To: dum contributed by : Jean Jacques Loiseau IFAC CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM STRUCTURE AND CONTROL Nantes, France, July 8-10 1998 NEW DEADLINES SCOPE The aim of the conference is to bring together specialists on system structure, control, linear and non linear system theory, to provide them with an opportunity to establish contacts and exchange ideas and new trends.Junior people are encouraged to attend and participate in the conference. The topics include : Linear systems - Nonlinear systems - Structural invariants - Implicit systems - Time-delay systems - Nonstationary linear systems - Infinite dimensional linear systems - nD systems - H-infinity and robust control - Optimisation - Discrete-event systems. The presentation of applications, and the organisation of invited sessions are encouraged. CALL FOR PAPERS 5 copies of full papers should be sent to the chairman of the International Program Committee J.-M. Dion LAG-ENSIEG BP 46 F-38402 Saint-Martin-d'Heres FRANCE dion@lag.grenet.fr Tel : (33) 4 76 82 62 35 Fax : (33) 4 76 82 63 88 DEADLINES October 15, 1997 Submission of full papers January 15, 1998 Notification of acceptance April 1, 1998 Final papers ESTIMATED FEES 350 USD COPYRIGHT The material submitted for presentation at an IFAC meeting (congress, symposium, conference, workshop) must be original, not published or being considered elsewhere. All papers accepted for presentation will appear in the Prepints of the meeting and will be distributed to the participants. Papers duly presented will be archived and offered for sale, in the form of Postprint volumes, by Elsevier Science Ltd., Oxford, UK. The presented papers will be further screened for possible publication in the IFAC journals Automatica and Control Engineering Practice, or in other, IFAC affiliated journals. All papers presented will be recorded in Control Engineering Practice. Copyright of material presented at an IFAC meeting is held by IFAC. Authors will be sent a copyright transfer form. Automatica, Control Engineering Practice and, after these, IFAC affiliated journals have priority access to all contributions presented. However, if the author is not contacted by an editor of these journals, within three months after the meeting, the author is free to re-submit the material for publication elsewhere. In this case, the paper must carry a reference to the IFAC meeting where it was originally presented. ******************************************