The symposium will be held in Tsinghua university, that lies in the northwest of Beijing. Tsinghua university is the top 2 leading universities, out of about 1000 universities, in China. Now Tsinghua university has 1069 full professors and 1087 associate professors, and has more than 12000 graduate students. In addition, Tsinghua university has the leading internet resources in the Chinese universities. Tsinghua university is located in a beautiful country park full of interesting birds, trees, shrubs, flowers and a lake, it is also convenient from Tsinghua uinversty to go downtown by buses or taxies, so it is truly an ideal place for a conference.

Beijing is a huge, beautiful and modernized city with long-standing history and brilliant culture. The Great Wall, the Summer Palace, the Ming Tomb,the Forbidden City ,the Temple of Heaven ,etc. in Beijing are all world famous. Beijing is the capital of China, and is also the political and economical center of China. The accommodation in Beijing is comfortable and inexpensive, usually a double room in a 4-star hotel costs about 70 to 100 USD.

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Submission of draft papers and session proposals is extended to:	Jan. 12, 2006
Notification of acceptance/ rejection	April 1, 2006
Submission of final papers and summaries:	May 15, 2006
Early registration:	June 1, 2006

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Contributed papers and invited session proposals are solicited. All submissions must be electronic, using the submission website.

The deadline for all submissions is extended to Jan. 12, 2006.

Contributed papers must comply with the standard IFAC conference format and should not exceed 6 two-column pages.
For detailed formatting instructions, see the IFAC Publicatons website : www.elsevier.com/locate/ifac
Papers may be uploaded as .ps or .pdf files. Authors need to contact the submission website, fill out a paper data form and upload their papers.

For each paper a Copyright Transfer Form must be filled out and signed. The blank form can be downloaded by double click the above Copyright Transfer Form. The completed and signed forms should be (air)mailed, at the time of draft paper submission, to

Prof. Hong-Yue Zhang
School of Automation
Beihang University
Beijing 100083, P.R. China

Invited session proposals must contain a list of six papers (titles and authors) and a description of the subject, its significance, and the relevance of each paper to the session theme. To propose a session, one needs to contact the submission website and fill out a data form. The system then assigns an Invited Session Number. The organizer of the session has to communicate this number to all authors in the session.

Invited papers must be submitted in full, following the same rules described above for contributed papers. Authors need to refer to the number of the invited session when filling out the paper data form. The Program Committee will only consider an invited session proposal if at least 4 of its papers have been submitted by the deadline.

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REGISTRATION INFORMATION

IMPORTANT NOTICE !!! The registration process was closed on June 12, from now on we only accept on site registration in Beijing by cash. REGISTRATION DESK All attendees must register and wear badges. Those participants who have chosen early registration should pick up their badges and registration packets at the Symposium Registration Desk, which will be located in the lobby of Tsinghua Unisplendour International Center (Uniscenter). The Registration Desk will be open during the following hours:          Aug. 29 (Tuesday) 09:00-12:00 ; 14:00-21:00          Aug. 30- Sept. 1 (Wednesday-Friday) 08:00-12:00 14:00-16:00 CANCELLATION AND REFUND Cancellation must be notified via emal to Prof. Hao Ye at    safeprocess2006@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn . The refund with remittance charge deducted will be processed after the Congress. The refund policy is given below. Category Before July 15, 2006 After July 15, 2006 Registration Fee 80% refund no refund   Fee Structure   Full registration before June 1, 2006 $ 400.00   Full registration after June 1, 2006 $ 460.00   Student registration before June 1, 2006 $ 200.00   Student registration after June 1, 2006 $ 250.00 To qualify for student registration, written proof of full-time student status, signed by the student's academic department or advisor, is required. Full registration contains   - Attendance of all sessions   - One copy of the Plenary-Summary Volume   - One copy of the full Preprints on CD-ROM   - Welcoming Reception   - One ticket to the Symposium Banquet. Student registration contains   - Attendance of all sessions   - One copy of the Plenary-Summary Volume   - Welcoming Reception Extra banquet tickets can be purchased for $ 50.00 each. Registered student participants can purchase the CD-ROM, one copy per person, for $ 40.00.

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HOTEL RESERVATION

Hotel Description The IFAC SAFEPROCESS 2006 will be held at the Central Main Building of Tsinghua University. The NOC has got special room rates for symposium attendees to stay in the Tsinghua Unisplendour International Center ( Uniscenter ) or the VIP Building of Tsinghua Yuan Hotel . Both of them are close to the symposium venue and are less than 10 minutes walk distance (Please refer to the map on the web site). (1)Tsinghua Unisplendour International Center ( Uniscenter ) is a Four-Star commercial hotel. It is about 5 minutes walk to the symposium venue , and is the place where the welcome reception will be held and free lunch will be provided for all registered attendees . A block booking of total 155 rooms in the Unisplendour International Center to support IFAC SAFEPROCESS 2006 has been made at the following special rates. Room Type Type of bed Number of rooms available Rate [1] Business Standard (Not Available Now!!) Two single beds for most rooms 59 620 Superior Standard (Not Available Now!!) Two single beds for most rooms 92 565 Standard (Not Available Now!!) Two single beds for all rooms 4 520 (2) Qinghua Yuan hotel is a two-star hotel, but the VIP Building of Qinghua Yuan hotel is newly furnished following the Four-Star standard. A block booking of total 70 rooms in the VIP building to support IFAC SAFEPROCESS 2006 has been made at the following special rate Room Type Type of bed Number of rooms available Rate [1] Business Room 1 double bed for all rooms 70 680 [1] All prices shown are the rates in RMB for per night and per room ( 1 USD is about 8.0 RMB at present), and inclusive of breakfast and 15% service charge. Hotel Reservation Please fill in the enclosed booking form , sign and send it to IFAC SAFEPROCESS by fax (+86-10-62790497). Please note that e-mails for hotel reservation are not acceptable. The hotel reservation will be open from June 5 to Jul. 31. A confirmation letter will be sent to you by e-mail when your booking is successfully handled. In spite of a few hotels available, which are not very far by taxi to the venue, there are no hotels less than walking distance of the symposium venue except the Tsinghua Unisplendour International Center ( Uniscenter ) and the Qinghua Yuan hotel. So delegates are strongly encouraged to choose one of the two hotels recommended by us and make accommodation bookings as soon as possible. It is the responsibility of attendees to communicate directly with a hotel if they choose to book other hotels. Modify or Cancel Policy To guarantee your reservation, we need your credit card information. You may cancel your reservation free of charge before Aug. 15, 2006 . However, canceling your reservation after Aug. 15 or failing to show may result in a charge for the first night per room to your credit card.     to Top

REGISTRATION DESK

All attendees must register and wear badges. Those participants who have chosen early registration should pick up their badges and registration packets at the Symposium Registration Desk, which will be located in the lobby of Tsinghua Unisplendour International Center (Uniscenter). The Registration Desk will be open during the following hours:
         Aug. 29 (Tuesday) 09:00-12:00 ; 14:00-21:00
         Aug. 30- Sept. 1 (Wednesday-Friday) 08:00-12:00 14:00-16:00

BADGES

Participants are kindly asked to wear their badges during the symposium activities and should consider their personal badges as valuable entry tickets.

SPEAKERS AND CHAIRPERSONS

Speakers and chairpersons are requested to be present in their lecture room 10 minutes before the session starts. Speakers using the computer data projector are strongly urged to test the interconnections with their laptop computer well before the session.

LIABILITY

The symposium organizers cannot be held responsible for damage, loss or theft during the symposium.

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WELCOMING RECEPTION

It will be held in Tsinghua Unisplendour International Center (Uniscenter) during 19:00 and 21:00 on August 29. Uniscenter is a 4-star Hotel ,  located at the east gate of Tsinghua University. Uniscenter is the main hotel of this symposium, most attendees will live in this hotel, and the symposium registration desk will be open in this hotel also.

BANQUET

To be held at Dazhaimen Restaurant of Family Bai on Aug. 31, from 20:00 to 23:00, this restaurant is located at No. 29 Suzhou St., Haidian District, Beijing.

COFFEE BREAKS

Soft drinks and biscuits will be served during session breaks in the morning and afternoon.

