Dr. David Elliott, Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Systems at Washington University, is continuing his visit at the ISR. He is conducting research on bilinear systems and interacting with ISR students.

Dr. Robert Hoffman, Engineer at Metron Scientific Consulting, Inc., is continuing his ISR visiting appointment. He is conducting research on NEXTOR's Collaborative Decision-Making (CDM) project with Dr. Michael Ball. He will visit campus as his schedule permits.

Mr. Yosuke Okamoto, an engineer with Toshiba Corporation in Japan, began his ISR visit in October 2007. He is conducting research on computer vision software with Dr. Yannis Aloimonos and expects to conclude his visit at the end of March 2008.

Dr. Vahid Ramezani, Senior Research Scientist in the Signal Processing Group of Intelligent Automation, Inc., is continuing his part-time visiting appointment. He is collaborating with Dr. Michael Fu on production/ inventory control and supply chain management. He will visit campus as his schedule permits.

Dr. Chunyue Song, Associate Professor at the Institute of Industrial Process Control in the Department of Control Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University, is continuing his ISR visit. He is conducting research with Dr. Michael Fu on optimal production control for hybird production systems, modeling and optimization of hybrid systems.

Dr. Florent Teichteil- Konigsbuch, a Researcher in Optimization of Discrete Systems at ONERA in France, is continuing his visiting appointment. He is conducting research with Drs. Dana Nau, Michael Fu, and Steven Marcus on hybrid Markov decision processes.