ICTA 2014 - 1st International Workshop on Informatics in Control Theory and its Applications

During recent decades, the role of informatics in system and control theory and practice has been rapidly increased. Both the realms, theoretical and application one are affected. Not only experts in the field can concur with us that products of computer technology are used in everyday life in a huge scale. In system, control, or process engineering, devices like PLC, IPC, microcontroller kits or intelligent computer boards with advanced operating systems constitute an integral part of manufacturing and industrial processes. Advances in theory of informatics have not been fully implemented in process control design until recently. However, many complex technological processes such as nonlinear, delayed, non-minimum phase ones, multidimensional or hybrid ones are hardly controllable by conventional control methods. Therefore, advanced modern control strategies including algebraic methods, optimal or predictive control principles, to name just a few, have been investigated to deal with the those problems. These methodologies, however, requires the utilization of elements of optimization or artificial intelligence - the role of which is naturally growing. Here is a space to implement the knowledge of e.g. neural networks, genetic algorithms, deterministic chaos etc. From this perspective, both, theoretical and application, contributions combining the informatics and system (control) issues are useful and desirable and highly welcome for the special session.
Topics
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit their work related, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Modeling
- Identification
- Control design
- Process control
- Process engineering
- Microcontrollers
- Programmable logic controllers
- Programming for system and control engineering
- Time delay systems
- Nonlinear systems
- Multidimensional systems
- Predictive control
- Adaptive control methods
- Robust control
- Multimodel control methods
- Optimal control
- Algebraic control methods
- Artificial intelligence
- Neural networks
- Genetic algorithms
- Fuzzy logic methods
- Deterministic chaos