Abstract: In this session, we will introduce our work: support of decision making using social simulation, and we will show, through examples, how the social simulation approach is utilized in real-world applications. The most important thing here is how we should abstract this real world to construct a simulation model. That is, we need to assess important elements in a system - What is the influential factor? What is the critical parameter? That is nothing else but to observe and think of the real society. Especially, we make account of people, the element of this complicated and uncertain society, as people's behavior can be the most unpredictable, crucial, and influential factor to the social systems. We build an artificial society on a computer which consists of individuals or organizations and their environments, and we simulate the real world by the artificial society in order to analyze what is happening there in various situations. Simulation results show various possibilities which may happen in the real world. Then by analyzing those simulation results, we can obtain the guide into the future action that we should take.

Objective of the session: Following the immense success of the round-table discussion on how to give a good conference talk given in CDC 2013 in Florence, the CSS Task Force now presents Part II of that session. This Part II goes one step further. Namely, not just giving bad examples to avoid, we will proceed to give some recipes to improve upon "bad talks."
    As observed in the first special session in CDC Florence in 2013, many talks can go bad, in spite of our honest intention to give a good talk. We gave several bad examples there that should be avoided.
    There are many pitfalls that speakers can fall into, hence (intended) good talks can (often easily) go bad. To avoid such mistakes, we have to know not only bad examples, but also recipes to get out of such pitfalls.
    We review some of such examples, and also show how such bad talks can turn to be good. This will make your talks more effective and penetrating.
    The session is targeted toward students and young Ph. Ds starting their careers, but senior researchers are also highly welcome. For pertinent information, see also "guidelines for CDC presenters".

Panelists:

• Robert Bitmead (UC San Diego)
• Christos Cassandras (Boston U.)
• Richard Middleton (U. Newcastle)
• Yutaka Yamamoto (Kyoto U.; moderator & proposer)

Purpose: To promote and bring the important visibility to women in control in their leadership roles. The CSS & AACC Leaders serve as role models on the task to attract more women around the Globe to control, a field that spans powerfully and beautifully all science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines.

Program:
10:00 am - Welcome Remarks by Distinguished Guests and the Workshop Organizers
10:30 am - Panel

11:30 am - Open Floor - Discussion, Chair: Antonella Ferrara
11:50 am - Closing Remarks and Invitation to the IEEE CSS Women In Control Lunch sponsored by CSS MAB: Sandra Hirche

Abstract: Low-cost hardware solutions are used in many applications such as quadcopters and mobile robots. These low-cost solutions provide an effective platform to give students hand-on experience through project-based learning and competitions. A tutorial will highlight some of the latest features for system identification, PID tuning and deployment to low-cost hardware platforms such as Arduino, Lego, and Raspberry Pi. In addition, we will discuss the latest capabilities for interfacing MATLAB and Simulink to ROS (Robot Operating System) for developing autonomous mobile robotics applications. We will discuss how you can use these capabilities to test and verify applications on ROS-enabled robots and robot simulators such as Gazebo.

Abstract: Nowadays, the environment surrounding the control researchers is quite tough from the viewpoints of number of academic/industrial posts and the total amount of available funds. Apparently it is not enough for us to enjoy our academic research in the conventional theoretical framework. Though the potential of systems and control research is enormous, we should be aware that most people who are outside of the control community do not appreciate it very much. What we are strongly expected from our society now is to contribute the society in a more visible way. One example may be the contribution to Energy Management Systems given in the preceding plenary talk by Masayuki Fujita. But not restricted on that point, we have to demonstrate our potential to the society with real impact. Based on these observations, it would be timely for us to hear the opinions on what the society expects for control from the funding point of view. It is very lucky for us to have excellent panelists, who know both control theory and funding agency in depth. The four talks will be followed by the discussions on what we can contribute to our society as systems and control researchers.

Panelists:

• Pramod Khargonekar (NSF - National Science Foundation, USA)
• Frank Allgower (DFG - German Research Foundation, Germany)
• Hidenori Kimura (JST - Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan)
• TBA (EPSRC - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK.)

Moderator:

• Toshiharu Sugie (Kyoto Univ., USA)