C1] Non-Linear Systems, Marathon Beach, Attica, March 6-8, 2012

Course Description: This course provides an introduction to nonlinear systems, including differences between linear and nonlinear systems; mathematical preliminaries; equilibrium points of nonlinear systems; phase plane analysis and limit cycles; stability definitions for nonlinear systems; Lyapunov's indirect and direct methods; stability of autonomous and non-autonomous systems; describing function analysis; nonlinear control design including sliding-mode, adaptive, and nonlinear robust control; and applications of nonlinear control design.

Course Objectives: The first major goal is to introduce the student to nonlinear systems and to classify them for further analysis. Also, issues of stability are discussed with respect to nonlinear systems and the various forms of stability are discussed.
The second major goal is to introduce the student to nonlinear controls techniques, up to and including adaptive, sliding-mode and nonlinear robust control.
* By the end of the course, students should be able to:
-- Understand issues related to nonlinear systems and why linear techniques to analyze stability may not be sufficient.
-- Understand controls design techniques involving feedback linearization and input-state linearization.
-- Understand Lyapunov stability analysis and design which will allow the student to apply the techniques and also understand technical papers and articles on the subject.

Course Programme:

• Mathematical Background

• Phase Plane Analysis

• Lyapunov Theory

• Control Design Based on Lyapunov's Direct Method

• Advanced Stability Theory

• Stability of Non-Autonomous Systems

• Describing Function Analysis

• Feedback Linearization

• Input-State Linearization of SISO Systems

• Input-Output Linearization of SISO Systems

• Sliding-Mode Control

• Adaptive Control

• Nonlinear Robust Control

• Control of Physical Systems

Study Meterials:
* Jean-Jacques Slotine, Weiping Li "Applied Nonlinear Control"
* L. C. To, Moses O. Tade "Robust Nonlinear Control of Industrial Evaporation Systems, Implementation of Differential Geometry"
 

Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day.

Course Materials
The course fee of 300 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN  reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary.

Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course.

Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Village located in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias.

For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us


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    C2] Fuzzy Engineering, Marathon Beach, Attica, March 13-15, 2012

Course Description: This course provides an introduction to fuzzy logic, fuzzy sets and fuzzy systems. Fuzzy Relation, Fuzzy Graphs, and Fuzzy Arithmetic. Fuzzy If-Then Rules.  Fuzzy Logic Applications.  Control Systems. Decision Making Systems. Pattern Recognition. Neuro-Fuzzy.  Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Logic
Microcontrollers and Fuzzy logic

Course Objectives: In the end of the course student is expected to be able to
- apply fuzzy systems in engineering environment
- apply function approximation methods with fuzzy systems
- model and solve control problems and apply neuro-fuzzy systems.

Course Programme: Fuzzy sets and relations, fuzzy functions and rule-based systems, Mamdani fuzzy system and Sugeno-Tagaki fuzzy system, universal approximators, fuzzy modelling, fuzzy control, fuzzy controllers in applications, aggregation operators, fuzzy screening systems, averaging operators and modifier operations. Neuro-Fuzzy systems. Suitable also for postgraduate studies.

Study Meterials:
* Full?r, R.: Introduction to Neuro-Fuzzy Systems, Physica-Verlag, 2000.
* Kosko, B.: Fuzzy Engineering, Prentice-Hall, 1996.
* Passino, K.M., Yurkovich, S.: Fuzzy Control, Addison-Wesley, 1998.

Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day.

Course Materials
The course fee of 300 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN  reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary.

Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course.

Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Village located in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias.

For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us


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  C3] Neural Networks and Applications,
Marathon Beach, Attica, March 16-18, 2012

Course Description: This course provides an introduction to Neural Networks (NN) methodologies and advanced topics on Theory and Applications of NN

Course Objectives: In the end of the course student is expected to be able to
- apply NN in engineering environment
- apply NN on Control, Signal Processing, Differential Equations solution, System Identification, Large Systems Reduction and Control and approximation
- model and solve control problems and apply neuro-fuzzy systems.

