CALL FOR PAPERS - DEDICATED ISSUES IN 2000 

SACTA announces a special issue under the title:

ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS OF INTERVAL SYSTEMS

Guest Editor: Long Wang
longwang@mech.pku.edu.cn

Since the publication of Kharitonov's seminal paper on Hurwitz stability of interval polynomials, we have witnessed great progress in robustness analysis and synthesis of control systems with parametric perturbations. Interval models become standard models in this field since they represent a typical class of uncertainty structures and enjoy powerful extremality properties, resulting in a significant reduction of computation efforts. For example, it has been shown that a large portion of the outer Nyquist/Popov envelope of interval transfer functions is generated by the Nyquist/Popov plots of the sixteen Kharitonov vertex transfer functions. Consequently, extreme point criteria can be established for strict positive realness, H-infinity norm, and absolute stability of interval systems. In order to reflect the latest developments in the field of parametric robust control, we have decided to devote a complete issue of Stability and Control: Theory and Applications to recent advances in the study of interval systems. Topics include, but are certainly not limited to:

1. Stability Analysis
2. Performance Analysis and Synthesis
3. Stabilization and Controller Design
4. Algorithms and Applications

Prospective authors should send the LaTeX files of their manuscripts to
longwang@mech.pku.edu.cn

and submit 3 hard copies to the following address by October 1, 2000

Professor Long Wang (Guest Editor)
Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science
Center for Systems and Control
Peking University (Beijing University)
Beijing 100871
P. R. CHINA

This dedicated issue is devoted to interval systems and different aspects of their analysis and synthesis in the broadest sense. The issue will be published by the end of the year 2000. The papers will be reviewed as they arrive. Authors will be informed on the outcome of the reviews and the decision on the paper acceptance as soon as possible.