COC 2000 Report


The 2nd International Conference "CONTROL OF OSCILLATIONS AND CHAOS" (COC 2000) took place in St.Petersburg, Russia, on July 5-7, 2000. It was organized by the Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering of Russian Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg State University, and St.Petersburg Informatics and Control Society. It was co-sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM), Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Foundation for Basic Research with technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE Control Systems Society and Russian IEEE Section.

Various problems related to analysis, synchronization and control of complex oscillatory dynamical systems, with emphasis on both theory and applications were considered. The papers from different scientific fields (mathematics; physics; mechanics; chemistry; mechanical, electrical and civil engineering, biology, economics, etc.) have been presented. About 180 papers have been selected by the International Program Committee from 210 submissions for inclusion into the final Program. More than 170 participants including 68 persons out of Russia have been registered; 7 plenary, 9 semi-plenary, 96 regular and 40 poster papers have been presented. Three volumes of conference Proceedings include 165 papers representing 33 countries. The largest number of papers have been presented from Russia (87), USA (14), Italy (8), Japan (6), Germany (6), Brasil (4), Korea (4), Argentina (3), P.R.China (3), France (3), Ukraine (3), Yugoslavia (3).

The Conference took place in the "Dom Uchenyh" ("House of Scientists") - beautiful palace in the historical center of St.Petersburg next to the Tsar's Winter Palace and the Hermitage museum. Social Program included sightseeing tours: survey bus tour of St.Petersburg, tours of the Hermitage and bus tour to Petergof. The conference banquet took place on Friday 7 July in the House of Scientists.

SUMMARY OF THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

The Conference as a whole has demonstrated continuing interest in analysis and control methods for irregular (chaotic) oscillations. The papers from various scientific fields were presented at the Conference. Most papers were devoted to dynamics and control of systems from the two broad fields:

It allowed to bring together and to cross-fertilize ideas from these fields which have many similarities. Such a possibility arised due to support of the Conference by both IEEE and IUTAM. A number of the papers addressed the problems of analysis of complex behavior in physical systems. Significant attention was paid to analysis and design of neural networks, study of complexity and synchronization in nonlinear systems. Also the papers with applications to chemical technologies, geophysics, medicine, economics, etc. have been presented.

Some of plenary/semiplenary papers contained important theoretical results:

Other were devoted to applications in telecommunications, mechanical engineering and biology: Finally, the IEEE Distinguished Lecture entitled "A Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS) Approach to the Optimal Modeling, Identification, and Design of Nonlinear Adaptive Systems" was delivered by Prof. R.J.P. De Figueiredo (USA) at the closing plenary session.

Regular papers were distributed over the following 11 theme sections (4 sessions in parallel):
A.  Control of Oscillations (Chairman Prof. A. Fradkov);
B.  Control of Chaos (Co-Chairmen Prof. R. Genesio, A.Tesi, A. Pogromsky);
C.  Control of Mechanical Systems (Chairman Prof. V.Yu. Rutkovsky);
D.  Mathematics of Stability and Instability (Chairman Prof. G.A. Leonov);
E.  Identification and Reconstruction of Parameters (Chairman Prof. A.N. Sharkovsky);
G.  Synchronization (Chairman Prof.I.I.Blekhman);
H.  Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Physical Systems (Co-Chairmen Prof. A.K. Abramyan, Prof. S.A. Vakulenko);
I.  Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Mechanical Systems (Chairman Prof. D.A.Indejtsev);
J.  Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Electronics, Communications and Power Systems (Chairman Prof.A.S.Dmitriev);
K.  Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in Biomedical, Ecological and Neural Systems (Chairman Prof.V.S.Anischenko);
L.  Methods of System Analysis (Chairman Prof.E.N.Rozenwasser).

The major goal of the Conference - to bring together researchers from various fields, to advance the state-of-the-art control theory and technology for the control and analysis of complex oscillatory dynamical systems and to gain some general and unified perspectives in this interdisciplinary field of advanced research - was achieved.

Another goal of the Conference - to get the world scientific community acquainted with recent achievements of Russian experts in nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear control - was achieved too.

Financially the Conference was a success (no losses). The IUTAM grant US$ 1000 for partial reimbursement of travel expenses was distributed to 15 attendees according to the decision taken at the IPC-NOC meeting during the Conference.

Professor Alexander Fradkov, NOC Chairman


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Address of the Organizing Committee:
Prof.A.L.Fradkov

The Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering
61 Bolshoy, V.O. 199178, St.Petersburg, RUSSIA
Tel: +7(812)321-4766,
Fax: +7(812)321-4771
E-mail: coc2000@ccs.ipme.ru, ccs@alf.ipme.ru