Course Programme:
Fundamentals
Data Preprocessing
Single Layer Perceptron
Multi Layer Perceptron
Training & Testing
Error Function
Hidden Layer Weights
Backpropagation Algorithm
Variations on the Backpropagation Algorithm
Kohonen's Neural Network
Kohonen's SOM II
Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ)
Variations on LVQ
Cluster Analysis
Radial Basis Function (RBF) Networks
RBF First Training Phase
RBF : Second Training Phase
Autoassociative Networks
Autoassociative Networks II
Reinforecement Learning
Boltzmann Machine and ART NN
Neural Networks for Optimization
Neural Networks for Differential Equations
Neural Networks for Data Processing
Neural Networks for Filtering
Neural Networks for Spectral Estimation
Neural Networks for Moving-Target Detection
Neural Networks for Signal Reconstruction
Neural Networks for Array Signal Processing
Neural Networks for Automatic Control
Neural Networks for System Identification
Neural Networks for Reduction of Large Systems
Neural Networks for Signal Compression
Neuro-Fuzzy Systems

Study Meterials:
* Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation by Simon Haykin
* Neural Networks and Learning Machines by Simon Haykin
* Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition by Christopher M. Bishop
* Neural Networks for Optimization and Signal Processing by A.Cichochi and R. Unbehaunen
* Applied Neural Networks for Signal Processing by Fa-Long Luo and Rolf Unbehaunen

Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day.

Course Materials
The course fee of 300 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN  reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary.

Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course.

Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Village located in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias.

For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us


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C4] Evolutionary Computing - Genetic Algorithms
Marathon Beach, Attica, March 19-21, 2012

Course Description: This course  brings together the computer techniques, mathematical tools, and research results that will enable both students and practitioners to apply genetic algorithms to problems in many fields. Major concepts are illustrated with running examples, and major algorithms are illustrated by Pascal computer programs. No prior knowledge of GAs or genetics is assumed, and only a minimum of computer programming and mathematics background is required. Finally a comprehensive introduction to new approaches in artificial intelligence and robotics that are inspired by self-organizing biological processes and structures is given.

Course Objectives: In the end of the course student is expected to be able to
- apply EC- GA in engineering environment
- apply EC- GA for a variety of Optimization Problems
- model and solve control, signal processing, applied mathematics problems using EC- GA
 

Course Programme:
--What is Evolutionary Computation?
-- Historical perspective.
-- Major classes of Evolutionary Algorithms.
-- Local vs global search methods.
--Simple genetic algorithms and simple evolution strategies: basic principles.
--Genetic programming. Problem difficulty and the NFL theorem.
--Representations. Design of operators.
--Constraint handling. Finding multiple optima. Multi-objective optimization.
--Basic GA theory. Limitations of simple EAs. Goldberg's decomposition for competent GAs.
--Parameter setting in EAs. Using problem specific information.
--Estimation of Distribution Algorithms.
--Other Biologically Inspired Methods of Optimization and Computing

Study Meterials:
*Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning
by David E. Goldberg
*Introduction to Evolutionary Computing (Natural Computing Series) by
Agoston E. Eiben
* Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies
(Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series)
by Dario Floreano
* A Field Guide to Genetic Programming
by Riccardo Poli , William B. Langdon , Nicholas Freitag McPhee

Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day.

Course Materials
The course fee of 300 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN  reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary.

Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course.

Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Village located in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias.

For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us


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C5]  Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers
Marathon Beach, Attica, 2-4 June, 2012

Course Description: PDEs are used to describe a variety of natural phenomena like the propagation of sound or heat, electrostatics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, fluid flow,  elasticity, mathematical biology, strength of materials. We develop methodologies and computational tools to solve a variety of PDES by classifying them into various categories and finding each time the appropriate methodology/tool.

Course Objectives: In the end of the course student is expected to be able to
- apply these methodologies (see below) in scientific/engineering environment
- apply these methodologies and computational tools for a variety of PDEs' Problems
- model and solve natural phenomena like the propagation of sound or heat, electrostatics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, fluid flow,  elasticity, mathematical biology, strength of materials etc...
 

Course Programme:
Introduction
Existence and uniqueness
Heat equation in one space dimension
Wave equation in one spatial dimension
Generalised Heat-like equation in one space dimension
Spherical waves
Laplace equation in two dimensions
Connection with holomorphic functions
A typical boundary value problem
Euler-Tricomi equation
Advection equation
Ginzburg-Landau equation
The Dym equation
Initial-boundary value problems
Vibrating string
Vibrating membrane
Classification
Equations of first order
Equations of second order
Systems of first-order equations and characteristic surfaces
Equations of mixed type
Infinite-order PDEs in quantum mechanics
Analytical methods to solve PDEs
*Separation of variables
*Method of characteristics
*Integral transforms
*Change of variables
*Fundamental solution
*Superposition principle
Methods for non-linear equations
*Lie Group Methods
Numerical methods to solve PDEs
Finite Differences' Method
Finite Element Method
Finite Volume Method
Boundary Elements Method
 

Study Meterials:

• Courant, R. & Hilbert, D. (1962), Methods of Mathematical Physics, II, New York: Wiley-Interscience.

• Evans, L. C. (1998), Partial Differential Equations, Providence: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 0821807722.

• Ibragimov, Nail H (1993), CRC Handbook of Lie Group Analysis of Differential Equations Vol. 1-3, Providence: CRC-Press, ISBN 0849344883.

• Jost, J. (2002), Partial Differential Equations, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0387954287.

• Petrovskii, I. G. (1967), Partial Differential Equations, Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co

• Pinchover, Y. & Rubinstein, J. (2005), An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521848865.

• Polyanin, A. D. (2002), Handbook of Linear Partial Differential Equations for Engineers and Scientists, Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, ISBN 1584882999.

• Polyanin, A. D. & Zaitsev, V. F. (2004), Handbook of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, ISBN 1584883553.

• Polyanin, A. D.; Zaitsev, V. F. & Moussiaux, A. (2002), Handbook of First Order Partial Differential Equations, London: Taylor & Francis, ISBN 041527267X.

• Solin, P. (2005), Partial Differential Equations and the Finite Element Method, Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0471720704.

• Solin, P.; Segeth, K. & Dolezel, I. (2003), Higher-Order Finite Element Methods, Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, ISBN 158488438X.

Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Village located in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias.

For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us


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C6] Engineering Mathematics
Marathon Beach, Attica,  5-7 June, 2012

Course Description: This course  brings together the computer techniques, mathematical tools, and research results that will enable both students and practitioners to apply computational techniques, mathematical tools, algorithms to problems in many fields.

Course Objectives: In the end of the course student is expected to be able to
-  apply computational techniques, mathematical tools, algorithms to problems in science
-  apply computational techniques, mathematical tools, algorithms to problems in engineering
 

Course Programme:
Introduction
Existence and uniqueness
Heat equation in one space dimension
Wave equation in one spatial dimension
Generalised Heat-like equation in one space dimension
Spherical waves
Laplace equation in two dimensions
Connection with holomorphic functions
A typical boundary value problem
Euler?Tricomi equation
Advection equation
Ginzburg?Landau equation
The Dym equation
Initial-boundary value problems
Vibrating string
Vibrating membrane
Classification
Equations of first order
Equations of second order
Systems of first-order equations and characteristic surfaces
Equations of mixed type
Infinite-order PDEs in quantum mechanics
Analytical methods to solve PDEs
*Separation of variables
*Method of characteristics
*Integral transforms
*Change of variables
*Fundamental solution
*Superposition principle
Methods for non-linear equations
Numerical methods to solve PDEs
Finite Differences' Method
Finite Element Method
Finite Volume Method
Boundary Elements Method
Computer Science
Simulation
Applied logic,
Computer algebra
Combinatorics.
Operations research
Applied probability
Applied statistics
 

Study Meterials:

• Courant, R. & Hilbert, D. (1962), Methods of Mathematical Physics, II, New York: Wiley-Interscience.

• Evans, L. C. (1998), Partial Differential Equations, Providence: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 0821807722.

• Pinchover, Y. & Rubinstein, J. (2005), An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521848865.

• Polyanin, A. D. (2002), Handbook of Linear Partial Differential Equations for Engineers and Scientists, Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, ISBN 1584882999.

• Polyanin, A. D. & Zaitsev, V. F. (2004), Handbook of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, ISBN 1584883553.

