The 1st Symposium on the COntrol of NEtwork Systems

The 1st Symposium on the COntrol of NEtwork Systems (SCONES) was held on Monday, October 27 and Tuesday, October 28, 2014, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

SCONES marked the launch of the IEEE Transactions on Network Control Systems (TCNS), a new IEEE Transactions, sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society with technical co-sponsors the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, the IEEE Communications Society, the IEEE Computer Society, and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

SCONES was a celebration of the inaugural issue of the TCNS, published in March 2014, and offered a forward-looking view to where the field is going. All authors with papers in the inaugural issue were invited to the Symposium; each paper was given a slot for one of the authors to present the results to the audience. SCONES also featured a number of invited sessions on topics of interest to TCNS. Each Symposium day featured a poster session for accepted posters.

TCNS publishes high-quality papers on systems with interconnected components. It focuses primarily on problems related to the control of network systems but is also open to contributions concerning their design, study, engineering, optimization, and emerging behavior as these can inform and guide design and control. The scope of TCNS is described on the TCNS site and the Symposium’s scope coincides with that of TCNS.

Acknowledgments: SCONES was sponsored by the Outreach Fund of the IEEE Control Systems Society and by the Center for Information and Systems Engineering at Boston University.

Agenda Day 1

8:00AM    8:25AM    Breakfast
8:25AM    8:45AM    TCNS turning 1-year old - Yannis Paschalidis & Magnus Egerstedt

Inaugural Issue Session 1: Control and Optimization of Electric Power Networks - Michael Caramanis (Chair)
8:45AM    9:15AM    Compositional Transient Stability Analysis of Multi-Machine Power Networks - Sina Y. Caliskan & Paulo Tabuada
9:15AM    9:45AM    Convex Relaxation of Optimal Power Flow, Part I: Formulation and Equivalence - Steven Low
9:45AM    10:15AM    Break and Poster Session

Inaugural Issue Session 2: Resource Allocation and Routing in Networks - Edwin Chong (Chair)
10:15AM    10:45AM    An O(1/k) Gradient Method for Network Resource Allocation Problems - Amir Beck, Angelia Nedich, Asu Ozdaglar and Marc Teboulle
10:45AM    11:15AM    Turn Prohibition Algorithms for Deadlock Prevention in Computer Networks - Mark Karpovsky, Lev Levitin, and Mehmet Mustafa
11:15AM    11:45AM    Optimal Routing and Energy Allocation for Lifetime Maximization of Wireless Sensor Networks with Non-Ideal Batteries - Christos G. Cassandras, Tao Wang, and Sepideh Pourazarm
11:45AM    12:15PM    Optimal Resource Allocation for Network Protection Against Spreading Processes - Victor M. Preciado, Michael Zargham, Chinwendu Enyioha, Ali Jadbabaie,  and George J. Pappas
12:15PM    1:45PM    Lunch and Poster Session

Invited Session 1: Communication Networks and Systems - Massimo Franceschetti & Angelia Nedich (Organizer and Chairs)
1:45PM    2:15PM    On the Meaning and Implications of “N” in “CNS”  - John Baras (University of Maryland, USA)
2:15PM    2:45PM    Structural Analysis of Biological Networks - Elisa Franco (University of California, Riverside, USA)
2:45PM    3:15PM    Towards a Theory of Social Dynamics Over Networks - Massimo Franceschetti (University of California, San Diego, USA)
3:15PM    3:45PM    Break and Poster Session

Invited Session 2: Biological Networks - Calin Belta and Yannis Paschalidis (Organizers and Chairs)
3:45PM    4:15PM    Cracking the Bio-electric Code: Voltage Networks in Non-Neural Cells as Controls of Biological Growth and Form - Michael Levin (Tufts University, USA)
4:15PM    4:45PM    A Control Theoretic Framework for the Analysis and Design of Biological Networks - Domitilla del Vecchio (MIT, USA)
4:45PM    5:15PM    From Genome-scale to Ecosystem-Level Metabolic Networks - Daniel Segrè (Boston University, USA)
5:15PM    7:00PM    Reception     BU Castle

Agenda Day 2

8:00AM    8:30AM    Breakfast

Inaugural Issue Session 3: Control of Dynamic Networks - Mario di Bernardo (Chair)
8:30AM    9:00AM    Optimal Control of Scalar Conservation Laws using Linear/Quadratic Programming: Application to Transportation Networks - Yanning Li, Edward Canepa, and Christian Claudel
9:00AM    9:30AM    Controllability Metrics, Limitations and Algorithms for Complex Networks - Fabio Pasqualetti, Sandro Zampieri, and Francesco Bullo
9:30AM    10:00AM    Distributed Control with Low-Rank Coordination - Daria Madjidian and Leonid Mirkin
10:00AM    10:30AM    Break and Poster Session

Invited Session 3: Cyber-Physical Systems - Carlos Canudas-de-Wit and Christos Cassandras (Organizers and Chairs)
10:30AM    11:00AM    Resilient Distributed Control of Dynamical Flow Networks - Giacomo Como (Lund University, Sweden)
11:00AM    11:30AM    Distributed Algorithms for Traffic Signal Control with Finite Queue Capacities - Emilio Frazzoli (MIT, USA)
11:30AM    12:00PM    Distributed Games in Traffic Ramp Metering - Carlos Canudas-de-Wit (Polytechnic of Grenoble, France)
12:00PM    1:00PM    Lunch and Poster Session

Invited Session 4: Social and Economic Networks - Jeff Shamma (Organizer and Chair)

1:00PM    1:30PM    Systemic Risk in Finance - Munther Dahleh (MIT, USA)
1:30PM    2:00PM    Dynamic Pricing in Social Networks: The Word of Mouth Effect - Ali Jadbabaie (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
2:00PM    2:30PM    Rapid Innovation Diffusion in Social Networks - Gabriel Kreindler (MIT, USA)
2:30PM    3:00PM    Break and Poster Session

Inaugural Issue Session 4: Dynamic Decision Making in Social Networks - Magnus Egerstedt (Chair)
3:00PM    3:30PM    Message Passing Optimization of Harmonic Influence Centrality - Luca Vassio, Fabio Fagnani, Paolo Frasca,  and Asu Ozdaglar
3:30PM    4:00PM    Collective Decision-Making in Ideal Networks: The Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff - Vaibhav Srivastava and Naomi Leonard
4:00PM    4:10PM    Closing Remarks