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STRUCTURE OF THE TECHNICAL PROGRAM

SAFEPROCESS, 2006

Beijing , PR China, 30 August-1 September

Tuesday, 29 August, 2006

*** Opening ceremony and all sessions are held in the Central Main Building of Tsinghua University

Wednesday, 30 August, 2006

Thursday, 31 August, 2006

Friday, 1 September, 2006

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 • Plenary talks:

Fault-tolerance as a key requirement for the control of modern systems
R . J. Patton ( University of Hull )
C. Kambhampati ( University of Hull )
A. Casavola ( University of Calabria )
G. Franze' ( University of Calabria )

Ron Patton was born in Peru in 1949. He has been Professor of Control & Intelligent Systems Engineering in the Department of Engineering, University of Hull , after leading the Control Engineering research at York University from 1981 to 1995. Ron graduated at Sheffield University in Electrical Engineering in 1971. Following this he held appointments at the BBC Research Department, in medical electronics prior to undertaking PhD research at Sheffield University in Bio Control systems. Prior to taking up appointment at York he was lecturer in control systems at Sheffield Hallam University [1978-1981]. He is Subject Editor for the Wiley Journal of Adaptive Control & Signal Processing and has served on several journal editorial boards. His IFAC service includes: Chair of the TC Safeprocess [1996-2002], Associate Editor for Control Engineering Practice [1996-2005] and Policy Committee [since 2005]. Ron was IPC chair for both SAFEPROCESS'97 & UKACC CONTROL'98 and has served for 21 years on numerous international conference and symposia committees of IFAC, IEE, UKACC, EUCA, IEEE. His research includes network control systems and fault-tolerant control. He has more than 300 publications, including 5 books, notably in fault diagnosis and eigenstructure assignment. Prizes awarded include one IEE Premium, best paper award for IFAC SICICA 2000 and UKACC Control'96. Ron is Senior Member of both the IEEE and the AIAA and Fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control.

Chandra Kambhampati is currently a Reader in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hull . Previous to this he held positions in the Department of Cybernetics, at the University of Reading , and the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne . He obtained his PhD from City University , London , for his thesis on Algorithms for Optimizing Control in 1988. Chandra Kambhampati heads The Neural, Emergent and Agent Technologies (NEAT) Group, and has a number of doctoral and graduate students, and research associates. He has authored and co-authored over 100 papers on optimization, adaptive optimization, optimal control, neural networks, and fuzzy logic for control and robotics and Networked Control Systems. His current research interests include Networked Control Systems Tolerant to Faults and the development of suitable architectures for complex systems based on Human Motor Control. He is a member of IEEE and the IET.

Alessandro Casavola was born in Florence , Italy , in 1958. He received Dr. Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florence, Italy, in 1996 and the Ph.D degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1990. From 1990 to 1996 he was Systems Manager at the Department of Mathematics ``U.Dini'' of the University of Florence, Italy. From 1996 to 1998 he was a Researcher in Control Engineering at the Department of Systems and Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Florence, Italy. Since 1998 he has been with the Department of Electronics, Computer Engineering and Systems of the University of Calabria : from 1998 to 2005 as Associate Professor and since 2005 as Full Professor of Control Engineering. His current research interests include robust control, constrained predictive control, control under constraints, control reconfiguration for fault tolerant systems and supervision approaches for networked dynamical systems.

Giuseppe Franzè was born in 1968 in Italy . He received his Laurea degree in computer engineering from the University of Calabria , Italy , in 1994 and the Ph.D degree in systems engineering from the University of Calabria , Italy , in 1999. From 1994 to 2002 he was with the DEIS Department of the University of Calabria , Italy as a Research Associate. Since 2002 he is an Assistant Professor with the same Department. His current research interests include robust control, robust pole placement, constrained predictive control, control under constraints and control reconfiguration for fault tolerant systems.

Statistical signal processing approaches to fault detection
Fredrik Gustafsson ( Linköping University )

Fredrik Gustafsson received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control, from Link”ping University, Link”ping, Sweden, in 1988 and 1992, respectively. He is a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Link”ping University, Link”ping, Sweden , since 1999. His research interests are in stochastic signal processing, adaptive filtering and change detection, with applications to communication, vehicular, airborne and audio systems. He is the author of four books, over 100 international journal and conference papers and some 15 patent applications, and he is a co-founder of three companies in the signalprocessing area. Dr. Gustafsson is an Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING.

