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This issue of the IFAC Newsletter highlights official reports from recent international symposia, workshops, and council meetings held across Europe in mid-1998, covering topics such as process control, intelligent vehicles, assembly automation, and international stability. It provides administrative updates regarding the 14th World Congress in Beijing, including financial aid details for authors from developing countries. Additionally, readers will find tables of contents for recent issues of IFAC journals and biographical profiles of key committee leaders.

The issue contains:

IFAC Council- and Related Meetings

  • Author: Gusztáv Hencsey
  • Date: 7–11 July 1998
  • What it covers: Highlights of the IFAC Council and committee meetings held in Nantes, France, including updates on public relations, the next World Congress in Beijing, electronic publications, and selecting Korea as the host for the 2008 World Congress.

14th IFAC World Congress Financial Aid Application

  • Date: 5–9 July 1999
  • What it covers: Information and submission guidelines for financial aid applications available to authors from developing countries attending the 14th IFAC World Congress in Beijing.

Supplemental Ways for Improving International Stability – SWIIS ’98

  • Author: I. Dumitrache, F. Kile
  • Date: 14–16 May 1998
  • What it covers: A report on the 7th IFAC Conference in Sinaia, Romania, covering discussions on decision-making, stability, political and social factors, and international policy cooperation.

Intelligent Assembly and Disassembly – IAD ’98

  • Author: Dragica Noe, Peter Kopacek
  • Date: 21–23 May 1998
  • What it covers: An overview of the 1st IFAC Workshop in Bled, Slovenia, highlighting plenary and technical sessions on assembly, disassembly strategies, sensor applications, and robotics.

Dynamics and Control of Process Systems – DYCOPS 5

  • Author: Christos Georgakis
  • Date: 8–10 June 1998
  • What it covers: A summary of the 5th IFAC Symposium in Corfu, Greece, detailing paper selection statistics, technical themes comparing technology push versus pull, and new electronic review processes.

Control Applications in Post-harvest and Processing Technology (CAPPT’98)

  • Author: Prof. I. Farkas, A. Biró
  • Date: 3–5 June 1998
  • What it covers: Details on the international workshop held in Budapest, Hungary, focusing on control applications, mathematical modeling, and property measurements in post-harvest processing.

Control Engineering Practice

  • Date: May 1998
  • What it covers: A table of contents previewing articles published in Volume 6, Number 4, including topics on fault detection, PID approaches, computer-aided control systems design, and vehicle control systems.

On-line Fault Detection and Supervision in the Chemical Process Industries

  • Author: Prasad Dhurjati, Ph. Deitz
  • Date: 4–5 June 1998
  • What it covers: A report on the 3rd IFAC Workshop in Solaize, France, addressing methodologies, theory, and industrial applications for fault detection and process supervision.

Papers from Automatica

  • Date: July 1998 & August 1998
  • What it covers: A curated list of paper titles, brief papers, technical communiques, and correspondence featured in the July and August 1998 issues of Automatica.

Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles – IAV ’98

  • Author: L. Moreno
  • Date: 25–27 March 1998
  • What it covers: An overview of the 3rd IFAC Symposium held in Madrid, Spain, covering research, developments, and advanced applications for land, marine, and aerospace autonomous vehicles.

Who is Who in IFAC

  • What it covers: Biographical profiles of key IFAC officials, introducing Professor Vladimir Kucera as the Technical Board Vice-Chairman and Professor Sirish L. Shah as the Chair of the Technical Committee on Chemical Process Control.

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