RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS (2000 -  ): 

· J. Pittner and M. A. Simaan, " Control of Tandem Hot Metal Strip RollingProcesses Using an Improvement to the State Dependent Riccati Equation Technique,” Proc. of the 2012 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December 10-13, 2012, pp. 6358-6363

· Z. Qu and M. A. Simaan, “An Analytic Solution to the Optimal Design of Information Structure and Cooperative Control in Networked Systems,” Proc. of the 2012 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, Hawaii, December 10-13, 2012, pp. 4015-4022

· Y. Wang, G. Faragallah, E. Divo, and M.A. Simaan "Feedback Control of a Rotary Left Ventricular Assist Device Supporting a Failing Cardiovascular System,” Proc. of the 2012 American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 27-29, 2012, pp. 1137-1142

· J. Pittner and M. A. Simaan, "Modern Controller for Improving Quality During Threading of the Tandem Hot Strip Rolling Mill,” Proc. of the 2011 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, October 9-13, 2011 (in Conference CD)

• G. Faragallah, E. Divo, and M.A. Simaan, “A Feedback Controller Based on the Estimation of the Systemic Vascular Resistance of Left Ventricular Assist Devices Patients,” Abstracts of the 19^th Congress of the International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps, Louisville, KY, September 8-10, 2011

• G. Faragallah, Y. Wang, E. Divo, and M.A. Simaan, “The Aortic Valve Dynamics Role in the Recovery Treatments of Patients with left ventricular Assist Devices,” Proc. of the 2011 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Boston, MA, August 30 - September 3, 2011, pp. 1339-1342

• Y. Wang, G. Faragallah, E. Divo, and M.A. Simaan, “Detection of Ventricular Suction in an Implantable Rotary Blood Pumps Using Support Vector Machines” Proc. of the 2011 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Boston, MA, August 30 - September 3, 2011, pp. 3318-3321

• W. Lin, Z. Qu and M. A. Simaan, “A Design of Entrapment Strategies for the Distributed Pursuit-Evasion Game,” Proc. of the 18th International Federation of Automatic Control World Congress, Milan, Italy, August 28 - September 2, 2011, pp. 9334-9339

• G. Faragallah, Y. Wang, E. Divo, and M.A. Simaan, “A New Current-Based Control Model of the Combined cardiovascular and Rotary Left ventricular Assist Device,” Proc. of the 2011 American Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 29-July 1, 2011, pp. 4776-4780

• J. Pittner and M. A. Simaan, "Controller for Improvement in the Threading of a Tandem Hot Metal Strip Rolling Process,” Proc. of the 2011 American Control Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 29-July 1, 2011, pp. 5055-5060

• G. Faragallah, Y. Wang, E. Divo, and M.A. Simaan, “Determination of the Optimal LVAD Pump Speed Range in Bridge to Recovery Treatment” Abstracts of the 57^th Annual Conference of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO), Washington, DC, June 10-12, 2011. ASIAO Journal, Vol. 57, No. 2, March-April 2011, p. 97

• Y. Wang, G. Faragallah, E. Divo, and M.A. Simaan, “Detection of Suction for Rotary Blood Pumps Using Support Vector Machines” Abstracts of the 57^th Annual Conference of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO), Washington, DC, June 10-12, 2011. ASIAO Journal, Vol. 57, No. 2, March-April 2011, p. 102

• G. Faragallah, Y. Wang, E. Divo, and M.A. Simaan, “A New Control System for Left Ventricular Assist Devices Based on the Psychological Demand of the Patient,” Proc. of the 7^th International Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering, Orlando, FL, May 4-6, 2011, pp. 250-255

• W. Lin, Z. Qu and M. A. Simaan, “A Design of Distributed Nonzero-Sum Nash Strategies,” Proc. of the 49^th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, December 15-17, 2010, pp. 6305-6310

• J. Pittner and M. A. Simaan, “Quality Improvement of Tandem Hot Metal Strip Rolling Using an Augmented State-Dependent Riccati Equation Technique,” Proc. of the 49^th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, December 15-17, 2010 , pp. 5180-5185

• C. Gil, M. Haralambous, Z. Qu and M. A. Simaan, “A Optimal Control Approach for Determination of the Heat Loss Coefficient in a Domestic Water Heating System,” Proc. of the 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, MA, June 30-July 2, 2010, pp.3549-3554

