The European Control Conference

The European Control Conference (ECC) has been organized every two
years under the auspices of the European Control Association (EUCA)
since 1991. From 2013 on it will take place annually.

The conference aims to bring together academic and industrial

professionals in the field of systems and control, and to promote
scientific cooperation and exchanges within Europe and between
Europe and other parts of the World.

ECC14 is the 13th in the EUCA Series of European Control Conferences

and will be held in Strasbourg, France from June 24 to 27, 2014. The
2014 local organizer is the University of Strasbourg, with Prof. Carlos
Canudas de Wit serving as the General Chair, and Prof. Silviu Niculescu
as the International Program Committee Chair.

Technical co-sponsorship of the event is provided by the IEEE Control

Systems Society (CSS), and the International Federation of Automatic
Control (IFAC).

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ECC 2016
29 June – 1 July 2016
Aalborg, Denmark
GC: J. Stoustrup
PC: A. Rantzer
ECC 2015
15-17 July, 2015
Linz, Austria
GC: L. Del Re,
PC: C. Prieur
ECC 2014
24-27, June, 2014
Strasbourg, France
GC: C. Canudas de Wit,
PC: S. Niculescu
ECC 2013
17-19 July, 2013
Zurich, Switzerland
GC: M. Morari,
PC: J. Lygeros
50th IEEE-CDC and ECC 2011
12-15 December, 2011
Orlando, Florida, USA
GC: E Chong,
GVCs: J. Farrell, E. Camacho,
PC: M. Polycarpou
ECC 2009
23-26 August, 2009
Budapest, Hungary
GC: L. Keviczky,
PC: J. Bokor
ECC 2007
2-5 July, 2007
Kos, Greece
GC: S. Tzafestas,
PC: P. Antsaklis
ECC 2005 and 44th IEEE-CDC
12-15 December, 2005
Seville, Spain
GC: E. Camacho,
GVCs: P. Fleming, S. Yurkovich,
PC: Roberto Tempo
ECC 2003
1-4 September, 2003
Cambridge, United Kingdom
GCs: J. Maciejowski, K. Glover
PCs: P.M. Frank, G.H. Bretthauer
ECC 2001
4-7 September, 2001
Porto, Portugal
GC: J. Martins de Carvalho,
PC: J. Sa da Costa
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ECC 1999
31 August–3 September, 1999
Karlsruhe, Germany
GC: P.M. Frank,
PCs: P. Frank, G. Bretthauer
ECC 1993
June 28 – July 1, 1993
Groningen, Netherlands
GC: J. Willems,
PC: J. Nieuwenhuis

ECC 1997 ECC 1991

1-4 July 1997 July 2-5, 1991
Brussels, Belgium Grenoble, France
GCs: G. Bastin, M. Gevers, GC: I. Landau,
PCs: D. Aeyels, B. De Moor, PC: D. Normand-Cyrot
J. Schoukens

ECC 1995
5-8 September 1995
Rome, Italy
GC: A. Isidori, PCs: A. Isidori,
S. Bittanti, E. Mosca

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 The European Control Association

In 1990, members of the Systems and Control community from across

the European Union decided to set up an organization, named the
European Union Control Association (EUCA), with the main goal of
promoting initiatives that enhance scientific exchange, disseminate
information, and coordinate research networks and technology transfer
in the field of Systems and Control within the Union.

EUCA launched its first major initiative in 1991 with a series of wide-
spectrum conferences called the European Control Conferences (ECC).
The goal of these conferences was to promote the science and
technology of control in the broadest sense – whether in engineering,
physical, biological, social or economic, and in both theory and
application. The first ECC was held in Grenoble in 1991, under the
chairmanship of Professor Ioan Landau, and was attended by about 650
people. The ECC was subsequently held every two years until 2011.
From 2013 onward, is held annually.

EUCA’s second major initiative came in 1995 with the launch of the
European Journal of Control, a scientific journal that would serve as
EUCA’s main channel for disseminating important contributions to the
field of Systems and Control. The first issue of the journal appeared in
September of that year under the editorial direction of Professor
Landau.

For a decade starting in 2003 Professor Sergio Bittanti was the editor-in-
chief. In July 2013 he was succeeded by Professor Alessandro Astolfi.

In 2012 the association was re-formed as the European Control

Association (EUCA) to reflect the growing scope of the organization.

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EUCA Council and Officers

President C. Canudas-de-Wit CNRS, GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble

Vice-President S. Engell TU Dormund

Treasurer R. Smith ETH Zurich

Council Member C. Bordons University of Seville

Council Member M. Diehl KU Leuven

ECC Editorial T. Parisini Imperial College London

Secretary P. Goulart ETH Zurich

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EUCA General Assembly

Austria L. del Re Johannes Kepler University Linz

Belgium M. Diehl KU Leuven
Cyprus M. Polycarpou University of Cyprus
Czech S. Celikovsky Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Republic
Denmark R. Wisniewski Aalborg University
Finland S-L. Jämsä-Jounela Aalto University
France S. Niculescu CNRS-SUPELEC
Germany S. Hirche TU Munich
Greece G. Papavassilopoulos National Technical University of Athens
Hungary Z. Szabó Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Ireland R. Shorten IBM Research
Italy P. Bolzern Politecnico di Milano
Malta S. Fabri University of Malta
Norway T. A. Johansen NTNU Trondheim
Poland J. Korbicz University of Zielona Góra
Portugal F. Silva Leite University of Coimbra
Romania C. Oară Politehnica University of Bucharest
Russia A. Fradkov Russian Academy of Sciences
Slovakia M. Kvasnica Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Slovenia D. Juricic Jozef Stefan Institute
Spain F.X. Blasco Ferragud Universitat Politècnica de València
Sweden A. Hansson Linköping University
Switzerland M. Morari ETH Surich
Turkey H. Özbay Bilkent University
United Q. Zhong The University of Sheffield
Kingdom

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