Chair Numerics-in-Control NICONET International Society And editor NICONET reports

STADIUS Member: Sabine Van Huffel
Start date: 1/01/1998
End date: 31/12/2005
Type: Membership

The NICONET Society was the result of international cooperation among leading numerical algebra and control numerics experts within an EU thematic network, also called NICONET, which continued afterwards for many years till toay. S. Van Huffel has been the chairperson of NICONET from 1991 till 2005. Its main activity was the development of quality control-application software that performs efficiently and reliably on modern computers using the subroutine library SLICOT (Subroutine Library in Systems and Control Theory) as example. The SLICOT library was licensed to Mathworks. Its routines (in total more than 570 at present) are partly incorporated in Matlab from release 7 on and improve the computational efficiency of equivalent Matlab functions significantly, often by orders of magnitude, especially in toolboxes for system identification and control. See http://slicot.org/