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Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue
Roger M. Cooke was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. in 1946. He studied mathematics and philosophy at Yale University. Upon completion he immigrated to the Netherlands 1975, where he has taught philosophy of science and mathematics. He is presently Associate Professor for Operations Research and Decision Analysis at the Delft University of Technology, Department of Mathematics. His current research interests include expert resolution and risk analysis.
he was the American Geophysical Union Congressional Science Fellow and spent three months in the Executive Office of the President and eight months with the U.S. Congress. He is the author of the book HierarchicalAnalyses
of Water Resources Systems, Modeling and Optimization of Large-Scale Systems, the senior author of the book, Multiob/ective Optimization in Water Resources Systems, The Surrogate Worth Trade-Off Method, and the co-author of the book, Multiobjective Decision Making: Theory and Methodology. Dr Haimes is a Fellow of the AAAS, ASCE and IWRA, Vice Chairman of the IFAC Systems Engineering Committee, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Automatica, and Large Scale Systems. He is Past President of the Universities Council on Water Resources. He is also a member of the Sigma Xi, Tan Beta Pi, AGU, AWRA, IWRA, ORSA, ORSIS, and the Society for Risk Analysis.
C. J. Goh was born in Singapore on 25 April 1956. He received the B. Math. and B. E. degrees from Newcastle University, Australia in 1979 and 1980, respectively; and the Ph.D. degree in applied mechanics from Caltech, California in 1983. From 1983 to 1984 he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sydney University, Australia. After a year and a half of military service, he joined the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore as a Lecturer. His current research interests include computational aspect of optimal control and optimization, and vibration control of distributed systems. He is also a member of IEEE and IIE.
Yoram Halevi was born in Afula, Israel in 1952. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Technion-lsrael Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel in 1974, 1981 and 1985, respectively. From 1974 to 1979 he served in the Israeli Navy as a Mechanical • Engineer. From 1979 to 1985 he held the positions of Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant at the Technion. From 1986 to 1987 he was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Currently, he is a lecturer in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion. His research interests include optimal control, optimal estimation, time delay systems and integrated control and communication systems.
Yacov Y. Hnimes received the B.S. degree in mathematics, physics and chemistry in 1964 from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. He received the M.S. degree in engineering in 1967 and the Ph.D. degree in large-scale systems engineering in 1970, both from the University of California at Los Angeles. He is Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Systems Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. His research, teaching and consulting activities are in the areas of decision-making under risk and uncertainty in a multiobjective framework, decision-making and conflict resolution in large-scale systems within the hierarchical-multiobjective framework, and planning, management, and policy formulation aspects of water resources systems. From September 1977-Augnst 1978
Victoria Y. Jin was born in Beijing, the People's Republic of China. She attended the Northern Jiao-Tong University in Beijing in 1978. In 1981, she went to the United States where she received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1983, and the M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985. She is presently working towards her Ph.D. at MIT. Her current research interests include the evaluation of an organization's performance when the bounded rationality of human decision-makers is taken into account. 117
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Kh~hayar Khoramni was born in Tehran, Iran in 1960. He received the B.S. degree in 1981, M.S. degree in 1982 and Ph.D. degree in 1985, all in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1985 he has been at the University of Michigan-Dearborn as a Visiting Assistant Professor. His research interests are in the areas of control and stability of large scale systems, nonlinear systems and control, singular perturbation, robotics and power systems.
Petar V. Kokotovic is Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois. He obtained graduate degrees in 1962 under Prof. Mitrovic in his native Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and in 1965 under Prof. Feldbaum and Prof. Tsypkin in Moscow, U.S.S.R. During this period he was with the Pupin Research Institute, Belgrade. Since 1966 he has been at Illinois teaching control theory and conducting research in modelling sensitivity analysis, optimal and adaptive control, singular perturbations and large-scale systems, topics on which he coauthored six books and close to 200 papers. He has also held visiting appointments with ETH Zurich, Switzerland; INRIA, France; Stanford and Notre Dame Universities, U.S.A.; and ANU, Canberra, Australia. His industrial consulting activities include General Electric Co. and Ford Motor Co. Professor Kokotovic is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and an associate editor of Systems and Control Letters. He has served on committees of the International Federation of Automatic Control, and its journal Automatica.
