E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing ISSUE No. 22, 12 April 1989 Editors: Bradley W. Dickinson Dept. of Electrical Engineering Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 bradley@princeton.edu or bradley@pucc.bitnet Eduardo D. Sontag Dept. of Mathematics Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903 sontag@fermat.rutgers.edu (arpanet) or sontag@pisces (bitnet) Welcome. We remind you that items for posting can be emailed to either of the editors. PLEASE SEND CONTRIBUTIONS, since the eletter can only be useful if everyone participates. Selected back issues of the newsletter, as well as the complete mailing list (currently about 600 names) can be requested from Sontag at either of the above addresses. NOTE: if you are using an editor to read this mailing and if at any point you wish to skip to the next article, you can accomplish this by searching for the string: *.** Contents Changes to mailing list IEEE Control Systems Society News IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control: Contents - May 1989 Entries solicited for Extended List of Control Software (ELCS) Call for Nominations: 1989 Information Theory Paper Award Conferences: Workshop on the Riccati Equation, June 26-28, 1989 IEEE/CAM Information Theory Workshop, June 25-29, 1989 Midwest Conference on Differential Equations, Nov. 10-11, 1989 EURASIP Workshop on Neural Networks, Feb. 15-17, 1990 New Trends in Systems Theory, Genoa, Italy, July 9-11, 1990 The Sixth Haifa Matrix Conference, June 1990 Journals: MCSS: Contents - Vol. 2, No. 3 News items: Email to China Systems and Cybernetics mailing list Positions available at ERSO/ITRI, Taiwan 1988 Research Monographs from Electronic Systems and Signals Research Lab., EE Dept., Washington University Recent SYCON Technical Report *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by the Editors: Changes/Additions to mailing list. Corrections: ----------- kjell@control.lth.se (Kjell Gustafsson, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden) Changes and Updates: ------------------- heegard@phaeton.ee.cornell.edu (Chris Heegard, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY) johnson@gonzo.ee.cornell.edu (Rick Johnson, Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY) bacciotti@itopoli.bitnet (Andrea Bacciotti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy) boieri@itopoli.bitnet (P. Boieri, Politecnico di Torino, Italy) lucipan@itopoli.bitnet (Luciano Pandolfi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy) spang@crd.ge.com (Austin Spang, GE; IEEE Control Society Membership VP) rimvall@crd.ge.com (Magnus Rimvall, General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady) shayman@ra.src.umd.edu (Mark Shayman, Univ. of Maryland, College Park) cobb@engr.wisc.edu (Daniel Cobb, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison) vaccaro@quahog.uri.edu (Rick Vaccaro, Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston) wieselthier@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Jeffrey Wieselthier, Naval Research Labs) prkumar@markov.csl.uiuc.edu (P.R. Kumar, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Additions: --------- burdea@telerobo.rutgers.edu (Greg Burdea, Rutgers Univ.) bennett@eneevax.umd.edu (William H. Bennett, Univ. of Maryland, College Park) HAMMER%UFENG@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu (Jacob Hammer, Univ. of Florida) spa64@grathun1.bitnet (Nick Kalouptsidis, Univ. of Athens, Greece) jmm@digsys.engineering.cambridge.ac.uk (Jan Maciejowski, Cambridge Univ.) maragos@nous.harvard.edu (Petros Maragos, Harvard Univ.) nkb@psuecl.bitnet (Nirmal K. Bose, Penn State Univ., State College, PA) gchen@rice.edu (Guanrong Chen, Rice University) patmuir@sandia.gov (Patrick F. Muir, Sandia, Albuquerque, NM) pramamoo@note.nsf.gov (P.A. Ramamoorthy, CSP Program, NSF, Washington, DC) chyung@jean.eng.uiowa.edu (D.H. Chyung, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City) erwei@jean.eng.uiowa.edu (Er-wei Bai, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City) swaszek@quahog.uri.edu (Pete Swaszek, Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston) drepperge@wpafb-aamrl.arpa (Daniel W. Repperger, Wright Patterson AFB, OH) willett@carcvax.brc.uconn.edu (Peter Willett, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs) rbs@lakisis.umd.edu (Richard B. Sowers, Univ. of Maryland, College Park) julia@radmis-onr.arpa (Julia Abrahams, ONR, Arlington, VA) vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn, SUNY Binghamton) *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed to the ELETTER by Peter Ramadge +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS SOCIETY NEWS P.J. Ramadge Ed. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From N._Harris_Mcclamroch@um.cc.umich.edu IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL Table of Contents, Volume 34 - Number 5, May 1989 Editorial Outstanding AC Transactions Paper Award for 1986-1987 Dynamic Generation of Subgoals for B. H. Krogh and D. Feng Autonomous Mobile Robots Using Local Feedback Information Bilateral Control of Teleoperators R. J. Anderson and M. W. Spong with Time Delay Spectral Determination for a R. Rebarber Cantilever Beam The Self-tuning Robust Servomechanism D. E. Miller and E. J. Davison Problem An Indirect Adaptive Controller with G. Kreisselmeier a Self-Excitation Capability A Stability Criterion for Asynchronous V. S. Ritchey and G. F. Franklin Multirate Linear Systems *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Magnus Rimvall Magnus Rimvall of General Electric Corporate R&D is soliciting for entries to the Extended List of Control Software (ELCS). ELCS is a collection of one-page summaries on CACSD packages and related software libraries. ELCS is published to spread knowledge of existing control packages and to stimulate contact between different CACSD groups. Both commercial and academic contributors are welcome. No evaluation of the listed package is made. Each of the one-page summaries is to be comprised of brief paragraphs with the following headers: Name, Principal Developers, Software Capabilities, Interactive Capabilities, Programming Language, Computers and Terminals on which available, Required Additional Software, Documentation, Size of the Package, State of Development, Availability of Code (Price), References (open literature), Person to contact for Details. Please send new or updated entries before July 1, 1989 to Dr. Magnus Rimvall Control Systems Laboratory General Electric Corporate R&D P.O. Box 8 Schenectady, NY 12301 Telephone: (518) 387-5698 Telefax: (518) 387-5164 E-mail: rimvall@crd.ge.com Thanks, Editors: M. Rimvall, Prof D. Frederick (RPI), R. Kool (WGS, Holland) *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Vince Poor CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: IEEE INFORMATION THEORY SOCIETY PAPER AWARD Nominations are sought for the 1989 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award. This award will be given for an outstanding publication in the field of interest* of the Society appearing anywhere during the preceding two calendar years (1987-1988). Nominations should consist of a complete citation for the publication, a brief description of the contribution of the paper, and a statement indicating why the paper is deserving of the Award. Nominations may be submitted to the Chair of the IT Society Awards Committee: H. Vincent Poor Coordinated Science Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1101 West Springfield Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 USA E-mail: poor@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu Telephone: (217) 333-6449 Telefax: (217) 244-1764; or to any other member of the Committee: Thomas M. Cover (cover@isl.stanford.edu) Daniel J. Costello (dan@ndsun.uucp) Shu Lin (University of Hawaii) Sergio Verdu (verdu@ivy.princeton.edu ) Kung Yao (IAD3TAO%OAC.UCLA.EDU). Nominations should be received by April 30, 1989, at the latest, and preferably by April 21, 1989. *The field of interest of the Information Theory Society is the processing, transmission, storage and use of information and the foundations of the communication process. It specifically encompasses theoretical and certain applied aspects of coding, communications and communications networks, complexity and cryptography, detection and estimation, learning, Shannon Theory, and stochastic processes. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by the Editors THE RICCATI EQUATION IN CONTROL, SIGNALS, AND SYSTEMS VILLA GALLIA, COMO (ITALY) -- JUNE 26-29, 1989 PURPOSE OF THE MEETING: To present a coherent picture of the main results achieved in the last 30 years on the Riccati Equation. Theory, applications, and numerical algorithms will be considered with emphasis on its relevance to optimal control and filtering, Linear-Quadratic- Gaussian problems, H-infinity optimization, network synthesis, etc. There will be an opening lecture by R.E. Kalman -- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland and Univer- sity of Florida, USA, three tutorial lectures (by A.J. Laub -- University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, M.A. Shayman -- University of Maryland, USA, and J.C. Willems -- University of Groningen, The Netherlands), invited lectures, and contributed papers. The language of the meeting is English. WORKSHOP LOCATION: The meeting will be held at Villa Gallia, an 18th Century villa located on the shore of Lake Como in Como, Italy. The historic town of Como is easily reachable from Milan either by car (motor- way A9) or train. Frequent trains start from Stazione Ferrovie Nord in Milan, but there are trains from the Stazione Centrale or Stazione Porta Garibaldi as well. Alternatively, Como can be reached from the Zurich airport by train or by car. REGISTRATION AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: The Centro di Cultura Scientifica A. Volta will take care of the local organization, including hotel reservations. An early reservation is recommended since Como is already crowded with tourists in June. The address of the Centro is: Centro di Cultura Scientifica A. Volta Villa Olmo Via Cantoni 1 22100 Como ITALY Phone number: 31.552563 or 31.572213 Telex: 380547 CAM CO I Electronic mail: GCASATI@IMICLVX.BITNET Hotel reservations will be guaranteed only for those who have made arrangements by April 30. Registration fee is 200,000 lire (before May 15) 300,000 lire (after May 15) *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Chris Heegard IEEE/CAM Information Theory Workshop at Cornell T H E W O R K S H O P = = = = = = = = = = = The 1989 IEEE/CAM (Cornell Center for Applied Mathematics) Information Theory Workshop will take place on the campus of Cornell University from June 25th-June 29th. There will be eight sessions of talks in the following areas: * Algebraic Geometry Approaches to Block Coding. Time: Morning Session Monday 6/26 Chairman: Oscar Moreno, University of Puerto Rico * Trellis Coding Time: Afternoon Session Monday 6/26 Chairmen: Chris Heegard, Cornell University and A.R. Calderbank, AT&T Bell Labs * Multi-User Information Theory Time: Morning Session Tuesday 6/27 Chairman: Kingo Kobayashi, Osaka University/Cornell University * Multi-Access and Spread Spectrum Communication Time: Afternoon Session Tuesday 6/27 Chairman: Wayne Stark, University of Michigan * Detection and Estimation Theory Time: Morning Session Wednesday 6/28 Chairman: Andrew Barron, University of Illinois * Recording Systems Time: Afternoon Session Wednesday 6/28 Chairman: Paul Siegel, IBM Almaden Research Center *Memory Systems Time: Morning Session Thursday 6/29 Chairman: Tom Fuja, University of Maryland * Neural Networks Time: Afternoon Session Thursday 6/29 Chairman: Mario Blaum, IBM Almaden Research Center All sessions will be held in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium at Goldwyn-Smith Hall. There will be a Welcome Reception at Cornell's Johnson Museum of Art at 7:00PM on Sunday June 25th. Other events at the workshop include a Barbacue-in-the-Park on the evening of Monday June 26th and a Cocktail Party at the Andrew D. White Mansion on the evening of Tuesday June 27th. Participants may pre-register by mail or register at the Welcome Reception on June 25th. The registration fee is $100.00 IEEE and CAM members, $125.00 for non-members and $25.00 for students. If preregistering, send a note with your name, E-mail or postal-service address and telephone number, and a check for the correct amount payable to Cornell University to Chris Heegard, 301 Phillips Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853. L o c a t i o n = = = = = = = = Ithaca is a small city on Cayuga Lake in the finger lakes region of upstate New York. It is approximately an hour-and-a-half by car south of Syracuse, about four-and-a-half hours by car north- west of New York City. Ithaca has an airport that is served by Piedmont, USAir, Continental and Catskill Airways. L o d g i n g = = = = = = = The local arrangements committee has arranged for conference rates at several hotels in the Ithaca area. When making reservations, please inform the hotel of your affiliation, and ask for the conference rate. What follows is, by far, not an exhaustive list. The area has many hotels and bed-and-breakfast Inns. For a complete list of these, please contact: The Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce at (607) 273-7080. * Workshop Hotels: * Best Western University Inn Address: East Hill Plaza, Ithaca, NY 14850, (607) 272-6100 * Single Room Rate: $40.00 * Double Room Rate: $50.00 New hotel located in East Ithaca. Close to campus; approximately five minutes by car and twenty minutes by foot. On city bus route. * Ramada/DIVI Executive Tower Address: 222 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850, (607) 272-1000 * Single Room Rate: $62.00 * Double Room Rate: $62.00 Modern deluxe hotel, centrally located in downtown Ithaca. A ten minute drive to campus. Also on several city bus routes. A great location for checking out the restaurant and shopping scene in the downtown area. * Ithaca Sheraton Inn Address: One Sheraton Drive, Triphammer Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, (607) 257-2000 * Single Room Rate: $62.00 * Double Room Rate: $68.00 Located in Northeast Ithaca, the Sheraton Inn is also one of the area's deluxe hotels. It is a fifteen minute drive to campus. Although the hotel is not on a frequent bus route, there is a Sheraton shuttle that serves the campus. * Dormitory Accommodations: Aside from hotel accommodation, we have arranged for dormitory accommodation on campus. The rates are: * Single Room Rate: $10.50 * Double Room Rate: $12.50 Interested participants should note that the above rates do not include maid-service. More complete on-campus accommodation is available at greater cost. For more information and for reservations please contact Cornell Conference Services at (607) 255-9800. I N F O R M A T I O N = = = = = = = = = = = For more information about a particular session, please contact the session chairman. For general information about the workshop, please contact: Chris Heegard 301 Phillips Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 heegard@phaeton.ee.cornell.edu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Dean A. Carlson November 10-11, 1989. The 18th Midwest Differential Equations Conference, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois. This conference is organized by the participants of the departmental seminar on differential equations and is sponsored by the Department of Mathematics. The following have agreed to speak: Calvin Ahlbrandt Leonard Berkovitz John Haddock Leon Hall Man Kam Kwong Gary Meisters Richard Miller John Nohel Allan Peterson Mark Pinsky George Seifert T. W. Ting Luther White Call for papers: Abstracts for contributed papers should be received by August 15, 1989. Late abstracts will be considered if there is space. For information or abstracts write: T. A. Burton Conference on Differential Equations Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois 62901-4408 Phone: (618) 453-6565 E-Mail: GE0641@SIUCVMB.BITNET *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Luis Borges de Almeida EURASIP WORKSHOP ON NEURAL NETWORKS Sesimbra, Portugal February 15-17, 1990 ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS The workshop will be held at the Hotel do Mar in Sesimbra, Portugal. It will take place in 1990, from February 15 morning to 17 noon, and will be sponsored by EURASIP, the European Association for Signal Processing. It will be open to participants from all countries, both from inside and outside of Europe. Contributions from all fields related to the neural network area are welcome. A (non-exclusive) list of topics is given below. Care is being taken to ensure that the workshop will have a high level of quality. Proposed contributions will be evaluated by an international technical committee. A proceedings volume will be published, and will be handed to participants at the beginning of the workshop. The number of participants will be limited to 50. Full contributions will take the form of oral presentations, and will correspond to papers in the proceedings. Some short contributions will also be accepted, for presentation of ongoing work, projects (ESPRIT, BRAIN, DARPA,...), etc. They will be presented in poster format, and will not originate any written publication. A small number of non-contributing participants may also be accepted. The official language of the workshop will be English. TOPICS: - signal processing (speech, image,...) - pattern recognition - algorithms (training procedures, new structures, speedups,...) - generalization - implementation - specific applications where NN have been proved better than other approaches - industrial projects and realizations Submissions, both for long and for short contributions, will consist of (strictly) 2-page summaries. Three copies should be sent directly to the Technical Chairman, at the address given below. The calendar for contributions is as follows: Full contributions Short contributions Deadline for submission June 1, 1989 Oct 1, 1989 Notif. of acceptance Sept 1, 1989 Nov 15, 1989 Camera-ready paper Nov 1, 1989 SESIMBRA... ... is a fishermens village, located in a nice region about 30 km south of Lisbon. Special transportation from/to Lisbon will be arranged. The workshop will end on a Saturday at lunch time; therefore, the participants will have the option of either flying back home in the afternoon, or staying for sightseeing for the remainder of the weekend in Sesimbra and/or Lisbon. An optional program for accompanying persons is being organized. For further information, send the coupon below to the general chairman, or contact directly. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: GENERAL CHAIRMAN Luis B. Almeida INESC Apartado 10105 P-1017 LISBOA CODEX PORTUGAL Phone: +351-1-544607. Fax: +351-1-525843. E-mail: {any backbone, uunet}!mcvax!inesc!lba TECHNICAL CHAIRMAN Christian Wellekens Philips Research Laboratory Av. Van Becelaere 2 Box 8 B-1170 BRUSSELS BELGIUM Phone: +32-2-6742275 TECHNICAL COMMITTEE John Bridle (Royal Signal and Radar Establishment, Malvern, UK) Herve Bourlard (Intern. Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, USA) Frank Fallside (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK) Francoise Fogelman (Ecole de H. Etudes en Informatique, Paris, France) Jeanny Herault (Institut Nat. Polytech. de Grenoble, Grenoble, France) Larry Jackel (AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA) Renato de Mori (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) REGISTRATION, FINANCE, LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Joao Bilhim INESC Apartado 10105 P-1017 LISBOA CODEX PORTUGAL Phone: +351-1-545150. Fax: +351-1-525843. WORKSHOP SPONSOR: EURASIP - European Association for Signal Processing CO-SPONSORS: INESC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Lisbon, Portugal IEEE, Portugal Section *-------------------------------- cut here ---------------------------------* Please keep me informed about the EURASIP Workshop on Neural Networks Name: University/Company: Address: Phone: E-mail: [ ] I plan to attend the workshop I plan to submit a contribution [ ] full [ ] short Preliminary title: (send to Luis B. Almeida, at address given above) *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Bostwick F. Wyman Universita' di Genova-The Ohio State University Joint Conference on NEW TRENDS IN SYSTEMS THEORY Genoa, Italy July 9-11, 1990 The aim of the Conference is to bring together experts in various theoretical and applied areas of Systems Theory to review recent advances and to anticipate major future developments of the discipline. The Conference is intended as an international forum where the exchange of knowledge and experiences between researchers in this multidisciplinary field can take place. A major goal will be to enhance communication between scientists, engineers and mathematicians whose interest range from the very concrete to the very abstract. The program will include contributed papers and invited presentations with emphasis on the state of the art and new research directions and applications. TOPICS - Mathematical Theory of Linear and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems - Adaptive and Learning Control - Robustness - Distributed Parameter Systems - Discrete Event Dynamic Systems - Parallel and Distributed Computing in Process Control - Control and Decision Aspects in : Robotics, Manufacturing and Communication Networks Scientific Committee : B. Wyman (USA) - Chairman R. Akella (USA) G. Marchesini(I) K. Astrom (S) G. Marro (I) D. Bertsekas (USA) M. Milanese (I) C. Byrnes (USA) S. Mitter (USA) J. Descusse (F) J. Moore (AUS) D. Elliot (USA) E. Mosca (I) W. Fleming (USA) M. Sain (USA) M. Fliess (F) L. Sciavicco (I) B. Francis (CDN) E. Sontag (USA) P. Fuhrmann (IL) E. Sussmann (USA) G. Guardabassi (I) T. Tarn (USA) M. Hazewinkel (NL) R. Triggiani (USA) D. Hinrichsen (D) M. Vidyasagar (CDN) A. Isidori (I) M. Vukobratovic (YU) B. Jakubczyck (CS) J. Willems (NL) T. Kailath (U.S.A.) T. Zolezzi (I) P. Kokotovic (U.S.A.) R. Zoppoli (I) I: Landau (F) Organizers: G. Conte (Universita' di Genova), A.M. Perdon (Universita' di Padova), B. Wyman (The Ohio State University) Program Committee: G. Bartolini, G. Casalino, G. Conte, F. Davoli, R. Minciardi, F. Mignanego, A.M. Perdon. PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers are solicited in all areas of Systems Theory mentioned above. Three (3) copies of an unpublished preliminary draft paper in English should be received by the NTST Secretariat by September 30th, 1989. The first page should contain: the title, a brief abstract of no more than 100 words, together with two or three appropriate key-words, as well as the name and the affiliation and address of each author. Please indicate in a cover letter the name and address of the corresponding author. The length of the paper should not exceed 10 double spaced pages. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their papers for presentation at the conference by January 31st, 1990. Authors of accepted papers must submit a two-page abstract by May 31st, 1990. All abstracts will be published at the Conference in an abstract volume. Authors will also be invited to submit by May 31st, 1990 the final version of the papers, which will be refereed for inclusion in a volume of proceedings. DEADLINES: - Today Mail the enclosed reply form - September 30th, 1989 Deadline for draft paper submission - January 31st, 1990 Notification of acceptance - March 31st, 1990 Abstracts of accepted papers are due - May 31st, 1990 Deadline for submission of papers for the Proceedings Volume CORRESPONDENCE and ENQUIRIES : NTST Secretariat c/o Prof. G: CONTE Dip. Mat. Univ. Genova via L.B. Alberti 4- 16132 Genova- ITALY email . GCONTE at IGECUNIV.BITNET fax : + 39-10-3538769 THE CITY of GENOA ( GENOVA ), the capital of the Region of Liguria, is one of the biggest industrial and commercial town in Italy, with an history dating back to the 4th century B.C. The city is "built nobly" on irregular ground and its nucleus is an awkward labyrinth of narrow, intricate, picturesque streets, on one of which Christopher Columbus was born. The main architectural features of Genoa are its mediaeval churches, with striped facades of black and white marble, and its magnificent 16th-century palaces. Genoa and the surrounding towns of the Italian Riviera enjoy a favorable climate all year round and offer some of the best known vacation spots in Italy. In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the historic voyage of Christopher Columbus, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY and THE UNIVERSITY of GENOA have begun an extensive program of cooperative ventures in Science, Medicine, the Humanities, and the Arts under the rubric " The Columbian Legacy : an Interdependent World ". This Conference on New Trends in Systems Theory is sponsored as part of this program by the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Communications, Computer and System Sciences at the University of Genoa, by the Ohio State University Columbian Quincentenary Committee, and by the Control Research Laboratory and the Departments of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at O.S.U. SPONSORSHIP BEING SOUGHT FROM THE FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche National Science Foundation UNESCO Regione Liguria Comune di Genova Ansaldo Elsag Esacontrol Marconi Italiana To FILL IN and return to the NTST Secretariat (by email if possible): NAME :................. AFFILIATION :........... ADDRESS : ................ PHONE : ............. EMAIL : ........................ I PLAN TO SUBMIT A PAPER YES NO I PLAN TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE YES NO Please send me the second announcement and Preliminary Program with a Registration Form. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Reprinted by ILAS News Contributed by Avi Berman The Sixth Haifa Matrix Conference - First Announcement. The Sixth Haifa Matrix Conference, will be held at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in the week of June 11th, 1990. Please observe that the meeting is scheduled for June and not for January as in previous meetings. This is done in order to encourage participants in the Householder meeting to go to Sweden via Israel. Please let us know whether you plan to attend the conference. Also, we would appreciate it if you would share the above information with collegues of yours who might be interested in the conference. Sincerely yours, THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - SIXTH HAIFA MATRIX CONFERENCE, 1990 e-mail address: MAR64AA @ TECHNION (bitnet). Letters Address: Mathematics Department Technion - I.I.T. Haifa 32000 Israel *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by B.W. Dickinson Advance Table of Contents for MCSS: Vol. 2, No. 3, 1989 Impulse Control of Piecewise-Deterministic Processes O.L.V. Costa and M.H.A. Davis A Bisection Method for Computing the $H_{\infty}$ Norm of a Transfer Matrix and Related Problems S. Boyd, V. Balakrishnan, and P. Kabamba Model Reduction by Phase Matching Michael Green and Brian