Plant operations today are faced with ever-increasing pressure to improve efficiency, quality and productivity. Without making fundamental changes to their production processes, improvement can usually be made with the application of advanced control technology. Using modern computer hardware, software and innovative techniques, application engineers are able to collect real time and historical data on their processes. Data analysis, modeling and simulation provide a better understanding of the dynamics of process behavior. Once the process characteristics are accurately identified, the options for applying suitable control methodology are no longer limited to conventional control techniques.

We are pleased to announce that this coming year's featured tutorial speaker will be Dr. Jan Maciejowski. He is an IEEE Senior Member and is the Head of the Control Group in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, England. He will be presenting a full-day tutorial at the workshop entitled: "Model Predictive Control: from basics to recent advances".

This coming year's conference will also include tutorials by Dr. Graham Goodwin on "The Control of Constrained Systems" (Co-presenter is Dr. Maria Seron), Dr. Lennart Ljung on "From Data to Model: A status report on System Identification", Dr. Robert Kosut on "It's a Small World after All: Control of Semiconductor, Thin Film, Atomistic & Quantum Processes" and by Professor Chris Cox on "MATLAB/Simulink Toolbox Facilitates Tuning of Traditional and Predictive Control Strategies".

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