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Report on the European Control Conference ECC 2005
European Journal of Control (2007)13:88–89 # 2007 EUCA DOI:10.3166/EJC.13.88–89
Report on the European Control Conference ECC 2005
The joint 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference was held on December 12–15, 2005 in Seville (Spain). This was the first time that two of the most reputed conferences in control, the European Control Conference (ECC) and the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), were celebrated as a joint conference. The conference officially started on Monday, December 12 with the Opening Ceremony, where words of welcome were spoken by the IEEE CSS President Mark Spong, the EUCA President Jan Maciejowski, and the Conference General Chair Eduardo F. Camacho. The response to the Call for Papers was extraordinary with 3047 submissions received. The International Program Committee worked hard and efficiently and, after a rigorous procedure, 1470 papers were accepted to fill in the available slots. The number of submissions was much higher than expected and this resulted in a lowerthan usual acceptance rate; in fact, only papers that received excellent reviews could be selected. Program Chair, Roberto Tempo, headed an International Program Committee consisting of 156 experts covering all aspects of system theory, decision-making, control, automation, and related areas and applications. The joint IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference required the design of a new reviewing process in order to capture the features of both conferences and Societies. The Program Committee was composed of 13 area editors each of them coordinating the work of a number of associate editors (143 in total). The countries with more than 100 authors in the program, are, in the order of numbers of authors: USA (967), France (412), Italy (349), Spain (174), United Kingdom (160), Germany (134), Australia (120), and the Netherlands (115). Two plenary sessions, four semi-plenary sessions and five tutorial sessions were included in the program during the four days of the conference. The invited speakers covered a wide range of topics concerning not only emerging fields but also new developments in well-established areas. There were 245 oral and interactive sessions organized in 21 parallel tracks. Most of the papers were scheduled for oral presentation (204 sessions). The number of interactive sessions, 41, was also significant, as a result of the encouragement of this conference to facilitate interaction between conference attendees. Interactive papers went through the same peer review process and were published in the proceedings in the same way as contributed papers. The conference included other activities such as panel discussions on important issues in the field. Overall there were 1530 participants. The majority were from the United States (360), with strong representations from several other countries such as France (191), Italy (138), Japan (85), Germany (80), United Kingdom (73), Spain (65), Australia (47), Sweden (47), The Netherlands (46), Canada (38), Belgium (33), Brazil (25), China (20), and Portugal (20). Overall, 54 countries were represented, including (listed in the order of numbers of representatives) Norway, Mexico, Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, Korea (South), Russia, Taiwan, Ireland, Israel, Czech Republic, Poland, Finland, India, Denmark, Turkey, Singapore, Austria, Nigeria, Cyprus, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Rumania, South Africa, Algeria, Chile, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Argentina, Cameroon, Croatia, Estonia, Lebanon, Morocco, Slovakia, Uruguay, and Yugoslavia.
Report on the ECC 2005
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The participation of students at CDCs and ECCs is considered to be an important aspect by both CSS and EUCA. We were very pleased with the broad attendance by students, more than 300. The plenary and semi-plenary papers together with the leading papers of the tutorial session were published in a special issue of the European Journal of Control (Fundamental Issues in Control, Vol. 11, n. 4–5, 2005) This special issue, as well as the CD with the Conference proceedings and a book of abstracts, was distributed to all conference attendees. The ECC’07 continues the success of previous European Control Conferences with a very good technical program which includes an excellent group of plenary talks and tutorials, published in this issue of the European Journal of Control. I would like to thank Professor Tzafestas and all his team for their efforts. EDUARDO CAMACHO President of EUCA CDC-ECC’05 General Chair
Report on the European Control Conference ECC 2005
The joint 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference was held on December 12–15, 2005 in Seville (Spain). This was the first time that two of the most reputed conferences in control, the European Control Conference (ECC) and the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), were celebrated as a joint conference. The conference officially started on Monday, December 12 with the Opening Ceremony, where words of welcome were spoken by the IEEE CSS President Mark Spong, the EUCA President Jan Maciejowski, and the Conference General Chair Eduardo F. Camacho. The response to the Call for Papers was extraordinary with 3047 submissions received. The International Program Committee worked hard and efficiently and, after a rigorous procedure, 1470 papers were accepted to fill in the available slots. The number of submissions was much higher than expected and this resulted in a lowerthan usual acceptance rate; in fact, only papers that received excellent reviews could be selected. Program Chair, Roberto Tempo, headed an International Program Committee consisting of 156 experts covering all aspects of system theory, decision-making, control, automation, and related areas and applications. The joint IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference required the design of a new reviewing process in order to capture the features of both conferences and Societies. The Program Committee was composed of 13 area editors each of them coordinating the work of a number of associate editors (143 in total). The countries with more than 100 authors in the program, are, in the order of numbers of authors: USA (967), France (412), Italy (349), Spain (174), United Kingdom (160), Germany (134), Australia (120), and the Netherlands (115). Two plenary sessions, four semi-plenary sessions and five tutorial sessions were included in the program during the four days of the conference. The invited speakers covered a wide range of topics concerning not only emerging fields but also new developments in well-established areas. There were 245 oral and interactive sessions organized in 21 parallel tracks. Most of the papers were scheduled for oral presentation (204 sessions). The number of interactive sessions, 41, was also significant, as a result of the encouragement of this conference to facilitate interaction between conference attendees. Interactive papers went through the same peer review process and were published in the proceedings in the same way as contributed papers. The conference included other activities such as panel discussions on important issues in the field. Overall there were 1530 participants. The majority were from the United States (360), with strong representations from several other countries such as France (191), Italy (138), Japan (85), Germany (80), United Kingdom (73), Spain (65), Australia (47), Sweden (47), The Netherlands (46), Canada (38), Belgium (33), Brazil (25), China (20), and Portugal (20). Overall, 54 countries were represented, including (listed in the order of numbers of representatives) Norway, Mexico, Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, Korea (South), Russia, Taiwan, Ireland, Israel, Czech Republic, Poland, Finland, India, Denmark, Turkey, Singapore, Austria, Nigeria, Cyprus, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Rumania, South Africa, Algeria, Chile, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Argentina, Cameroon, Croatia, Estonia, Lebanon, Morocco, Slovakia, Uruguay, and Yugoslavia.
Report on the ECC 2005
89
The participation of students at CDCs and ECCs is considered to be an important aspect by both CSS and EUCA. We were very pleased with the broad attendance by students, more than 300. The plenary and semi-plenary papers together with the leading papers of the tutorial session were published in a special issue of the European Journal of Control (Fundamental Issues in Control, Vol. 11, n. 4–5, 2005) This special issue, as well as the CD with the Conference proceedings and a book of abstracts, was distributed to all conference attendees. The ECC’07 continues the success of previous European Control Conferences with a very good technical program which includes an excellent group of plenary talks and tutorials, published in this issue of the European Journal of Control. I would like to thank Professor Tzafestas and all his team for their efforts. EDUARDO CAMACHO President of EUCA CDC-ECC’05 General Chair