Wiilem L. de Koning was born in Leiden, The Netherlands, in 1944. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 1975 and 1984, respectively. From 1969 to 1975 he was with the department of Electrical Engineering of the same university where he worked on the stability and control of power electronics systems. From 1975 to 1987 he was with the department of Applied Physics where he worked on process dynamics and control. Since 1987 he has been with the department of Mathematics and Informatics of the above university. His research interests include digital control of distributed parameter systems, digital control systems with stochastic parameters, and modelling and control of industrial processes.
Kyung J. Lee was born in Pusan, South Korea in 1941. He studied electrical engineering in Seoul National University from 1958 to 1959 and transferred to Busan University in 1962 and received the B.S. degree in 1964. After graduation he joined KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Coperation) and was promoted to Manager of the Load Dispatch Center in 1975. During 1983-1986, he served in the Research & Development center of KEPCO as director of the Power System Department and returned to the same position of the Load Dispatch Center in 1986. His specialized area is power system operation with various practical experience.
Alexander H. Levis was born in Yanninia, Greece in 1940. He received the B.A. degree in mathematics and physics from Ripon College, Ripon, WI in 1963; the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering in 1965, the M.E. degree in 1967 and the Sc.D. degree in 1968 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1968 to 1973 he was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn. From 1973 to 1979 he was with Systems Control, Inc., where his last position was Manager of the Systems Research Department. Since 1979, Dr Levis has been a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. Dr Levis' current research interests include the analysis and evaluation of organizational structures as well as the modeling of human decision-making in information processing organizations. He continues to work on modeling methodologies for policy analysis with applications to social service delivery systems such as vocational rehabilitation. Dr Levis is a Fellow of IEEE where he was Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1975-1977), General Chairman of the 1982 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the IEEE director of the American Control Council. He is serving currently as President of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He was an Editor of the IFAC Journal Automatica and is currently vice-chairman of the IFAC Technical Board.
Duan Li was born in Shanghai, China, on 4 July 1952. He graduated from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 1977 and received the M.E. degree in control engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., in 1987. From 1977 to 1979 he was an Assistant Engineer in Shanghai Institute of Instrument for Industrial Automation, Shanghai, China. From 1982 to 1983 he was on the faculty of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. From 1984 to 1986 he was a Research Assistant, then a Research Associate in 1987, in the Systems
Biographical Notes Engineering Department, Case Western Reserve University. He is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Systems Engineering of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. His research interests are in hierarchical multiobjective systems theory, dynamic programming, and stochastic systems theory and risk management.
Riccardo Marino was born in Ferrara, Italy, in 1956. He received the degree in nuclear engineering (cum laude) in 1979 and the "specializzazione" in systems engineering in 1981 from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and the Doctor of Science degree in system science and mathematics, in 1982, from Washington University, St Louis, MO. In 1980 he was a Researcher and in 1983 a Consultant at Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome. From 1984 to 1987 he was a Researcher in the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome, "Tot Vergata", where he is currently an Associate Professor. From 1985 to 1986 he visited the University of Illinois, Urbana and, in 1986, the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. His research interests are in nonlinear control and filtering, stability, singular perturbations, robotics and power systems.
Max M. Mendel was born in the Netherlands in 1958. He received his B.S. and M.S. at the Delft University of Technology, and is currently working towards a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A. His area of specilization is control theory.
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Sigeru Omatu was born in Ehime, Japan in 1946. He received B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Ehime University, Japan in 1969 and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from the University of Osaka Prefecture, Osaka, Japan in 1974. During 1980-1981 and in 1986 he was a Visiting Associate at the California Institue of Technology and in 1987 he visited IIS, Bangalore and IIT, Bombay, India under the exchange program between JSPS and INSA. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Toknshima, Tokushima, Japan. His research interests are in distributed parameter estimation and control theory and environmental data processing. He is co-author of
Modelling, Estimation, and Their Applications for Distributed Parameter Systems (Springer, New York).
