Constantino Lagoa Publications

Refereed Journals:

N. Ozay, M. Sznaier, C. M. Lagoa and O. Camps, “A Sparsification Approach to Set Membership Identification of a Class of Affine Hybrid Systems” conditionally accepted IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

C. Feng, F. Dabbene, and C. M. Lagoa, “A Novel Framework for Robust and Probabilistic Optimization under Polynomial Uncertainty,” accepted IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

L. Ye, Z. Wang, H. Che, H. Chan, and C. M. Lagoa, “Utility function of TCP,” Computer Communications, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 800-805, 2009.

C. M. Lagoa, F. Dabbene, and R. Tempo, "Hard Bound on Probability of Performance with Applications to Circuit Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 55, no. 10, pp. 3178-3187, 2008.

M. Sznaier, C. M. Lagoa, and N. Ozay, "Risk-adjusted output feedback receding horizon control of constrained linear parameter varying systems," International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 17, Issue 17, pp. 1614-1633, November 25, 2007.

B. A. Movsichoff, C. M. Lagoa, and H. Che, "End-to-End Optimal Algorithms for Integrated QoS, Traffic Engineering, and Failure Recovery," Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 813-823, August 2007.

M. A. Wenjing, M. Sznaier, and C. M. Lagoa, "A risk adjusted approach to robust simultaneous fault detection and isolation," Automatica, vol. 43, Issue 3, pp. 499-504, March 2007.

C. M. Lagoa, J. Fu, and A. Ray, "Robust optimal control of regular languages," Automatica, vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 1439-1445, 2005.

C. M. Lagoa, X. Li, and M. Sznaier, "Probabilistically constrained linear programs and risk-adjusted controller design," SIAM Journal on Optimization, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 938-951, 2005.

M. Sznaier, C. M. Lagoa, and M. C. Mazzaro, "An algorithm for sampling subsets of $\scr H\sb \infty$ with applications to risk-adjusted performance analysis and model (in)validation," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 410-416, 2005.

B. Movsichoff, C. M. Lagoa, and H. Che, "Decentralized optimal traffic engineering in connectionless networks," IEEE Journal on elected Areas in Communications, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 293-303, 2005.

J. F. Horn, D. K. Tolani, C. M. Lagoa, Q. Wang, and A. Ray, “Probabilistic Robust Control of Rotorcraft,” Control Engineering Practice, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 1037-1046, August 2005.

C. M. Lagoa, H. Che, and B. Movsichoff, “Adaptive Control Algorithms for Decentralized Optimal Traffic Engineering in the Internet,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 12, Issue 3, pp. 415-428, 2004.

A. Ray, J. Fu, and C. M. Lagoa, "Unconstrained Optimal Control of Regular Languages," Automatica, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 639-646, 2004.

A. Ray, J. Fu, and C. M. Lagoa, “Optimal Supervisory Control of Regular Languages,” Demonstratio Math, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 991-1013, 2004.

A. Ray, J. Fu, and C. M. Lagoa, “Optimal Supervisory Control of Finite State Automata,” International Journal of Control, vol. 77, no. 12, pp. 1083-1100, 2004.

C. M. Lagoa, “Probabilistic Enhancement of Classical Robustness Margins: a Class of Non-Symmetric Distributions,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 48, n. 11, pp. 1990-1995, November 2003.

C. M. Lagoa, X. Li, and M. Sznaier, “On the Design of Robust Controllers for Arbitrary Uncertainty Structures,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 2061-2065, November 2003.

C. M. Lagoa, “A Convex Parameterization of Risk-Adjusted Stabilizing Controllers,” Automatica, vol. 39, no. 10, pp. 1829-1835, October 2003.

C.M. Lagoa and H. Che, “Decentralized Optimal Traffic Engineering in the Internet,” ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, vol. 30, no. 4, October 2000.

C. M. Lagoa, P. S. Shcherbakov, and B. R. Barmish, “Probabilistic Enhancement of Classical Robustness Margins: The Unirectangularity Concept,” Systems and Control Letters, vol. 35, pp. 31-43, 1998.

B. R. Barmish and C. M. Lagoa, “The Uniform Distribution: A Rigorous Justification for its Use in Robustness Analysis,” Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems, vol. 10, pp. 203-222, 1997.

