The issue contains announcements for:
IFAC/IFORS Symposium on Comparison of Automatics and Operation Research Techniques Applied to Large Systems Analysis and Control
Toulouse, France — March 1979. Organized by AFCET and sponsored by IFAC and IFORS, with the aims of the symposium and contact details.
Second IFAC/IFIP Symposium on Software for Computer Control
Prague — 10–16 June 1979. Organized by the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, with the purpose of the symposium, its four topic areas, the call for papers and the time schedule.
VIII IFAC Symposium: Automatic Control in Space
Oxford, U.K. — 2–6 July 1979. Organized by the Institute of Measurement and Control on behalf of the United Kingdom Automatic Control Council, with the topics covered by the IFAC Space Committee and the key timetable dates.
5th IFAC Symposium on Identification and System Parameter Estimation
Darmstadt, Fed. Rep. of Germany — September 1979. Organized by VDI/VDE — Gesellschaft Mess- und Regelungstechnik, with three topic areas (identification methods, identification applications, and combinations of identification and other methods) and the paper submission deadlines.