Technical Committee on Networks and Communication Systems

There has been an increasing volume of research on networks within the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) community. This research is not confined to work on traditional communication networks. It also extends to a broader set of networks, including other technological networks such as transportation and energy networks; social, economic, and financial networks; and biological networks. The CSS Technical Committee (TC) on Networks and Communications aims to promote communication among researchers active in the networks area. It provides a forum to discuss new research directions on the modeling, analysis, optimization, and control of emerging networks, both with social and technological aspects. It allows members to coordinate activities, including organization of new workshops and several invited sessions on networks at the American Control Conference and the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). Another impor- tant objective is to increase CSS pub- lications that could provide a visible outlet for high-quality research in this area. This TC currently has ap- proximately 90 members, including about 20 students and postdocs. It is chaired by Giacomo Como and or- ganized into eight working groups: Control of Network Systems (chaired by Paolo Frasca), Information Net- works and Control (Serdar Yüksel), Networked Sensing and Sensor Net- works (Venkatesh Saligrama), Opti- mization and Game Theoretic Meth- ods in Networks (Francesca Parise), Cybersecurity and Privacy (Yilin Mo), Infrastructure Networks (Ra- hul Jain), Internet of Things (Rolf Findeisen), and Learning, Dynam- ics, and Behaviors in Social Systems (Chiara Ravazzi).