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Biographical notes on contributors to this issue
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Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue 1977 he was with the EE Department, University of Campinas, Brasil. From January to July 1975 Dr Bingulac was a visiting professor at the Univeristy of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. From 1980 to 1984 he was with the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Since 1984 Dr Bingulac has been Professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, Blacksburg, Virginia. Since 1975 Dr Bingulac has been a senior member of the IEEE. His research interests include system identification, multivariable system theory and computer-aided design of control systems.
Brian D. O. Anderson was born in Sydney, Australia in 1941. He received the B.S. degree in pure mathematics and electrical engineering from the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1966. He is currently Professor and Head of Department of Systems Engineering at the Australian National University; from 1967 through 1981 he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle. He has also held appointments as Visiting Professor at a number of universities in the U.S.A., Australasia and Europe. He is co-author of several books and his research interests are in control and signal processing. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Engineers, Australia. Previously he was editor of Automatica and is currently a Vice-President of IFAC.
Jan Boatsema was born in 1953 in Groningen, The Netherlands. He received the "Drs" degree in applied mathematics in 1982 from the University of Groningen. During 1984 he was a research assistant at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Technical University of Delft. Since 1985 he has been a research assistant at the Mathematics Institute of the University of Groningen. His research interests are in the area of control of large flexible space structures.
Pierre B61aager was born in Montreal in 1937. He obtained a B.Eng from McGill University in 1959, and the S.M. and Ph.D., both in electrical engineering, from MIT in 1962 and 1964, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor of electrical Engineering at MIT in the academic year 1964--1965, after which he was a Systems Analyst with the Foxboro Company, Foxboro, MA, until joining McGill in 1967 as an Associate Professor of electrical Engineering. He was made a Full Professor in 1976, became Chairman of the Department in 1978, and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering in 1984. Dr B61anger has served as a CSS Vice-President, and is presently the Fellow Evaluations Chairman. He is currently Co-Vice-Chairman of the Prime Minister of Canada's National Advisory Board for Science and Technology. In addition, he was recently elected to the newly-formed Canadian Academy of Engineering.
Joe H, Chow is an Associate
Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Bachelor degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics from the University of Minnesota in 1974, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1975 and 1977, respectively, for his work oa application of singular perturbations to control system design. From 1978 to 1987 hewas an application engineer at the General Electric Company where he worked on power system model reduction, emergency control, stability analysis, and multivariable control design. His current interests include large-scale systems, power system dynamics and applications of multivariable controls. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of New York. He received the Donald P. Eckman award from the American Automatic Control Council in 1979 for contributions to control theory. Since 1982, he has been an Associate Editor of Automation. Currcndy, he is an Associate Editor of the I E E E Transactions on Automatic Control, and on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
S. Bingnda¢ received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1958 and 1964, respectively. From 1958 to 1973 he was with the Control and Computation Laboratory, Nuclear Research Institute, "B. Kidrie", Belgrade, Yugoslavia. From 1973 to 1975 he was with the University of Brasilia, Brasil, while from 1975 to 297
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G. S. Cbristensen was born in Denmark in 1929. Dr Christensen obtained his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1966. From 1966 to 1969 he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta. From 1969 to 1973 he was Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta. Since 1974 he has been Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta. He has published numerous papers on the applications of optimal control theory to electric power systems and has coauthored two books on the subject. His current interests are optimal :ontrol theory and power systems.
William J. Cody received the B.A. and M.A. in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and the Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Upon leaving Wisconsin in 1979, Dr Cody joined the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company in St Louis where he served as an engineering psychologist assigned l ~ I to the Human Performance Laboratory until 1986. In this capacity, he was responsible for several contract R&D programs devoted to improving human operation and maintenance of military aerospace systems. These programs included development of the crew system for the F-15E fighter, aircrew personnel protection concepts, an airborne measurement system to support aircrew training, and a computer-based decision support system for crew system design engineers. He also managed an internal R&D program that applied human performance measurement and modeling techniques to military systems. Dr Cody joined Search Technology, Inc. in 1986 and since that time has pursued research into design problem solving and development of information systems to support this activity. His professional interests include human learning and memory, human-computer interaction, problem solving in general, and the psychology of design problem solving in particular.
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Ruth F. Curtain is an expatriate of Melbourne, Australia, where she received the B.Sc. (hons.) degree in 1962, the Diploma of Education in 1963 and a Master of Arts in Mathematics in 1965 from the University of Melbourne. After gaining a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Brown University, RI (U.S.A.) in 1969, she taught briefly at Purdue University, Ind. (U.S.A.). The years 1971-1977 were spent at the Control Theory Centre, University of Warwick in England, first as a Research Fellow and later as Lecturer. Since then she has resided in The Netherlands where she is currently a Professor in the Mathematics Institute of the University of Groningen, in The Netherlands. Interspersed have been short visiting appointments at UCLA, the Australian National University, the University of Lund, Sweden, LCC in Rio de Janeiro and the University of Bremen in Germany. The central research theme has been the area infinite-dimensional systems, beginning with the state space LQG theory, but more
recently reduced order models, approximation and frequency domain approaches. She has published two books jointly with A. J. Pritchard in this area and is currently associate editor for Systems and Control Letters and Autornatica.
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Dasgupta was born in Calcutta, India in April 1959. He obtained his B.E. in electrical engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 1980. In 1981 he was a research fellow at the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit in the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. From 1982 to 1984 he was with the Australian National University, Canberra, where he obtained his Ph.D. in systems engineering. In the academic year of 1984-1985, he was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He is currently with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Iowa. His research interests are in Adaptive Systems Theory, Robust Stability, and Neural Networks.
