The issue contains:
IFAC Publications Program: A brief introduction
Outline of the three primary publications foci — the IFAC journal Automatica, special projects such as monographs, and symposium preprints and proceedings — the executive groups responsible, and the arrangements with the official IFAC publisher, Pergamon Press Ltd, including preprint and proceedings costs, copyright and the role of the Symposium Editor.
Criteria for selecting appropriate technologies under different cultural, technical and social conditions
Report on the IFAC Symposium held in Bari, Italy, 21–23 May 1979, covering the participants, the multidisciplinary character of the papers, and the conclusions of the closing Round Table discussion.
Non-IFAC activities
- Third International Symposium on Simulation ’80 — Interlaken, Switzerland, 25–27 June 1980. Sponsored by IASTED, with the scope, applications and abstract requirements.
- Third IMA Conference on Control Theory — Sheffield, U.K., 9–11 September 1980, with the arrangements for contributed papers and the list of relevant topics.
- 9th Symposium of the IMEKO Technical Committee on Photon-Detectors (TC2) — Budapest, Hungary, 9–12 September 1980, with the topics and deadline.
- Sixth Symposium on Microprocessing and Microprogramming, EUROMICRO 80 — London, U.K., 16–18 September 1980, with the symposium structure, deadlines and publication policy.