Call for Papers 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management （KSEM 2007）

KSEM 2007 (28-30 November, 2007) is the second in this series, which builds on the success of the first international conference on knowledge science, engineering and management (KSEM 2006) in Guilin, China. The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is…     

2006 International Dynamics ,Instrumentation Conference on and Control （CDIC＇06）

The 2006 International Conference on Dynamics, Instrumentation and Control, CDIC＇06,will be held on August 13-16,2006 in Queretaro,Mexico. The conference offers a unique and interesting platform for scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present and share their most recent research and innovative ideas in the areas of dynamics instrumentation,control and automation     

WCCI 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence HongKong June 1-6, 2008

The 2008 IEEE Wodd Congress on Computational Intelligence （WCCI 2008） will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre during June 1-6, 2008. WCCI 2008 will be the fifth milestone in this series with a glorious history from WCCI 1994 in Orlando, WCCI 1998 in Anchorage, WCCI 2002 in Honolulu, to WCCI 2006 in Vancouver. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, co-sponsored by the International Neural Network Society, Evolutionary Programming Society, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and composed of the 2008 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks （IJCNN2008）, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Syrtems （FUZZ-IEEE2008）, and 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation （CEC2008）, WCC12008 will be the largest technical event on computational intelligence in the world with the biggest impact. WCCI 2008 will provide a stimulating forum for thousands of scientists, engineers, educators and students from all over the world to disseminate their new research findingsand exchange information on emerging areas of research in the fields. WCCI 2008 will also create a pleasant environment for the participants to meet old friends and make new friends who share similar research interests.     

2nd Call for Papers IEEE Multi-conference on Systems ＆ Control （MSC 2007）

Objectives The inaugural IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control （MSC）, to be held at the Suntec City Convention Centre in Singapore, October 1 - 3, 2007, officially brings together two international conferences with well established track records and long histories of success - the 16th IEEE Conference on Control Applications （CCA） and the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control （ISIC） - for greater impact and scientific exchange. It provides the international community of researchers and practitioners a great opportunity to discuss the latest advancements and future directions in the areas of intelligent systems and advanced control. The conference welcomes paper submissions from researchers, practitioners, and students, and will cover myriad topics in control applications, and control methods based on biological, learning, and embedded cooperative systems.     

A Distributed Model of WebGIS Based on Java Servlett

According to the application of Java in Web Geographical Information System （WebGIS）, a model of WebGIS based on Java Servlet is defined and a new distributed model is proposed. The dislributed model relies on the implementation of distribt, tcd Servlet. And in the model a locator is adopted to manage client access to the Servlet and balance the loads of cluster Web servers. The programming rule of distributcd Servlet and the operating principle of locator are studied in detail. The model has been applied in a practical system, and the actual operating effect shows that it remarkably improves access performance of the WebGIS application and possesses characteristics of load balance, fail-over and so on.     

IEEE Multi-Conference on System ＆ Control 1-3 October 2007

OBJECTIVES The inaugural IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control （ MSC）, to be held at the Suntec City Convention Centre in Singapore, October 1-3,2007, officially brings together two international conferences with well established track records and long histories of success-the 16th IEEE Conference on Control Applications （CCA） and the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control （ISIC）-for greater impact and scientific exchange. It provides the international community of researchers and practitioners a great opportunity to discuss the latest advancements and future directions in the areas of intelligent systems and advanced control. The conference welcomes paper submissions from researchers, practitioners, and students, and will cover myriad topics in control applications, and control methods based on biological, learning, and embedded cooperative systems.     

2nd Call for Papers IEEE Multi-conference on Systems ＆ Control（MSC 2007）

Objectives The inaugural IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control （MSC）, to be held at the Suntec City Convention Centre in Singapore, October 1 - 3, 2007, officially brings together two international conferences with well established track records and long histories of success 1 the 16th IEEE Conference on Control Applications （CCA） and the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on intelligent Control （ISIC） 1 for greater impact and scientific exchange. It provides the international community of researchers and practitioners a great opportunity to discuss the latestadvancements and future directions in the areas of intelligent systems and advanced control, the conference welcomes paper submissions from researchers, practitioners, and students, and will cover myriad topics in control applications, and control methods based on biological, learning, and embedded cooperative systems.     