Raymond DeCarlo was born in Philadelphia in 1950 and attended grade school and high ,school there. He received a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1972 and 1974, respectively. In 1976 he received his Ph.D. under the direction of Dr Richard Sacks from Texas Tech. University. His Doctoral research centered on Nyquist Stability Theory with applications to multidimensional digital filters. After graduating, he became a Lecturer at Texas Tech. for one year and then became an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University in the Fall of 1977 and an Associate Professor in 1982. He has worked at the General Motors Research Laboratories during the summers of 1985 and 1986. Presently, he is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Past Associate Editor for Technical Notes and Correspondence and Past Associate Editor for Survey and Tutorial papers, both for the IEEE Control Transactions. His research interests include interconnected dynamical systems, analog fault diagnosis, decentralized control of large-scale systems, decentralized identification and estimation of interconnected systems, and computer-aided circuit design.
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gineering (M.S. degree) in 1974 at the Rijksuniversiteit Gent (State University of Ghent), Belgium. In 1980 he obtained the doctoral (Ph.D.) degree at the same university. From 1974 to 1982 he was teaching and a research assistant at the Laboratory of Automatic Control (Laboratorium voor Regeltechnick) at the University of Ghent. Since 1982 he has been a senior research manager and assistant professor. His main
Biographical Notes research activities are in adaptive control, process identification, digital computer controlled systems, signal processing, microcomputer control, simulation and their applications to real-life processes. He has published many papers and given many lectures in this field and is also involved in industrial consultation. He is an active member of the Belgian Institute of Automatic Control (BIRA) which is the Belgian National Member Organization of IFAC. He is also active in the Belgian Industry-University Foundation. At the University he presently teaches courses in the field of automatic control and leads several research teams applying advanced computer control strategies to a wide range of industrial processes.
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Guy A. Dumont was born in Calais, France in 1951. He received a Dipiome d'Ingenieur from the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Metiers, Paris in 1973 and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from McGiU University, Montreal, Canada in 1977. He worked for Tioxide S.A., Calais, France from 1977 to 1979, where he implemented a self-tuning regulator on a TiO2 rotary kiln. In 1979, he joined the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada (PPRIC), first in Montreal and since 1983 in Vancouver where he heads the Control Engineering Section and is also an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at the University of British Columbia. He is involved in applications of advanced control theory to pulp and paper processes and his current interests are in stochastic and adaptive control process modelling and identification and intelligent control. In 1979, he was co-recipient (with Dr P. R. Belanger) of the IEEE T-Ac Honourable Paper Award. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Member of the Technical Section, Canadian Pulp and Paper Association.
F. Dnmorlier has been an electromechanical engineer since 1981. He graduated from the State University of Ghent and is now working in the Automatic Control Laboratory. He is especially interested in advanced control methods and computer simulation.
Michael M. Fedenia was born in Minsk, U.S.S.R., on 1 July 1951. He obtained the diploma of mathematician and the Candidate of Mathematical Science degree from the White Russian University in Minsk in 1973 and 1981, respectively. Currently he is Docent Professor of Mathematics at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics, White Russian University, Minsk. From October 1984 to August 1985 he was at the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the University of Belgrade specializing in the sensitivity theory and its application in the design of modal control systems. He has written several papers on sensitivity analysis of dynamic systems and is co-author of the book Geometry and Algebra (in Russian).
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Oliver Jaeobs was born in London, U.K. in 1934. He read the Mechanical Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge and stayed on to obtain a Ph.D. in control engineering in 1961. After a year in industry as Systems Analyst he was appointed University Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Since 1967 he has been a Lecturer in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and an Official Fellow of St John's College. He was visiting Associate Professor at the University of California in San Diego during 1973. His publications include the book Introduction to Control Theory (Oxford University Press, 1974). His research interests are in algorithms which process information for purposes of control, and in their applications.
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R. John Kaye received the B.E. and M.Eng.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Melbourne. In 1982, he graduated with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been employed as an engineer with the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, a Research Assistant in the Electronic Research Laboratoires at the University of California at Berkeley and as a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Research School of Physical Sciences at the Australian National University. Since 1984, he has been a lecturer in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of New South Wales. His current research interests include the economic and policy issues involved with large engineering systems and, in particular, the planning and operation of electric energy systems.
Douglas K. Lindner received B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, in 1977, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979 and 1982, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engi~ ' ~ ! ~ neering, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. His current research interests are in linear system theory, large scale systems, and control of flexible st .rcctures.
Gregory P. Matthews was born in Pontiac, Michigan, on 3 December 1956. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1982 and 1985, respectively. Since 1986 he has been a member of the General Motors Research Laboratories Electrical and Electronics
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Engineering Department, in Warren, Michigan. His research interests include the control of large scale and nonlinear systems.
Cad N. Nelt was born in Syracuse, New York, on 24 January 1960. He received the B.S. degree in physics, magna cure laude, in 1982, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering, in 1984 and 1985, respectively, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. In 1985 he joined the Control Technology Branch of the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center, Schenectady, New York, where he is currently employed. He is also an adjunct assistant professsor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In previous work, Dr Nett contributed to the development of the fractional representation approach to control system design, for both lumped and distributed parameter systems. His current research interests include control structure design, robust decentralized control, control of distributed parameter systems, and constrained multivariable control, particularly as applied to problems in variable-cycle jet engine controls, the control of flexible structures, and integrated flight, propulsion and structural controls. Dr Nett was an Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellow from 1982 through 1985. In 1985 he was awarded the Allen B. Dumont Prize from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for outstanding achievement as a graduate student and exceptional promise for a successful career. Dr Nett is a member of the IEEE, the ASME, SIAM, and the National Physics Honor Society. He has reviewed numerous papers for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems and Automatica, and he has also reviewed numerous technical proposals for the National Science Foundation.
l.~rs Nielsen was born in Sweden in 1955. He took his M.Sc. in engineering physics in 1979, and his Ph.D. in automatic control in 1985, both at Lund Institute of Technology. The year 1985-1986 was spent in the Analog VLSI and Neural Systems group at Caltech. He now holds a position at the Department of Automatic Control, Lurid Institute of Technology, where he is responsible for a laboratory in sensory robotics.
