Welcome to the web page of European Research Network System
Identification (ERNSI)!
Modelling
of dynamical systems is fundamental in almost all disciplines of science and engineering,
ranging from life science to plant-wide process control. Engineering uses
models for the design and analysis of complex technical systems. System
identification concerns the construction, estimation and validation of
mathematical models of dynamical physical or engineering phenomena from
experimental data.
European Research Network System Identification (ERNSI) was launched in
1992 by the European Commission as a SCIENCE project. The network is since 2024
coordinated by
Alessandro Chiuso
Department of Information Engineering
University of Padova
35131 Padova Italy
The main event is the annual ERNSI workshop.
The 2025 ERNSI Workshop will be
take place in Bordeaux, France, on September 21-24, 2025.
It will follow the traditional format starting with a joint reception on
Sunday September 21 and ending after lunch on Wednesday September 24. Marion
Gilson is the general chair of the organizing committee. Roland Tóth is the
program chair. Guillaume Mercere and Stephane Victor are
local co-chairs.
Summary
of the 2025 ERNSI Workshop
The thirty-second ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held on September 29 - October 2, 2024 at Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice, Italy. Alessandro Chiuso was the general
chair of the organization committee. John
Lataire was the program chair. Simone Formentin and Mattia Zorzi were
the local co-chairs. The
workshop had 100 participants. The program included the two invited plenary talkspresentations.
· Michael
Mahoney, UC Berkeley, USA: Model selection and ensembling
when there are more parameters than data
· Peter
Zeidman, University College London, UK: Variational Bayesian inference for structure learning
15 regular oral presentations and one survey in
a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and
researchers also had the opportunity to present their work in two poster sessions.
Altogether, there were 45 poster presentations with poster teasers.
Further information including the detailed program can
be found at https://automatica.dei.unipd.it/32nd-ernsi-main-page/
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Summary
of the 2023 ERNSI Workshop
The thirty-first ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held on
September 24-27, 2023 at Ersta Diakoni
in Stockholm Sweden. Hĺkan Hjalmarsson was the general chair of the
organization committee. Marion Gilson
was the program chair, Martin Enqvist and Cristian Rojas were local co-chairs. The
workshop had 94 participants. The program includeded
the three invited plenary talks
· Florian
Dörfler, ETH, Switzerland: Data-driven control based on behavioral systems
theory
· Alexandre
Proutiere, KTH, Sweden: Finite-time analysis of
linear system identification: sample complexity lower bounds and optimal
algorithms
· Vikram
Krishnamurthy, Cornell University, USA: Social sensing and inverse
reinforcement learning
and 8 regular oral presentations and
one survey in a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD
students and researchers also had the opportunity to present their work in two
poster sessions. Altogether, there were 44 poster presentations with oral
highlights presentations.
Further information including the detailed program can be found at https://www.kth.se/ernsi2023
Summary
of the 2022 ERNSI Workshop
The thirties ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held September
19 – 21, 2022 in Leuven, Belgium. The local organizers were Bart de Moor,
Katrien De Cock and Philippe Dreesen. The co-chair for the program was Martin
Enqvist. The workshop had 111 participants. The program includes three invited
plenary talks by
· Maria
Prandini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
· Lieven
De Lathauwer, KU Leuven, Belgium
· Elizabeth
Cross, University of Sheffield, U.K.
and 10 regular oral presentations in
a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and
researchers also had the opportunity to present their work in two poster
sessions. Altogether, there were 56 poster presentations.
Further information including the detailed program can be found at https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/stadius/ERNSI2022/
Summary
of the 2021 ERNSI Workshop
(The 2020 ERNSI WS was postponed
to 2021 due to the pandemic)
The twenty-ninth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was organized
as a Hybrid (face2face and virtual
participation) and Connected
(connected co-locations) on September 20-21, 2021. Qinghua
Zhang was the chair of the organization committee and Marion Gilson was the local
co-chair. Thomas Schön was the program chair and
Guillaume Mercčre was the program co-chair.
The workshop had in total 116 participants. The program includes two
invited plenary talks by
· Arno
Solin Aalto University, Finland: Fast and furious
methods for real-time inference in SLAM.
· Pierre
Del Moral, INRIA Bordeaux, France: On the stability and the uniform propagation
of chaos properties of ensemble Kalman-Bucy filters,
and 12 regular oral presentations in
a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and
researchers also had the opportunity to present their work in three poster
sessions. Altogether there were 42 poster presentations.
