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                     CALL FOR PAPERS

         SPECIAL ISSUE OF NONLINEAR DYNAMICS ON

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS AND CONTROL OF NONSMOOTH DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS


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  This Special Issue intends to address the growing interest in
the experimental analysis and control of systems modelled by sets
of non-smooth differential equations and maps. These include a
wide variety of physical and engineering devices. Examples include
power electronic converters, mechanical systems with impacts and
friction, hybrid and relay feedback control schemes, walking
mechanisms and many others. The experimental study of
discontinuous and nonsmooth systems is rapidly becoming an active
research area within the dynamical systems community and deserves
a wider attention. A special issue devoted to this topic is hereby
proposed for the journal 'Nonlinear Dynamics'.

Original research papers are solicited in the following areas:

- Analysis and classification of bifurcations and chaotic behaviour
in switching and impacting systems with particular
attention to phenomena characteristic of nonsmooth dynamics;

- Control of switching and impacting systems, including chaos control,
bifurcation control,  etc.

- Modeling of non-smooth and discontinuous events in physical and 
engineering systems;

- Characterisation of dynamics of specific piecewise-smooth and 
discontinuous systems
of relevance in applications;

- Experimental techniques for the analysis of nonsmooth
systems.

An *essential requirement* will be the presentation of
experimental results supporting the theoretical arguments
presented in the paper. Papers focussed solely on theory will not
be accepted for publication in this issue.

Review papers on topics within the scope of the special issue may
also be considered. Authors are welcome to submit an abstract in
advance of the paper itself if they would like advice
as to its suitability for this special issue.

The Guest Editors for this Special Issue will be:

Dr. Mario di Bernardo (m.dibernardo@bristol.ac.uk),
Dr. Enric Fossas (enric.fossas@upc.es),
Dr. Ugo Galvanetto (u.galvanetto@ic.ac.uk),
Dr. David Wagg (david.wagg@bristol.ac.uk).

Contributions should be submitted electronically by sending a PDF
or Postscript version of the manuscript together with the contact
details of the corresponding author to:

Dr David Wagg, University of Bristol
E-mail: David.Wagg@bristol.ac.uk\\

All manuscripts will be subject to peer review and should be
submitted by {\bf Friday 15th May 2005}. Manuscripts will
normally be no more than 20 pages long and conform to the
standards as indicated on the journal website:
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0924-090X

The idea for this special issue originated as
part of the European Union Research Project SICONOS (Simulation
and Control of Nonsmooth dynamical systems).
http://maply.univ-lyon1.fr/siconos



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