15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002

ABOUT IFAC
http://www.ifac-control.org/

The INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL, founded in September 1957, is a multinational federation of National Member Organizations (NMOs), each one representing the engineering and scientific societies concerned with automatic control in its own country.

The purpose of the Federation is to promote the science and technology of control in the broadest sense in all systems, whether, for example, engineering, physical, biological, social or economic, in both theory and application. IFAC is also concerned with the impact of control technology on society.

IFAC sponsors a number of Technical events per year, covering control engineering and its many applications. Control has a solid theoretical foundation, and many events are held on theoretical topics. However, control is essentially an application area; any system (whether electrical, mechanical, or some combination of the two) that needs automatic control is likely to have an interest group, known as a Technical Committee, somewhere in IFAC. The range of applications is very broad, and so IFAC’s mainstream community has strong representation from several research disciplines – control engineering, electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, applied mathematics, to name but a few.

IFAC has an official publisher: Elsevier Science. For information about the range of publications on offer, click here.

How to Get Involved

Anyone interested in control engineering may become an IFAC Affiliate. IFAC Affiliates receive the IFAC Newsletter free of charge. The Newsletter contains information about IFAC technical meetings as well as about other matters of interest to the control community. IFAC Affiliates will also receive Calls for Papers for technical meetings in their selected areas of interest and are entitled to a special rate for subscriptions to the IFAC Journals.

To become an affiliate or to learn about how to get involved in IFAC in other ways, contact the IFAC Secretariat (secr@ifac.co.at) or visit http://www.ifac-control.org/.