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Special Session 1
New Developments in Intelligent Control Theories and Applications

Intelligent control systems have been an exciting subfield of engineering and new results at both the theoretical and practical levels continue to be developed by numerous researchers and practicing engineers. This motivates us to organize a special session at the 11th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST'2021, https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icist/) to show some of these recent advances in intelligent control theories and their engineering applications.

We believe that ICIST'2021 is a suitable forum for presenting some new results in this field, and expect that through organization of some special topic invited sessions, we will entice more graduate students to be interested in advanced intelligent control theories and applications.

Organizers

Jianbin Qiu (jbqiu@hit.edu.cn)
Professor, Ph.D.
Research Institute of Intelligent Control and Systems
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150080, China

Wenqiang Ji (wqji@hebut.edu.cn)
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
School of Artificial Intelligence
Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China

Meng Wang(mengwang@ecust.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
School of Information Science and Engineering
East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China

Special Session 2
Advanced Guidance and Control for Marine Surface Vehicles

Guidance and control for marine surface vehicles has been an exciting subfield of ocean engineering. Some significant theoretical design and applications continue to be developed by numerous researchers and industrial engineers, e.g. path-following control, dynamic positioning control, obstacles avoidance guidance, etc. This motivates us to organize a special session at the 11th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST'2021, https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icist/ ) to illustrative the meaningful results in advance guidance and control for marine surface vehicles.

We believe that ICIST'2021 is a suitable forum for presenting the significant results in this field. It is expected that through organization of the special topic invited session, more graduate students and researchers would be enticed to be interested in the related research topic.

Organizers

Guoqing Zhang (zgq_dlmu@163.com)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Navigation College
Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, 116026, China

Weidong Zhang(wdzhang@sjtu.edu.cn)
Professor, Ph.D.
Department of Automation
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

Caoyang Yu (yucaoyang@sjtu.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
School of Oceanography
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

Special Session 3
Constrained Control, Optimization and Applications

Constrained control and optimization is an exciting subfield of engineering and new results at both the theoretical and practical levels continue to be developed by numerous researchers and practicing engineers. This motivates us to organize a special session at the 11th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST'2021, https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icist/) to show some of these recent advances in constrained control theories and their engineering applications.

We believe that ICIST'2021 is a suitable forum for presenting some new results in this field, and expect that through organization of some special topic invited sessions, we will entice more graduate students to be interested in constrained control, optimization and applications.

Organizers

Yujie Xu (xuyujie409@gmail.com)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering
National University of Singapore, 117575, Singapore

Shimin WANG (shimin1@ualberta.ca)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ph.D.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, T6G1H9, Canada

Husheng Wu (wuhusheng@vip.163.com)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
School of Equipment Management and Support
Armed Police Force Engineering University. Xi'an, 710086, China

Special Session 4
Advances in Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control

The benefits of cooperation have long been recognized and exploited in engineering to accomplish complex missions, such as security and surveillance, environmental monitoring, and medical applications. These practical applications and their theoretical challenges have made cooperative control a popular topic in the robotics and control systems community, which motivates us to organize a special session at ICIST'2021 to gather researchers in this field for communication and exchange. This session mainly focuses on the current development, new progress, the results (theory, experiment), and challenges of swarm intelligence and cooperative control from both theoretical and practical perspectives.

Organizers

Anqing Wang (anqingwang@dlmu.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Marine Electrical Engineering College
Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China

Xiang Xu (xiangxu5@cityu.edu.hk)
Postdoc, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Lu Liu (luliu@dlmu.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Marine Electrical Engineering College
Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China

Special Session 5
Recent Advances in Control and Signal Processing of Nonlinear Systems

It is well known that the real systems such as aircraft, spacecrafts, vehicular systems, unmanned vehicles are essentially nonlinear. Therefore, it is meaningful and challenging to consider nonlinear systems subject to external disturbances, system uncertainties, component faults, senor noises, signal quantization, secure issue, and so on. Issues like designing advanced control and signal processing approaches for nonlinear systems have received major attention both in engineering application and academic research domains.