Further information including the detailed program can be found at https://ernsi2021.inria.fr/
Summary
of 2019 ERNSI Workshop at Kasteel Vaeshartelt,
Maastricht, the Netherlands
The twenty-eight ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held
September 22 – 25, 2019 in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The local organizers
were Paul Van den Hof and Roland Tóth. The co-chair
for the program was Hĺkan Hjalmarsson. The workshop had 86 participants. The
program includes three invited plenary talks by
· Qi
(Rose) Yu, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
· Donatello
Materassi, University of Minnesota, USA
· Michael
Eichler, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
and 12 regular oral presentations in
a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and more
senior researchers also had the opportunity to present their work in two poster
sessions. Altogether there were 42 poster presentations.
Further information including the detailed program can be found at https://ernsi2019.tue.nl/
Summary
of 2018 ERNSI Workshop at Pembroke College, Cambridge, U.K
The twenty-seventh ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held September
23 – 26, 2018 at Pembroke College, Cambridge, U.K. The local organizers were
Carl Rasmussen, Jan Maciejowski and Rodolphe Sepulchre. The co-chair for the program was Martin Enqvist.
The workshop had 95 participants. The program includes two invited plenary
talks by
· Roderich Gross,
Natural Robotics Lab, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering,
University of Sheffield
· Ioannis
Kontoyiannis, Signal Processing and
Communications Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
and 17 regular oral presentations in
a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and more
senior researchers also had the opportunity to present their work in two poster
sessions. Altogether there were 45 poster presentations. Further information
including the detailed program can be found at http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/ernsi2018
Summary
of 2017 ERNSI Workshop at Domaine St Joseph in Sainte-Foy-lčs-Lyon,
France
The twenty-sixth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held on
September 24 – 27, 2017 at Domaine St Joseph in Sainte-Foy-lčs-Lyon,
France. The local organizers were Xavier Bombois,
Guillaume Mercčre and Laurent Bako. The co-chair for the program was Paul Van
den Hof. The workshop had 99 participants. The program consisted of two invited
plenary talks by
· Francis
Bach, INRIA Research Director, Head of the Machine Learning Laboratory SIERRA,
France
· Luigi
Vanfretti, Associate Professor at the Electrical,
Computer & Systems Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI),
Troy, USA
one discussion lecture and nine
regular oral presentations in a single track from members of the ERNSI research
teams. PhD students and more senior researchers also had the opportunity to
present their work in three poster sessions. Altogether there were 58 poster
presentations. Further information including the detailed program can be found
at https://ernsi2017.sciencesconf.org/
Summary of 2016 ERNSI Workshop in Cison di Valmarino, Italy
The twenty-fifth ERNSI Workshop in System
Identification was held on September 25 – 28, 2016 at Castelbrando
in Cison di Valmarino,
Italy. The local organizer was Alessandro Chiuso. Co-chairs for the
program were Rik Pintelon and Marco Campi. The workshop had 95 participants.
The program consisted of two invited plenary talks
· Prof. Domenico Giannone,
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, USA
· Prof. Jan Peters, Technische
Universität Darmstadt, Germany
two tutorials and 12 regular oral presentations
in a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and
more senior researchers also had the opportunity to present their work in
poster sessions. Altogether there were 57 poster presentations. Further
information including the detailed program can be found athttp://automatica.dei.unipd.it/ERNSI2016.html
Summary of 2015 ERNSI WS in Varberg, Sweden
The twenty-fourth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held on
September 20 – 23, 2015 at Varbergs stadshotell in Varberg, Sweden.
The local organizer was Martin Enqvist. Co-chairs for the program were Marion Gilson
and Tomas McKelvey. The workshop had 86 participants. The program consisted of
one invited plenary talk from
· Dr.
Ola Härkegĺrd, Saab Aeronautics, Sweden,
two tutorials, and 9 regular oral
presentations in a single track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD
students and more senior researchers also had the opportunity to present their
work in poster sessions. Altogether there were 55 poster presentations. Further
information including the detailed program can be found at http://www.control.isy.liu.se/en/conferences/ernsi2015/index.html
Summary of 2014 ERNSI WS in
Ostend, Belgium
The twenty-third ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held September
21 – 24, 2014 at the Thermal Palace Hotel, Ostend, Belgium. The local organizer
was Rik Pintelon. Co-chairs for the program were Xavier Bombois
and Carl Rasmussen. The workshop had 111 participants. The program consisted of
one invited plenary talk from
· Prof.
Alf Isaksson, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden
and 9 oral presentations in a single
track from members of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students and post-docs had
the opportunity to present their work in poster sessions. Altogether there were
73 poster presentations. Further information including the detailed program can
be found at http://wwwtw.vub.ac.be/elec/ERNSI%202014/ERNSI2014-home.html
Summary of 2013 ERNSI WS in
Pont-ŕ-Mousson , France
The twenty-second ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held September 22 – 25, 2013 at Abbaye
des Prémontrés, Pont-ŕ-Mousson,
France. The local organizer was Hugues Garnier. Co-chairs for the program were
Roland Tóth and Martin Enquist.
The workshop had 99 participants. The program consisted of one invited plenary
talk from
· Prof.
Robert Bitmead, University of California in San
Diego, USA
and 18 oral presentations in a
single track from members and guests of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students
and post-docs had the opportunity to present their work in poster sessions.
Altogether there were 48 poster presentations. Further information including
the detailed program can be found at http://ernsi-2013.cran.univ-lorraine.fr/
Summary of 2012 ERNSI WS in
Maastricht, the Netherlands
The twenty-first ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held
September 23 – 25, 2012 at Kasteel Vaeshartelt in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The local
organizers were Paul Van den Hof, Roland Toth, Xavier Bombois
and Ralf Peeters. Co-chairs for the program were
Hĺkan Hjalmarsson and Alessandro Chiuso. The workshop had 92 participants. The program consisted of one invited plenary
talk from
· Prof.
Michal I. Jordan from UC at Berkeley:
Bayesian non-parametrics and combinatorial
stochastic processes,
and 13 oral presentations in a
single track from members and guests of the ERNSI research teams. PhD students
and post-docs had the opportunity to present their work in poster sessions.
Altogether there were 40 poster presentations. Further information
including the detailed program and slides can be found at http://www.ernsi2012.tue.nl/
Summary of 2011 ERNSI WS at La Maison du Séminaire in Nice, France
The twentieth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held September
26 – 28, 2011 at La Maison du Séminaire
in Nice, France. The organizers were Martine Olivi, Laurent Baratchart and Qinghua Zhang. The workshop had 81 participants. The
program consisted of 4 tutorial lectures:
·
Prof. Michčle Basseville:
Towards the handling of uncertainties in statistical fault detection and
isolation
·
Prof. Lennart Ljung: Potentials and possibilities of
regularization in system identification
·
Prof. Manfred Deistler:
Generalized factor models
·
Prof. Laurent Baratchart: Orthogonal rational
functions and prediction theory for certain non-stationary stochastic
processes,
16 oral presentations in a single track and 30 poster presentations.
Further information can be found at http://www-sop.inria.fr/manifestations/ERNSI11/index.htm
Summary of 2010 ERNSI
WS at Pembroke College, Cambridge, U.K.
The nineteenth ERNSI
Workshop in System Identification was held September 27 – September 29, 2010 at
Pembroke College, Cambridge, U.K. The local organizer was Jan Maciejowski. Bo
Wahlberg and Paul Van den Hof were co-chairs. The workshop had 65 participants.
The program consisted of 5 tutorial lectures:
·
Prof.
Zoubin Ghahramani,
Cambridge University: Probabilistic Machine Learning View.
·
Prof.
Alessandro Chiuso, University of Padova: Bayesian
Techniques in Identification
·
Prof.
Carl Rasmussen, Cambridge University: Probabilistic Learning and Identification
·
Prof.
Johan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Nonparametric Preprocessing in
System Identification
·
Prof.
Paul Van den Hof, Delft University of Technology: Physical Model Structures,
Applied to Reservoir Engineering
13 oral presentations
and 28 poster presentations. Further information can be found at http://www-control.eng.cam.ac.uk/jmm/ernsi/ernsi2010.html
Summary of 2009 ERNSI WS at Stift Vorau, Austria
The eighteenth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held
September 30 - October 2, 2009 at the Stift Vorau in Austria. The workshop had 41 participants. The
program consisted of 3 invited lectures:
· Prof. Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter,
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz: Stochastic Model Specification Search for Gaussian and Non-Gaussian State
Space Models
· Prof. Hĺkan Hjalmarsson, KTH: System
identification of complex systems
· Prof. Benno Pötscher,
Universität Wien: Model Selection, Penalized Maximum
Likelihood and Inference
8 oral presentations and 15 poster presentations. The organizers were
Manfred Deistler and Wolfgang Scherrer. Further
information can be found at www.eos.tuwien.ac.at/ERNSI09.
Summary
of 2008 ERNSI WS in Sigtuna, Sweden
The seventeenth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held October 1-3 2008 in Sigtuna at the Sigtuna Foundation. The workshop is sponsored by the
VR Linnaeus Research Center ACCESS (Autonomic Complex Communication nEtworks Signals and Systems) at KTH, www.access.ee.kth.se, the Center for
Industrial and Applied Mathematics, CIAM at KTH and Uppsala University. The
2008 workshop had 63 participants. The program is a single track, with longer
presentations including three invited guest presentations
There was also a poster session. The program is available at http://www.ernsi.org/ERNSIWS08.htm
A special session on a roadmap for System Identification was held. The presentation is available at ERNSI White Paper Project.pdf
Summary of 2007 ERNSI WS in San Servolo, Italy.
The sixteenth ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held in the
island of San Servolo in the Venetian lagoon, October
1-3, 2007. European Research Network System Identification (ERNSI) was launched
in 1992 by the European Commission as a SCIENCE project. The 2007
workshop had 65 participants. The program is a single track, with longer
presentations including three invited guest presentations,
There was also a poster session. The program is available at http://control.dei.unipd.it/ERNSI07
The conclusion of the workshop is that data-driven modeling of dynamical
systems is a very exciting and vital field of research with strong connections
to a lot of other areas, including signal processing and machine learning. The
advances in control of complex systems, e.g. using model predictive control and
networked control, and a multitude of important industrial applications are all
based on the availability of reliable models. System identification is about
combining physical and engineering modeling with experimental information, and
is thus of fundamental importance in taking advantage of the progress in the
whole field of information and control systems.
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Objectives of ERNSI
The objectives of ERNSI are:
1. To carry
out joint research on selected topics of system identification as specified below
under research objectives
2. To
advance modelling and identification procedures and theory to selected cases of
the application areas.
3. To
jointly train early-stage researchers and post-docs in modelling and
identification. Special attention will be paid to new structures in higher
education in Europe influenced by the Bologna process.
4. To increase trans-national cooperation between
research teams. The cooperation between ERNSI research teams has turned out to
be extremely valuable for research and for applications. We will now open up
for new partners in order to overcome fragmentation.
5. To
collaborate with industrial and commercial organisations,
as well as governmental laboratories on system identification problems, to exchange
experiences between the teams on these problems, and, when appropriate, for
teams to jointly carry out applied research with such entities. Much of this
will be done within existing national and EU projects.
6.
To address important issues such as career development, experience of
industrial projects, researcher mobility and gender balance.
The aims of the workshops are:
Past
ERNSI Workshops System Identification
· First ERNSI WS SI, 1992 September,
St. Malo, France
· Second ERNSI WS SI, 1993 September
29 - October 1, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
· Third ERNSI WS SI, 1994 September
21-23, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
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Fourth ERNSI
WS SI, 1995 June 7-9, Padova, Italy
· Fifth ERNSI WS SI, 1996 September
23-25, Cambridge, United Kingdom
· Sixth ERNSI WS SI, 1997 September
8-10, Stockholm, Sweden
· Seventh ERNSI WS SI, 1998 September
28-30, Vienna, Austria
· Eighth ERNSI WS SI, 1999 September
27-29, Theoule, France
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Ninth ERNSI
WS SI, 2000 September 27-29, Vadstena, Sweden
· Tenth ERNSI WS SI, 2001 September
17-19, Cambridge, United Kingdom
· Eleventh ERNSI WS SI, 2002 September
23-25, Le Croisic, France
· Twelfth ERNSI WS SI, 2003 October
6-8, Noordwijkerhout, The
Netherlands. Workshop Chairmen: Jan van Schuppen (organizer) , Giorgio Picci and Lennart Ljung
· Thirteenth ERNSI WS SI, 2004 October
4-6, Dobogókő,
Hungary. Workshop Chairmen: László Gerencsér (organizer), Anders Lindquist and Paul Van
den Hof
· Fourteenth ERNSI WS SI, 2005
September Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Workshop
Chairmen: Michel Gevers (organizer), Laurent
Baratchart and Jan Maciejowski.
· Fifteen ERNSI WS SI, 2006 September,
Linköping, Sweden. Workshop Chairmen: Lennart Ljung (organizer), Manfred Deistler and Zhang Qinghua. Link to web page.
·
Sixteenth
ERNSI WS SI, 2007 October, San Servolo, Italy. Chairmen Giorgio Picci
(organizer), Anders Lindquist and Laszlo Gerencser. Link to web page
·
Seventeenth
ERNSI WS SI, 2008, October, Sigtuna, Sweden. Chairmen Bo Wahlberg (organizer),
Hĺkan Hjalmarsson, Anders Lindquist and Torsten Söderström. Link to web
page
· Eighteenth ERNSI WS SI, 2009
September, Stift Vorau,
Austria. Wolfgang Scherrer and Manfred Deistler
(organizers). Link to web page.
· Nineteenth ERNSI WS SI, 2010
September, Cambridge, U.K. The local organizer was Jan Maciejowski
. Bo Wahlbergand
Paul Van den Hof were the co-chairs for the program. Link to web
page
· Twentieth ERNSI WS, 2011 September,
Nice, France. The organizers were Martine Olivi, Laurent Baratchart and Qinghua Zhang. Link to web
page
· Twenty-first ERNSI WS, 2012
September, Maastricht, The Netherlands. The local organizers were Paul Van den
Hof, Roland Toth, Xavier Bombois and Ralf Peeters. Co-chairs for the program were Hĺkan Hjalmarsson
and Alessandro Chiuso. Link to web page
· Twenty-second ERNSI WS, 2013
September, Pont-ŕ-Mousson, France. The local
organizer was Hugues Garnier. Co-chairs
for the program were Roland Tóth and Martin Enquist. Link
to web page
· Twenty-third
ERNSI WS, 2014 September, Ostend, Belgium. The local organizer was Rik Pintelon. Co-chairs for the program were Xavier Bombois and Carl Rasmussen. Link to
web page
· Twenty-fourth ERNSI WS 2015
September, Varberg, Sweden. The local organizer was
Martin Enqvist. Co-chairs for the program were Marion Gilson and Tomas
McKelvey. Link
to web page
· The twenty-fifth ERNSI WS 2016
September, Cison di Valmarino,
Italy. The local organizer was Alessandro Chiuso. Co-chairs for the program
were Rik Pintelon and Marco Campi. Link to web page
· The twenty-sixth ERNSI WS 2017
September, Sainte-Foy-lčs-Lyon, France. The local
organizers were Xavier Bombois, Guillaume Mercčre and
Laurent Bako. The co-chair for the program was Paul Van den
Hof. Link to web page
· The twenty-seventh ERNSI WS 2018,
September, Cambridge, U.K. The local organizers were Carl Rasmussen, Jan
Maciejowski and Rodolphe Sepulchre.
The co-chair for the program was Martin Enqvist. Link to web page
· The twenty-eight ERNSI Workshop in System
Identification was held September 22 – 25, 2019 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
The local organizers were Paul Van den Hof and Roland Tóth.
The co-chair for the program was Hĺkan Hjalmarsson. Link to web page
· The twenty-ninth ERNSI Workshop in
System Identification was organized as a Hybrid (face2face and virtual
participation) and Connected (connected co-locations) on September 20-21, 2021.
Qinghua Zhang (Inria) was
the chair of the organization committee and Marion Gilson (Université
de Lorraine) was the local co-chair. Thomas Schön
(Uppsala University, Sweden) was the program chair and Guillaume Mercčre (Université de Poitiers, France) was the program co-chair. Link to web page
· The
thirties ERNSI Workshop in System Identification was held September 19 – 21,
2022 in Leuven, Belgium. The local organizers were Bart de Moor, Katrien De
Cock and Philippe Dreesen. The co-chair for the program was Martin Enqvist. Link to web page
· The thirty-first ERNSI Workshop in
System Identification was held on September 24-27,
2023 in Stockholm Sweden. Hĺkan Hjalmarsson was the general chair of the
organization committee. Marion Gilson
was the program chair. Link to web page
· The thirty-second ERNSI Workshop in
System Identification was held on September 29 -
October 2, 2024 at Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice,
Italy. Alessandro Chiuso was the general chair of the organization
committee. John Lataire
was the program chair. Simone Formentin and Mattia Zorzi were the local co-chairs. Link to web page
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