program

THURSADY, SEPTEMBER 25

09.10     Santina Rocchi (DIISM Director)
Welcome address

Session 1. Chair: Andrea Garulli

09.20     Lennart Ljung (Linköping University)
Will Machine Learning Change the System Identification Paradigm?

09.45     Le Yi Wang (Wayne State University)
Complexity and Resource Allocations in Decision-Based Identification

10.10     Håkan Hjalmarsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Minimizing the Mean-Square-Error of Identified Finite Impulse Response Models

10.35     Anders Hansson (Linköping University)
System Identification with Missing Data

11.00     Coffee break

Session 2. Chair: Graziano Chesi

11.30     Jeff Shamma (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Exploring Bounded Rationality in Game Theory

11.55     Ji-Feng Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Adaptive Tracking Games for Coupled Stochastic Linear Multi-Agent Systems

12.20     Chiara Mocenni (Università di Siena)
Game Interactions and Dynamics on Complex Networks

12.45       Lunch

Session 3. Chair: Domenico Prattichizzo

14.30     Bassam Bamieh (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Structured Stochastic Uncertainty for Large Scale Systems

14.55    Li Qiu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
When MIMO Control Meets MIMO Communication

15.20     Jorge Zubelli (INPA)
Identification and boundary parameterization of reaction-diffusion ecological models

15.45     Andrea Garulli (Università di Siena)
Asymptotic behaviors of a class of threshold models for social networks

16.10      Coffee break

Session 4. Chair: Chiara Mocenni

16.40     Graziano Chesi (University of Hong Kong)
Topological Entropy in Uncertain Networked Control Systems

17.05     Murti V. Salapaka (University of Minnesota)
Reconstruction of Interconnectedness in Networks of Dynamical Systems Based on Passive Observations

17.30     Domenico Prattichizzo (Università di Siena)
Connecting Humans and Robots through Wearable Haptics

 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

Session 5. Chair: Gianni Bianchini

09.20     Anders Rantzer (Lund University)
Robust Control Revisited: A Quest for Scalability

09.45     S.P. Bhattacharyya (Texas A&M University)
A New Measurement Based, Model Free Approach To Design

10.10     Jie Chen (City University of Hong Kong)
Quantized Control under Multiplicative Noise: Fundamental Conditions of Stabilizability

10.35     Alberto Tesi (Università di Firenze)
Robust Control Design for Adaptive Disturbance Attenuation

11.00     Coffee break

Session 6. Chair: Antonello Giannitrapani

11.30     Mario Milanese (Politecnico di Torino, Modelway srl)

SMT: Set Membership Theory for Identification, Prediction, Filtering & Control of Nonlinear Systems

11.55     Sandor Veres (University of Sheffield)
Complexity and Error Control in Polytope Computations

12.20     Marco Casini (Università di Siena)
Feasible Parameter Set Approximation for Linear Models with Bounded Uncertain Regressors

12.45      Lunch

Session 7. Chair: Marco Casini

14.30     Kameshwar Poolla (University of California, Berkeley)
The Future Grid: Renewables, Regulation, and Control

14.55     Gianni Bianchini (Università di Siena)
Model Estimation of Photovoltaic Power Generation Using Partial Information

15.20     Simone Paoletti (Università di Siena)
New Issues in Electric Load Forecasting for Smart Grids

15.45     Antonello Giannitrapani (Università di Siena)
Bidding Strategies for Electric Power Producers from Renewable Sources in the Presence of Weather Forecasts

16.10     Coffee break

Session 8. Chair: Simone Paoletti

16.40     Munther Dahleh (MIT, Boston)
Minimal Realization of Hidden Markov Models: Implications on Learning

17.05     Mustafa Khammash (ETH, Zurich)
Feedback Control of Living Cells

17.30     Antonio Vicino (Università di Siena)
A Branching Process Model for Adaptive Immune Response