Akira Ohsumi was born in Kyoto, Japan on 28 July 1943. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering from Kyoto Institute of Technology in 1967 and 1969, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics and physics from Kyoto University in 1976. Since 1969 he has been a Research Assistant at the Division of Control Science, Faculty of Polytechnic Sciences, Kyoto Institute of Technology, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1976. From February
to December 1983 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. His research areas are stocahstic processes, estimation, identification, stochastic control, distributed parameter systems, signal detection in random noise, searching theory of Markovian target, estimation of random field, and control of flexible systems. He was a recipient of the 1982 SICE Prize Paper Award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan, for his paper "Studies on the Signal Detection via Real-time Data Processing" and the 1987 Shimazu Fellowship for Promotion of Science and Technology. He is a coauthor of Stochastic System Theory (Asakura Pub., Vols 1, 2, 1981, 1982), and a contributor to the books Theory and Applications of Nonlinear Control Systems (Edited by C. I. Byrnes and A. Lindquist; North-Holland, 1986), and Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Applications Vol. 29 (Edited by C. T. Leondes; Academic Press, 1988). Dr Ohsumi serves on the editorial board of the JAACE journal Systems and Control.
WiUmm R. Perkins was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S.A., in 1934. He received the A.B. degree (cure laude) in engineering and applied physics from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1956; and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, California, in 1957 and 1961, respec_ tively. Since February 1961, he has been at the University of Illinois, Urbana, where he is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. Dr Perkins is a Fellow of the IEEE and recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal (1984). He is also a Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He has held several offices in the IEEE Control Systems Society, including President (1985). He is currently an Associate Editor at Large of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Vice Chairman of the Economic and Management Systems Committee of IFAC.
William B. Rouse received the B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Rhode Island and the S.M. and Ph.D. in systems engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After brief postdoctoral and faculty positions at MIT and Tufts University, respectively, he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign in 1974 where he remained until 1981 as Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. During 1979-1980 he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, He joined the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1981 as Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and founding Director of the Center for Man-Machine Systems Research. Since 1985, he has served part-time on the Georgia Tech. faculty. In 1980 Dr Rouse participated in the founding of Search Technology, Inc., a firm specializing in contract R&D and consulting services in decision support and training systems for personnel in complex engineering systems. He currently serves as President and Principal
Biographical Notes Scientist, with responsibilites for strategic and operational planning, as well as program development. His professional interests are in human decision making and problem solving, human-computer interaction, and design of information systems. Within these areas, he has written a large number of technical articles and is author of Systems Engineering Models of Human-Machine Interaction (North Holland, 1980), coauthor of Management of Library Networks: Policy Analysis, Implementation, and Control (Wiley, 1980), coeditor of Human Detection and Diagnosis of Systems Failures (Plenum Press, 1981), editor of Advances in Man-Machine Systems Research (JAI Press, Vols 1-3, 1984-1986), and coeditor of System Design: Behavioral Perspectives on Designers, Tools, and Organizations (North Holland, 1987). In 1986 Dr Rouse received the Norbert Wiener Award from the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society for "major contributions to the area of man-machine systems, entrepreneurial leadership of an innovative high technology company, and contributions to the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society". He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1985 for "contributions to understanding and modeling human decision making and problem solving in engineering systems." In 1984, he was a recipient of an IEEE Centennial Medal and Certificate. He was receipient of the 1979 O. Hugo Schuck Award from the American Automation Control Council for his article "Understanding and aiding the human in fault diagnosis tasks". He has been very active within the IEEE and is past President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and a member of the Human Factors Society and the Americal Management Association. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics and is currently on the Editorial Board of the journal HumanComputer Interaction. He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Engineering, and other biographical literature.
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George N, Saridis was born in Athens, Greece. He received a diploma in mechanical and electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1955 and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1962 and 1965, respectively. From 1955 to 1961 he was an instructor in the Department of Mechanical and electrical Engineering for the National Technical University of Athens. From 1963 until 1981, he was with the School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University. He was an instructor until 1965, an Assistant Professor until 1970, an Associate Professor until 1975 and a Professor of Electrical Engineering until 1981. Since September 1981 he has been a Professor of the ECSE Department and Director of the Robotics and Automation Laboratory at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1973 he served as a Program Director of System Theory and Applications at the Engineering Division of the National Science Foundation. Dr Saridis is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, the Academy of Sciences of New York, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Senior member of the Robotics International and Charter member of Machine vision of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, American Assodation of University Professors and American Society of Engineering Education. In 1972-1973 he was the Associate Editor and Chairman of the Technical Committe on Adaptive Learning Systems and Pattern Recognition of the Society of Controls Systems of the IEEE, Chairman of the l l t h Symposium of Adaptive
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Processes, IEEE delegate to 1973 and 1976 JACC, and program Chairman of the 1977 JACC. In 1973 and 1979 he was elected as a member of the ADCOM and in 1986 he was appointed member of the Board of Governors of the Society of Control Systems of the IEEE. From 1979 to 1981 he was appointed Chairman of the Education Committe of the above society. He was the International Program Committee Chairman of the 1982 IFAC Symposium on Estimation and System Parameter Identification as well as the 1985 IFAC Symposium on Robotic Control. In 1974 and 1981 he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the IFAC International Committee on Education and from 1981 to 1984 he was the Survey Paper Editor for Automatica, the IFAC Journal. He is the series Editor of the JAI Publications on Annuals on Advances in Robotics and Automation. In 1986 he was appointed Chairman of the Control Systems Society's Committee on Intelligent Controls and Chairman of the Awards Committee of the Robotics and Automation Council. From 1983 to 1984 he was the Founding President of the IEEE Council of Robotics and Automation. Dr Saridis is also the author of the book Self-organizing Control of Stochastic Systems (Marcel Dekker, New York), editor of the book Annual on Advances in Automation and Robotics, Vol. 1, and co-editor of the book Fuzzy and Decision Processes. He has also written over 200 book chapters, journal articles, conference papers and technical reports.
