ERCIM Working Group on Control and System Theory

by Jan H. van Schuppen

During the ERCIM Workshop on Systems and Control that was held November 6-8, 1995 at SZTAKI in Budapest, the participants decided to create an ERCIM Working Group Control and System Theory.

The aim of the group is to promote the research cooperation and the research activities of the research groups in control and system theory of ERCIM institutes. Tasks of the Working Group include information exchange, coordination, stimulation of research cooperation, and the organization of joint workshops.

Participating research groups of the Working Group are:

• CNR-LADSEB Systems Theory Group
• CRCIM Institute for Information Theory and Automation (UTIA) in Prague, Czech Republic (CRCIM is shortly to be admitted as ERCIM member).
• CWI System and Control Theory, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• INRIA Research Group Project MIAOU, Sophia Antipolis; Research Group "Automatique et Signal", IRISA, Rennes; Research Group CONGE, Metz;
• SICS Division of Optimization and Systems Theory
• Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
• SZTAKI Systems and Control Laboratory, Budapest, Hungary.

Research groups of other ERCIM institutes that are interested in joining the working group are requested to contact the chairman named below.

A Steering Committee of the Working Group has been composed consisting of: Jan H. van Schuppen (CWI; Chairman) Andrea Gombani (CNR-LADSEB) Vladimir Kucera (CRCIM) Laurent Baratchart (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) Jean-Jacques Fuchs (INRIA-IRISA, Rennes) Patrick Florchiger (INRIA Lorraine), Anders Lindquist (SICS) László Gerencsér (SZTAKI).

The next ERCIM Workshop on Control and System Theory is scheduled for August 26-27, 1996 and will be held at CRCIM-UTIA in Prague, Czech Republic. After 1996 workshops are planned to be held every two years. Further information on the working group may be obtained from its WWW page at the URL: http://www.ladseb.pd.cnr.it/control/ercim/control.html.