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Preface This volume contains the proceedings of ADHS’06: the
2nd IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems,
organized in Alghero (Italy) on June 7-9, 2006. ADHS is a series of triennial meetings that aims to
bring together researchers and practitioners with background in control and
computer science in order to provide a survey of the advances in the field of
hybrid systems and of their ability to take up the challenge of analysis,
design and verification of efficient and reliable control systems. ADHS'06 is
the second Conference of this series after ADHS'03 in Saint Malo. The ADHS
series follows the successful conference series on the Automation De
Processus Mixed / Automation of Mixed Processes (ADPM'92 in Paris, ADPM'94 in
Brussels, ADPM'98 in Reims, ADPM'2000 in Dortmund). The continuity between
the ADHS conferences is guaranteed by the IFAC Technical Committee on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems (TC 1.3)
that is the main technical sponsor of the series. We
express our gratitude to the authors of the papers submitted to ADHS'06. Out
of 96 submissions, 65 papers were selected after a careful reviewing process
during which each paper received, on the average, three reviews. The high
quality of the program is due to the authors of the submitted papers, to the
members of the International Program Committee and to the referees who
provided accurate and extensive reports. Among the
65 papers accepted and published in this volume, 52 are coming from Europe,
7.5 from US/Canada, 2.5 from Latin America, 2 from Japan, 0.5 from Egypt, 0.5
from Australia. Three
distinguished speakers have been invited to give a one hour plenary talk
during the conference. They are: Vadim
I. Utkin, whose talk is titled "Chattering
Problem in Sliding Mode Control Systems"; Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli,
whose talk is titled "Challenges
and Opportunities for System Theory in Embedded Controller Design"; Claude
Iung, whose talk is titled "Optimal Control in Hybrid
Systems". The invited speakers have contributed to the proceedings with
an extended abstract of their talk. Some of the papers presented at the conference have
been submitted as part of invited sessions. All of them went through the
normal review procedure. We are grateful to the organizers of these sessions that
have timely put into focus interesting new research topics. They are: E. De
Santis organizer of a session on "Structural
Analysis and Approximation of Hybrid Systems"; S. Engell and O.
Stursberg organizers of a session on "Controller
Design Based on Hybrid Models of Industrial Plants"; A. Bemporad and
F. Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue organizers of a session on "Applications of Hybrid Control". A special thank goes to C.G. Cassandras and P.
Mosterman, organizers of an invited session on "Hybrid Simulation Tools: Principles, Challenges and
Applications" that was also complemented by an interactive tool
presentation. This session was composed by five presentations whose speakers
have also contributed to the proceedings with an extended abstract of their
talk. We are grateful to the members of the Organizing
Committee who took care of all important logistic and administrative details.
In particular, we thank Maria Paola Cabasino for her help in preparing these
proceedings. This conference benefits of support from the Università di Cagliari, from the Comune di Alghero and from Akhela s.r.l. The Editors : C.G. Cassandras, A. Giua, C. Seatzu, J. Zaytoon |
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