D.O. Anderson Feedback Stabilization of a Linear Control System in Hilbert Space M. Slemrod On the Quantitative Characterization of Approximate Decentralized Fixed Modes using Transmission Zeros A.F. Vaz and E.J. Davison *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by the Editors E-MAIL TO CHINA There are possibilities for e-mail communication to China, as explained in the enclosed posting, reproduced from another network. We have not been able to reach anyone yet, however. In general it should be possible to reach a user in China using the address user%beijing%ira.uka.de@RELAY.CS.NET Please let us know if you successfully achieve this. (From: XIAO GING > ANNOUNCING FORMATION OF A MAILING LIST FOR SYSTEMS AND CYBERNETICS This announcement is being sent to relavent USENET news groups, individuals whose electronic mail addresses are listed in the latest Bulletin of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), and other individuals known to the list owner. 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List owner: vu0112@BINGVAXU.CC.BINGHAMTON.EDU (Cliff Joslyn) ===================================================================== O----------------------------------------------------------------------> | Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician at Large | Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton, vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu V All the world is biscuit shaped. . . -- O----------------------------------------------------------------------> | Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician at Large | Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton, vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu V All the world is biscuit shaped. . . *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by rashid@thumper.bellcore.com (Rashid Ansari) RESEARCH POSITIONS IN ERSO/ITRI, TAIWAN The Electronic Research and Service Organization (ERSO) in Hsinchu, TAIWAN is launching a new research program on Communication Technology. Anticipating the future information industry in next 10 years, the program is focused on the following major projects: (1) Optical Communications, such as FDDI optical LAN, DQDB MAN and BISDN (2) ISDN (3) Network and switching (4) Digital Cellular Phone (5) Speech/Image/Video Coding, processing (6) Computer Communications and OSI (7) Forward Looking research in Digital Signal Processing and Communications A new Division is organized to perform the R&D in these directions. Currently, this new division has 110 engineers in two departments and one group: (a) Communication System Department (b) Communication IC department (c) Speech processing research group. We are looking for qualified people to join us. There are two categories of positions you may consider to suit your personal objective: (A) Research Fellow: Ph.D. in EE/CS or related field who is interested in signal processing, information theory, computer communications and optical communications. The research fellow is expected to devote 70% of his/her time in research and publications with the rest 30% in technical consulting for the development group. Foreign trip for presenting paper is assured and paid for. (B) Exploratory Development: Ph.D. or MS in EE/CS or related field who is interested in the projects described above. Managerial positions are available depending on experience and qualifications. If you are interested in research, category (A) may be a good opportunity for you because:(1) Stable environment (2) Assured contact with international research community (3) Better salary than local university. If your long term goal is to have your own business, you may find category (B) attractive because: (1) Close contact with local industry (2) Gain valuable experience in running high tech business (3) your work in ERSO will benefit yourself in creating your own company later and help Taiwan's communication industry also. If you are interested in these positions, please send your resume to following address : Dr. Lance Wu, Director, Communication Technology Division 195-4 Chung Hsing Road Chu-Tung, Hsinchu, TAIWAN, Republic of China. Or, Fax to the following number: 011-886-35-957826 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Don Snyder 1988 RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS AND SIGNALS RESEARCH LABORATORY DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI 63130 The following is a list of research monographs for 1988 from the Electronic Systems and Signals Research Laboratory. Individual copies