E-LETTER ON SYSTEMS,CONTROL,&SIGNAL PROCESSING ISSUE 389, JANUARY 2021 Editor: Ahmad F. Taha Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering The University of Texas at San Antonio 1 UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249 [email protected] http://engineering.utsa.edu/ataha Welcome to Issue 389 of the CSS E-letter available here. – To submit new articles, visit article submissions on the E-Letter website. – To subscribe, send an empty email to [email protected] and you will be automatically subscribed to the CSS E-Letter. – To unsubscribe, please send a blank email to [email protected] and you will be automatically unsubscribed. The next E-Letter will be mailed out at the beginning of February 2021. Contents 1. IEEE CSS Headlines 1.1 Become a CSS Member 1.2 Follow the CSS Social Media Accounts 1.3 CSS Technically Cosponsored Events 1.4 CSS Publications Content Digest 1.5 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 1.6 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology 1.7 IEEE Control Systems Letters 1.8 IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems 1.9 IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Intelligent Control 1.10 CFP: IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control Special Issue on Learning/Control 2. Miscellaneous 2.1 Virtual Lightning Tutorial Series 2.2 Online Course on Computational Machine Learning 2.3 Call for CPHS 2022 Organization Proposals 3. Books 3.1 Synchronous Reinforcement Learning-Based Control for Cognitive Autonomy 3.2 Learning-Based Control: A Tutorial and Some Recent Results 3.3 Atomic Decomposition via Polar Alignment 3.4 Robust Integration of Model-Based Fault Estimation and Control 4. Journals 4.1 Evolutions Equations and Control Theory 4.2 IET Control Theory & Applications 4.3 IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information 4.4 International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science 4.5 Automatica 4.6 Journal of Process Control 4.7 Systems & Control Letters 4.8 Journal of the Franklin Institute 4.9 Control Engineering Practice 4.10 Annual Reviews in Control 4.11 Mechatronics 4.12 ISA Transactions 4.13 Control Theory and Technology 4.14 Asian Journal of Control 4.15 Proceedings of the Institute of Applied Mathematics 4.16 International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems 4.17 CFP: Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems 5. Conferences and Workshops 5.1 CDC 2020 Workshop: Control and Learning for Emerging Mobility Systems 5.2 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Greece 6. Positions 6.1 PhD: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China 6.2 PhD: University of Delaware, USA 6.3 PhD: City Univ. of Hong Kong & Southern Univ. of Science & Tech., China 6.4 PhD: The Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network, EU 6.5 PhD: Virginia Tech, USA 6.6 PhD: Maynooth University, Ireland 6.7 PhD: University of Warwick, UK 6.8 PhD: University of Kentucky, USA 6.9 PhD: Arizona State University, USA 6.10 PhD: University of Groningen, The Netherlands 6.11 PhD/Postdoc: Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany 6.12 PhD/Postdoc: Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany 6.13 Postdoc: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China 6.14 Postdoc: Concordia University, Canada 6.15 Postdoc: Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic 6.16 Postdoc: North Carolina A&T State University, USA 6.17 Postdoc: University of Colorado Boulder, USA 6.18 Postdoc: Lund University, Sweden 6.19 Postdoc: Kiel University, Germany 6.20 Postdoc: University of Kentucky, USA 6.21 Postdoc: Arizona State University, USA 6.22 Faculty: University of Waterloo, Canada 6.23 Faculty: Peng Cheng Laboratory, China 6.24 Faculty: Lulea University of Technology, Sweden 6.25 Faculty: The University of Texas at Dallas, USA CSS E-Letter Issue 389, January 2021 1 IEEE CSS Headlines 1.1. Become a CSS Member Contributed by: Ahmad Taha, [email protected] Become a CSS Member by visiting the following link https://bit.ly/2ZBWCCs. Back to the contents 1.2. Follow the CSS Social Media Accounts Contributed by: Ahmad Taha and Ankush Chakrabarty [email protected], [email protected] Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/CSSIEEE Like us on Facebook https://facebook.com/CSSIEEE Back to the contents 1.3. CSS Technically Cosponsored Events Contributed by: Luca Zaccarian, CSS AE Conferences, [email protected] The following items have been recently included in the list of events technically cosponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society: - 2021 33rd Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC 2021). Kunming, China. May 22-24, 2021. http://www.ccdc.neu.edu.cn/ - 2020 IEEE 17th India Council International Conference (INDICON 2020). New Delhi, India. December 11-13, 2020. http://www.indicon2020.in/ - 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED 2021). Brindisi, Italy. June 22-25, 2021. http://www.med2021.poliba.it/ - 25th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (MMAR 2020). Miedzyz- droje, Poland. August 23-26, 2021. http://www.mmar.edu.pl For a full listing of CSS technically cosponsored conferences, please visit http://ieeecss.org/conferences/technically-co-sponsored and for a list of the upcoming and past CSS main conferences please visit http://ieeecss.org/conferences/financially-sponsored Back to the contents CSS E-Letter Issue 389, January 2021 1.4. CSS Publications Content Digest Contributed by: Kaiwen Chen, [email protected] The IEEE Control Systems Society Publications Content Digest is a novel and convenient guide that helps readers keep track of the latest published articles. The CSS Publications Content Digest, available at http://ieeecss.org/publications-content-digest provides lists of current tables of contents of the periodicals sponsored by the Control Systems Society. Each issue offers readers a rapid means to survey and access the latest peer-reviewed papers of the IEEE Control Systems Society. We also include links to the Society’s sponsored Conferences to give readers a preview of upcoming meetings. Back to the contents 1.5. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Contributed by: Alessandro Astolfi, [email protected] IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Volume 65 (2020), Issue 12 (December) Papers: - Minimal series-parallel network realizations of bicubic impedances Timothy H. Hughes, p. 4997 - An Input-Output Approach to Structured Stochastic Uncertainty Maurice Filo, Bassam Bamieh, p. 5012 - Uniform Input-to-State Stability for Switched and Time-Varying Impulsive Systems J. L. Mancilla-Aguilar, Hernan Haimovich, p. 5028 - Accurate Uncertainty Propagation for Discrete-Time Nonlinear Systems Using Differential Inequalities with Model Redundancy Xuejiao Yang, Joseph Scott, p. 5043 - Output Feedback Approximation-Free Prescribed Performance Tracking Control for Uncertain MIMO Nonlinear Systems Ioannis S. Dimanidis, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, George A. Rovithakis, p. 5058 - Synchronization of Kuramoto Oscillators: A Regional Stability Framework Lijun Zhu, David J. Hill, p. 5070 - On Synchronization of Dynamical Systems over Directed Switching Topology: An Algebraic and Geomet- ric Perspective Jiahu Qin, Qichao Ma, Xinghuo Yu, Long Wang, p. 5083 - Stability-Preserving Morse Normal Form Vladimir Kucera, p. 5099 - Optimal construction of Koopman eigenfunctions for prediction and control Milan Korda, Igor Mezic, p. 5114 - Learning Latent Variable Dynamic Graphical Models by Confidence Sets Selection Valentina Ciccone, Augusto Ferrante, Mattia Zorzi, p. 5130 - Efficient verification of observability and reconstructibility for large Boolean control networks with special structures Kuize Zhang, Karl H. Johansson, p. 5144 - Design of Supervisors for Active Diagnosis in Discrete Event Systems Yihui Hu, Ziyue Ma, Zhiwu Li, p. 5159 CSS E-Letter Issue 389, January 2021 - Hybrid Nonlinear Observers for Inertial Navigation Using Landmark Measurements Miaomiao Wang, Abdelhamid Tayebi, p. 5173 - Set Membership identification of linear systems with guaranteed simulation accuracy Marco Lauricella, Lorenzo Fagiano, p. 5189 - Observer Design for Nonlinear Systems with Output Transformation Francisco Gonz·lez de CossIo,` Madiha Nadri, Pascal Dufour, p. 5205 - p-Safe Analysis of Stochastic Hybrid Processes Rafal Wisniewski, Luminita Manuela Bujorianu, Christof- fer Sloth, p. 5220 - On Liveness Enforcing Supervisory Policies for Arbitrary Petri Nets Chen Chen, Arun Raman, Hesuan Hu, Ramavarapu S. Sreenivas, p. 5236 - A Game-Theoretic Approach for Dynamic Information Flow Tracking to Detect Multi-Stage Advanced Persistent Threats Shana Moothedath, Dinuka Sahabandu, Joey Allen, Andrew Clark, Linda Bushnell, Wenke Lee, Radha Poovendran, p. 5248 - Achieving Linear Convergence in Distributed Asynchronous Multi-agent Optimization YE TIAN, Ying Sun, Gesualdo Scutari, p. 5264 - Compositional (In)Finite Abstractions for Large-Scale Interconnected Stochastic Systems Abolfazl Lavaei, Sadegh Soudjani, Majid Zamani, p. 5280 - Distributed finite-time optimization for integrator chain multi-agent systems with disturbances Xiangyu Wang, Guodong Wang, Shihua Li, p. 5296 - Combining Pontryagin´ıs Principle and Dynamic Programming for linear and nonlinear systems Mario Sassano, Alessandro Astolfi, p. 5312 Technical Notes and Correspondence: - H2 model reduction of linear network systems by moment matching and optimization Ion Necoara, Tudor C. Ionescu, p. 5328 - Backstepping-based estimation of thermoacustic oscillations in a Rijke tube with experimental validation Gustavo Artur de Andrade, Rafael Vazquez, Daniel Juan Pagano, p. 5336 - Predictor Feedback for