HUNGARIAN JOURNAL OF
INDUSTRY AND CHEMISTRY
Vol. 47(1) pp. 1–1 (2019)
hjic.mk.uni-pannon.hu
DOI: 10.33927/hjic-2019-01

EDITORIAL PREFACE TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO THE
15TH INTERNATIONAL PHD WORKSHOP ON SYSTEMS AND CONTROL

ATTILA MAGYAR1

1Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, University of Pannonia, P. O. Box 158,
Veszprém, H-8201, HUNGARY

Systems and control theory is a scientific area that is
constantly developing and a dominant driving force be-
hind key industries and fields of engineering, e.g. process
engineering, automotive engineering, bioengineering, the
energy sector, etc. The goal of this issue is to provide an
overview of the actual research topics pursued by some
selected PhD students. The papers presented here were
chosen from among the contributions at the 15th Interna-
tional PhD Workshop on Systems and Control held Au-
gust 30-31, 2018. The objective of this workshop was to
establish an international forum for discussion between
young researchers and engineers from the industry and
related research fields. The meeting provided opportuni-
ties for the participants to present and discuss their latest
results and up-to-date applications in systems and con-
trol.

This issue represents the entire spectrum of systems
and control engineering as follows:

• process modeling and analysis; control (traditional,
intelligent, adaptive, etc.)

• system identification and signal processing
• electrical transmission systems, smart grids
• bioengineering
• traffic control
• reaction kinetic networks
• artificial intelligence
• soft computing (neural, genetic, fuzzy algorithms,

etc.)
• software issues (parallel computing, distributed and

network computing, data visualization)
• decision making (decision support, data mining)
• applications

The organizers are grateful to the authors for their
contributions. The tradition of the International PhD
Workshop on Systems and Control continues.

You are welcome to participate at the 16th Inter-
national PhD Workshop on Systems and Control in
Veszprém, 2020.

Attila Magyar
Guest Editor of the Issue