• J. Pittner and M. A. Simaan, "Controller for Improving the Quality of the Tandem Rolling of Hot Metal Strip," Proc. of the 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, MA, June 30-July 2, 2010, pp. 6095-6100

• Z. Qu and M. A. Simaan, "Inverse Optimality of Cooperative Control for Networked Systems", Proc. of the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, P.R. China, December 16-18, 2009, pp. 1651-1658

• J. Pittner and M. A. Simaan, "Progress in Development of a Control Model for a Tandem Hot Metal Strip Rolling Process," Proc. of the 2009 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, October 4-8, 2009 (in Conference CD).

• Z. Qu and M. A. Simaan, “A Design of Distributed Game Strategies for Networked Agents,” Proc. of the 1st IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems, NecSys'09, Venice, Italy, 24-26 September, 2009, pp. 270-275

· M.A. Simaan, “Modeling and Control of the Heart Left Ventricle Supported with a Rotary Assist Device,” Proc. of the 47^th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, December 9-12, 2008, pp. 2656-2661.

· D.G. Galati, and M. A. Simaan, “Near Nash Targeting Strategies for Heterogeneous Units of Autonomous Combat Vehicles,” Proc. of the 26^th Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL, December 1-4, 2008. (in Conference CD)

· J. Pittner, and M. A. Simaan, “Model for Control of a Tandem Hot Metal Strip Rolling” Proc. of the 2008 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, October 5-9, 2008 (in Conference CD)

· J. Pittner and M. A. Simaan, “ Optimum Feedback Controller Design for Tandem Cold Metal Rolling” Proc. of the 17^th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control, Seoul, Korea, July 11-13, 2008, pp. 988 – 993.

· M. A. Simaan and J. F. Antaki, “Progress with Extremum-Seeking Feedback Controller for a Rotary Blood Pump” Abstracts of the 54^th Conference of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO), San Francisco, CA, June 19 - 21, 2008.

· J. Pittner and M. A. Simaan, “Optimal Control of Continuous Tandem Cold Metal Rolling” Proc. of the 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, June 11-13, 2008, pp. 2834-2839

· D.G. Galati and M. A. Simaan, “Near Nash Targeting Strategies for Heterogeneous Teams of Autonomous Combat Vehicles,” Proc. of the SPIE Conference on Defense and Security, Unmanned Systems Technology, Vol. 6962, Orlando, FL, March 16-20, 2008, pp. 69620X-1 to 69620X-10.

· I. Sahin and M. A. Simaan, “Flow Control in Communication Networks with Competing Teams of Cooperative Users,” Proc. of the 2007 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Exhibition, and Industry Forum, Washington, DC, November 26-30, 2007 (in Conference CD)

· J. Pittner, and M. A. Simaan, “An Optimal Control Method for Improvement in Tandem Cold Metal Rolling” Proc. of the 2007 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, September 23-27, 2007 (in Conference CD)

· J. Pittner, N. Samaras, and M. A. Simaan, “A Novel Approach for Optimal Control of Continuous Tandem Cold Metal Rolling” Proc. of the 2007 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, September 23-27, 2007 (in Conference CD)

· J. Pittner, and M. A. Simaan, “A New Strategy for Control of Tandem Cold Metal Rolling” Proc. of the 2007 American Control Conference, New York, NY, July 11-13, 2007, pp. 4130-4135.

· Y-C Yu, M. A. Simaan, N. V. Zorn, and S. Mushi, “A Nonlinear Model for Flow Estimation and Control in a Percutaneous Heart Assist System,” Proc. of the 2007 American Control Conference, New York, NY, July 11-13, 2007, pp. 2018-2023.

· S. Chen, A. Ferreira, M.A. Simaan, J. R. Boston, and J. F. Antaki, "Feedback Control of an LVAD Supporting a Failing Cardiovascular System Regulated by the Baroreflex, " Proc. of the 45^th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, December 13-15, 2006, pp.655-660.

