication).

K. Boons, E. Noriega, N. Verherstraeten, C.C. David, J. Hofkens, J.F. Van Impe. The Effect of Medium Structure Complexity on the Growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in Gelatin-Dextran systems. International Journal of Food Microbiology 199: 8-14.

M. Baka, E. Noriega, E. Tsakali, J. Van Impe. Influence of composition and processing of Frankfurter sausages on the growth dynamics of Listeria monocytogenes under vacuum (Accepted for publication).

G. Gins, P. Van den Kerkhof, J. Vanlaer, J.F.M. Van Impe. Improving classification-based diagnosis of batch processes through data selection and appropriate pretreatment. Journal of Process Control 26: 90-101, 2015.

D. Telen, N. Van Riet, F. Logist, J. Van Impe. Reformulating the minimum eigenvalue maximization in optimal experiment design of nonlinear dynamic biosystems. Proceedings of the 25th European Symposium of Computer Aided Process Engineering, Escape 25, Copenhagen (Denmark), May 31 - June 4, 2015 (Accepted for publication).

D. Telen, M. Vallerio, L. Cabianca, B. Houska, J. Van Impe and F. Logist. Approximate robust optimal control of nonlinear dynamic systems under process noise. Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2015 (ECC 15), Linz, Austria, July 15-17, 2015. Paper or poster identification number 499 (Accepted for publication).

M. Vallerio, J. Hufkens, J. Van Impe, F. Logist. Interactive Multi-Objective Decision-Support For The Optimization Of Nonlinear Dynamic (Bio)Chemical Processes With Uncertainty. Proceedings of the 25th European Symposium of Computer Aided Process Engineering, Escape 25, Copenhagen (Denmark), May 31 - June 4, 2015 (Accepted for publication).

J. Lauwers, P. Nimmegeers, F. Logist, J. Van Impe. Structural identifiability analysis of the Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 using a local algebraic observability approach. Proceedings of the 8th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD 2015), Vienna (Austria), February 18-20, 2015.

M. Benavides, D. Telen, J. Lauwers, F. Logist, J. Van Impe, A. Vande Wouwer. Parameter Identification of the Droop model using Optimal Experiment Design, Proceedings of the 8th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD 2015), Vienna (Austria), February 18-20, 2015.

M. Baka, E. Noriega, E. Tsakali, J. Van Impe. Listeria monocytogenes growth as affected by compositional and physicochemical factors on Frankfurter sausages, Thessaloniki, 27th February-1st March 2015. (Submitted)

Frandi E., Nanculef R., Suykens J. A. K., A PARTAN-Accelerated Frank-Wolfe Algorithm for Large-Scale SVM Classification, Internal Report 15-12, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Willemen T., Haex B., Vander Sloten J., Van Huffel S., Biomechanics based analysis of sleep.

Willemen T., Varon C., Caicedo Dorado A., Haex B., Vander Sloten J., Van Huffel S., Probabilistic cardiac and respiratory based classification of sleep and apneic events in subjects with sleep apnea, Internal Report 15-14, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Mehrkanoon S., Agudelo M., Mall R., Suykens J.A.K., Hierarchical Semi-Supervised Clustering using KSC based model, Internal Report 15-15, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Widjaja D., Vandeput S., Van Huffel S., Aubert A.E., Cardiovascular Autonomic Adaptation in Lunar and Martian Gravity during Parabolic Flight, Internal Report 15-16, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015. Accepted for publication in European Journal of Applied Physiology.

Mehrkanoon S., Shardt Y.A.W., Suykens J.A.K., Ding S.X., Estimating the Unknown Time Delay in Chemical Processes, Internal Report 15-19, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Mall R., Suykens J.A.K., Kernel Spectral Document Clustering Using Unsupervised Precision-Recall Metrics, Internal Report 15-21, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Karevan Z., Mehrkanoon S., Suykens J.A.K., Black-box modeling for temperature prediction in weather forecasting, Internal Report 15-22, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Van den Bosch T., Dueholm M., Leone F.P.G., Valentin L., Rasmussen C.K., Votino A., Van Schoubroeck D., Landolfo C., Installé A.J.F., Guerriero S., Exacoustos C., Gordts S., Benacerraf B., D'Hooghe T., De Moor B., Brulmann H., Goldstein S., Epstein E., Bourne T., Timmerman D., Terms and definitions for describing myometrial pathology using ultrasonography, Internal Report 15-23, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015. Accepted for publication in Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Agudelo M., Viaene P., De Moor B., Improving the PM10 estimates of the air quality model AURORA by using Optimal Interpolation, Internal Report 15-26, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Matic V., Cherian P.J., Koolen N., Naulaers G., Swarte R.M., Govaert P., Van Huffel S., De Vos M., Holistic approach for automated background EEG assessment in asphyxiated full-term infants, Journal of neural engineering, vol. 11, no. 6, Oct. 2014, pp. 1-14.

UGent

Rene Boel, Nicolae Marinica, Alain Sarlette, Leader-follower cooperative control paradigm, with applications to urban traffic coordination control, accepted for the European Control Conference 2015.

VUB

Francesco Ferranti, Yves Rolain, Modeling of linear parameter-varying systems using interpolation of root macromodels and scaling coefficients, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing: in press.

Philippe Dreesen, Mariya Ishteva, Johan Schoukens, Decoupling multivariate polynomials using first-order information and tensor decompositions, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX), Accepted for publication, 2015. (arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.4060)

UMons

M. Benavides, J. Mailier, A.-L. Hantson, G. Munoz, A. Vargas, J. Van Impe, A. Vande Wouwer. Design and Test of a Low-Cost RGB Sensor for Online Measurement of Microalgae Concentration within a Photo-Bioreactor, Sensors (2015), 3, 4766-4780; doi:10.3390/s150304766.

Guilherme Araujo Pimentel, Montse Dalmau, Alejandro Vargas, Joaquim Comas, Ignasi Rodriguez-Roda, Alain Rapaport, Alain Vande Wouwer. Validation of a simple fouling model for submerged membrane bioreactor, 8th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (Mathmod 2015), Vienna, Austria, 18-20 February 2015.

Sofia Fernandes, Georges Bastin, Alain Vande Wouwer. Metabolic Flux Analysis of hybridoma cells: underdetermined network and influence of batch and perfusion operating modes, 8th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (Mathmod 2015), Vienna, Austria, 18-20 February 2015.

Micaela Benavides, Dries Telen, Joost Lauwers, Filip Logist, Jan F.M. Van Impe, Alain Vande Wouwer. Parameter Identification of the Droop model using Optimal Experiment Design, 8th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (Mathmod 2015), Vienna, Austria, 18-20 February 2015.

IAP Contact Persons

UCL	Marie-Christine Joveneau
KUL	Ida Tassens
UGent	Margot Roels
VUB	Ann Pintelon
ULg	Sophie Cimino
UMons	Laurent Dewasme
UNamur	Joseph Winkin

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