Johannes M. (Hans) Sehmnacher was born in 1951 in Heemstede, The Netherlands. He received his training as an applied mathematician at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where he obtained the "Cand." degree in 1972, the "Drs" degree in 1976, and the Ph.D. degree in 1981. Following this, he was affiliated for periods of one to two years with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT, Cambridge, with the Econometric Institute, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and with the European Space Research and Technology Centre ESTEC in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. He is currently employed as a senior research scientist by the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam. His present research interests are in the areas of linear and nonlinear system theory, including applications to the modelling and control of mechanical structures.
Josef Shinar received the B.Sc. degree (summa cure laude) in aeronautical engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, in 1959, the M.Sc. degree (mention: tr~s bien) from the Ecole National Superieure de l'Aeronautique, Paris, France, in 1963, and the D.Sc. degree from the Technion in 1973. From 1959 to 1974 he served in the Israeli Air Force. In 1974 he joined the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at the Technion, where he is currently Professor. He was awarded a Senior NRC Associateship, and thus spent his sabbatical year (1981-1982) at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. His research interest is focused on the application of optimal control and differential game theories to real-time guidance of airborne vehicles.
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5. A. SoUmu was born in Egypt in 1950. He received his B.Sc. and M.Se. degrees from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt in 1973 and 1977, respectively. From 1973 to 1977 he was a demonstrator in the Electrical Power and Machines department, Ain Shams University and from 1977 to 1984 he was an assistant ~ : ' ~ lecturer at the same university. He joined the Electrical Engineering department, the University of Alberta, Canada in January 1984, where he obtained his Ph.D. in January 1986. Dr Soliman has published several papers on the application of optimal control theory to electric power systems and has coauthored a book on the subject. His current interests are optimal control theory, state estimation and its applications to power systems.
Mili~ R. Stoji~ was born in T. U~ice, Yugoslavia, on 27 Feburary 1940. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1963, 1965 and 1967, respectively. Since 1963 he has been with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. Currently he is a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and Control Systems. He spent several summers at the Physics Department of the University of Birmingham, in collaborative research. He has written over 70 papers on the analysis and design of control systems and is the author of the book Continuous Control Systems, having five editions, and of the monograph Discrete Transforms with Application. Both the book and monograph were edited by the Scientific Book Publishing Firm in Belgrade. He was also one of the contributors of the book Microprocessor-based Control Systems (Edited by Sinha, N. K., D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1986). His research interests lie in the analysis and design of continuous-time and discrete-time control systems and in the microprocessor-based control of DC and AC motors and industrial processes.
Radmila M. Stoji~ was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on 15 June 1940. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from the University of Belgrade, in 1963 and 1977, respectively. Currently she is Senior Lecturer teaching students in fundamentals of electrical engineering at the Electrical Engineering Faculty, University of Belgrade. Her main interest lies in the sensitivity theory and its application to the analysis and design of electrical circuits and digital filters.
J~nes A. Uthgenannt was born in New York, New York on 15 November 1960. He received the B.S. degree in businesseconomics in 1983 from the State University College at Oneonta, Oneonta, New York, and the B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering in 1983 and 1985, respectively, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New ...... York. In 1986 he entered the Control Technology Training Program administered by the Process Control Operation of the General Electric Plastics Business Group, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and the Control Technology Branch of the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center, Schenectady, New York. During that time he studied modern approaches to multivariable control system design, and applied these techniques to a number of significant chemical processes, such as distillation columns, plasticating extruders, and rotary dryers. Upon completion of the training program in 1987, Mr Uthgenannt joined the Process Control Operation of the General Plastics Business Group, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he is currently employed as a control engineer.
Kimon P. Valavanis was born in Athens, Greece, on 7 March 1957. He received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from National Technical University of Athens in 1981, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer system engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1984 and 1986, respectively. From January 1982 to December 1985 he was a Research Associate in the Robotics and Automation Laboratory at RPI, where he developed a real-time computer controlled intelligent robotic system. Since January 1986 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Northeastern University. He is currently an Assistant Professor and in charge of the Robotics Laboratory. Dr Valavanis has several publications and four book chapters in the area of real-time control of manipulators, design of intelligent machines and intelligent robotic systems. His research interests include mathematical expert systems, design of intelligent machines using frizzy sets and theory of evidence, modeling of robotic systems using Petri nets and real-time control of manipulators. He is a member of IEEE, ASME and Sigma Xi.
Ph. Van de Velde graduated as an electro-mechanical engineer, specializing in electronics, from the State University of Ghent in 1982. His main areas of interest are real-time software and the application of digital and adaptive control algorithms. From 1982 to 1986 he was with the Automatic Control Laboratory of the State University of Ghent where he was, in a project on rational energy consumption, mainly in charge of the implementation and study of adaptive control algorithms and the development of data-acquisition software. He is currently with the International Marine and Dredging Consultants (IMDC) where he takes part in several marine automation and instrumentation projects.
Biographical Notes James Winltelmu received his B.S,, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering, all from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1971, 1972 and 1976, respectively. From 1976 to 1987, Dr Winkelman was employed at the General Electric Company were he was engaged in the application of singular perturbation methods to the study of power system dynamics. He was also involved in the study and development of adaptive and multivariable controllers. Since 1987 Dr Winkelman has been employed by the Ford Motor Company were he is currently working in the areas of adaptive and multivariable controls applied to automotive systems. He is author of numerous technical papers and co-author of a book Time-scale
Modeling of Dynamic Networks with Application to Power Systems (Springer, 1982).
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C~istos C. Zervos was born in Athens, Greece in 1956. He received his B.Sc. degree in physics from Athens University, Athens, Greece in 1981 where he was with the Beacon Satellite Tracking Centre of the Electronies Department from 1976 to 1977 and with the Nuclear Research Center "Democritos", Athens, Greece, from 1979 to 1980. He received his M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 198,1. He is currently completing his Doctorate degree at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in the field of process control. His research interests include adaptive process control, computer simulation and modelling and applications of modem control theory to industrial processes.
Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue 1977 he was with the EE Department, University of Campinas, Brasil. From January to July 1975 Dr Bingulac was a visiting professor at the Univeristy of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. From 1980 to 1984 he was with the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Since 1984 Dr Bingulac has been Professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, Blacksburg, Virginia. Since 1975 Dr Bingulac has been a senior member of the IEEE. His research interests include system identification, multivariable system theory and computer-aided design of control systems.
Brian D. O. Anderson was born in Sydney, Australia in 1941. He received the B.S. degree in pure mathematics and electrical engineering from the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1966. He is currently Professor and Head of Department of Systems Engineering at the Australian National University; from 1967 through 1981 he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle. He has also held appointments as Visiting Professor at a number of universities in the U.S.A., Australasia and Europe. He is co-author of several books and his research interests are in control and signal processing. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Engineers, Australia. Previously he was editor of Automatica and is currently a Vice-President of IFAC.
Jan Boatsema was born in 1953 in Groningen, The Netherlands. He received the "Drs" degree in applied mathematics in 1982 from the University of Groningen. During 1984 he was a research assistant at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Technical University of Delft. Since 1985 he has been a research assistant at the Mathematics Institute of the University of Groningen. His research interests are in the area of control of large flexible space structures.
Pierre B61aager was born in Montreal in 1937. He obtained a B.Eng from McGill University in 1959, and the S.M. and Ph.D., both in electrical engineering, from MIT in 1962 and 1964, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor of electrical Engineering at MIT in the academic year 1964--1965, after which he was a Systems Analyst with the Foxboro Company, Foxboro, MA, until joining McGill in 1967 as an Associate Professor of electrical Engineering. He was made a Full Professor in 1976, became Chairman of the Department in 1978, and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering in 1984. Dr B61anger has served as a CSS Vice-President, and is presently the Fellow Evaluations Chairman. He is currently Co-Vice-Chairman of the Prime Minister of Canada's National Advisory Board for Science and Technology. In addition, he was recently elected to the newly-formed Canadian Academy of Engineering.
Joe H, Chow is an Associate
Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Bachelor degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics from the University of Minnesota in 1974, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1975 and 1977, respectively, for his work oa application of singular perturbations to control system design. From 1978 to 1987 hewas an application engineer at the General Electric Company where he worked on power system model reduction, emergency control, stability analysis, and multivariable control design. His current interests include large-scale systems, power system dynamics and applications of multivariable controls. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of New York. He received the Donald P. Eckman award from the American Automatic Control Council in 1979 for contributions to control theory. Since 1982, he has been an Associate Editor of Automation. Currcndy, he is an Associate Editor of the I E E E Transactions on Automatic Control, and on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
S. Bingnda¢ received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1958 and 1964, respectively. From 1958 to 1973 he was with the Control and Computation Laboratory, Nuclear Research Institute, "B. Kidrie", Belgrade, Yugoslavia. From 1973 to 1975 he was with the University of Brasilia, Brasil, while from 1975 to 297
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G. S. Cbristensen was born in Denmark in 1929. Dr Christensen obtained his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1966. From 1966 to 1969 he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta. From 1969 to 1973 he was Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta. Since 1974 he has been Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta. He has published numerous papers on the applications of optimal control theory to electric power systems and has coauthored two books on the subject. His current interests are optimal :ontrol theory and power systems.
William J. Cody received the B.A. and M.A. in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and the Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Upon leaving Wisconsin in 1979, Dr Cody joined the McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company in St Louis where he served as an engineering psychologist assigned l ~ I to the Human Performance Laboratory until 1986. In this capacity, he was responsible for several contract R&D programs devoted to improving human operation and maintenance of military aerospace systems. These programs included development of the crew system for the F-15E fighter, aircrew personnel protection concepts, an airborne measurement system to support aircrew training, and a computer-based decision support system for crew system design engineers. He also managed an internal R&D program that applied human performance measurement and modeling techniques to military systems. Dr Cody joined Search Technology, Inc. in 1986 and since that time has pursued research into design problem solving and development of information systems to support this activity. His professional interests include human learning and memory, human-computer interaction, problem solving in general, and the psychology of design problem solving in particular.
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Ruth F. Curtain is an expatriate of Melbourne, Australia, where she received the B.Sc. (hons.) degree in 1962, the Diploma of Education in 1963 and a Master of Arts in Mathematics in 1965 from the University of Melbourne. After gaining a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Brown University, RI (U.S.A.) in 1969, she taught briefly at Purdue University, Ind. (U.S.A.). The years 1971-1977 were spent at the Control Theory Centre, University of Warwick in England, first as a Research Fellow and later as Lecturer. Since then she has resided in The Netherlands where she is currently a Professor in the Mathematics Institute of the University of Groningen, in The Netherlands. Interspersed have been short visiting appointments at UCLA, the Australian National University, the University of Lund, Sweden, LCC in Rio de Janeiro and the University of Bremen in Germany. The central research theme has been the area infinite-dimensional systems, beginning with the state space LQG theory, but more
recently reduced order models, approximation and frequency domain approaches. She has published two books jointly with A. J. Pritchard in this area and is currently associate editor for Systems and Control Letters and Autornatica.
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Dasgupta was born in Calcutta, India in April 1959. He obtained his B.E. in electrical engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 1980. In 1981 he was a research fellow at the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit in the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. From 1982 to 1984 he was with the Australian National University, Canberra, where he obtained his Ph.D. in systems engineering. In the academic year of 1984-1985, he was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He is currently with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Iowa. His research interests are in Adaptive Systems Theory, Robust Stability, and Neural Networks.