Book Chapters:

M. Sznaier, C. M. Lagoa, X. Li, and A. A. Stoorvogel, "Risk adjusted receding horizon control of constrained linear parameter varying systems," in Advanced Strategies in Control Systems with Input and Output Constraints, ed by G. Garcia and S. Tarbouriech, Springer Verlag, pp. 293-312, Germany, 2006.

A. Ray, J. Fu, and C. M. Lagoa, "Optimal Supervisory Control of Regular Languages," In Quantitative Measure for Discrete Event Supervisory Control Ray, Asok; Phoha, Vir V.; Phoha, Shashi (Eds.), pp. 39-70, 2005, XX, 264 p. 100 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 0-387-02108-6 Springer, 2005.

C. M. Lagoa, J. Fu, and A. Ray, "Robust optimal control of regular languages," In Quantitative Measure for Discrete Event Supervisory Control Ray, Asok; Phoha, Vir V.; Phoha, Shashi (Eds.), pp. 71-94 2005, XX, 264 p. 100 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 0-387-02108-6 Springer, 2005.

C. M. Lagoa, X. Li, M. C. Mazzaro, and M. Sznaier, "Sampling Random Transfer Functions," In Probabilistic and Randomized Methods for Design under Uncertainty Calafiore, Giuseppe; Dabbene, Fabrizio (Eds.), pp. 331-364, 2006, XIV, 457 p. 21 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 1-84628-094-X Springer, 2005.

B. Movsichoff, C. M. Lagoa, and H. Che, "A sliding mode approach to traffic engineering in computer networks," In Advances in communication control networks, pp. 111-136, Lecture Notes in Control and Inform. Sci. 308, Springer, Berlin, 2005.

Refereed Proceedings:

Mustafa Ayazoglu, Mario Sznaier, Constantino M. Lagoa and Octavia I. Camps, “A Moments-Based Approach To Estimation and Data Interpolation for a Class of Wiener Systems,” To appear in the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA.

Chao Feng, Constantino M. Lagoa, Necmiye Ozay and Mario Sznaier, “Hybrid System Identification: An SDP Approach,” To appear in the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA.

Necmiye Ozay, Mario Sznaier and Constantino M. Lagoa, “Model (In)validation of Switched ARX Systems with Unknown Switches and its Application to Activity Monitoring,” To appear in the Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA.

Fabrizio Dabbene, Pavel Shcherbakov and Constantino M. Lagoa, “On the Complexity of Randomized Approximations of Nonconvex Sets,” Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, Tokyo, Japan.

Necmiye Ozay, Mario Sznaier, Constantino Lagoa and Octavia Camps, “GPCA with Denoising: A Moments-Based Convex Approach,” Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Francisco, CA.

C. Feng, C. M. Lagoa and M. Sznaier, “Hybrid System Identification via Sparse Polynomial Optimization,” Proceedings of the 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, MD, June 30 – July 2, 2010.

C. Feng and C. M. Lagoa, “Distributional Robustness Analysis for Polynomial Uncertainty,” Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, P.R. China, December 16-18, 2009.

N. Ozay, C. M. Lagoa, and M. Sznaier, “Robust Identification of Switched Affine Systems via Moments–Based Convex Optimization,” Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, P.R. China, December 16-18, 2009.

F. Dabbene, C. Feng, and C. M. Lagoa, "Robust and Chance-Constrained Optimization under Polynomial Uncertainty," Proceedings of the 2009 American Control Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, 2009.

N. Ozay, M. Sznaier, C. M. Lagoa, and O. Camps, "A sparsification approach to set membership identification of a class of affine hybrid systems," Best Student Paper Award, Proceedings of 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 123-130, Cancun, Mexico, 2008.

W. Su, C. M. Lagoa, and H. Che, "A Family of Optimization-Based Traffic Control Laws for Overlay Networks," Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 5710-5715, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2007.

F. Dabbene, C. Feng, and C. M. Lagoa, "Robust LMIs with Polynomial Dependence on the Uncertainty," Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 5646-5651, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2007.

M. Sznaier, C. M. Lagoa, and W. Ma, "Risk Adjusted Identification of a Class of Nonlinear Systems," Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 5117-5122, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2007.

M. Sznaier, C. M. Lagoa, and N. Ozay, "Risk Adjusted Output Feedback Receding Horizon Control of Constrained Linear Parameter Varying Systems," Proceedings of the 2007 European Control Conference, Kos, Greece, 2007.