The primary objective of this Special Issue for 11th International Conference on Information Science and Technology is to attract original research contributions and comprehensive reviews in the field of mathematical modelling of nonlinear systems, advanced control strategies for nonlinear systems, advanced signal processing including quantized control methods, fault detection and fault-tolerant control; unknown dynamic uncertainties, external disturbance attenuation control, and so on. The papers will be presented the advanced control schemes associated with: uncertainty, non-linear dynamics, communication topology, cyber and physical attacks, event-triggered control, sliding-mode control, and so on. In a non-exhaustive list, it could cover issues of secure consensus, adaptive sliding-mode control, nonlinear system modelling, etc.

Organizers

Xiang-Gui Guo (guoxianggui@ustb.edu.cn)
Professor, Ph.D.
School of Automation and Electrical Engineering
University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China

Li-Ying Hao (haoliying@dlmu.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
College of Marine Electrical Engineering
Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China

Bo-Chao Zheng (zhengbochao@nuist.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
School of Automation
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China

Special Session 6
Recent Advances in Logical Control Networks and Finite-valued Systems

Logical control networks have attracted wide attention from domestic and foreign experts with its irreplaceable role in gene regulatory. Some meaningful results and applications have been designed, which promote the development of complex networks and applied mathematics and provide theoretical basis for biological control science, engineering and complex system science. This motivates us to organize a special session at the 11th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST'2021, https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icist/) to illustrate the significance of logical control networks and Boolean control networks in other fields.

We believe that ISIST'2021 is a suitable forum for presenting the significant results in this field. It is expected that through organization of the special topic invited session, more graduate students and researchers would be enticed to be interested in the related research topic.

Organizers

Jie Zhong (zhongjie0615@gmail.com)
Lecture, Ph.D.
College of Mathematics and Computer Science
Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321004, China

Hongwei Chen (hongwei@dhu.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
College of Information Science and Technology
Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China

Guodong Zhao (zhaoguodong@sdnu.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
School of Mathematics and Statistic
Shandong Normal University, Shandong, 250358, China

Special Session 7
New Developments in Intelligent Optimization and Applications

Intelligent optimization algorithm is one of the most prevalent research topics in the field of algorithm and artificial intelligence, which has been developed for many years, however, problems such as discrete NP-hard combinatorial optimizations remain to be solved. This motivates us to organize a special session at the 11th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST'2021, https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icist/) to show some of these recent advances in intelligent optimization and its applications.

We believe that ICIST'2021 is a suitable forum for presenting some state-of-the-art methods in this field, and expect that through organization of some special topic invited sessions, we will entice more graduate students to be interested in intelligent optimization and its applications.

Organizers

Guoxian Yu (gxyu@sdu.edu.cn)
Professor, PH. D.
School of Software
Shandong University, Jinan 250101, China

Song Wu (songwuswu@swu.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, PH. D.
School of Computer and Information Science
Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China

Zilin Gao (zilingao@sanxiau.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, PH. D.
School of Computer Science and Engineering
Chongqing Three Gorges University, Wanzhou, Chongqing 404100, China

Special Session 8
Control, Optimization, Learning and Games for Marine Robotics

Marine robotics such as autonomous underwater vehicles, unmanned surface vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, biomimetic robotic fish have steadily emerged as key enabling technology for the execution of increasingly complex and challenging missions at sea. Advanced control, optimization, learning and games approaches are crucial to cope with such increasingly complex and challenging missions, which have become hot research topics in nowadays. This motivates us to organize a special session at ICIST'2021 to gather researchers in this field for communication and exchange. The main goal of this session is to present state-of-the-art research outcomes on theory and experiment of control, optimization, learning and games for marine robotics.

Organizers

Defeng Wu (defeng@jmu.edu.cn)
Professor, Ph.D.
School of Marine Engineering
Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China

Lei Qiao (qiaolei@sjtu.edu.cn)
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

Yuanlong Li (liyuanlong0301@sjtu.edu.cn)
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

Special Session 9
Control and Communication Problems in Multi-Robot Systems

The multi-robot systems, e.g., the systems of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or/and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), have attracted considerable attentions recently, due to their broad applications and the increasing demands; they will also be placed in more challenging conditions and show their great potentials in the future. Multiple robots performing in a cooperative mode under communication constraints is a very interesting topic, and the theoretical challenges and engineering applications, such as the combination of complex dynamics and information constraints, quite a few multi-robot control and communication problems are still far from being completely solved. Therefore, this invited session aims to provide a platform for researchers to exchange new ideas and methods, and discuss challenging problems on "control and communications for multi-robot systems" face-to-face.

