1. The Conference Status

The 3^rd International Conference on Control Sciences (ICCS III) will take place in 2006 at the V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia). The Conference is convened by the Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences, National Committee on Automatic Control and the Russian Research Foundation.

2. The Conference Schedule

The Conference will be held from June 19 to June 22, 2006:

3. The contents and the format of the Conference

The objectives of the ICCS III are:

• provide a forum to discuss in a free and open way during plenary, special, and round-table sessions the state-of-the-art in the science of control;
• identify trends in and links between different aspects of the science of control;
• outline the most promising areas of research in the theory of control;
• discuss the challenges faced by the theory of control today.

Background. The 1^st International Conference on Control Sciences (ICCS I) was held in 1999 to celebrate the 60-th anniversary of the Institute of Control Sciences. The idea of the ICCS I was to keep up the tradition of convening National (All-Union) Conferences on Automatic Control in a new world of the end of the XX century. The Program Committee of the ICCS I at its closing meeting recommended that such conferences shall become regular triennial events with the venue at the V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The 2^nd International Conference on Control Sciences (ICCS II) was held in 2003.

The Institute of Control Sciences was founded in 1939 and soon became a leading center of the Soviet Union in the field of the theory of control and applied sciences. The Institute was among the founders of the IFAC (International Federation for Automatic Control). The National Committee on Automatic Control (NCAC) was set up at the Institute to represent the national interests at the IFAC. It was this Institute that initiated and became the principal organizer of the National (All-Union) Conferences on Automatic Control.

The Conference will open on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 11 a.m. with a two-hour plenary session. After the lunch (1 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.) special sessions will start and continue till 5.30 p.m. On the opening day of the ICCS III the first round-table session will start at 5.45 p.m.

The schedule for the other days of the Conference is planned to be as follows:

  4. Preliminary proposals for discussion subjects for special sessions.

I. General issues of the modern theory of control

1. Control systems analysis and integration
2. Optimal control and distributed systems
3. Adaptive and robust control systems
4. Stochastic control systems
5. Identification

II. System analysis and data processing

1. System analysis and systems theory
2. The theory of choice and decision making
3. Control of safety of complex systems
4. Systems for image recognition and data analysis
5. Human factor in control

III. Problem-oriented control systems

1. Control in biomedical systems
2. Control in socio-economic systems
3. Organization structure control
4. Political control
5. Active systems
6. Man-machine control systems
7. Control and mathematical modelling of reflexive processes

IV. Industrial control and measurement

1. Control of technological processes and enterprises
2. Control hardware
3. Robotic control
4. Logic control systems
5. Reliability and technical diagnostics

V. Information technologies and control

1. Computing systems and network technologies in control
2. Artificial intelligence in control
3. Neural networks and systems
4. Knowledge control
5. Computer-aided design

 VI. Transport and Logistics

1. Control of transport flows
2. Control in Logistics

VII. Control of Moving Objects

VIII. Problems of professional specialists (in control) education: theorists, analysts, managers (magistracy, raising the level, MBA, DBA).