· D. G. Galati, and M.  A. Simaan, "A Game Theoretic Approach for Targeting Strategies in Teams of Autonomous Units, " Proc. of the 25^th Army Science Conference, Session E, Unmanned Systems, Orlando, FL, November 27-30, 2006 (in Conference CD)

· A. Ferreira, S. Chen, M.A. Simaan, J. R. Boston, and J. F. Antaki, "A Discriminant-Analysis-Based Suction Detection System for Rotary Blood Pumps", Proc. of the 28th IEEE Annual International Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, August 30 - September 3, 2006 in New York, NY, 2006, pp. 5382-5385

· S. Chen, A. Ferreira, M. A. Simaan, and J. F. Antaki, "A Mathematical Model of a Cardiovascular System Regulated by the Baroreflex," Proc. of the 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 14-17, 2006, pp. 701-706.

· A. Ferreira, M.  A. Simaan, J.R. Boston, and J. F. Antaki, "Frequency and Time-Frequency Based Indices for Suction Detection in Rotary Blood Pumps," Proc. of the 2006 IEEE International  Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 14-19, 2006, Vol. II, pp.1064-1067

· A. Ferreira, M.  A. Simaan, J.R. Boston, and J. F. Antaki, "A Nonlinear State Space Model of a Combined Cardiovascular System and a Rotary Pump," Proc. of the 44^th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Seville, Spain, Dec. 12-15, 2005, pp. 897-902

· A. Ferreira, S. Chen, D. G. Galati, M.  A. Simaan, and J. F. Antaki, "A Dynamical State Space Representation of a Feedback Controlled Rotary Left Ventricular Assist Device," Proc. of the 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Orlando, FL, November 5-11, 2005, Paper IMECE2005-80973 (in Conference CD)

· D.G. Galati, and M.  A. Simaan, "Near-Nash Strategies in Competitive Multi-Team Target Assignment," Proc. of the 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, Orlando, FL, November 5-11, 2005, Paper IMECE2005-81076 (n Conference CD)

· Y-C Yu, M. A. Simaan, N. V. Zorn, and S. Mushi, "Model-based Prediction of a Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device Performance," Proc. of the 2005 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, June 8-10, 2005, pp. 3835-3840

· S. Chen, J. F. Antaki, M.  A. Simaan, and J. R. Boston, "Physiological Control of Left ventricular Assist Devices Based on Gradient of Flow," Proc. of the 2005 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, June 8-10, 2005, pp. 3829-3834

· Y. Liu and M. A. Simaan, "Competitive Team Strategies for Routing Control in Parallel-Link Communication Networks,”"Proc. of the 2005 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, June 8-10, 2005, pp. 2347-2352

· H. Borovetz, S. Badylak, J.R. Boston, R. Kormos, M. Kameneva, M. A. Simaan, T. Snyder, H. Tsukui, W. Wagner, J.F. Antaki, C. Diao, S. Vandeberghe, B. Keller, V. Morell, S. Weber, J. Gardiner, C.M. Li, D. Paden, B. Paden, J. Wu, G. Bearneson, J. Hawkins, G. Jacobs, J. Kirk, P. Khanwilkar, J. Long, S. Miles, and R. Shaddy, "The Pediatric ventricular Assist Device (Pediaflow)," Abstracts of the First International Conference on Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support Systems and Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Perfusion, Hershey, PA, May 19-22, 2005, p. 48

· B. Uber, L.C. Santelices, B. Keller, S. Webber, V. Morell, R.L. Kormos, H.S. Borovetz, M.A. Simaan and J.F, Antaki, "Systematic Decision Support for Optimal Management of PVAD Patients”" Abstracts of the First International Conference on Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support Systems and Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Perfusion, Hershey, PA, May 19-22, 2005, p. 68

· S. Mushi, Y-C. Yu, M. A Simaan, and N. V. Zorn, “Flow Rate Prediction of a Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device using Nonlinear Circuit Analysis,” Proc. of the 31^st Annual NorthEast BioEngineering Conference, Hoboken, NJ, April 2-3, 2005, pp. 61-62

· Y. Liu and M. A. Simaan, "Noninferior Nash Strategies for Routing Control in Parallel-Link Communication Networks, “ Proc. of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, January 3-6, 2005, pp. 2478-2482

· D. Galati and M. A. Simaan, ‘Effectiveness of the Nash Strategies in Competitive Multi-Team Target Assignment Problems,” 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 14-17, 2004, pp. 4856-4861

· Y. Liu, D. Galati and M. A. Simaan, “A Game Theoretic Approach to Team Dynamics and Tactics in Mixed Initiative Control of Automa-Teams,” 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 14-17, 2004, pp. 3811-3816.

