Doctor Garcia-Nocetti is a very experienced control engineer with a high profile in the international control community. He is a member of IFACs International Program Committee and has been active in the organisation of many symposia and congresses especially in his speciality are of real-time control. Doctor Garcia-Nocetti is also a previous Springer author having written the Advances in Industrial Control monograph: Parallel Processing in Digital Control (3-540-19728-1) with Professor Peter Fleming in 1992. The area of distributed control is becoming more and more important as its flexibility increases and new wireless technologies become available for its implementation. Doctor Garcia-Nocetti's long-standing interest in parallel and distributed systems make him the ideal author for such a monograph.

• to Network Communication.- Real-Time Systems.- Smart Peripheral Elements.- Reconfigurable Control.- Case Study.

Doctor Garcia-Nocetti is a very experienced control engineer with a high profile in the international control community. He is a member of IFACs International Program Committee and has been active in the organisation of many symposia and congresses especially in his speciality are of real-time control. Doctor Garcia-Nocetti is also a previous Springer author having written the Advances in Industrial Control monograph: Parallel Processing in Digital Control (3-540-19728-1) with Professor Peter Fleming in 1992. The area of distributed control is becoming more and more important as its flexibility increases and new wireless technologies become available for its implementation. Doctor Garcia-Nocetti's long-standing interest in parallel and distributed systems make him the ideal author for such a monograph.

• to Network Communication.- Real-Time Systems.- Smart Peripheral Elements.- Reconfigurable Control.- Case Study.