自动化学报
ACTA AUTOMATICA SINICA
1997年　第23卷　第6期　Vol.23　No.6　1997




Invitation to the 14th IFAC World Congress
It is great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 14th IFAC World Congress of IFAC to be held in Beijing,China,from July 5 to 9,1999.The Beijing Congress,being the last IFAC Congress in the 20th century,will serve as a unique forum for the international control community to review the great impact of automation on the elapsing century and to lood forward to its development in the next century.The Congress provides a spectrum of categories for technical presentations,including plenary lectures,survey papers,regular papers of both lecture and poster session types,panel discussions and case studies.Immediately preceding the formal opening of the Congress,tutorials are being offered(cf.Page 3 of the Newsletter)to provide participants an opportunity to learn new principles,methodolgies,technologies and applications that have been developed and/or are developing in recent years.
The Beijing Congress will be the first IFAC Congress bo be held in a developing country.As one of the oldest capitals and one of the fastest developing cities in the world,Beijing affords tourist attractions for the participants and their guests.
We lood forward to seeing our old and new friends in Beijing in 1999.
Yong-Xiang Lu,NOC Chairman　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Han-Fu Chen,IPC Chairman
Congress Dates:
Monday to Friday,July5—July9,1999
Pre-Congress Tutorials:Saturday to Sunday,July3—July4,1999
Congress Venue:International Convention Center，Beijing,P.R.China.
Important Dates:
June 15,1998
Draft paper submission,Invited Sessions and Panel Discussion proposals must reach the IPC Secretariat
November 30,1998
Notification of acceptance of submissions and proposals for Invited Sessions and Panel Discussion Sessions
February 1，1999
Deadline for receiving camera-ready manuscripts
The Call for Ppaers,including the comprehensive information and details on the program as well as the paper submission form was mailed to all IFAC Affiliates by the organizers of the Congress.
Should the Call for Papers not reach you for whatever reason,please request it from the organizers at the address given below.
　　　　IFAC'99 IPC Secretariat Profesor Jifeng Zhang
　　　　Institute of Systems Science，Chinese Academy of Sciences
　　　　Beijing 100080,P.R.China
　　　　e-mail:ifac99@iss03.iss.ac.cn
　　　　Fax:+86/10/62587343
