The issue contains:
Advances in Control Education (ACE06)
- Author: Sebastián Dormido Bencomo
- What it covers: Reports on the 7th IFAC Symposium held in Madrid, Spain, highlighting sessions on control curricula, workshops for students and teachers, and key plenary lectures.
Robot Control – SYROCO 06
- Author: Bruno Siciliano
- What it covers: Summarizes the 8th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control held in Bologna, Italy, detailing technical tracks, invited plenary lectures, and round table discussions.
Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems – CHAOS’06
- Author: Jean-Pierre Barbot, Henk Nijmeijer, and Janan Zaytoon
- What it covers: Covers the 1st IFAC Conference held in Reims, France, focusing on chaos control, synchronization across disciplines, and plenary presentations.
Large Scale Industrial Systems – ALSIS 06
- Author: Kauko Leiviskä
- What it covers: Details the 1st IFAC Workshop held on a cruise liner between Helsinki and Stockholm, presenting developments in managing complexity in industrial applications.
Automated Systems Based on Human Skill and Knowledge
- Author: F. Mayer and S.Y. Nof
- What it covers: Overview of the 9th IFAC Symposium held in Nancy, France, exploring the balance between automation technology, human capabilities, and social impacts.
Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes – SAFEPROCESS 2006
- Author: Józef Korbicz
- What it covers: Highlights the 6th IFAC Symposium in Beijing, China, discussing fault diagnosis, reliability, safety systems, plenary lectures, and committee decisions.
Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems – ADHS
- Author: Alessandro Giua
- What it covers: Summarizes the 2nd IFAC Conference in Alghero, Italy, focusing on theoretical and practical advancements in embedded and hybrid control systems.
Call for Nominations: The Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize
- What it covers: Outlines the nomination process, criteria, and deadline for the triennial textbook award to be presented at the 17th IFAC World Congress in Seoul.
Reminder and Correction: IFAC Fellow Nominations 2007
- What it covers: Provides a deadline correction for the 2007 IFAC Fellow nominations, fixing a typo from the previous issue and pointing to submission details.
Forthcoming Events
- What it covers: Lists upcoming IFAC-sponsored symposia, conferences, and workshops scheduled for 2007 and 2008 with dates and locations.
Table of Contents of IFAC Journals
- What it covers: Displays recent tables of contents for major IFAC publications including Automatica, Control Engineering Practice, and Journal of Process Control.
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