The issue contains:
Automation: Hope or Menace? Belgian NMO Celebrates 25th Anniversary
- Author: Prof. A. van Cauwenberghe
- What it covers: Details the 25th anniversary celebration of the Belgian Federation of Automatic Control (IBRA-BIRA) and summarizes key conference presentations discussing the social, economic, and industrial impact of modern control technologies and robotics.
Large Scale Systems: Theory and Applications
- Author: Professor A. Titli
- What it covers: Reports on the 2nd IFAC Symposium held in Toulouse, France, detailing its sessions on modelling, stability, hierarchical control, multicriteria optimization, and power systems applications.
Distributed Computer Control
- Author: R. W. Gellie
- What it covers: Summarizes the proceedings and key presentation topics from the Second IFAC Workshop on Distributed Computer Control Systems held in Ste. Adele, Quebec, Canada.
Control Applications of Nonlinear Programming and Optimization
- What it covers: Reports on the second workshop in Oberpfaffenhofen, FRG, which brought together international experts to discuss recent advances in optimization techniques applied to various engineering disciplines.
IFAC Congress 1981 Advance Program Available
- What it covers: Announces the upcoming publication of the Third Announcement and advance program for the 8th IFAC World Congress in Kyoto, Japan, including details on travel and registration arrangements.
Next Event – Control and Its Applications
- What it covers: Details the upcoming IEE International Conference at the University of Warwick covering emerging control field trends, paper sessions, and site visits.
Preview for the Next Issue of “Automatica” in May 1981
- What it covers: Lists the titles and authors of upcoming research papers and brief papers scheduled for publication in the May 1981 issue of the journal Automatica.
New Publications
- What it covers: Reviews the publication “Topics in Identification and Distributed Systems” and introduces the international journal “IIASA Reports” along with subscription details.
Who is Who in IFAC
- What it covers: Features a biographical profile of William E. Miller, an IFAC Executive Council member, highlighting his professional achievements and history with IFAC.
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