· K-W Gwak, M. Ricci, S. Snyder, B. E. Paden, J. R. Boston, M. A. Simaan, and J.F. Antaki, “In-Vitro Evaluation of Multi-Objective Hemodynamic Control of Heart-Assist Pump,” 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 14-17, 2004, pp. 1069-1074

· J. Pittner, and M. A. Simaan, “Pointwise Linear Quadratic Optimal Control of a Tandem Cold Rolling Mill” 39th IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, October 3-7, 2004, pp. 903-910

· I. Sahin, and M. A. Simaan, “A Game Theoretic Flow and Routing Control Policy for Two-Node Parallel-Link Communication Networks With Multiple Users,” 15th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications, Barcelona, Spain,  September 5-9, 2004, pp. 2478-2482

· M. A. Simaan, J. B. Cruz, Y. Liu, and D. Galati, “Task Assignment for Cooperative Teams in Competitive Systems, 8th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL, July 18-21, 2004, Vol. XVI, pp. 324-329

· Y. Liu, D. Galati and M. A. Simaan, “Nash Strategies with Distance Discount Factor in Target Selection Problems,” 2004 American Control Conference, Boston, MA, June 29-July 2, 2004, pp. 2356-2361

· D. Galati, Y. Liu, and M. A. Simaan, “A Fast Algorithm for Unit Level Team Resource Allocation in a Game Environment,” 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, HI, December 9-12, 2003, pp. 3561-3566.

· Y. Liu, D. Galati and M. A. Simaan, “Team Dynamics and Tactics in SHARED,” 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, HI, December 9-12, 2003, pp. 2872-2877

· J. F. Antaki, J. R. Boston and M. A. Simaan, “Control of Heart Assist Devices,” 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, HI, December 9-12, 2003, pp. 4084-4089.

· C. Guo, M. A. Simaan, and Z. Sun, “Neuro-Fuzzy Intelligent Controller for Ship Roll Motion Stabilization,” IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Houston, TX, October 5-8, 2003, pp. 182-187 

· Y. Liu, D. Galati, M. A. Simaan, and J. B. Cruz, Jr. “Control of Cooperative Systems,” International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies, Orlando, FL, July 31-Aug. 2, 2003, pp. 333-338.

· M. A. Simaan and J. B. Cruz, Jr., “Ordinal Decision Making in Competitive Business Models,” Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu, HI, June 18-21, 2003,  pp. 1-12

· Y. Liu, M. A. Simaan, and J. B. Cruz, Jr. “Game Theoretic Approach to Cooperative Teaming and Tasking in the Presence of an Adversary,” 2003 American Control Conference, Denver, CO, June 4-6, 2003, pp 5375-5380

· J. Pittner, N. S. Samaras and M. A. Simaan, "A Simple Rolling Mill Model With Linear Quadratic Optimal Controller,” 37th IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October 13-18, 2002, Vol. 1, pp. 142-149

· N. S. Samaras and M. A. Simaan, “Optimized Trajectory Tracking Control of Dynamic Multistage Metal-Cooling Processes with Nonlinear Disturbances,” 37th  IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October 13-18, 2002, Vol. 1, pp. 150-156

· J. B. Cruz, Jr., and M. A. Simaan, “Ordinal Game Theory – A New Framework for Games Without Payoff Functions,” 2002 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Lisbon, Portugal, July 9-12, 2002

· M. A. Simaan and J. B. Cruz, Jr., “An Ordinal Approach for Decision Making in a Competitive Environment,” Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu, HI, June 18-22, 2002

· Y. Liu, J. B. Cruz, Jr., and M. A. Simaan, “Dynamic Nash Task Reassignment Strategies in Multi-Team Systems,"  2002 American Control Conference , Anchorage, AK, May 8-10, 2002, pp. 5013-5018

· J. B. Cruz, Jr., M. A. Simaan, A. Gacic, and Y. Liu “Moving Horizon Game Theoretic Approaches for Control Strategies in a Military Operations,” 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, FL, December 4-7, 2001

