Dear esteemed Colleague,

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate to a special issue in the IFAC journal Control Engineering Practice.

We are preparing this issue for presenting novel ideas, techniques and applications regarding non-integer (fractional) order systems and controllers, in all their possible configurations.

Note that the journal scope and policy are specified as follows.

a) The submitted paper has to be application-oriented, with information and stress on the relevance for an industrial context or for a control-engineering application. To this aim, industrial examples are requested, not just toy examples. Simulation is accepted only if verified on models of real plants. Benefits must be enlightened with respect to other control techniques.

b) Strictly theoretical papers or papers with simple numerical examples will be not considered.

c) The IFAC policy requires new contributions. If the submitted paper is derived and extended from previous contributions in any conference proceedings, then it must be very different from the conference papers.The authors have to clearly indicate the differences and the improvements/originality in the submitted journal paper. Moreover, the conference papers must be cited and adequately discussed.

If you are willing to participate, we will consider your contribution together with those from other experts in the field.

The complete proposal will be evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief, currently Prof. Andreas Kugi, and by other Associate Editors of the Journal. If the outcome will be positive, then you will be invited to submit your paper for evaluation by referees. The submission will be done by a special submission group in EES.

To conclude, for the moment, let us know as soon as possible if you agree to participate. In this case, you should send us in two weeks from the reception of this letter:
- a preliminary title of the paper
- the list of authors
- their complete affiliation with email address
- a short abstract

Best regards
Riccardo Caponetto, Guido Maione, Jocelyn Sabatier

riccardo.caponetto@dieei.unict.it
guido.maione@poliba.it
jocelyn.sabatier@u-bordeaux.fr
　

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Editor-in-Chief: Eric Rogers

School of Electronics and Computer Science,

University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

e-mail: etar@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Guest Editors:

Prof Dr YangQuan CHEN

Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation (MESA) Lab,


School of Engineering, University of California, Merced


5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343, USA

 (E-mail: yqchen@ieee.org, or, yangquan.chen@ucmerced.edu )

Dr Clara M. IONESCU

GHENT UNIVERSITY, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Dept of Electrical energy, Systems and Automation, Technologiepark 913, B9052, Zwijnaarde, BELGIUM

(E-mail: ClaraMihaela.Ionescu@UGent.be)

Fractional calculus is about differentiation and integration of non-integer orders. Using integer-order models and controllers for complex natural or man-made systems is simply for our own convenience. Using integer order traditional tools for modelling and control of dynamic systems may result in suboptimum performance, that is, using fractional order calculus tools, we can be “more optimal” as already documented in the literature. An interesting remark is that, using integer order traditional tools, more and more “anomalous” phenomena are being reported or complained but in applied fractional calculus community, it is now more widely accepted that “anomalous is normal” in nature. We believe, beneficial uses of this versatile mathematical tool of fractional calculus from an engineering point of view are possible and important, and  fractional calculus may become an enabler for new science discoveries.

This special issue, with its revealing content and up-to-date developments, joins the utmost proof for this distinctive tendency of adoption of fractional calculus. Since 2012, several such special issues were published in some leading journals which showcase the active interference of fractional calculus to control engineering. It becomes apparent that there is a need to have a special issue in a leading control journal such as International Journal of Control. This focused special issue on control theory and applications is yet another effort to bring forward the latest updates from the applied fractional calculus community. For that we feel very excited and we hope the readers will feel the same.

The aim of this special issue is to show the control engineering research community the usefulness of these fractional order tools in a pragmatic context, in order to stimulate further adoptions and applications. It is our sincere hope that this special issue will become a milestone of a significant trend in the future development of classical and modern control theory. The special issue points out the trend of the fractional order control community to extend and generalize classical and modern control theory to fractional order systems. The contributions may stimulate future industrial applications of the fractional order control leading to simpler, more economical, reliable and versatile systems with increasing complexities.

There is no doubt that with this special issue, the emerging concepts of fractional calculus will have their mathematical abstractness removed and become an attractive tool in the field of control engineering with more ‘‘good consequences’’. We welcome any contribution within the general scope of the Special Issue theme “Applied Fractional Calculus in Modeling, Analysis and Design of Control Systems.”

IMPORTANT DATES: (tentative)

15 March 2015:                Call for Papers

1 June 2014:                     Paper Submission

1 August 2015:                  First Review

1 October 2015:                Paper Acceptance

1 December 2015:             Publication online

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Potential authors are encouraged to upload the electronic file of their manuscript through the journal’s online submission website:

https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcon

Please select the item:  fracspec  on the drop-down menu when you submit papers.

All papers have to be written and submitted according to the International Journal of Control guidelines.

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Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Fei-Yue Wang

Guest Co-Editors:

Prof. YangQuan CHEN

Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation (MESA) Lab,

School of Engineering, University of California, Merced

5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA 95343, USA

E-mail: yqchen@ieee.org, or, yangquan.chen@ucmerced.edu

(T: 1-209-2284672; W: http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/)

Prof. Dingyu XUE,

School of Information Sciences and Engineering,

Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, P.R.China

E-mail: xuedingyu@ise.neu.edu.cn

Prof. Antonio VISIOLI,

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering,

University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, I-25123 Brescia (Italy)

E-mail: antonio.visioli@ing.unibs.it; http://www.ing.unibs.it/~visioli

Fractional calculus is about differentiation and integration of non-integer orders. Using integer-order models and controllers for complex natural or man-made systems is simply for our own convenience while the nature runs in a fractional order dynamical way. Using integer order traditional tools for modelling and control of dynamic systems may result in suboptimum performance, that is, using fractional order calculus tools, we could be “more optimal” as already documented in the literature. An interesting remark is that, using integer order traditional tools, more and more “anomalous” phenomena are being reported or perhaps complained but in applied fractional calculus community, it is now more widely accepted that “Anomalous is normal” in nature. We believe, beneficial uses of fractional calculus from an engineering point of view are possible and important. We also hope that fractional calculus might become an enabler for new science discoveries. Bruce J. West just finished a new book entitled “The Fractional Dynamic View of Complexity - Tomorrow’s Science” (CRC Press, late 2015). We resonate that, with this special issue, “Fractional Order Systems and Controls” will one day enable “tomorrow’s sciences”.

Since 2012, several special issues were published in some leading journals which showcase the active interference of fractional calculus to control engineering. Clearly, there is a strong need to have a special issue in an emerging leading control journal such as IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS). This focused special issue on control theory and applications is yet another effort to bring forward the latest updates from the applied fractional calculus community. For that we feel very excited and we hope the readers will feel the same.

The aim of this special issue is to show the control engineering research community the usefulness of the fractional order tools from signals to systems to controls. It is our sincere hope that this special issue will become a milestone of a significant trend in the future development of classical and modern control theory. The contributions may stimulate future industrial applications of the fractional order control leading to simpler, more economical, more energy efficient, more reliable and versatile systems with increasing complexities.

There is no doubt that with this special issue, the emerging concepts of fractional calculus will have their mathematical abstractness removed and become an attractive tool in the field of control engineering with more ‘‘good consequences’’. We welcome any contribution within the general scope of the Special Issue theme “Fractional Order Systems and Controls”.

IMPORTANT DATES: (tentative)

15 June 2015: Call for Papers

31 August 2015: Paper Submission

31 October 2015: First Review

30 November 2015: Paper Acceptance

Issue #1 of 2016: Publication online

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Potential authors are encouraged to upload the electronic file of their manuscript through the journal’s online submission website:

https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/aas-en

Please select the special issue item on the drop-down menu when you submit papers.

All papers have to be written in English and submitted according to the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica guidelines.

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