The issue contains:
11th IFAC World Congress, Tallinn, USSR
- What it covers: Provides information on the completion of the new Tallinn Congress Centre and invites the international control community to assemble for the upcoming congress.
How to Register for the Congress
- What it covers: Details the availability of the final program and registration form, along with registration fee deadlines and contact addresses for secretariats.
Decision Support for Patient Management: Measurement, Modelling and Control
- Author: E.R. Carson
- What it covers: Summarizes an IFAC Workshop held in London that brought together clinicians and engineers to discuss measurement, modeling, and decision support in critical care and diabetes.
Large Scale Systems: Theory and Applications
- Author: K. Reinisch
- What it covers: Reports on the 5th IFAC/IFORS/IMACS Symposium held in Berlin, covering theoretical developments, expert systems, and application fields such as manufacturing and energy.
Expert Systems and Signal Processing in Marine Automation
- Author: Mogens Blanke
- What it covers: Outlines the inaugural workshop of the CAMS working group in Lyngby, focusing on real-time expert systems, rudder roll damping techniques, and industrial site visits.
New Publications
- What it covers: Summarizes newly published proceedings from several IFAC symposia and workshops covering topics like large scale systems, automated manufacturing, and man-machine systems.
Newly Approved Events
- What it covers: Lists upcoming approved IFAC events, dates, locations, and contact details for further information.
Papers from the Next Issue of Automatica
- What it covers: Presents the table of contents for the May 1990 issue of Automatica, including survey papers, regular papers, brief papers, and book reviews.
Dynamics and Control of Chemical Reactors, Distillation Columns and Batch Processes
- Author: Prof. J.F. MacGregor, Prof. J.E. Rijnsdorp, Prof. T. Takamatsu, Dr. B.D. Tyreus
- What it covers: Reviews the DYCORD ’89 symposium held in Maastricht, highlighting plenary lectures, artificial intelligence applications, and model-based techniques in chemical process control.
WHO IS WHO IN IFAC
- What it covers: Provides a biographical profile of Professor Ülo Jaaksoo, detailing his academic background, career at the Institute of Cybernetics, and contributions to IFAC and the 11th World Congress.
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