I. Ghosh, H. Che, C. M. Lagoa, M. Kumar, and S. Das, “SoS: A Service Oriented Scalable Traffic Control Architecture for Future Internet,” IEEE ICC Workshop on Traffic Engineering in Next Generation IP Networks, Glasgow, Scotland, 2007.

H. Che, M. Gupta, S. Velayutham, C. M. Lagoa, and Z. Wang, "INTESER: A Integrated Solution to Provide QoS, Traffic Engineering, and Fault Tolerance in an MPLS Network," Proceedings of the 18th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS), Dallas, Texas, November 2006.

Y. Cui, H. Che, C. M. Lagoa, and Z. Zheng, "A Least Interference Path Algorithm for MPLS Traffic Engineering," The 3rd International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-06), September 3-6, 2006.

H. Che, W. Su, C. M. Lagoa, K. Xu, C. Liu, and Y. Cui, "An Integrated, Distributed Traffic Control Strategy for the Future Internet," The ACM SIGCOMM INM Workshop, Wuhan, China, 2006.

J. Chen and C. M. Lagoa, "Robust Observer Design for a Class of Switched Systems," Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, 2006.

F. Dabbene, C. M. Lagoa, and R. Tempo, "Computing Hard Bounds for Probabilistic Robustness," Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, California, 2006.

J. Chen and C. M. Lagoa, "Observer Design for a Class of Switched Systems," Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2005 and 2005 European Control Conference. CDC-ECC '05, pp. 2945-2950, Seville, Spain, 2005.

C. M. Lagoa, "On the Design of Optimal and Robust Supervisors for Deterministic Finite State Automata," Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2005 and 2005 European Control Conference. CDC-ECC '05, pp. 2745-2750, Seville, Spain, 2005.

J. Chen, C. M. Lagoa, and A. Ray, "On the Design of Discrete-Time Fixed-Order Controllers for Persistent Disturbance Rejection," Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, 2005.

M. Sznaier, W. Ma, and C. M. Lagoa, "A Risk Adjusted Approach to Robust Simultaneous Fault Detection and Isolation," Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, 2005.

M. Sznaier, W. Ma, M. Yilmaz, and C. M. Lagoa, "Semi--Blind Robust Identification/Model (In)Validation with Applications to Macro--Economic Modelling," Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, 2005.

J. Chen, C. M. Lagoa, J. F. Horn, and A. Ray, “Output Bounded Switching Control for Future Generation Rotorcraft,” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, San Francisco, California, August 2005.

M. Sznaier, C. M. Lagoa, A. Stoorvogel, and X. Li, “Risk Adjusted Receding Horizon Control of LPV Systems," Proceedings of the 2004 IFAC Nonlinear Control Symposium (NOLCOS 2004), Stuttgart, September 2004.

B. A. Movsichov and C. M. Lagoa, “Minimal Feedback Optimal Algorithms for Traffic Engineering in Computer Networks,” Proceedings of the 43nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2396-2402, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 2004.

V. Rajagopalan, R. Samsi, A. Ray, J. Mayer, and C. M. Lagoa, “A symbolic dynamics approach for early detection of slowly evolving faults in nonlinear systems,” Proceedings of IASTED-CSS, pp. 449–082,Clearwater, Florida, 2004. (Peer reviewed; first author supervised by candidate)

J. Fu, A. Ray, and C. M. Lagoa, “Robust Optimal Control of Regular Languages with Event Cost Uncertainties,” Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3209-3214, Maui, Hawaii, 2003.

C. M. Lagoa, X. Li, M. C. Mazzaro, and M. Sznaier,” Sampling Random Transfer Functions,” Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2429-2434, Maui, Hawaii, 2003.

B. A. Movsichoff and C. M. Lagoa, “A Novel Approach to Traffic Engineering for Ad-Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 576-581, Maui, Hawaii, 2003.

J. F. Horn, D. K. Tolani, C. M. Lagoa, Q. Wang, and A. Ray, “Reliable Operation of Rotorcraft Using Probabilistic Robust Control,” Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes, Washington, D.C., 2003.

J. Fu, A. Ray, and C. M. Lagoa, “Optimal Control of Regular Languages with Event Disabling Cost,” Proceedings of 2003 American Control, pp. 1691-1695, Denver, Colorado, 2003.

C. M. Lagoa, X. Li, and M. Sznaier, “On the Design of Robust Controllers for Arbitrary Uncertainty Structures,” Proceedings of 2003 American Control Conference, pp. 3596-3691, Denver, Colorado, 2003.

