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CALL FOR PAPERS 1991 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTELLIGENT CONTROL August 13-15,1991 Key Bridge Marriott Arlington, Virginia Sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society General Chairman: Harry E. Stephanou, Rensselaer Polytechnic lnstitute Program Chairman: Alexander H. Levis, George Mason University Finance Chairman: Elizabelh R. Ducot, MlT Lincoln Labs Registration Chairman : Umit Ozguner, Ohio State University Publications Chairman: Mieczyslaw Kokar, Northeastern University Local Arrangements: James E. Gaby, UNYSlS Corporation The 6th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC 91 ) will be held in conjunction with the 1991 IFAC Symposium on Distributed Intelligence Systems. Registrants in either symposium will be able to attend all technical and social events in both symposia and will receive preprint volumes from both. The ISIC 91 theme will be "Integrating Quantitative and Symbolic Processing". The design and analysis of automatic control systems have traditionally been based on rigorous, numerical techniques for modeling and optimization. Conventional controllers perform well in the presence of random disturbances, and can adapt to relatively small changes in fairly well known environments. Intelligent controllers are designed to operate in unknown environments and, therefore, require much higher levels of adaptation to unexpected events. They are also required to process and interpret large quantities of sensor data, and use the results for action planning or replanning. The design of intelligent controllers, therefore, incorporates heuristic and/or symbolic tools from artificial intelligence. Such tools which have traditionally been applied to open-loop, off-line problems, must now be integrated into the perception-reasoning-action closed loop of intelligent controllers. Effective methods for the integration of numerical and symbolic processing schemes are needed. Robustness and graceful degradation issues must be addressed. Reconfigurable feedback loops at varying levels of abstraction should be considered. Papers are being solicited ior presentation at the Symposium and publication in the Symposium Proceedings. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Intelligent control architectures Reasoning under uncertainty Self-organizing systems Sensor-based robot control Fault detection and error recovery Cellular robotics Intelligent manufacturing control Microelectro-mechanical systems systems Discrete event systems Variable precision reasoning Concurrent engineering Active sensing and perception Neural network controllers Multisensor data fusion Hierarchical controllers Intelligent inspection Learning control systems Intelligent database systems Autonomous control systems Microelectronics,advanced materials, Knowledge representation for and other novel applications real-time processing Five copies of papers should be sent by February 15,1991 to: Professor Alexander H. Levis Dept. of ECE George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 Telephone: 703-764-6282 A separate cover sheet with the name of the corresponding author, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address should also be included. Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 15, 1991. Accepted papers, in final camera ready form, will be due on May 15, 1991. Proposals for invited sessions and tutorial workshops are also solicited. Cohesive sessions focusing on successful applications are particularly encouraged. Requests for additional information and proposal submissions (by February 15, 1991) should be addressed to Professor Levis. Symposium Program Committee: Suguru Arimoto, University of Tokyo Vivek V, Badami, General Electric John Baras, University of Maryland Research Lab Piero Bonissone, General Electric Hamid Berenji, NASA Ames Research Lab V.T. Chien, National Science David B. Cooper, Brown University Foundation David A. Dornfeld, University Kenneth J. DeJong, George Mason of California, Berkeley University Judy A. Franklin, GTE Laboratories Masakazu Ejiri, Hitachi Janos Gertler, George Mason Univesity Roger Geesey, BDM International Roderic Grupen, University of George Giralt, LAAS Massachusetts William A. Gruver, University of Susan Hackwood, University of Kentucky California, Riverside Thomas Henderson, Uiversity of Utah Joseph K. Kearney, University of Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon Iowa University Yves Kodratoff, Universite de Paris Benjamin Kuipers, University of Texas, Michael B. Leahy, Air Force Institute Austin of Technology Gaston H. Lefranc, Universidad Catolica Ramiro Liscano, Nat'l Research Council Valparaiso of Canada Ronald Lumia, NIST Yukio Mieda, Honda Engineering Co.,Ltd Thang N. Nguyen, IBM Corporation Kevin M. Passino, Ohio State Michael A.Peshkin, Northwestern University University Roger T. Schappell, Martin Marietta Yoshiaki Shirai, Osaka University Marwan Simaan, University of Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt Pittsburgh University Zuheir Tumeh, General Motors Research Kimon P. Valavanis, Northeastern Labs University Agostino Villa, Politecnico di Torino John Wen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute