First World Congress of the International Federation for Systems Research

The International Diabetes Federation World Diabetes Congress 2015

Short summary Bernard Zinman, Programme Committee Chair of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) World Diabetes Congress 2015, talks about the scientific programme highlights, the experience of attending the Congress and his involvement in diabetes care and research. Bernard Zinman is Director of the Leadership Sinai Centre for Diabetes and holds the Sam and Judy Pencer Family Chair in Di...

Coldharbour Farm—The First Five Years *A paper read to the Seventh International Congress of the World Federation for Mental Health, London, August, 1968.

Special issue related to the 2008 IFAC world congress

Hybrid systems, combining event-driven and time-driven dynamics, have become ubiquitous in modern technology and the center of significant research activity within various disciplines including computer science and systems and control engineering. The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) has been providing a forum for such activity by instituting a series of conferences on the a...

IFIP Conference on Intelligent Information Processing

science-related organizations. IFIP, as an “organization of organizations,” helps disseminate information technology knowledge internationally, in both the developed and developing world. Through its technical committees and associated working groups, IFIP fosters research in all areas of computer science. Every other year, it organizes the World Computer Congress, which is the oldest and best-...

Concluding Remarks of the Second International Congress on Traditional Medicne & Materia Medica, 4-7 oct. 2004, tehran, iran

Plants are one of the great resources of the world, and as humankind has evolved, socially, spiritually, and economically, we have found, collectively, a myriad uses for the plants around us. One of those uses is for the prevention, treatment, and cure of various disease states. Documented knowledge about such use dates back at least 4000 years, and several of the plant mentioned in the ancie...

State Estimation with Sensor Recalibrations and Asynchronous Measurements for MPC of an Artificial Pancreas to Treat T1DM.

A novel state estimation scheme is proposed for use in Model Predictive Control (MPC) of an artificial pancreas based on Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) feedback, for treating type 1 diabetes mellitus. The performance of MPC strategies heavily depends on the initial condition of the predictions, typically characterized by a state estimator. Commonly employed Luenberger-observers and Kalman-fil...