Category: Publications

The May 1979 issue of the IFAC Newsletter announces the 8th IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Space and forthcoming conferences on instrumentation and automation in the paper, rubber, plastics and polymerisation industries and on automation for safety in shipping and offshore petroleum operations. It also explains how to apply for IFAC sponsorship of a…

The January 1979 issue of the IFAC Newsletter announces forthcoming events on the safety of computer control systems, computer aided design of control systems, large scale systems, and real-time datahandling and process control. It also publishes the opening address of the chairman of the new Committee on Developing Countries and a full list of IFAC…

The November 1978 issue of the IFAC Newsletter reports on the IFAC General Assembly held during the Helsinki Congress, including the past president’s report and the report of the Advisory Committee, and announces the new Committee on Developing Countries. It also lists the IFAC approved symposia, conferences and co-sponsorships for 1979, 1980 and 1981, describes…

The September 1978 issue of the IFAC Newsletter reports the establishment of the permanent IFAC Secretariat in Laxenburg, Austria, and announces forthcoming symposia and workshops on high level systems control in and by man, computer aided design of control systems, and information control problems in manufacturing technology.

The July 1978 issue of the IFAC Newsletter announces forthcoming conferences and symposia on the socio-technical aspects of computerisation, computer applications in large scale power systems, systems approach and computer applications for development, computer applications in chemical engineering, and optimization techniques.

The May 1978 issue of the IFAC Newsletter announces four forthcoming IFAC symposia for 1979, covering the comparison of automatics and operational research techniques applied to large systems, software for computer control, automatic control in space, and identification and system parameter estimation.

The March 1978 issue of the IFAC Newsletter announces the IFAC/IFIP Workshop on Real-Time Programming and the Prolamat conference on computer software for manufacturing technology. It also presents the proceedings of the 5th IFAC/IFIP Conference on Digital Computer Applications to Process Control, and lists further meetings on cybernetics and systems, simulation of control systems, energy…

The January 1978 issue of the IFAC Newsletter is devoted to the 7th Triennial World Congress in Helsinki, 12–16 June 1978, organized by the Finnish Society of Automatic Control. It sets out the congress technical program, the topics of the technical sessions and case studies, round table and informal sessions, registration fees, congress publications and…

The November 1977 issue of the IFAC Newsletter lists the IFAC events approved at the June meeting in The Hague, including symposiums for 1979 and 1980 and a workshop held in conjunction with the 1978 IFAC Congress. It also covers non-IFAC activities on managers and databases, statistical methods in measurement, and computers and technology transfer,…

The September 1977 issue of the IFAC Newsletter announces the Second IFAC Symposium on Control in Power Electronics and Electrical Drives and the IFAC Symposium on Information-Control Problems in Manufacturing Technology. It also includes information about IFAC publications, including the Trends in Control Components monograph and the 1977 ISA Publications Catalog, as well as non-IFAC…