Contributed by: Jose' Manoel Fernandes 

                              CALL FOR PAPERS

                 XII BRAZILIAN AUTOMATIC CONTROL CONFERENCE
            Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, September 14-18, 1998


        Organized by SBA (Sociedade Brasileira de Automatica), the
national member organization of International Federation of Automatic
Control (IFAC).

        Brazilian Automatic Control Conference (CBA) has been held every
two years since 1976. The 1998 meeting will take place at the
Universidade
Federal de Uberlandia in Uberlandia, September 1998, in Uberlandia,
eastern Brazil, Minas Gerais state. It is a commercial
and transportation center for a vast livestock-raising and crop-farming
area. Manufactures include processed food and chemicals. Uberlandia was
chartered as a city in 1891. Population  around 600,000.

        Applied and theoretical contributions in all fields related to
Control and Automation are welcome. The topics of interest include, but
are not limited to: i) Systems theory; ii) Control and automation;
iii) Robust control; iv) Optimization; v) Adaptive and decentralized
control; vi) Intelligent control; vii) Electric power systems; viii)
Control of vehicles, machines, and electric converters; ix) Signal
processing; x) Process control and instruments; and xi) Power
electronics, xii) Education, history, and social implications of control
and automation, xiii) Agricultural control engineering.

        Papers in Portuguese, Spanish, and English are invited.
For a paper to be considered for inclusion in the technical program,
submit 5 copies of the complete paper, until december 20th, 1997,
free format. The final work will be in a two columns in an A4 size
paper.
        Submit papers to:

        Profs. Jose Manoel Fernandes/Joao Batista Vieira Junior
        Coordenacao Tecnica do XII CBA
        Universidade Federal de Uberlandia
        DEENE - CETEC - UFU
        Caixa Postal 593
        38.400-902  -  Uberlandia  -  Minas Gerais
        BRAZIL

        Tel: + (55) 34 239 4103
        Fax: + (55) 34 239 4103
        e-mail: XIICBA@ufu.br