Z. J. Palmor received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering from the TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology in 1966 and 1972 respectively. From 1966 to 1969 he served in the Israeli Defense Forces. From 1969 to 1970 he worked for the Israel Ministry of Defense as a Research and Development Engineer. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the City University of New York in 1976. From 1977 to 1978 he worked for Taylor Instrument Co., Rochester, New York, as a research scientist on advanced control strategies for process control. In 1979 he joined the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He spent the academic year 1984-1985 at the University of Rochester and Taylor Instrument Co., a division of Combustion Engineering, as a visiting associate professor and a visiting scientist, respectively. Dr Palmor was awarded the 1977 Stanley Katz Honor Award in Chemical Engineering. He is on the executive board of the Israel Association for Automatic Control (member of IFAC). His main research interests are the development and application of robust control algorithms to process control, auto-tuning procedures, control of dead-time and uncertain dynamical processes and singular LQG control and estimation.
Young M. Park was born in 1933
Young H. Moon was born in South Korea on 11 March 1952. He received his B.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Seoul National University in 1975 and 1978, respectively, and received his Ph.D. degree from Oregon State University, U.S.A., in 1983. He joined the faculty of Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea in 1983, where he is currently an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering. Dr Moon has special interests in power system operation, planning and dynamic analysis for power system security. He is a member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society.
in Masan, South Korea. He graduated from Seoul National University in 1956 and 1959 with the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Engineering, and received his Ph.D. degree in 1971 from the same university. He has been an assistant and associate professor and is currently a full professor at the same university. His specialization has been power system engineering, particularly power system operation and planning. He is currently a member and vice president of the Korea Institute of Electrical Engineers and also a member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society. His works have been occasionally published in several oversea's literature such as
IEEE Transactions on PAS, Power System Engineering, IEEE Proceedings, The Journal of Electric Power Research, IFAC Proceedings, etc.
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Pascal Andre Remy was born on 28 July 1960 in Nancy, France. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) in 1983 and from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees (Paris) in 1985, in the department of Applied Mathematics. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science (Technology and Policy Program) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. He is now responsible for the development of software packages at CGEE-Alsthom, Paris, France.
Ali Saberi was born in Gazvin, Iran, on 11 September 1949. He received the B.S. degree in civil engineering from Teheran University, Teheran, Iran, in 1967, the M.S. degree in operation research/systems science in 1980, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Michigan State University, East Lansing, in 1983. From 1967 to 1978 he worked as a Civil Engineer in different consultant and construction companies. From September 1978 to September 1983 he was a Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, Michigan State University. Presently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman. His current research interests includes robust control, large scale systems and singular perturbation theory.
John H. Sehtfekl was born in Elmira, New York, in 1942. He received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester in 1964 and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton Univeristy 1967. He is currently Louis E. NoM Professor and Executive Officer for Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He visited the University of Tokushima in 1986 under the exchange program between JSPS and NSF. His research interests are in atmospheric chemistry and physics and distributed parameter identification. He is the author of five books, including Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics of Air Pollution (John Wiley, New York).
Tmlrlai Soeda was born in Akita, Japan in 1924. He received the B.E. degree in mathematical science from Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, in 1949 and the Doctor of Engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1962. From 1950 to 1951 he researched mathematical science from Hiroshima University. Since 1952 he has been with the University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan, where he used to serve as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. From 1981 to the present he has been President of the University of Tokushima and from 1985 he has worked additionally as a Member of the Science Counsel of Japan. His current interests are environmental pollution control and environmental management planning by using remote sensing techniques. He is co-author of
Modeling, Estmation, and Their Applications for Distributed Parameter Systems (Springer, New York) and Mathematical Models for Planning and Air Quality (Pergamon Press, Oxford/New York).
