Contributed by: bmiller@ippi.ac.msk.su (Boris Miller)

                            First Call for Papers
                              IFAC Workshop
           SINGULAR SOLUTIONS AND PERTURBATIONS IN CONTROL SYSTEMS
                                (SSPCS-97)
                             7 - 11 July, 1997
                          Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia


 Scope:

 SSPCS'97 is the 3'th event in a series of international workshops  on
 Singular  Solution  and  Perturbations  in Control Systems which were
 held in 1993 and in 1995 in Pereslavl and were very successful.  This
 event which will be held on 7-11 July 1997 is the first of them under
 the sponsorship of IFAC. The objective of this workshop is to provide
 an  international forum for the discussion of recent developments and
 advances in  the  fields  of  singular  control  problems,  impulsive
 control,   singular   perturbations  technique  in  control  systems,
 descriptor control systems and others.

  The topics of the regular session will include
 - Singular problems in optimal control
 - Impulsive and relay control
 - Necessary and sufficient optimality conditions
 - Nonlinear systems
 - Singularly perturbed control systems
 - Control in uncertain systems
 - Software for optimal control

  Conference Language:

The working language of the workshop is English.

  Cultural program:

Site-seen tours  of  the  historical  places with unique early Russian
architecture in the neighborhood of  Pereslavl-Zalessky  are  planned,
and in particular, visits to the centers of Russian Orthodox Church in
Rostov and Yaroslavl.

  Paper submision:

Procpective authors  should submit two copies of the abstract of their
paper to NOC  and  send  a  Latex  file  of  the  abstract  by  e-mail
{sspcs@psi.botik.ru} by January 1,  1997.  The accepted abstracts will
appear in the preprints of the workshop.  The lenght of  the  abstract
should be about two typed pages. The cover page should contain: title,
author's name,  affilation and address,  fax-number,  e-mail  address,
telephone  number.  In  the  case of joint authorship,  the first name
mentioned will  be  used  for  all  correspondence,  unless  otherwise
requested.  After the acceptance of the abstract the Latex file of the
full paper of at most 16 typed pages has to be  submitted  to  NOC  by
e-mail  {sspcs@psi.botik.ru}  by  May  1,  1997  for consideration for
further publication.

 Importante dates:

Submission of abstracts                01.01.97
Notification of acceptance             01.03.97
Submission of full papers              01.05.97
Workshop                               07.07.97 - 11.07.97

 National Organizing Committee Address:

Chair of NOC
Professor Michail Dmitriev,
Control Processes   Research   Center   of  Program  Systems
Institute (PSI) of Russian Academy of  Sciences
Pereslavl-Zalessky, m.Botik, 152140, Russia,
tel:  +7  (08535)  98523  (w), -98210 (w), -98270(h),
fax: +7 (08535)-21731, -20593
E-mail: sspcs@psi.botik.ru

International Program Committee Address:

Chair of IPC
Professor Boris Miller
Institute for Information Transmission Problems (IPPI)
of Russian Academy of  Sciences
B.Karetny, 19, 101447 GSP-4, Russia, Moscow,
tel.: +7 (095) 209 4981
fax: +7 (095) 209 0579
E-mail: bmiller@ippi.ac.msk.su