M. C. Mazzaro, M. Sznaier, and C. M. Lagoa, “A Risk–Adjusted Approach to Model (In)validation,” Proceedings of 2003 American Control Conference, pp. 3809-3813, Denver, Colorado, 2003.

X. Li and C. M. Lagoa, “Stochastic Approximation Algorithms for Risk Adjusted Quadratic Stability,” Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2254-2259, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2002.

M. Sznaier, B. T. Polyak, M. Halpern, and C. M. Lagoa, “A Superstability Approach to Synthesizing Low Order Suboptimal L?–Induced Controllers for LPV Systems,” Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1856-1861, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2002.

J. Fu, A. Ray, and C. M. Lagoa, “Unconstrained Optimal Control of Regular Languages,” Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 799-804, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2002.

B. Movsichoff and C. M. Lagoa, “Optimal Decentralized Algorithms for Traffic Engineering in the Internet,” Proceedings of the 2002 IFAC World Congress, pp. 1379-1384, Barcelona, Spain, 2002.

C. M. Lagoa and B. Ross Barmish, “Distributionally Robust Monte Carlo Simulation: A Tutorial Survey,” Proceedings of the 2002 IFAC World Congress, pp. 1327-1338, Barcelona, Spain, 2002.

C. M. Lagoa, M. Sznaier, and B. R. Barmish, “An Algorithm for Generating Transfer Functions Uniformly Distributed over H-infinity Balls,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 5038-5043, 2001.

C. M. Lagoa, X. Li, and M. Sznaier, “Application of Probabilistically Constrained Linear Programs to Risk-Adjusted Controller Design,” Proceedings of the 2001 American Control Conference, pp. 738-743, Arlington, Virginia, 2001.

C. M. Lagoa, “Probabilistic Enhancement of Classical Robustness Margins: A Class of Nonsymmetric Distributions,” Proceedings of the 2000 American Control Conference, pp. 3802-3806, Chicago, Illinois, 2000.

C. M. Lagoa, “On the Convexity of Probabilistically Constrained Linear Programs,” Proceedings of the 38th Conference on Decision and Control, vol. 1, pp. 516-521, Phoenix, Arizona, 1999.

C. M. Lagoa, “A Convex Parameterization of Risk-Adjusted Stabilizing Controllers,” Proceedings of the 38th Conference on Decision and Control, vol. 1, pp. 534-539, Phoenix, Arizona, 1999.

P. S. Shcherbakov, C. M. Lagoa, and B. R. Barmish, “Characterization of Worst-Case Uncertainty Geometry in the Theory of Probabilistic Robustness,” Proceedings of the 14th IFAC World Congress, vol. 7, pp. 401-406, Beijing, P. R. China, 1999

B. R. Barmish and C. M. Lagoa, “On Convexity of the Probabilistic Design Problem for Quadratic Stabilizability,” Proceedings of the American Control Conference, vol. 1, pp. 430-434, San Diego, California, 1999.

J. Zhang., C. M. Lagoa, and B. R. Barmish, “Probabilistic Robustness: An RLC Realization of the Truncation Phenomenon,” Proceedings of the American Control Conference, vol. 3, pp. 1427-1428, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1998.

C. M. Lagoa, P. S. Shcherbakov, and B. R. Barmish, “Probabilistic Enhancement of Classical Robustness Margins: The Unirectangularity Concept,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, vol. 5, pp. 4874-4879, San Diego, California, 1997.

B. R. Barmish, C. M. Lagoa, and R. Tempo, “Radially Truncated Uniform Distributions for Probabilistic Robustness of Control Systems,” Proceedings of the American Control Conference, vol. 1, pp. 853-857, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1997

B. R. Barmish, C. M. Lagoa, and P. S. Shcherbakov, “Probabilistic Enhancement of Robustness Margins Provided by Linear Matrix Inequalities,” Proceedings of the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, pp. 160-169, Monticello, Illinois, 1996.

B. R. Barmish and C. M. Lagoa, “The Uniform Distribution: A Rigorous Justification for its Use in Robustness Analysis,” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, vol. 3, pp. 3418-3423, Kobe, Japan, 1996.

B. R. Barmish and C. M. Lagoa, “The Uniformity Principle: A New Tool for Probabilistic Robustness Analysis,” Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems, pp. 929-933, Princeton, New Jersey, 1996.

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