YoshihnR Sawaragi was born in Kyoto, Japan, on 19 December 1916. He received the B.E. and D.E. degrees in mechanical engineering from Kyoto University in 1939 and 1949, respectively. He was an Associate Professor at Nagoya University from 1941 to 1947 and at Kyoto University from 1947 to 1950. From 1950 to 1980 he was a Professor at Kyoto University, Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering. He is now a Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University. He is the chairman of the board of the Japan Institute of Systems Research. His field of interest covers the broad area of viscoelasticity, nonlinear oscillation~ statistical theory of nonlinear control systems, sensitivity analysis, computer control of industrial processes a n d systems approach in large scale systems. He has authored or co-authored ten books in Japanese and four in English. Dr Sawaragi was the president of IFAC from 1978 to 1981. Since 1984 he has been an adviser of IFAC. He is a member of the National Committee of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. He is now the President of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan.
Tzyh-Jong Tam was born in Szechwan, China. He received the B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Talwan Provincial Cheng Kung University in 1959, the M.S. degree in chemical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ in 1965, and the D.Sc. degree in control systems science and engineering from Washington University, St Louis, Me, in 1968. Since 1968 he has been with the Program of Control Systems Science and Engineering, now the Department of Systems Science and Mathematics, Washington University, St Louis, M e , where he was a Research Associate until 1969, an Assistant Professor from 1969 to 1972, an Associate Professor from 1972 to 1977, and Professor since 1977. He has held the title of Honorary Professor at Chengdu University of Science and Technology, Szechwan, China, and has held visiting positions at Imperial College, the University of Rome, and Nagoya University. His research interests include optimal control, structure and realization of hilinear, nonlinear and neutral systems, quantum-mechanical filtering and control, and robotics. Dr Tam is a member of SIAM and Sigma Xi. He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, a Consulting Editor of the Journal of Control Theory and Applications, and has been on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mathematical
Modelling.
B i o g r a p h i c a l Notes K. L. Teo was born in Johore, Malaysia on 18 January 1946. He received the B.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering from Ngee Ann Technical College, Singapore in 1969, and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa in 1971 and 1974, respectively. From 1974 to 1984 he was with the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of New South Wales, Australia, first as a Lecturer and later as a Senior Lecturer. In December 1984 he joined the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the National University of Singapore, Singapore as an Associate Professor. In October 1987 he resumes his appointment in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of New South Wales. Dr Teo is the coauthor of two books: (1) Optimal Control of Distributed Parameter Systems, North Holland, New York, 1981; and (2) Computational Methods for Optimizing Distributed Systems, Academic Press, Orlando, 1984. He is the coeditor of the Proceedings of the International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications. The Conference was held at the National University of Singapore on 8-10 April 1987, and the title of the Proceedings is "Optimization: Techniques and Applications". His current research interests include both theoretical and practical aspects of optimal control and optimization.
Wire L. Th. Thijs was born in Breda, The Netherlands, in 1945. He grew up in Indonesia, studied Mechanical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, and specialized in modem control theory, especially the hierarchical control of multi-level systems. In 1986 he received his doctor's degree for research in fault management, that is, helping operators cope with machine failure in complex systems. At present he is a freelance consultant in cybernetic ergonomics. He owned and ran several business in the boardsailing field and since 1983 he has been the overall director of the worldwide professional windsurfing World Cup circus.
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John R. Zavgrea was born in Merced, California in 1953. He received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 1977, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in systems science and mathematics from Washington University, St Louis, MO., in 1979 and 1983. He has been employed by Bell Laboratories since 1983 where he has been engaged in performance analysis of processor-based systems, traffic engineering, course development, and teaching.
Xiaoming Zeng was born in Shansi, China, on 29 December 1948. He received the Masters degree in mathematics from the Graduate College of the Academy of Science, Peking, China, in 1981, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees, both in systems science and mathematics, from Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, in 1983 and 1985, respectively. Since 198.5 he has been with the Mathematic and Computer Science Department of Glassboro State College, New Jersey, where he is currently an assistant professor. His research interests include stabilizahility and controllability of infinite-dimensional linear systems and discrete output feedback control theory.