Survey on the stability of networked control systems

The insertion of the communication network in the feedback control loop makes the analysis and design of a network control system more complex, and induces some issues that degrade the control system’s performance and even cause system instability. The main aspects are focused on the stability analysis of Network Control Systems (NCSs) with network-induced delays, data packet dropouts, and multiple-packet transmission. These issues must be considered in the design of an NCS. This work summarizes the main research results, and remarks on some related handling approaches and techniques. The main purpose of the survey is to present the new research state of NCSs and to point out some fields of future work.     

Comment on “Balance recovery control for biped robot based on reaction null space method”

We hereby acknowledge that the published paper on our journal, “Balance recovery control for biped robot based on reaction null space method” by Baoping Wang, Renxi Hu, Jinming Zhang and Chuangfeng Huai, is a plagiarism of “Balance control of a humanoid robot based on the reaction null space method” by Akinori Nishio, Kentaro Takahashi and Dragomir N. Nenchev. We withdrew the plagiarized paper from the Springer website, and sent a formal notification letter to each author’s affiliation. Any submission from Baoping Wang, Renxi Hu, Jinming Zhang or Chuangfeng Huai will not be accepted in three years from now on. The above comment and this notification are published not only in this printed version, but also on the Springer website and our journal website. We have used plagiarism scanning software and started the online detection of plagiarism in the received papers in September 2010 for screening the plagiarized submission.     

Research on ADSL Application Technology

Based on the analysis of Internet access technologieswhich are used frequently, this article deals with the features of ADSL technology. It mainly focuses on research on hardware connection technology, software configuration technology and route configuration technology when ADSL technology is in use.In the end, it makes an introduction to the application of ADSLteehnology in the Luanhe River Water to Tianiin Project.     

第八届国际知识科学,工程与管理会议(KSEM2015)征文通知（英文）

October 28-30,2015,Chongqing,China http://ksem2015.swu.edu.cn/KSEM 2015 is the eighth in this series,which builds on the success of seven events of International Conference on KnowledgeScience,Engineering and Management in Guilin,China(KSEM 2006),Melbourne,Australia(KSEM 2007),Vienna,Austria(KSEM 2009),Belfast,UK(KSEM 2010),Irvine,USA(KSEM 2011),Dalian,China(KSEM 2013),and Sibiu,Romania(KSEM 2014).KSEM is in the list of CCF(China Computer Federation)recommended Conferences(C series,Artificial Intelli-gence and Pattern Recognition).The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to provide a forum for researchers in the broad areas of knowledge science,knowl-     

Reflection and Refraction on Implicit Surfaces

Implicit surfaces are often used in computer graphics. They can be easily modeled and rendered, and many objects are composed of them in our daily life. In this paper, based on the concept of virtual objects, a novel method of real-time rendering is presented for reflection and refraction on implicit surface. The method is used to construct virtual objects from real objects quickly, and then render the virtual objects as if they were real objects except for one more step of merging their images with the real objects＇ images. Characteristics of implicit surfaces are used to compute virtual objects effectively and quickly. GPUs （Graphics Processing Units） are used to compute virtual vertices quickly and further accelerate the computing and rendering processes. As a result, realistic effects of reflections and refractions on implicit surfaces are rendered in real time.     

Study on Visual Positioning Based on Homography for Indoor Mobile Robot

Monocular visual positioning for indoor mobile robot is concerned in this paper.A new visual positioning method based on homography matrix in Euclidean space is proposed.It can calculate the position and pose of the mobile robot according to the intrinsic parameters of camera and two position-known points in a plane.It is very simple and low cost in computation.The experimental results show its effectiveness.     

Structured Development Environment Based on the Object-Oriented Concepts

The object oriented software development is a kind of promising software methodology and leading to awholly new way for solving problems. In the research on the rapid construction of Structured Development Envi-ronment (SDE)that supports detailed design and coding in software development, a generator that can gener-ate the SDE has been applied as a metatool. The kernel of SDE is a syntax-directed editor based on the ob-ject-oriented concepts. The key issue in the design of SDE is how to represent the elements of target languagewith the class concept and a program internally. In this paper, the key concepts and design of the SDE and itsgenerator as well as the implementation of a prototype are to be discussed.     