Fault Diagnosis of networked control systems
Huajing Fang ( Huazhong  University  of Science and Technology)
Hao Ye ( Tsinghua University )
Maiying Zhong ( Shandong University )

Huajing FANG received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D degree in Control Theory and Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1982, 1984 and 1991 respectively. He is working with the Department of Control Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, where he is a professor since 1994, and also serves as the director of the Institute of Control Theory, the vice director of the Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems. He is the member of Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes Committee and Education Committee of the Chinese Automation Association, Associate Editor of the Journal of Control Theory and Applications. His research interests include Complex networked control system, control system fault diagnosis, robust and fault-tolerant control, dynamics and control of autonomous vehicle's swarm.

Hao Ye was born in Gan Su, China, 1969. He graduated from Tsinghua University in 1992 and received his Ph. D degree in automatic control from the same university in 1996. He worked at Tsinghua University as a lecture from 1996 to 1998. Since 1998, he works at Tsinghua University as an associate professor. He is the vice director of the Institute of Process Control ngineering of the Department of Automation of Tsinghua University. His research interests are fault diagnosis and system identification.

Maiying Zhong was born in 1965. She received her Ph D degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering from Northeastern University, China in 1999. She is now a professor of School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, China. Her research interests include model based fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control.

• Industrial talk:

Siemens - SIMATIC TIA - Open Automation Platform for Process Automation
Mr. Johann Strobl

Mr. Strobl is the Manager of Marketing & Promotion RBC A&D PA, Siemens Ltd. China, he is a Siemens PA expert, has More than 20 years experience working in Siemens for process automation. Mr. Strobl is responsible for PCS 7 marketing and promotion in China .

Asset Optimization Technologies and Services for Improving Reliability and Performance
Dr. Robin Lu
Director of Machinery Health Management Business Unit of Emerson Process Management Asia-Pacific

Robin Lu is the Business Director of Machinery Health Management Business Unit of Emerson Process Management Asia-Pacific. Robin joined Emerson in April 1998. He has held several positions of increasing responsibility in services and marketing. Prior to his current role, he was responsible for business development and strategic marketing for Japan market for Emerson Process including Fisher Valve, Rosemount Measurement and Micro Motion Coriolis Flowmeter. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree in instrumentation and control engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University in China and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Keio University in Japan .

 

• Semi-plenary talks:

Fault-tolerant control systems: academic and industrial perspectives
Jin Jiang ( University of Western Ontario )

Dr. Jiang received his BESc. from Xi'an Jiaotong University , in Xi'an , China in 1982, and MESc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of New Brunswick , in Fredericton , New Brunswick , Canada in 1984 and 1989, respectively. He started his academic career as a lecturer in Marine Institute in St. John's , Newfoundland in 1988, and became as an Assistant Professor in Lakehead University in Thunder Bay , Ontario in July 1990. From 1991, Dr. Jiang has been with the University of Western Ontario , London , Ontario , Canada , where he currently is a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. From 1996 to 1997, he spent one year in Yamaguchi University, in Ube, Japan as a visiting Associate Professor on his sabbatical leave.

From 2003, he has been a Senior Industrial Research Chair funded by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) as well as the University Network of Excellence in Nuclear Engineering (UNENE) in the area of control, instrumentation, and electrical systems in nuclear power plants. He is currently serving on NSERC Grant Selection Committee for the period of 2005 to 2007. He is also representing Canada on the IEC subcommittee on Instrumentation and Control for Nuclear Power Plants.

Dr. Jiang has wide range of research interests, including fault-tolerant control of safety-critical systems (aircraft, nuclear power plants), advanced control of electrical power plants and power systems (combustion, generation, transmissions, and fuel cells), and advanced signal processing for diagnosis applications (manufacturing processes and human hearts). He has published extensively in the above areas including a research monograph on active fault-tolerant control systems. Dr. Jiang is also a passionate teacher, and has won several teaching awards in the last few years.

Dr. Jiang has a long association with IFAC and currently serve as members in the following technical committees: “Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes”, “Power Plants and Power Systems”, and “Networked Systems”. Dr. Jiang currently also holds honorary appointments from Xi'an Jiaotong University and China Eastern Jiaotong University .