Biographical Notes on Contributors to this Issue
Roger M. Cooke was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. in 1946. He studied mathematics and philosophy at Yale University. Upon completion he immigrated to the Netherlands 1975, where he has taught philosophy of science and mathematics. He is presently Associate Professor for Operations Research and Decision Analysis at the Delft University of Technology, Department of Mathematics. His current research interests include expert resolution and risk analysis.
he was the American Geophysical Union Congressional Science Fellow and spent three months in the Executive Office of the President and eight months with the U.S. Congress. He is the author of the book HierarchicalAnalyses
of Water Resources Systems, Modeling and Optimization of Large-Scale Systems, the senior author of the book, Multiob/ective Optimization in Water Resources Systems, The Surrogate Worth Trade-Off Method, and the co-author of the book, Multiobjective Decision Making: Theory and Methodology. Dr Haimes is a Fellow of the AAAS, ASCE and IWRA, Vice Chairman of the IFAC Systems Engineering Committee, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Automatica, and Large Scale Systems. He is Past President of the Universities Council on Water Resources. He is also a member of the Sigma Xi, Tan Beta Pi, AGU, AWRA, IWRA, ORSA, ORSIS, and the Society for Risk Analysis.
C. J. Goh was born in Singapore on 25 April 1956. He received the B. Math. and B. E. degrees from Newcastle University, Australia in 1979 and 1980, respectively; and the Ph.D. degree in applied mechanics from Caltech, California in 1983. From 1983 to 1984 he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sydney University, Australia. After a year and a half of military service, he joined the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore as a Lecturer. His current research interests include computational aspect of optimal control and optimization, and vibration control of distributed systems. He is also a member of IEEE and IIE.
Yoram Halevi was born in Afula, Israel in 1952. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Technion-lsrael Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel in 1974, 1981 and 1985, respectively. From 1974 to 1979 he served in the Israeli Navy as a Mechanical • Engineer. From 1979 to 1985 he held the positions of Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant at the Technion. From 1986 to 1987 he was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. Currently, he is a lecturer in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion. His research interests include optimal control, optimal estimation, time delay systems and integrated control and communication systems.
Yacov Y. Hnimes received the B.S. degree in mathematics, physics and chemistry in 1964 from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. He received the M.S. degree in engineering in 1967 and the Ph.D. degree in large-scale systems engineering in 1970, both from the University of California at Los Angeles. He is Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Systems Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. His research, teaching and consulting activities are in the areas of decision-making under risk and uncertainty in a multiobjective framework, decision-making and conflict resolution in large-scale systems within the hierarchical-multiobjective framework, and planning, management, and policy formulation aspects of water resources systems. From September 1977-Augnst 1978
Victoria Y. Jin was born in Beijing, the People's Republic of China. She attended the Northern Jiao-Tong University in Beijing in 1978. In 1981, she went to the United States where she received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1983, and the M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985. She is presently working towards her Ph.D. at MIT. Her current research interests include the evaluation of an organization's performance when the bounded rationality of human decision-makers is taken into account. 117
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Kh~hayar Khoramni was born in Tehran, Iran in 1960. He received the B.S. degree in 1981, M.S. degree in 1982 and Ph.D. degree in 1985, all in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1985 he has been at the University of Michigan-Dearborn as a Visiting Assistant Professor. His research interests are in the areas of control and stability of large scale systems, nonlinear systems and control, singular perturbation, robotics and power systems.
Petar V. Kokotovic is Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois. He obtained graduate degrees in 1962 under Prof. Mitrovic in his native Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and in 1965 under Prof. Feldbaum and Prof. Tsypkin in Moscow, U.S.S.R. During this period he was with the Pupin Research Institute, Belgrade. Since 1966 he has been at Illinois teaching control theory and conducting research in modelling sensitivity analysis, optimal and adaptive control, singular perturbations and large-scale systems, topics on which he coauthored six books and close to 200 papers. He has also held visiting appointments with ETH Zurich, Switzerland; INRIA, France; Stanford and Notre Dame Universities, U.S.A.; and ANU, Canberra, Australia. His industrial consulting activities include General Electric Co. and Ford Motor Co. Professor Kokotovic is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and an associate editor of Systems and Control Letters. He has served on committees of the International Federation of Automatic Control, and its journal Automatica.
