August 6, 1999 -- Session B
Chateau Laurier
Drawing Room

SESSION V -- (B) Chaos and Nonlinear Control Design

Time		Title, Authors and Affiliations

9:10-9:30	F. Shillor


9:30-9:50	Modeling and Simulation of a Non-Smooth System
		with One-Side Constrains
		Abstract
		J. Bajkowski and W. Grzesikiewicz
		    (Warsaw University of Technology, POLAND)


9:50-10:10	Parameter Determination of Semi-Active Damping
		of a System with Granular Materials
		Abstract
		J. Bajkowski, W. Grzesikiewicz, M. Hac and P. Tadzik
		    (Warsaw University of Technology, POLAND)


10:10-10:30	BREAK

SESSION VI -- (B) New Trends in Chaos and Non-linear Control Design

Time		Title, Authors and Affiliations

10:30-10:50	Soliton Interactions and Chaos in the Higher Order
		Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations
		Abstract
		C.M. Schober
		    (Old Dominion University, USA)
		D. Henderson, J. Hammack
		    (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
		M.J. Ablowitz
		    (University of Colorado, USA)


10:50-11:10	Homoclinic Chaos in a Class of Robot Manipulators
		Abstract
		J. Alvarez
		    (CICESE, MEXICO)
		F. Verduzco
		    (Technological Institute of Sonora, MEXICO)


11:10-11:30	Pattern Recognition Through Phase Synchronization
		Abstract
		B.S. Hepburn and M.K. Ali
		    (University of Lethbridge, CANADA)


11:30-11:50	Molnar (Already scheduled)
Dycon 24


11:50-12:10	Bootstrap Estimates of Chaotic Dynamics
		Abstract
		E.J. Kostelich
		    (Arizona State University, USA)


12:10-13:30	LUNCH

SESSION VII -- (B) Sheduling

Time		Title, Authors and Affiliations

14:10-14:30	Dynamic Aspects of Job Shop Scheduling
		Abstract
		C.S. Thomalla
		    (DAS/CTC/UFSC, BRASIL)


14:30-14:50	JIT: Best Learned Together?
		Abstract
		J. Kasten
		    (Manhattan College, USA)


14:50-15:10	Using a Parallel Genetic Algorithm in a Workstation
		Environment for Optimization-Tasks in High Level
		Synthesis
		Abstract
		A. Falkenburg
		    (Siemens, GERMANY)


15:10-15:30	BREAK

SESSION VIII -- (B) Vibrations of Continuous System

Time		Title, Authors and Affiliations

15:30-15:50	On the Evolution of the Superposition Method
		for the Vibration Analysis of Rectangular Plates
		Abstract
		D.J. Gorman
		    (University of Ottawa, CANADA)


15:50-16:10	Inverse Vibration Problem for Composite Plates
		Abstract
		S. Abrate
		    (Southern Illinois University, USA)


16:10-16:30	Descritization Multiple Scale Method to Hybrid
		Serpentine Belt Drive Systems
		Abstract
		J.W. Zu and L. Zhang
		    (University of Toronto, CANADA)


16:30-16:50	Free Vibration of Rectangular Viscoelastic Plates
		with Simply Supported Boundary Conditions
		Abstract
		S.D. Yu
		    (Ryerson Polytechnic University, CANADA)


16:50-17:10	Axi-Symmetric Vibrational Analysis of Rotating
		Disks with Radially Varying Thickness using
		Characteristic Orthogonal Polynomials
		Abstract
		A. Kaushal
		    (Ryerson Polytechnic University, CANADA)





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