The Practical Problems of Fault Isolation in Large Scale Industrial Systems
Jan M. Koscielny （Warsaw University of Technology）
Michal Bartys （Warsaw University of Technology）
Michal Syfert （Warsaw University of Technology）

Jan Maciej Koscielny (57) , professor in the Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics of Warsaw University of Technology. Leader of the Research Working Group on Diagnostics of Industrial Processes. His research activities are focused mainly on the fields of fault detection and isolation, fault tolerant control and decentralised systems. His last works are dealing with application of fuzzy logic and neural networks for diagnostic reasoning in complex technological installations, diagnostics of actuators, and development of diagnostic systems. He is the author or co-author of 6 monographs, 178 papers, 3 patents. He has been lead 76 research projects dealing with development and implementation of industrial monitoring and diagnosing systems: OSA , DIAG and AmandD . He has been initiated, in co-operation with Prof. J. Korbicz, the conference on Diagnostics of Industrial Processes being the national equivalence of Safeprocess symposium. Co-authors of monograph Fault Diagnosis. Models, Artificial Intelligence, Applications published by Springer. Member of executive boards of three European Union projects dealing with FDI issues. Member of international editorial board of International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science and national research-technical journal: Measurements, Automatics, Control . His is interesting in painting and classic music. Very active in sports: volleyball, tennis and skiing.

Michal Bartys (57) , PhD. Since 1973 have been employed at Warsaw University of Technology at various positions, while during this activity worked at RWTH Aachen, Germany (1986-1988), Duisburg University , Germany (1993-1994). His research are concerning automatic control, diagnostics, fuzzy logic, development of smart instrumentation and actuators. He is the author or co-author of 3 monographs, 95 papers, 6 patents, designer of 45 unique instruments, and promoter of six significant industrial implementations. Member of steering committees and executive boards of three European Union projects. Interested in wandering and skiing.

Michal Syfert (32) , PhD. Since 2004 has been employed at the Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics at the Warsaw University of Technology at lecturer position. His research activities concern mainly the diagnostics of industrial processes, fuzzy logic applications and development of diagnostic systems. They are focused on designing fault detection and isolation algorithms for complex and uncertain technological systems. He is the author or co-author of 7 chapters in monographs and 44 papers ( 9 in periodicals). Participant of three European Union projects conducted in the framework of fault diagnosis of industrial processes and actuators. Co-author of two diagnostic systems for industrial processes DIAG and AMandD. He took part in two industrial applications of diagnostic systems. Interested in photography, hiking, skiing and squash.

 

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•Plenary, semi-plenary and industrial sessions

Plenary session: WeP
Chair: Dominique Sauter

Fault diagnosis of networked control systems
Huajing Fang ( Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
Hao Ye ( Tsinghua University )
Maiying Zhong ( Shandong University )

Semi-plenary session: WeSP1
Chair: Donghua Zhou

The Practical Problems of Fault Isolation in Large Scale Industrial Systems
Jan M. Koscielny ( Warsaw University of Technology)
Michal Bartys ( Warsaw University of Technology)
Michal Syfert ( Warsaw University of Technology)

Semi-plenary session: WeSP2
Chair: Zdzislaw Kowalczuk

Fault-tolerant control systems: academic and industrial perspectives
Jin Jiang ( University of Western Ontario )

Plenary session: ThP
Chair: Steven Ding

Fault-tolerance as a key requirement for the control of modern systems
R. J. Patton ( University of Hull )
C. Kambhampati ( University of Hull )
A. Casavola ( University of Calabria )
G. Franze' ( University of Calabria )  

Plenary session-Industrial talk: ThPI
Chair: Mogen Blanke

Siemens - SIMATIC TIA - Open Automation Platform for Process Automation
Johann Strobl

Asset Optimization Technologies and Services for Improving Reliability and Performance
Robin Lu

Plenary session: FrP
Chair: Michel Kinnaert

Statistical signal processing approaches to fault detection
Fredrik Gustafsson ( Linköping University )

Detailed Program click here!

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The full text of symposium papers will be included in a CD-ROM. A printed volume will also be produced, containing the plenary lectures and a full page summary of each of the regular papers. Final papers and summaries will be due, in a pdf file, on May 15, 2006. Authors are expected to present their papers in person; those papers for which no author has registered by the early registration deadline of June 1, 2006, will be removed from all the publications including the CD-ROM and the symposium programme.

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