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SYSID 2018
18th IFAC Symposium on System Identification
Stockholm, Sweden 9-11 July 2018
The organizing committee has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the
18th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, SYSID 2018.
SCOPE
The IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYS-
ID) is organized every three years and aims at promot-
ing research and development activities in the areas
of system identification, experimental modeling, sig-
nal processing and adaptive control. The scope of the
symposium covers all aspects of these areas, ranging
from theoretical investigations to a large variety of (en-
gineering) applications. The participation by authors
from industry is particularly encouraged. A detailed
list of topics is given on the website of the conference:
www.ee.kth.se/sysid2018
PROGRAM
The scientific program will consist of
plenary lectures by invited speakers
regular sessions
invited sessions
poster sessions
software sessions
VENUE
SYSID 2018 will be held at AlbaNova Univer-
sity Center which hosts departments from KTH
Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm
University. It is located nearby KTH main cam-
pus and 2 km from the city center.
IMPORTANT DATES
September 8, 2017: Paper submission
opens.
December 8, 2017: Deadline for
submission of regular papers and
invited session proposals and papers.
April 6, 2018: Author notification and reg-
istration opens.
May 9, 2018: Deadline submission of final
versions of all papers.
May 16, 2018: Early registration
closes.
July 9-11, 2018: Conference

www.ee.kth.se/sysid2018
 INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Tomas McKelvey, SE Alessandro Chiuso, IT Roland Toth, NL Roland Hildebrand, FR
Er-Wei Bai, US Daniel Rivera, US Andrea Garulli, IT Erik Weyer, AU
Brett Ninness, AU Fabrizio Dabbene, IT Paul Van den Hof, NL Hkan Hjalmarsson, SE
Laurent Baratchart, FR Cristian Rojas, SE Laszlo Gerencser, HU George Yin, US
Carlo Novara, IT Manfred Deistler, AT Michel Verhaegen, NL Tao Liu, CN
Robert Bitmead, US Thomas Schon, SE Michel Gevers, BE Ji-Feng Zhang, CN
Hiroshi Oku, JP Bart De Moor, BE Antonio Vicino, IT Lennart Ljung, SE
Sergio Bittanti, IT Johan Schoukens, BE Fouad Giri, FR Yanlong Zhao, CN
Tom Oomen, NL Martin Enqvist, SE Tyrone Vincent, US Jan Maciejowski, UK
Xavier Bombois, NL Roy Smith, CH Keith Godfrey, UK Wenxiao Zhao, CN
Giorgio Picci, IT Hai-Tao Fang, CN Bo Wahlberg, SE Iven Mareels, AU
Marco Campi, IT Torsten Soderstrom, SE Oleg Granichin, RS Yucai Zhu, CN
Gianluigi Pillonetto, IT Simone Formentin, IT Le Yi Wang, US Juan Carlos Aguero,
Han-Fu Chen, CN Toshiaru Sugie, JP Lei Guo, CN AU
Rik Pintelon, BE Simone Garatti, IT Liuping Wang, AU
Jie Chen, US Hideyuki Tanaka, JP William Heath, UK
Diego Regruto, IT Hugues Garnier, FR James Welsh, AU

SYSID 2018 PUBLICATIONS AND IFAC COPYRIGHT POLICY

All papers accepted for publication will be distributed to the participants on a USB-key together with a printed book of
abstracts including the final program. All publication material submitted for presentation at an IFAC-sponsored meet-
ing must be original and hence cannot be already published, nor can it be under review elsewhere. The authors take
responsibility for the material that has been submitted. IFAC-sponsored conferences will abide by the highest standard
of ethical behavior in the review process as explained on the Elsevier webpage (http://www.elsevier.com/journal-au-
thors/author-rights-and-responsibilities),and the authors will abide by the IFAC publication ethics guidelines (http://
www.ifac-control.org/events/organizers-guide/PublicationEthicsGuidelines.pdf/view). Accepted papers that have been
presented at an IFAC meeting will be published in the proceedings of the event using the open-access IFAC-Paper-
sOnLine series hosted on ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com). To this end, the author(s) must confer the
copyright to IFAC when they submit the final version of the paper through the paper submission process. The au-
thor(s) retain the right to use a copy of the paper for personal use, internal institutional use at the author(s) institution,
or scholarly posting at an open web site operated by the author(s) or their institution, limited to noncommercial use.
Any other use of the paper requires approval by IFAC.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE AND CONTACT INFORMATION

General chair: Hkan Paper submissions chair: Secretariat: Hanna Holmqvist
Hjalmarsson, hjalmars@kth.se Pradeep Misra, and Karin Karlsson
Co-chair: Bo Wahlberg, pmisra@cs.wright.edu
bo@kth.se Contact
IPC chair: Marco Campi, Jonas Sjberg, SYSID 2018
marco.campi@unibs.it jonas.sjoberg@chalmers.se Automatic Control
Editor: Cristian Rojas, Thomas Schn, KTH Electrical Engineering
crro@kth.se thomas.schon@it.uu.se SE-100 44 Stockholm
Industry chair: Alf Isaksson, Martin Enqvist, Sweden
alf.isaksson@se.abb.com maren@isy.liu.se sysid2018@ee.kth.se

Sponsors
IFAC Technical Committee on Modeling, Identification and
Signal Processing
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Co-Sponsors
IFAC TC on Adaptive and Learning Systems
IFAC TC on Discrete Events and Hybrid Systems
IFAC TC on Stochastic Systems
IEEE Control Systems Society