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The 27th Chinese Control Con-ference (CCC’08) was held on July 16–18, 2008 at the Yun An

Conference Resort, Kunming, Yunan Province, China. Kunming is a beau-tiful city known as the Spring City because of its spring-like climate all year round. Yunan Province is home to 26 minority groups of China, in-cluding Tibetan, Naxi, Bai, and Dai. The rich local culture heritage made the CCC’08 colorful.

The Technical Committee on Con-trol Theory (TCCT) of the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) is the permanent sponsor of the annual Chinese Control Conference (CCC). Information on current and past CCCs can be found in the Web site of the TCCT at: http://tcct.amss.ac.cn. Kunming Uni versity of Science and Technology and the Yunnan Division of the CAA are the local sponsors of CCC’08, who were responsible for local organization of the conference. The conference is also cosponsored by the IEEE Control System Society (CSS), the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), Japan, the Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS), Korea, IEEE CSS Singapore Chapter, the Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan University, Yunnan Normal University, and the Control, and Automation and Instrumenta-tion Division of Hong Kong Institute of Engineers.

The conference attracted a re-cord number of 744 attendees and approximately 220 companions, including 52 participants from out-

side China. Many attendees brought their families with them to enjoy the beautiful scenery and the colorful culture of Yunnan.

TECHNICAL PROGRAMSThere were 2435 submissions to CCC’08. From these submissions, 1026 papers were accepted and

included in the conference pro-ceedings, which were published in seven hardcopy volumes (ISBN: 978-7-81124-309-1), as well as in a CD-ROM (ISBN: 978-7-900719-70-6). There were 95 papers from 27 coun-tr ies/regions outside mainland China, including Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Iran,

The 27th Chinese Control Conference (CCC’08)

The opening ceremony of the 27th Chinese Control Conference with over 600 in attendance.

Lin Huang delivers his plenary talk “Several Problems on Control of Modern Aircraft.”

Tsu-Tian Lee delivers his plenary talk “Re-search on Intelligent Transportation Sys-tems in Taiwan.”

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Japan, Korea, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States. The rate of acceptance was 42%. The Proceedings of the 27th Chinese Con-trol Conference will be included in the IEEE Conference Publication Program with the IEEE catalog number CFP0840A.

There were 74 parallel oral ses-sions, 14 of which were invited, com-prised of 423 papers, and four poster sessions with 309 papers. Five of the oral sessions were English sessions, where all papers were represented in English. Papers in other sessions could be presented either in English or in Chinese.

Five plenary speeches on timely topics were delivered. These speeches were the following:

“Control of Hybrid Systems: The- »ory, Computation, and Applica-

tions” by Manfred Morari, Auto-matic Control Lab., ETH Zurich“A New Neura l Computa- »tion Scheme of Unsupervised Learning with Applications to Robot Biped Locomotion” by Hidenori Kimura, Institute of Physical and Chemical Re-search, RIKEN“Several Problems on Control of »Modern Aircraft” by Lin Huang, Peking University“Advances in Stability Theory »for Complex Systems and Net-works” by David Hill, Austra-lian National University“Research on Intelligent Trans- »portation Systems in Taiwan” by Tsu-Tian Lee, National Taipei University of Technology.

These plenary sessions were chaired by Xiaoming Hu, Hanfu Chen, Jie

Huang, Jun Zhao, and Qiancuan Zhao, respectively.

AWARDSTwo awards were presented at the 27th CCC, the 14th Guan Zhao-Zhi Award and the 3rd Poster Paper Award. The winning paper for the 14th Guan Zhao-Zhi Award was “Global Disturbance Rejection of Lower Triangular Systems with Unknown Exosystem” by Lu Liu from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The winning paper for the 3rd Poster Award was “Quantum System Schmidt Decomposition and Its Geo-metric Analysis” by Shuang Cong and Xianyong Feng from the University of Science and Technology of China.

PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSIONA plenary panel discussion titled “Control Research and Education

A parallel oral session.

Yun An Auditorium, the venue of the 27th Chinese Control Conference.

Manfred Morari delivers his plenary talk “Control of Hybrid Sys-tems: Theory, Computation, and Applications.”

“Voice of Control—A Workshop for Journal Editors and Research-ers in the Field of Control Science.”

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in the 21st Century” was held. The panelists were Minyue Fu from University of Newcastle, Australia; Yiguang Hong from Chinese Acade-my of Sciences, China; Xiaoming Hu from Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Jie Huang from Chinese University of Hong Kong, China; Wei Kang from the Naval Post-graduate School, USA; and Lihua Xie from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The plenary panel discussion was organized and moderated by B.M. Chen and Z.P. Jiang. Many questions, which es-pecially concern graduate students

and young researchers, such as how to improve their research ability, how to find proper research topics,

and how to deal with the relation-ship between studying books and carrying out research (reading and writing papers), were raised and discussed. The panelists offered many thoughtful views.

