12 December 2007

Call for papers: Information Processing and Decision Making in Distributed Control Systems

Call for papers: Information Processing and Decision Making in Distributed Control Systems

A special issue of
International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications

This special issue focuses on the highly interdisciplinary research in the theory and application of distributed control and communication systems. The increasing use of heterogeneous channels such as the internet or dedicated bus lines, particularly in the context of distributed systems, challenges conventional assumptions of perfect communication and instantaneous observation, and calls for the development of systematic optimal control design tools for distributed control systems. This special issue aims at presenting research from various disciplines in a coherent context, which can serve as a guide for research in information processing and decision making over communication networks and uncertain information channels.

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
  • Optimal and robust control under decentralised information structures
  • Design algorithms and principles for distributed control systems, including design with partial information
  • Distributed consensus, agreement, and optimisation
  • Stochastic dynamic games and teams
  • Distributed sensing over noisy channels
  • Distributed control under rate and distortion constraints
  • Multi-terminal information theory: source and channel coding
  • Graphical models in distributed control
  • Distributed estimation and diagnosis
Important Date
Submission Deadline: 30 April 2008

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