Call for papers for SYSID 2003

Invitation for SYSID 2003

The Organizing Committee has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the

13th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, SYSID-2003

to be held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, from August 27 till August 29, 2003. SYSID is organized every three years. This will be the first SYSID symposium in the 3rd millenium and the second SYSID symposium to take place in The Netherlands.

The symposium covers all major aspects of system identification, experimental modelling, signal processing and adaptive control from theoretical and methodological developments to practical applications in a wide range of application areas. The aim of the meeting is to promote the research activities and the cooperation between researchers in these areas. To enhance the applications and industrial perspective of the symposium, participation from industrial authors is particularly encouraged.

The meeting is held under the auspices of

IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control,

and sponsored by the IFAC Technical Committee on Modeling, Identification and Signal Processing, the IFAC Technical Committee on Adaptive Control and Tuning and the IEEE Control Systems Society.

The scientific program will consist of

Plenary and semi-plenary lectures by invited speakers
Regular (contributed) paper presentations in oral and poster sessions
Invited sessions
Software sessions, presenting and demonstrating industrial, educational and research software.

Scope of the symposium

The scope of the symposium covers all major aspects of system identification, experimental modelling, signal processing and adaptive control, ranging from theoretical, methodological and scientific developments to a large variety of (engineering) application areas. It is the intention of the organizers to promote SYSID 2003 as a meeting place where scientists and engineers from several research communities can meet to discuss issues related to these areas. Relevant topics for the symposium program include:

Identification of linear and multivariable systems
Identification of nonlinear systems, including neural networks
Identification of hybrid and distributed systems
Identification for control
Experimental modelling in process control
Vibration and modal analysis
Model validation, monitoring and fault detection
Signal processing and communication
Parameter estimation and inverse modelling
Statistical analysis and uncertainty bounding
Adaptive control and data-based controller tuning
Learning, data mining and Bayesian approaches
Sequential Monte Carlo methods, including particle filtering
Applications in process control systems, motion control systems, robotics, aerospace systems, bioengineering and medical systems, physical measurement systems, automotive systems, econometrics, transportation and communication systems

Call for papers and author information

The deadline for paper submissions (Monday, November 25, 2002. (EXPIRED) ) is over. Submissions will no longer be possible. All submitted papers and proposals for invited sessions have been evaluated by the International Program Committee and the corresponding authors of regular, software and invited session contributions have been notified by email about the final disposition of their manuscripts. All details for authors and speakers can be found on the Final submission site. Please see also the Call for Papers of the symposium and the List of accepted papers.

Program

Advance program and final program will be available on the program pages. The following plenary lectures have been confirmed

From experiments to closed-loop control
Prof. Hakan Hjalmarsson (Sweden)
System identification for structural dynamics and vibroacoustics design engineering
Dr. Herman Van der Auweraer (Belgium)
Prediction algorithms: Complexity, concentration and convexity
Prof. Peter Bartlett (Australia)

The following is a confirmed list of semi-plenary lectures:

Snippets of identification theory in computer vision
Prof. Stefano Soatto
Interval analysis for guaranteed nonlinear parameter estimation
Prof. Eric Walter
Data-based methods in process control
Prof. John MacGregor
Subspace algorithms
Dr. Dietmar Bauer
Identification of linear systems with nonlinear distortions
Prof. Johan Schoukens
Some problems in statistical inference following model selection
Prof. Benedikt Pötscher

Registration and accomodation

The registration site is open as of March 10, 2003 . Requests for hotel accomodation can be made at the accomodation site which has been opened as of March 10, 2003 . Advance registrations can be made till June 15, 2003 .

Venue

Rotterdam is the second largest city in the Netherlands situated at the mouth of the river Maas, 20 kilometers from the North Sea, in between Amsterdam and Brussels. It is a very modern city with many cultural and architectural attractions, in addition to its major harbour. More on the venue. Conference Center "De Doelen" is a highly modernized and well equipped conference center, located in the heart of the shopping center of Rotterdam. It is situated just opposite the central railway station of Rotterdam, providing fast train connections to Amsterdam International Airport (40 minutes). Additionally there are direct international train connections to Brussels and Paris. More on the venue.

SYSID 2003 will take place in conjunction with the 2003 European Control Conference (ECC2003), which will be held in Cambridge, UK, September 1-4, 2003.

Exhibits

A large exhibition area is available at the conference venue. Prospective exhibitors are referred to the exhibition pages for details.

Committees

SYSID 2003 is organized by an Organizing Committee (OC), a national organizing committee (NOC), an IPC taskforce, and the International Program Committee (IPC).

Further information

Please see the detailed time line of this symposium and bookmark the main conference website http://sysid2003.nl for your convenience. To automatically receive relevant information about the symposium, please subscribe to the

SYSID 2003 mailinglist

To contact the IPC secretariat, please write or email to

IPC secretariat SYSID 2003
Department of Electrical Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
E-mail: info@sysid2003.nl

For all further information, please contact the IPC secretariat by email.