The issue contains:
1. Coordinating Committee on Systems and Signals
- Author: Han-Fu CHEN
- What it covers: An overview of the Technical Committees and scopes within the CC on Systems and Signals, as well as its main events and contributions to the 14th IFAC World Congress.
2. Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control (AIRTC)
- Author: Yoh-Han Pao & David W. Russell
- What it covers: A report on the 7th IFAC Symposium held in Grand Canyon, Arizona, discussing topics such as evolutionary methods, enterprise control, visualization, and emerging technical trends.
3. Control Engineering Practice (Volume 6 Number 7, July 1998)
- What it covers: A list of contents and paper titles featured in Volume 6, Number 7 of the Control Engineering Practice journal.
4. Control Engineering Practice (Volume 6 Number 8, Aug. 1998)
- What it covers: A list of contents and paper titles featured in Volume 6, Number 8 of the Control Engineering Practice journal.
5. Automatic Control in Aerospace
- Author: Jang Gyu Lee
- What it covers: A report on the 14th IFAC Symposium held in Seoul, Korea, highlighting presented papers, plenary sessions, and key topic areas.
6. Space Robotics – SPRO’98
- Author: Jerzy Sasiadek
- What it covers: A summary of the IFAC Workshop held in St-Hubert, Canada, detailing key speeches, technical sessions, round-table discussions, and social events.
7. Automatica
- What it covers: A listing of paper titles, technical communiques, and correspondence from the December 1998 issue of Automatica.
8. Large Scale Systems – LSS ’98
- Author: P. D. Groumpos
- What it covers: A report on the 8th IFAC/IFORS/IMACS/IFIP Symposium held in Patras, Greece, summarizing its technical program, plenaries, and outcomes.
9. IFAC Technical Committee on Control Design
- Author: M. Sebek
- What it covers: An introduction to the TC on Control Design, its main activities, industrial relevance, and future planned events.
10. World Congress ’99 – Beijing
- What it covers: An update on paper submissions and status reports for the 14th IFAC World Congress in Beijing.
11. Who is Who in IFAC
- What it covers: Biographical profiles of key IFAC officials, including Prof. Hidenori Kimura, Prof. David H. Owens, and Prof. Sirish L. Shah.