are available upon request from: Director Electronic Systems and Signals Research Laboratory Department of Electrical Engineering Campus Box 1127 Washington University One Brookings Drive St. Louis, Missouri 63130 NUMBER AUTHOR AND TITLE ----------------------------------------------------- ESSRL-88-1 R. E. Morley, G. L. Engel and T. J. Sullivan, "VLSI Based Design of a Battery Operated Digital Hearing Aid," reprint from Proc. of ICASSP 1988. ESSRL-88-2 R. E. Morley and T. J. Sullivan "A Massively Parallel Systolic Array Processor System," reprint from International Conf. on Systolic Arrays, May 1988. ESSRL-88-3 R. E. Morley, G. E. Christensen, T. J. Sullivan and O. Kamin, "The Design of a Bit-Serial Coprocessor for a Massively Parallel SIMD Processor," reprint from the Proc. of the Second Symp. on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation, October 1988. ESSRL-88-4 D. L. Snyder, J. A. O'Sullivan, and M. I. Miller, "Forming High Resolution Images of Diffuse Radar Targets," reprint from the 1988 Princeton Conf. ESSRL-88-5 D. G. Politte and D. L. Snyder, "The Use of Constraints to Eliminate Artifacts in Maximum-Liklihood Estimation of Emission Tomography," reprint from IEEE Trans. on Nucl. Sci., February 1988. ESSRL-88-6 D. L. Snyder, "Delay-Doppler Radar Imaging," Semi-Annual Progress Report No. 4, Dec. 1, 1987 - May 30, 1988. ESSRL-88-7 D. L. Snyder, M. I. Miller, and T. J. Schulz, "Constrained Probability Density Estimation from Noisy Data," reprint from 1988 Princeton Conf. ESSRL-88-8 T. J. Schulz and D. L. Snyder, "A Parametric Form for Sieve-Constrained Maximum-Likelihood Density Estimation from Noisy Data," reprint from 1988 Allerton Conf. ESSRL-88-9 J. A. O'Sullivan, P. Moulin, and D. L. Snyder, "Cramer-Rao Bounds for Constrained Spectrum Estimation with Application to a Problem in Radar Imaging," reprint from 1988 Allerton Conf. ESSRL-88-10 P. Moulin, D. L. Snyder, and J. A. O'Sullivan, "Performance Analysis for Maximum Likelihood Spectrum Estimation of Periodic Processes from Noisy Data." ESSRL-88-11 M. I. Miller, D. R. Fuhrmann, J. A. O'Sullivan, and D. L. Snyder, "Maximum Likelihood Methods for Toeplitz Covariance Estimation and Radar Imaging." ESSRL-88-12 S. Broadstone, "An Iterative Solution Of The Nearly Homogeneous Acoustic-Wave Equation For Real-Time Quantitative Ultrasonic Imaging," D. Sc. Thesis, 1988. (190 pages, copy cost $12) ESSRL-88-13 M. I. Miller, B. Roysam, K. Smith, and J. T. Udding, "On the Equivalence of Regular Grammars and Stochastic Constraints: Applications to Image Processing on Massively Parallel Processors," October 1988. ESSRL-88-14 M. I. Miller, M. J. Turmon, J. A. O'Sullivan, and D. L. Snyder, "Spectrum Estimation via Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Toeplitz Constrained Covariances." ESSRL-88-15 M. I. Miller, N. Karamanos, J. L. and D. L. Snyder, "Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Parameters from Jump Processes with a Multiplicative Intensity." ESSRL-88-16 K. R. Smith and M. I. Miller, "Learning Regular Grammars on Connection Architectures." ESSRL-88-17 M. I. Miller, B. Roysam, and A. W. McCarthy, "Bayesian Image Reconstruction for Emission Tomography: Implementation of the EM Algorithm and Good's Roughness Prior on Massively Parallel Processors." ESSRL-88-18 M. I. Miller, B. Roysam, and K. R. Smith, "Mapping Rule-Based and Stochastic Constraints to Connection Architectures: Implication for Hierarchical Image Processing." ESSRL-88-19 R. E. Morley, Jr., T. J. Sullivan, G. L. Engel, "A VLSI FIR Digital Signal Processor Using Logarithmic Arithmetic," November 1988, VLSI Signal Processing Workshop. ESSRL-88-20 J. A. O'Sullivan and D. L. Snyder, "High Resolution Imaging Using Spectrum Estimation Methods," reprint from Summer Program on Signal Processing at the Inst. for Math. and Its Applications, Univ. of Minn. ESSRL-88-21 H. A. Klotz, Jr. and D. L. Snyder, "A Hardware Architecture Using Finite Field Arithmetic for Computing Maximum-Likelihood Estimates in Emission Tomography," reprint from IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, Dec. 1988. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: E.Sontag RECENT TECHNICAL REPORTS SYCON -- Rutgers Center for Systems and Control [89-05] "A new result on the relation between differential-algebraic realizability and state space realizations," by Y.Wang and E.D.Sontag, March 89. (9 pages) Electronic abstracts and/or hardcopy of reports can be requested from sycon@fermat.rutgers.edu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** End of E-LETTER 22.