Raymond DeCarlo was born in Philadelphia in 1950 and attended grade school and high ,school there. He received a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1972 and 1974, respectively. In 1976 he received his Ph.D. under the direction of Dr Richard Sacks from Texas Tech. University. His Doctoral research centered on Nyquist Stability Theory with applications to multidimensional digital filters. After graduating, he became a Lecturer at Texas Tech. for one year and then became an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University in the Fall of 1977 and an Associate Professor in 1982. He has worked at the General Motors Research Laboratories during the summers of 1985 and 1986. Presently, he is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Past Associate Editor for Technical Notes and Correspondence and Past Associate Editor for Survey and Tutorial papers, both for the IEEE Control Transactions. His research interests include interconnected dynamical systems, analog fault diagnosis, decentralized control of large-scale systems, decentralized identification and estimation of interconnected systems, and computer-aided circuit design.
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gineering (M.S. degree) in 1974 at the Rijksuniversiteit Gent (State University of Ghent), Belgium. In 1980 he obtained the doctoral (Ph.D.) degree at the same university. From 1974 to 1982 he was teaching and a research assistant at the Laboratory of Automatic Control (Laboratorium voor Regeltechnick) at the University of Ghent. Since 1982 he has been a senior research manager and assistant professor. His main
Biographical Notes research activities are in adaptive control, process identification, digital computer controlled systems, signal processing, microcomputer control, simulation and their applications to real-life processes. He has published many papers and given many lectures in this field and is also involved in industrial consultation. He is an active member of the Belgian Institute of Automatic Control (BIRA) which is the Belgian National Member Organization of IFAC. He is also active in the Belgian Industry-University Foundation. At the University he presently teaches courses in the field of automatic control and leads several research teams applying advanced computer control strategies to a wide range of industrial processes.
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Guy A. Dumont was born in Calais, France in 1951. He received a Dipiome d'Ingenieur from the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Metiers, Paris in 1973 and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from McGiU University, Montreal, Canada in 1977. He worked for Tioxide S.A., Calais, France from 1977 to 1979, where he implemented a self-tuning regulator on a TiO2 rotary kiln. In 1979, he joined the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada (PPRIC), first in Montreal and since 1983 in Vancouver where he heads the Control Engineering Section and is also an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at the University of British Columbia. He is involved in applications of advanced control theory to pulp and paper processes and his current interests are in stochastic and adaptive control process modelling and identification and intelligent control. In 1979, he was co-recipient (with Dr P. R. Belanger) of the IEEE T-Ac Honourable Paper Award. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Member of the Technical Section, Canadian Pulp and Paper Association.
F. Dnmorlier has been an electromechanical engineer since 1981. He graduated from the State University of Ghent and is now working in the Automatic Control Laboratory. He is especially interested in advanced control methods and computer simulation.
Michael M. Fedenia was born in Minsk, U.S.S.R., on 1 July 1951. He obtained the diploma of mathematician and the Candidate of Mathematical Science degree from the White Russian University in Minsk in 1973 and 1981, respectively. Currently he is Docent Professor of Mathematics at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics, White Russian University, Minsk. From October 1984 to August 1985 he was at the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the University of Belgrade specializing in the sensitivity theory and its application in the design of modal control systems. He has written several papers on sensitivity analysis of dynamic systems and is co-author of the book Geometry and Algebra (in Russian).
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Oliver Jaeobs was born in London, U.K. in 1934. He read the Mechanical Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge and stayed on to obtain a Ph.D. in control engineering in 1961. After a year in industry as Systems Analyst he was appointed University Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Since 1967 he has been a Lecturer in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and an Official Fellow of St John's College. He was visiting Associate Professor at the University of California in San Diego during 1973. His publications include the book Introduction to Control Theory (Oxford University Press, 1974). His research interests are in algorithms which process information for purposes of control, and in their applications.
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R. John Kaye received the B.E. and M.Eng.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Melbourne. In 1982, he graduated with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been employed as an engineer with the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, a Research Assistant in the Electronic Research Laboratoires at the University of California at Berkeley and as a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Research School of Physical Sciences at the Australian National University. Since 1984, he has been a lecturer in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of New South Wales. His current research interests include the economic and policy issues involved with large engineering systems and, in particular, the planning and operation of electric energy systems.
Douglas K. Lindner received B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, in 1977, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979 and 1982, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engi~ ' ~ ! ~ neering, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. His current research interests are in linear system theory, large scale systems, and control of flexible st .rcctures.
Gregory P. Matthews was born in Pontiac, Michigan, on 3 December 1956. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1982 and 1985, respectively. Since 1986 he has been a member of the General Motors Research Laboratories Electrical and Electronics
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Engineering Department, in Warren, Michigan. His research interests include the control of large scale and nonlinear systems.
Cad N. Nelt was born in Syracuse, New York, on 24 January 1960. He received the B.S. degree in physics, magna cure laude, in 1982, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering, in 1984 and 1985, respectively, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. In 1985 he joined the Control Technology Branch of the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center, Schenectady, New York, where he is currently employed. He is also an adjunct assistant professsor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In previous work, Dr Nett contributed to the development of the fractional representation approach to control system design, for both lumped and distributed parameter systems. His current research interests include control structure design, robust decentralized control, control of distributed parameter systems, and constrained multivariable control, particularly as applied to problems in variable-cycle jet engine controls, the control of flexible structures, and integrated flight, propulsion and structural controls. Dr Nett was an Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellow from 1982 through 1985. In 1985 he was awarded the Allen B. Dumont Prize from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for outstanding achievement as a graduate student and exceptional promise for a successful career. Dr Nett is a member of the IEEE, the ASME, SIAM, and the National Physics Honor Society. He has reviewed numerous papers for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems and Automatica, and he has also reviewed numerous technical proposals for the National Science Foundation.
l.~rs Nielsen was born in Sweden in 1955. He took his M.Sc. in engineering physics in 1979, and his Ph.D. in automatic control in 1985, both at Lund Institute of Technology. The year 1985-1986 was spent in the Analog VLSI and Neural Systems group at Caltech. He now holds a position at the Department of Automatic Control, Lurid Institute of Technology, where he is responsible for a laboratory in sensory robotics.