· L. Baloa, J. R. Boston, M. A. Simaan, and J. F. Antaki,  “A Certainty-Weighted Decision Model for the Detection of Suction in VADs,” IEEE Conference on Control Applications and International Symposium on Intelligent Control , Mexico City, Mexico, September 5-7, 2001, pp. 696-701

· J. F. Antaki, Z. Wu, D. Liu, M. Simaan, and J. R. Boston, “A Multi-Objective Control Algorithm for Turbodynamic Blood Pumps,” 9th Congress of the International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps, Seattle, Washington, August 17-20, 2001

· J. B. Cruz, Jr. and M. A. Simaan, “Moving Horizon Dynamic Games with Application to Military Operations,” 5th SIAM Conference on Control Applications , San Diego, CA, July 11-14, 2001 

· J. B. Cruz, Jr., M. A. Simaan, A. Gacic, H. Jiang, B. Letellier, and M. Li “Modeling and Control of Military Operations Against Adversarial Control,” 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, Australia, December 12-15, 2000, pp. 2581-2586

· Y-C. Yu, J. R. Boston, M. A. Simaan, and J. Antaki, “Minimally Invasive Identification of Ventricular Recovery Index for Weaning Patients from Artificial Heart Support,” 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, Australia, December 12-15, 2000, pp. 1799-1803

· D. Liu, J. R. Boston, M. A. Simaan, and J. F. Antaki,  “Multi-Objective Optimal Control of a Heart Assist Device,” 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, Australia, December 12-15, 2000, 4857-4858

· J. Boston, J, Antaki, and M. Simaan, "Hierarchical Control for Artificial Hearts," IEEE International Conference on Bio-Informatics and Biomedical Engineering, Arlington, VA, November 8-10, 2000, pp. 376-383

· N. S. Samaras and M. A. Simaan, "Optimized Trajectory Tracking Control of Multistage Metal Cooling  Processes,” 35th IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting and World Conference on Industrial Applications of Electrical Energy, Rome, Italy, October 8-12, 2000, Vol. 4, pp. 2654-2661

· J. R. Boston, L. Baloa, D. Liu, M. A. Simaan, S. Choi, and J. F. Antaki,  “Combination of Data Approaches to Heuristic Control and Fault Detection,” IEEE Conference on Control Applications and International Symposium on Computer-Aided Control Systems Design, Anchorage, AK, September 25-27, 2000, pp. 98-103

· N. S.  Samaras and M. A. Simaan, "A Novel Control Structure for Coiling Temperature Control of Run-Out Table,” American Iron and Steel Institute Convention, Chicago, IL, September 10-13, 2000

· M. Simaan, “Artificial Neural Network Classification of Texture Orientations in Seismic Images,” IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Honolulu, HI, July 24-28, 2000, Vol. II, pp. 693-695

· L. Baloa, D. Liu, J. R. Boston, M. A. Simaan, and J. F. Antaki,  “Suction Detection in Rotary Ventricular Assist Devices,” The Chicago 2000 World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, IL, July 23-28, 2000

· D. Liu, M. A. Simaan, J. R. Boston, L. Baloa, and J. F. Antaki,  “Multi-Objective Optimization for Ventricular Assist Devices" The Chicago 2000 World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, IL, July 23-28, 2000

· J. B. Cruz, Jr., M. A. Simaan, A. Gacic, H. Jiang, B. Letellier, and M. Li “A State Space Model with Adversarial Control for Military Operations,” Second DARPA-JFACC Symposium on Advances In Enterprise Control , Minneapolis, NM, July 10-13, 2000, pp. 169-174

· J. R. Boston, M. A. Simaan, J. Antaki, and Y.-C Yu “Control Issues in Rotary Heart Assist Devices,” 2000 American Control Conference , Chicago, IL, June 28-30, 2000, pp. 3473-3477

· L. Baloa, D. Liu, J. R. Boston, M. A. Simaan, and J. F. Antaki,  “Control of Rotary Heart Assist Devices,” 2000 American Control Conference , Chicago, IL, June 28-30, 2000, pp. 2982-2986

· J. B. Cruz, Jr., and M. A. Simaan, “Ordinal Game Theory," Korean Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (KORMS) Meeting, Seoul, Korea, June 18-21, 2000

· J. B. Cruz, Jr., and M. A. Simaan, “Ordinal Games”, Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) Spring 2000 Meeting, Salt lake City, Utah, May 7-10, 2000