ORGANIZERS GENERAL CHAIRPERSONS Prof. Mel Siegel Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA Prof. Hans J.W. Spoelder Division of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRPERSONS Prof. R. Bowen Loftin Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, Old Dominion University Suffolk, VA, USA Prof. Emil Petriu SITE, University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Prof. Peter Wide Department of Technology, Örebro University Örebro, Sweden PUBLICITY CHAIRPERSONS Dr. Jean-Bernard Michel Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA, Neuchâtel, Switzerland LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIRPERSONS Mr. Umberto Bondi Universita' della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland Ms. Katya Frigerio Universita' della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland REGISTRATION CHAIRPERSONS Mrs. Lee Myers Myers-Smith Inc., Los Angeles, CA, USA SYMPOSIUM COORDINATOR Mr. Robert Myers Los Angeles, CA, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Prof. Georg Brasseur Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria Prof. Aurel Cornell Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA Prof. Dimiter Driankov Örebro university, Örebro, Sweden Prof. Alessandro Ferrero Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy Prof. Bernardo Ferroni CIM, Lugano, Switzerland Dr. Fernando Figueroa NASA Stennis Space Center, MS, USA Prof. George Fodor ABB Automation Technology Products, Vasteras, Sweden Prof. Bernd Fröhlich Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany Prof. Nicolas D. Georganas University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Prof. Stefan Mueller Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany Dr. Rainer Palm Siemens AG R&D, Munich, Germany prof. Kenzo Watanabe Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan Dr. Thomas E. Whalen Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada STEERING COMMITTEE Dr. David Braudaway Albuquerque, NM, USA Mr. Ed Ladd The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society Research Triangle Park, NC, USA Mr. Robert Myers Los Angeles, CA, USA Prof. Emil Petriu SITE, University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Prof. Mel Siegel Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA Prof. Hans J.W. Spoelder Division of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands Prof. Peter Wide Department of Technology, Örebro University Örebro, Sweden