Organizers

Yirui Cong (congyirui11@nudt.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
College of Intelligence Science and Technology
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

Zhihong Liu (zhliu@nudt.edu.cn)
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
College of Intelligence Science and Technology
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

Xiangke Wang (xkwang@nudt.edu.cn)
Professor, Ph.D.
College of Intelligence Science and Technology
National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

Special Session 10
Dynamical Systems, Control and Optimization

Many complex systems in the computer, information, biological, chemical processes, aeronautical systems, and social sciences can be represented as dynamical systems with nodes denoting objects and edges denoting relationships between the objects. Such complex network structures often change continuously over time through the observation of events at irregular times, such as networks of social interactions between people via messages, networks of transactions between organizations, and networks of face-to-face interactions between people. The control and optimization of these real world problems are challenging and practically importance. Due to the nonlinear nature of the problems, the formulated dynamical systems are usually highly nonlinear.

This motivates us to organize a special session at the 11th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST'2021, https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/icist/) to demonstrate the recent advances in dynamical systems and differential equations theories and their engineering applications. This Special Session will accept high-quality papers describing original research results with the purpose of bringing together mathematicians with engineers, as well as other scientists.

Organizers

Xiangguang Dai (daixiangguang@163.com)
Associate Professor, PhD
School of Three Gorges Artificial Intelligence
Chongqing Three Gorges University, Wanzhou, Chongqing, 404100, China

Huaqing Li (huaqingli@hotmail.com)
Professor, PhD
College of Electronic and Information Engineering
Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Wenfeng Hu (wenfenghu@csu.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, PhD
School of Automation
Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Special Session 11
Advances in Cooperative Control, Distributed Optimization and Network Game

The investigation of cooperative control, distributed optimization and network game has attracted ever-increasing research attention in both industry and academia due primarily to their explicit engineering insights in many applications ranging from machine learning, mobile sensor networks, global positioning systems to aerospace systems. Nevertheless, there are many key issues that have not received adequately research attention yet. This motivates us organize a special session at ICIST'2021 to gather researchers in the above fields for exchanging and sharing research ideas and opinions. This session is concentrated on the discussion of new methods, algorithms, and challenges of distributed control and optimization from both theoretical and practical perspectives.

Organizers

Wenying Xu (wyxu@seu.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
School of Mathematics
Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China

Shengli Du (shenglidu@bjut.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation
Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China

Qiang Jiao (qjiao@xidian.edu.cn)
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
School of Mechano-electronic Engineering
Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China

Special Session 12
Recent Advances in Distributed Control and Security Analysis of Networked Control Systems

In the past few years, networked control systems (NCSs) have been gaining considerable research interest in response to the rapid spread of communication networks. A great deal of control and signal processing algorithms are executed through large-scale communication networks with inherent vulnerability, which have given rise to inevitable network-induced complexities which, in turn, brings enormous challenges to the performance analysis and synthesis of networked control systems. Thus, it is of significant importance to analyze the security performance of NCSs and to design efficient controllers for them.

This session seeks to collect and report recent advances in distributed control and security Analysis of NCSs. Both theoretical and practical works focusing on this theme would be of high interests. Particularly welcomed is the latest progress of distributed control, privacy-preserving algorithms and attack-resilient control in autonomous systems, large-scale systems, interconnected systems, robotics, industrial mechatronics, transportation and variously broad applications.

Organizers

Xuegang Tan (xgtan_sde@163.com)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ph.D.
School of Mathematics
Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

Peijun Wang (pjwang@ahnu.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China

Yang Cao (caoyeacy@seu.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
School of Cyber Science and Engineering
Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China

Wenying Xu (wyxu@seu.edu.cn)
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
School of Mathematics
Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China