Contributed by P. D. Roberts <lss95@city.ac.uk>

                                  LSS95

                        BRIEF SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

      7th IFAC/IFORS/IMACS Symposium on Large Scale Systems: Theory
                            and Applications

The full program and further information is available from
lss95@city.ac.uk

Location and Dates:

City University, London, United Kingdom
Monday-Thursday, 10-13 July, 1995

Organized by:

The Control Engineering Centre, City University, London on
behalf of the United Kingdom Automatic Control Council (UKACC)

Sponsored by:
IFAC, The International Federation of Automatic Control
Technical Committee on Large Scale Systems

Scope of the Symposium:

In the field of Large Scale Systems special regard is taken of the problems
of structure, decomposition, nonlinearity, complexity and uncertainty. The
symposium contains three plenary lectures by leading international
authorities. Within the 36 contributed sessions, which cover a wide range of
major aspects of large scale systems from theoretical and methodological
developments to practical applications, there are also three invited
sessions which focus on strategic areas.

Venue:

The symposium will be held in the premises of City University in Northampton
Square close to the heart of the City of London with easy access from public
transportation. The university is in easy reach of major sightseeing
locations in and around London.

Programme Topics:

- Computer integrated manufacturing and engineering
- Intelligent control
- Modelling and model reduction
- Optimizing control
- Production planning and scheduling
- Transportation systems
- Power systems stability
- Hierarchical optimal control
- Decision support systems
- Chemical and steel processes
- Hierarchical control
- Complex systems
- Power systems
- Multiobjective optimization
- Decentralized control and estimation
- Power systems modelling
- Management systems
- Robust decentralized control
- Water systems
- Intelligent power systems
- Optimization
- Manufacturing systems
- Robotics
- Decomposition
- Environmental systems
- Decentralized control
- Robotic systems
- Supervision and diagnosis
- Communications and information systems
- Discrete event systems
- Socioeconomic systems
- Stability

Invited Sessions:

- Structural approaches to large industrial systems modelling and control
- Traffic congestion control of traffic networks
- Methodologies and tools for operational control of water systems

Plenary Addresses:

"Advanced Information Technology: A Route to Competitive Process
Manufacturing", D Boland, ICI Engineering Technology, (UK)

"Decentralized Control and Computations of Complex Systems:
Status and Prospects", D D Siljak, Santa Clara University, (USA)

"Methodology and Systems for Environmental Decision Support",
Y Nakamori and Y Sawaragi, (Japan)