• Polyanin, A. D.; Zaitsev, V. F. & Moussiaux, A. (2002), Handbook of First Order Partial Differential Equations, London: Taylor & Francis, ISBN 041527267X.

• Solin, P. (2005), Partial Differential Equations and the Finite Element Method, Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0471720704.

• Solin, P.; Segeth, K. & Dolezel, I. (2003), Higher-Order Finite Element Methods, Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, ISBN 158488438X.

• Kallenberg, O. (2005) Probabilistic Symmetries and Invariance Principles. Springer -Verlag, New York. 510 pp. ISBN 0-387-25115-4

• Kallenberg, O. (2002) Foundations of Modern Probability, 2nd ed. Springer Series in Statistics. 650 pp. ISBN 0-387-95313-2

• Olofsson, Peter (2005) Probability, Statistics, and Stochastic Processes, Wiley-Interscience. 504 pp ISBN 0-471-67969-0.

Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day.

Course Materials
The course fee of 300 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN  reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary.

Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course.

Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Village located in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias.

For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us


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 C7] Probability and Statistics for Scientists and Engineers
Marathon Beach, Attica,  8-10 June, 2012

Course Description: This course covers quantitative analysis of uncertainty and risk for engineering applications. Fundamentals of probability, random processes, statistics, and decision analysis are covered, along with random variables and vectors, uncertainty propagation, conditional distributions, and second-moment analysis. System reliability is introduced. Other topics covered include Bayesian analysis and risk-based decision, estimation of distribution parameters, hypothesis testing, simple and multiple linear regressions, and Poisson and Markov processes. There is an emphasis placed on real-world applications to engineering problems.

Course Objectives: In the end of the course student is expected to be able to
-  apply probability and statistics in a variety of problems in science
-  apply probability and statistics in a variety of problems in engineering
 

Course Programme:
Events and their Probability, Elementary Operations with Events, Total Probability Theorem, Independence, Bayes' Theorem
Random Variables and Vectors, Discrete and Continuous Probability Distributions
Functions of Random Variables and Derived Distributions
Expectation of Random Variables and Functions of Random Variables
Moments of Variables and Vectors
Conditional Second Moment Analysis
Selected Distribution Models: Normal, Lognormal, Extreme, Multivariate Normal Distributions
Time-invariant Second-Moment Reliability Analysis and Time-Invariant Full-Distribution Reliability Analysis
Point Estimation of Distribution Parameters: Methods of Moments and Maximum Likelihood, Bayesian Analysis
Simple and Multiple Linear Regression
 

Study Meterials:

• Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
  Ronald E. Walpole, Raymond H. Myers, Sharon L. Myers, Keying E. Ye

• Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences
  Jay L. Devore

Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day.

Course Materials
The course fee of 300 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN  reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary.

Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course.

Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Village located in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias.

For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us


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 C8] Decision Support Systems and Optimization for Scientists and Engineers
Marathon Beach, Attica,   11-13 June, 2012

Course Description:
Decision Support Systems are a valuable tool for Scientists and Engineers.
We examine  Decision Trees, Dynamic Programming, Linear Programming,
Optimization Methods, Non-linear Optimization, Probabilistic Simulation

Course Objectives: In the end of the course student is expected to be able to
-  understand the aforementioned methodologies
-  make efficient computer programs for these methodologies
 

Course Programme:
Decision Trees, Dynamic Programming, Linear Programming,
Optimization Methods, Local and general outer functions. Convexity. Necessary conditions 1 and 2 class, minimum sufficient conditions for minimization problems: without restrictions and withrestrictions. Speed of convergence. Methods for minimizing functions of one variable. Gradient methods, Newton, conjugate directions, pseudo-Newtonian methods. Algorithms for problems with constraints: methods penalty functions and barrier methods permitted lines, the active set, the projection of the heel. Quadratic programming. Method repetitive square, Probabilistic Simulation