Wiilem L. de Koning was born in Leiden, The Netherlands, in 1944. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 1975 and 1984, respectively. From 1969 to 1975 he was with the department of Electrical Engineering of the same university where he worked on the stability and control of power electronics systems. From 1975 to 1987 he was with the department of Applied Physics where he worked on process dynamics and control. Since 1987 he has been with the department of Mathematics and Informatics of the above university. His research interests include digital control of distributed parameter systems, digital control systems with stochastic parameters, and modelling and control of industrial processes.
Kyung J. Lee was born in Pusan, South Korea in 1941. He studied electrical engineering in Seoul National University from 1958 to 1959 and transferred to Busan University in 1962 and received the B.S. degree in 1964. After graduation he joined KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Coperation) and was promoted to Manager of the Load Dispatch Center in 1975. During 1983-1986, he served in the Research & Development center of KEPCO as director of the Power System Department and returned to the same position of the Load Dispatch Center in 1986. His specialized area is power system operation with various practical experience.
Alexander H. Levis was born in Yanninia, Greece in 1940. He received the B.A. degree in mathematics and physics from Ripon College, Ripon, WI in 1963; the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering in 1965, the M.E. degree in 1967 and the Sc.D. degree in 1968 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1968 to 1973 he was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn. From 1973 to 1979 he was with Systems Control, Inc., where his last position was Manager of the Systems Research Department. Since 1979, Dr Levis has been a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. Dr Levis' current research interests include the analysis and evaluation of organizational structures as well as the modeling of human decision-making in information processing organizations. He continues to work on modeling methodologies for policy analysis with applications to social service delivery systems such as vocational rehabilitation. Dr Levis is a Fellow of IEEE where he was Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1975-1977), General Chairman of the 1982 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the IEEE director of the American Control Council. He is serving currently as President of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He was an Editor of the IFAC Journal Automatica and is currently vice-chairman of the IFAC Technical Board.
Duan Li was born in Shanghai, China, on 4 July 1952. He graduated from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 1977 and received the M.E. degree in control engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., in 1987. From 1977 to 1979 he was an Assistant Engineer in Shanghai Institute of Instrument for Industrial Automation, Shanghai, China. From 1982 to 1983 he was on the faculty of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. From 1984 to 1986 he was a Research Assistant, then a Research Associate in 1987, in the Systems
Biographical Notes Engineering Department, Case Western Reserve University. He is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Systems Engineering of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. His research interests are in hierarchical multiobjective systems theory, dynamic programming, and stochastic systems theory and risk management.
Riccardo Marino was born in Ferrara, Italy, in 1956. He received the degree in nuclear engineering (cum laude) in 1979 and the "specializzazione" in systems engineering in 1981 from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and the Doctor of Science degree in system science and mathematics, in 1982, from Washington University, St Louis, MO. In 1980 he was a Researcher and in 1983 a Consultant at Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome. From 1984 to 1987 he was a Researcher in the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome, "Tot Vergata", where he is currently an Associate Professor. From 1985 to 1986 he visited the University of Illinois, Urbana and, in 1986, the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. His research interests are in nonlinear control and filtering, stability, singular perturbations, robotics and power systems.
Max M. Mendel was born in the Netherlands in 1958. He received his B.S. and M.S. at the Delft University of Technology, and is currently working towards a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A. His area of specilization is control theory.
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Sigeru Omatu was born in Ehime, Japan in 1946. He received B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Ehime University, Japan in 1969 and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from the University of Osaka Prefecture, Osaka, Japan in 1974. During 1980-1981 and in 1986 he was a Visiting Associate at the California Institue of Technology and in 1987 he visited IIS, Bangalore and IIT, Bombay, India under the exchange program between JSPS and INSA. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Toknshima, Tokushima, Japan. His research interests are in distributed parameter estimation and control theory and environmental data processing. He is co-author of
Modelling, Estimation, and Their Applications for Distributed Parameter Systems (Springer, New York).
