The issue contains:
Modelling and Control for Participatory Planning and Managing Water Systems
- Author: Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa
- What it covers: Reports on an IFAC workshop in Venice, Italy, focusing on state-of-the-art modeling, control, and decision-support systems for integrated water resources management.
Management and Control of Production and Logistics – MCPL 2004
- Author: Gastón Lefranc, Zdenek Binder
- What it covers: Summarizes the 3rd IFAC/IEEE/ACCA conference held in Santiago, Chile, covering factory automation, supply chain management, and discrete event systems.
Automatic Systems for Building the Infrastructure in Developing Countries – Regional and Global Aspects
- Author: Vasil Sgurev, Georgi Dimirovski, Mincho Hadjiski
- What it covers: Details the 4th IFAC DECOM-TT workshop in Bansko, Bulgaria, highlighting regional and global implementation of control theory for developing infrastructure.
Programmable Devices and Systems (PDS’04)
- What it covers: Details the 7th IFAC Workshop held in Cracow, Poland, covering industrial programmable computers, field programmable logic, and digital signal processing.
Forthcoming Events
- What it covers: Provides a comprehensive schedule and contact information for upcoming IFAC conferences, workshops, and congresses spanning 2005 to 2008.
IFAC Journals
- What it covers: Lists official IFAC publication titles and provides web links to access their respective tables of contents.