CONFERENCE WORKSHOPA conference workshop titled “Voice of Control—Workshop for Editors and Researchers in the Field of Control Science” was held. Invited speeches and discussion among edi-tors and researchers were arranged. Editors from 11 journals, including Acta Automatica Sinica, Aerospace Control and Application, Control and Decision, Control Engineering of China, Information and Control, International Journal of Automation and Computing, Journal of Control Theory and Applica-tions, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, Journal of Systems Science and Mathematical Sciences, Robot, and Science in China, attended this work-shop. The invited speakers provided valuable advice on how domestic periodicals could promote the de-velopment of control science. The editors discussed tips for preparing good papers.

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIONSeveral distinguished guests from SICE, Japan, and ICROS, Korea, were invited to participate in the confer-ence. Shinji Hara, vice-chair of SICE, Akira Ohata, SICE director of Com-mittee for Organization of Technical

David Hill delivers his plenary talk “Advances in Stability Theory for Complex Systems and Networks.”

A warm discussion among delegates from Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) and Technical Committee on Control Theory (TCCT). From right to left are: Gang Feng, Qianchuan Zhao, Benmei Chen, Tielong Shen, Yiguang Hong, Akira Ohata, Tong Zhou, Shinji Hara, C.W. Chan, Daizhan Cheng, Shaoyuan Li, Jie Huang, Jie Chen, and Yi Huang.

Chongkug Park at the CCC’08 VIP Party, a dinner party with a large performance of national singing and dancing “Ji Xin Yan Wu.”

Hidenori Kimura delivers his plenary talk “A New Neural Computa-tion Scheme of Unsupervised Learning with Applications to Robot Biped Locomotion.”

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Committees, and Chongkug Park, the honorary president of ICROS attended the conference. During the conference a meeting was held to dis-cuss the collaboration between TCCT and SICE. Delegates from SICE and from TCCT had a fruitful discussion and several collaborations were pro-posed. Shinji Hara and Chongkug Park also delivered warm speeches at the closing ceremony.

SPECIAL FINANCIAL SUPPORTA special fund was set up to provide financial support for the delegates from the area hit by the recent May 12 Wenchuan earthquake to attend the conference.

POST-CONFERENCE TOURSHome to the 26 minority groups of China, Yunnan not only has beautiful scenery with a pleasant climate but also is rich in culture heritage. The confer-ence organized post- conference tours in six different areas in Kunming, in-cluding Dali, Lijiang, Shangri-La, Xishuangbanna, and Ruili.

CLOSING REMARKSThe success of the conference was due to the efforts of many people, including the attendees, authors, and members of the conference committees. A 95-mem-ber program committee undertook the job of advertising the conference, handling paper reviews, compiling the final program, and editing the book of abstracts and the proceed-ings. Eight program regional chairs, who were appointed for this year’s CCC, were responsible for promoting the conference within their respective regions and for organizing invited sessions. These chairs were Tongwen Chen, University of Alberta, Canada; Jae Weon Choi, Pusan National Uni-versity, Korea; Wanquan Liu, Curtin University of Technology, Australia; Gang Feng, Hong Kong City Univer-sity, Hong Kong; Zongli Lin, Universi-ty of Virginia, United States; Guoping Liu, University of Glamorgan, United Kingdom; Tielong Shen, Sophia Uni-versity, Japan; and Lihua Xie, Nanyang

(From right to left) Akira Ohata, Chongkug Park, Han-fu Chen, Hidenori Kimura, Daizhan Cheng, Shinji Hara, Dong-Han Kim, and Fenghong Xiang at the conference banquet.

Members of the organizing committee and student volunteers at the conference banquet.

Han-fu Chen (left), General Chair of CCC’08, Zongli Lin (middle) and Yingmin Jia, vice-chairs of the Poster Paper Award Evaluation Committee.

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Technological University, Singapore. A 126-member organizing committee successfully handled the task of mak-ing local arrangements.

The next CCC will be held jointly with the IEEE Conference on Deci-sion and Control in Shanghai as

CDC-CCC’09. At the closing cer-emony, Shaoyuan Li, Vice-Chair of the TCCT, reported on the progress of the preparation work for CDC-CCC’09 and extended a warm in-vitation to colleagues all over the world to contribute to this grand

event. We look forward to seeing you in Shanghai.

Daizhan Cheng and Fenghong Xiang Program Chairs

Zongli LinU.S. Regional Chair

The 23rd Youth Automation Con-ference (YAC) of Chinese Asso-ciation of Automation (CAA)

was held on October 17–19, 2008, in Wuhan, Hubei Province. The confer-

ence was held under the auspices of the CAA, the Youth Working Com-mittee of CAA, the Department of Control Science and Engineering of Huazhong University of Science and

Technology, and the School of Auto-motive Engineering of Wuhan Uni-versity of Technology.

The annual youth academic con-ference has been a platform of more

The 23rd Youth Automation Conference of the Chinese Association of Automation (YAC’08)

Opening speech by Jianbo Su, chair of Youth Working Committee, Chinese Association of Automation.

Handover of the Wiener cup from the previous conference organizer to the current one.

The TCCT meeting at CCC’08.

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