Z. J. Palmor received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering from the TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology in 1966 and 1972 respectively. From 1966 to 1969 he served in the Israeli Defense Forces. From 1969 to 1970 he worked for the Israel Ministry of Defense as a Research and Development Engineer. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the City University of New York in 1976. From 1977 to 1978 he worked for Taylor Instrument Co., Rochester, New York, as a research scientist on advanced control strategies for process control. In 1979 he joined the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He spent the academic year 1984-1985 at the University of Rochester and Taylor Instrument Co., a division of Combustion Engineering, as a visiting associate professor and a visiting scientist, respectively. Dr Palmor was awarded the 1977 Stanley Katz Honor Award in Chemical Engineering. He is on the executive board of the Israel Association for Automatic Control (member of IFAC). His main research interests are the development and application of robust control algorithms to process control, auto-tuning procedures, control of dead-time and uncertain dynamical processes and singular LQG control and estimation.
Young M. Park was born in 1933
Young H. Moon was born in South Korea on 11 March 1952. He received his B.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Seoul National University in 1975 and 1978, respectively, and received his Ph.D. degree from Oregon State University, U.S.A., in 1983. He joined the faculty of Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea in 1983, where he is currently an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering. Dr Moon has special interests in power system operation, planning and dynamic analysis for power system security. He is a member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society.
in Masan, South Korea. He graduated from Seoul National University in 1956 and 1959 with the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Engineering, and received his Ph.D. degree in 1971 from the same university. He has been an assistant and associate professor and is currently a full professor at the same university. His specialization has been power system engineering, particularly power system operation and planning. He is currently a member and vice president of the Korea Institute of Electrical Engineers and also a member of the IEEE Power Engineering Society. His works have been occasionally published in several oversea's literature such as
IEEE Transactions on PAS, Power System Engineering, IEEE Proceedings, The Journal of Electric Power Research, IFAC Proceedings, etc.
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Biographical Notes
Pascal Andre Remy was born on 28 July 1960 in Nancy, France. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) in 1983 and from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees (Paris) in 1985, in the department of Applied Mathematics. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science (Technology and Policy Program) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. He is now responsible for the development of software packages at CGEE-Alsthom, Paris, France.
Ali Saberi was born in Gazvin, Iran, on 11 September 1949. He received the B.S. degree in civil engineering from Teheran University, Teheran, Iran, in 1967, the M.S. degree in operation research/systems science in 1980, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Michigan State University, East Lansing, in 1983. From 1967 to 1978 he worked as a Civil Engineer in different consultant and construction companies. From September 1978 to September 1983 he was a Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, Michigan State University. Presently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman. His current research interests includes robust control, large scale systems and singular perturbation theory.
John H. Sehtfekl was born in Elmira, New York, in 1942. He received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester in 1964 and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton Univeristy 1967. He is currently Louis E. NoM Professor and Executive Officer for Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He visited the University of Tokushima in 1986 under the exchange program between JSPS and NSF. His research interests are in atmospheric chemistry and physics and distributed parameter identification. He is the author of five books, including Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics of Air Pollution (John Wiley, New York).
Tmlrlai Soeda was born in Akita, Japan in 1924. He received the B.E. degree in mathematical science from Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, in 1949 and the Doctor of Engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1962. From 1950 to 1951 he researched mathematical science from Hiroshima University. Since 1952 he has been with the University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan, where he used to serve as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. From 1981 to the present he has been President of the University of Tokushima and from 1985 he has worked additionally as a Member of the Science Counsel of Japan. His current interests are environmental pollution control and environmental management planning by using remote sensing techniques. He is co-author of
Modeling, Estmation, and Their Applications for Distributed Parameter Systems (Springer, New York) and Mathematical Models for Planning and Air Quality (Pergamon Press, Oxford/New York).
