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            | PROGRAM 
              CO-CHAIRS 
 Helder 
              Araújo, I.S.R. Coimbra, Portugal
 Alves Vieira, E.S.T. Setúbal, Portugal
 
 
 PROGRAM 
              COMMITTEE
 
 Luis Antonio Aguirre, Federal University of Minas 
              Gerais, Brazil
 Frank Allgöwer, University of Stuttgart, Germany
 Péter Arató, Budapest University of Technology 
              and Economics, Hungary
 Artur Arsénio, M.I.T CSAIL, U.S.A.
 Hajime Asama, University of Tokyo, Japan
 Robert Babuska, Delft University of Technology, 
              The Netherlands
 Mark Balas, University of Colorado at Boulder, 
              U.S.A.
 Aldo Balestrino, University of Pisa, Italy
 Bijnan Bandyopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology 
              Bombay, India
 Ruth Bars, Budapest University of Technology and 
              Economics, Hungary
 Alberto Bemporad, University of Siena, Italy
 Andreas Birk, International University Bremen, 
              Germany
 David Bonyuet, Delta Search Labs, U.S.A.
 Patrick Boucher, Service Automatique, Supelec, 
              France
 Abhay Bulsari, Nonlinear Solutions Oy, Finland
 Edmund Burke, University of Nottingham, U.K.
 Kevin Burn, University of Sunderland, U.K.
 Clifford R. Burrows, University of Bath, U.K.
 Martin Buss, Technical University of Munich, Germany
 Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon/Uninova, 
              Portugal
 Marco Campi, University of Brescia, Italy
 Javier Fernández de Cañete, University of Malaga, 
              Spain
 Jorge L. Martins de Carvalho, Faculdade de Engenharia 
              da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
 Christos G. Cassandras, Boston University, U.S.A.
 Raja Chatila, LAAS-CNRS, France
 Tongwen Chen, University of Alberta, Canada
 Albert M. K. Cheng, University of Houston, U.S.A.
 Ryszard S. Choras, University of Technology & Agriculture, 
              Poland
 Henrik I. Christensen, Royal Institute of Technology, 
              Sweden
 Andrzej Cichocki, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 
              Japan
 Carlos Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
 José Cordeiro, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de 
              Setúbal, Portugal
 Luis Correia, FC - University of Lisbon, Portugal
 João Paulo Costeira, ISR/IST - Technical University 
              of Lisbon, Portugal
 Carlos Couto, University of Minho, Portugal
 Yechiel Crispin, Embry-Riddle University, U.S.A.
 Luis Custódio, ISR/IST - Technical University of 
              Lisbon, Portugal
 Rüdiger Dillmann, University of Karsruhe, Germany
 Denis Dochain, Catholic University of Louvain, 
              Belgium
 António Dourado, FCTUC - University of Coimbra, 
              Portugal
 Wlodzislaw Duch, Nicholaus Copernicus University, 
              Poland
 Heinz H. Erbe, Technical University of Berlin, 
              Germany
 Gerardo Espinosa-Perez, Autonomous Nacional University 
              of Mexico, Mexico
 Ali Feliachi, West Virginia University, U.S.A.
 David Dagan Feng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 
              Hong Kong
 Jean-Louis Ferrier, University of Angers, France
 Nicola J. Ferrier, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 
              U.S.A.
 Gustavo Arroyo Figueroa, Electric Research Institute, 
              Mexico
 Florin Gheorghe Filip, National Institute for R&D 
              in Informatics, Romania
 Joaquim Filipe, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de 
              Setúbal, Portugal
 Colin Fyfe, University of Paisley, U.K.
 Dragan Gamberger, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia
 Adolfo Steiger Garção, FCT - New University of 
              Lisbon, Portugal
 Lazea Gheorghe, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 
              Romania
 Fathi H. Ghorbel, Rice University, U.S.A
 Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, U.S.A
 Andrew Goldenberg, University of Toronto, Canada
 Luis Gomes, New University of Lisbon / Uninova, 
              Portugal
 Jorge Gonçalves, California Institute of Technology, 
              U.S.A
 John Gray, University of Salford, U.K.
 Thomas Gustafsson, Luleå University of Technology, 
              Sweden
 Wolfgang Halang, University of Hagen, Germany
 John Hallam, The University of Edinburgh, U.K.
 Riad Ibrahim Hammoud, Delphi-Delco & Indiana University, 
              U.S.A.
 Uwe Hanebeck, Institute of Computer Design and 
              Fault Tolerance, Germany
 Dominik Henrich, University of Bayreuth, Germany
 João Pedro Hespanha, University of California, 
              U.S.A.
 Weng Khuen Ho, National University of Singapore, 
              Singapore
 Atsushi Imiya, Chiba University, Japan
 Sirkka-Liisa Jämsä-Jounela, Helsinki University 
              of Technology, Finland
 Ray Jarvis, Monash University, Australia
 Karel Jezernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia
 Ben Jonker, University of Twente, The Netherlands
 Gabriel Juhas, K. U. Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany
 Nicos Karcanias, City University, U.K.
 Fakhreddine Karray, University of Waterloo, Canada
 Tohru Katayama, Kyoto University, Japan
 Dusko Katic, Mihailo Pupin Institute, Yugoslavia
 Lydia E. Kavraki, Rice University, U.S.A.