Akira Ohsumi was born in Kyoto, Japan on 28 July 1943. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering from Kyoto Institute of Technology in 1967 and 1969, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics and physics from Kyoto University in 1976. Since 1969 he has been a Research Assistant at the Division of Control Science, Faculty of Polytechnic Sciences, Kyoto Institute of Technology, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1976. From February
to December 1983 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. His research areas are stocahstic processes, estimation, identification, stochastic control, distributed parameter systems, signal detection in random noise, searching theory of Markovian target, estimation of random field, and control of flexible systems. He was a recipient of the 1982 SICE Prize Paper Award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan, for his paper "Studies on the Signal Detection via Real-time Data Processing" and the 1987 Shimazu Fellowship for Promotion of Science and Technology. He is a coauthor of Stochastic System Theory (Asakura Pub., Vols 1, 2, 1981, 1982), and a contributor to the books Theory and Applications of Nonlinear Control Systems (Edited by C. I. Byrnes and A. Lindquist; North-Holland, 1986), and Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Applications Vol. 29 (Edited by C. T. Leondes; Academic Press, 1988). Dr Ohsumi serves on the editorial board of the JAACE journal Systems and Control.
WiUmm R. Perkins was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S.A., in 1934. He received the A.B. degree (cure laude) in engineering and applied physics from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1956; and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, California, in 1957 and 1961, respec_ tively. Since February 1961, he has been at the University of Illinois, Urbana, where he is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory. Dr Perkins is a Fellow of the IEEE and recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal (1984). He is also a Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He has held several offices in the IEEE Control Systems Society, including President (1985). He is currently an Associate Editor at Large of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Vice Chairman of the Economic and Management Systems Committee of IFAC.
William B. Rouse received the B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Rhode Island and the S.M. and Ph.D. in systems engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After brief postdoctoral and faculty positions at MIT and Tufts University, respectively, he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign in 1974 where he remained until 1981 as Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. During 1979-1980 he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, He joined the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1981 as Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and founding Director of the Center for Man-Machine Systems Research. Since 1985, he has served part-time on the Georgia Tech. faculty. In 1980 Dr Rouse participated in the founding of Search Technology, Inc., a firm specializing in contract R&D and consulting services in decision support and training systems for personnel in complex engineering systems. He currently serves as President and Principal
Biographical Notes Scientist, with responsibilites for strategic and operational planning, as well as program development. His professional interests are in human decision making and problem solving, human-computer interaction, and design of information systems. Within these areas, he has written a large number of technical articles and is author of Systems Engineering Models of Human-Machine Interaction (North Holland, 1980), coauthor of Management of Library Networks: Policy Analysis, Implementation, and Control (Wiley, 1980), coeditor of Human Detection and Diagnosis of Systems Failures (Plenum Press, 1981), editor of Advances in Man-Machine Systems Research (JAI Press, Vols 1-3, 1984-1986), and coeditor of System Design: Behavioral Perspectives on Designers, Tools, and Organizations (North Holland, 1987). In 1986 Dr Rouse received the Norbert Wiener Award from the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society for "major contributions to the area of man-machine systems, entrepreneurial leadership of an innovative high technology company, and contributions to the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society". He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1985 for "contributions to understanding and modeling human decision making and problem solving in engineering systems." In 1984, he was a recipient of an IEEE Centennial Medal and Certificate. He was receipient of the 1979 O. Hugo Schuck Award from the American Automation Control Council for his article "Understanding and aiding the human in fault diagnosis tasks". He has been very active within the IEEE and is past President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and a member of the Human Factors Society and the Americal Management Association. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics and is currently on the Editorial Board of the journal HumanComputer Interaction. He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Engineering, and other biographical literature.
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George N, Saridis was born in Athens, Greece. He received a diploma in mechanical and electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1955 and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1962 and 1965, respectively. From 1955 to 1961 he was an instructor in the Department of Mechanical and electrical Engineering for the National Technical University of Athens. From 1963 until 1981, he was with the School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University. He was an instructor until 1965, an Assistant Professor until 1970, an Associate Professor until 1975 and a Professor of Electrical Engineering until 1981. Since September 1981 he has been a Professor of the ECSE Department and Director of the Robotics and Automation Laboratory at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1973 he served as a Program Director of System Theory and Applications at the Engineering Division of the National Science Foundation. Dr Saridis is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, the Academy of Sciences of New York, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Senior member of the Robotics International and Charter member of Machine vision of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, American Assodation of University Professors and American Society of Engineering Education. In 1972-1973 he was the Associate Editor and Chairman of the Technical Committe on Adaptive Learning Systems and Pattern Recognition of the Society of Controls Systems of the IEEE, Chairman of the l l t h Symposium of Adaptive
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Processes, IEEE delegate to 1973 and 1976 JACC, and program Chairman of the 1977 JACC. In 1973 and 1979 he was elected as a member of the ADCOM and in 1986 he was appointed member of the Board of Governors of the Society of Control Systems of the IEEE. From 1979 to 1981 he was appointed Chairman of the Education Committe of the above society. He was the International Program Committee Chairman of the 1982 IFAC Symposium on Estimation and System Parameter Identification as well as the 1985 IFAC Symposium on Robotic Control. In 1974 and 1981 he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the IFAC International Committee on Education and from 1981 to 1984 he was the Survey Paper Editor for Automatica, the IFAC Journal. He is the series Editor of the JAI Publications on Annuals on Advances in Robotics and Automation. In 1986 he was appointed Chairman of the Control Systems Society's Committee on Intelligent Controls and Chairman of the Awards Committee of the Robotics and Automation Council. From 1983 to 1984 he was the Founding President of the IEEE Council of Robotics and Automation. Dr Saridis is also the author of the book Self-organizing Control of Stochastic Systems (Marcel Dekker, New York), editor of the book Annual on Advances in Automation and Robotics, Vol. 1, and co-editor of the book Fuzzy and Decision Processes. He has also written over 200 book chapters, journal articles, conference papers and technical reports.