Research on vacuum gripper based on fuzzy control for micromanipulators

This paper presents a vacuum gripper （as an actuator of an intelligent micromanipulator） for micro objects （with a diameter of 100 - 300μm） assembly tasks. The gripper is composed of a vacuum unit and a control unit. The vacuum unit with a proportional valve and a pressure sensor, and the control unit with a PC ＋ MCU two-layered control architecture are designed. The mechanical structure, workflow and major programs of the micro-gripper are presented. This paper discusses the major components of the adhesion force acting on micro objects. Some equations of the operation conditions m three phases of pick, hold and place are derived by mechanics analysis. The pneumatic system＇s pressure loss is inevitable. There are some formulas for calculating the amount of the pressure loss, but parameters in formulas are diffficult to be quantified and evaluated. To control the working pressure accurately, a pressure controller based on fuzzy logic is designed. With MATLAB＇s fuzzy logic toolbox, simulation experiments are performed to validate the performance of the fuzzy PD controller. The gripper is characterized by a steady and reliable performance and a simple structure, and it is suitable for handling micro objects with a sub-millimeter size.     

Enhanced piecewise regression based on deterministic annealing

Regression is one of the important problems in statistical learning theory. This paper proves the global convergence of the piecewise regression algorithm based on deterministic annealing and continuity of global minimum of free energy w.r.t temperature, and derives a new simplified formula to compute the initial critical temperature. A new enhanced plecewise regression algorithm by using ＂migration of prototypes＂ is proposed to eliminate ＂empty cell＂ in the annealing process. Numerical experiments on several benchmark datasets show that the new algorithm can remove redundancy and improve generalization of the piecewise regression model.     

Editorial: Special issue on emerging challenges in multi-agent sensing, control and optimization

Up to now, a large number of theoretical achievements and application scenarios have been obtained in sensing, control and optimization of multi-agent systems. However, challenges are still emerging from the rapid development of artificial intelligence and urgent need for distributed computing. The aim of the special issue is to present in a systematic way some new results in the fields of distributed sensing, control and optimization of cyber-physical systems, particularly in resource allocation, machine learning, observer and filtering, consensus and constrained control. The collection consists of nine research papers and one letter, and can be divided into five groups: the first group is about distributed optimization. Y. Wang et al. studied a resource allocation problem using stochastic mirror descent algorithm. The second group focuses on machine learning. J. Okae et al. presented a robust statistical approach to noise detection and refinement of Winner-Takes-All (WTA) disparity maps that improves the stereo labeling performances of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). A distributed policy evaluation was studied in the paper by X. Zhao et al. for multi-agent reinforcement learning using an inexact ADMM (alternating directions method of multipliers) algorithm. Z. Peng et al. developed a distributed multi-agent temporal-diff erence (TD) learning framework for value function approximation using all the neighbors’information. The third group includes two papers about distributed observers and filters. D. Xu et al. proposed a class of distributed tracking observers with locally jointly observable sensors. A consistent Kalman-type nonlinear filter was applied to the track-to-track association analysis of multi-targets with uncertain dynamics in the paper by X. He et al. The fourth group includes two papers on consensus. A privacy-preserving consensus problem was solved in the paper by S. Zhang and M. Dahleh using a Shamir’s secret sharing scheme. J. Wei et al. proposed a finite-time consensus control strategy based on a direction preserving signum method. The last group of this collection includes two papers with cyber-physical background. B. K. Ghosh and B. Athukorallage constructed a single Riemannian metric to study a combined optimal gaze rotation for two eyes and an optimal external torque was obtained for eye movement maneuvers. X. Yin introduced recent advances on formal methods for safety and security of cyber-physical systems.     

Study and Application Techniques on Web System Security Based on B/S Mode

Information security is the most important in the process of establishment of the system. This paper makes systematic summary according to the methodology and technology of the safety design in Quality Information Management System （QIMS） based on B/S mode.