 Hiroyuki Kawano, Kyoto University, Japan
 Okyay Kaynak, Bogazici University, Turkey
 Uwe Kiencke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 Maria Kihl, Lund University, Sweden
 Rudibert King, Technical University of Berlin, 
              Germany
 Michel Kinnaert, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
 Nadir Ould Khessal, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore
 Hannu Koivisto, Tampere University of Technology, 
              Finland
 Jozef Korbicz, University of Zielona Gora, Poland
 Bart Kosko, University of Southern California, 
              U.S.A.
 Kazuhiro Kosuge, Tokohu University, Japan
 Zdenko Kovacic, Faculty of Electrical Engineering 
              and Computing, Croatia
 Murat Kunt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 
              Switzerland
 Jean-Claude Latombe, Stanford University, U.S.A.
 Fátima Silva Leite, ISR/FCTUC - University of Coimbra, 
              Portugal
 Jesse Leitner, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 
              U.S.A.
 Kauko Leiviska, University of Oulu, Finland
 Frank Lewis, The University of Texas at Arlington, 
              U.S.A.
 Gordon Lightbody, University College Cork, Ireland
 Jan Ligus, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
 Zongli Lin, University of Virginia, U.S.A
 Lennart Ljungn, Linköping University, Sweden
 Joachim Lückel, University of Paderborn, Germany
 Bruno Maione, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
 Frederic Maire, Queensland University of Technology, 
              Australia
 Om Malik, University of Calgary, Canada
 Jacek Mañdziuk, Warsaw University of Technology, 
              Poland
 Margareth Simões Meirelles, Rio de Janeiro State 
              University, Brazil
 Max Meng, University of Alberta, Canada
 Basil G. Mertzios, Democritus Univerity of Thrace, 
              Greece
 Arturo Molina, CSIM-ITESM, Mexico
 Eugenio Aguirre Molina, University of Granada, 
              Spain
 Laszlo Monostori, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 
              Hungary
 Manfred Morari, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 
              Switzerland
 Vladimír Mostýn, Technical University Ostrava, 
              Czech Republic
 David J. Murray-Smith, University of Glasgow, U.K.
 Kenneth R. Muske, Villanova University, U.S.A.
 Sergiu Nedevschi, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 
              Romania
 Hendrik Nijmeijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, 
              The Netherlands
 Djamila Ouelhadj, University of Nottingham, U.K.
 Markos Papageorgiou, Technical University of Crete, 
              Greece
 Thomas Parisini, DEEI - University of Trieste, 
              Italy
 Gabriella Pasi, Italian National Research Council, 
              Italy
 Carlos Pereira, Federal University of Rio Grande 
              do Sul, Brazil
 Marco A. Arteaga Pérez, Autonomous National University 
              of Mexico, Mexico
 Joaquim Norberto Pires, University of Coimbra, 
              Portugal
 Marios Polycarpou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
 Marie-Noelle Pons, Lab. Chemical Engineering Sciences/CNRS, 
              France
 Omer F. Rana, University of Waikato, New Zealand
 John Reed, Silsoe Research Institute, U.K.
 Maria Isabel Ribeiro, ISR/IST - Technical University 
              of Lisbon, Portugal
 Robert C. Richardson, University of Manchester, 
              U.K.
 John Ringwood, National University of Ireland, 
              Ireland
 Thomas Rist, German Research Center for Artificial 
              Intelligence, Germany
 Brian Roffel, University of Twente, The Netherlands
 Agostinho Rosa, ISR/IST - Technical University 
              of Lisbon, Portugal
 Danilo De Rossi, Interdepartmental Center "E.Piaggio", 
              Italy
 António E. B. Ruano, University of Algarve, Portugal
 Antonio Sala, Polytechnical University of Valencia, 
              Spain
 Ricardo Sanz, Polytechnical University of Madrid, 
              Spain
 Nilanjan Sarkar, Vanderbilt University, U.S.A.
 Jurek Sasiadek, Carleton University, Canada
 Carsten W. Scherer, Delft University of Technology, 
              The Netherlands
 Klaus Schilling, University of Würzburg, Germany
 João Sentieiro, ISR/IST - Technical University 
              of Lisbon, Portugal
 João Silva Sequeira, ISR/IST - Technical University 
              of Lisbon, Portugal
 Rodolfo Soncini Sessa, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 Bruno Siciliano, University of Naples, Italy
 Clarence W. de Silva, University of British Columbia, 
              Canada
 Mark W. Spong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 
              U.S.A.
 Johan Stahre, Chalmers University of Technology, 
              Sweden
 Gerrit van Straten, Wageningen University, The 
              Netherlands
 Mario Sznaier, The Pennsylvania State University, 
              U.S.A
 Stanislaw Tarasiewicz, University of Laval, Canada
 Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi, University of Milan, Italy
 Daniel Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 
              Switzerland
 Lena Valavani, M.I.T, U.S.A.
 Nicolas Kemper Valverde, Autonomous Nacional University 
              of Mexico, Mexico
 Marc M. Van Hulle, K. U. Leuven, Belgium
 Annamaria R. Varkonyi-Koczy, Budapest University 
              of Technology and Economics, Hungary
 Manuela M. Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, 
              U.S.A
 Ljubisa Vlacic, Griffith University, Australia
 Axel Walthelm, University of Lübeck, Germany
 Jun Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 
              China
 Lipo Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
 Alex Yakovlev, University of Newcastle, U.K.
 Gary G. Yen, Oklahoma State University, U.S.A.
 Shuji Yoshizawa, Saitama University, Japan
 Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, U.S.A.
 Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
 Detlef Zuehlke, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, 
              Germany
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