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The Honor of Being Disqualified

已有 4446 次阅读 2019-1-3 22:32 |个人分类:生活点滴|系统分类:海外观察

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At the risk of being immodest, together with my senior colleague, Professor A.E. Bryson, we wrote a best selling control theory and optimization text book 50 years ago. Today the book as still selling a few hundred copies per year without a revision (some typos and misprints were corrected in 1975 when a new publisher bought the copyright and issued a new printed version). There are also unknown number of Russian and Chinese translated version of our book being sold and in existence. The book attend the status of a Science Citation Classic and Google Scholar count of 17000+ citations. While I don’t have proof, I do not believe there exist another control textbook that has these distinctions. Anyhow, my colleagues in China decided to respond this year to the call of the International Federation Automatic Control (IFAC) for nomination of the IFAC best control textbook award. I thought this would be a fitting capstone for my senior colleague who is 93 years old. Imagine my surprise when according to IFAC rules that our textbook is disqualified for consideration because it is too old (they will only consider books published within the past ten years.) While I can understand this for an out-of-print book. But for a book still being used, referenced, and in print?

At this stage of our lives, another award is not important for Bryson and me, and I won’t comment on the decision to disqualify but only consider this to be a unique honor in our careers that few can claim.

Note added 1/7/2019.  Just to show this is not empty talk, Research Gate just informed me that for the week ending 1/6/2019, 45 persons read/cited our book "Applied Optimal Control"mentioned here (The site highest citation count for the week and 50 years after initial publication of the book).

Nlote added 2/18.2019.Research Gate just informed me that another 101 "reads" were added to the book last week and setting another record.

Note added 2/26/2019. Reseach Gate again notified me that our book was the most cited reference last week. I am delighted and somewhat surprised.




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IP: 222.130.134.*   回复 | 赞 +1 [4]沈震   2020-5-17 08:30
I will be a pity for the award, not for the book, I think. And, there are many papers that should cite the book but not.
回复  Thanks Zhen, Good to hear from you. Trust everything is going well for you at CAS.
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回复  Thank you! Almost everything goes well and I will send you emails later about my recent work.
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IP: 106.39.149.*   回复 | 赞 +1 [3]谢力   2019-1-3 22:58
这是链接 http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1980/A1980JE96000001.pdf
IP: 106.39.149.*   回复 | 赞 1 +1 [2]谢力   2019-1-3 22:55
我投稿中的一篇文章 https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00285
Optimal Two-impulse Space Interception with Multi-constraints (第一版)
提到了SCI的创始者Garfield在1980年为你们的这本书做了评价: ThisWeek’sCitationClassic,February251980.URLhttp://garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1980/ A1980JE96000001.pdf.
也见我的这篇文章的第一段。
不幸的是我最近的这两篇文章都被那些所谓的主流期刊退稿,见:那个天才告诉你“霍曼转移”最优 http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-669170-1123761.html

抱歉,在您这为我的这两篇文章做了广告。但他们的确和您书相关。为这本经典控制理论书和您的这篇博文,留言做个注释吧  
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IP: 106.39.149.*   回复 | 赞 +1 [1]谢力   2019-1-3 22:46
的确,出版时间有限制 https://www.ifac-control.org/awards/call-for-nominations-harold-chestnut-control-engineering-textbook-prize/view
To be considered, nominations must relate to books that are:
1. written in one of the official IFAC languages, preferably in English; and
2. published between September 1, 2011 and July 31, 2017.

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