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This issue of the IFAC Newsletter highlights a detailed report on the 5th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems held in Melbourne, Australia. It features comprehensive tables of contents for recent 2004 issues of the journals Control Engineering Practice and Automatica, showcasing cutting-edge research across control engineering applications and theory. Additionally, readers will find an extensive schedule of forthcoming global IFAC conferences, workshops, and symposia planned for the remainder of 2004.

The issue contains:

  1. Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems (including Biological Systems) – 5th IFAC Symposium
    • Author: D. Feng
    • Date: 21–23 August 2003
    • What it covers: A report on the 5th IFAC Symposium held in Melbourne, Australia, highlighting paper presentations, session themes, keynote speakers, and future plans for the 6th symposium in Reims.
  2. IFAC Journals
    • What it covers: Links and access information for the tables of contents of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Process Control, and Annual Reviews in Control.
  3. Control Engineering Practice – Papers from the March 2004 Issue
    • Date: March 2004
    • What it covers: A listing of published papers covering hard disk drive servo-controller design, electric arc furnace controllers, kernel density estimation, mold level control, magnetic bearings, conceptual guidance laws, and a special section on benchmarking wastewater treatment control.
  4. Control Engineering Practice – Papers from the April 2004 Issue
    • Date: April 2004
    • What it covers: A listing of papers covering reservoir water management, pneumatic actuator systems, aero gas turbines, engine control, friction dampers, dual-redundant control systems, and a special section on the UKACC Control 2002 conference.
  5. Control Engineering Practice – Papers from the May 2004 Issue
    • Date: May 2004
    • What it covers: A listing of research articles covering diesel engine diagnosis, network QoS feedback control, process controller monitoring, hydraulic elevators, automatic steering, optical disk drive control, pulp bleaching, bio/ecological systems, and fuzzy system applications.
  6. IFAC Forthcoming Events 2004
    • Date: June – December 2004
    • What it covers: A schedule of upcoming IFAC symposia, workshops, and conferences around the world with dates, locations, and contact information.
  7. Automatica – Papers from the March 2004 Issue
    • Date: March 2004
    • What it covers: A listing of theoretical papers, brief papers, technical communiques, and book reviews covering stochastic differential delay equations, fault-tolerant control, convex optimization, actuator activation, and output maneuvering.
  8. Automatica – Papers from the April 2004 Issue
    • Date: April 2004
    • What it covers: A listing of research papers and brief communications covering fault-tolerant control coverage, anti-windup synthesis, continuation/GMRES methods, subspace identification, robotics, receding-horizon formulations, and book reviews.
  9. Automatica – Papers from the May 2004 Issue
    • Date: May 2004
    • What it covers: A collection of papers covering wave propagation functions, bandwidth-on-demand protocols, stochastic programming, arc welding model control, Tagaki-Sugeno systems, and nonlinear system identification.

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