SPECIAL SESSIONS
IEEE CASE 2009 special sessions intend to provide the opportunity for focused presentations and discussion on emerging and innovative topics of interest to the automation community. More specifically each special session will last two hours and it will include (i) four 25-minute presentations on the target topic, and (ii) an additional 20-minute interval of more open discussion and deliberations that will be led by the session chair and will highlight further research topics and future challenges.
We will have the following Special Sessions on contemporary topics in Automation Science and Engineering:
Sunday, August 23, 2009, 16.00 - 18.00 Hours (Parallel Sessions)
Coordinators:
Alessandro Giua, Universita' di Cagliari, Italy
Spyros Reveliotis, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Manuel Silva, Centro Politécnico Superior, Spain
Coordinators:
Shivakumar Sastry, University of Akron, USA
Vijay Kumar, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Coordinator:
Alan Hartman, IBM India Research Lab, India
Coordinators:
Krishna Pattipati, University of Connecticut, USA
Pulak Bandopadhyay, GM India Science Lab, Bangalore, India
Coordinator:
Ram D. Sriram, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Monday, August 24, 2009, 16.00 - 18.00 Hours (Parallel Sessions)
Coordinator:
Sunderesh Heragu, University of Louisville, USA
Coordinators:
Ratnesh Kumar, Iowa State University, USA
S.Ramesh, GM India Science Lab, Bangalore, India
Coordinators:
Ram D. Sriram, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Rachuri Sudarsan, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Coordinator:
Shi-Chung Chang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan