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CFP: Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems (J. MCMDS)

Dear colleague:
	
"Mathematical  and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems"
           
is a peer-reviewed journal dealing with many aspects related to the 
modelling of systems with dynamic behaviour of any kind. Please consult
the 
attachment or details.

The publisher has enlarged the page budget considerable and hence, the
time 
between submitting a manuscript and publication of an accepted paper 
depends only on the time needed by the reviewers. Consequently, a paper
of 
good scientific quality which is well organized and easy to read will be 
published quite soon after submitting it to MCMDS.

Therefore, please consider this mail as an INVITATION to contribute and
do 
not hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions which are
not 
answered by the attachment.

Sincerely,
Inge Troch
Editor-in-Chief
MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER MODELLING OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

Methods, Tools and Applications in Engineering and Related
              Sciences

Editor-in-chief:     I. Troch (Wien, Austria)

Associate editors:   D. J. Murray-Smith (Glasgow (UK)
                     P. C. M"uller (Wuppertal, BRD)
                     S. Marsili-Libelli (Firenze, Italy)
                     R. Skelton (San Diego, USA)
                     G. Zobrist (Missouri-Rolla, USA)

Editorial board:     P. C. Breedveld (Enschede, NL)
                     F. Breitenecker (Wien, Austria)
                     F. Cellier (Tucson, USA)
                     F. L. Chernousko ( Moscow, Russia)
                     A. Cheruy (Grenoble, F)
                     S. Engell (Dortmund, BRD)
                     B. A. Foss (Trondheim, Norway)
                     K. Furuta (Tokyo, Japan)
                     R. Hanus (Bruxelles, B) 
                     R. Karba (Ljubliana, Slovenia)
                     D. Karnopp (Davis, USA)
                     N. A.  Kheir (USA)
                     H. Kwakernaak (Enschede, Netherlands)
                     L. Ljung (Lund, Sweden)
                     C. Maffezoni (Milan, Italy)
		     J. McPhee (Waterloo, Canada)
                     J. V. R. Prasad (Atlanta, USA)
		     W. Schiehlen (Stuttgart, BRD)
     		     K. Schlacher (Linz, A)
                     S. Tzafestas (Athens, Greece)
                     R. Viertl (Wien, Austria)  
                     M. Zeitz (Stuttgart, BRD)
 
Scope:

The analysis and improvement of performance in complex systems, the 
adaptation of plants to new demands or conditions and the design of 
'optimal' systems are a few of the challenges confronting engineers 
and systems  scientists today. In many cases solutions to problems 
in areas such as these may be found through the use of appropriate 
mathematical models. The dynamic case, whether continuous time or 
discrete time, deterministic or stochastic, presents special challenges 
and derivation of an appropriate solution depends strongly on the 
proper initial formulation of the goals and constraints. Increasingly 
this demands an interdisciplinary approach to modelling.
 
Models of the kind discussed above can take the form of sets of 
equations, graphs or nets, or some combination of elements such 
as these. The derivation, combination, simplification and validation 
of models and sub-models are the main topics of this journal which 
provides an international forum for the presentation of new ideas in 
modelling and for the exchange of experience and knowledge through 
descriptions of specific applications. Original work will be published 
as regular papers or short notes dealing with a range of topics including 
the following: 

*  processes and methods for model formulation, identification, 
   development, reduction and validation etc. (including 
   guidelines and check lists)

*  automation of modelling and software aids for modelling

*  the relationship between computational/simulation methods, 
   the underlying mathematical formulation and real-world 
   modelling problems 

*  qualitative modelling and fuzzy approaches to modelling

*  modular modelling (especially applied to interdisciplinary 
   fields such as mechatronic or controlled environmental systems)

*  learning networks in modelling

*  uncertainties in modelling

*  the relationship between the modelling approach and problem 
   solutions

*  comparisons of methods for modelling, model reduction and 
   model validation 

*  effects of modelling errors on overall performance of an 
   engineering system (e.g. relationship between modelling 
   and control design)

*  applications in the field of engineering systems

*  applications in other fields (such as environmental systems,     
   biotechnology etc.) provided 
   - the methods or ideas presented are relevant in a number of 
     other areas or are of interest from a theoretical point of view 
   - and presentationis such that also readers with more theoretic
     interests or working in a different area of application can 
     read it easily and will find something interesting for their 
     own work 

*  case studies allowing  a comparison of ideas or methods
          
More general reviews or tutorial papers will also be considered.
                         
High quality research and tutorial articles having relevance in the 
areas indicated above, and especially in engineering applications, 
are invited. Papers may be submitted to any one of the associate editors 
or, preferably, to the editor-in-chief. Publication in original or 
revised form depends upon the result of the  reviewing procedure. 
The journal strives for flexibility in the type and contents of papers. 
Therefore there are no strict rules concerning the length or type of 
presentation. The length must however be appropriate to the contents 
and nature of the paper and the presentation should place due emphasis 
on questions of modelling and modelling goals, with attention given to 
those aspects of the work which are likely to be of interest to a broad 
scientific and engineering community. Papers should be self-contained 
and should not depend excessively on previously published work.
 

