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This issue of the IFAC Newsletter reports on recent international workshops and symposia covering real-time AI control, power plant control, optimization applications, and post-harvest technology. It provides preview listings and contents for upcoming issues of Control Engineering Practice and Automatica, alongside announcements for future IFAC events. Additionally, it details online access instructions for the 13th IFAC World Congress program and forms via the web and FTP.

The issue contains:

  1. Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control – AIRTC
  • Author: Prof. R. Karba
  • What it covers: A summary of the IFAC/IMACS Workshop held in Bled, Slovenia, highlighting key topics, plenary lectures, and technical sessions on AI applications in control engineering.
  1. IFAC’96 Home Page and FTP Site
  • What it covers: Information on how to access the 13th IFAC World Congress preliminary program, registration forms, and schedule via the WWW Home Page and FTP site.
  1. Control of Power Plants and Power Systems
  • What it covers: A report on the 2nd IFAC Symposium held in Cancun, Mexico, detailing plenary presentations and session topics on power plant and power system control.
  1. Newly Approved Events
  • What it covers: A table listing upcoming IFAC symposia and workshops with details on titles, dates, locations, deadlines, and contact information.
  1. Control Engineering Practice
  • What it covers: Previews and tables of contents for Volume 4, Numbers 4 (April 1996) and 5 (May 1996), including special sections on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Advanced Motion Control, and Adaptive Systems.
  1. Control Applications of Optimization
  • Author: J. Shinar
  • What it covers: An overview of the 10th IFAC Workshop held in Haifa, Israel, covering technical sessions, plenary lectures, and discussions on optimal control and trajectory optimization.
  1. Papers from the Forthcoming Issue of Automatica
  • What it covers: A listing of accepted papers, brief papers, technical communiques, and book reviews for the April 1996 issue (No. 4) of Automatica.
  1. Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control (AARTC’95)
  • What it covers: A summary of the 3rd IFAC/IFIP Workshop in Ostend, Belgium, covering presentation topics ranging from robotics and intelligent control to parallel algorithms and hardware architectures.
  1. Control Applications in Post-Harvest and Processing Technology (CAPPT ’95)
  • What it covers: A brief report on the joint IFAC/CIGR/EURAGENG/ISHS Workshop held in Ostend, Belgium, focusing on agricultural product processing and storage automation.

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