Johannes M. (Hans) Sehmnacher was born in 1951 in Heemstede, The Netherlands. He received his training as an applied mathematician at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where he obtained the "Cand." degree in 1972, the "Drs" degree in 1976, and the Ph.D. degree in 1981. Following this, he was affiliated for periods of one to two years with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT, Cambridge, with the Econometric Institute, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and with the European Space Research and Technology Centre ESTEC in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. He is currently employed as a senior research scientist by the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam. His present research interests are in the areas of linear and nonlinear system theory, including applications to the modelling and control of mechanical structures.
Josef Shinar received the B.Sc. degree (summa cure laude) in aeronautical engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, in 1959, the M.Sc. degree (mention: tr~s bien) from the Ecole National Superieure de l'Aeronautique, Paris, France, in 1963, and the D.Sc. degree from the Technion in 1973. From 1959 to 1974 he served in the Israeli Air Force. In 1974 he joined the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at the Technion, where he is currently Professor. He was awarded a Senior NRC Associateship, and thus spent his sabbatical year (1981-1982) at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. His research interest is focused on the application of optimal control and differential game theories to real-time guidance of airborne vehicles.
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5. A. SoUmu was born in Egypt in 1950. He received his B.Sc. and M.Se. degrees from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt in 1973 and 1977, respectively. From 1973 to 1977 he was a demonstrator in the Electrical Power and Machines department, Ain Shams University and from 1977 to 1984 he was an assistant ~ : ' ~ lecturer at the same university. He joined the Electrical Engineering department, the University of Alberta, Canada in January 1984, where he obtained his Ph.D. in January 1986. Dr Soliman has published several papers on the application of optimal control theory to electric power systems and has coauthored a book on the subject. His current interests are optimal control theory, state estimation and its applications to power systems.
Mili~ R. Stoji~ was born in T. U~ice, Yugoslavia, on 27 Feburary 1940. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1963, 1965 and 1967, respectively. Since 1963 he has been with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. Currently he is a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and Control Systems. He spent several summers at the Physics Department of the University of Birmingham, in collaborative research. He has written over 70 papers on the analysis and design of control systems and is the author of the book Continuous Control Systems, having five editions, and of the monograph Discrete Transforms with Application. Both the book and monograph were edited by the Scientific Book Publishing Firm in Belgrade. He was also one of the contributors of the book Microprocessor-based Control Systems (Edited by Sinha, N. K., D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1986). His research interests lie in the analysis and design of continuous-time and discrete-time control systems and in the microprocessor-based control of DC and AC motors and industrial processes.
Radmila M. Stoji~ was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on 15 June 1940. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from the University of Belgrade, in 1963 and 1977, respectively. Currently she is Senior Lecturer teaching students in fundamentals of electrical engineering at the Electrical Engineering Faculty, University of Belgrade. Her main interest lies in the sensitivity theory and its application to the analysis and design of electrical circuits and digital filters.
J~nes A. Uthgenannt was born in New York, New York on 15 November 1960. He received the B.S. degree in businesseconomics in 1983 from the State University College at Oneonta, Oneonta, New York, and the B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering in 1983 and 1985, respectively, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New ...... York. In 1986 he entered the Control Technology Training Program administered by the Process Control Operation of the General Electric Plastics Business Group, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and the Control Technology Branch of the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center, Schenectady, New York. During that time he studied modern approaches to multivariable control system design, and applied these techniques to a number of significant chemical processes, such as distillation columns, plasticating extruders, and rotary dryers. Upon completion of the training program in 1987, Mr Uthgenannt joined the Process Control Operation of the General Plastics Business Group, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he is currently employed as a control engineer.
Kimon P. Valavanis was born in Athens, Greece, on 7 March 1957. He received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from National Technical University of Athens in 1981, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer system engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1984 and 1986, respectively. From January 1982 to December 1985 he was a Research Associate in the Robotics and Automation Laboratory at RPI, where he developed a real-time computer controlled intelligent robotic system. Since January 1986 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Northeastern University. He is currently an Assistant Professor and in charge of the Robotics Laboratory. Dr Valavanis has several publications and four book chapters in the area of real-time control of manipulators, design of intelligent machines and intelligent robotic systems. His research interests include mathematical expert systems, design of intelligent machines using frizzy sets and theory of evidence, modeling of robotic systems using Petri nets and real-time control of manipulators. He is a member of IEEE, ASME and Sigma Xi.
Ph. Van de Velde graduated as an electro-mechanical engineer, specializing in electronics, from the State University of Ghent in 1982. His main areas of interest are real-time software and the application of digital and adaptive control algorithms. From 1982 to 1986 he was with the Automatic Control Laboratory of the State University of Ghent where he was, in a project on rational energy consumption, mainly in charge of the implementation and study of adaptive control algorithms and the development of data-acquisition software. He is currently with the International Marine and Dredging Consultants (IMDC) where he takes part in several marine automation and instrumentation projects.
Biographical Notes James Winltelmu received his B.S,, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering, all from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1971, 1972 and 1976, respectively. From 1976 to 1987, Dr Winkelman was employed at the General Electric Company were he was engaged in the application of singular perturbation methods to the study of power system dynamics. He was also involved in the study and development of adaptive and multivariable controllers. Since 1987 Dr Winkelman has been employed by the Ford Motor Company were he is currently working in the areas of adaptive and multivariable controls applied to automotive systems. He is author of numerous technical papers and co-author of a book Time-scale
Modeling of Dynamic Networks with Application to Power Systems (Springer, 1982).
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C~istos C. Zervos was born in Athens, Greece in 1956. He received his B.Sc. degree in physics from Athens University, Athens, Greece in 1981 where he was with the Beacon Satellite Tracking Centre of the Electronies Department from 1976 to 1977 and with the Nuclear Research Center "Democritos", Athens, Greece, from 1979 to 1980. He received his M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 198,1. He is currently completing his Doctorate degree at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in the field of process control. His research interests include adaptive process control, computer simulation and modelling and applications of modem control theory to industrial processes.