YoshihnR Sawaragi was born in Kyoto, Japan, on 19 December 1916. He received the B.E. and D.E. degrees in mechanical engineering from Kyoto University in 1939 and 1949, respectively. He was an Associate Professor at Nagoya University from 1941 to 1947 and at Kyoto University from 1947 to 1950. From 1950 to 1980 he was a Professor at Kyoto University, Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Engineering. He is now a Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University. He is the chairman of the board of the Japan Institute of Systems Research. His field of interest covers the broad area of viscoelasticity, nonlinear oscillation~ statistical theory of nonlinear control systems, sensitivity analysis, computer control of industrial processes a n d systems approach in large scale systems. He has authored or co-authored ten books in Japanese and four in English. Dr Sawaragi was the president of IFAC from 1978 to 1981. Since 1984 he has been an adviser of IFAC. He is a member of the National Committee of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. He is now the President of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan.
Tzyh-Jong Tam was born in Szechwan, China. He received the B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Talwan Provincial Cheng Kung University in 1959, the M.S. degree in chemical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ in 1965, and the D.Sc. degree in control systems science and engineering from Washington University, St Louis, Me, in 1968. Since 1968 he has been with the Program of Control Systems Science and Engineering, now the Department of Systems Science and Mathematics, Washington University, St Louis, M e , where he was a Research Associate until 1969, an Assistant Professor from 1969 to 1972, an Associate Professor from 1972 to 1977, and Professor since 1977. He has held the title of Honorary Professor at Chengdu University of Science and Technology, Szechwan, China, and has held visiting positions at Imperial College, the University of Rome, and Nagoya University. His research interests include optimal control, structure and realization of hilinear, nonlinear and neutral systems, quantum-mechanical filtering and control, and robotics. Dr Tam is a member of SIAM and Sigma Xi. He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, a Consulting Editor of the Journal of Control Theory and Applications, and has been on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mathematical
Modelling.
B i o g r a p h i c a l Notes K. L. Teo was born in Johore, Malaysia on 18 January 1946. He received the B.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering from Ngee Ann Technical College, Singapore in 1969, and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa in 1971 and 1974, respectively. From 1974 to 1984 he was with the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of New South Wales, Australia, first as a Lecturer and later as a Senior Lecturer. In December 1984 he joined the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the National University of Singapore, Singapore as an Associate Professor. In October 1987 he resumes his appointment in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of New South Wales. Dr Teo is the coauthor of two books: (1) Optimal Control of Distributed Parameter Systems, North Holland, New York, 1981; and (2) Computational Methods for Optimizing Distributed Systems, Academic Press, Orlando, 1984. He is the coeditor of the Proceedings of the International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications. The Conference was held at the National University of Singapore on 8-10 April 1987, and the title of the Proceedings is "Optimization: Techniques and Applications". His current research interests include both theoretical and practical aspects of optimal control and optimization.
Wire L. Th. Thijs was born in Breda, The Netherlands, in 1945. He grew up in Indonesia, studied Mechanical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, and specialized in modem control theory, especially the hierarchical control of multi-level systems. In 1986 he received his doctor's degree for research in fault management, that is, helping operators cope with machine failure in complex systems. At present he is a freelance consultant in cybernetic ergonomics. He owned and ran several business in the boardsailing field and since 1983 he has been the overall director of the worldwide professional windsurfing World Cup circus.
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John R. Zavgrea was born in Merced, California in 1953. He received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 1977, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in systems science and mathematics from Washington University, St Louis, MO., in 1979 and 1983. He has been employed by Bell Laboratories since 1983 where he has been engaged in performance analysis of processor-based systems, traffic engineering, course development, and teaching.
Xiaoming Zeng was born in Shansi, China, on 29 December 1948. He received the Masters degree in mathematics from the Graduate College of the Academy of Science, Peking, China, in 1981, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees, both in systems science and mathematics, from Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, in 1983 and 1985, respectively. Since 198.5 he has been with the Mathematic and Computer Science Department of Glassboro State College, New Jersey, where he is currently an assistant professor. His research interests include stabilizahility and controllability of infinite-dimensional linear systems and discrete output feedback control theory.