Study Meterials:
[1] Delic, K.A., Douillet,L. and Dayal, U. (2001) "Towards an architecture for real-time decision support systems:challenges and solutions.
[2] Matsatsinis, N.F. and Y. Siskos (2002), Intelligent support systems for marketing decisions, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
[3] Reich, Yoram; Kapeliuk, Adi. Decision Support Systems., Nov2005, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p1-19, 19p.
[4] Sauter, V. L. (1997). Decision support systems: an applied managerial approach. New York, John Wiley.
[5] Silver, M. (1991). Systems that support decision makers: description and analysis. Chichester ; New York, Wiley.
[6] Sprague, R. H. and H. J. Watson (1993). Decision support systems: putting theory into practice. Englewood Clifts, N.J., Prentice Hall.
[7] Avriel, Mordecai (2003). Nonlinear Programming: Analysis and Methods. Dover Publishing. ISBN 0-486-43227-0.
[8] Bazaraa, Mokhtar S. and Shetty, C. M. (1979). Nonlinear programming. Theory and algorithms. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-78610-1.
[9] Bertsekas, Dimitri P. (1999). Nonlinear Programming: 2nd Edition. Athena Scientific. ISBN 1-886529-00-0.

Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day.

Course Materials
The course fee of 300 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN  reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary.

Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course.

Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Village located in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias.

For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us


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 C9] Methodologies and Techniques for 1-D and 2-D Digital Filters' Design,
Marathon Beach, Attica,   14-16 June, 2012

Course Description:
2-D Systems is the necessary mathematical background for the modern image processing.
3-D Systems is the necessary mathematical background for moving images, etc...In
general Multidimensional systems (m-D) theory is the necessary mathematical
background for many appication image processing, X-ray enhancement, seismic data
processing, geo-science, computer vision, robotics, biomedical engineering, circuits,
systems, control and other areas like financial science and engineering, neuroscience,
psychology, social science....
Multidimensional Systems are also a useful tool in the modelling of partial differential
equations while several new applications on Applied Electromagnetics have been
implemented recently.
So, m-D Systems and especially m-D Filters' Design is very important topic and
necessary subject for all undergraduate electrical and computer engineers..

Course Objectives: In the end of the course student is expected to be able to
-  design 1-D and 2-D filters
-  examine the stability of an m-D filter
 

Course Programme:
Discrete and Continuous Multidimensional Signals and Systems
Introduction, Region of Support, Quantization, Periodicity, Separability, Linearity, Shift
Invariance, Causality.
Recursive Filters, Non-recursive Filters.
Flow graphs and Networks. Space Domain Analysis. Convolution
Description of Discrete and Continuous Multidimensional Systems
Conversion from one description to the other
Transfer function, States-space equations,
Impulse Response, Difference Equations
Realization: Direct Structure, Cascade Structure, Separable Structures, Multi-Input and
Multi-output Filters, Multidimensional Filters
Givone-Roesser Model, Fornasini-Marchesini Model. Conversion from one model to the
other Model. Modelling of Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics with
Givone-Roesser Model or Fornasini-Marchesini Model
Observability of 2-dimentional systems
Controllability and minimality of 2-dimentional systems.
m-D (multidimensional) Z Transform. Region of Convergence. The Inverse m-D Z Transform. Complex Convolution. m-D Parseval Theorem. The m-D Fourier Transform.
The Sampling Process. 2-D Sampled Signals. The 2-D Sampling Theorem. Symmetries.
Idealized Systems and Filters.
Stability. Stability Analysis in Frequency Domain. Stability Analysis in State Space.
Stability Properties. Stability Theorems, Stability Tests and Criteria. m-D Lyapunov
Stability Theory. Stability of Low-Order Filters.
Stability Margin. Definitions and Computation of Stability Margin with various methods.
Comparison and Benchmarks
Systems’ and Signals’ Factorizability and Factorization. Multivariable polynomial
factorization. Exact and Approximate Factorization. Methods and Results
Multidimensional Digital Filters Theory: Approximation for Nonrecursive Filters.
Properties of m-D nonrecursive Filters. Linear-Phase Filters. Frequency Response.
Design Based on Fourier Series. Multidimensional Window Functions. Design of 2-D
Circularly Symmetric Filters. Fan Filters. Design based on McClellan Transformation
Multidimensional Digital Filters Theory: Approximation for Recursive Filters.
Bilinear Transformation. Linear Transformations. Analog-Filter Transformations.
Method of Hirano and Aggarwal. Filters with Half-Plane Symmetry. Circularly
Symmetric Filters. Method of Goodman. Other Transformations.
m-D Filters’ Design by Optimization. Quasi-Newton Optimization Algorithms. Minimax
Method. SVD (Singular Value Decomposition) based desing. Error Analysis. Stability
aspects and problems of m-D systems Design. Computational Intelligence based m-D
design. New Aspects and Directions for Further Research. Realization. Finite Wordlength
Effects. Overflow Limit Cycles.
 