 5. International Program Committee

Prangishvili I.V. (chairman), Albertos P., Aleskerov F.T., Ambartscumian A.A., Arlazarov V.L., Ashimov A.A., Baranov L.A., Bodyakin V.I. (scientific secretary), Bubnitsky Z., Burkov V.N., Butkovsky A.G., Chebotaryov P.Yu., Chernous’ko F.L., Demetrovic Ya., Dobrovidov A.V., Dorofyeyuk A.A., Dozortsev V.V., Epstein V.L., Fedosov Ye.A., Fradkov A.L., Fukuda T., Galushkin A.I., Grumpas P., Gukovsky D.E., Hamitov R.Z., Henchey G., Horoshevskiy V.G., Ignatushchenko V.V., Isermann P., Itskovitch E.L., Ivanov Yu.N., Jian Song, Khamitov R.Z., Kirillova F.M., Kneller V.Yu., Kogan B.Ya., Korovin S.K., Koyvo H., Krasovsky N.N., Krotov V.F., Krug Ye.K., Kul’ba V.V., Kulikovsky P., Kuntsevitch V.M., Kurzhansky A.B., Kuznetsov N.A, Kuznetsov O.P, Lepsky V.E., Lototsky V.A., Lotov A.V., Lumelsky V.J., Lyung L., Malinetsky G.G., Mandel’ A.S. (deputy chairman), Meerkov S.M., Miasnikov V.P., Mikulitch L.I., Mirkin B.M., Naletz M., Niemi A., Novikov D.A., Novosel’tsev V.N., Parkhomenko P.P., Paschenko F.F., Plott Ch., Podinovsky V.V., Pohjolainen S., Pokrovsky A.V., Polyak B.T., Popkov Yu.S., Pospelov D.A., Poznyak A.S., Propoy A.I., Pupirev E.I., Rozonoer L.I., Rutkovsky V.Yu., Rykov A.S., Salukvadze M.E., Shershenaliyev Zh., Soloviev M.M., Sorkin L.R., Sorokin L.R., Tamm B., Tcvirkun A.D., Thoma M., Tel’sknis L.A., Terjaev E.D., Tokarev V.V., Traghtengerz E.A., Veryn’ski A., Vishnevsky V.M., Volkov A.F., Yakubovitch V.A., Yashin A.I., Yemel’yanov S.V., Zadeh L., Zakrevskiy A.D., Zhang Zhijian, Zhivoglyadov V.P.

 6. Organizing Committee

Prangishvili I.V. (chairman), Novikov D.A. (deputy chairman) Pavlov B.V. (deputy chairman), Paschenko F.F. (deputy chairman), Avedyan E.D., Aven P.O., Babayan P.P., Beryozova E.G., Bodyakin V.I., Boguslavsky L.B., Durgaryan I.S., Klimachyov S.N., Kondrat’ev V.V., Lebedev V.N., Mandel’ A.S., Menn A.A., Norkin K.B., Pyatnitskaya M.V., Shestakov N.V., Venets V.I.

 7. Invitation to participate and communication

If you want to participate, inform us, indicating your name, affiliation, postal and e-mail addresses, subjects of interest. Send your abstract and proposals to the Organizing Committee.

Post address:

Or by e-mail to: iccpripu@ipu.rssi.ru
More information is available at the Internet address: http://www.ipu.ru

The official languages of the Conference will be Russian and English. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.

If you plan to make a presentation at the Conference, please send the abstract to the Organizing Committee no later than January 25, 2006 (WinWord, maximum one single-spaced A4 format page).

The abstracts will be used to select papers for the Conference program. The preliminary schedule will be updated by correspondence. All abstracts will be published just before the opening of the Conference.

The Conference proceedings will be published in the form of a collection of full texts of the papers. So we ask you to prepare full text of your paper straight to the beginning of the Conference (in electronic form). It is also planned to publish the most interesting fragments of the discussions and send them to the participants.

Information about the participation fee will be provided later.

 8. Abstract instructions

Paper format: A4; margins: top – 2.1 cm, bottom – 2.4 cm, left and right – 2.5 cm.
Typing instructions: Times New Roman; title – a 14 point font, normal, bold.
Name(s) or author(s) - an 11 point font, normal, bold.
Institution and address – an 11-point font, italic.
Abstract text – an 11-point font, normal.
References (as title to a list of references) an 11-point font, normal bold.
Spaces: single, throughout the text
Paragraph format and material delivery:

First lines – HEADING (centered)
Next lines – Name(s) of author(s) – divided by comma, centered.
Next lines – Institution and address (affiliation, e-mail, mailing address), all – centered.
Skip one line.
Start on the next line the text of the abstract (justified alignment, paragraph indent 1.27 cm from left, references in brackets).
Skip one line.
Next line - REFERENCES (centered)
Next line and on – a list of references, each reference numbered with an Arabic number and a dot.
Name(s) of author(s) in the list of references are in italic, the rest – in normal font.
We attach to this announcement an abstract sample in Word 97 for Windows.

9. Sponsors

The Organizing Committee invites sponsors for the Conference or its individual activities.
The sponsors will be honorary guests of the Conference. Sponsoring companies will have their presentations at the Conference. Information about the sponsors will be placed in the Conference Program, its Proceedings, and all subsequent publications, as well as in the mass media and on the Internet site of the Institute of Control Sciences at the address www.ipu.ru.

On behalf of the Program Committee,
Scientific secretary V. Bodyakin