Message from Technical Program Chairs
 Xiao¡¯e Ruan Technical Program Chair |
 XiongXiong He Technical Program Chair |
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
On behalf of the Technical Program Committee, it is our great honor to welcome you to the 5th Data Driven Control and Learning System Conference (2016 DDCLS) at YinChuan, Ningxia, China.
The annual event of DDCLS has proven to be one of excellent forums for scientists, researchers, engineers, and industrial practitioners to present and discuss the latest technological advancements as well as future directions and trends in Data Driven Control, Learning and Optimization, and to set up useful links for their works. 2016DDCLS has received enthusiastic responses with a total of 128 submissions. All the submissions had been processed by the Technical Program Committee. All committee members worked professionally, responsibly, and diligently. Besides evaluations from reviewers, each member also provided his/her own assessments on the assigned papers, so as to ensure that only high-quality papers would be accepted. Their hard works have enabled us to put together a very solid proceeding for our conference. The proceeding includes 102 papers which are divided into ten oral sessions and one interactive session for presentation.
Along with the parallel technical sessions, we shall have three plenary lectures and six distinguished lectures to be delivered by eminent researchers. These lectures will address the state-of-the-art developments and leading-edge research topics in both theory and applications in Data Driven Control, Learning and Optimization. We are indeed honored to have Prof. Frank L. Lewis (University of Texas at Arlington), Prof. Jian-Xin Xu (National University of Singapore), Prof. Qunxiong Zhu (Beijing University of Chemical and Technology) as the plenary lecturer speakers. Besides, we are very lucky to have Prof. Qibing Jin (Beijing University of Chemical and Technology), Prof. Tao Liu (Dalian University of Technology), Prof. Shen Yin (Harbin Institute of Technology), Prof. Deqing Huang (Southwest Jiaotong University), Dr. Deyuan Meng (Beihang University), Dr. Biao Luo (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences) as distinguished lecture speakers. We are confident that their presences would undoubtedly act prestige to the conference. We would like to express our sincere appreciations to all of them for their enthusiastic contributions and strong supports to 2016DDCLS.
To promote the development of Data Driven Control, Learning and Optimization, we will present the ¡°DDCLS Best Paper Award¡± at 2016DDCLS. Based on reviewers' comments and nominations as well as the evaluations of Technical Program Committee members, 16 papers were selected for the consideration of the Award by the Best Paper Award Committee. These papers were sent to distinguished experts in the relevant areas for additional evaluations in double-blind manner. Based on their comments and recommendations, five papers were shortlisted as the finalists for the Award. During the conference, the oral presentations of the five finalists will be further assessed by the 2016 DDCLS Best Paper Award Committee. The winner of the "DDCLS Best Paper Award" will be determined by the Best Paper Award Committee after assessing the oral presentations.
A CD-ROM containing the PDF files of all papers scheduled in the program and an Abstract Book will be provided at the conference to each registered participant as part of the registration material. The official conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and included in the IEEE Xplore Database.
On behalf of the Technical Program Committee, we would like to thank all reviewers for their expertise reviews, which are contributive to the Committee in making a fair decision on the acceptance/rejection of each paper. Thanks also go to the dedication, diligence and commitments of the Invited Session Chairs Prof. Youqing Wang, Dr. Qinglai Wei, and Dr. Xuhui Bu, Special Session Chair Prof. Xin Xu, Prof. Dongbin Zhao, and Dr. Deyuan Meng, and all the members of the Technical Program Committee. We would like to gladly acknowledge the technical sponsorship provided by the Organizing Committee of 2016CCDC and Technical Committee on Data Driven Control, Learning and Optimization, Chinese Association of Automation. We also convey our heartfelt thanks to friends, colleagues, and families who have helped us incompleting the technical program directly or indirectly. Last but not least, we are grateful for the strong and enthusiastic support of all delegates including many old faces from around the world.
We do hope that you will find your participation in 2016DDCLS in Yinchuan is really stimulating, rewarding, enjoyable, and memorable.
 XiaoeRuan Technical Program Chair |
 XiongXiong He Technical Program Chair |