Instructions to authors and author's benefits:

Three copies of the manuscript (including halftones and illustrations) 
should be sent to the editor-in-chief
 
Univ.Prof. Dr. Inge TROCH
Technische Universitaet Wien
Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8 - 10
A-1040 Wien
Austria
Phone: +431-588 01 11451 
Fax: + +431-588 01 11499 
email: inge.troch@tuwien.ac.at
 
or to one of the associate editors
 

Prof.Dr.S. Marsili-Libelli            
Dept. of Systems & Computers       
University of Firenze
Via S.Marta, 3
I-50139 Firenze
Italy
Phone & Fax: ++39-55-47.96.264
email: marsili@ingfi1.ing.unifi.it

Univ.Prof. Dr. P. C. Mueller              
Sicherheitstechn. Regelungs- u. Messtechnik 
Fachbereich 14                              
Universitaet Wuppertal 
Gauss-Strasse 20 
D-42097 Wuppertal 
BRD
Phone: +49-202-439 2018
Fax:   +49-202-439 2901
email: mueller@wrcd1.urz.uni-wuppertal.de 

Univ.Prof. Dr. David Murray-Smith             
Dept. of Electronics & Electrical Engng.
University of Glasgow                       
Rankine Building Oakfield Avenue Glasgow G12 8LT U K
Phone: 041 330 5222
Fax: 041 330 4907
email: D.Murray-Smith@elec.gla.ac.uk

Professor
Dr.R.E. SKELTON                         
Structural Systems and Control Lab       
University of California at San Diego      
AMES Dept-0411
9500 Gilman Dr
La Jolla, CA 92093-0411
U S A
Phone: 619 822 1054
Fax: 619 534 7078
email: bobskelton@ucsd.edu

Univ.Prof. Dr. George Zobrist                      
Chairman                                    
Department of Computer Science             
University of Missouri-Rolla        
1870 Miner Circle 
Rolla, MO   65409-0350 
USA	 
Phone: 573-341-4492
FAX:   573-341-4501
email: zobrist@umr.edu

 
In order to avoid confusion and superfluous correspondence,  authors are 
kindly requested to regard the following when preparing their manuscript:


*  Modelling of systems and systems behaviour is of importance  
           in many engineering applications and in simulation. Contrary 
           to other periodicals, MCMDS concentrates on modelling. Computer
           simulation is restricted to the field of modelling and the 
           consequences of modelling, but it does not include all the 
	   details of simulation languages or the general design of 
	   multi-purpose simulation programs independent on modelling 
	   aspects

*  Papers dealing with applications are accepted only when
           the purpose of the model, the assumptions (explicit and      
           implicit) made in its development and the precise process 
           of model validation are discussed carefully. Authors are        
           requested to concentrate an those aspects which are of interest  
           to a large community of engineers and scientists and to      
           organize the paper so that it is stimulating and 
           readable for engineers and scientists working in a wide range
           of application areas.

 
The journal will accept only papers submitted in English. Manuscripts 
should meet high academic standards. Contributors need to remember 
that they are writing for an international audience. National 
colloquialisms and idiomatic use of language should be avoided and 
gender neutral language used. It may be useful for non-English speakers 
to have a native English speaker read through the article before submission.
 
Manuscripts must be typed on one side of an 8 x 11 inch or A4 page 
only with approximately 1.5 inch (35 mm) margins.
 
Copyright will be established in the name of Swets & Zeitlinger.

 
Submission of a paper to MCMDS implies that it has not been 
published before and that it is not being considered for publication 
elsewhere.
 
Authors of accepted manuscripts are expected to submit the final 
version on diskette. Please follow the brief and basic instructions 
given below. Articles formatted in LaTeX of TeX are prefered. There is 
a style file provided by swets, which you can get on Internet: you 
have to log in to FTP.SWETS.NL, log on as anonymous, select SZP 
directory, select MCMDS.sty, MCMDS.tex. We can also accept a wide 
variety of IBM and Macintosh compatible software packages including 
WordPerfect, Word-Star, MS Word, PageMaker, ASCII files. For 
details please inquire at the publisher: Janjaap Blom, Publisher, 
Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers, P.O. Box 825, NL-2160 SZ Lisse. 
Phone: (+31) 252-435 197, fax. (+31) 20  870 5434, 
email: "Janjaap Blom" <jblom@swets.nl> 

More detailed instructions are available upon request from the 
Editor-in-chief. 



PS: Please excuse typing errors - I have not time enough for a careful
proofreading nor a secretary to do it for me!


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TU Wien   E114/3 Univ.Prof.Dr. Inge Troch

Tel.:  +43-1- 58801-11451
Fax:  +43-1- 58801-11499
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Address: Technische Universitaet Wien
          Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10
	 A-1040 Wien			


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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/Management/Maths 
research group on stochastic simulation at the University of 
Canterbury, Christchurch, New zealand,
and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Prof. Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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