Study Meterials:
 [1] T.Matsuo, Y.Hasegawa, Realization Theory of Discrete-Time Dynamical Systems, wo-Dimensional Linear Systems, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2003.
[2] B.A.Shenoi, Magnitude and Delay Approximation of 1-D and 2-D Digital Filtersealization Theory of Discrete-Time Dynamical Systems, wo-Dimensional Linear Systems, Springer-Verlag, Digital Signal Processing Book Series, 1999.
[3] T.Kaczorek, Two-Dimensional Linear Systems, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Berlin-Heidelberg, 1985.
[4] Wu-Sheng Lu, Andreas Antoniou, Two-Dimensional Digital Filters, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1992.
[5] N.K.Bose (Editor), Multidimensional Systems Theory, Progress, Directions and Open Problems in Multidimensional Systems, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1985.
[6] N.K.Bose (Editor), Multidimensional Systems: Theory and Applications, IEEE Press, 1979
[7] S.G.Tzafestas (Editor), Multidimensional Systems, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1986.
[8] G.F.Simmons, Introduction to Topology and Modern Analysis, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1980.
[9] R.P.Roesser, "A discrete state-space model for image processing," IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr., vol. AC-20, pp. 1-10, Feb. 1975.
[10] Various Papers in the WSEAS Transactions and Books: http://www.wseas.org
http://elfe.tu-sofia.bg/staff.htm
http://elfe.tu-sofia.bg/curriculum4.htm
Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day.

Course Materials
The course fee of 300 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN  reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary.

Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course.

Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Village located in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias.

For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us


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 C10] Environmental Protection, Marathon Beach, Attica,  June 16-18, 2012

Course Description:
 Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the environment, on individual, organizational or governmental levels, for the benefit of the natural environment and (or) humans. Due to the pressures of population and technology, the biophysical environment is being degraded, sometimes permanently. This has been recognized, and governments have begun placing restraints on activities that caused environmental degradation. Since the 1960s, activism by the environmental movement has created awareness of the various environmental issues. There is not a full agreement on the extent of the environmental impact of human activity, and protection measures are occasionally criticized. Academic institutions now offer courses, such as environmental studies, environmental management and environmental engineering, that study the history and methods of environmental protection. Protection of the environment is needed from various human activities. Waste, pollution, loss of biodiversity and the introduction of invasive species are some of the issues relating to environmental protection.

Course Objectives: In the end of the course student is expected to be able to
-  study environmental protection systems
-  propose new measures and new policy for the protection of the environment
 

Course Programme:
Biodiversity

Carbon offset

Conservation biology

Conservation movement

Ecology movement

Environmentalism

Environmental law

Environmental issues

Environmental Engineering

Sustainability

Sustainable development
 

Study Meterials:
Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest, Penguin Books Ltd, United States of America, 2007

John McCormick, The Global Environmental Movement, London: John Wiley, 1995

Ramachandra Guha, Environmentalism: A Global History, London, Longman, 1999

Sheldon Kamieniecki, editor, Environmental Politics in the International Arena:
Movements, Parties, Organizations, and Policy, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993, ISBN 0-7914-1664-X

Philip Shabecoff, A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement, Island Press; Revised Edition, 2003, ISBN 1559634375

Paul Wapner, Environmental Activism and World Civil Politics, Albany: State University of New York, 1996, ISBN 0-7914-2790-0

de Steiguer, J.E. 2006. The Origins of Modern Environmental Thought. The University of Arizona Press. Tucson. 246 pp.

Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day.

Course Materials
The course fee of 300 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN  reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary.

Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course.

Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Village located in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias.

For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us


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 C11] Finite Differences and Finite Elements for Scientists and Engineers
Marathon Beach, Attica,  June 23-25 , 2012

Course Description:
We study Finite Differences Methods (FDM) and Finite Elements Methods (FEM).
For FDM, we teach the book of Donald Greenspan and Vincenzo Casulli "Numerical Analysis for Applied Mathematics, Science and Engineering" and we focus on FDM for 1-D, 2-D, 3-D, 4-D partial differential equations, elliptic equations, parabolic equations, hyperbolic equations. Special emphasis is given in the so-called error estimation. We also study mildly non-linear problems.
We study Finite Elements Methods (FEM) in an applied way. Finite Elements. Hermite Functions. Splines. Method of Least Mean Squares. Galerkin Method. Collocation. Raylegh-Ritz.
Time-invariant Problems and Time-variant Problems.
FDM Applications in Electromagnetic Field, Elasticity Theory, Quantum Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Shallow Water Mechanics.
FEM Applications in Electromagnetic Field, Elasticity Theory, Quantum Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Shallow Water Mechanics.

Course Objectives: In the end of the course student is expected to be able to solve
a variety of Time-invariant Problems and Time-variant Problems in Electromagnetic Field, Elasticity Theory, Quantum Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Shallow Water Mechanics using every method of FDM and FEM.

Course Programme:
Finite Differences Methods (FDM):
FDM for 1-D, 2-D, 3-D, 4-D partial differential equations, elliptic equations, parabolic equations, hyperbolic equations.
Error estimation.
Mildly non-linear problems.
Navier-Stokes Equations
Finite Elements Methods (FEM). Finite Elements.
Hermite Functions.
Splines.
Method of Least Mean Squares.
Galerkin Method.
Collocation. Raylegh-Ritz.
Time-invariant Problems and Time-variant Problems with FDM and FEM
FDM Applications in Electromagnetic Field, Elasticity Theory, Quantum Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Shallow Water Mechanics.
FEM Applications in Electromagnetic Field, Elasticity Theory, Quantum Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Shallow Water Mechanics.

Study Meterials:
[1] Numerical Analysis for Applied Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Donald Greenspan and Vincenzo Casulli , 1988
[2] Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations by the Finite Element Method Claes Johnson, 2009
[3] The Finite Element Method: Linear Static and Dynamic Finite Element Analysis Thomas J. R. Hughes, 1993
[4] Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers, Stanley J. Farlow, 1995


Course Structure: Each day is subdivided into four sessions and will commence at 9.00 am and finish at 5.00 pm. Lunch break is from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm. Coffee will be served during the breaks. Please note that the course will start at 9.15 am on the first day.

Course Materials
The course fee of 300 Euros includes all working materials, three lunches, coffee, tea and all computer facilities used, where applicable. WSEAS and NAUN  reserve the right to make changes to the programme that may prove necessary.

Cancellations: Participants who cancel their registration due to special circumstances can only transfer their payment to some future WSEAS or IEEEAM or NAUN conference or course.

Venue and Accommodation: The course will take place at the Marathon Beach Village located in Marathon, Attica, Greece. It is 30 minutes by bus from the Athens international airport. This region is a well-known site, since it is the place where the famous battle of Marathon between the Greeks and the Persian army took place in 490 BC. The story says that after the bloody battle, a messenger named Pheidippides ran the 42 km that divided Marathon from Athens to announce the victory of the Greeks, and died from exhaustion right after spreading the news. This story is what started the marathon foot race in witch today runners follow the same Pheidippides route. At 8 km from the town of Marathon you will find the Lake Marathon, which is faced with a huge Pentelic marble dam (50m high and stretching for 300m), the same marble used to build the Parthenon. This lake used to be the unique water source of Athens until 1956. The beautiful ruins of the Doric Temple of Nemesis (435 BC), goddess of retribution as well as the 6 th-century small temple of Themis , goddess of justice and law, are located nearby. The Archaeological Museum of Marathonas will keep you into the archaeological mood. This interesting region also has some little rocky inlets with clean and nice water, very agreeable to visit, as well as the big and beautiful beach of Schinias.

For more information on how to find Marathon Beach Village and to arrange accommodation during the course please contact us


Photos from the area